IGCSE - Topical Math Worksheet Questions

1. Given the inequalities: x + y < 11 y > 3 and y < x.
Find the point having whole number coordinates and satisfying these inequalities which
gives:
(a) the maximum value of x + 4y
Answer: ………………………………………… [2]
(b) the minimum value of 3x + y
Answer: ………………………………………… [2]
2. Given: 3x + 2y > 24; x + y < 12; y < ½ x; y>1
Find the point having whole number coordinates and satisfying these inequalities which
gives:
(a) the maximum value of 2x + 3y
Answer: ………………………………………… [2]
(b) the minimum value of x + y
Answer: ………………………………………… [2]
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3.
The region R contain points which satisfy the inequalities

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y ≤ "𝑥 + 4 y≥3 and x + y ≥ 6.
On the grid, label with the letter R the region which satisfy these inequalities.
You must shade the unwanted regions. [3]
4. Pablo plants x lemon trees and y orange trees.
(a) (i) He plants at least 4 lemon trees.

Write down an inequality to show this information.
Answer: ………………………………………… [1]
(ii) Pablo plants at least 9 orange trees.

Write down an inequality to show this information.
Answer: ………………………………………… [1]
(iii) The greatest possible number of trees he can plant is 20.

Write down an inequality in x and y to show this information.
Answer: ………………………………………… [1]

(b) Lemon trees cost $5 each and orange trees cost $10 each.
The maximum Pablo can spend is $170.
Write down an inequality in x and y and show that it simplifies to x + 2y ≤ 34.
[2]
(c) (i) On the grid below, draw four lines to show the four inequalities and
shade the unwanted region. [4]
(ii) Calculate the smallest cost when Pablo buys a total of 20 trees.
Answer: ………………………………………… [2]

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3. f(x) = (x + 2)3 – 5 g(x) = 2x + 10 h(x) = " , x ≠ 0.
Find
(a) gf(x)
Answer: ………………………………………… [2]
(b) f -1(x)
Answer: ………………………………………… [3]

(
(c) gh (− +)
Answer: ………………………………………… [2]

4. The table shows some values for the equation y = x3 – 2x for –2 ≤ x ≤ 2.
(a) Complete the table of values. [3]
(b) On the grid below, draw the graph of y = x3 – 2x for –2 ≤ x ≤ 2. [4]

(c) (i) On the grid, draw the line y = 0.8 for –2 ≤ x ≤ 2. [1]
(ii) Use your graph to solve for the equation x3 – 2x = 0.8.
Answer: x = …………… or x = …………… or x = …………… [3]
(d) By drawing a suitable tangent, work out an estimate for the gradient of the graph of
y= x3 – 2x where x = –1.5.
You must show your working.
Answer: ………………………………………… [3]
5. Find the equation of the line passing through the points (0, -1) and (3, 5).
Answer: ………………………………………… [3]

6. f(x) = 3x + 5 g(x) = 7 – 2x h(x) = x2 – 8
Find
(a) (i) f(3)
Answer: ………………………………………… [1]
(ii) g(x – 3) in terms of x in its simplest form
Answer: ………………………………………… [2]
(iii) h(5x) in terms of x in its simplest form
Answer: ………………………………………… [1]
(b) Find the inverse function g -1(x).
Answer: ………………………………………… [2]
(c) Find hf(x) in the form of ax2 + bx + c.
Answer: ………………………………………… [3]
(d) Solve the equation ff(x) = 83.
Answer: ………………………………………… [3]
(e) Solve the inequality 2f(x) < g(x).
Answer: ………………………………………… [3]

7. f(x) = 2x
(a) Complete the table. [3]
(b) Draw the graph of y = f(x) for 0 ≤ x ≤ 4. [4]
(c) Use your graph in part (b) to solve the equation 2x = 5.
Answer: ………………………………………… [1]

EXERCISE A
1. Factorise completely.
15p2 + 24pt
Answer: ………………………………………… [2]

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2. Find r when (5)% = 125.
Answer: ………………………………………… [2]
3. Solve the simultaneous equations.
3𝑥 + 5𝑦 = 24
𝑥 + 7𝑦 = 56
Answer: x = ……………………………… [3]
Answer: y = ……………………………… [3]

4. y is inversely proportional to x2.
When x = 4, y = 3.
Find y when x = 5.
Answer: ………………………………………… [3]
5. Make w the subject of the formula.
4+𝑤
𝑐=
𝑤+3
Answer: ………………………………………… [4]
6. For this question, 1 < x < 2.

