Master Maths 10 Worksheet 1

Numbers
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DO NOT USE A CALCULATOR 7. Solve the following problems.

Remember BODMAS
1. Match the following symbols with the number (a) 8 ´ 3 - 16 ¸ 8 (b) 5 ´ (4 + 8) ¸ 2 ´ 3
sets listed below.
W I Q R N Z
The set of real numbers
The set of integers
The set of whole numbers (c) 12 of (8 + 6) + 2 ´ (3 + 5 - 2 + 6) - 5 ´ 4
The set of irrational numbers
The set of natural numbers
The set of rational numbers

2. State if the following statements are true(T) 8. Write 7056 as a product of its prime factors
or false(F). in index form.
(a) 7 Î I (b) -8 Î N (c) 75 Î Q

(d) 5 Î R (e) 6.7 Î Z (f) -2 Î Q

(g) 0 Î W (h) 5.2 Î N (i) 67 Î I

3. Choose all the numbers from the following

group that would make the statements below
correct.
7, -8, 3.4, -1.9, 6, 95 , p, 0
(a) { }ÌN
(b) { }ÌW
(c) { }ÌI 9. Complete the following table showing
(d) { }ÌQ conversions between numbers and roman
numerals.
(e) { }ÌR
(f) { }ÌZ
Number Roman Numeral
4. Add 1000 to the following numbers.
(a) 56 782 (b) 239 108 (c) 1 999 610 157

2743
5. Subtract 100 to the following numbers.
(a) 8765 (b) 30 061 (c) 410 073 2938

CCXCII

6. Round the following numbers to the nearest 100. MDCIX

(a) 7671 (b) 29 959 (c) 523 949
MMCMLXXIV

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 2
Fractions
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1. Write the following fractions in their 9. Solve the following problems.

simplest form. Write answers as mixed numbers in their
simplest form.
(a) 24
56
(b) 18
33
(c) 28
63
(d) 72
96 3 5
(a) 11 + 11 (b) 15 + 10
3 11 1
(c) 12 - 3

2. Complete the following equivalent fractions.

3 9 42 (d) 37 + 38 (e) 89 - 25 (f) 25 + 34 - 23

4
= = = =
20 72

3. Change the following fractions to have the

same denominator.
3 7 5
4 12 8

(g) 2 34 + 3 45 (h) 5 38 - 212

7

4. Write the first quantity as a fraction of the

second and write in its simplest form.
(a) 50 cm : 3 m (b) 60c : $4.50

5. Change 3 59 to an improper fraction.

43
6. Change 6 to a mixed number. (i) 35 ´ 47 (j) 89 ´ 10
3 3
(k) 13 of 2

7. Find the following amounts.

(a) 56 of 24 m (b) 34 of 456 kg (c) 58 of $640
9 3 8 4
(l) 14 ¸7 (m) 15 ¸ 45 (n) 10
13
¸5

8. Fran won $75 000. She gave one third to her

mother, one fifth to her sister and kept the rest.
(a) What fraction of her winnings did
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Fran keep? (o) 116 ¸ 4 12

(b) How much did Fran keep?

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 3
Fractions - Problem Solving
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Give all fraction answers as mixed numbers 5. Maddy was using bricks to pave a driveway.
in their simplest form. He took 4 12 hours to lay 360 bricks and had
laid three-eighths of the driveway.
(a) How many more bricks would he need to
1. (a) What fraction of the alphabet complete paving the driveway?
is vowels?

(b) How many pieces of wood each one third

of a metre long could be cut from (b) How much longer will it take him?
a 4 m length of timber?

(c) How many thirds are in a quarter?

6. A ball was thrown and bounced as shown below.

2. An 8 m square garden consists of a 2 m square
flower bed surrounded by lawn.
What fraction of the garden is lawn?
8m

flower 2m bounce
length
bed
19 m
lawn The length of each bounce was two thirds of
the previous bounce.
The total distance of the three bounces was
3. 800 mL of water was poured into an empty 19 m.
container making it two-fifths full. What is the Calculate the length of the first bounce.
capacity of the container?

4. Jay, Fay, Kay and Ray painted a house. Jay

did one quarter of the work, Fay did one third
and Kay did one fifth. Ray was paid $520.
What should the others get paid?

7. Use a calculator to solve this prpblem

Jay
6 25 ´ (2 34 + 3 56 )
Fay
7 27 - 4 13
Kay

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 4
Decimal Numbers
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1. Find the following decimal number. 10. Convert the following fractions to decimal
- It is between 5 and 6. numbers clearly showing the digits that are
- It has two thousandths and recurring.
three tenths. 7 7 6
- The sum of the digits is 10. (a) (b) (c)
9 12 7

2. Find the number mid way

between 3.45 and 3.78

3. Add thirty-six thousandths to 11. Convert the following decimal numbers to

7.8972 to fractions.
(a) 0.5 (b) 0.213

4. Write the following as a decimal number:

Fifty-eight ten-thousandths

5. Write in words: 0.49

6. State the number indicated on the following

scale.

12. Round the following numbers to the

1.27 1.28 nearest hundredth.
(a) 0.2748 (b) 6.0967 (c) 29.7058
7. Convert the following fractions to decimal
numbers.
5 387 61
(a) (b) (c) 7
1000 10 000 1000
13. Round the following numbers to three
decimal places.
(a) 0.2748 (b) 6.09649 (c) 29.79961

8. Convert the following decimal numbers to

fractions.
(a) 0.047 (b) 6.1093 (c) 32.00801 14. Write the following in scientific notation.
(a) 784 000 000 000

(b) 0.000 000 023 8

9. Convert these 7 13
fractions to (a) (b) 15. What fraction is 4.2 m
8 20
decimal of 5.8 m? Write answer
numbers. in its simplest form.

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 5
Decimal Numbers - Problem Solving
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1. A dam holds 1.876 ML of water. The farmer 5. Willie Wheels clocked a time of 47.352 sec in
uses 0.7035 ML to irrigate his farm. the first lap of a motor cycle race.
What fraction of the dam's water Max Mono, in his first lap, had a time of
did he use? 47.329 sec.
Write fraction in its (a) Which rider had the fastest time?
simplest form.

2. To make a certain chemical, 1.356 L of

nitric acid was added to 3.024 L of benzene. (b) What was the difference between their
The mixture was poured equally into 15 vials. lap times?
There was 0.405 L of the mixture remaining.
What was the volume of mixture in each vial?

(c) Willie's second lap was three thousandths

of a second faster than his first.
What was the time for his second lap?
3. An electric generator is rotating at the rate
of 2400 revolutions per minute (rpm).
(a) How many revolutions occur
every second? (d) Max's second lap was nine hundredths of
a second slower than his first.
(b) What is the time of one revolution? What was Max's second lap time?
Give answer in seconds
correct to three decimal
places.
6. A truck has a load of 60 bags of oats and
80 bags of wheat.
(c) The time of each revolution is changed The total (gross) weight of the truck and load
to 0.01875 seconds. How many revolutions is 7.1 tonnes.
occur each minute (rpm)? At its first delivery point, 20 bags of oats and
30 bags of wheat are unloaded. The gross
weight was then 5.8 tonnes.
At its next stop, 20 bags of oats and 40 bags
of wheat were unloaded. Its gross weight was
then 4.2 tonnes.
4. Hilde swam the 100 m freestyle at the State (a) Find the weight (in kg) of a bag of wheat.
championships in a time of 58.69 seconds.
This was 0.43 seconds faster than the previous
record. Olive came second in the race,
0.78 seconds behind Hilde.
(a) What was the previous
record time?
(b) Find the weight (in kg) of a bag of oats.

(b) What time did Olive

swim?

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 6
Integers
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1. Complete this multiplication table. 4. Solve the following problems given that:

´ -2 -3 -6 -10 -12 -7 a=5 b = -4 c = -6

-2 (a) ab (b) b - a (c) 2a - 5c

-27

-24
2a - 5b 7c - 3b
(d) 5abc (e) (f)
c 2a
80

60

77

2. Complete this addition table.

+ -10 -12 6 5. A naval patrol boat was patrolling a

north-south coastline. It left base and travelled
-5 north 58 km. It then turned around and
travelled south 146 km. It then travelled north
-9 -5 172 km and then south 98 km.
How far, and in what direction, is the patrol
-5 boat from its base?

-3 -5

-5

3 -5

3. Find the following. 6. The sum of three numbers, A, B and C, is -2.

(a) 6 more than 3 (b) 6 less than 3 B = 2A
C = B + 18
Find A, B and C.

(c) 2 more than -8 (d) 5 less than -5

(e) 8 more than -3 (f) 8 more than -23 B

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 7
Percentages 1
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1. An oil blend consisted of three different oils: 5. The population of a town was 7642. In ten
olive (28.3%), safflower (54.4%) and canola. years it grew to 8231.
What percentage of the What was the percentage growth of the town?
oil blend is canola? Give answer correct to one decimal place.

2. Complete the following conversion table.

Percentage Fraction Decimal
1
50% 2 0.5 6. Find the following quantities.
30% (a) 20% of 58 kg (b) 8.5% of $54 600
3
5
0.07
38.4%
5 7. The owner of a clothes store in one year makes
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a profit of $44 000. She hopes to increase
0.255 her profit by 10% each year for the next
two years. What profit is she expecting in
3. Write the first quantity as a percentage of the the second year?
second.
(a) 4 kg, 20 kg (b) 18 min, 1 hour

8. Find the selling price of a $450 dress after

it has been discounted by 20%.
(c) 15 mm, 8 cm (d) 2.4 tonnes, 800 kg

9. In one year an iceberg melts to 90% of its

original size. In the next year it melts to 80%
of its reduced size.
What percentage is it now of its original
4. At a football match there were 25 784 size?
spectators. 2496 were standing.
What percentage of the spectators were
standing?
Give answer correct to one decimal place. 10. A fish tank is being filled. 160 litres has been
added and the tank is 20% full. What is the
capacity of the fish tank?

