Mock – 1 (Practice Paper) Mathematics – B

SETS

1. On the Venn diagrams below, shade the following sets: [Jan 19/P1R]

(a) 𝐴∩𝐵 (b) 𝐵 ∩ 𝐶′ (c) 𝐴 ∩ 𝐵 ∩ 𝐶′

2. 𝜀 = {all numbers}, 𝑁 = {natural numbers}, 𝑄 = {rational numbers}, 𝑍 = {integers}.

(a) On the Venn diagram, label the set 𝑁, the set 𝑄 and the set 𝑍.

(b) On the Venn diagram, show the four elements:

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4, √2, −3, 3
[May 17/P1R]

3. 𝐴, 𝐵 and 𝐶 are three non-empty sets.

In the diagram, the set 𝐵 has been drawn.

Given that 𝐴 ⊂ 𝐵, 𝐴 ∩ 𝐵 ∩ 𝐶 ≠ ∅ and 𝐵′ ∩ 𝐶 ≠ ∅, complete

the Venn diagram to show the sets 𝐴 and 𝐶. [Jan 15/P1R]

4. Use set notation to describe the shaded region in the Venn

diagram on the right. [May 17/P1R]

5. 𝐴 = {𝑎, 𝑏, 𝑐, 𝑑}. Write down all the subsets of 𝐴 that contain

the element 𝑏. [May 19/P2]

6. 𝐴 = {𝑤, 𝑥, 𝑦, 𝑧}. Write down all of the subsets of 𝐴 that have exactly 2 elements. [Jan 15/P1]

7. Two sets 𝐴 and 𝐵 are such that 𝑛(𝐴) = 37, 𝑛(𝐵) = 23 and 𝑛(𝐴 ∩ 𝐵) = 16.

Find 𝑛(𝐴 ∪ 𝐵). [May 17/P1]

8. 𝜀 = {𝑝, 𝑞, 𝑟, 𝑠, 𝑡}, 𝐴 = {𝑝, 𝑟, 𝑡}, 𝐴 ∩ 𝐵 = {𝑝, 𝑟}, 𝐴 ∩ 𝐶 = {𝑝, 𝑡}.

Two other sets, 𝐵 and 𝐶, each contain four elements and set 𝐵 does not equal set 𝐶.

Write down:

(a) set 𝐵, (b) set 𝐶, (c) set (𝐵 ∩ 𝐶)′. [May 16/P1R]

9. 𝜀 = {positive integers from 1 to 15 inclusive}, 𝐴 = {multiples of 3}, 𝐵 = {even numbers}.

(a) Find: (i) 𝐴 ∪ 𝐵, (ii) 𝐴 ∩ 𝐵, (iii) 𝑛([𝐴 ∩ 𝐵]′ ).

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The set 𝐶 has 8 elements and 𝐵 ∩ 𝐶 = 𝜙.

(b) Write down the elements of set 𝐶. [Jan 19/P1R]

10. The Venn diagram shows information about the elements in

a universal set, 𝜀, and the three sets 𝑋, 𝑌 and 𝑍.

Using the information in the Venn diagram, write down the elements in:

(a) 𝑋 ∩ 𝑌 (b) (𝑋 ∪ 𝑌) ∩ 𝑍′

Find:

(c) 𝑛([𝑋 ∪ 𝑌]′ ) (d) 𝑛([𝑋 ∩ 𝑍] ∪ 𝑌′)

Here are five symbols used in connection with sets: ∈, ∅, ⊂, ∉, ∩

(e) Use one of these symbols to complete the following statement correctly:

{𝑑, 𝑒} … … … … … 𝑍 [May 18/P2]

11. 𝜀 is the universal set and 𝐴, 𝐵 and 𝐶 are three sets where 𝜀 = {positive integers less than 13}.

𝐴 = {multiples of 5}, 𝐵 = {even numbers}, 𝐶 = {factors of 8}.

The Venn diagram below can be used to show these sets.

(a) Complete the Venn diagram for the sets 𝜀, 𝐴, 𝐵 and 𝐶.

List the elements of the sets:

(b) 𝐵 ∩ 𝐶 (c) 𝐴 ∪ 𝐵 (d) (𝐴 ∪ 𝐵 ∪ 𝐶)′

Find:

(e) 𝑛(𝐵 ∪ 𝐶) (f) 𝑛(𝐵′ ∩ 𝐶 ′ ) [May 19/P2R]

12. In a survey, 60 students were asked whether they study any of History (𝐻), Geography (𝐺) or Latin (𝐿).

Of these students,

27 study History 13 study both History and Latin

25 study Geography 2 study both Geography and Latin

18 study Latin 8 study History only

No students study History and Geography and Latin

(a) Use the information to complete the Venn diagram.