Write the following in order of size, smallest first.
5 𝑥
5𝑥 𝑥 − 5
𝑥 5
Answer: ………… < ……………<……………<………… [2]

7. x is a positive integer and 15x – 43 < 5x + 2.
Work out the possible values of x.
Answer: ………………………………………… [3]
8. y varies directly as the square of (x – 3).

y = 16 when x = 1.
Calculate y when x = 10.
Answer: ………………………………………… [3]
9. Solve the inequality.
3y + 7 < 2 – y
Answer: ………………………………………… [2]
10. Make w the subject of the formula.
3𝑤
𝑡 = 2 −
𝑑
Answer: ………………………………………… [3]

6.
In the Venn diagram, E = {children in a nursery}

B = {children who received a book for their birthday}
T = {children who received a toy for their birthday}
P = {children who received a puzzle for their birthday}
x children received a book and a toy and a puzzle.

6 children received a toy and a puzzle.
(a) 4 children received a book and a toy.

5 children received a book and a puzzle.
7 children received a puzzle but not a book and not a toy.
Complete the Venn diagram above. [3]
(b) There are 40 children in the nursery.

Using the Venn diagram, write down and solve an equation in x.
Answer: ………………………………………… [3]
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7. 11 students are asked if they like rugby (R) and if they liked football (F).
The Venn diagram shows the results.
(a) A student is chosen at random.

What is the probability that the student likes rugby and football?
Answer: ………………………………………… [1]
(b) On the Venn diagram shade the region R’ ∩ F ’. [1]
8. Shade the required region on each Venn diagram. [2]

9. The Venn diagram shows the number of elements in sets A, B and C.
(a) n(A ∪ B ∪ C) = 74
Find x.
Answer: ………………………………………… [2]

(b) n(E) = 100
Find y.
Answer: ………………………………………… [1]
(c) Find the value of n((A ∪ B)’ ∩ C).
Answer: ………………………………………… [1]

16. Boris invests $280 for 2 years at a rate of 3% per year compound interest.
Calculate the interest Boris receives at the end of the 2 years.

Give your answer correct to 2 decimal places.
Answer: ………………………………………… [4]
17. Without using calculator, work out the following.

Show all the steps of your working and give each answer as a fraction in its simplest form.
$$ $
(a) $&
− '
Answer: ………………………………………… [2]

$ $$
(b) ( ÷ $'
Answer: ………………………………………… [2]

18. Anna, Bobby and Carl receive a sum of money.
They share it in the ratio of 12 : 7 : 8.
Anna receives $504.
(a) Calculate the total amount.
Answer: ………………………………………… [3]
(b) (i) Anna uses 7% of her $504 to pay a bill.

Calculate how much she has left.
Answer: ………………………………………… [3]
(ii) She buys a coat in a sale for $64.68.

This was 23% less than the original price.
Calculate the original price of the coat.
Answer: ………………………………………… [3]
(c) Bobby uses $250 of his share to open a bank account.

This account pays compound interest at a rate of 1.6% per year.
Calculate the amount in the bank account after 3 years.
Give your answer correct to 2 decimal places.
Answer: ………………………………………… [3]
(d) Carl buys a computer for $288 and sells it for $324.
Calculate his percentage profit.
Answer: ………………………………………… [3]

19. (a) In a sale, Jen buys a laptop for $351.55.
This price is 21% less than the price before the sale.
Calculate the price before the sale.
Answer: ………………………………………… [3]
(b) Alex invests $4000 at a rate of 8% per year simple interest for 2 years.
Bob invests $4000 at a rate of 7.5% per year compound interest for 2 years.
Who receives more interest and by how much?
Answer: ………… receives ……… more interest. [3]

20. (a) In Portugal, Miguel buys a book about planets.
The book costs €34.95.
In England the same book costs £95.50.
The exchange rate is £1 = €1.17.
Calculate the difference in pounds (£) between the cost of the book in England and in
Portugal.
Answer: ………………………………………… [2]
(b) In the book, the distance between the two planets is given as 4.07× 1012 kilometres.
The speed of light is 1.1 × 109 kilometres per hour.
Calculate the time taken for light to travel from one of these planets to the other.
Give your answer in days and hours.
Answer: ………………days …………… hours [3]
(c) In one of the pictures of the book, a rectangle is drawn.

The rectangle has length 9.3 cm and width 5.6 cm, both correct to one decimal place.
(i) What is the lower bound for the length?
Answer: ………………………………………… [1]
(ii) Work out the lower and upper bound for the area of the rectangle.
Answer: Upper bound =………………………… [1]
Answer: Lower bound =………………………… [2]

21. A train travels from Paris to Milan.
(a) The train departs from Paris at 20 28 and the journey takes 9 hours 10 minutes.
(i) Find the time the train arrives in Milan.
Answer: ………………………………………… [1]
(ii) The distance between Paris and Milan is 850 km.

