Homework – Practice Questions Due date – 22/04/21

Complete solution in the spaces provided. Show all workings clearly to earn the marks.

Question 1

(a) Change 9 litres per 100 km into miles per gallon. (4 marks)

Correct to the nearest whole number, the petrol consumption of The Brighton is 30
miles per gallon.

(b) i) Write down the maximum the petrol consumption could be, in miles per
gallon.

ii) Write down the minimum the petrol consumption could be in miles per
gallon.
(2 marks)
Question 2

Cleo uses a pair of scales to measure, in kilograms, the weight of a brick.

The scales were accurate to the nearest 100g.
She read the scales as accurately as she could and wrote down the weight as 1.437 kg.
Anthony said that this was not a sensible answer to write down. Explain why
Anthony was correct.

Question 3

Correct to 3 decimal places, a = 2.236.

(a) For this value of a, write down
i) the upper bound
ii) the lower bound

Correct to 3 decimal places, b = 1.414.

(b) Calculate
i) the upper bound for the value of a + b

ii) the lower bound for the value of a + b.

Write down all the figures on your calculator display for parts c and d of this question.
(c) Calculate the lower bound for the value ab.

(d) Calculate the upper bound for the value of

Question 4

PQR is a right angled triangle.

RQ= 6.0cm and PR=8.3cm, both correct to 1 decimal place

(a) Write down

i) the upper bound of the length of RQ

ii) the lower bound of the length of RQ.

(b) Calculate the upper bound of the area of the triangle PQR.

(c) Calculate the upper bound of the angle PQR. Give your value correct to
1 decimal place.
Question 5

x = 40, correct to the nearest 10.

y = 60, correct to the nearest 10.

(a) i) Write down the lower bound of x.

ii) Write down the upper bound of y.

(b) Calculate the greatest possible value of xy.

(c) Calculate the least possible value of .

Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

(d) Calculate the greatest possible value of

Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.
Question 6

Kim is doing an experiment using a pendulum. She uses the formula

where g is a constant acceleration, L the length of the pendulum, and T is the time for
one full swing of the pendulum.

In Kim's experiment the length L is 1 metre, correct to the nearest centimetre.

She measured the value of T to be 2 seconds, correct to the nearest 0.2 of a second.
Calculate the upper bound and the lower bound of Kim's values for g.
Give your answer in metres per second per second correct to two decimal places.
Question 7

A cone has a height of 18 cm and the radius of its base is 3 cm.

(a) Calculate the volume of the cone.

The measurements of the cone are correct to the nearest millimetre.

(b) Write down the lower bound of the radius of the cone.

(c) Calculate the difference between the upper and lower bounds of the volume of
the cone expressed as a percentage of the volume of the cone found in part (a).
Question 8

This 200 gram jar of coffee makes approximately 110 cups of coffee.

200 grams is correct to 3 significant figures.

110 cups is correct to 2 significant figures.

(a) For the weight of the coffee in the jar write down
i) the least upper bound

ii) the greatest upper bound (2 marks)

(b) For the number of cups of coffee write down

i) the least upper bound

ii) the greatest upper bound (2 marks)

(c) Calculate the least upper bound for the mean weight of coffee in each cup.
Write down all the figures on your calculator display.
(2 marks)
Question 9

(a) Work out an estimate for

(3 marks)
The length of a rod is 98 cm correct to the nearest centimetre.

(b) (i) Write down the maximum value that 98 cm could be.
............... cm
(ii) Write down the minimum value that 98 cm could be.
............... cm
(2 marks)
Question 10

Bill has a rectangular sheet of metal.

The length of the rectangle is exactly 12.5 cm.
The width of the rectangle is exactly 10 cm.

Bill cuts out a trapezium.

Its dimensions, shown in the diagram, are correct to the nearest millimetre.
He throws away the rest of the metal sheet.

Calculate the greatest possible area of the rectangular sheet that he throws away.

.................. cm2
(5 marks)
Question 11

6.49 and 13.28 are correct to 2 decimal places.

5.8 is correct to 1 decimal place.

(a) Which of the following calculations gives the lower bound for x and which
gives the upper bound for x? Write down the letters.

Lower bound .............................

Upper bound .............................

(2 marks)

The lower bound for x is 14.7160 correct to 4 decimal places.

The upper bound for x is 15.0063 correct to 4 decimal places.

(b) (i) Write the value of x correct to an appropriate number of significant figures.

(ii) Give a reason for your answer. (2 marks)

Question 12

The length of a path is 14 m correct to the nearest metre.

(i) Write down the minimum possible length of the path.

........................... m
(1 mark)

(ii) Write down the maximum possible length of the path.

........................... m
(1 mark)

Question 13

A field is in the shape of a rectangle.

The length of the field is 340 m, to the nearest metre.

The width of the field is 117 m, to the nearest metre.

Calculate the upper bound for the perimeter of the field.

........................... m
(2 marks)
Question 14

Elliot did an experiment to find the value of g m/s2, the acceleration due to gravity.
He measured the time, T seconds, that a block took to slide L m down a smooth slope of
angle x.

to calculate an estimate for g.

T = 1.3 correct to 1 decimal place.

L = 4.50 correct to 2 decimal places.
x = 30 correct to the nearest integer.

(a) Calculate the lower bound and the upper bound for the value of g.
Give your answer correct to 3 decimal places.

Lower bound ...............................

Upper bound ................................

(4 marks)

(b) Use your answers to part (a) to write down the value of g to a suitable
degree of accuracy. Explain your reasoning.

.............................................................................................................................

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(1 mark)