More Practice Questions

Number: Powers and roots 2 Write these numbers in standard form.

a) 0.000 058 3 b) 75 600 000

Number
More Practice N25 (page 55)

Find the value of the following. 3 Work these out. Give your answer in
standard form.
1 34 2 30 3 32 a) (8  105)  (1.5  108)

4 100 5 63 6 23 b) (5  107)  (2  103)

4 Write these numbers in standard form.

More Practice N26 (page 55) a) 46 000 b) 0.0484
1 Work out these. c) 3 600 000 d) 5965
a) 250  (1.03)10
b) (0.89)15 5 Write these numbers out in full.
c) Stanley put £500 in a bank account. The a) 8  106 b) 9.4  103
interest was 4% per annum, compound. c) 7.7  101 d) 3.03  104
How much was in the account after seven
years? 7.5  104
6 Evaluate .
d) A radioactive substance loses 5% of its 2.5  109
mass every hour. What proportion Give your answer in standard form.
remains after 24 hours?
7 Evaluate (3  103)  (8  107).
More Practice N27 (page 55) Give your answer in standard form.

Simplify the following. 8 Work out (4  105)  (8  106).

Give your answer in standard form.
1 52  58 2 65  62
1 2 a 5b 2 9 Find the approximate value of
3 4a6  2a3 4 3
2a b3
(8.42  108)  (2.83  104)
2 5 4 3 
5 (c ) 6 (2x ) 6.074  105
by writing all the numbers correct to
More Practice N28 (page 56) 1 significant figure.

Write down the values of the following.

1 13
More Exam Practice NE8 (page 57)
1 362 2 1000
1 a) Write the following as whole numbers or
2 25
3 903, correct to 1 d.p. 4 1024 fractions. 1

1 1 1 1

i) 40 i) 92
5 162  273 6 252  1002 b) Evaluate (3  102)  (8  105), giving
your answer in standard form. [4]
7 62 8 32  90
1

1
9 812  32 2 a) Work out the exact value of 23  162.
b) Simplify as far as possible
10 Write these numbers in ascending order.

q
1
 1
 p
 q  2
4 3
. [7]
42 42 40 43 42 p

12p2q
3 a) Simplify as far as possible   2q2.
More Practice N29 (page 56) 3p
b) Work out, as a fraction, the exact value
1 Write these as ordinary numbers. 3

 
49 2
a) 3.72  105 b) 4.8  104 of  [6]
4
1
 4 Calculate the difference between 52 and 25. More Exam Practice NE9 (page 59)
Give your answer in standard form. [3]
1 Work out these, writing the answers as
5 A block of ice is melting. Its volume reduces fractions.
1 1 1 1
by 15% each hour. It starts as 80 litres. a) 23  42 b) 23  42 [6]
How big is it after 6 hours? [3]
Number

2 All the prices in Helen’s shop are reduced by

28  2 1
 in a sale.
6 Evaluate 2 , expressing your answer 5
2 The sale price of a dress is £72. What was
a) in the form 2n. the price of the dress before the sale? [3]
b) in standard form correct to
3 Work out these, giving your answers as
3 significant figures. [3]
fractions in their lowest terms.
3 1 1 4
7 A radar transmitter sends out a beam of radio a) 28  12 b) 24  15 [6]
waves at a frequency of 24 thousand million ..
pulses per second. Write this figure in 4 a) Express 0.14 as a fraction in its lowest
standard form. [1] terms.
b) Without working them out, state whether
8 The orbit of Halley’s Comet means that it these fractions are equal to terminating or
passes the Earth every 76 years. At its furthest recurring decimals. Explain your answers.
point it is 35 Astronomical Units from Earth. 4 3 5 4
i)  ii)  iii)  iv)  [4]
An Astronomical Unit is 1.496  1011 m. 7 40 6 9

What is the maximum distance of Halley’s 3

5 In an election 4 of the voters chose the
Comet from Earth? Give your answer in
Orange party. The number who chose the
standard form, in metres. [2]
Orange party was 13 845. How many
people voted altogether? [3]

Number: Fractions and decimals

More Practice N30 (page 57) Number: Percentages
1 1 1 1
1 23  42 2 33  15 More Practice N34 (page 59)
2 3 3
3 25  44 4 2  5 1 A quantity is increased by 3%. It is now 61.8.
What was it before the increase?
1 1 1 1
5 33  2 6 45  23
2 A wage is increased by 6% and is now
£8692.
More Practice N31 (page 57)
What was it before the increase?
1
1 Increase 20 by 4.
3 An amount is decreased by 2.5% and is now
2 Decrease 15 by
2
. £1170.
5
What was the amount before the decrease?

More Practice N32 (page 58) 4 A garage decreased the price of all its cars
by 7.5%. A car is now priced at £7511.
Find the amounts before the increase or decrease.
What was the price before the discount?
1
1 New amount  £35. Increase: 4.
More Exam Practice NE10 (page 60)
1
2 New amount  £171. Decrease: .
10
1 All the clothes in a sale were reduced by 15%.
3 New amount  £278.20. Increase:
3
. Mark bought a coat for £68 in the sale.
10
How much did it cost before the sale? [3]
2
4 New amount  £1071. Decrease: 5.
2 Pensions were increased by 4% last year.
a) Before the increase Brian’s annual
More Practice N33 (page 58)
pension was £18 900.
Express these decimals as fractions in their lowest What was it after the increase?
terms. b) Howard’s pension is now £13 000 per
. .. . year.
1 0.7 2 0.61 3 0.416 What was it before the increase? [5]

2
3 At Joe’s Cars, all cars were reduced by 10%. 2 Given that p  (2  7 ) and q  (2  7
),
a) What is the new price of a car that was simplify the following expressions, showing
£7000 before the reduction? all your working.
b) David paid £4527 for a car after the a) p  q b) p  q c) pq [6]
reduction.
What was its price before the 3 The time taken for a train to travel between

Number
reduction? [5] two stations is inversely poportional to its
average speed. A journey lasts 27 minutes at
a speed of 40 mph.
How long would it last at 45 mph? [2]
Number: Written methods
More Practice N35 (page 60)
Number: Calculator methods
1 The time (t hours) taken to build a wall is
inversely proportional to the number of More Practice N37 (page 62)
builders (b).
Ten builders can build the wall in four hours. 1 Work out these.
a) How long would 12 builders take to build a) 4.25  102  1.72  103
the wall? b) (3.7  105)2 Your calculator may
b) Find the number of builders needed to 3.4  106 not give the answer
build the wall in eight hours. c)  in standard form
5  0.028
9 

