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Strathallan 2022
Teacher’s Name (circle) : BAN THM VAN HIB

APRIL EXAMINATIONS

SUBJECT: MATHEMATICS Year Level: 10

Time allowed: 2 hours Total Marks: 150

READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST

Write your full name at the top of this cover sheet and circle your teacher’s code.
Answer all questions in the spaces provided in this booklet.
Do not use staples, paper clips, highlighters, glue or correction fluid.
Write in dark blue or black pen. You may use a pencil for diagrams.

Answer all questions.

Show all of your working. Scor
Topic Out of %
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The number of marks is given in brackets [ ]
at the end of each question. Number 35

Algebra 40
The use of an electronic calculator is expected,
Stats, Prob 50
where appropriate.
Give non-exact numerical answers correct to Pythagoras &
Trigonometr 25
3 significant figures, unless a different
y
level of accuracy is specified in the question.
Total 150

You are reminded of the need to present your working and answers neatly and clearly.

This document consists of 14 printed pages (including this cover sheet)

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Number (35 marks)

1 Write down the smallest multiple of 9 with only 4 factors

………………………… [1]

2 Write the recurring decimal 0.2 8̇ 5̇ as a fraction in its simplest form. Show your
working.

……………………………[3]
3 Which is larger:

1
or 0.1429 ? (Show your working)
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[1]

4 (a) Write in standard form: 70800000 =

[2]

(b) Write as a full number: 1.9 ×10-5 =

[1]

(c) Calculate, giving your answer in standard form:

( 8. 4 ×1021 ) ÷(4.2 ×10−82) =

[2]

5 Find the HCF and LCM of 20 and 30.

HCF =……………………………. [1]

LCM =……………………………. [1]

4 7
6 Show clearly how 2 ÷ =4
5 10

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7 Underline the first step in this calculation.

18+5 × 8−23 [1]

8 Write down:

(a) An irrational number between 9 and 10

……………………………[1]
(b) A square number with prime factors 2 and 5
.……………………………[1]
(c) The rational number in this list: √ 5 π 2. 7̇
.……………………………[1]

9 Work out: √3 0.064 2 ÷ 0.54 , giving:

(a) The full calculator display.
[1]

(b) Your answer written correct to 3 significant figures.

[1]

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10 Yaz keeps of what she earns each month for spending.
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2
Of this, she always spends on eating out.
3

How much did she earn in February if she has $48 left of her spending money?

[2]

11 A cake mixture is made using the ingredients: flour, sugar and butter in the ratio 6:4:1

(a) If 300g of flour is used, how much butter is required?

[1]

(b) If the contents in the mixing bowl with the flour, sugar and butter weigh 550g, how
much sugar has been used?

[2]

(c) If the sugar and butter for a cake together weigh 200g, how much flour is required?
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12 (a) Decrease $640 in the ratio 5:8

[2]
(b) Yasmin is roasting a joint of meat. It takes 2 hours 15 mins. The next joint is bigger
and requires her to increase the cooking time in the ratio 7:5.
How long will this joint take to roast?

[2]

13 (a) One square metre of carpet costs $63 correct to the nearest $1.
What is the upper bound of the cost of one square metre?

[1]

(b) 42m² (to the nearest square metre) of carpet, is required to carpet 3 bedrooms.
What is the most the carpet could cost?

[2]

Algebra (40 marks)

1 Simplify:

(a) 2 x+3 x−4 x + x

[1]

(b) 8 y +3+5 y−2

[1]

2 Expand these expressions and simplify where possible:

(a) 5 ( 2 x −1 )−7 x−2

[3]

(b) 9(2 y +1)– 3(4 y – 2)

[3]

(c) 2 a ×3 a × 2b × a

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 [2]

3 Expand and simplify each of these quadratic expressions:

(a) (h+3)(h+7)

[2]

(b) (k + 2)¿)

[2]

(c) ( p – 5)2

[2]

(d) (4 y−1)(5 y +1)

[2]

(e) (3 x−2)2−( x +1)2

[3]

4 Use a=5, b=−2 and c=−1 to evaluate these expressions.

(a) 2 a−c

[2]

(b) c 2 +3 b

[2]
2
b
(c)
2 ac

[2]

1 2
5 Jared is using the formula s=ut+ a t to calculate the distance travelled in a
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physics experiment. What answer does he get for the distance, (s), when:

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 u=5 ,t=10∧a=3 ?

