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BANGLADESH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, DAMMAM

RECOMMENDATION MOCK EXAMINATIONS –DEC 22/JAN23
CAMBRIDGE ASSESSMENT INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
Cambridge International General Certificate of Secondary Education
May-June 2023 SERIES

General Mathematics Subject Code 0580 Paper 42

Subject:

Full Marks 130 Time: 2-hour 30 min

31 December, 2023

READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Marks Obtained

 Write in dark blue or black pen.
 You may use a soft pencil for any diagrams, graphs or
rough working.
 Do not use staples, paper clips, highlighters, glue or
Raw:
correction fluid.
 Answer all questions.
 You may lose marks if you do not show your working or
if you do not use appropriate units.
 At the end of the examination, fasten all your work
Adjusted:
securely together.
 The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of
each question or part question. Grade:
 
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1 (a) In Portugal, Miguel buys a book about planets. The book costs €34.95.
In England the same book costs ￡27.50. The exchange rate is ￡1 = €1.17.
Calculate the difference in pounds (￡) between the cost of the book in Portugal and England.
[2]

(b) In the book, the distance between 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.
[3]

(c) In one of the pictures in 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?

Lower bound =………….. cm 2 [1]

(ii) Work out the lower and upper bounds for the area of the rectangle.

Upper bound = …………..cm 2 [2]

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2 (a) Complete the table for the function f (x)= −x
x

x -3 -2 -1 -.5 -.2 .2 .5 1 2 3
f (x)
[3]
(b) On the grid draw the graph of y=f (x ) for –3 ≤ x ≤–0.2 and .2≤ x ≤3[5]

(c) Use your graph to

(i) solve f ( x)=2, [1]

(ii) find a value for k so that f ( x)=k has 3 solutions. [1]

(d) Draw a suitable line on the grid and use your graphs to solve the equation
2
−x 2=5 x [3]
x

(e) Draw the tangent to the graph of y=f (x ) at the point where x=– 2. Use it to calculate an
estimate of the gradient of y=f ( x ) when x=– 2. [3]

3 The quadrilateral ABCD represents an area of land. There is

a straight road from A to C. AB = 79 m, AD = 120 m and CD
= 95m. Angle BCA = 26° and angle CDA = 77°.

(a) Show that the length of the road, AC, is 135 m correct to the nearest metre. [4]

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(b) Calculate the size of the obtuse angle ABC. [3]

(c) A straight path is to be built from B to the nearest point on the road AC.
Calculate the length of this path. [3]

(d) Houses are to be built on the land in triangle ACD.

Each house needs at least 180 m2 of land. Calculate the maximum number of houses which can
be built. Show all of your working. [4]
Show all of your working.

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4 A star is made up of a regular hexagon, centre X, surrounded by 6 equilateral triangles.

⃗
OA =a and ⃗ OB =b.
(a) Write the following vectors in terms of a and_or b, giving your answers in their simplest
form.

(i) ⃗
OS , [1]

(ii) ⃗
AB , [1]

(iii) ⃗
CD, [1]

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(iv) ¿⃗ , [2]

(v) ⃗
CF . [2]

(b) When | a | =5, write down the value of

(i) | b |, [1]

(ii) | a - b |. [1]

(c) Describe fully a single transformation which maps

(i) triangle OBA onto triangle OQS, [2]

(ii) triangle OBA onto triangle RDE, with O mapped onto R and B mapped onto D. [2]

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(d) (i) How many lines of symmetry does the star have? [1]

(ii) When triangle OQS is rotated clockwise about X, it lies on triangle PRT, with O on P.
Write down the angle of rotation. [1]

The diagram shows a swimming pool of length 35 m and width 24 m.

A cross-section of the pool, ABCD, is a trapezium with AD = 2.5 m and BC = 1.1 m.

