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MATHEMATICS
SCHOLARSHIP EXAMINATION 16+

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 Attempt all questions

 Write all your answers in the spaces provided on this question paper

 Rough paper is NOT provided

 Some formulae you may need are given on the first page

 Calculators MAY be used on this paper

 The number of marks for each part of each question is shown.

 This paper contains 12 questions.

 Maximum mark: 65

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 There is no reading time allowed.

 Some formulae you may need.

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Volume of sphere 4
3
πr3 Volume of cone 1
3
πr2h
Surface area of sphere = 4πr2 Curved surface area of cone = πrl
1.

ABCD is a quadrilateral.

Angle BDA = 90°, angle BCD = 90°, angle BAD = 40°.

BC = 6 cm, BD = 8 cm.

(a) Calculate the length of DC. Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

..................... cm (3)

(b) Calculate the size of angle DBC. Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

..................... °(3)

(c) Calculate the length of AB. Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

..................... cm (3)

[Total 9 marks]
 2. (5x + 3)(x - 2) = 1

(a) Show that 5x2 -7x - 7 = 0.

(2)

(b) Solve the equation 5x2 -7x - 7 = 0.

Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

x =...............................

x =...............................

(3)

[Total 5 marks]

3. Solve the inequality

7 ≤ 2x + 3 ≤25

……………………………...................
[Total 3 marks]
4. P is inversely proportional to d3

P = 10 000 when d = 0.4

Find the value of P when d = 0.8

………………………………

[Total 3 marks]

5. Some women walked one mile.

The time taken by each was recorded.
The results are as follows:
Time t minutes 12 ≤ t < 16 16 ≤ t < 20 20 ≤ t < 24 24 ≤ t < 28 28 ≤ t < 32

Number of 1 9 43 22 5
women

(a) (i) What is the modal class for the time taken?

………………………………(1)

(ii) Calculate an estimate of the mean time taken.

………………………………(4)

[Total 5 marks]
6. (a) In Britain there are 6.5 x107 people.
The number of retired people is 1.9 x107.
What percentage of people in Britain are retired?
Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

………………………………(2)

(b) 12.6% of the world’s population live in Europe.

The population of the world is 7.2 x 109
Calculate the population of Europe.
Give your answer in standard form to 2 significant figures.

………………………………(2)

[Total 4 marks]
7. (a) The sides of a rectangle have dimensions 20cm and 30cm, each measured to the
nearest centimetre.
Calculate the smallest possible area of the rectangle.

……………………………cm2 (2)

(b) The sides of a square have length x cm measured to the nearest centimetre.

Write down and simplify an expression, in terms of x, for the difference between the
largest and smallest possible areas of the square.

……………………………cm2 (3)

[Total 5 marks]
8.

The diagram shows a sector OAB of a circle of centre O.

The radius of the circle is 12 cm.
Angle AOB = 171o.

(a) Calculate the length of the arc AB.

Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

........................ cm2 (3)

OA and OB are joined to make a cone.

(b) Calculate the vertical height, in centimetres, of the cone.

Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

......................... cm(6)
[Total 9 marks]
9.

A tent has a groundsheet as its horizontal base.

The shape of the tent is a triangular prism of length 8 metres, with two identical half right-circular
cones, one at each end.

The vertical cross-section of the prism is an isosceles triangle of height 2.4 metres and base 3.6 metres.

(a) Calculate the area of the groundsheet.

Give your answer, in m2, correct to one decimal place.

………………………………….. m2 (3)

(b) Calculate the total volume of the tent.

Give your answer, in m3, correct to one decimal place.

………………………………………………. m3(4)
[Total 7 marks]
10. The mean of the five consecutive integers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 is 3.

So the square of the mean of the consecutive integers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 is 9.

The mean of the squares of those five consecutive integers 12, 22, 32, 42, 52 is 11.

Show algebraically that the square of the mean of any five consecutive integers
is always 2 less than the mean of the squares of those five consecutive integers.

[Total 6 marks]
11. This is a sketch of the curve with equation y = f(x).

It passes through the origin O.

The only vertex of the curve is at A (2, -4)

(a) Write down the coordinates of the vertex of the curve with equation

(i) y = f(x - 3), (............. , .............)

(ii) y = f(x) - 5, (............. , .............)

(iii) y = -f(x), (............. , .............)

(iv) y = f(2x). (............. , .............)

[Total 4 marks]
12.

Angle ACB = 150o.

BC = 60 m.

The area of triangle ABC is 450 m2.

Calculate the perimeter of triangle ABC.

Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

.................. m
[Total 5 marks]

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