More Practice N36 (page 61) More Practice N38 (page 62)
1 Simplify the following. 1 Work out these.
a) 700
 b) 75
 a) 5 cos 60°
c) 75
  6
 d) 160
 50 sin 30°
e) 60
  3
 b) 
sin 80°

2 Find the exact length of AB, simplifying your c) 10 cos 47°  25 sin 43°
answer.
2 Work out the angles a, b and c.
B
a) sin a  0.7
4 cm b) cos b  0.6
A c) tan c  1
6 cm C

3 Simplify the following.

a) (5  2
)(3  2
) b) (4  5
)2 More Exam Practice NE12 (page 63)

c) (2  43
)(5  3
) d) (5  7
)2 1 Work out these.
a) 7.2  107  8.6  105
4 Rationalise the denominator in each of these.
b) 7.2  107  8.6  105
1 5 10 Give each answer to a sensible degree of
a)  b)  c) 
7
 11
 6
 accuracy. [4]

1 5 6.22  8.52  10.72

d)  e)  2 Find x if cos x   . [2]
3
 7
 2  6.2  8.5

7 sin 17°
3 Find y if sin y  . [2]
More Exam Practice NE11 (page 61) 8

1 It is given that p  3  5
 and q  2  35. 4 Work out these.
Simplify the following expressions, giving each a) 6(cos 27°  sin 27°)
answer in the form a  b5 , where a and b b) 3  4 sin 28.7° [2]
are integers.
4
a) p  q b) p2 c) pq [6] 5 Work out 643. [2]

3
 Algebra: Expansions, factors and 8 Simplify these.
indices a) 2p2q2  5pq5 [2]
14a3b2
More Practice A19 (page 64) b)  [2]
2 a b3
Multiply out the brackets. 1

9 Work out the exact value of 23  162. [3]
Algebra

1 (x  3)(2x  2) 2 (2x  1)(3x  2)

10 a) Factorise ab2  3a2b. [2]
3 (x  3)(5x  4) 4 (a  3b)(a  2b)
2
b) Find the value of 91  27 . 3
[3]
5 (y  2)(y  2) 6 (4x  5)2
11 Simplify these.
More Practice A20 (page 64)
a) x4y3  x3y2 [2]
Factorise these. b) 3x y  2xy
2 3 2
[2]
1 5x2y  10x 2 2a2b  6ab2
a2b  a3b2
12 Simplify 4. [2]
3 12x y  3x
3 2 2
4 4abc  8ab  2a a b3

13 Multiply out and simplify.

More Practice A21 (page 64)
a) (2x  y)2 [2]
1 Write these as whole numbers or fractions. b) (2y  1)(y  3) [2]


1 1 2
a) 23 b) 252 c) 
3
3 1 Algebra: Formulae
d) 4 2
e) 8 3
f) 23
2

g) 40 h) 27 3 More Practice A22 (page 65)

2 Simplify these. Make the letter in square brackets the subject of

these formulae.
1 4 a 2b 3
a) 2abc2  4ab2c b)  9
2a3b 1 F  5C  32 [C ]
4a  3b2
c) (4a2)3 d)  2 x  ab  cd [c]
2a2b
1
3 s  2t(u  v ) [u]

More Exam Practice AE9 (page 65) 4 A  2r(r  h) [h]

1 Simplify m3n3  m4n2  m5n. [3] PRT

5 I   [P]
1 00
2 Simplify these.
(a  b)
a) x4y3  x3y2 [2] 6 A    h [a]
2
b) 3x y  2xy2 3 2
[2]
More Practice A23 (page 66)
a2b  a3b2
3 Simplify 4. [3]
a b3 Make the letter in square brackets the subject of
these formulae.
4 Factorise completely 6xy2  12x2y. [2]
1 A  4  r2 [r] Question 3 could
5 Simplify these. 4 also be written as
2 V  3r3 [r] ‘Find a formula for x
a) 3s  2s  4s  s  5
2 2
[2]
in terms of a and y ’.
b) (2e  f )(e  3f ) [2] 3 y  x2  a [x]
12p2q
c)   2q2 [3]
3p More Practice A24 (page 66)

3a2b  4a2 Make the letter in square brackets the subject of

6 a) Simplify . [3]
2a3b these formulae.
b) Factorise completely 6x2  3x. [2] 1 y  ax  by [y]
2 y  a(x  y) [y]
7 Simplify the following expression.
  b
(a )(a
  b
) [2] 3 ab  cd  ac  bd [c]

4
More Exam Practice AE10 (page 66) More Practice A26 (page 68)

uv 1 y is inversely proportional to x2, and y  4

1 Given that f  , express v in terms of u
u5 when x  1. Find y when x  2.
and f. [3]
2 y is inversely proportional to x, y  1.2
when x  100.

Algebra
2 The cost, C pence, of printing n party
invitations is given by C  120  4n2. a) Calculate y when x  4.
Find a formula for n in terms of C. [2] b) Calculate x when y  3.

3 The wavelength of a sound-wave, W m is

3 The surface area of an open cylinder is given inversely proportional to the frequency F Hz.
by the formula S  2r(r  2h). A sound-wave with a frequency of 300 Hz
Make h the subject of the formula. [3] has a wavelength of 1.1 m.
Calculate the wavelength of a sound-wave
1 with frequency of 660 Hz.
4 Rearrange the formula y    3 to make x
x
the subject. [3] 4 The brightness of a light varies inversely as
the square of the distance from the source. A
lamp has a brightness of 20 lumens at a
5 Make y the subject of the formula distance of 1 metre.
x  4y 2  3. [2] How bright is it at 10 m?

uv 5 The value of a car is inversely proportional to

6 The formula f   is used in the study its age in years.
uv
My three-year-old car is worth £9500.
of light. Express v in terms of u and f. [4]
What will it be worth in five years’ time?

Algebra: Direct and inverse How old will the car be in five
years’ time?
proportion
More Practice A25 (page 67)
More Exam Practice AE11 (page 68)
1 If y x3 and y  24 when x  2, find y when
x  4. 1 The variable y is directly proportional to x2.
Given that y  75 when x  5, find the value
of y when x  10. [4]
2 If y x and y  8 when x  20, find x when
y  36. 2 The number of coins, N, that can be made
from a given volume of metal is given by
1
3 The area, A cm2 of a TV screen is N 2 where d cm is the diameter.
d
proportional to the square of the length of the
Given that 8000 coins with a diameter of
diagonal, d cm. A TV screen with a diagonal
2 cm can be made from the volume of metal,
of 15 cm has an area of 110 cm2. What is
how many coins with a diameter of 4 cm can
the area of a screen with a diagonal of
be made from the same volume? [3]
50 cm?
3 The distance travelled by a car after the
4 When an object is dropped the distance, brakes are applied is proportional to the
d metres, which it falls in t seconds is square of the initial speed. If it takes 12.5 m
proportional to t 2. If d  122.5 m when to stop when travelling at 50 km/h, how far
t  5 seconds, calculate d when will a car travel if its initial speed is
t  7 seconds. 120 km/h? [3]

