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1 Pablo plants x lemon trees and y orange trees. For

Examiner's
Use
(a) (i) He plants at least 4 lemon trees.

Write down an inequality in x to show this information.

Answer(a)(i) [1]

(ii) Pablo plants at least 9 orange trees.

Write down an inequality in y to show this information.

Answer(a)(ii) [1]

(iii) The greatest possible number of trees he can plant is 20.

Write down an inequality in x and y to show this information.

Answer(a)(iii) [1]

(b) Lemon trees cost $5 each and orange trees cost $10 each.

The maximum Pablo can spend is $170.

Write down an inequality in x and y and show that it simplifies to x + 2y Y 34.

Answer (b)

[1]

(c) (i) On the grid opposite, draw four lines to show the four inequalities and shade the unwanted
region.

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y For
Examiner's
24 Use

22

20

18

16

14

12

10

x
0
2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34

[7]

(ii) Calculate the smallest cost when Pablo buys a total of 20 trees.

Answer(c)(ii) $ [2]

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2 (a) Luk wants to buy x goats and y sheep. Examiner′s
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(i) He wants to buy at least 5 goats.

Write down an inequality in x to represent this condition.

Answer(a)(i) ............................................... [1]

(ii) He wants to buy at least 11 sheep.

Write down an inequality in y to represent this condition.

Answer(a)(ii) ............................................... [1]

(iii) He wants to buy at least 20 animals.

Write down an inequality in x and y to represent this condition.

Answer(a)(iii) ............................................... [1]

(b) Goats cost $4 and sheep cost $8.

The maximum Luk can spend is $160.

Write down an inequality in x and y and show that it simplifies to x + 2y Y 40 .

Answer(b)

[1]

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(c) (i) On the grid below, draw four lines to show the four inequalities and shade the unwanted Examiner′s
regions. Use

y
40

35

30

25

20

15

10

0 x
5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
[7]

(ii) Work out the maximum number of animals that Luk can buy.

Answer(c)(ii) ............................................... [2]

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3 Sima sells x biscuits and y cakes.

(a) (i) She sells at least 100 biscuits.

Write down an inequality in x.

Answer(a)(i) ................................................ [1]

(ii) She sells at least 120 cakes.

Write down an inequality in y.

Answer(a)(ii) ................................................ [1]

(iii) She sells a maximum of 300 biscuits and cakes altogether.

Write down an inequality in x and y.

Answer(a)(iii) ................................................ [1]

(iv) Sima makes a profit of 40 cents on each biscuit and 80 cents on each cake.
Her total profit is at least $160.

Show that x + 2y  400.

Answer(a)(iv)

[1]

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(b) On the grid, draw four lines to show the four inequalities and shade the unwanted regions.

y
400

300

200

100

x
0
100 200 300 400 500
[6]

(c) Calculate Sima’s maximum profit.

Give your answer in dollars.

Answer(c) $ ................................................ [2]

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4 (a) Find the equation of the straight line that is perpendicular to the line y = x + 1 and passes through
2
the point (1, 3).

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

(b)
y

8
7
6
5
4
R
3
2
1
x
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

(i) Find the three inequalities that define the region R.

................................................

................................................

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

(ii) Find the point (x, y), with integer co-ordinates, inside the region R such that 3x + 5y = 35 .

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

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5 Jay makes wooden boxes in two sizes. He makes x small boxes and y large boxes. For
He makes at least 5 small boxes. Examiner's
Use
The greatest number of large boxes he can make is 8.
The greatest total number of boxes is 14.
The number of large boxes is at least half the number of small boxes.
(a) (i) Write down four inequalities in x and y to show this information.

Answer(a)(i)

[4]
(ii) Draw four lines on the grid and write the letter R in the region which represents these
inequalities.
y
15

14

13

12

11

10

x
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
[5]

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(b) The price of the small box is $20 and the price of the large box is $45. For
Examiner's
Use
(i) What is the greatest amount of money he receives when he sells all the boxes he has made?

Answer(b)(i) $ [2]

(ii) For this amount of money, how many boxes of each size did he make?

Answer(b)(ii) small boxes and large boxes [1]

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6 Examiner′s
y Use
L2
5

3
R

2 L1

x
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 L3

(a) Find the equations of the lines L1, L2 and L3.

Answer(a) L1 ...............................................

L2 ...............................................

L3 ............................................... [5]

(b) Write down the three inequalities that define the shaded region, R.

Answer(b) ................................................

................................................

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

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(c) A gardener buys x bushes and y trees. Examiner′s
The cost of a bush is $30 and the cost of a tree is $200. Use
The shaded region R shows the only possible numbers of bushes and trees the gardener can buy.

(i) Find the number of bushes and the number of trees when the total cost is $720.

Answer(c)(i) ...................................... bushes

...................................... trees [2]

(ii) Find the number of bushes and the number of trees which give the greatest possible total cost.
Write down this greatest possible total cost.

Answer(c)(ii) .......................................... bushes

.......................................... trees

Greatest possible total cost = $ ............................................... [3]

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7 Ali buys x rose bushes and y lavender bushes.

He buys:
• at least 5 rose bushes
• at most 8 lavender bushes
• at most 15 bushes in total
• more lavender bushes than rose bushes.

(a) (i) Write down four inequalities, in terms of x and/or y, to show this information.

Answer(a)(i) ................................................

................................................

................................................

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

(ii) On the grid, show the information in part (a)(i) by drawing four straight lines.
Label the region R where all four inequalities are true.
y
15

14

13

12

11

10

x
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
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(b) Rose bushes cost $6 each and lavender bushes cost $4.50 each.

What is the greatest amount of money Ali could spend?

Answer(b) $ ................................................ [2]

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8 A bag of sweets contains x orange sweets and y lemon sweets.

Each orange sweet costs 2 cents and each lemon sweet costs 3 cents. The
cost of a bag of sweets is less than 24 cents.
There are at least 9 sweets in each bag.
There are at least 2 lemon sweets in each bag.

(i) One of the inequalities that shows this information is 2x + 3y 1 24.

Write down the other two inequalities.

.................................................

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

(ii) On the grid, by shading the unwanted regions, show the region which satisfies the three
inequalities.

12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0 x
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
[4]

(iii) Find the lowest cost of a bag of sweets.

Write down the value of x and the value of y that give this cost.

Lowest cost = .................................... cents

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

y = ............................................. [3]

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