(b) Find the number of students who study History but not Latin.

(c) Find 𝑛(𝐻 ′ ∩ [𝐿 ∪ 𝐺]). [May 19/P1]

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13. The members of a sports club can play cricket (𝐶), football (𝐹) and golf (𝐺). The members of the club

were asked which of these sports they play. Here is some information about the numbers of members who

play these sports. 𝑛(𝐶 ∩ 𝐹 ∩ 𝐺) = 6, 𝑛(𝐶 ∩ 𝐹 ∩ 𝐺 ′ ) = 5, 𝑛(𝐺 ∩ [𝐶 ∪ 𝐹]′ ) = 15, 𝑛(𝐶) = 30.

The incomplete Venn diagram, where 𝑥 is a positive integer,

shows some other information about the numbers of members

who play these sports.

(a) Use all the given information to complete the Venn diagram.

(b) Given that 𝑛([𝐹 ∪ 𝐺] ∩ 𝐶′) = 45, find the value of 𝑥.

(c) Find the number of people who:

(i) plays only cricket, (ii) plays only two sports. [Jan 17/P2]

14. 150 tourists in London took part in a survey to see how popular three tourist attractions are. Each tourist

was asked to say whether they had visited Buckingham Palace (𝐵), Hampton Court (𝐻) or the Tower of

London (𝑇). 25 of the 150 tourists had not visited any of the three tourist attractions.

Of the other tourists who were asked:

20 had visited all three attractions.

25 had visited Buckingham Palace and Hampton Court.

35 had visited Hampton Court and Tower of London.

30 had visited Buckingham Palace and the Tower of London.

45 had visited Buckingham Palace only.

𝑥 had visited Hampton Court only.

The results of the survey also showed that the number of visitors who had visited the Tower of London only

was 4 times the number of visitors who had visited Hampton Court only.

(a) Show all this information on the Venn diagram.

(b) Use the information in the Venn diagram to find the value of 𝑥. [Jan 18/P2R]

Answers: [1] Shading, [2] Diagram, [3] Diagram, [4] (𝐹 ∪ 𝐺) ∩ 𝐻′, [5] {𝑏}, {𝑎, 𝑏, 𝑐, 𝑑}, {𝑎, 𝑏}, {𝑏, 𝑐}, {𝑏, 𝑑}, {𝑎, 𝑏, 𝑐},

{𝑏, 𝑐, 𝑑}, {𝑎, 𝑏, 𝑑}, [6] {𝑤, 𝑥}, {𝑤, 𝑦}, {𝑤, 𝑧}, {𝑥, 𝑦}, {𝑥, 𝑧}, {𝑦, 𝑧}, [7] 44, [8] (a) {𝑝, 𝑟, 𝑞, 𝑠}, (b) {𝑝, 𝑡, 𝑞, 𝑠}, (c) {𝑟, 𝑡},

[9] (a) (i) {2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15}, (ii) {6, 12}, (iii) 13, (b) {1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15}, [10] (a) {ℎ, 𝑙}, (b) {𝑎, 𝑏, 𝑐, 𝑓, 𝑔, ℎ},

(c) 4, (d) 10, (e) ⊂, [11] (b) {2, 4, 8}, (c) {2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12}, (d) {3, 7, 9, 11}, (e) 7, (f) 5, [12] (b) 14, (c) 22,

[13] (b) 𝑥 = 20, (c) (i) 11, (ii) 23, [14] (b) 𝑥 = 6.

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STATISTICS
1. Here are the marks 10 students got in a test.

9 2 4 6 4 4 7 10 3 9

(a) Write down the mode.

(b) Calculate the mean mark. [Jan 18/P1]

5𝑥+2
2. The five numbers 18, −2, 14, 2𝑥 and 3𝑥 have a mean of 4

(a) Calculate the value of 𝑥.

(b) Hence find the median of the five numbers. [May 17/P1]

3. The six numbers 𝑥, 𝑦, 𝑦, 12, (𝑥 + 𝑦), 12 are in ascending order of size.

The mode of the six numbers is 12 and the mean of the six numbers is 9.5

(a) Find the value of 𝑥 and the value of 𝑦.

(b) Hence find the median of the six numbers. [May 18/P2]

4. Here are four numbers written in order of size: 𝑤, 7, 𝑥, 24

The range of the four numbers is 18. The median of the four numbers is 10.

Find the value of 𝑤 and the value of 𝑥. [May 19/P1R]

5. The table shows information about the ages, in years, of 100 students attending a school.

Age (years) 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Number of students 8 32 7 1 10 29 10 3

(a) Write down the mode of the ages of these students.

(b) Find the median age of these students.