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 4 The energy, E joules, of a moving object is More Practice A28 (page 69)
proportional to the square of the speed,
s metres per second. 1 Write down the equation of each of these
When the object is moving at 8 metres per lines.
second it has 320 joules of energy. a) y b) y
a) What is the speed of the object when it 3 8
2 6
Algebra

has 720 joules of energy? [2]

1 4
b) Which of these graphs, A, B or C, 2
0 x
represents the relationship between the 1 2 3
0 x
energy, E, and the speed, s, of a moving 1 2 3
object? [1]
E E 2 Work out the gradient, m, and y-intercept, c,
for each of the following straight lines.
a) y  4x  1 b) y  3  2x
c) y  x d) y  x  4
e) 2y  3x  4 f) x  4y  10

s s
A B More Practice A29 (page 70)

E 1 Which of these lines are parallel?

a) y  6x  2 b) y  2x  6
c) 6y  6x  2 d) 6y  36x  24
e) y  6  x f) 6x  y  2

2 Which of these lines are perpendicular?

s
C a) y  3x  5 b) 2y  3x  5
c) 3y  5  2x d) 3y  2x  5
5 The time of swing, T seconds, of a pendulum e) 2y  6x  5 f) 6x  y  2
is proportional to the square root of the
length, L centimetres, of the pendulum. 3 Find the equation of the line which is
A pendulum of length 64 cm has a time of perpendicular to y  2x  3 and passes
swing of 1.6 seconds. Find the formula for T through (6, 4).
in terms of L. [3]
More Exam Practice AE12 (page 70)
6 P is inversely proportional to the square root
of Q. If P  12 when Q  49, find an 1 Work out the gradient of this line.
expression for P in terms of Q. [3]
y
5
4
Algebra: Gradient and equations of 3
straight lines 2
1
More Practice A27 (page 69) 0 x
1 1 2 3
1 Find the gradient and y-intercept of each of [2]
these lines.
a) b) 2 Find the gradients and y-intercepts of these
y y
lines.
3 8
1
2 6 a) y  2x  3 [2]
1 4 b) 2y  5  3x [2]
2
0 1 2 3
x c) 4x  3y  12 [2]
0 x
1 2 3
3 Find the equation of two straight lines which
pass through the point (1, 1), one parallel to
x  y  1 and the other perpendicular to
x  y  1. [4]

6
Algebra: Quadratic functions and More Exam Practice AE13 (page 73)
equations 1 Solve these equations by factorising.
More Practice A30 (page 71) a) x2  6x  8  0 [3]
b) 2x  3x  9  0
2
[3]
Factorise the following.
2 a) Multiply out and simplify the expression

Algebra
1 x2  6x  5 2 x2  6x  8
(2x  7)(3x  6). [3]
3 x2  2x  15 4 3x2  5x  2
b) i) Factorise x2  6x. [1]
ii) Solve the equation x2  6x  0. [1]

More Practice A31 (page 71) 3 The length of a rectangle is y cm, the perimeter
is 30 cm and the area is 55 cm2.
Factorise the following.
a) Form an equation in y and show that
1 x2  16 2 x2  81 3 3x2  27 it can be simplified to
y2  15y  55  0. [3]
b) Solve the equation y2  15y  55  0
More Practice A32 (page 72) to find the length and width of the
rectangle. Give your answers correct
Solve the following. to 2 d.p. Do not use a trial and
1 (x  3)(x  6)  0 2 (x  4)(x  1)  0 improvement method. [4]

3 x2  5x  4  0 4 x2  7x  12  0 4 Bill is making a rectangular chicken pen

5 x2  3x  10  0 6 2x2  13x  7  0 against a wall. The other three sides will be
made from wire netting. Here is the plan:
7 3x2  x  10  0 8 6x2  17x  5  0
Wall
9 x2  4x  0 10 2x2  50  0
x

More Practice A33 (page 72) Wire netting

Complete the square to express these quadratic The total length of wire netting is 22 m.
functions in the form (x  a)2  b. The area inside the pen must be 60 m2.
a) Show that x2  11x  30  0. [3]
1 x2  4x  1
b) Solve the equation. [3]
2 x2  2x  8
c) Decribe the size of the pen. [1]
3 x2  3x  2
5 Solve x2  4x  6  0.
Give your answer in the form a b
 where
More Practice A34 (page72) a and b are integers. [3]

Solve these by completing the square. 6 a) Solve (x  3)2  49. [3]

1 x2  4x  6  0 2 x2  8x  2  0 b) Hence solve the inequality

(x  3)2 49. [1]
3 x2  10x  7  0 4 x2  3x  1  0
5 4x2  8x  1  0 6 2x2  4x  7  0
7 3x2  12x  2  0 8 5x2  30x  4  0 Algebra: Simultaneous equations

Solve these using the quadratic formula. More Practice A35 (page 74)

9 x2  5x  3  0 10 2x2  8x  1  0 1 Solve these simultaneous equations.

11 x2  6x  4  0 12 3x2  5x  1  0 a) 3x  2y  13
4x  y  14
13 4x2  7x  2  0 14 2x2  9x  7  0
b) 2x  y  7
15 3x2  12x  2  0 16 5x2  20x  4  0 3x  2y  28
17 Try to solve x2  4x  7  0 using the c) 3x  2y  8
quadratic formula or by completing the 4x  3y  5
square. What happens? Draw a graph of d) 3x  2y  11
y  x2  4x  7 and look for y  0. yx3

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 More Practice A36 (page 74) 4 The curve y  x2  4x  11 meets the line
x  2y  8. Show that 2x2  7x  30  0 at
Solve the following simultaneous equations. the points of intersection. Hence find the
1 y  2x  1 2 y  5x  2 coordinates of the points of intersection. [6]
y  x2  3x  3 y  x2  x  6
5 a) Solve the simultaneous equations.
3 y  2x  3 4 2x  y  7 x2  y2  20
Algebra

y  2x2  5x y  x2  2x  2 2x  y  10 [7]
b) On the same axes, sketch the graphs of
5 3x  2y  7 6 y  2  5x x2  y2  20 and 2x  y  10. [2]
y  x2  5x  6 y  3x2  x  1
Give your answers to 2 decimal places. 6 The circle x2  y2  16 crosses the line
x  y  2. Show that x2  2x  6  0 at the
When the equation does not factorise, you need points of intersection. Show also that the
to use the quadratic formula or complete the solutions of this equation are 1 7 . [6]
square. In questions like this, avoid rounding
errors by using the unrounded values of x when
working out the corresponding values of y. Algebra: Algebraic fractions
More Practice A38 (page 76)
7 Find the coordinates of the intersections of
x  y  5 and y  2x2  x  13. Simplify the following.

