Q1.

The diagram shows a plastic cup in the shape of a cone with the end removed. The vertical height of the
cone in the diagram is 20 cm. The height of the cup is 8 cm. The base of the cup has radius 2.7 cm.
(a) (i) Show that the radius, r, of the circular top of the cup is 4.5 cm
(ii) Calculate the volume of water in the cup when it is full
(b) (i) Show that the slant height, s, of the cup is 8.2 cm
(ii) Calculate the curved surface area of the outside of the cup
Q2.

The quadrilateral ABCD represents an area of land. There is a straight road from A to C. AB = 79 m, AD =
120 m and CD = 95 m. Angle BCA = 26° and angle CDA = 77°
(a) Show that the length of the road, AC, is 135 m correct to the nearest metre
(b) Calculate the size of the obtuse angle ABC
(c) A straight path is to be built from B to the nearest point on the road AC. Calculate the length of this
path
(d) Houses are to be built on the land in triangle ACD. Each house needs at least 180 m2 of land.
Calculate the maximum number of houses which can be built. Show all of your working.
Q3. Mr Chang hires x large coaches and y small coaches to take 300 students on a school trip. Large
coaches can carry 50 students and small coaches 30 students.There is a maximum of 5 large coaches
(a) Explain clearly how the following two inequalities satisfy these conditions.
(i) x ≤ 5
(ii) 5x + 3y ≥ 30
Mr Chang also knows that x + y ≤ 10
(b) On the grid, show the information above by drawing three straight lines and shading the
unwanted regions
(c) A large coach costs $450 to hire and a small coach costs $350
(i) Find the number of large coaches and the number of small coaches that would give the minimum hire
cost for this school trip
(ii) Calculate this minimum cost
Q4. (a) 72 = 2 × 2 × 2 × 3 × 3 written as a product of prime factors
(i) Write the number 126 as a product of prime factors
(ii) Find the value of the highest common factor of 72 and 126
(iii) Find the value of the lowest common multiple of 72 and 126
(b) John wants to estimate the value of π. He measures the circumference of a circular pizza as 105 cm
and its diameter as 34 cm, both correct to the nearest centimetre. Calculate the lower bound of his
estimate of the value of π. Give your answer correct to 3 decimal places
(c) The volume of a cylindrical can is 550 cm3, correct to the nearest 10 cm3. The height of the can is 12
cm correct to the nearest centimetre. Calculate the upper bound of the radius of the can. Give your
answer correct to 3 decimal places
Q5. Children go to camp on holiday
(a) Fatima buys bananas and apples for the camp.
(i) Bananas cost $0.85 per kilogram. Fatima buys 20kg of bananas and receives a discount of 14%. How
much does she spend on bananas
(ii) Fatima spends $16.40 on apples after a discount of 18%. Calculate the original price of the apples
(iii) The ratio number of bananas : number of apples = 4 : 5. There are 108 bananas. Calculate the
number of apples
(b) The cost to hire a tent consists of two parts
$c + $d per day
The total cost for 4 days is $27.10 and for 7 days is $34.30. Write down two equations in c and d and
solve them
(c) The children travel 270 km to the camp, leaving at 07 43 and arriving at 15 13. Calculate their average
speed in km/h
(d) Two years ago $540 was put in a savings account to pay for the holiday. The account paid compound
interest at a rate of 6% per year. How much is in the account now
Q6. Boris has a recipe which makes 16 biscuits. The ingredients are
160 g flour
160 g sugar
240 g butter
200 g oatmeal
(a) Boris has only 350 grams of oatmeal but plenty of the other ingredients
(i) How many biscuits can he make
(ii) How many grams of butter does he need to make this number of biscuits
(b) The ingredients are mixed together to make dough. This dough is made into a sphere of volume 1080
cm3. Calculate the radius of this sphere.
(c)

The 1080 cm3 of dough is then rolled out to form a cuboid 20 cm × 30 cm × 1.8 cm. Boris cuts out
circular biscuits of diameter 5 cm
(i) How many whole biscuits can he cut from this cuboid
(ii) Calculate the volume of dough left over
Q7.