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 8
Percentages 2
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1. Use the following abbreviations to write the 5. $8000 is invested for 5 years earning
formula that can be used to calculate compound interest of 7.4% p.a. compounded
simple interest. annually. Find the value of the investment
SI = simple interest after the 5 years.
P = principal (original amount)
R = interest rate
T = term

SI =
6. $15 000 is invested for 3 years earning
compound interest of 8.64% p.a. compounded
monthly. Find the value of the investment
2. Calculate the amount of simple interest that after the 3 years.
would be earned if $8000 is invested at an
annual interest rate of 8.5% for 5 years.

7. $800 is owed on a credit card that has an

3. $6000 is borrowed for 3 years at an annual annual interest rate of 18.5% that is
simple interest rate of 7.25%. compounded daily. Calculate the
Find the total amount of money that needs to the interest accumulated in 30 days.
be repaid.

4. Use the following abbreviations to write the 8. Pete estimated the dimensions of a rectangular
formula that can be used to calculate block of land to be 45 m ´ 65 m. The block
compound interest. was measured to be 48.5 m ´ 72.5 m.
A = amount investment is worth at the end Find the percentage error of the actual area
of the time period and the area using Pete's estimates.
P = the principal invested Give answer correct to one decimal place.
R = the percentage interest rate
T = the time period

A=

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 9
Rates
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1. Using the symbols for average speed (s), 7. Ki's car has a fuel consumption of 8 L per
distance (d ) and time (t ) complete these 100 km.
formulae. (a) How many litres will her car use travelling
350 km?
s= d= t=

2. Find the average speed of a sprinter who ran (b) Ki used 42 litres on a trip. How far did
120 metres in 15.8 seconds. she travel?
Give answer in m/sec correct to one decimal
place.

8. How many grams of salt are in 20 litres of

3. Find the average speed of a marathon runner salt/water solution that has a salt concentration
who ran a marathon (42 km) in 2 hours 25 of 60 g/L?
minutes and 27 seconds.
Give answer in m/sec correct to one decimal
place.

9. 50 litres of salt/water solution with salt

4. Find the distance travelled by a lion running concentration 40 g/L is added to 100 litres
at an average speed of 12.5 m/s for 25 seconds. of salt/water solution with salt concentration
of 10 g/L.
What is the salt concentration of the final
solution?

5. Find the distance travelled by a yacht sailing

at an average speed of 15 km/hr for 22 minutes.
Give answer in km.

3
10. The density of a hardwood was 850 kg/m .
What would be the mass of the block of this
6. How long will it take a cyclist travelling at wood shown below?
25 km/hr to cycle 800 m?
Give answer in seconds.
60 cm
cm 24 cm
50

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 10
Ratio
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1. (a) Divide $90 in the ratio of 4:5. 6. Joe mixed 80 g of wheat and 60 g of oats to
make a feed mix for his chooks.
(a) What is the ratio (in its simplest form) of
wheat to oats?
(b) Divide 120 kg in the ratio 4:1.

(b) Joe had 360 g of wheat. How many grams

of oats should he add to make a feed mix
(c) Divide $810 in the ratio 2:3:4. with the same ratio?

(d) Divide 1.2 m in the ratio 3:2. (c) If Joe wanted to make 3.5 kg of the mix
how many grams of each grain should he
use?
wheat
2. Fran and Denise divided their payment for
cleaning a house in the ratio 3:5. oats
(a) What fraction of the payment did
Fran receive?
7. Gerry made a snack mix using one cup of
sultanas, one quarter of a cup of sunflower
(b) What percentage of the seeds, one eighth of a cup of peanuts and
payment did Denise receive? half a cup of cashews.
How many grams of each ingredient should
(c) If the total payment was $120 how much he use to make 1.5 kg of the mix?
did they each receive?
Fran sultanas

Denise sunflower seeds

3. Two fifths of the audience at a concert were peanuts

males. What is the ratio of males to females
cashews
at the concert?

8. Esther mixed 120 mL of oil and 2.5 L of

4. Write the following ratios in their simplest petrol for her lawnmower fuel. She then
form. realised the oil/petrol ratio should be 1:25.
(a) $56:$60 (b) 48 m:72 m (c) 1.8 g:3.2 g How many mL of petrol should she add to
make the correct ratio?

5. 1.2 litres of green paint is mixed with 1.6 litres

of yellow paint. What is the ratio (in its
simplest form) of green paint to yellow paint?

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 11
Surds
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1. Circle the irrational numbers in the list below. 7. Expand and simplify.
0.7 16 15 0.357 p 6 (5 3 + 2 7)(3 7 + 2 3)
7
2. Simplify the following surds.
(a) 25 (b) 49 (c) 121 (d) 81

3. Simplify the following surds.

(a) 28 (b) 99 (c) 3 32 (d) 5 162
8. Write the following fractions with rational
denominators and simplify where possible.
3 2 7 3 + 4 11
(a) (b) (c)
4. Write the following as entire surds. 5 3 5 2 5
(a) 8 2 (b) 5 9 (c) 6 5 (d) 3 13

5. Simplify the following expressions.

(a) 8 2 + 5 2 (b) 5 7 + 6 3 - 3 7 + 5 3

(c) 5 48 - 8 12 (d) 20 - 2 45 + 3 500 2 5-3 3

(d)
4 5+2 3

(e) 2 6 ´ 3 10 (f) 5 24
2 75

6. Expand and simplify.

(a) 5( 2 + 10) (b) 3 2(6 6 + 2 8)

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 12
Algebraic Symbols
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1. Write the following statements as algebraic 4. Simplify the following expressions.

expressions. (a) 6x ´ 4y (b) 5q ´ r ´ 2p ´ 2p
(a) The sum of A and B

(b) The product of m and n

(c) 3ab ´ 2bc ´ 4ac (d) 4z ´ 2x ´ 3z ´ y ´ x
(c) 6 times the sum of p and q

(d) The product of x and (y - z)

5. Find the perimeter of the following shapes.
(a) 4y (b)
2. State the coefficient of the following terms. 5a
(b) - 23 bc
2 4
(a) 5x (c) -A
3x 6a

3. Simplify the following expressions.

(a) 7m - 2m (b) 6x + 5x (c) 5n - n 2n
n m
(c)
3m

(d) 3y - 7y (e) -4p - 9p (f) -5c + 8c 5m

3n 3m
4m
(g) 7a + 5a - 4a - 2a (h) 5d - 8d - d + 6d 4n
6. Find the area of the shaded regions below.
(a) 3a
(i) 5m + 2n - 7m + 2n (j) -4x + 7y - 5y + 8x

2b

(k) 6a + 4c - 8b + 7c - a + b + 9a + 3b - 11c

(b) 2n

(l) 2x2y + 4xy2 - 6xy + 3xy2 - 5x2y - 3xy

2y

3m 4x
(m) 5p2 + 6p - 4q + 3q2 + 3p - 7q + 4p2 - 8q2

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 13
Expanding Algebraic Expressions 1
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1. Expand the following algebraic expressions. (e) (a + 2)(a + 5)

(a) 5(x + 3) (b) 4(2a - 3b)

(c) -2(5m - 4n) (d) 6(2a - 3b + 5c)

(f) (x - 4)(x - 6)

(e) m(2m + 3n) (f) -2a(3a - 5b)

(g) (m - 5)(m + 12)

2. Expand and simplify the following algebraic
expressions.
(a) 4(x + 3) + 2(x + 5)

(h) (2n + 3)(3n - 8)

(b) 3(m - 5) - 4(m + 2)

(i) (3a - 4b)(2a - 5b)

(c) 5(x + 3y) + 4(3x - 2y)

(j) (6m + 7n)(2m - 9n)

(d) -2a(3a + 4b) - 3a(4a - 5b)

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 14
Expanding Algebraic Expressions 2
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Expand and simplify the following expressions. 6. (2p + 3)(3p - 5)(2p - 1)

2
1. (2b - 3c)

2. 4(3a - b)(2a + 7b)

2
7. (2n - 3)(3n + 5)

2
3. 2x(3x - 2y)

8. (3a - 2)3

2
4. (2x + 3)(3x - 4x + 2)

3
9. (4x - 3y)

5. (2y2 - y + 5)(5y - 7)

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 15
Factorisation 1
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1. Factorise the following expressions by 3. Factorise the following expressions

finding the highest common factor. 2
(a) a - b
2
(b) 25 - h
2

(a) 6m - 21 (b) 15a + 5

(c) m2 - 1 (d) 16x2 - y2

(c) -6x - 9y (d) -4a + 10b - 16c

2 2
2 (e) m - 15 (f) 4t - 39
(e) 6x + 14x (f) 8xy - 12yz

2 2
2 2 2 2 (g) 49n - 100p
(g) 18m n + 24mn (h) -36xy - 18y

2. Factorise the following expressions. (h) 50a2 - 32b2

(a) 6(x - 4) + y (x - 4)

(b) a(p + q) - b(p + q)

4. Factorise and simplify the following
expressions.
2 2
(a) (x + 2) - (x - 3)
(c) 4y - 20 + xy - 5x

(d) 4a + 6b + ab + 24
(b) 4(y - 5)2 - 9(y + 6)2

(e) 3m - 2pn + 6n - mp

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 16
Factorisation 2
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1. Factorise the following quadratic trinomials. 2. Factorise the following quadratic trinomials
2
(a) x + 9x + 14 by completing the square.
(a) x2 + 10x + 6

(b) m2 - 13m + 36

(c) n2 + 5n - 24

(d) y 2 - y - 110
(b) n2 - 24n - 13

2
(e) x - 17x - 60

2
(f) 2x + 13x + 21

(c) x2 + 10x - 119

2
(g) 4n + 17n - 15

(h) 15x2 - 2x - 24

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 17
Algebraic Fractions
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1. Simplify the following fractions. 4. Solve the following problems.