(a) Calculate
(i) the area of the trapezium ABCD, [2]

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(ii) the volume of the pool, [2]

(iii) the number of litres of water in the pool, when it is full. [1]

(b) AB = 35.03 m correct to 2 decimal places. The sloping rectangular floor of the pool is
painted. It costs $2.25 to paint one square metre.
(i) Calculate the cost of painting the floor of the pool. [2]

(ii) Write your answer to part (b)(i) correct to the nearest hundred dollars. [1]

(c) (i) Calculate the volume of a cylinder, radius 12.5 cm and height 14 cm. [2]

(ii) When the pool is emptied, the water flows through a cylindrical pipe of radius 12.5 cm.
The water flows along this pipe at a rate of 14 centimetres per second. Calculate the time taken

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to empty the pool. Give your answer in days and hours, correct to the nearest hour.

[4]

6 The cumulative frequency diagram shows information about the distance, d km, travelled by
each of 60 male cyclists in one weekend.

(a) Use the cumulative frequency diagram to find an estimate of

(i) the median,.............................................. km [1]
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(ii) the lower quartile,.............................................. km [1]

(iii) the interquartile range............................................... km [1]

(b) For the same weekend, the interquartile range for the distances travelled by a group of
female cyclists is 40 km.
Make one comment comparing the distribution of the distances travelled by the males with the
distribution of the distances travelled by the females.
............................................................................................................................................................

............................................................................................................................................. [1]

(c) A male cyclist is chosen at random. Find the probability that he travelled more than 50 km.
................................................... [2]

(d) (i) Use the cumulative frequency diagram to complete this frequency table.

Distance (d km) Number of male cyclists

0≤ d ≤ 40 18
40≤ d ≤ 50 9

50≤ d ≤ 60
60≤ d ≤ 70

70≤ d ≤ 90
90≤ d ≤ 120 2

[2]

(ii) Calculate an estimate of the mean distance travelled................................... km [4]

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(a) Describe fully the single transformation that maps shape A onto shape B.
............................................................................................................................................... [2]

(b) On the grid, draw the image of

(i) shape A after a translation by the vector (−34) [2]
(ii) shape A after a rotation through 180° about (0, 0), [2]
(iii) shape A after an enlargement, scale factor 2, centre (-7, 0). [2]

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8 (a) A bag contains 4 red marbles and 2 yellow marbles.

Behnaz picks two marbles at random without replacement.
Find the probability that
(i) the marbles are both red . ........................... [2]

(ii) the marbles are not both red ....................[1]

(b) Another bag contains 5 blue marbles and 2 green marbles.

Bryn picks one marble at random without replacement.
If this marble is not green, he picks another marble at random without replacement.
He continues until he picks a green marble.
Find the probability that he picks a green marble on his first, second or third attempt............ [4]

9 (a) y is directly proportional to the positive square root of (x +2). When x=7 , y=9.
Find y when x=23 . [3]

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(b) Simplify
x2 +12 x+36
[4]
x 2+ 4 x−12

(c) Make a the subject of the formula

W=
√x−a
a
[3]

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(d) Write as a single fraction in its simplest form.

3 2
− [3]
x−4 x−3

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10 a. P, Q and T are points on the circumference of a circle, centre O. The line ATB is the tangent at T to
the circle. PQ = TQ. Angle ATP = 58°.

Calculate the size of angle OTQ. [3]

Give a reason for each

stage in your working…………………………………………………………... [1]

b) The diagram shows two mathematically similar solid metal prisms.

The volume of the smaller prism is 648 cm3 and the volume of the larger prism is 2187 cm3.
The area of the cross-section of the smaller prism is 36 cm2.
(i) Calculate the area of the cross-section of the larger prism .................................... [3]

(ii) The larger prism is melted down into a sphere.

Calculate the radius of the sphere ............................................... [3]

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11 (a) The equation of line L is 3 x−8 y +20=0

(i)Find the gradient of line L. .......................... [2]

(ii) Find the coordinates of the point where line L cuts the y-axis.
(.................., ..................) [1]

(b) The coordinates of P are (-3, 8) and the coordinates of Q are (9, -2).
(i) Calculate the length PQ.

................................. [3]
(ii) Find the equation of the line parallel to PQ that passes through the point (6, -1).

.................................. [3]
(iii) Find the equation of the perpendicular bisector of PQ.

.......................... [4]
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