Mathematics test

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KEY STAGE
Paper 2
3
TIER Calculator allowed
68
2001
Please read this page, but do not open the booklet until your
teacher tells you to start. Write your name and the name of
your school in the spaces below. If you have been given a pupil
number, write that also.

First name

Last name

School

Pupil number

Remember

The test is 1 hour long.

You may use a calculator in this test.

You will need: pen, pencil, rubber, ruler, a pair of compasses,
an angle measurer or protractor and a scientific or
graphic calculator.

Some formulae you might need are on page 2.

This test starts with easier questions.

Try to answer all the questions.

Write all your answers and working on the test paper
do not use any rough paper.

Check your work carefully.

Ask your teacher if you are not sure what to do.

For markers Total marks

use only Borderline check

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 Instructions
Answers
This means write down your
answer or show your working
and write down your answer.

Calculators
You may use a calculator to
answer any question in this test.

Formulae
You might need to use these formulae.

Trapezium

b
height (h) Area = (a p b) th
2
a

Prism

length

Volume e area of cross-section t length

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 Drinks Machine

1. A drink from a machine costs 55p

The table shows the coins that were put into the machine one day.

Coins Number of coins

50p 31

20p 22

10p 41

5p 59

How many cans of drink were sold that day?

Show your working.

cans

3 marks

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 Advert

2. You can work out the cost of an advert in a newspaper by

using this formula:

C is the cost in pounds

C = 15n + 75 n is the number of words in the advert

(a) An advert has 18 words.

Work out the cost of the advert.

Show your working.

2 marks

(b) The cost of an advert is 615

How many words are in the advert?

Show your working.

words

2 marks

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 Speed

3. (a) A coach travels 300 miles at an average speed of 40 mph.

For how many hours does the coach travel?

hours

1 mark

(b) An aeroplane flies 1860 miles in 4 hours.

What is its average speed?

mph

1 mark

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(c) A bus travels for 2 2 hours at an average speed of 24 mph.

How far does the bus travel?

miles

1 mark

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 Trundle Wheel

4. A trundle wheel is used

to measure distances.

Imran makes a trundle wheel,

of diameter 50 cm.

(a) Calculate the circumference of Imrans trundle wheel.

Show your working.

cm

2 marks

(b) Imran uses his trundle wheel to measure the length of the school car park.

His trundle wheel rotates 87 times.

What is the length of the car park, to the nearest metre?

1 mark

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 Algebra Pairs

5. Draw lines to join any pairs of algebraic expressions that will always
have the same value when a = b = c

3 marks

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 Books

6. A teacher asked two different classes:

What type of book is your favourite?

(a) Results from class A (total 20 pupils):

Type of book Frequency

Crime 3

Non-fiction 13

Fantasy 4

Complete the pie chart to show this information.

Show your working and draw your angles accurately.

Crime

2 marks

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 (b) The pie chart below shows the results from all of class B.

Each pupil had only one vote.

Crime
Romance

Fantasy

Non-fiction

The sector for Non-fiction represents 11 pupils.

How many pupils are in class B?

Show your working.

pupils

2 marks

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 Yoghurt

7. (a) The label on yoghurt A

shows this information.

How many grams of protein does 100 g

of yoghurt provide ?
Show your working.

2 marks

(b) The label on yoghurt B

shows different information.

A boy eats the same amount

of yoghurt A and yoghurt B.

Which yoghurt provides him

with more carbohydrate?
Show your working.

2 marks

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 Missing Side

8. (a) Calculate the length of the unknown side of this right-angled triangle.
Show your working.

Not drawn accurately

cm

2 marks

(b) Calculate the length of the unknown side of the right-angled triangle below.
Show your working.

Not drawn accurately

cm

2 marks

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 Goldcrests

9. The goldcrest is Britains smallest species of bird.

On winter days, a goldcrest must eat enough food to keep it warm
at night. During the day, the mass of the bird increases.

The scatter diagram shows the mass of goldcrests at different times

during winter days. It also shows the line of best fit.

6.0

5.5

5.0
Mass
(g)
4.5

4.0

3.5

0
7am 8am 9am 10am 11am 12pm 1pm 2pm 3pm

Time (GMT)

(a) Estimate the mass of a goldcrest at 11 : 30 am.

1 mark

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 (b) Estimate how many grams, on average, the mass of a goldcrest
increases during one hour.

1 mark

(c) Which goldcrest represented on the scatter diagram is

least likely to survive the night if it is cold?

Show your answer by circling the correct point on the scatter diagram,
then explain why you chose that point.

1 mark

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 Triangles

10. (a) On the cm2 grid below, draw a right-angled triangle with an area of 12 cm2
Use line AB as one side of the triangle.

1 mark

(b) Now draw an isosceles triangle with an area of 12 cm2

Use line AB as one side of the triangle.

1 mark

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 (c) Use Pythagoras theorem to prove that AC is the same length as AB

Show your working.

2 marks

(d) Calculate the size of angle ABC

Show your working.

2 marks

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 Tree

11. A gardener wants to plant a tree.

She wants it to be more than 8 m away from the vegetable plot.

She wants it to be more than 18 m away from the greenhouse.

The plan below shows part of the garden.

The scale is 1 cm to 4 m.

Show accurately on the plan the region of the garden where she can
plant the tree.

Label this region R.

3 marks

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 Earnings

12. The table shows the average weekly earnings for men and women in
1956 and 1998.

1956 1998

Men 11.89 420.30

Women 6.16 303.70

(a) For 1956, calculate the average weekly earnings for women as a percentage
of the average weekly earnings for men.

Show your working and give your answer to 1 decimal place.

2 marks

(b) For 1998, show that the average weekly earnings for women were
a greater proportion of the average weekly earnings for men
than they were in 1956.

2 marks

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 Sale

13. A shop had a sale. All prices were reduced by 15%

Sale
15% off
A pair of shoes cost 38.25 in the sale.

What price were the shoes before the sale?

Show your working.

2 marks

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 Parabolas

14. The diagram shows a sketch of the curve y = 16 x 2

(a) What are the coordinates of points A, B and C?

A ( , ) B ( , ) C ( , )

2 marks
The curve y = 16 x 2 is reflected in the line y = 12

(b) B1 is the reflection of B

What are the coordinates of B1?

B1 ( , )

1 mark

(c) What is the equation of the new curve?

1 mark

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 Which is Bigger?

15. The diagram shows parts of two circles, sector A and sector B

1 1
8 of a circle 5 of a circle

(a) Which sector has the bigger area?

Show working to explain your answer.

2 marks

(b) The perimeter of a sector is made from two straight lines and an arc.

Which sector has the bigger perimeter?

Show working to explain your answer.

2 marks

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 (c) A semi-circle, of radius 4 cm, has the same area as
a complete circle of radius r cm.

Not drawn
accurately

What is the radius of the complete circle?

Show your working.

r = cm

2 marks

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 Music Concert

16. Each year a school has a concert of readings and songs.

In 1999 the concert had 3 readings and 9 songs.

It lasted 120 minutes.

In 2000 the concert had 5 readings and 5 songs.

It lasted 90 minutes.

In 2001 the school plans to have 5 readings and 7 songs.

Use simultaneous equations to estimate how long the concert will last.

Call the time estimated for a reading x minutes,

and the time estimated for a song y minutes.

You must show your working.

Estimated time = minutes

4 marks

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 Qualifications and Curriculum Authority 2001
QCA, Key Stage 3 Team, 83 Piccadilly, London W1J 8QA 00-6651/9