S2 Mid Year
S2 Mid Year
11. (a)Write a formula for the number of seconds in any number of minutes using
i. Words
ii. Letters
Use your formula to work out the number of seconds in 30 minutes.
(b)This is how a taxi company works out the cost of a journey for a customer. There is a fixed charge of
$6 plus $2 per kilometer.
(a) Write a formula for the cost of a journey, in
i. Words
ii. Letters
(b) Use your formula to work out the cost of journey of 35 km.
12. (a) Use the formula T = mg to work out the value of T when m = 4.5 and g = 10.
(b) Rearrange the formula T = mg to make m the subject.
(c) Use your formula to work out the value of m when T = 320 and g = 16.
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13. (a) Use the formula f = 𝑝 to work out the value of f when w = 60 and p = 10.
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(b) Rearrange the formula f = to make w the subject.
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(c) Use your formula to work out the value of w when f = 0.25 and p = 52.
14. Harsha uses the formula to work out the volume of a triangular- based pyramid
𝑏ℎ𝑙
V= where; V is the volume , b is the base, h is the height and l is the length
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Harsha compares two pyramids
Pyramid A has a base width 4 cm, base length of 3cm and height of 16cm
Pyramid B has a base width 6cm, base length of 4cm and height of 8cm
Harsha works out that Pyramid A has the larger volume by 32 𝑐𝑚3 . Is Harsha correct?
15. Expand each expression and simplify by collecting like terms.
(a) x(x+2) + x(x+5) (d) w(6w+2x) – 2w(2w-9x)
(b) z(2z+1) + z(4z+5) (e) 4(2x+3𝑥 2 ) – x(6+x)
(c) u(2u+5) – u(u+3)
16. Factorize each of these expressions.
(a) 3𝑥 2 + 𝑥 (c) 12𝑛 − 15𝑛2
(b) 6𝑦 2 − 12𝑦 (d) 8xy – 4y
17. Write down and then simplify an expression for the area of this compound shape.
18. Awen expands an expression, collect like terms and factorises the result. Work out the missing terms
2𝑎(… . +4) − 4(𝑎2 + ⋯ ) + 6𝑎(𝑎 − 8) = 8(𝑎2 − ⋯ − 2)
19. The diagram shows a rectangle. The area of the rectangle is 12𝑏2 − 30𝑏. Write an expression for
a. The length of the rectangle
b. The perimeter of the rectangle
20. The diagrams show two rectangles. The area of rectangle A is 2𝑎2 + 18𝑎. The perimeter of rectangle B is
14d – 10c. Write an expression for the length of each rectangle, in its simplest form.
21. Write an equation to represent what they say and solve the equation to find the value of x.
a. My sister 15 years old. My Dad is x years old. Half of my Dad’s age minus 3 is the same as my
sister’s age.
b. My brother is 12 years old. My Mum is x years old. One-third of my Mum’s age plus 1 is the
same as my brother’s age.
c. My aunt is 30 years old. My Gran is x years old. One-quarter of my Gran’s age plus 9 is the
same as my Aunt’s age.
22. Work out
a. Emily thinks of number. She multiplies it by 3 then adds 8. The answer is 23. What number did
she think of?
b. Sasha thinks of a number. She multiplies it by 5 then subtracts 4. The answer is the same as 2
times the number plus 20. What number did Sasha think of?
c. Jake thinks of a number. He adds 5 then multiplies the result by 2. The answer is the same as 5
times the number take away 14. What number did Jake think of?
d. Han thinks of a number. She multiples it by 4 then subtracts 1. The answer is the same as 3 times
the number plus 6. What number did Han think of?
23. Work out the value of y in each shape. All measurements are in centimetres.
24. Work out the value of x and y in each shape. All measurements are in centimetres.
26. The diagram shows the sizes of the two equal angles in an isosceles triangle.
(a) Write an equations to represent the problem.
(b) Solve your equation to find the value of x.
(c) Work out the size of each of the angles in the triangle.
30. Copy each number line and show each inequality on the number line.
33. Write these decimal number in order of size, starting with the smallest.
(a) 23.66, 23.592, 23.6, 23.605 (e) -4.67, -4.05, -4.76, -4.5
(b) 0.107, 0.08, 0.1, 0.009
(c) 6.725, 6.78, 6.007, 6.71 (f) -11.525, -11.91, -11.08, -11.6
(d) 11.02, 11.032, 11.002, 11.1
34. The diagram shows a triangle of height 0.1m. The area of the triangle is 1.16𝑚2 . The formula for the area
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of a triangle is 𝐴 = 2 𝑏ℎ
a. Rearrange the formula to make b subject.
b. Use your formula to work out the base length of the triangle.
35. Alicia thinks of a number. Alicia divides her number by 0.01, and then multiplies the answer by 0.1.
Alicia then divides this answer by 0.01 and gets a final answer of 2340. What number does Alicia think of
first? Explain how you worked out your answer.
