Questions
Q1.
There are only silver cars, blue cars and red cars in the car parks at Allerton School and at Bragdon
School.
The pie charts show information about the numbers of these cars.
(a) What fraction of the cars in the car park at Allerton School are blue?
Give your fraction in its simplest form.
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(2)
There are 12 red cars in the car park at Bragdon School.
(b) How many silver cars are there in this car park?
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(2)
(c) In which car park are there more silver cars?
Tick () one box to show your answer.
Explain your answer.
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(1)
(Total for Question is 5 marks)
Q2.
(a) Work out
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(1)
(b) Work out × £28
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(2)
(c) Estimate the value of 19.89 × 201.71
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(2)
(Total for question = 5 marks)
Q3.
Franz invests £2500 for 2 years at per annum compound interest.
Work out the value of his investment at the end of 2 years.
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(Total for question = 3 marks)
Q4.
Express the recurring decimal as a fraction in its simplest form.
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(Total for Question is 3 marks)
Q5.
In a sale normal prices are reduced by 20%.
A washing machine has a sale price of £464
By how much money is the normal price of the washing machine reduced?
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(Total for Question is 3 marks)
Q6.
Bhavin buys a car in a sale.
Before the sale, the cost of the car was £6720
In the sale, the cost of every car is reduced by 20%.
Bhavin pays a deposit of £1500
He will pay the rest of the cost in 24 equal monthly payments.
Work out the amount of each monthly payment.
You must show all your working.
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(Total for question = 5 marks)
Q7.
Danielle invested £2800 for n years in a savings account.
She was paid 2.5% per annum compound interest.
The interest is paid into the account at the end of each year.
At the end of n years, the amount of money in the savings account is greater than £3000 for the first time.
Work out the value of n.
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(Total for question = 2 marks)
Q8.
*Some students were asked how many times they each used their mobile phones last week.
The box plots give information about the male students' answers and about the female
students' answers.
Compare the two distributions represented by the box plots.
(Total for question = 3 marks)
Q9.
Jim went on a fishing holiday.
The histogram shows some information about the weights of the fish he caught.
(a) Use the histogram to complete the frequency table.
(2)
Jim kept all the fish he caught with a weight greater than 2000 g.
(b) Find the ratio of the number of fish Jim kept to the total number of fish he caught.
(2)
(c) Use the histogram to find an estimate of the median. (2)
(Total for Question is 6 marks)
Q10.
A beach cafe sells ice creams.
Each day the manager records the number of hours of sunshine and the number of
ice creams sold.
The scatter graph shows this information.
On another day there were 11.5 hours of sunshine and 73 ice creams sold.
(a) Show this information on the scatter graph.
(1)
(b) Describe the relationship between the number of hours of sunshine and the number
of ice creams sold.
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(1)
One day had 10 hours of sunshine.
(c) Estimate how many ice creams were sold.
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(2)
(Total for Question is 4 marks)
Q11.
The frequency table gives information about the numbers of emails sent by 51 teachers on Monday.
(a) On the grid below, draw a frequency polygon for this information.
(2)
*(b) Nalini says that at least a quarter of these teachers sent more than 30 emails.
Is Nalini correct?
You must explain your answer.
(2)
(Total for question = 4 marks)
Q12.
The table gives some information about the birds Paula sees in her garden one day.
Bird Frequency
Magpie 15
Thrush 10
Starling 20
Sparrow 27
Complete the accurate pie chart.
(Total for Question is 3 marks)
Q13.
On an activity day students play one sport.
They play football or hockey or tennis.
120 students are on the activity day.
30 of the students are boys.
12 of the boys and 26 of the girls play hockey.
45 of the students play football.
35 of the 45 students who play football are girls.
Work out the number of girls who play tennis.
(Total for Question is 4 marks)
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