18x 8a 9n2 6x 2x + 5 3x - 4 3n + 2 2n - 7
(a) (b) (c) (d) (a) + (b) -
16 24 30n 36x
2
3 4 5 6

2. Simplify the following algebraic fractions by

first factorising the numerator and/or numerator
and then cancelling.
6n - 9 8a 4x2 + 12x
(a)
12
(b) 2 (c)
16x + 48 8a2 3 2x 4x2
6a - 10a (c) ´ (d) ¸
15 4a 9 3

2x + 6 m2 - m - 30
(d) 2 (e)
x + 8x + 15 5m - 30
2
3x + 15 x - 16
(e) ´ 2
4x - 16 x + 9x + 20

2 2
n - 25 x - x - 56
(f) 2 (g) 2
n + 12n + 35 x + 9x + 14

3x - 21 x2 - x - 56
(f) 2 ¸ 2
x - 11x + 28 x - 12x + 32

3. Solve the following problems.

3x 6x 5n 2n
(a) + (b) +
5 7 4 3

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 18
Formulae and Transposition
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2
1. Write the following statements as formulae. mv
(f) F = 2 (v)
(a) B is equal to twice the sum of C and D.

(b) Energy E is equal to the product of

mass (m), gravitational field strength (g)
and height (h).
(g) L = 2AB + C (A)

2. Transpose the following formula to make the

pronumeral in the brackets the subject.
(a) D = A - F (A)

(b) p = mv (v)

(h) K = 2(m - n)2 (m)

(c) G = 3M + PQ (M)

(d) T = am + 3m (m)

(i) P = 3D - 2R2 (R)

2
(e) E = 3ln (n)

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 19
Substitution
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1. Substitute the given quantities into the following 3. (a) Transpose the formula from question 2 to
equations to find the unknown quantity. make d the subject.
2
mv
(a) E = 2 + mgh
Find E if m = 8.4, v = 14, g = 9.8 and h = 20

(b) Find the distance an object has fallen if

it has reached a velocity of 35.6 m/s.
Give answer correct to one decimal place.
1 2
(b) s = ut + at
2
Find s if u = 8.5, t = 6.2 and a = -2.5
4. The object shown below is attached to a string
and is travelling in a circular path.

v
The mass of the object
m
is m kg.
2 The velocity is v m/s.
-b - b - 4ac The radius of the circle
(c) x =
2a is R m.
Find x if a = 12, b = -2 and c = -30 R

The tension, T, in the string can be calculated

by using the following formula.

mv2
T=
R
2. The velocity (v), in m/s, of an object after it has
fallen a distance (d ), in m, can The unit of tension is Newtons (N).
be calculated using the following (a) Find the tension in the string if the mass
formula. d is 1.4 kg, its velocity is 1.5 m/s and the
v = 2gd radius of the circle is 2 m.

Where g = 9.8 m/s2 v

(b) Find the tension in the string if the mass is
Find the velocity, in m/s, of an object that has 400 g, the velocity is 5.6 m/s and the radius
fallen 25 m. of the circle is 88 cm.
Give answer correct to one decimal place. Give answer correct to one decimal place.

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 20
Exponentials 1
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1. Write in exponent form. 4. Simplify the following expressions.

3 4 3
4 5 2
(a) (x y ) ´
2 3 3
(x y ) (b) (m n ) ´ (m6n5)4
x ´ y ´ 3x ´ 4y ´ x ´ x ´ x ´ y xy
5 7 2 4 6
(m n )

2. Simplify the following expressions.

(a) x5 ´ x6 (b) 2m4 ´ 5n3 ´ m7 ´ 2n ´ n5

4 5 5 3 6 8 5
(c) 2a b c ´ 6a b c (d) y ¸ y

4 7 8 2
3a5b4 4x y
(c) ( 3
2a b ) (d) ( 9x2y3 )
8 12 6 9 4
8m n 20a b c
(e) (f)
4m6n 16ab5c4

(g) (a3)4 (h) (2m5)6 (i) (2x5y6z)3

5. Write the following surds in index form.

(a) 4
m (b) ( 5 a )6

4 5
m4n3 3
2a b c
2 6

(j) ( p
2 ) (k) ( 3m4n ) 6. Use a calculator to evaluate the following.
8
(a) 57 - 75 (b) 8 3 (c) ( 4 28 561)3

(l) x0 (m) 6m0 (n) (x2y3)0 + (7x)0 + 6x0 7. Simplify the following.
1 2 9 2 1 3 5 2
8 6
(a) x y ´ 7x y (b) (m n ) ´ (m
2 3 4 9 2 4 6n 3 )

2 2 5 4
xy9 (m n 4 )

3. Write the following with positive indices.

3 a4b-5c-1
4

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Exponentials 2
21
Name:

1. Convert the following numbers into scientific 5. The population of a town is 7000 and is
notation. increasing by 4% each year.
Calculate the population in eight years.
(a) 700 000 Give answer to the nearest whole number.

(b) 1 260 000 000

(c) 0.000 002

6. The value of an $85 000 tractor was
(d) 0.000 000 009 52 depreciating by 5% each year.
Calculate the value of the tractor in 10 years.
Give answer correct to the nearest dollar.

2. Convert the following numbers into numeral

form.

(a) 8 ´ 107

7. The population of bacteria on an item of food

(b) 3.21 ´ 106 after it was taken out of a refrigerator could be
calculated by the following formula:
(c) 4 ´ 10 8
-
t
N = 3000 ´ 2.5
Where N = the number of bacteria
(d) 7.753 ´ 10 5
-
and t = the number of hours after it was
taken out of the refrigerator
3. Use a calculator to evaluate the following, How many bacteria would be on the food after
given that: the following time periods?
(Give answer in scientific notation correct to
A = 3.2 ´ 105, B = 4.5 ´ 10 7, C = 8.6 ´ 1012
-
one decimal place)
Give answers in scientific notation to one (a) 2 hours
decimal place.

(a) ABC
2
2AB (b) 36 hours
(b)
C3

(c) AB 3C 5

4. The mass of the Earth is 5.98 ´ 1024 kg. (c) 1 week

The mass of the Moon is 7.36 ´ 1022 kg.
How many Moons would
have the same mass as
the Earth?

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Solving Linear Equations
22
Name:

1. Solve the following equations. (k) 7 - 4a = -5 (l) 3(4x - 5) = 9

Any answers that are fractions write in their
simplest form.
(a) 3x = 21 (b) m + 5 = -7

(m) 3m + 1 = 5m - 7 (n) 2m - 9 = 3(2m + 5)

a
(c) - 6 = -4 (d) 8m + 5 = 11
4

n+4 8x 3 x 4
(e) 3 =1 (f) =2 (o) =6 (p) =
5 5x 3x + 1 5

4n + 5 4a
(g) = -1 (h) + 5 = -3
3 9
2. Write the following statement as an equation
and solve.
If seven is subtracted from three times this
number and the result is multiplied by four
the answer is 32.

equation

3x - 5 2n - 5
(i) +1=5 (j) - 4 = -7
4 8

3. A 10 kg watermelon is cut into three pieces.

The largest piece is 1 kg heavier than the next
and 2.5 kg heavier than the smallest.
What does the heaviest piece weigh?

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 23
Solving Quadratic Equations 1
23
Name:

Solve the following equations. 9. (x - 2)2 - 9 = 0

Any answers that are fractions write in their
simplest form.
1. x2 - 5x = 0 2. x2 + 7x = 0

2 2
3. 3x = 5x 4. 9x = -4x
10. 9(x + 3)2 - 64 = 0

2 2
5. x - 49 = 0 6. 16x - 25 = 0

2 2
11. 25(x - 3) - 81(x + 5) = 0

2 2
7. x - 7 = 0 8. 4x - 12 = 0

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 24
Solving Quadratic Equations 2
24
Name:

1. Solve the following equations. 2. Use the quadratic formula to solve the
Any answers that are fractions write in their following equations.
simplest form.
2
2
(a) x - 9x + 14 = 0 (a) 20x + 11x - 42 = 0

2
(b) x - 7x - 18 = 0

(c) 2x2 + 7x - 15 = 0

(b) 5x2 - 6x - 4 = 0

2
(d) 15x + 8x - 16 = 0

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Problem Solving
25
Name:

1. The perimeter of a rectangular park is 550 m. 4. Danni and Tarkyn work at a restaurant. Danni
The length is 35 m longer than the width. cooks and Tarkyn washes. A cook gets paid
Find the length and width of the park $6 more an hour than a washer. In one week
Danni works 15 hours and Tarkyn works
20 hours. They earn a total of $755.
What is the hourly pay rate of each person?

length

width
Danni
2. Polly is 28 years older than her daughter Molly.
Polly's mother Dolly is four times Molly's age. Tarkyn
The sum of their three ages is 130.
How old is Molly?
5. Janice had a water tank with two different
sized taps. If she used tap A the tank would
empty in 6 hours. If she used tap B the tank
would empty in 3 hours.
How long would it take the tank to empty if
both taps were open?

3. Byron found that one dozen eggs weighed the

same as five apples. He also found that two
eggs and 22 grams weighed the same as one
apple. Find the mass of an egg and an apple.

