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1 Arno buys a student ticket for $43.68 .

This is a saving of 16% on the full price of a ticket.

Calculate the full price of a ticket.

$ ................................................... [2]

[Total: 2]

2 One year, a company’s sales increased by 15%.

The following year the company’s sales increased by 18%.

Calculate the overall percentage increase in sales.

................................................... % [3]

[Total: 3]
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3 Paddy and Anna each invest $2000 for 5 years.

Paddy earns simple interest at a rate of 1.25% per year.
Anna earns compound interest at a rate of r % per year.
At the end of 5 years, Paddy’s investment is worth the same as Anna’s investment.

Calculate the value of r.

r = ................................................... [5]

[Total: 5]

4 Edna invests $500 at a rate of r % per year compound interest.

At the end of 6 years, the value of Edna’s investment is $559.78 .

Find the value of r.

r = ................................................... [3]

[Total: 3]
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5 There were 3.08 × 105 passengers that made a journey in 2018.

This was a 12% decrease in the number of passengers that made the same journey in 2017.

Find the number of passengers that made this journey in 2017.

Give your answer in standard form.

................................................... [3]

[Total: 3]

6 = {x : x is a natural number 16}

(a) Write down all the square numbers in the universal set, .

................................................... [2]

(b) Write down the six prime numbers in the universal set, .

.......... , .......... , .......... , .......... , .......... , .......... [2]

(c) M = {x : x is a multiple of 3}
F = {x : x is a factor of 15}

(i) Complete the Venn diagram to show the elements of these sets.

[2]
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(ii) Write down all the odd numbers that are not in set M and not in set F.

................................................... [1]

(iii) Find .

................................................... [1]

(iv) A number is chosen at random from the universal set, .

Find the probability that this number is in set F.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 9]

The Venn diagram above shows information about the number of students who study Music (M), Drama (D)
and Geography (G).

(a) How many students study Music?

................................................... [1]

(b) How many students study exactly two subjects?

................................................... [1]

(c) Two students are chosen at random from those who study Drama.

Calculate the probability that they both also study Music.

................................................... [3]

(d) In the Venn diagram above, shade . [1]

[Total: 6]
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8 A group of 120 students take two tests, mathematics and English.

Here is some information about the number of students who pass mathematics (M) and who pass English (E).

• 61 students pass mathematics.

• 27 students pass both mathematics and English.
• 19 students do not pass mathematics and do not pass English.

M E

(a) Complete the Venn diagram. [3]

(b) Use the Venn diagram to find n(E).

...................................... [1]

[Total: 4]

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A road has 349 houses on it numbered from 1 to 349.

The diagram shows some of these houses.
The houses on the West side of the road have odd numbers.
The houses on the East side have even numbers.

(a) Put a ring around the numbers in this list that are on the West side.

25 87 126 178 252 329

[1]

(b) On the East side, how many houses are there between the house numbered 168 and the house
numbered 184?

................................................... [1]

(c) How many houses on the road have a house number that is a multiple of 39?

................................................... [2]

(d) Tomaz delivers a leaflet to every house on the West side of the road.
He starts at house number 1 and then delivers to each house in order.

(i) Find an expression, in terms of n, for the house number of the nth house he delivers to.

................................................... [2]

(ii) Work out the house number of the 40th house he delivers to.

................................................... [1]

(iii) Work out how many houses are on the West side of the road.

................................................... [2]

(e) Alicia delivers a leaflet to every house on the East side of the road.
She starts at house number 348 and then delivers to each house in order.
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(i) Find an expression, in terms of n, for the house number of the nth house she delivers to.

................................................... [2]

(ii) What is the largest value of n that can be used in your expression?
Give a reason for your answer.

The largest value of n is .................. because ........................................................................

................................................................................................................................................ [2]

[Total: 13]

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61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69

From the list of numbers, write down

(a) a square number,

................................................... [1]

(b) a multiple of 13,

................................................... [1]

(c) a factor of 186,

................................................... [1]

(d) the prime numbers.

................................................... [2]

[Total: 5]
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11 (a)

Find the value of k.

k = ................................................... [1]

11 (b) Write 90 as the product of its prime factors.

................................................... [2]

(c) Find the lowest common multiple (LCM) of 90 and 126.

................................................... [2]

[Total: 5]

12 Find

(a) the smallest multiple of 7 that is greater than 100,

................................................... [1]

(b) the largest cube number that is less than 100,

................................................... [1]

(c) the six factors of 45,

.................... , .................... , .................... , .................... , .................... , .................... [2]

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(d) an irrational number between 6 and 7.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 5]

13 f is a common factor of 14 and 28.

m is a common multiple of 10 and 25.
p is a prime number.

Work out the largest possible value of .

................................................. [4]

[Total: 4]

14 (a) Paolo thinks of a number.

It has two digits.
It is a common factor of 36 and 48.

Write down Paolo’s number.

Answer(a) ................................................... [1]

(b) Maria thinks of a number.

It has two digits.
It is a common multiple of 15 and 20.

Write down Maria’s number.

Answer(b) ................................................... [1]

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(c) Kemar thinks of a number.

It is between 1 and 2.
It is an irrational number.

Write down a number he could be thinking of.

Answer(c) ................................................... [1]

[Total: 3]

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Find .

................................................... [1]

[Total: 1]

16 Virat has 200 metres of wire, correct to the nearest metre.

He cuts the wire into n pieces of length 3 metres, correct to the nearest 20 centimetres.

Calculate the largest possible value of n.

n = ................................................... [3]

[Total: 3]
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A = 10, correct to the nearest whole number.

h = 4, correct to the nearest whole number.

Work out the upper bound for the value of b.

................................................... [3]

[Total: 3]

18 A dressmaker measures a length of fabric as 600 m, correct to the nearest 5 metres.

He cuts this into dress lengths of 9 m, correct to the nearest metre.

Calculate the largest number of complete dress lengths he could cut.

................................................... [3]

[Total: 3]
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19 The base of a triangle is 9 cm correct to the nearest cm.

The area of this triangle is 40 cm2 correct to the nearest 5 cm2.

Calculate the upper bound for the perpendicular height of this triangle.

................................................... cm [3]

[Total: 3]

20 The volume of a cuboid is 878 cm3, correct to the nearest cubic centimetre.
The length of the base of the cuboid is 7 cm, correct to the nearest centimetre.
The width of the base of the cuboid is 6 cm, correct to the nearest centimetre.

Calculate the lower bound for the height of the cuboid.

Answer ................................................... cm [3]

[Total: 3]

21 Violet and Wilfred recorded their times to run 200 m, correct to the nearest second.
Violet took 36 seconds and Wilfred took 39 seconds.

Work out the upper bound of the difference between their times.

...................................................... s [2]

[Total: 2]
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