A solid cone has diameter 9 cm, slant height 10 cm and vertical height h cm
(a) (i) Calculate the curved surface area of the cone
(ii) Calculate the value of h, the vertical height of the cone
(b)

Sasha cuts off the top of the cone, making a smaller cone with diameter 3 cm. This cone is similar to the
original cone
(i) Calculate the vertical height of this small cone.
(ii) Calculate the curved surface area of this small cone

The shaded solid from part (b) is joined to a solid cylinder with diameter 9 cm and height 12 cm.
Calculate the total surface area of the whole solid
Q8.

Parvatti has a piece of canvas ABCD in the shape of an irregular quadrilateral. AB = 3 m, AC = 5 m and
angle BAC = 45°
(a) (i) Calculate the length of BC and show that it rounds to 3.58 m, correct to 2 decimal places. You must
show all your working
(ii) Calculate angle BCA
(b) AC = CD and angle CDA = 52°
(i) Find angle DCA
(ii) Calculate the area of the canvas
(c) Parvatti uses the canvas to give some shade. She attaches corners A and D to the top of vertical poles,
AP and DQ, each of height 2 m. Corners B and C are pegged to the horizontal ground.
AB is a straight line and angle BPA = 90°. Calculate angle PAB

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Q9.

A rectangular tank measures 1.2 m by 0.8 m by 0.5 m

(a) Water flows from the full tank into a cylinder at a rate of 0.3 m3/min. Calculate the time it takes for
the full tank to empty. Give your answer in minutes and seconds
(b) The radius of the cylinder is 0.4 m. Calculate the depth of water, d, when all the water from the
rectangular tank is in the cylinder
(c) The cylinder has a height of 1.2 m and is open at the top. The inside surface is painted at a cost of
$2.30 per m2. Calculate the cost of painting the inside surface
Q10. (a)

ABCD is a quadrilateral with angle BAD = 40°. AB is extended to E and angle EBC = 30°. AB = AD and BD =
BC
(i) Calculate angle BCD
(ii) Give a reason why DC is not parallel to AE
(b) A regular polygon has n sides. Each exterior angle is 5n/2 degrees. Find the value of n
(c)
The diagram shows a circle centre O. A, B and C are points on the circumference. OC is parallel to AB.
Angle OCA = 25°. Calculate angle OBC
Q11. (a) The cost of a bottle of juice is 5 cents more than the cost of a bottle of water. Mohini buys 3
bottles of water and 6 bottles of juice. The total cost is $5.25. Find the cost of a bottle of water. Give
your answer in cents
(b) The cost of a biscuit is x cents. The cost of a cake is (x + 3) cents. The number of biscuits Roshni can
buy for 72 cents is 2 more than the number of cakes she can buy for 72 cents
(i) Show that x2 + 3x O 108 = 0
(ii) Solve the equation x2 + 3x O 108 = 0
(iii) Find the total cost of 2 biscuits and 1 cake.
Q12.

The diagram shows a triangular prism of length 12 cm. The rectangle ABCD is horizontal and the
rectangle DCPQ is vertical. The cross-section is triangle PBC in which angle BCP = 90°, BC = 4 cm and
CP = 3 cm
(a) (i) Calculate the length of AP
(ii) Calculate the angle of elevation of P from A
(b) (i) Calculate angle PBC
Q13. (a) The nth term of a sequence is n(n+1)
(i) Write the two missing terms in the spaces. 2, 6,...... , 20,.......
(ii) Write down an expression in terms of n for the (n + 1)th term
(iii) The difference between the nth term and the (n + 1)th term is pn + q. Find the values of p and q
(iv) Find the positions of the two consecutive terms which have a difference of 140.
(b) A sequence u1, u2, u3, u4, …………. is given by the following rules
u1 = 2, u2 = 3 and un = 2u n−2 + u n−1 for n
For example, the third term is u3 and u3 = 2u1 + u2 = 2 × 2 + 3 = 7. So, the sequence is 2, 3, 7, u4, u5, …..
(i) Show that u4 = 13
(ii) Find the value of u5
(iii) Two consecutive terms of the sequence are 3413 and 6827 . Find the term before and the term after
these two given terms