6. Haggs had two paddocks of cows. He knew

that the cows in paddock A ate 20% more food
than the cows in paddock B. He wanted to
distribute 110 kg of food so that the cows in
both paddocks would finish the food at the
same time.
How much food should he put in each paddock?

egg paddock A

apple paddock B

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 26
Linear Relationships
26
Name:

1. Complete the table of values for each of the (d)

following rules.
P 0 2 7 10 12 22 30
(a) y = 3x + 1
Q 5 9 19 25 29 49 65
x -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3
y

(b) m = 4 - 2n
3. Complete the table of values below for the
n -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 relationship shown.

m M = 6N + 25

N 0 5 8 15 25
2. Find the rule connecting the variables in the
tables below. M 85 157
(a)
x -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4. The fuel consumption (L/hr) of a boat was
measured for different numbers of passengers
y -9 -7 -5 -3 -1 1 3 and shown in the table below.
N = the number of passengers.
F = fuel consumption (L/hr)

N 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
F 5 5.5 6 6.5 7 7.5 8
(b)
A -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 (a) Complete the equation for this
relationship.
B -2 1 4 7 10 13 16
F=
(b) Find the fuel consumption for the following
number of passengers.
(i) 8 passengers (ii) 15 passengers
(c)
c -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3
d 17 13 9 5 1 -3 -7
(c) Find the number of passengers if the fuel
consumption was 25 L/hr.

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 27
Gradient
27
Name:

1. Find the gradient of the lines shown on the 2. Which of the lines on the graph below have a
following graphs. negative gradient?
(a) y y
C D
4 B
3
A
2
1
E
-4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4
x x
-1 J
-2 F
-3
-4

H
(b) y G
4
3
3. What is the gradient of a straight line that has
2
an x-intercept of -3 and a y-intercept of 7?
1
-4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4
x
-1
-2
-3
-4
4. Find the gradient of the straight lines joining
the following pairs of points.
(c)
4 (a) (2,4) and (9,15)
3
2
1
-4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4
x
-1 (b) (-3,7) and (6,-11)
-2
-3
-4

(d) (c) (-2,-9) and (5,-6)

4
3
2
1
-4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4
x (d) (-8,7) and (9,7)
-1
-2
-3
-4

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 28
Intercepts / y = mx + c
28
Name:

1. Find the x-intercept and y-intercept of the 2. Transpose the following equations to make
straight lines with the following equations and y the subject and hence find the gradient and
sketch the straight line on the axes shown y-intercept.
clearly showing the intercept points. (a) 9x + 3y = 12
(a) x + 3y = 9

y
gradient

x y-intercept

y=

(b) 8x + 2y + 7 = 0
(b) 3x - 4y = 24

y
gradient

x y-intercept

y=

(c) 7y - 6x + 4 = 0
(c) y = 5x - 15

y
gradient

x
y-intercept

y=

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 29
Straight Lines
29
Name:

1. Find the equation of the straight line that has a 4. Find the x-intercept and y-intercept of the
gradient of 2 and passes through (3,2). straight line that has a gradient of -4 and passes
through (-2,9).

y=
2. Find the equation of the straight line that passes
through the points (-4,3) and (1,-7).

x-intercept

y-intercept

5. Find the distance between the points (-1,-3)

y= and (11,2).

3. Find the equation of the straight line that has an

x-intercept of -3 and y-intercept of 9.

y=

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 30
Simultaneous Equations 1
30
Name:

1. (a) On the axes below draw the straight lines 2. Solve the following simultaneous equations
with the equations: using substitution.
y = 2x - 1 and y = -x + 5 (a) y = 3x and y = x + 6

y
6
5
4
3
2
(b) y = 2x - 5 and 2y + 3x = -24
1
-2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 x
-1
-2

(b) What is the point of intersection of these

two lines?

(c) Use the method of substitution of

simultaneous equations to find this point 3. Solve the following simultaneous equations
of intersection. using elimination.
(a) x + y = 7 and x - y = 9

(b) 3x + y = 4 and x + y = 0

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 31
Simultaneous Equations 2
31
Name:

1. Solve the following simultaneous equations by 2. Three pies and four quiches cost $36.
choosing the most appropriate method - Two pies and five quiches cost $38.
substitution or elimination. Find the price of a pie and a quiche.
(a) 2x + 3y = -5 and x - 5y = 17

pie

quiche

3. It took four large buckets and eight small

buckets to fill a container that held 144 litres.
(b) 3y + 4x = 7 and 2y - 3x = -18 It took six large buckets and ten small buckets
to fill a container that held 200 litres.
What was the capacity of each bucket?

large
bucket
small
bucket

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Parabolas
32
Name:

1. State which of the following are quadratic 3. Parabola A below has the equation y = x2.
equations. y
A y = 3x2 + 5 B m = 2n - 5 B A CD
3 2
C b = 7 - 2a D p=8+q
E y = x3 + 2x2 - 1 F d = 2c2 + 7c - 5

x
2. (a) Complete the table of values below for the
following equation.
2
y = x - 2x - 3
G F E
x -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5
y Match the other labelled parabolas with the
following equations.
(b) Plot these points on the graph below and 2 1
y = 2x y = -x2 y = 2 x2
connect them with a smooth curve.
y 1 1
y = 3 x2 y = -2x2 y = - 3 x2
12
11
4. Which of the parabolas
10 in question 3 have
9 maximum turning points?
8
7
6 5. If the equations of the parabolas below were
5 graphed:
4
(a) which would be flatter than the graph
2
of y = x ?
3
2
1
-3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 (b) which would have maximum turning
x points?
-1
-2
-3
2
-4 A y = 2x + 3 B y = -5x2 + 4x - 3
y = 13 x - 6x + 7
2 2
(c) What are the coordinates of C D y = 9x - 2x
y = - 12 x + 4x y = 8 + 25 x
2 2
the turning point? E F
7
(d) Is this a maximum (MAX) or G y = 1 - 34 x2 H y = -3x + 9 x2
y = 73 x + x
2 2
minimum (MIN) turning I J y = 4 - 3x + 7x
point?

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 33
Sketching Parabolas 1
33
Name:

Sketch the following parabolas clearly showing y

5. This parabola has:
all known points - x-intercepts at 1 and 4
y - y-intercept at -1
1. This parabola has:
- x-intercepts at -1 and 3
- y-intercept at -1
x

y
6. This parabola has:
y - one x-intercept at 5
2. This parabola has: - y-intercept at 3
- turning point at (1,-3) - axis of symmetry at x = 3
- y-intercept at -2
x
x

y
y 7. This parabola has:
3. This parabola has: - turning point at (2,-2)
- one x-intercept at 4 - y-intercept at -5
- axis of symmetry at x = 1
- y-intercept at -3
x
x

y y
4. This parabola has: 8. This parabola has:
- turning point at (-1,4) - axis of symmetry at x = 1
- y-intercept at 3 - one x-intercept at -2
- y-intercept at 3

x x

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 34
Sketching Parabolas 2
34
Name:

1. If the following quadratic equation was to be 2. If the following quadratic equation was to be
graphed answer the questions below. graphed answer the questions below.
2 2
y = x - 4x - 12 y=x -x-6
(a) Find the y-intercept. (a) Find the y-intercept.

(b) Find the x-intercepts. (b) Find the x-intercepts.

and and

(c) Find the axis of symmetry. (c) Find the axis of symmetry.

x= x=
(d) Find the coordinates of the turning point. (d) Find the coordinates of the turning point.

(e) Draw the graph on the axes below. (e) Draw the graph on the axes below.
y y

4 3
2 2
-8 -6 -4 -2 0 2 4 6 8 x 1
-2 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 x
-4 -1
-6 -2
-8 -3
-10 -4
-12 -5
-14 -6
-16 -7

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 35
Sketching Parabolas 3
35
Name:

If the following quadratic equation was to be 4. Find the coordinates of the turning point.
graphed answer the questions below.
2
y = -6x + 7x + 20
1. Find the y-intercept.

2. Use the quadratic formula to find the

x-intercepts.

5. Draw the graph on the axes below.

y

24

22

20
18

16

14

12
and
10
3. Find the axis of symmetry.
8

-3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 x

-2
x=
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y = a(x - h)2 + k
36
Name:

2
For each of the following quadratic equations: 2. y = -2x - 6x - 8
(a) Convert to the turning point form:
2
y = a(x - h) + k
(b) State the turning point if this equation was
graphed.
(c) State the y-intercept.
(d) Sketch the graph showing the turning point
and y-intercept.

1. y = x2 - 6x + 14

turning point form turning point form

turning point turning point

y-intercept y-intercept

y y

x x

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 37
Practical Applications
37
Name:

1. A footballer kicks a ball that follows a parabolic 2. A cable hangs between two pylons. The
trajectory. The ball just clears a 25 m high pylons are 40 metres high and 120 metres
pole at the top of its trajectory. The pole is 30 m apart. The lowest point of the cable is 30 metres
from the footballer. above the ground.
(a) Draw the ball's trajectory on the coordinate
axes below using the origin as the point
where the ball was kicked. Clearly show 40 m
all known points. 30 m

A
120 m
(a) Using point A as the origin, find the
equation of the parabolic shape of the
cable in turning point form.

(b) Find the equation of the trajectory in

turning point form:
y = a(x - h)2 + k

(b) Find the height of the cable above the

ground for the following distances from A.
Give answers correct to one decimal place.
(i) 10 m

(c) Find the height of the ball 24 metres from

where it was kicked.

(ii) 70 m

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 38
Variation 1
38
Name:

1. For the following situations state which is the 3. Match the equations below with the different
independent variable and label the axes types of variation relationships.
correctly. A - direct linear variation
(a) The speed (S) of a ball when it reaches B - direct quadratic variation
the ground is measured for different C - exponential variation
heights (H) that it is dropped. D - partial variation
E - inverse variation
Independent Variable k
y = knx y = kx y= x y = kx2 y = kx + c

(b) The amount of carbon dioxide (A)

sequestered is measured for a differing 4. Which type of variation relationship (A-E)
number of trees (N) in a plantation. applies to the following sets of data?

