Hexagon Mathematics Paper Maths Examination Paper # 34

1. Put these values in order of size with the smallest first: 52 , 32 , 33 , 24 .

Solution: 9, 16, 25, 27

2. Wendy and Gary are each given a wage increase and offered a choice of either of the following
schemes:

Scheme A: an increase of 5% of their present wage.

Scheme B: an increase of 6$ plus 3% of their present wage.

(a) Which scheme would give Wendy a higer wage increase if her present wage is $ 4500 per
month? Show your working clearly to support your answer.
(b) Gary finds that both schemes will give him the same wage increase. How much is his
present wage?

Solution: Scheme A, b) 300

3. The right square pyramid whose base is a square of sides

13 cm. Given that the slant height of the pyramid is 10 h

cm, find the total surface area of the pyramid.

Solution: The distance from the vertex to the

p center of the base is h, the height of the
pyramid. By the Pythagoras
√ theorem, h = 62 − d2 /4, where d is the diagonal of the
base. We have d = 13 2. Hence,
r r
p 200 − 169 31
h = 100 − 132 /2 = = .
2 2
q
Then, the volume is 13 × 169 312 .
HS ra dap so 360.

4. A survey was conducted to find out the favourite sport of 720 students in a certain school. The
results are tabulated below:

Favorite sport Number of students

Badminton 136
Basketball 180
Hockey 84
Soccer 212
Table tennis 108
Total 720
Hexagon Mathematics Paper (a) What percentage of the students chose badminton?
(b) What is the angle of the sector that represents the number of students who liked soccer
when the information is illustrated in a pie chart?

Solution:
(a) draw, b) 136/720 × 100%, 106◦

5. The perimeter of a rectangle is 36 cm. The area of the rectangle is 80 cm2 . Find the length of
the longer side of the rectangle.

Solution: 10.

3uv−2v−12u+8
6. Simplify the following and give your answer in the lowest terms 8−10u−3u2
.

Solution: (v − 4)/(u + 4)

7. The figure below is bounded by three congruent

semicircles of radius 7 cm and a larger semicircle. Take
π = 22/7, find
(a) the perimeter of the figure.
(b) the area of the figure.
8. Factorise −6x2 + x + 1.

Solution: (−2x − 1)(3x + 1)

9. A wooden object is created in the following manner: from the center of a face of a wooden
cubic block of side length 15 cm, a hole in the shape of a cone is to be bored into such that the
vertex of the cone just touches the opposite face of the block. Given that the diameter of the
base of the cone is 16 cm, find the total surface area of the object. Leave your answer in terms
of π.

Solution: When the block is not BORED, the total surface area is 6 × 152 .
The curved surface area of the cone is
p
π×R×`=π×8× 152 + 82 = π × 8 × 17.

Hence, the total surface area of the resulting solid figure is

6 × 152 − π × 82 + π × 8 × 17 = 1350 + 136π.

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Hexagon Mathematics Paper 10. The table below shows the numbers of right−handed and left−handed students in a class

Left-handed Right-handed
Number of boys 2 19
Number of girls 3 16

A student is selected at random to be a chairman, find the probability that the selected student
is
(a) a boy,
(b) left−handed,
(c) either a right-handed boy or a left−handed girl,
(d) not left-handed.

Solution: 21/40, 1/8, 1/50, and 7/8.

11. Two circles of the same radius 12 cm are drawn such that
the distance between the two centers is 18 cm. Find the
area of the quadrilateral formed by the two centers and
the two points of intersection of the circles.

12. It is given that a = 22 × 3 × 7 and b = 2 × 32 × 7. Find

(a) the highest common factor of a and b. Leave your answer as a product of prime factors.
(b) the least possible integer value of n such that nab is a perfect cube.

Solution: (a) 2 × 3 × 7,
(b) 7

13. If two men A and B can complete a job in 10 days. If A alone can do it in 15 days, how long
will B take to do it himself?

Solution: 30 days.

14. ABCD is a rectangle and E is on AD and F is D C

on AB such that AF = 3 cm, AE = ED = 4

cm, EC = 13 cm, calculate E
(a) EF ,
(b) ∠F ED, A B
F
(c) area of 4CEF .