8 Find the coordinates of the points where the x2  x  2 2 x2  8

1   2  
line x  y  5 meets the curve y  x2  5x  4. x2  2 x  1 2x2  3x  2
Give your answers to 2 decimal places.
3x  1 x  2 1 2
3    4   
4 3 x x1
More Practice A37 (page 75) x1 x2
5   
Solve the following simultaneous equations. x2 x1

1 x2  y2  25 2 x2  y2  10
y7x 3x  y  0 More Practice A39 (page 76)

3 x2  y2  29 4 x2  y2  36 Solve the following.

yx3 y6x x4 x2
1     1
5 2
5 x2  y2  10 6 x2  y2  18
y  1  2x xy6 1 1
2 (2x  3)  (x  2)  2
3 4
7 Find the intersections of the line y  5x  2
and circle x2  y2  20. Give your answers to 2x x1
3      0
2 decimal places. x1 x2
8 Find the intersections of the line y  2x  1 1 2
4      2
and the circle x2  y2  9. Give your answers x x1
to 2 decimal places.

More Exam Practice AE15 (page 77)

More Exam Practice AE14 (page 75)
1 a) Show that the equation
1 Solve these simultaneous equations. 3(x  1)
2x  3   can be rearranged
y  3x  7 x4
2x  3y  1 [3] to 2x  2x  15  0.
2
[3]

2 Solve the simultaneous equations. b) Solve the equation 2x2  2x  15  0.

y  x2  4x  1 Give your answer correct to
yx5 [7] 2 decimal places. [3]

3 Solve the simultaneous equations. 2 Simplify this expression as far as possible.

y  x2  7x  12 x2  3 x
  [3]
2x  y  10 [7] x x6
2

8
 (x  3)2
3 Simplify  . [2] More Practice A43 (page 81)
x2  9
12
1 Draw the graph of y   for values of x from
n2 n 4(n  1) x
4 Prove that     . [4] 12 to 12. Use the same scale on both axes.
n n  2 n(n  2)
2 Draw the graph of y  2x for values of x from
1 to 4. Use your graph to find, to 1 decimal

Algebra
Algebra: Graphical solution of place, the value of x for which 2x  10.
simultaneous equations and linear
inequalities More Practice A44 (page 82)

More Practice A40 (page 78) 1 a) Sketch the graph of y  sin x for values of
x from 0° to 720°.
1 Solve these simultaneous equations b) Use the symmetries of the graph to find
graphically. three angles other than 30° for which
a) y  2x  1 b) y  2x  5 sin x  0.5.
yx2 2x  y  3
2 a) On the same axes, sketch the graphs of
2 Solve these simultaneous equations y  sin x and y  cos x for values of x
graphically. from 0° to 720°.
a) x2  y2  25 b) y  2x2 b) Use the symmetries to find three angles
xy4 y  2x  1 for which sin x  cos x.

More Exam Practice AE17 (page 83)

More Practice A41 (page 79)
1 The diagram shows the graphs P, Q, R, S, T
1 Find the region satisfied by each set of and U.
inequalities. State which of these graphs could correspond
a) y 4 b) x 2 to each of the following equations.
xy 4 2x  3y 12 a) y  x3  1 [1]
y 3x  1 5x  2y 10
b) y  x2  1 [1]
c) y  x  1 [1]

More Exam Practice AE16 (page 79) P y Q y

1 Solve these simultaneous equations
graphically.
y3x y  3x  2 [4]
x x
2 Solve these simultaneous equations
graphically.
a) y  3  x
y  x2  2 [5]
R y S y
b) y  3  x
x2  y2  25 [5]

3 Show graphically that these simultaneous

equations have no real solution. x x
x2  y2  5 2x  y  7 [4]

Algebra: Graphs of functions

T y U y
More Practice A42 (page 80)

1 Draw the graph of y  x 3  2x for values of

x from 2 to 2. Use your graph to find the
x x
roots of the equation x 3  2x  0 to
1 decimal place.
Then use trial and improvement to find the
positive root correct to 2 decimal places.

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 2 The volume, V cm3, of this cuboid is given by More Practice A46 (page 84)
V  x3  6x2.
1 The graph shows y  (x  2)2.
y
x
Algebra

x
x6

a) Draw the graph of V  x3  6x2 for

x
values of x from 1 to 6. [5] 2

x 1 2 3 4 5 6 On a copy of the graph, sketch these

V functions.
b) Use your graph to find the dimensions of a) y  (x  2)2 b) y  (x  2)2
the cuboid if its volume is 200 cm3. [1]
More Practice A47 (page 85)
3 a) Sketch the graph of y  sin x for
0° x 360°. [1] 1 On the same diagram, sketch the graphs of
1
b) Which other angle between 0° and 360° a) y  cos x, b) y  2 cos x and
1
has the same sine as 30°? [1] c) y  cos (2x).
c) Solve the equation sin x  0.4 for Describe the transformations which map
values of x between 360° and graph a) onto graph b) and graph a) onto
360°. [2] graph c).

4 Three people start a rumour. Every hour each

More Exam Practice AE18 (page 86)
person who has heard the rumour tells one
more person. 1 Describe the transformations that map
a) Complete this table for the number of y  g(x) onto these functions.
people who have heard the rumour. a) y  g(x) [2]
Time (t hours) 0 1 2 3 4 b) y  4g(x) [2]
1
Number of people (n) 3 c) y  g(2x) [2]
d) y  1  g(x) [2]
[2]
b) Draw a graph of t (horizontal) against 2 The sketch graphs show two functions
n (vertical). [3] transformed from y  x2.
c) Write down an equation connecting Write down their equations. [3]
n and t. [2]
y

1
Algebra: Transformations and x
1
functions
2
More Practice A45 (page 83)

1 The graph of y  x2 is mapped onto the

graph of y  x2  4. Describe the
transformation. 3 For each of these transformations of the
graph of y  f(x), write down its equation.
2 Sketch the graph of y  sin x. Also sketch the a) Reflection in the x-axis [1]
graph of y  sin x  1 on the same axes.
b) Stretch scale factor 3 parallel to the
y-axis [1]
3 The graph of y  f(x) is translated. Write
down the new equations after each of these
translations.
c) Translation 05 [1]

20 05 Translation  

1
a) b) d) [1]
2

10
4 The sketch shows a function transformed a) On the given axes, sketch a graph of
from y  sin x. h  3 sin (30t ) for 0 t 12. [2]
Write down its equation. [2]
h