[2]
6 Simplify the following:
5 −3
(a) p × p =¿ [1]
0
(b) 9 =¿ [1]
5
(c) k ÷ k =¿ [1]
3
(d) ( 3 x 4 ) =¿ [2]

5
(e) (8 x ) =
9 3 [2]

−1
(f) ( 25 x ) =¿
6 2 [2]

−3
5x
(g) −7 = [2]
4y

Statistics and Probability (50 marks)

1 The number of seeds found in 9 lemons is found to be:

13 , 10 ,11 , 4 , 7 , 3 ,6 ,8∧10

(a) What is the mode?

[1]

(b) What is the median?

[2]

(c) What is the mean?

[3]

(d) What is the range?

[1]

Another 6 lemons are examined. The mean of these six lemons is 3.

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 (e) What is the mean of the 15 lemons?

[3]
2 This frequency table shows the number of correct spellings attained by students in a
Spelling Bee competition.

Correct spellings Frequency

0 1
1 2
2 5
3 3
4 8
5 5

(a) How many students took part in the competition?

[1]

(b) What is the mean number of correct spellings?

[2]

(c) What is the median number of correct spellings?

[1]

3 The masses of 200 parcels are recorded.

The results are shown in the cumulative frequency diagram.
Cumulative Frequency Diagram
to show masses of 200 parcels

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Use the diagram to find:

(a) the median,

[1]

(b) the lower quartile,

[1]

(c) the inter-quartile range,

[1]

(d) the number of parcels with a mass greater than 3.5 kg.

[1]

4 The table shows the times taken, in minutes, by 150 students to complete their
homework on one day in March.

(a) (i) In which interval is the median time?

[1]

(ii) Calculate an estimate of the mean time.

( Hint - You may wish to add another row to help with this calculation)

[3]

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 (b) (i) Use the table from part (a) to help complete the table of cumulative frequencies
below.
[2]

(ii) On the grid below, label the horizontal axis from 0 to 80, using a suitable scale.
Label the vertical axis from 0 to 150, using a suitable scale.

Draw an ogive (cumulative frequency diagram) to show this information.

Remember to give a title and label axes.

[5]

(c) Use your graph to estimate

(i) the median time, [1]

(ii) the number of students whose time was in the range 50<t ≤60

[1]

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5 An octagonal (8-sided) dice is thrown.
What is the probability of throwing a number greater than 5?

[1]

6 Drew is playing a game of chess. The probability that he wins is 0.48. The probability
of a draw is 0.07. What is the probability that he loses?

[1]

7 A drawer contains 5 blue socks and 7 red socks. A sock is picked at random and not
replaced.

(a) What is the probability it is red?

[1]

Another sock is picked at random.

(b) What is the probability that both socks are red?

[2]

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8 The probability of Sana needing a lift to school is . If she attends for 180 days, how
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many days if she likely to require a lift?

[1]

9 A bag contains 7 red sweets and 4 green sweets.

Aimee takes out a sweet at random and eats it.
She then takes out a second sweet at random and eats it.

(a) Complete the tree diagram.

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(b) Calculate the probability that Aimee has taken:

(i) two red sweets,

[1]

(ii) one sweet of each colour.

[2]

(c) Aimee takes a third sweet at random.

Calculate the probability that she has taken:

(i) three red sweets,

[2]

(ii) at least one red sweet.

[2]

10 Star is doing a project on school buses. She finds that the probability of bus 14 being
late on any day is 0.2

(a) What is the probability it will be late every day during one week (5 days)?

[1]

(b) What is the probability it is on time Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday but late on
Thursday and Friday?

[2]

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Pythagoras & Trigonometry (25 marks)

1 Find the length of the hypotenuse.

Show your working.
9cm

15cm

[2]

2 Find the length of the missing side.

Show your working.

14.8m
8.3m

[2]

3 A square has sides of 6cm. How long is each diagonal?

[3]

4 A triangle has sides 1cm, 2.4cm and 2.6cm.

Is it right-angled? Give a mathematical explanation for your answer.

[3]

6m 8.3m

base
How long is the base?

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6 Complete (round your answers appropriately):

(a) Sin 70° =__________

(b) Cos-1 0.381 = _________

[2]

In the triangle ABC, Cos ∠A=

3
7 A
5

By using fractions as in the example above: 5

3
(a) What is the value of Sin ∠A ?
B 4 C

[2]

(b) What is the value of Tan ∠C ?

[2]

8 Calculate the value of g

[3]

9 Calculate the value of x

[3]

Please check your answers carefully!

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