Year 10 Common Test - Term 3 2010

TIME: 38 mins

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Directions
TOPICS:

- Further Algebra - Graphs - Reasoning in number -Statistics

Full working should be shown in every question. Marks may be deducted for careless or badly arranged work. Use black or blue pen only (not pencils) to write your solutions. No liquid paper is to be used. If a correction is to be made, one line is to be ruled through the
incorrect answer. The diagrams are not to scale.

1.

Factorise completely. a. 3m 3 -6m 2 +m5

3.

If x = 3 -

3+2,,2

2..[i fi d h 1 fl.. r;;' In t e va ue 0 x + In ItS

x

simplest form

b.2x 3

2X2 + 2x - 2

C. - 2 -

Y2
4

4 3 4 1 d.-JrR --Jrr 3 3 4. Solve for x. a. llx2 =22x

e. 8x 2 -6x-9

b. 2X2 =x+3

2.

Express -5 --

--2

a b
2

2 as a SImp . Ie firactIOn. . ab

4c. 3 2x -28(3 X )+27=0

b) The sum of a number and four times its reciprocal is 8!. Find the number. 2

d. l(x)=(x-3)2 -16 (i) Find 1(3)

c) If I, m and n are three consecutive integers, show that m (l + n) is always a perfect 2 square. (ii) Find the values of x for which
I(x) =0

5.

a) What is the last digit of 7 44 ?

6.

a )(i) Show that 1+_3_= x+5 x+2 x+2

c) Express the equation of the parabola given below:

j
/

,
-,
-6
5
-4

'.

-'

-'3

-~

-,

J,..

(ii) Showing the important features, sketch x+5 the graph of y =- - . x+2

b) Sketch the graph of y all relevant features.

=x 2 -

5x showing

7.

a) Find the inter-quartile range of the following scores: 6,4,3,8,5,4,2, 7.

8.

All questions set in an examination are of equal value. A student answers 20 out of the first 32 questions correctly, but gets three quarters of the remaining questions wrong. If this student's score is 40%, how many questions were set in the examination.

b) Draw a box-and-whisker diagram for the scores in 7(a).

c) Bob and Sam are two golfers. Each has played ten rounds of golf on the same course and their scores have been recorded below: Bob: 73,81, 77,85, 76, 76,84, 73,80, 75 Sam: 70,84,82, 78,83, 73, 73, 74,85, 78. (i) Calculate the mean and the standard deviation for each set of score. Bob Mean S.D
I

Sam

(ii) Who is the more consistent golfer? Why?

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