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1 The table shows the population and area of three countries in 2020.

Country Population Area (km2)

Nigeria

Comoros

Vietnam

(a) Calculate the difference in population between Nigeria and Vietnam.

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(b) Which of Comoros or Vietnam has the greater population density?

You must show all your working.

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[Total: 4]
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2 Work out .

Give your answer in standard form.

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[Total: 2]

3 Shade the correct region in each Venn diagram.

K L

P Q

Q ∪ P' M
(K ∪ L) ∩ M '

[2]

[Total: 2]

4 Write as a fraction.

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[Total: 1]
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5 Write the recurring decimal as a fraction.

Show all your working.

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[Total: 2]

6 Neha has a piece of ribbon of length 23 cm, correct to the nearest cm.
From this ribbon she cuts off a piece with length 87 mm, correct to the nearest mm.

Work out the lower bound and the upper bound for the length of the remaining ribbon.
Give your answer in centimetres.

Lower bound = ................................................... cm

Upper bound = ................................................... cm [3]

[Total: 3]

7 At a football match, there are 29 800 people, correct to the nearest 100.
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(a) At the end of the football match, the people leave at a rate of 400 people per minute, correct to the
nearest 50 people.

Calculate the lower bound for the number of minutes it takes for all the people to leave.

................................................... min [3]

(b) At a cricket match there are 27 500 people, correct to the nearest 100.

Calculate the upper bound for the difference between the number of people at the football match and
at the cricket match.

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[Total: 5]

8 A rectangular picture has length 15 cm and width 10.5 cm, both correct to the nearest 5 mm.

Calculate the upper bound for the area of this picture.

................................................... cm2 [2]

[Total: 2]
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9 Sara invests $500 for 15 years at a rate of 2% per year simple interest.

Calculate the total interest Sara receives.

$ ................................................... [2]

[Total: 2]

10 Hazel invests $1800 for 7 years at a rate of 1.5% per year compound interest.

Calculate how much interest she will receive after the 7 years.
Give your answer correct to the nearest dollar.

Answer $ ................................................... [4]

[Total: 4]

11 Georg invests $5000 for 14 years at a rate of 2% per year compound interest.

Calculate the interest he receives.

Give your answer correct to the nearest dollar.

Answer $ ................................................... [4]

[Total: 4]
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12 Make m the subject of the formula.

m = ................................................... [3]

[Total: 3]

13 Make r the subject of this formula.

Answer r = ................................................... [2]

[Total: 2]

14 Make a the subject of the formula .

Answer a = ................................................... [3]

[Total: 3]
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15 Simplify.

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

[Total: 4]

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(a) Show that this equation can be written as .

[3]
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(b) Solve the equation .

Show all your working and give your answers correct to 2 decimal places.

m = .............................. or m = .............................. [4]

[Total: 7]

17 Paulo and Jim each buy sacks of rice but from different shops.
Paulo pays $72 for sacks costing $m each.
Jim pays $72 for sacks costing $(m + 0.9) each.

(a) (i) Find an expression, in terms of m, for the number of sacks Paulo buys.

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(ii) Find an expression, in terms of m, for the number of sacks Jim buys.

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(b) Paulo buys 4 more sacks than Jim.

Write down an equation, in terms of m, and show that it simplifies to .

[4]
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(c) (i) Solve .

m = .............................. or m = .............................. [3]

(ii) Find the number of sacks of rice that Paulo buys.

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[Total: 10]

18 The diagram shows a right-angled triangle ABC.

The area of this triangle is 30 cm2.

(a) Show that .

[3]
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(b) Use factorisation to solve the equation .

x = .............................. or x = .............................. [3]

(c) Calculate BC.

BC = ................................................... cm [3]

[Total: 9]

19 In a shop, the price of a monthly magazine is $m and the price of a weekly magazine is $ .
One day, the shop receives

• $168 from selling monthly magazines

• $207 from selling weekly magazines.

The total number of these magazines sold during this day is 100.

(a) Show that .

[3]
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(b) Find the price of a monthly magazine.

Show all your working.

$ ................................................... [3]

[Total: 6]

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9
8
7
6
5
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1
0 x
– 4 –3 –2 –1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Write down the 3 inequalities which define the unshaded region.

Answer ...................................................

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[Total: 4]

21 (a) Find the three inequalities that define the region R.

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(b) Find the point (x, y), with integer co-ordinates, inside the region R such that .

( .................... , .................... ) [2]

[Total: 6]

22 Marco is making patterns with grey and white circular mats.

The patterns form a sequence.

Marco makes a table to show some information about the patterns.

Pattern number 1 2 3 4 5

Number of grey mats 6 9 12 15

Total number of mats 6 10 15 21

(a) Complete the table for Pattern 5. [2]

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(b) Find an expression, in terms of n, for the number of grey mats in Pattern n.

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(c) Marco makes a pattern with 24 grey mats.

Find the total number of mats in this pattern.

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(d) Marco needs a total of 6 mats to make the first pattern.

He needs a total of 16 mats to make the first two patterns.
He needs a total of mats to make the first n patterns.

Find the value of a and the value of b.

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

b = ................................................... [6]

[Total: 12]