Independent Variable x 2 4 6 8
(a)
y 24 12 8 6

x 0 1 2 3
2. Match the graphs below with the different types (b)
of variation relationships. y 0 3 12 27
A - direct linear variation
B - direct quadratic variation
C - exponential variation
x 0 1 2 3
D - partial variation (c)
E - inverse variation y 0 6 12 18
y y y

x 0 1 2 3
(d)
x x x y 2 6 18 54

x 0 1 2 3
y y (e)
y 0.5 1 2 4

x x x 0 1 2 3
(f)
y 2 5 8 11

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 39
Variation 2
39
Name:

1. Match the equations below with the different 3. The heat (H), in kJ, generated in a resistor was
types of variation relationships. measured for different values of the current (I),
A - direct linear variation in amps.
B - direct quadratic variation The results are I (amps) 1 2 3 4
C - exponential variation shown in this
table. H (kJ) 20 80 180 320
D - partial variation
E - inverse variation
k
y = kn
x
y = kx y= x y = kx2 y = kx + c (a) Which of the variation types (A-E from
question 1) apply to the relationship
between I and H?
(b) Find all the constant values in this
relationship and write the equation.
2. The table below shows the price (P), in dollars,
to buy different numbers (N) of concert tickets.

N 1 2 3 4
P 25 45 65 85

(a) Which of the variation types (A-E from (c) Find the heat generated if the current was
question 1) apply to the relationship 15 amps.
between N and P?
(b) Find all the constant values in this
relationship and write the equation.
2
4. The acceleration (a), in m/sec , of an object
was measured for different forces (F), in
newtons, applied to the object. The results are
shown in the table below.

F (newtons) 0 20 40 60
2
a (m/sec ) 0 160 320 480

(c) How much would it cost to buy 15 tickets? (a) Which of the variation types (A-E from
question 1) apply to the relationship
between F and a?
(b) Find all the constant values in this
relationship and write the equation.
(d) How many tickets could be bought with
$485?

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 40
Variation 3
40
Name:

1. Match the equations below with the different 3. The number of bacteria (N) on a food sample
types of variation relationships. was recorded every hour (t) after 20 were
A - direct linear variation observed. The results are shown in the table
B - direct quadratic variation below.
C - exponential variation
D - partial variation t (hr) 0 1 2 3 4
E - inverse variation N 20 40 80 160 320
k
y = kx y = kn
x
y= x y = kx + c y = kx2
(a) Which of the variation types (A-E from
question 1) apply to the relationship
between t and N?
(b) Find all the constant values in this
2. Balls with different masses (m), in kg, are relationship and write the equation.
projected vertically up by a catapult and the
heights (H), in metres, attained are recorded in
this table.
m (kg) 0.5 2 4 8
H (m) 16 4 2 1

(a) Which of the variation types (A-E from

question 1) apply to the relationship
between m and H?
(b) Find all the constant values in this
relationship and write the equation.

(c) How many bacteria will be present on the

food after 10 hours?

(c) What height would be attained by a 0.2 kg

mass?

(d) After how many hours will there be more

than 20 million bacteria?
(d) What was the mass of a ball that attained a
height of 0.8 metres?

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 41
Calculating Angles
41
Name:

1. Calculate the unknown angles. 2. Calculate the unknown angles.

(a) (b) b
127o (a) 46 o
(b)
53o b 59o
o
a 75 a
b=

a= b=
a= (d) d
o
107
o 57
(c) (d)
29o 63o
(c) o
d 68
o c c
114
42
o
d=

o
c= (f) 56

c= d= o
f
(e) e 67

f
(e) 148
o (f) o
129
n
m
p
e= f=
q
304o
(g) 2h
m= p= o 2h
44 o
125
n= q=
(h)
117o h
o
g
128
g g h=
(g) g g (h)
g h g=
2i - 9o
o
35
2i + 11o o
6i + 17
(i)
g= h=
4i + 26o i=

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 42
Circles
42
Name:

1. Complete the list of names of parts of a circle (e) o

by inserting the appropriate letter from the 59
diagrams below.
O e=
H e
F
centre E I
A
C K
D G
B
J (f) f

Minor arc Diameter Tangent f=

o
Major arc Radius Chord 73

Major segment Major sector

Minor segment Minor sector (g)
o
44 99o
Circumference g=
g
2. Find the unknown angles

(a)
a (h)
o
52 O
46o h h=
O
a=

b (i) i
(b) O 78o
119o i=
o
b= 51

(j)
98o
(c) 48o c
O j=
c= j

(k)
d 27o
(d) O O k=
104o k
d=

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 43
Arc Length
43
Name:

Give answers to questions 1-3 correct to For the following questions use 6400 km as
one decimal place the radius of the Earth.
Give answers to the nearest kilometre.
1. Find the arc length shown in each of the
following circles. 4. A yacht sails along the equator from a
o o
(a) (b) longitude of 162 E to 178 E.
How far has it sailed?

O 12 cm 5.8 m
57
o
O
o
280
l
l
5. Beijing and Perth are approximately on the
o
same longitude (116 E).
o
Beijing is at a latitude of 39.5 N.
o
Perth is at a latitude of 31.6 S.
If an aeroplane flies in a straight line from
2. Find the following arc lengths. Perth to Beijing, how far does it travel?

(a) (b)
m
47

68o 131o
28.5 mm

6. Entebbe in Uganda and Quito in Ecuador are

both on the equator.
o
Entebbe is at a longitude of 32.29 E.
o
Quito is at a longitude of 78.30 W.
If an aeroplane flies directly between these
two cities at an average speed of 900 km/h,
how long will the flight take?
3. A ball is attached to the Give answer in hours correct to one decimal
end of a 65 cm string place.
and allowed to swing.
Through what distance 65 cm
does the ball swing, x, 38.5
o

if the angle of swing

is 38.5o?
x

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 44
Similar and Congruent Triangles
44
Name:

1. Match the pairs of similar and congruent (c)

triangles from the triangles below. m
40
There are three pairs if similar triangles and
one pair of congruent triangles. 28
n
5 cm 3 cm 32 21
o o
110 30
A 5c C 4 cm
m
o B
50 o
30 m= n=
2 cm
D 30o o
40
5 E (d) 25
2.5 cm cm o
100
F d
20
o
G 30
6 cm
6

cm
cm

16
5
4.

H
m

d=
4c

5c
m

Pairs of similar triangles:

20 28
and , and , and (e)
30

Pair of congruent triangles: and 24

p q
2. Find the unknown lengths.
8 12 p=
(a) x
6 q=
7

y 3. Michael was standing near a camp fire at night

and noticed his shadow, cast from the fire onto
a nearby tree, was the same height as the tree.
x= y= Michael is 170 cm tall and measured that he
was 2 paces from the fire and 18 paces from
the tree.
(b)
Find the height of the tree in metres.
b
8m
15 m

5m
b=

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Transformations
45
Name:

Draw the shape shown below after the following transformations labelling each new shape (A, B, etc).
o
A - Rotate 90 anticlockwise about M.
B - Reflect about the y-axis.
C - Translate ten units right and one unit up.
D - Rotate 90o clockwise about N then translate nine units right and three units down.
o
E - Rotate 90 anticlockwise about O(0,0).
F - Reflect about the x-axis then translate eight units right and two units down.
G - Rotate 90o clockwise about N then reflect about the x-axis.
y

M 7

N 2

-9 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 x
-1

-2

-3

-4

-5

-6

-7

-8

-9

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 46
3 Dimensions
46
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3. (a) Circle the net/s below that could NOT

form a square-based pyramid.

1. (a) For the object above state the number of:

(i) faces (ii) edges (iii) vertices

(b) How many faces are parallel

to the black face?
(c) How many faces are perpendicular
to the black face?

2. Circle the cube/s below that could NOT be

formed from the following net.

Q
(b) Without using a ruler sketch a three
dimensional drawing of a square-based
pyramid below.

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3 Dimensional Drawings
47
Name:

Example

e Fro
Sid nt
Front Side Top
View View View

1. Draw the front, side and top views of this 2. The front, side and top views of an object are
object. shown below. Draw the object on the
isometric dots below.

Front View Side View

Top View
Front View Side View

Top View

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Length and Perimeter 1
48
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1. Change the following lengths to the units 6. Find the perimeter of the following shapes.
shown in the brackets. Give answers correct to one decimal place.
(a) 6.3 m (cm) (b) 48.7 mm (cm) (a)

9.6 m
(c) 0.56 km (m) (d) 0.065 m (mm) 6.5 m

17.4 m
(e) 24.67 cm (mm) (f) 45 750 mm (m)
(b)
15.6 cm
(g) 821.9 cm (m) (h) 67 m (km)
7.8 cm

(i) 2 m 8 cm (cm) (j) 24 cm 7 mm (mm)

2. Round the following lengths to the nearest (c)

metre. 6.8 cm
(a) 3.65 m (b) 5 m 9 cm (c) 7 m 641 mm

9.6 cm 11.5 cm
3. How many 150 mm long pieces of wood could
be cut from a 3.6 m plank?

4. Tara measured her strides while running to be

75 cm. How many strides would she take to
run 15 km?

5. Steve's lawnmower has a blade width of 40 cm. (d) m

The lawn Steve is about to mow is in the shape 6.3
of a rectangle 16 m wide and 20 m long. o
What is the total distance Steve will walk to 72
mow the lawn? Give answer in metres.

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Length and Perimeter 2
49
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1. Find the perimeter of the following shape. 2. Calem wanted to determine the distance to a
Give answer correct to one decimal place. friend’s house. He attached a counter to the
front wheel of his bike that counted each
radius = 25.4 cm revolution of the wheel. The diameter of his
bike wheel is 70 cm.
108
o (a) The counter registered 316 revolutions.
21.7 cm Calculate the distance, to the nearest
metre, between the two houses.
43.5 cm This shape is
symmetrical

39.7 cm
(b) His younger sister decided to attach the
counter to her bike to check the distance.
86.5 cm If her bike wheel has a diameter of 56 cm,
what counter reading should she get?

