04a IGCSE Maths 4MA1 2H - January 2021 Examination Paper

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Answer ALL TWENTY TWO questions.

Write your answers in the spaces provided.

You must write down all the stages in your working.

1 A train takes 6 hours 39 minutes to travel from New Delhi to Kanpur.


The train travels a distance of 429 km.
Work out the average speed of the train.
Give your answer in km/h correct to one decimal place.

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(Total for Question 1 is 3 marks)

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2 Ava writes down five whole numbers.
For these five numbers
the median is 7
the mode is 8
the range is 5
Find a possible value for each of the five numbers that Ava writes down.

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(Total for Question 2 is 3 marks)

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3 Gladys buys a table for $465 to sell in her shop.
She sells the table for $520
(a) Work out the percentage profit that Gladys makes from the sale of the table.
Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

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(3)
Gladys has a sale in her shop.
She decreases all the normal prices by 12%
The normal price of an armchair was $550
(b) Work out the sale price of the armchair.

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(3)

(Total for Question 3 is 6 marks)

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5 (a) Expand and simplify 4x(2x + 5) – 3x(2x – 3)

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(2)
y5 × yn
Given that = y 13
y6
(b) work out the value of n.

n = ......................................................
(2)
(c) (i) Solve the inequality 7t – 8 < 2t + 7

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(2)
(ii) On the number line below, represent the solution set of the inequality solved in
part (c)(i)

t
–5 –4 –3 –2 –1 0 1 2 3 4 5
(1)

(Total for Question 5 is 7 marks)

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6 (a) Write down the value of y 0

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(1)
9.6 × 10 + 6.4 × 10
141 140
(b) Work out
3.2 × 1016
Give your answer in standard form.

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(3)

(Total for Question 6 is 4 marks)

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7 There are 5 cocoa pods in a bag.
The mean weight of the 5 cocoa pods is 398 grams.
A sixth cocoa pod is put into the bag.
The mean weight of the 6 cocoa pods is 401 grams.
Work out the weight of the sixth cocoa pod that is put into the bag.

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(Total for Question 7 is 3 marks)

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8 A, B and C are points on a circle with centre O.

C
Diagram NOT
accurately drawn

O
15 cm

A
8 cm
B

AOC is a diameter of the circle.


AB = 8 cm BC = 15 cm
Angle ABC = 90°
Work out the total area of the regions shown shaded in the diagram.
Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

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(Total for Question 8 is 5 marks)

9 A = 23 × 32 × 52 × 11
B = 24 × 3 × 54 × 13
Find the lowest common multiple (LCM) of A and B.
Give your answer as a product of powers of prime numbers.

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(Total for Question 9 is 2 marks)

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10 The people working for a company work in Team A or in Team B.

number of people in Team A : number of people in Team B = 3 : 4


4
of Team A work full time.
5
24% of Team B work full time.
Work out what fraction of the people working for the company work full time.
Give your fraction in its simplest form.

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(Total for Question 10 is 3 marks)

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−2
 9t 4 w 9 
11 Simplify fully  6 10 
 18t w 

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(Total for Question 11 is 3 marks)

12 15 people were asked how long, in minutes, they had been waiting for a bus.
Here are the results.

2 3 3 4 5 6 6 8 9 10 11 13 14 15 18

Find the interquartile range of these times.

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(Total for Question 12 is 2 marks)

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13 P, Q, R, S and T are points on a circle with centre O.

Q
Diagram NOT
R accurately drawn

P
O
124°


T
S

QOS is a diameter of the circle.


angle POS = 124° angle PRS = m° angle PTS = n°
(a) Find the value of
(i) m

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(ii) n

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(2)
(b) Find the size of angle QPO.

°
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(1)

(Total for Question 13 is 3 marks)

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17 The diagram shows a solid prism ABCDEFGH.

G 28 cm F
Diagram NOT
accurately drawn

B
C

20 cm H E

24 cm

A 37 cm D

The trapezium ABCD, in which AD is parallel to BC, is a cross section of the prism.
The base ADEH of the prism is a horizontal plane.
ADEH and BCFG are rectangles.
The midpoint of BC is vertically above the midpoint of AD so that BA = CD.
AD = 37 cm GF = 28 cm DE = 24 cm
The perpendicular distance between edges AD and BC is 20 cm.
(a) Work out the total surface area of the prism.

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(b) Calculate the size of the angle between AF and the plane ADEH.
Give your answer correct to one decimal place.

°
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(3)

(Total for Question 17 is 7 marks)

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18 A rectangle ABCD is to be drawn on a centimetre grid such that
A has coordinates (–4, –2)
B has coordinates (1, 10)
C has coordinates (19, a)
D has coordinates (b, c)
(a) Work out the value of a, the value of b and the value of c.

a = ......................................................

b = ......................................................

c = ......................................................
(4)

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(b) Calculate the perimeter, in centimetres, of rectangle ABCD.

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(3)

(Total for Question 18 is 7 marks)

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A P Q B
Diagram NOT
accurately drawn
R
F C
T

E D

The diagram shows a shaded region T formed by removing an equilateral triangle PQR
from a regular hexagon ABCDEF.
The points P and Q lie on AB such that AB = 1.5 × PQ
Given that the area of region T is 72 3 cm2
work out the length of PQ.

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(Total for Question 20 is 4 marks)

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25 x 2 − 64 x 2 − 8 x + 15
21 Write × − ( x − 7)
5 x 2 − 13 x − 6 5x + 8
as a single fraction in its simplest form.
Show clear algebraic working.

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22 The diagram shows a sector OBC of a circle with centre O and radius (6 + x) cm.

O
A
50° Diagram NOT
B 6 cm accurately drawn
D
x cm

A is the point on OB and D is the point on OC such that OA = OD = 6 cm


Angle BOC = 50°
Given that

the perimeter of sector OBC = 2 × the perimeter of triangle OAD

find the value of x.


Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

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