Shape and space

y 3
1

60° 120°
x 0 3 6 9 12 t

1 3

b) On how many occasions in the 12 hours

Algebra: Graphs in real life is the height of the water 2 m above
zero? [1]
More Practice A48 (page 87)

1 A car is travelling at 70 mph on a motorway,

when it approaches some roadworks where
Shape and space: Properties of
the speed limit is 50 mph. It slows down from triangles and other shapes
70 mph to 50 mph in 2 mins. It goes through
the roadworks at 50 mph in 5 mins and then More Practice S23 (page 89)
accelerates back to 70 mph in 30 secs.
a) Are these triangles congruent?
Draw a velocity–time graph to show this.
If they are, state clearly which triangles are
congruent. Give a reason for your answer.
2 Water is poured into this
b) For those which are congruent, state which
vessel at a constant rate.
other sides and angles are equal.
Sketch a graph of depth of
water (d cm) against time
1 A D
(t secs).
9 9
5 6
More Exam Practice AE19 (page 87) E
B
C 6 5
1 The diagram shows an indicator 4 F
for the height of the water in a
tidal river.
At high tide the water is 3 m 3 2
above zero and at low tide the A
B
water is 3 m below zero. 2
4
The equation h  3 sin (30t ) can 7
C
be used to find the height of the
1 4
water at t hours after midnight. 7

0 D
E

1 3 3 3

2
5
5
3

4

4
B P 9 Q
4 47°
47° 4
A C
9 R

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 5 Prove that the diagonals of a rectangle are 3 A
equal in length.

6 A E
Shape and space

D E

C
B C
B D
ABC is an isosceles triangle where AB  AC,
In the diagram, AB is equal to ED and angle D and E are the midpoints of AB and AC.
BAC  angle DEC. Use congruent triangles to prove that
Prove that the two triangles are congruent EB  DC. [4]
and use this fact to show which side is equal
to AC. 4 a) In triangle ABC, DE is parallel to BC.
Prove that triangles ADE and ABC are
similar.
More Practice S24 (page 89)
b) D divides AB in the ratio 1:3. DE is 3 cm.
1 Prove that these triangles are similar. Calculate the length of BC.
A
20
10
4
D E
8

2 Triangles LMN and PQR are similar.

B C [6]
Find the lengths of the missing sides.
L
Q
5 Shape and space: Pythagoras and
4 9 trigonometry
R

6 More Practice S25 (page 90)

M N P
1 Find these.
More Exam Practice SE6 (page 90) a) AB b) The angle ACB
A
1 A
8 cm

B C
7 cm

B 2 Find these lengths.

C E
a) DE b) EF
a) Explain why triangle ABC is similar to
6 cm
triangle DBE. D F
27°
DE  1 cm, BE  2 cm and EC  4 cm.
b) Find the length of AC. [6]
E
2 B
E 3 Find these.
a) MN b) The angle LMN
C
A L
D
5.5 cm
In the diagram, AB is parallel to DE and 4 cm
BC  CD. State, with reasons, which triangle
is congruent to triangle ABC. [3] M N

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4 A ladder of length L is placed More Practice S26 (page 91)
against a vertical wall. The
ground is horizontal, the foot 1 Find these.
L 8m
of the ladder is 3 m from the a) AB b) The angle ABC

Shape and space

wall and the top is 8 m A
vertically above the ground. 17 cm
a) Find the length of the 3m
ladder. 42° C
b) The foot of the ladder is moved a further
2 m from the base of the wall. Find the
32 cm
distance the ladder moves down the wall.
B
5 Find the angle PQR. P
2 In triangle XYZ, angle YXZ  130°,
angle XZY  28° and YZ  14 cm.
X
7 cm 7 cm
130° 28° Z

14 cm
Q R
6 cm Y
Calculate the length of XZ.
6 A, B, C and D are four points making a
square of side 8 m on the ceiling of a lecture 3 A submarine is on a bearing of 275° from a
hall at a university. ship, S, and on a bearing of 312° from a
second ship, P. Ship P is 200 m due south of
D 8m C ship S.
B North
A
6m
Submarine S
275°
M
200 m

P
M is a microphone hanging 6 m directly
below the centre of the square. It is supported 312°
by four wires, one from each corner of the
square. Calculate the length of one of the Calculate the distance from the submarine to
wires. the second ship, P.

7 ABCD is the side of the frame of the goal More Exam Practice SE7 (page 92)
used by a football club. 1 To assist hang gliders, a large orange arrow
is placed on the ground to show the wind
15 cm
D C direction.
A
P
2.35 m l
4m
10 m 8m
D
x C
A 1.2 m B 160°

a) Calculate the length of the sloping strut, l, B

joining C to B. The triangles ABD and CBD are congruent.
b) Calculate the angle, x, that CB makes BD  10 m, DC  8 m, angle BDC  160°.
with the ground. a) Calculate the length of BC.
A vertical pole, DP, of height 4 m, with a flag
at the top, is fixed at D and held by wires
from A, B and C.
b) Calculate the length of wire from A
to P. [6]

13
 2 In triangle ACB, AC  3 m, BC  8 m and 5 PQ and PR are tangents which touch a circle,
angle ACB  15°. centre O, at Q and R respectively. If angle
PQR  70°, find angle QRO.
A
Shape and space

3m Draw a diagram.
15°
C B
8m

a) Calculate the length of AB. More Practice S28 (page 93)

b) Calculate the area of triangle ABC. [5] 1 Find these C
angles.
3 B a) CAD
58°
b) CBD A
15 km O B D

64°
A

23 km
C 2 Find angle CDE. B
Give your C
The diagram shows the position of three ships
reasons. 115°
A, B and C.
a) Calculate the distance BC.
b) An air–sea rescue search has to be made
of the region inside triangle ABC. A E
D
Calculate the area to be searched. [5]

3 Explain why triangle DXA is similar to

triangle CXB.
Shape and space: Properties of
Give reasons for each of your statements.
circles
C
D
More Practice S27 (page 92)

Questions 1 to 3 refer to the following figure. X

B
B
A
O T
4 If angle ABC  65° and angle BAC  55°,
find angle EAB.

A B

1 TA  15 cm and AO  8 cm. Calculate the C

length of TO.

2 TA  7 cm and angle ATB  70°. Calculate

the radius of the circle.
E A D
3 Angle OAB  25°. Find angle ATB.

4 In the figure, 5 Angle AQB  115°.

ON  4 cm and Find the following.
OB  6 cm. a) Reflex angle
Calculate the length O AOB
A A O
AB. b) Angle AOB
B
N
B Q

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6 Angle ACB  35°. C 4 a)
Find angle ADB. D
Give your reasons.
X O B

Shape and space

A

B
A C D

AB is a diameter of the circle centre O.