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Hexagon Mathematics Paper
Solution:

15. A survey was conducted on 110 students on the popularity of two types of drinks, green tea
and cola. Of the 62 students who drink green teak, x also drink cola. 33 students drink neither
green tea nor cola, and 3x students drink only cola. Find the value of x.

Solution:

16. P QRS is a trapezium in which P Q = x − 1 cm, QR = 2x − 1, P S = x + 1, ∠P QR = 90◦ ,

P S k QR.

(a) Given that the area of the trapezium is 63 cm2 , form an equation in x and show that it
reduces to x2 − x − 42 = 0.
(b) Solve the equation x2 − x − 42 = 0.
(c) Hence, find the area of triangle P SR.

Solution:

17. A monthly rental bill consist of a fixed charge $ f and and a variable charge of $ r per kwh
for electricity usage. In March, 192 kwh of electricity was used and the charge was $ 204. In
April, 288 kwh of electricity was used and the charge was $252. Find the value of f and r.

Solution: f = 108, r = 0.5.

q
r+s2
18. Make r the subject of the formula p = r+q .

Solution:
s2 −p2 q
r= p2 −1

19. Let ABCD be an isosceles trapezium with bases AB = 12, A B

CD = 32 cm. The two bases are 13 cm apart. Find
(a) the perimeter of ABCD.
(b) the area of ABCD. D C

Solution: a) 70, b) 264

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20. Given that the areas of three different faces of a cuboid are 252, 224, 288 cm2 , find the volume
of the cuboid.

Solution: 4032.

(xn−1 y n )3
21. Express x2n y 6+n
in the form xa y b and hence, find the value of ab .

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Solution: 2.

22. The diagram below shows the graph of y = x2 − 1 and line ` with equation y = 32 x − 3, not
intersecting each other.

(a) Find the coordinates of the points Q, R at which the parabola meets the x−axis.
(b) P is a point on the line such that P, Q, R make a triangle of area 60 square unit. Find
the coordinate of P .

Solution: (1, 0), (−1, 0).

Part b) has two cases.

23. A wooden cuboid is made in the dimension 6 × 8 × 24 cm. Find the length of diagonal of the
cuboid.

24. The sum of squares of three prime numbers is 702. Find the sum of the three numbers.

Solution: Since the sum is even then one of the three numbers must be even. That is, 2
is one number. 22 + 132 + 232 = 4 + 169 + 529

25. A cuboid has sides such that the longest side in two units more than the shortest side, and
the middle length side is one unit longer than the shortest side. The total surface area of the
cuboid is 52 units squared.

(a) Construct an equation to calculate the surface area.

(b) Use the equation to find the length of the shortest side.

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 Solution: x, x + 1 and x + 2. The equation is

x(x + 1) + x(x + 2) + (x + 1)(x + 2) = 26.

26. The diagram shows three vertical poles at points A, B and C. The heights of the three vertical
poles are in the ratio 2 : 3 : 5. If the distance between the poles A and B is 4m, and the three
tops of the poles make a line, find the distance between the poles at B and C.

A B C

Solution: Using similarity,

Answer: 8.

27. A right pyramid of three side lengths 13 each is removed from each of the eight corners of a unit
cube, the remaining part is called a polyhedron. What is the
(a) number of faces of the resulting polyhedron?
(b) number of points in common when the polyhedron is inscribed in a sphere?
(c) volume of the polyhedron?

Solution: a) 14 b) 24, c) 73/81

28. What is the ratio of the measure of a regular hexagon’s longest diagonal to the measure of its
perimeter?

Solution: 1/3

29. The diagram shows two shampoo bottles are geometrically similar.

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 The sum of volume of the two bottles is 1520 ml. Find the volume the smaller bottle.

Solution:
V1 /V2 = (3/5)3 , and V1 + V2 = 1520. Hence, V1 = 270.

30. The figure below consists of a cone and a hemisphere on top.

The overall height of the figure is 14 cm while the radius is 7.
Find
(a) the volume of the figure.
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(b) the total surface area of the figure.
(c) the total surface area of one half when the figure is cut by
a cross−section through the line of symmetry.

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