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Sotrfiia had a holiday in ttaly when the exchange rate was L Swtss franc = 1L25 lire
She changed 1000 Swiss francs into lire. She spent 745 000 lire and changed the rest back into Swiss
francs at the same rate.
calculate how many Swiss francs she had left, to the nearest franc.

Answer
Swiss francs (2)

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A map has a scale of 1 : 25 000
(a) A road on the map is 17 cm lcng. What is the real length of the road in Kilometres?

Answer ia) km {1}

{b} The area of a farrn on the map is L8 cm2, What Is the real area of the farm in hectares? [].
hectare = 10 000 rnt = 0.0t km2]

Answer {b} hectares {2}

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A banana of mass 84 grarns gives 60 calories of energy.

) How many calories will a banana of mass L17.6 grams give ?

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,, Taking 1 Litre tobe LTq pints, find

(a) the number of pints in 16 litres,

Answer (a) pints{L}

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Answer {b} litres t1)

5,/ the blllfor a meal in a restaurant is 561.48.

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(a) The bill includes a tax of 16% of the cost of the meal.
What is the cost of the meal?
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{b} A tip of 87o Gf the bill is given.

- How much is the tip, rounded cff to the nearest drllar?

Answer {a} S (I"

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/- Findthe speed ofthetape

(a) in metres per rninute,

Answer (a) m I min {L}

{b} in centimeters per seccnd.

Answer {b} cm ls (21

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?) ,o make an omelette, 60 grarns of butter and 3 to 5 eggs ,r" n"uC"O.

,/ the rnass of each egg is 70 grams, to the nearest 10 grams, but the mass of the butter is exact.

{a} What is the least possible mass of each egg?

Answer {a} grams {1}

{b} Between what limits does the mass, M grams, of the cmelette lie?

Answer{b}--<M< {2}

t) X=bc

(a ) lf b = 25 and c = 5 x LC8
findthe value af X
Give your answer in standard form.

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b) Give c in terms of X and b.

Answer (b) C= t2)

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What is its new temperature?
lt is heated so that its temperature rises by 93.90 C.

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l, Carla estimates the length of a wall to be 30 metres and ihe height to be 3 metres.
Paoto teil.s her that the length is 30 metres correct to the nearest 5 metres and the height is 3
metres correct to the nearest 10 centimetres. Comptete the statements below.

{a} m < length of the wa[[ < m. {1}

(b) m . height of the watt < m. i1)

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two significant figures.

Answer (b) t1l

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ln July 1994 the comet shoemaker - Levy 9 struck the ptanet Jupiter at a speed of 135 000 rnites
per hour

{a} Given that 1 mite is 1580 rnetres, change 135 000 miles per hour iilto metres per second.

Answer ia) m/s tZl

{b} Give your answer to part {a} in standard form.

Answer (b) m1s [1J

l{) E"t his holiday, Pierre changed 12 S00 francs into dollars when the rate was $1 - 5-20 francs. At
,/ the end of the holiday he had $210left.

(a) How marry dollars, to the nearest dollar, did he spend?

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(b) H" changed the $210 for 1S80 francs. What was this exchange rate, in francs per dollar,
correctto 2 decimal places?

Answer (h) $1 francs t1l

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/ Leo plans to paint a picture. He considers maklng it 60 cm
then decides to increase the length cf G0 cm in the ratio long and 40 crn wide. He
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width *f 40 cm in the ratio 3 : 4

{ai Find the new length and width of the picture.

Answer {a} length : cm [1]

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(b) Find the fraction new area in its lowest terms.
old area

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(tli ;\ biig of'sweets contains mints arrd tol1'ees only.

'i'irere are 2l mints in the bug.
(-)nc quar"ter of the srveets are tofT'ees.

(lnlcLllate the total nurnber of sr.veets in the bag.

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(c) $i60 is shared in the ratio 3 : 5.

Clrlcttlate the clilterence between the'larger share ancl the smaller shar"e.
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30 pla"v cricl<et,
38 play {botball and
9 pla,v neither cricket nor lbotball.

Fincl thc, lowest possi.ble nunrber of'stucJents in the group.

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Oranges 35 cents each ' :

Apples $2.40"per kg
Melons $1.S5 each

(a) Sabair buys 750g of apples and orre rne.lon.

(':rlcuiate horv nruch she pa1,s.

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shopkeeper buys
100 oranges for $25.
50kg of apples fbr $80 antl
. 20 nrelons fbr $ 15.

tr lc sells alI of these orarlges. apples and melons at the prices shown in the table.

Lalclilate his percentage pro{it.

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The memory card has 128 unisq of storage space.
When 50 images were stored, there were 40 units of unused storage space on the memory card.

(i) Calculate the percentage of unused storage space on the memory card.
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(ii) Calculate the average amount of storage space used by each image.
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(b) Shop A charged 60 cents for each photograph.

Shop B charged 63 cents for each photograph and gave a discount of $l on all purchases more
thln $ I0.
(i) Anne bought 24 photographs from shop A and paid with a $20 note.
Calcr"rlate tl're change she received.
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4l (a) O11 overoge, Jirn's heart beats 75 times per rninute.

Calculate the number of times his heart beats during 50 weeks.
Give your answer irr standard form.

(b) After an exercise, Ali and Ben measured their heart rates.
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ratio of their heart rates was I 5:17.
Bcn's heart beat 18 times per minute more than Ali,s.
Calculate Ali's heart rate.

(c) -fhe
recommended rnaximum heart rate, H, for a rnan during exercise, is given by the formula

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rvlrere n years is the age of the rnan.

(i) Calculate Il when n : 25. t1l

(ii) Calculate r when H = 144. tll
(iii) Make n the subject of this formula.
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N.,lanraj changes 25200 nrpees into clollars ($).

Calculate how many dollars he rece il,es.

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(ii) Misia changes 380 euros into dollars ($).
He receives $551 .

l-lolv many dollars does he receive tbr each euro?

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