7 Find angles a, b 65° CD is a tangent touching the circle at C.
and c. a Angle BCD  53°. Write down the size
of each of the following angles, giving
O b your reasons.
i) ACB ii) BAC
c
b) A
25°
C
x°

More Exam Practice SE8 (page 94) O T

1
C
B

34° TA and TB are tangents to the circle

A T
O B centre O. Angle ACB  x°. Find the size
of angle ATB in terms of x. [8]

Shape and space:

The diagram shows a circle, centre O. The
diameter AB is produced to T and TC is a
Three-dimensional shapes
tangent to the circle. Calculate these angles. More Practice S29 (page 94)
a) OCB b) CBT c) CTA [6]
1 Find the volume of a hemisphere of radius
6 cm.
2 In the diagram, O is the centre of the circle,
PT is the tangent to the circle at P and Q is
2 Find the slant height of a cone which has a
the point where the line OT cuts the circle.
base radius of 4 cm and a total surface area
Calculate the sizes of the angles marked a, b,
of 200 cm2.
c and d.
3 A piece of cheese is in the shape of a cuboid.
One corner is cut off. The cut goes through
one corner, A, and the midpoints, B and C of
O two sides, as shown.
c
Calculate the volume of the remaining piece
b Q of cheese.
63° d
P a T [4] 4cm
A
3 In the diagram, O is the centre of the circle, C
AD is a diameter and AB is a tangent. B 6 cm
Angle ACE  x°. 8 cm
D
Find, in terms of x,
the size of these C
More Practice S30 (page 95)
angles. x° E
a) ADE O 1 A toy van is made to a scale of 1:50.
b) DAE a) The actual van is 2.4 m wide. How wide
is the model?
c) EAB
b) The front window of the model has an
d) AOE A B
area of 4 cm2. What is the window area
[4] of the actual van?

15
 2 Two similar objects have volumes 24 cm3 and Shape and space: Transformations,
81 cm3. The surface area of the larger object coordinates and vectors
is 540 cm2. Find the surface area of the
smaller object. More Practice S31 (page 96)
Shape and space

3 A triangle has area 4 cm2. The triangle is 1 Draw axes from 6 to 4 for x and from 0 to
enlarged with scale factor 1.5. What is the 4 for y. Plot the points (3, 1), (3, 2), (3, 3)
area of the enlarged triangle? and (4, 2) and join them to form flag A.
Enlarge flag A with centre (0, 2) and scale
1
factor 12. Label the image B.
4 A water bottle holds 1 litre. What is the
capacity of a similar bottle half as high?
2 Look at this graph.
Find the centre and scale factor for the
5 A model of a theatre set is built to a scale of enlargements which map
1:20.
a) C onto D. b) B onto A.
a) A rug on the model has area 40 cm2.
c) A onto C. d) D onto B.
Find the area of the rug on the actual set.
y
b) A cupboard on the set has volume 6
0.4 m3. Calculate the volume of the
cupboard on the model. A
4
C
2

More Exam Practice SE9 (page 95)

8 6 4 2 0 2 4 6 8 10 x
1 The four slant edges on this square-based 2
pyramid are 6 cm long. The four edges of the
base are each 4 cm long. Calculate the 4
volume of the pyramid. D
6

8
6 cm B
10

12

4 cm
4 cm [7] More Practice S32 (page 97)
1 Find the length of AB for the following
2 A cone has height 10 cm and base radius coordinates.
4 cm. A smaller cone with height 5 cm is cut a) A is (1, 2) and B is (8, 6)
from the top of the cone. The part that is left is
b) A is (1, 2) and B is (8, 6)
called a frustum.
c) A is (3, 4) and B is (5, 2)
a) What is the radius of the base of the
smaller cone?
More Practice S33 (page 97)
b) Calculate the volume of the frustum. [6]
1 r and h are lengths. State whether each
3 On holiday in France, we had two similar formula could represent an area, a volume or
jugs on the table. One held 1 litre of water. neither.
The other held 50 cl of wine. The larger jug  h3
was 24 cm high. Calculate the height of the a)  b) 2r2(3h  r2)
2r
smaller jug. [3]
c) 3r(r  h)2
4 In Xian, China, you can buy solid scale
models of the famous Terracotta Warriors. A More Practice S34 (page 97)
model 16 cm high weighs 270 grams and
has an armour plate of area 9 cm2.
a) Calculate the armour plate area on a
1 a 25 and b  12.
similar model of height 24 cm. a) Find a  b and a  b.
b) Calculate the weight of the same 24 cm b) Calculate the length of b, giving your
model. [5] answer to 3 significant figures.

16
2 Show that the line joining A (1, 3) and Shape and space: Measures
B (5, 6) is parallel to the vector 23. More Practice S35 (page 99)

Shape and space

1 P  ab  2c, a  2.1, b  5.4 and c  3.6
3 The position vectors of A, B and C from 0 are
correct to 2 significant figures. Find the lower
a, b and 4b  3a respectively.
⎯
→ and upper bounds of the value of P.
a) Find AB in terms of a and b.
b) Show clearly that A, B and C lie in a 2 A rectangle has an area of 14.5 cm2 and a
straight line. length of 4.6 cm both measured to the nearest
0.1. Work out the limits between which the
width must lie.
More Exam Practice SE10 (page 98)

1 y More Exam Practice SE11 (page 99)

4
A 1 The volume of a solid metal cylinder is
3
2 600 cm3. The density of the metal is
B 1 15 g/cm3. Calculate the mass of the metal
cylinder in kilograms. [3]
4 3 2 1 0 1 2 3 4 x
1
2 2 The population of Kenya is 2.6  107, correct
3 to 2 significant figures. The area of Kenya is
4 C 5.8  105 square kilometres, correct to
2 significant figures. Calculate the lower and
⎯
→ upper bounds for the population density of
Calculate the length of BC, showing your
Kenya. [6]
working. [3]
3 In 1968, a firm produced 1.2 billion litres of
2 r, a and b are all lengths. Which of the
fizzy drink (correct to 2 significant figures).
following expressions could be a volume?
The volume of a standard swimming pool is
ar 390 m3 (correct to 2 significant figures). What
a) (4b  r) b) 2(ab)2  r2b
2 is the greatest number of these swimming
 a r2 pools that could possibly be filled with this
c) 4a2b  rb3 d) 2abr   [3]
2 amount of fizzy drink? [4]