(c) Calculate the mean age of these students. [Jan 17/P1]

6. The table below gives information about the lengths of time that 50 people have been waiting for a train.

Waiting time (𝒎) 0<𝑚≤5 5 < 𝑚 ≤ 10 10 < 𝑚 ≤ 15 15 < 𝑚 ≤ 20 20 < 𝑚 ≤ 25

Frequency 4 5 11 8 22

(a) Find the modal class.

(b) Find the class interval that contains the median waiting time.

(c) Calculate an estimate for the mean waiting time. [Jan 19/P1R]

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7. Malcolm is investigating the ages of the 200 members of a theatre company. The table below gives

information about the age group of each member of the company. Malcolm is going to draw a pie chart for

this information.

Age (𝒕 years) 10 < 𝑡 ≤ 20 20 < 𝑡 ≤ 30 30 < 𝑡 ≤ 40 40 < 𝑡 ≤ 50 50 < 𝑡 ≤ 60

Frequency 23 47 56 48 26

(a) Calculate the size, in degrees, of the angle of the sector in the pie chart for those members of the

company whose age group is 40 < 𝑡 ≤ 50.

(b) Find the mean age, to the nearest year, of the members of the theatre company. [May 19/P2]

8. In one week, a company made four types of telephone call: selling calls, purchasing calls, financial calls

and delivery calls. In the week, the company made 420 selling calls, 160 purchasing calls and 64 financial

calls. A pie chart was drawn to show this information. The angle on the pie chart for selling calls was 210°.

(a) Calculate the total number of calls made that week.

(b) Hence calculate the number of delivery calls made in the week. [Jan 14/P1]

9. In the town of 𝐸𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑎, four candidates stood in the election for town mayor.

The number of votes each candidate received is represented by the pie chart.

(a) The number of votes Candidate 𝐷 received is 3075 and the angle of the sector for

Candidate is 𝐷 is 75°, find the total number of votes received by all four candidates.

Candidate 𝐴 won the election. The angle of the sector for Candidate 𝐴 is 5° greater than the angle of the

sector for Candidate 𝐵.

(b) Calculate how many more votes Candidate 𝐴 received than Candidate 𝐵. [May 14/P1R]

10. John is going to draw a bar chart for the number of red apples and the number of green apples on the

trees in his garden. The height of the bar in the bar chart for the 28 green apples is 7 cm. There are 50 red

apples on the trees in John’s garden.

Calculate the height of the bar in the bar chart for the red apples. [Jan 19/P1]

11. Yuen is going to draw a bar chart for the number of lorries and the number of cars that passed his house

in one hour. The height of the bar in the bar chart representing the 155 lorries that passed his house is 5 cm.

The height of the bar in the bar chart representing the number of cars that passed his house is 8 cm.

Calculate the number of cars that passed his house. [May 15/P1]

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12. The incomplete histogram and the incomplete table give information about the time taken, in minutes,

for some students to each complete a piece of homework. No student took less than 10 minutes to complete

the homework and no student took longer than 60 minutes to complete the homework.

Complete the histogram and the table. [May 19/P1]

Time taken (𝒕 mins) 10 ≤ 𝑡 < 20 20 ≤ 𝑡 < 25 25 ≤ 𝑡 < 30 30 ≤ 𝑡 < 45 45 ≤ 𝑡 < 60

Frequency 5 8 3

13. The length of cod caught by fishermen in a small fishing boat last month were measured. The incomplete

table and histogram below give information about the length of each cod caught last month.

Length (𝒍 cm) 5 < 𝑙 ≤ 25 25 < 𝑙 ≤ 40 40 < 𝑙 ≤ 50 50 < 𝑙 ≤ 60 60 < 𝑙 ≤ 80 80 < 𝑙 ≤ 100

Number of cod 30 75 100 155 20

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(a) Complete the table and the histogram.

(b) Cod that have a length less than 35 cm are returned to the sea. Calculate an estimate, to 1 decimal place, of

the percentage of cod caught that were returned to the sea from the boat last month. [Jan 19/P1]

14. The table below gives information about the times, in seconds, taken by some children to do a puzzle.

Time taken (𝑻 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒔) Frequency

20 < 𝑇 ≤ 30 30

30 < 𝑇 ≤ 50 64

50 < 𝑇 ≤ 55 24

55 < 𝑇 ≤ 60 35

60 < 𝑇 ≤ 70 30

70 < 𝑇 ≤ 100 15

On the grid below, draw a histogram to show this information. [May 18/P2]

Answers:

[1] (a) 4, (b) 5.8, [2] (a) 𝑥 = 22, (b) 18, [3] (a) 𝑥 = 3, 𝑦 = 9, (b) 10.5, [4] 𝑤 = 6, 𝑥 = 13, [5] (a) 9 years, (b) 12 years,

(c) 11.15 years, [6] (a) 20 < 𝑚 ≤ 25, (b) 15 < 𝑚 ≤ 20, (c) 16.4 minutes, [7] (a) 86.4°, (b) 35 years, [8] (a) 720 calls,

(b) 76 calls, [9] (a) 14760 votes, (b) 205 votes, [10] 12.5 cm, [11] 248 cars, [12] 7, 9, [13] (a) 50, (b) 18.6%,

[14] 𝑓. 𝑑. = 3, 3.2, 4.8, 7, 3, 0.5

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PROBABILITY

1. Jenny has 18 sweets in a bag. There are 11 orange sweets and 7 green sweets in the bag.

Jenny takes at random 3 sweets from the bag.

