PAPER 2

1. Write the following in order of size, smallest first

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8 8  27 
74%  
15 25  20 
2. Calculate the value of 40% 40%  40% 40%

(a) writing down all the figures in your calculator answer,

(b) writing your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

3. Shade one square in each diagram so that there is rotational symmetry of order 2.

4. Make y the subject of the formula.

a.

 2 y  4x
b. x
3y

5. Solve the simultaneous equations

2x + 3y = 4
y = 2x – 12

6.

a. Find the equation of the line

b. Find the gradien
c. The points (-1, 1), (5, 2) and (17, k) all lie in a straight line.
Find the value of k.

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7. In triangle ABC, AB = 6 cm, BC = 13 cm and angle ACB = 23°.

Calculate angle BAC, which is obtuse.

8.

F B
10
X

x
x

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3 V

F = { people like football)

B = { people like basketball)
V = { people like volleyball)
X people like football, basketball and volleyball
a) There are 40 people
3 people like football and basketball
4 people like basketball and volleyball
5 people like football and volleyball
11 people like football but not basketball and volleyball
Complete the Venn diagram above
b) Using the Venn diagram, write down and solve an equation in x
c) Work out
(i) the probability, chosen at random, like basketball but not football and voleeyball,
(ii) the probability, like basketball and football but not volleyball,’
9. a. Find D-1, the inverse of D

 3  8
D   
 2  6
b. Simplify DI.
I is the identity 2 × 2 matrix

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10. Given 𝑓(𝑥) = 2𝑥 − 1 𝑔(𝑥) = 𝑥 2 + 1
i) Find the value of 𝑔𝑓(3) − 𝑓𝑔(3)
ii) Find 𝑓𝑔(𝑥)
iii) Find 𝑓 −1 (𝑥)

11. Write the number 56724.7893 correct to

(a) Standard form,

(b) 3 decimal places,

(c) the nearest thousand.

12. Rooney invests $ 4000 for 4 months at 6 % simple interest per year.
Calculate the interest he receives. . .

13. Factorise completely

(a) 16pq + 80p
(b) 32x3y2 - 8xy3

14. Solve the inequality

3(2 – x) – 4x > 2(x + 1) – 3

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PAPER 4

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2.
1 1 2 3 4 1 2 5 6 7
Jones writes numbers on five yellow cards and Jack writes number on five white cards.

(a) One of the ten cards is chosen at random. Find the probability that
(i) the letter on the card is 1,
(ii) the card is white,
(iii) the card is yellow or the letter on the card is 1,
(iv) the card is yellow and the letter on the card is 2,

(b) Jones chooses a card at random and then Jack chooses one of the remaining 9 cards at
random.
Giving your answers as fractions, find the probability that the letters on the two cards are
(i) both 2,
(ii) both 1,
(iii) the same,
(iv) different.
3. The table below shows some information about the diagrams.

a. Write down the values of p and q

b. Write down each of x, y and z in terms of n.
c. The table below shows some information about the diagrams
Sequence 1st term 2nd term 3rd term 4th term 5th term nth term
A 1 10 2  10 3  10 4  10 5  10
5 6 7 8 9
B -3 -2 -1 0 1

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4. Each student in a class is given a bag of sweets.
The students note the number of sweets in their bag.
i) The mean number of sweets is 30.65
Find the value of x.
ii) Find the value of median and mode