3 A
Not to scale.

a Shape and space: Arcs and sectors

M
of circles
H
O C More Practice S36 (page 100)
b B
⎯→ ⎯→ 1 A sector of a circle of radius 5 cm has an
In the diagram, OA  a and OB  b. area of 25 cm2. Find the angle at the centre
M is the midpoint of AC and B is the midpoint of the circle.
of OC.
a) Write down the following vectors in terms 2 AB and CD are arcs of circles centre O. Find
of a and b, simplifying your answers the perimeter ABCD of the shaded region.
where possible.
⎯→ ⎯
→ ⎯→ C
i) OC ii) BA iii) OM A
⎯
→ ⎯
→ 1
⎯
→
b) H is a point on BA and BH  3BA.
⎯→ O 30°
Find the vector OH in terms of a and b.
5 cm
c) What do your results tell you about the B
points O, H and M? [8] 9 cm D

17
 More Exam Practice SE12 (page 100) a) Copy the table and complete the column
for frequency density.
1 The diagram shows
b) Draw a histogram to represent the data.
one sector of a
dartboard. The yellow 158 mm
2 The table shows the distribution of heights
Handling data

region is the 18° 170 mm

(h cm) of 120 plants.
‘double’ zone.
Calculate the Frequency
following.
 Height
(h cm)
Frequency
(f )
density
 f  width
a) The perimeter of the yellow region
0 h 5 8
b) The area of the yellow region [10]
5 h 10 20
2 A circlip is made by 10 h 20 50
removing a piece of 20 h 30 25
metal from a circular
30 h 50 17
washer as shown in
28 mm
the diagram. a) Copy the table and complete the column
Calculate the 22 mm for frequency density.
following.
b) Draw a histogram to represent the data.
a) The area of the
grey shaded section
b) The perimeter of the grey shaded
More Practice HD12 (page 101)
section [8]
1 A company keeps records for four weeks
3 The diagram shows a tunnel entrance. The about the daily absences from work of their
roof of the tunnel is part of a circle, centre O employees. The results are in this table.
and radius 14.5 m. Calculate the area of
cross-section of the tunnel. Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
Week 1 55 43 35 38 47
Week 2 58 44 32 36 45
Week 3 57 47 38 40 48
Week 4 62 48 40 42 50

a) Plot these on a time series graph.

b) Calculate the five-day moving averages.
144° c) Plot the moving averages on your graph.
14.5 m d) Comment on the graphs.
O [8]

2 The table shows the daily audiences for three

weeks at a cinema.
Handling data: Processing and Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
representing data Week 1 268 325 331 456 600 570
Week 2 287 359 391 502 600 600
More Practice HD11 (page 101)
Week 3 246 310 332 495 565 582
1 The distribution of the masses (m kg) of 200
parcels received at a parcel sorting office are a) Plot these figures in a graph. Use a scale
shown in the table. of 1 cm to each day on the horizontal
axis and 2 cm to 100 people on the
Frequency
 Mass
(m kg)
Frequency
(f )
density
 f  width
vertical axis. you will need to have your
graph paper ‘long ways’.
b) Calculate the six-day moving averages.
0 m 0.5 21
c) Plot the moving averages on your graph.
0.5 m 1 33
d) Comment on the general trend and the
1 m 2 55
daily variation.
2 m 5 45
5 m 10 30
10 m 20 16

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More Practice HD13 (page 102)
Evercell
1 The table shows the results of a survey on the 0 2 4 6 8 10
times (t minutes) taken for 100 students to get
to school. Morelite

Handling data
Time (t minutes) Frequency 0 2 4 6 8 10
0 t 10 8
a) Compare the two distributions.
10 t 20 15 b) Which type would you buy? Why?
20 t 30 33
30 t 40 22
40 t 50 17 More Exam Practice HDE5 (page 105)
50 t 60 5 1 Gary recorded the playing times of each
track in his CD collection. The table shows the
a) Draw up a table of cumulative
grouped distribution times.
frequencies.
b) Draw a cumulative frequency graph. Time Number of tracks
c) Use your graph to find the following. (t minutes) (frequency)
i) The number of students who took 1 t 2 5
over 45 minutes to get to school
2 t 3 25
ii) The median time
iii) The interquartile range 3 t 4 45
b) Draw a box plot to show the distribution. 4 t 5 82
5 t 6 33
2 The cumulative frequency graph shows the
6 t 7 10
marks obtained by 120 students in their last
Maths exam.
a) i) Copy and complete this cumulative
120 frequency table. [1]

Time Number
100 (t minutes) of tracks
t 1 0
t 2 5
Cumulative frequency

80
t 3
t 4
60
t 5
t 6
40
t 7 200

20 ii) Draw the cumulative frequency curve

showing the playing times of the CD
tracks. Use a scale of 2 cm to
1 minute on the horizontal axis and
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 2 cm to 50 tracks on the vertical
Marks axis. [1]
a) The pass mark was 45. How many b) Use the cumulative frequency curve to
passed? estimate the following.
i) The median playing time of a CD
b) Find the median and interquartile range.
track [1]
c) Draw a box plot for the distribution. ii) The probability that a randomly
chosen track plays for longer than
More Practice HD14 (page 103) 3.7 minutes [3]

1 A quality control technician records how long

batteries last in a standard test.
He tests samples of two types, Evercell and
Morelite.
The results are summarised in the box plots.

19
 2 A sample was taken of the telephone calls to a school switchboard. The lengths of the telephone calls
are recorded, in minutes, in this table.

Time in minutes (t ) 0 t 1 1 t 3 3 t 5 5 t 10 10 t 20
Number of calls 12 32 19 20 15
Handling data

Copy and complete the histogram to show this information.

Frequency per one-minute interval

20

15

10

0 5 10 15 20
Time (t minutes) [2]

3 All the students in a small secondary school were asked how long, on average, they spent each night
completing their homework. The results are shown in the histogram.
Copy and complete the following table of frequencies.
Time (minutes) 0–20 20–30 30–45 45–60 60–90
Frequency 60
Frequency per one-minute interval

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
Time (minutes) [3]

4 This histogram shows the masses of

100 babies born at a hospital. 80
a) What percentage of babies
Frequency density (No/kg)

weighed between 2.5 kg and

4 kg? [3] 60
b) What was the modal group? [1]
c) Estimate the modal weight. [1] 40

20

0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Mass (kg)

20
 5 The prices, in £, of 108 three-piece suites a) i) Use the histogram to find the number
(settee plus two armchairs) offered by a of schools in the North of England
furniture store are shown in the table. which recorded between 60 and
70 mm of rainfall during May. [2]
Price (£P ) Number
ii) Use the histogram to find the number

