1.

Find the sum of the arithmetic series

17 + 27 + 37 +...+ 417.
Working:

Answer:
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(Total 4 marks)

2.

Find the coefficient of x in the expansion of (3x 2) .

Working:

Answer:
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(Total 4 marks)

3.

3x1

Solve the equation 4

= 1.5625 10 .

Working:

Answer:
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(Total 4 marks)

4.

Gwendolyn added the multiples of 3, from 3 to 3750 and found that

3 + 6 + 9 + + 3750 = s.
Calculate s.
Working:

Answer:
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(Total 6 marks)

5.

(a)
(b)

Factorize x 3x 10.
2

Solve the equation x 3x 10 = 0.

Working:

Answers:
(a) ..................................................................
(b) ..................................................................
(Total 4 marks)

6.

Two functions f and g are defined as follows:

f (x) = cos x,

0 x 2 ;

g (x) = 2x + 1,

Solve the equation (g f)(x) = 0.

Working:

Answer:
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(Total 4 marks)

7.

Three of the following diagrams I, II, III, IV represent the graphs of

(a)

y = 3 + cos 2x

(b)

y = 3 cos (x + 2)

(c)

y = 2 cos x + 3.

Identify which diagram represents which graph.

y

I I
4

2
1
2
1
2

x
1
2

1
2

3
2

I I I

3
2

1
2

1
2

3
2

I V

1
2

3
2

2
1

1
2

1
2

Working:

Answers:
(a) ..................................................................
(b) ..................................................................
(c) ..................................................................
(Total 4 marks)

8.

A group of ten leopards is introduced into a game park. After t years the number of leopards, N,
0.4t
is modelled by N = 10 e .
(a)
(b)

How many leopards are there after 2 years?

How long will it take for the number of leopards to reach 100? Give your answers to an
appropriate degree of accuracy.

Give your answers to an appropriate degree of accuracy.

Working:

Answers:
(a) ..................................................................
(b) ..................................................................
(Total 4 marks)

9.

3x

Given that f (x) = 2e , find the inverse function f (x).

Working:

Answer:
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(Total 4 marks)

10.

A triangle has sides of length 4, 5, 7 units. Find, to the nearest tenth of a degree, the size of the
largest angle.
Working:

Answer:
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(Total 4 marks)

11.

O is the centre of the circle which has a radius of 5.4 cm.

The area of the shaded sector OAB is 21.6 cm . Find the length of the minor arc AB.
Working:

Answer:
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(Total 4 marks)

12.

Solve the equation 3 sin x = cos x, for 0 x 180.

Working:

Answer:
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(Total 4 marks)

13.

5
If A is an obtuse angle in a triangle and sin A = 13 , calculate the exact value of sin 2A.
Working:

Answer:
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(Total 4 marks)

14.

(a)
(b)

Express 2 cos x + sin x in terms of sin x only.

2

Solve the equation 2 cos x + sin x = 2 for x in the interval 0 x , giving your
answers exactly.

Working:

Answers:
(a) ..................................................................
(b) ..................................................................
(Total 4 marks)

15.

In a survey, 100 students were asked do you prefer to watch television or play sport? Of the
46 boys in the survey, 33 said they would choose sport, while 29 girls made this choice.
Boys

Girls

Sport

33

29

Total

46

Total

Television

100

By completing this table or otherwise, find the probability that

(a)

a student selected at random prefers to watch television;

(b)

a student prefers to watch television, given that the student is a boy.

Working:

Answers:
(a) ..................................................................
(b) ..................................................................
(Total 4 marks)

16.

The following Venn diagram shows the universal set U and the sets A and B.
U

B
A

(a)

Shade the area in the diagram which represents the set B A'.

n(U) = 100, n(A) = 30, n(B) = 50, n(A B) = 65.

(b)

Find n(B A).

(c)

An element is selected at random from U. What is the probability that this element is
in B A ?

Working:

Answers:
(b) ..................................................................
(c) ..................................................................
(Total 4 marks)

17.

Two ordinary, 6-sided dice are rolled and the total score is noted.
(a)

Complete the tree diagram by entering probabilities and listing outcomes.

O
u t c o m
e s
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

6
. . . . . . .
6
. . . . . . .
. . . . . . .

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

6
. . . . . . .

. . . . . . .
n

6
. . . . . . .

(b)

t . .6 . . . . . . . . . . . . .

t . .6 . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Find the probability of getting one or more sixes.

Working:

Answer:
(b) ...............................................................
(Total 4 marks)

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