3. When a cable is wrapped around a winch

drum, the outside edge of the cable is longer
than the edge closer to the drum of the winch.
outside edge
of cable
winch
drum
inside edge
of cable
cable

Find the difference in length, to the nearest

mm, between the inside and outside edges of
a cable 10 mm in diameter that is wrapped
around a winch drum of 75 cm diameter.

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Area 1
50
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1. Change the following areas to the units 5. Find the area of the following shapes.
shown in the brackets. Give answers correct to one decimal place.
(a) 6.3 m2 (cm )
2 2 2
(b) 48.7 mm (cm ) (a)
6.2 m

(c) 0.00056 km2 (m2) (d) 0.0065 m2 (mm2) 3.5 m

(e) 24.67 cm2 (mm2) (f) 45 700 mm2 (m2) (b)

8.5 m
(g) 820 cm2 (m2) (h) 670 000 m2 (km2)
13.8 m

(c)

2. Convert the following areas to hectares (ha). 4.9 m

(a) 360 000 m2 (b) 5.3 km2

8.0 m

3. A footpath is 78 cm wide and 26 metres long. (d) 4.5 m

2
(a) What is the area (in m ) of the footpath?

3.8 m

(b) How many bricks that are 260 mm long

7.5 m
and 130 mm wide would be needed to pave
the footpath? (e)

m
5.3

4. A 25 hectare farm is to have an area 500 m

long and 100 m wide planted in fruit trees.
What percentage of the farm will be fruit trees?
(f)

o
64
8.7 m

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Area 2
51
Name:

1. What fraction of the larger rectangle below 4. Find the area of the shaded region of the
is shaded black? symmetrical object shown below.
Give answer correct to one decimal place.
b
5.8 cm
3
a a
4 5.2 cm
2.5 cm
1.7 cm o
b 48 cm
6.2

9 cm
2.8 cm
2. Use Hero's Formula to find the area of the
triangle below. 2.2 cm 5.2 cm
Give answer correct to one decimal place. 2.6 cm
4.4 cm
9.8 cm
9.8 m 2.6 cm
8.2 m
4.9 cm

2.9 cm
5.8 cm
8.9 m

3. Find the area of the symmetrical shape below.

Give answer correct to one decimal place.

6m
6m 6m
6m
9m

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 52
Total Surface Area 1
52
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1. Find the total surface area of the following 2. Find the total surface area of the following
objects. objects.
(a) Give answers correct to one decimal place.
2.3 (a) 1.6 m
m m
2.4

1.8 m
3.5 m

(b)
cm
5.8

4.5 cm

6.0
cm (b)

height = 1.7 m

(c)
0.8 m
55
cm

cm
45
45 cm

(d)
m

(c)
5

3.5
3.

5.8 cm
m

4.2 m
m 5.4

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 53
Total Surface Area 2
53
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Find the total surface area of these objects . 2.

Give answers correct to one decimal place.

1.
28 cm
25 cm
15 cm
m
20c
35 cm

32 cm

68 cm

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 54
Volume 1
54
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1. Convert the following volumes to the units 4. Find the volume of the following objects.
shown in the brackets. Give answers correct to one decimal place.
(a) 0.05 cm (mm3)
3
(b) 6.2 L (cm3) (a)

(c) 450 cm3 (L) (d) 5.2 m3 (L) 7 cm

cm
13
9 cm

(e) 10 mL (mm3) (f) 50 mm3 (cm3) (b)

2.2 m
3
(g) 120 L (m ) (h) 85 mL (L) 3m 5.5 m

(c)
2m
2. Harry bought a 2 litre bottle of liquid fertilizer.
He had to mix eight spoonfuls (each 5 cm3) of
the fertilizer into a 10 litre bucket of water. 3.6 m
How many buckets of the fertilizer/water
solution could he make?

(d)

3. A fish tank was 85 cm long, 50 cm wide and 8 cm

45 cm deep. It is recommended to add water
to 5 cm from the top of the tank. Janice is
using a 10 litre bucket to fill the tank.
How many full buckets will it take to get the
water level from empty to 5 cm from the top?
(e)

32 cm

15 cm

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 55
Volume 2
55
Name:

1. A cardboard box can be made by cutting 3. A cylindrical preserving jar has an internal
squares from each of the corners of a diameter of 8 cm and a height of 20 cm.
3
rectangular sheet of cardboard. (a) Calculate the volume, in cm , of the jar.
Give answer correct to one decimal place.
corners
x
cut out
x
20 cm
fold along
dotted lines
to form box (b) Assume an apricot is spherical and has a
30 cm diameter of 4 cm.
The sheet of cardboard is 30 cm by 20 cm. If 20 apricots are packed in the jar, how
The side length of the square cut-out is x cm. much syrup, in mL, would be required to
Using the five different values for x given fill the jar?
below, complete the table, showing the length, Give answer correct to one decimal place.
width and volume of each box that would be
formed.

x Length (cm) Width (cm) Volume (cm3)

2
3
4
5 4. This block of sculptor’s clay is moulded
into solid cones with the dimensions shown.
6

By examining the magnitude of the volume

for each different value of x, make an 32 cm
estimate of the value of x that would give the 20 cm
largest volume of the formed
x= 30 cm 40 cm
box. r = 15 cm
2. The cup of an icecream scoop is in the shape Block of clay Cone
of a hemisphere with a diameter of 6 cm. By calculating the volume of the clay and the
6 cm
cone, find the number of cones that would be
made from the block.
3
(a) Find the volume, in cm , of one level scoop
of icecream.
Give answer correct to one decimal place.

(b) How many level scoops could be taken

from a 4 litre tub of
icecream?

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 56
Pythagoras
56
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1. Indicate which side 3. A yacht sails from a marina 8.7 km north,

of this triangle is then 15.8 km west, then in a straight line
the hypotenuse. back to the marina.
What is the total distance sailed?
Give answer correct to one decimal place.
2. Find the unknown lengths.
Give all answers correct to one decimal place.
(a) 8.2 cm

4.7 cm
a

(b) 4. Find the length of the diagonal XY in this

15.8 m cuboid.
Give answer correct to one decimal place.

b X
6.7 m
6.2 m
4.1 m
8.5 m Y

(c) 45.8 cm

23.1 cm c

5. Find the length of the edge, L, shown on the

27.6 cm pyramid below.
Give answer correct to the nearest cm.

9.5 cm
(d) L
30 cm

4.7 cm 4.2 cm 6.4 cm

50 cm 50 cm

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 57
Trigonometry 1 - Angles
57
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1. Complete the following table converting 2. Convert the following angles from degrees
between degrees and degrees, minutes and to radians.
seconds. Write answer as a:
(i) fraction in its simplest form.
Decimal Degrees, minutes (ii) decimal correct to two decimal places.
Degrees and seconds
(a) 30o (b) 78o
8.5o
o
23.9
o
0.25 (i) (i)

34.35o
(ii) (ii)
66.23o o o
(c) 210 (d) 324
o
45.68
o
71.81
o (i) (i)
39.231

84.757o (ii) (ii)

o
54 24' 3. Convert the following angles from radians
to degrees.
c c
54'
(a) 3p (b) 8p
10 9
27o33'
o
48 25'30"
o
23 35'51"
o
67 36"
4. Convert the following angles from radians
o to degrees.
82 45'22.32"
Give answers correct to two decimal places.
c
(a) 0.74 (b) 2.53c
61o33'52.92"
o
32 28.44"

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 58
Trigonometry 2 - SOHCAHTOA
58
Name:

1. Use a calculator to find the following values 5. On the triangle below label the sides:
correct to four decimal places. (Check (a) H - hypotenuse
calculator is in DEGREE mode). (b) O - opposite angle q
(a) tan 37o
o
(b) sin 56.3 (c) A - adjacent to angle q

q
(c) cos 21o56' (d) sin 41o23'51"

(e) tan 25o35'27.9" (f) cos 9o33.2"

6. For the triangle below the sides are m, n and p.
Label the sides given that:
p
tan q = m
2. Use a calculator to find the following values
correct to four decimal places. (Check
calculator is in RADIAN mode).
(a) cos 0.32c (b) tan 1.38c q

3. Use a calculator to find the following values 7. For the triangle below find sin q, cos q and
correct to four decimal places. (Check tan q. Give answer as a:
calculator is in the correct mode). (i) fraction
(a) cos 0.54c (b) tan 28.78o (ii) decimal correct to four decimal places

63
16
(c) sin 15o24' (d) cos 1.13c q
65

4. For the triangle below: sin q (i) (ii)

(a) which side is the hypotenuse?
(b) which side is opposite angle q?
(c) which side is adjacent to angle q?
cos q (i) (ii)
q
y
x
tan q (i) (ii)

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 59
Trigonometry 3 - Finding Side Lengths 1
59
Name:

Find the unknown side lengths in the following 4.

triangles.
Give answers correct to one decimal place.

x 34.3o
1.

o
39

x 8.2 cm
29.3 cm

2.
5.
9.4 m 58o 67
o

4.0 m x
x

3. 6.
x
67.5o

29.7 m x

8.8 m o
37

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 60
Trigonometry 4 - Finding Side Lengths 2
60
Name:

Find the unknown side lengths in the following 3.

triangles. 9.8 m
Give answers correct to one decimal place. a
o
29 36'22"
1. y
b
67o41'

x 24.8 cm

x= a=

y= b=

4. 82.7 km
2.
64.7 cm
o
o
17 29'43" 39 42"
d

n m c

m= c=

n= d=

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 61
Trigonometry 5 - Applications
61
Name:

Give all answers correct to one decimal place 3. Find the height (h)
o
of the wall 15o
1. A yacht sails 27.8 km in a direction of S 48 W in the carport
from a marina. shown here. h
(a) How far south of the marina is the yacht? 2.1 m

3.8 m

(b) How far west of the marina is the yacht?