Handling data
400 P 500 12 of schools in the North of England
500 P 600 37 which recorded more than 80 mm of
rainfall during May. [2]
600 P 700 31
700 P 800 18 The table below shows the rainfall recorded
by the one hundred schools in the South of
800 P 900 8 England.
900 P 1000 2
Rainfall
40 x 50 50 x 60 60 x 70
Price (£P ) Cumulative (x mm)
frequency Frequency 11 38 27
P 400 0
Rainfall
P 500 (x mm)
70 x 90 90 x 140
P 600 Frequency 14 10
P 700
P 800 b) Draw a histogram to display this
information. [3]
P 900
c) Examine the two histograms and make
P 1000 three comparisons between the May
rainfall in the North and South of
a) Complete the cumulative frequency
England. [3]
table. [1]
b) Draw a cumulative frequency curve on a
grid. Use 0 to 120 for your cumulative Handling data: Probability
frequency axis and 400 to 1000 for your
More Practice HD15 (page 106)
price axis. [3]
c) Use your graph to estimate the following. 1 Draw a grid, with axes marked from 1 to 4,
i) The median price [1] to show the possible outcomes when a fair
ii) The percentage of suites that cost spinner numbered 1 to 4 is spun twice.
more than £850 [2] What is the probability of each of these.
a) Getting 1 both times
6 One hundred schools in the North of England b) Getting a total of 6
and one hundred schools in the South of
England take part in a national ‘weather 2 Jane has a fair spinner with 4 equal sections
watch’ project. As part of the project they labelled Red, Green, Blue, Yellow.
record the rainfall at their school for the Aziz has a fair spinner with 5 equal sections
month of May. labelled Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, Purple.
The histogram shows the distribution of Find the probability that, when they each spin
rainfall for schools in the North of England. their spinner,
a) they both get Red.
4 b) one of them gets Red and the other gets
(number per mm of rainfall)

Green.
Frequency density

3 3 A bakery makes doughnuts. Machine A fills

them with jam. There is a probability of 0.03
2 that machine A misses a doughnut. Machine
B covers them with sugar. The probability that
machine B misses a doughnut is 0.02.
1 a) Draw a tree diagram to show these
probabilities, using the first set of
0
branches for machine A.
40 60 80 100 120 140 b) Calculate the probability that a doughnut
rainfall (mm) has no jam inside and no sugar.
c) Calculate the probability that a doughnut
has just one of these faults.

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 4 Bob has a biased dice. The probability that it a) Use this information to complete this tree
2
shows a six is 5. diagram.
Find the probability that, when the dice is
Carlotta Vimal
thrown three times, the following will occur.
a) Three sixes
Handling data

b) No sixes
c) Just one six

More Practice HD16 (page 106)

1 A bag contains five white, two orange and

three black beads.
A bead is selected at random and its colour
[3]
noted. It is not replaced.
A second bead is then selected. Calculate the b) Using this tree diagram, find the
probability of each of these. probability that, for a randomly chosen
meeting
a) Both beads are black
i) both Carlotta and Vimal will go. [2]
b) The beads are different colours ii) neither of them will go. [3]

2 A motorist has to go through two sets of 2 James keeps his socks separately in a
traffic lights on her way to work. drawer. The drawer contains four red socks,
The probability that she has to stop at the five white socks and six black socks. He
2
first set of lights is 5. dresses in the dark one morning and pulls out
If she stops at the first set of lights, the two socks without being able to see their
probability that she has to stop at the second colour. What is the probability that he takes
3
set is 4. out each of the following?
If she does not stop at the first set of lights, the
a) Two black socks [2]
probability that she has to stop at the second
1
set is 10. b) Two socks of the same colour [3]
On any particular day, what is the c) Two socks of different colours [2]
probability of each of these.
a) She has to stop at just one set of lights on 3 a) Jake has a fair six-sided ordinary dice.
her way to work He throws it twice. What is the
probability that he throws a six both
b) She has to stop at least once at the
times? [2]
traffic lights on her way to work
b) He throws the dice n times.
3 On any morning, the probability that I leave Write down an expression in terms of n
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home late is 3. for each of the following probabilities.
If I leave late, the probability that I arrive late i) He does not get a six on any
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for work is 5. throw [2]
If I leave on time, the probability that I arrive ii) He throws at least one six [1]
2
late is 5.
What is the probability that I will be late for 4
work tomorrow?
D E P E N D E N T
4 There are 15 pens in a box. Five are red and
Dee chooses three of these cards at random.
ten are green.
What is the probability that she chooses three
Without looking, I take a pen from the box
cards that could be arranged to spell her
and do not replace it. I do this twice.
name? [4]
What is the probability that the pens are
different colours?
Handling data: Sampling
More Exam Practice HDE6 (page 107)
More Practice HD17 (page 108)
1 Carlotta and Vimal are both members of a
walking club. Carlotta goes to 60% of the 1 Janine is carrying out a survey about how
club’s meetings. If Carlotta goes to a meeting, students in her school travel to school. She
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the probability that Vimal will go is 3. decides to carry out a stratified survey.
If Carlotta does not go to a meeting, the Describe clearly how she might do this,
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probability that Vimal will go is 4. including suggestions for suitable strata.

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2 Adip is carrying out a survey about use of b) Draw a cumulative frequency diagram.
leisure facilities in his town. He wishes to Use a scale of 1 cm to 2 hours on the
obtain a representative sample of people to horizontal axis and 1 cm to 10 students
ask. He decides to use the electoral roll. on the vertical axis. [3]
a) Describe how he might choose a sample c) Use your graph to find the median time

Handling data
from the electoral roll. spent on homework by these 90 students.
b) Why might this not be a representative [1]
sample? d) Use your graph to estimate how many of
these 90 students did more than 11 hours
3 State what you mean by a census and a homework in the week. [2]
sample. Give advantages and disadvantages
Michael used simple random sampling to
for each.
choose the 90 students.
e) Describe carefully a simple random
More Exam Practice HDE7 (page 109) sampling method he could have used.
[2]
1 Michael carried out a survey on the number
of hours spent on homework in a week. Abigail also carried out a homework survey
He asked 90 students in his school. at her school.
His results are shown in the table. She chose, at random, 10% of each year
group.
Hours (x ) Frequency
f) Name the type of sampling method that
0 x 2 2 Abigail used. [1]
2 x 4 6 g) Give one advantage that Abigail’s
4 x 6 12 method has over Michael’s method. [1]
6 x 8 23 h) Give one advantage that Michael’s
method has over Abigail’s method. [1]
8 x 10 25
10 x 12 14 2 a) Describe the difference between a
12 x 14 5 sample of a population and a census of a
population. [2]
14 x 16 3
b) Give one advantage and one
a) Copy and complete the cumulative disadvantage of each. [4]
frequency table for the 90 students.

Hours (x ) Cumulative
frequency
x 2 2
x 4
x 6
x 8
x 10
x 12
x 14
x 16
[1]

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