36. The diagram shows a rectangle with an area of 50.15 𝑚2 . The width of the rectangle is 3.4m. Work out the
length of the rectangle.
37. The diagram shows a rectangle. The width is 6m and the length is 9.9 m. Work out the area of the
rectangle.
38. Write these measurements in order of size starting with the smallest
a. 2.3kg, 780g, 2.18kg, 1950g
b. 5.4cm, 12mm, 0.8cm, 9mm
c. 0.125g, 100mg, 1.2g, 150mg
d. 0.08t, 920kg, 0.15t, 50kg
39. y is a number with three decimal places and -0.274 < y ≤ -0.27. Write all the possible numbers that y
could be.
40. Alec works in a factory. His job is to pack boxes. It takes him 334 minutes to pack one box. How long will
it take him to pack 60 boxes? Give your answer in hours and minutes.
41. What is the missing number in this calculation
32𝑥(0.8 − ⋯ )
= 800
0.02
42. Work out the value of unknown letter.
43. Show that the sum of the angles of triangles XYZ must be 180°
46. Work out the size of the exterior angle x in the quadrilateral.
47. An exterior angle of a triangle is 108°. One of the interior angles of triangle is 40°.
(a) Work out the other two interior angles of the triangle.
(b) Work out the other two exterior angles of the triangle.
48. ABC is an isosceles triangle. AB=AC. AB is parallel to DE. Angle ABC=68°. Work out the size of angle
EDC. Give a reason for your answer.
54. The exterior angles of a triangle are 105° ,115° and 140°
Calculate the three interior angles of the triangle
55.
2 3 1
56. Evaluate (3)2 − (1 10 ÷ 4)
57. Write the fractions in order of size, starting with the smallest.
17 22 27
a. − ,− and − 11
7 9
1 14 22 1
b. −4 , − , − , −4 ,
5 3 5 3
4 7 18
c. 0.56, 7 , 0.6, 13 , 58.2%, 27 , 55%, 0.5
16 13
58. Three sister sat a maths test on the same day. Adele scored 25, Belle scored 20 and Catrina scored 63%.
Who had the highest percentage score?
59. In the drugs trail, two different drugs are tested on some patients. 145 patients are given drug A, and it
helps 112 of them. 180 patients are given drug B and it helps 137 of them. Work out which drug helped
the greater percentage of patients.
60. Work out these subtractions. Show all the steps in your working. Use your preferred method.
3 4 2 1
a. 3 14 − 1 7 c. 5 3 − 3 4
7 17 2 11
b. 6 12 − 4 18 d. 4 3 − 1 12
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61. Silvie has a piece of wood 4 8 𝑚 long. She wants to make some shelves. She cuts two pieces of wood each
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1 4 𝑚 long from the piece she has. How long is the piece of wood Silive has left?
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63. Fina has two bags of lemons. One bag has mass of 4 10kg. The other bag has a mass of 2 15kg. What is
the difference in mass between the two bags of lemons?
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64. The perimeter of this quadrilateral is 35 36 m. Work out the length of missing side.
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65. This rectangle has length 15m and width 2 3 m. Work out the area of the rectangle.
66. The diagram show a square joined to a rectangle. Work out area of the shape.
78. Draw the plan view, front elevation and side elevation of each shape. Use a scale of 1:4
and use 1cm squared paper.
79. The diagram shows four shapes drawn on dotty paper. The shapes are made from 1cm cubes.
Use 1cm square paper. Draw the plan view (P), the front elevation (F) and side elevation (S).
Use a scale 1:3
81. Copy these finite sequences and fill in the missing terms.
The 8th rectangle in the sequence has a width of 2.5cm. what is the length of this rectangle?
89. Work out the first three terms and the 8th term of the sequence with the given nth term.
1 1 b. 2.5n-04
a. 2 𝑛 + 3 2
90. The nth term expression for the sequence is 4n+1. Is the number 61 a term in this sequence?
91. Work out an expression for the nth term and 20th term of each sequence.
a. -15, -10, -5, 0,… c. 7, 0, -7, -14, …
3 3 3 3 1 1
b. 1 , 3 , 5 , 7 ,… d. −1 2 , −1 , − 2 , 0 …
5 5 5 5
92. Copy and complete
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94. Work out the equation for this function machine and table of values.
95. The mass of a child is 22kg. In the next 10 years this mass increased by 150%.
a. Find 150% of 22kg b. Find the mass after 10 years
103. In 1960 the population of Indonesia was 88 million. In 2010 the population of Indonesia was 242
million.
a. Calculate the percentage increase from 1960 to 2010
b. Calculate the population in 2060 if the rate of increase does not change.
104. The price of a television is $480. The price is reduced by $50. Then it is reduced by another $50.
a. Calculate the percentage reduction each time. Round your answers to 1 decimal place.
b. Find the absolute change after the two reduction
c. Calculate the overall percentage decrease in price.