Calculate the probability that the 3 sweets are not all of the same colour. [May 18/P1]

2. There are 20 counters in a bag. There are 7 red counters. The rest of the counters are green or white.
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Bernard takes at random 2 counters from the bag. The probability Bernard will take 2 white counters is 19

Calculate the probability that Bernard will take 1 green counter and 1 white counter. [Jan 19/P1R]

3. Here is a biased spinner labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

The table below shows information about the probability

that when the spinner is spun once it will land on each

of the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

Number 1 2 3 4 5 6
Probability 0.05 0.1 2𝑥 − 0.1 0.2 0.3 3𝑥 + 0.2

Abdul is going to spin the spinner 300 times.

(a) Calculate an estimate for the number of times the spinner will land on number 1.

(b) Calculate the probability that when the spinner is spun once it lands on number 6. [May 19/P1]

4. Vincent plays a game in which he can score 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4 each time he plays the game. The score he gets

in a game is independent of the score he got in the previous games. The table gives information about the

probability of getting each score in a game. Vincent plays the game 150 times.

Score 0 1 2 3 4
Probability 𝑥 3𝑥 𝑥 0.2 0.1

(a) Calculate the number of times he would expect to score 1.

Vincent plays the game another two times and records his two scores. He adds these two scores together to

get his Total.

(b) Calculate the probability that Vincent’s Total is greater than 6.

Given that for these two games Vincent has a Total greater than 6 points,

(c) calculate the probability that he got a score of 4 in the first of these two games. [Jan 19/P2]

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5. A bag contains 15 counters.

There are:

 5 orange counters
 3 blue counters
 7 white counters

Priya takes at random 2 counters from the bag.

(a) Complete the probability tree diagram.

(b) Calculate the probability that Priya takes two

white counters.

(c) Calculate the probability that the counters

Priya takes are not of the same color. [May 19/P2R]

6. A bag contains 6 five cent coins and 9 ten cent coins.

Coins are taken at random from the bag, one at a time

without replacement, until the total value of the coins

taken from the bag is at least 15 cents. No more coins are then taken from the bag.

(a) Complete the probability tree diagram.

(b) Calculate the probability that exactly two coins are taken from the bag.

𝐴 is the event that the total value of the coins taken from the bag is 15 cents.

𝐵 is the event that the total value of the coins taken from the bag is 20 cents.

(c) Determine which of the events, 𝐴 or 𝐵, is the more likely. [May 18/P2]

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7. To pass a course, Preety has to pass two tests, test 𝐀 and test 𝐁. Each test only has to be passed once.

Passing test 𝐀 and passing test 𝐁 are independent events. Preety has three attempts to pass test 𝐀.
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The probability that she passes test 𝐀 on her first attempt is 5

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If she fails on her first attempt, the probability that she passes on her second attempt is
5

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If she fails on her second attempt, the probability that she passes on her third attempt is
8

(a) Calculate the probability she passes test 𝐀.

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Preety has two attempts to pass test 𝐁. The probability that she passes test 𝐁 on her first attempt is
5

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The probability that she passes test 𝐁 is 4

(b) Calculate the probability that Preety passes test 𝐁 on her second attempt, given that she fails test 𝐁 on

her first attempt.

Preety decides to take the two tests only if the probability that she passes the course is greater than 0.5.

(c) State, with a reason, whether or not Preety should take the two tests. [May 19/P2]

Answers:
77 4 3 7 4 3 7 5 2 7 5 3 6 1 71
[1] , [2] , [3] (a) 15, (b) 0.35, [4] (a) 63, (b) 0.05, (c) 0.6, [5] (a) , , , , , , , , , , , (b) , (c) ,
102 19 15 15 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 5 105

5 9 6 8 4 9 6 17 3
[6] (a) , , , , , , (b) , (c) 𝑃(𝐴) = 0.558, 𝑃(𝐵) = 0.442, so 𝐴 is more likely, [7] (a) , (b) , (c) Yes because
14 14 14 14 13 13 7 20 8

𝑃(𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠) = 0.6375 > 0.5

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