Calculate the average speed of the train.
Answer: ………………………………………… [2]
(b) The total number of passengers on the train is 640.

(i) 160 passengers have tickets that cost $255 each.
330 passengers have tickets that cost $190 each.
150 passengers have tickets that cost $180 each.
Calculate the mean cost of a ticket.
Answer: ………………………………………… [3]

1. The diagram shows the speed-time graph for the first 120 seconds of a car journey.
(a) Calculate the acceleration of the car during the first 25 seconds.
Answer: ………………………………………… [1]
(b) Calculate the distance traveled by the car in the first 120 seconds.
Answer: ………………………………………… [4]

2.
The diagram shows the speed-time graph for a boat journey.
(a) Work out the acceleration of the boat in metres/minute2.
Answer: ………………………………………… [1]
(b) Calculate the total distance travelled by the boat.

Give your answer in kilometres.
Answer: ………………………………………… [4]

3.
The diagram shows the speed-time graph of a train journey between two stations.
The train accelerates for 3 minutes, travels at a constant maximum speed of 40 km/h,
then takes 4 minutes to slow to a stop.
Calculate the distance in kilometres between the two stations.
Answer: ………………………………………… [4]

4. Ali leaves home at 10 00 to cycle to his grandmother’s house. He arrives at 13 00.
The distance-time graph represents his journey.
(a) Calculate Ali’s speed between 10 00 and 11 30.

Give your answer in kilometres per hour.
Answer: ………………………………………… [2]
(b) Show that Ali’s average speed for the whole journey to his grandmother’s house
is 12 km/h.
Answer: ………………………………………… [2]
(c) Change 12 kilometres/hour into metres per minute.
Answer: ………………………………………… [2]

(d) Ali stays for 45 minutes at his grandmother’s house and then returns home.
He arrives home at 16 42.
Complete the distance-time graph. [2]

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1. Given the inequalities: x + y < 11 y > 3 and y < x.

(a) the maximum value of x + 4y

Answer: ………………………………………… [2]

(b) the minimum value of 3x + y

Answer: ………………………………………… [2]

2. Given: 3x + 2y > 24; x + y < 12; y < ½ x; y>1

(a) the maximum value of 2x + 3y

Answer: ………………………………………… [2]

(b) the minimum value of x + y

Answer: ………………………………………… [2]

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The region R contain points which satisfy the inequalities

4. Pablo plants x lemon trees and y orange trees.

(a) (i) He plants at least 4 lemon trees.

Answer: ………………………………………… [1]

(ii) Pablo plants at least 9 orange trees.

Answer: ………………………………………… [1]

(iii) The greatest possible number of trees he can plant is 20.

Answer: ………………………………………… [1]

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Write down an inequality in x and y and show that it simplifies to x + 2y ≤ 34.

Answer: ………………………………………… [2]

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Answer: ………………………………………… [2]

Answer: ………………………………………… [3]

Answer: ………………………………………… [2]

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(a) Complete the table of values. [3]

(b) On the grid below, draw the graph of y = x3 – 2x for –2 ≤ x ≤ 2. [4]

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(ii) Use your graph to solve for the equation x3 – 2x = 0.8.

Answer: x = …………… or x = …………… or x = …………… [3]

You must show your working.

Answer: ………………………………………… [3]

Answer: ………………………………………… [3]

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Answer: ………………………………………… [1]

(ii) g(x – 3) in terms of x in its simplest form

Answer: ………………………………………… [2]

(iii) h(5x) in terms of x in its simplest form

Answer: ………………………………………… [1]

(b) Find the inverse function g -1(x).

Answer: ………………………………………… [2]

(c) Find hf(x) in the form of ax2 + bx + c.

Answer: ………………………………………… [3]

(d) Solve the equation ff(x) = 83.

Answer: ………………………………………… [3]

(e) Solve the inequality 2f(x) < g(x).

Answer: ………………………………………… [3]

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(a) Complete the table. [3]

(b) Draw the graph of y = f(x) for 0 ≤ x ≤ 4. [4]

(c) Use your graph in part (b) to solve the equation 2x = 5.

Answer: ………………………………………… [1]

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Answer: ………………………………………… [2]

Answer: ………………………………………… [2]

3. Solve the simultaneous equations.

Answer: x = ……………………………… [3]

Answer: y = ……………………………… [3]

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Answer: ………………………………………… [3]

5. Make w the subject of the formula.

Answer: ………………………………………… [4]