4. James, a photographer, is observing a

weather balloon as it ascends. He is standing
150 metres away from the point where the
balloon was released. He takes a photo of the
2. A hot air balloon floats 26 km in a direction balloon with his camera set at an angle of
of S 32o28' E from base then 18 km in a 15o to the horizontal and 10 seconds later
o
direction S 18 54' W. o
at an angle of 27 to the horizontal.
(a) How far south of the base is the balloon? At what speed is the balloon rising?
Give answer in m/sec correct to one decimal
place.

(b) How far east or west of the base is the

balloon?

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 62
Trigonometry 6 - Calculating Angles
62
Name:

1. Find the unknown angles in the following 2. Two hikers walk 3.8 km north then 2.5 km
triangles. east of their camp. What direction do they
Give answers correct to one decimal place. need to hike in a straight line back to their
camp?
(a) Give answer to the nearest degree.
8.9 m

q
7.2 m

3. The shadow of a 3.7 m pole was measured

(b) to be 6.5 m long. Some time later the shadow
9.3 cm was measured to be 4.8 m long.
What is the change in angle of the Sun's
rays in this time?
Give answer in DMS to the nearest second.
b 11.6 cm

(c)
8.5 cm
f 4. One end of a 5.6 m plank of timber rests on
the ground. The other end rests on bricks
4.9 cm 450 mm off the ground.
What angle does the plank make with the
ground?
Give answer as a decimal to one decimal
place.

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 63
Trigonometry 7 - Problem Solving
63
Name:

A fishing boat leaves a marina to travel to a

favourite fishing spot. The fishermen need to
o
travel 25.6 km in a direction of N 35 17' W.
After travelling 27.2 km the fishermen realise
o
they had travelled in a direction of N 45 17' W.
1. What direction do they need to travel to
proceed in a straight line to the fishing spot?
Give answer to the nearest minute.
2. How far away is the fishing spot?
Give answer correct to one decimal place.

Direction

Distance

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 64
Trigonometry 8 - The Unit Circle/Identities
64
Name:

y 3. Use a calculator to find the exact values

correct to four decimal places.
P(x,y) (a) cos 129
o
(b) sin 129
o

1 y
q o o
x (c) cos 284 (d) sin 284
(0,0) x

1. Point P shown above has coordinates (x,y) 4. State if the following values would be
and is one unit from the origin (0,0). positive or negative.
Complete the following with either cos q (a) cos 210o (b) sin 327o
or sin q.
(a) x = (b) y =
(c) cos 83o (d) sin 196o
2. Use the graphs below to find approximate
values (two decimal places) for cos q and sin q
of the angles shown.
(a) q = 129o y 5. Complete the following identities.

1 o 2
(a) sin q + cos2q =
cos 129
P(x,y)

o
129
(b) sin q =
x
-1 1
o
sin 129

(c) tan q =
-1
6. Use these identities to find the following.
o y Give answers correct to four decimal places.
(b) q = 284
1 (a) Find sin q if cos q = 0.4452
o
cos 284

o (b) Find tan q if cos q = 0.4452

284
x
-1 1
sin 284o
2 o 2 o
(c) Find sin 28 + cos 28

-1 P(x,y)

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 65
Data 1
65
Name:

1. Give an example of statistical data that would 5. There were 650 people who worked in a
be best obtained by: retail store. 50 of the workers were asked
(a) observation what transport they used to get to work each
day. The results are shown on the graph
below.
(b ) questionnaire
Number of
People

2. Use an example to explain the difference 20

between population and a sample when
referring to statistical data.

15

10

Train
Tram

5
3. A community of 3500 people are to be
Car

surveyed. What is the minimum number of Walk

Bus

Ride
people that should be surveyed for the
results to be acceptable? 0
Mode of Transport

(a) Based on these figures, how many of the

4. There were 23 560 people at a concert. workers in the store used each of the modes
The ages of 200 of these people were of transport to get to work?
recorded and 125 of them were younger
than 20. Transport Number
(a) Is this an adequate sample size for
statistical purposes? Bus
Tram
(b) What percentage of the sample were Car
younger than 20?
Walk
Ride
(c) Based on these figures, how many of the Train
people at the concert were younger than 20?
(b) What percentage of the workers used
public transport to get to work?

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 66
Data 2
66
Name:

1. Give an example of each of the following (c) If this information is to be displayed on

types of data. a pie chart, what angle would be used for
(a) continuous numerical each section?
Give answers correct to one decimal place.

(b) discrete numerical Transport to Angle on

last holiday Pie Chart
(c) categorical Car
Aeroplane
2. A number of people were asked the type Bus
of transport they used on their last holiday.
The tally sheet below shows the results. Train
Ship
Transport to
last holiday Tally
(d) Complete the column graph below
displaying this information.
Car
Aeroplane
Bus
Train
Ship

(a) How many people were surveyed?

(b) What percentage of the people used each

type of transport?
Give answers correct to one decimal place.

Transport to
Percentage
last holiday
Car
Aeroplane
Bus
Train
Ship

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 67
Bivariate Data
67
Name:

1. Select one of these four graphs to best 2. Jarryd found that the length of the grass in
illustrate the shape of the graph you would his yard affected the time it took him to mow
expect as a result of graphing the information it. He measured the length of the grass and
shown below (a to k). time it took him to mow it on several
occasions and recorded the results. These are
shown in the table below.
Length of grass
(cm) 3 10 8 5 1

Time taken to
A B mow (minutes) 40 64 57 47 33

(a) Complete the graph below displaying

this information
Time taken to mow
(sec)

C D
(a) Amount of money spent on advertising a
product versus the sales of the product.
(b) Time spent watching TV versus time spent
on doing homework.
(c) Police numbers in the state versus amount
of crime.
(d) Amount of fertilizer used by a gardener
versus number of flowers produced.
(e) The age of people versus the number of 10
people wearing spectacles.
(f) The number of feral cats versus the number 1
of native animals in that area. Length of grass (cm)
(g) The age of people versus the number of (b) Using this graph, approximately how long
pets they own. would it take Jarryd to mow grass with the
(h) The daily temperature versus the number following lengths?
of students attending school. Give answers to the nearest minute.
(i) 2 cm (ii) 7 cm (iii) 12 cm
(i) The number of people wearing seat belts
versus the number of road fatalities.

(j) The amount of money spent on drug (c) Describe how the grass length affects the
education versus the number of drug time to mow it.
overdoses.
(k) The amount of exercise done per week
versus a person’s standing pulse rate.

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 68
Mean, Mode and Median 1
68
Name:

1. Find the mean, mode and median for each of 3. Find the mean, mode and median for the data
the following sets of numbers. shown in this frequency table.
Give answers correct to one decimal place Give answers correct to one decimal place
where appropriate. where appropriate.
(a) 8 10 11 11 12 12 12 14 14 16 18
Value Frequency Cumulative
mean mode median x f Frequency
33 5
34 9
(b) 13 15 16 17 17 17 18 19 20 23 25 28
35 14
mean mode median 36 11
37 7
total (N)
(c) 23 26 19 15 17 28 27 19 14 20 32

mean mode median

mean mode median

4. Complete the frequency table for the data

(d) 24 23 17 21 32 25 35 29 40 44 22 46 below and find the mean, mode and median.
Give answers correct to one decimal place
where appropriate.
mean mode median
15 16 17 16 18 19 16 17 16 16 16 19 18 17
17 15 16 19 18 15 17 17 18 19 16 15 17 18
o
16 15 18 17 18 15 16 17 16 18 17 18 17 17
2. The maximum temperature ( C) in a town
was recorded each day for two weeks.
These temperatures are shown below. Value Frequency Cumulative
x f Frequency
21 25 17 19 27 30 33 20 28 35 39 38 32 22
(a) What is the mean maximum
temperature?

(b) What is the median maximum

temperature?

total (N)

mean mode median

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 69
Mean, Mode and Median 2
69
Name:

The lengths of a number of fish (in cm) are shown below.

1. Complete the frequency table below.
2. Calculate the mean length from the frequency table.
3. Calculate the mean length from the raw data.
4. Find the modal class.
5. Use the axes shown to draw the cumulative frequency graph.
6. Find an approximate value of the median from the cumulative frequency graph.
15 55 19 54 19 63 21 23 28 74 30 35 70 37 39 40 85 42 54 46 54 46 84 49 17 67 49 50 52 89 90 14
52 43 53 44 56 57 23 58 60 18 61 62 64 66 45 66 33 68 42 69 73 26 65 27 55 78 65 80 82 82 22 83

Length
Class
Midpoint Frequency Cumulative
Interval x´f
x f Frequency
(cm)

0-<20

20-<40

40-<60

60-<80

80-<100

cumulative mean from

frequency frequency
table

60
mean from
50 raw data

40

30
modal
class
20

10

0 median
0 20 40 60 80 100
length (cm)

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 70
Stemplots and Boxplots
70
Name:

1. For the following set of data: 2. For the following sets of data construct a
(a) construct a non-ordered stemplot boxplot clearly identifying any outliers.
(b) construct an ordered stemplot
(c) find the median (a) 23, 35, 16, 21, 31, 25, 13, 27, 18, 29, 33

37, 12, 51, 45, 13, 32, 14, 18, 34, 20,
23, 30, 24, 35, 28, 30, 19, 31, 50, 26,
33, 43, 23, 34, 16, 38, 40, 42, 27, 51,
44, 19, 46, 22, 47, 25, 48, 34, 49, 52
(a)
non-ordered stemplot

Stem Leaf

10 20 30 40

(b) 24, 4, 36, 12, 35, 17, 20, 38, 2, 26, 32, 8

(b)
ordered stemplot

Stem Leaf

0 10 20 30 40

(c) 28, 7, 45, 27, 44, 30, 2, 38, 41, 29

(c)

median
0 10 20 30 40 50

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 71
Probability 1
71
Name:

1. Choose which of the following decimal 5. Tayla propagates seeds from native plants.
probabilities best describes the outcome She obtained 80 seeds of a new variety and
descriptions below. found that 65 germinated.
(a) Based on these results, what is the
0 0.2 0.7 1
probability that a seed will germinate?
(a) Event A will most likely occur Give answer as:
(b) Event B will not occur (i) a fraction in its simplest form
(c) Event C will occur
(d) Event D will most likely not occur
(ii) a decimal
2. One number is chosen from the following.
4 16 36 9 39 21 (b) If Tayla collected 560 of these seeds,
how many could she expect to germinate?
24 11 23 28 15 42
Find the following probabilities. Give answers
as fractions in their simplest form.
(a) Pr(the number is even) 6. A footballer had 50 kicks at goal. 14 of the
kicks missed to the left of the goal, 8 missed
to the right and the other kicks were goals.
(b) Pr(the number is greater than 30) (a) Based on these figures find the following
probabilities as percentages.
(c) Pr(the number is a multiple of 3) (i) Pr(he kicks a goal)

(ii) Pr(he misses to the left)

3. The probability of winning a prize in a raffle
was 0.072. What is the probability of not (iii) Pr(he misses to the right)
winning a prize?
Give answer as a decimal. (b) If he has an average of 12 kicks at goal
each game and plays 24 games, how
4. There are 120 boxes in a lucky dip. One box many goals will he be expected to kick?
has an electronic game, five boxes have movie Give answer to the nearest goal.
tickets, 14 boxes have chocolates and the
other boxes are empty.
Write the following probabilities as fractions
in their simplest form. 7. The population of Coff Bay is 14 000. In one
(a) What is the probability of the first pick year 450 of the population caught influenza.
being: The population of the neighbouring town
(i) the game? (ii) a chocolate? (iii) a prize? of Achey Heads is 7500. In Achey Heads
265 people caught the influenza.
Find the percentage of each town that caught
influenza (one decimal place) and state in
(b) The first 10 picks are the game, two tickets, which town you were more likely to catch it.
three chocolates and four empty boxes. Town more likely
What is the probability of the next Coff Bay
to catch influenza
pick being a prize?
Achey Heads

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 72
Probability 2
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1. Rosanne has two hats (red and green), three 2. There is a game at a sideshow where you place
scarves (red, blue and green) and three pairs two balls into the mouth of a clown.
of gloves (red, blue and green). One cold, dark The clown’s head turns from
morning she randomly chose a hat, scarf and side to side and the balls can
pair of gloves from her wardrobe. drop into any one of the four
(a) Construct a tree diagram showing all the numbered boxes underneath.
possible combinations. The boxes are numbered
1, 3, 5 and 10.
The two numbers are
multiplied to determine if
a prize is won. 1 3 5 10
(a) Complete the two-way table below
showing all possible outcomes.

The prizes and the scores needed are:

A soft toy with a score of 1 or 100.
A chocolate with a score that is an odd number.
A puzzle with a score that is a multiple of 5.
A poster with a score that is a multiple of 3.

(b) Find the following probabilities and write

them as fractions in their simplest form.

(i) Pr(winning a soft toy)

(b) Find the following probabilities and write (ii) Pr(winning a chocolate)
them as fractions in their simplest form.

(i) Pr(all items are the same colour) (iii) Pr(winning a puzzle)

(ii) Pr(all items are different colours) (iv) Pr(winning a poster)

(iii) Pr(she chose at least one blue (v) Pr(winning three prizes)
item)

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 73
Venn Diagrams and Karnaugh Maps
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1. (a) Complete the Venn diagram below by 3. A shop owner noted that of 100 people who
stating the number of elements in each came into her shop, 58 bought milk, 36
region. bought bread and 22 customers did not buy
n(e) = 50 milk or bread.
(a) Complete the Venn diagram below to
n(A) = 22 n(B) = 34 display this information.

(b) Find the following probabilities if an

element is randomly chosen.
Write as fractions in their simplest form.
(i) Pr(A Ç B) (ii) Pr(A È B) (iii) Pr(B ') (b) Complete the Karnaugh map below to
display the information.

(iv) Pr(A' È B ') (v) Pr(A' Ç B) (vi) Pr(A)

2. 60 travellers in Europe were asked if they

could speak French and/or German. 30 of
them could speak French, 24 could speak
German and 6 of these could speak both (c) For a customer entering the shop find
languages. the following probabilities.
(a) Complete the Venn diagram below to Give answers as fractions in their
display this information. simplest form.
(i) Pr(they will buy milk but not bread)

(ii) Pr(they will buy bread but not milk)

(b) Based on this information what is the

probability of randomly choosing someone (iii) Pr(they will buy milk and bread)
who could speak neither French nor
German?
Give answer as a fraction
in its simplest form.

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 74
Probability 4 - Pr(A or B)
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1. A number from 1 to 30 (inclusive) is picked 4. Jim and Mark play cricket in the same team.
at random. Find the following probabilities Over a period of time it was calculated that
as fractions in their simplest form. the probability of Jim scoring more than 50
(a) Pr(the number is a multiple of 3) runs in a game was 0.45 and the probability
of Mark scoring more than 50 runs in a game
was 0.32. The probability of them both
scoring more than 50 runs in a game was 0.24.
What is the probability that Jim or Mark will
(b) Pr(the number is a multiple of 5) score more than 50 runs in a game?

(c) Pr(the number is a multiple of 3 and 5)

5. A lawn mower repairer found that an average
of six out of ten mowers brought in to be
repaired needed work on the engine and eight
out of ten needed work on the blades. One in
(d) Pr(the number is a multiple of 3 or 5) two needed work on the engine and blades.
Based on these figures, what is the probability
that a mower being repaired needed work on
the engine or blades?
Give answer as a fraction in its simplest form.
2. 60 people were asked if they had been to Asia
and/or Europe. 22 had been to Asia, 14 had
been to Europe and 6 of these had been to
both Asia and Europe.
Based on these figures, if a person is chosen
at random, what is the probability that they
have been to Asia or Europe?
6. Josephine had three pairs of black socks,
four pairs of white socks, two pairs of green
socks and one pair of purple socks.
If she randomly chose a pair of socks from
her sock draw, what is the probability it was
white or green?
Give answer as a fraction in
its simplest form.

3. Pr(X) = 0.64, Pr(Y) = 0.38, Pr(X Ç Y) = 0.24

Use this information to find Pr(X È Y). 7. In the town of Greendale, 85% of the houses
Write answer as a decimal. are brick and 74% of the houses are insulated.
68% of the houses are both brick and
insulated. If a house is chosen at random,
what is the probability (as a percentage) that
it is brick or insulated?

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 75
Probability 5 - Pr(A and B)
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1. A bag contains twenty balls numbered 1-20. 4. A round of football had eight games. Chrissie
A ball is chosen, replaced and another chosen. is in a tipping competition and for one round
Find the following probabilities and write as asks her dog, Bob, to pick the winners.
fractions in their simplest form. What is the probability that Bob picks all
(a) Pr(both balls are even numbers) eight winners?
Give answer as a fraction.

(b) Pr(both balls are less than 5)

5. Hervey's guinea-pig had six babies - four of
them males. He picks two at random to give
to a friend. Find the following probabilities
2. In the Slammers basketball team there are and write as fractions in their simplest form.
eight players - three of them left-handed. (a) Pr(both are males)
In the Jumpers basketball team there are
nine players - four of them left-handed.
A player is randomly chosen from each team.
Find the following probabilities and write as (b) Pr(both are females)
fractions in their simplest form.
(a) Pr(both chosen players are
left-handed)
6. In a year 10 class there are 12 boys and
12 girls. Three are chosen at random to help
(b) Pr(both chosen players are the teacher. Find the probability that all
right-handed) three are girls and write as a fraction
in its simplest form.

3. On any school day the probability of Kylie

getting Mathematics homework is 0.8,
English homework is 0.7 and homework in 7. In another year 10 class there are 16 boys
another subject is 0.9. and 10 girls. Three are chosen at random from
Find the following probabilities giving this class. Find the following probabilities
answers as decimals. writing answers as fractions in their simplest
(a) Pr(homework in only Mathematics form.
on Monday) (a) Pr(all three are boys)

(b) Pr(homework in Mathematics, English

and another subject (b) Pr(all three are girls)
on Tuesday)

(c) Pr(no homework on

Wednesday)
(c) Pr(the first chosen is a boy and the next
(d) Pr(getting homework in only Mathematics two are girls)
and English on Thursday and Friday)

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 Master Maths 10 Worksheet 76
Probability 6 - Multiple Events
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Name:

1. A farmer had three water bores drilled on his 2. A music festival was organised to be held
farm. He was told the probability of water on a long weekend (three days) in April at
being found in any of the bores was 0.6. Rock Bay. On average it rains six days in
(a) Draw a tree diagram to show all possible April in Rock Bay.
outcomes and the probabilities of the water (a) What is the probability that it rains on a
bores having water (W) or being dry (D). particular day in Rock Bay in April?
Give answer as a fraction
in its simplest form.

(b) Draw a tree diagram to show all possible

outcomes and the probabilities of rain
occurring on any of the three days of the
music festival.

(b) Find the following probabilities giving (b) Find the following probabilities. Give
answers as decimals. answers as fractions in their simplest form.
(i) Pr(water is found in all three bores) (i) Pr(it rains on all three days)

(ii) Pr(water is found in at least one bore) (ii) Pr(it rains on more than
one day)

(iii) Pr(none of the bores have water) (iii) Pr(there is no rain for the
three days)

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