Term-1 Summative Assessment - October 2020
Term-1 Summative Assessment - October 2020
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Formula List
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Q.1. Katharine and Lucas share a gift of $200 in the ratio
Katharine : Lucas = 11 : 9
Q.2. (a) A car uses fuel at a rate of 5.6 litres per 100 km.
Calculate the distance travelled when the car has used 14 litres of fuel.
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(b) The car passes a post at a speed of 72 km/h.
Calculate, in seconds, the time the car takes to pass the post completely.
Q.3. (a) One day Zak sold some books at $5 each. He received a total of $𝑥.
(b) The next day Zak reduced the price of each book to $4.
He received $13 more than on the first day.
(i) Write down, in terms of 𝑥, the number of books he sold on this day.
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Q.4. (a) (i) Red pencils cost 12 cents each.
What is the greatest number of red pencils you can buy for 360 cents?
(b) The number of blue pencils in part (a)(ii) is 16 more than the number of yellow pencils in
part (a)(iii).
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(ii) Factorise:
𝑥 2 + 8𝑥 − 180
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(iv) Write down the cost of a blue pencil.
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(b) Find the value of 3 giving your answer in standard form.
(√22)
(c) 𝑚5 = 2000
Find the value of 𝑚.
(d) 5𝑛 = 2000
Find the value of 𝑛.
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Q.7. Here is a sequence:
2 2√7 14 14√7
(c) Find the value of the 21st term divided by the 17th term.
Liz buys equal numbers of red buttons, silver buttons and gold buttons.
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Q.9. A rectangular pond which measures 12𝑚 by 3𝑚 is surrounded by a path with
constant width of 𝑥.
𝒙
The area of the path is 34𝑚2.
𝟑𝒎 𝟏𝟐𝒎
Find the value of 𝑥.
NOT TO SCALE
(b) When 𝑛 is a positive integer, the value of 2𝑛 is always a factor of the value of 20𝑛.
(c) When 𝑦 is positive, the value of 𝑦 2 is always greater than the value of 𝑦.
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Q.11. Here is the graph of 4𝑥 – 3𝑦 = 12 for values of 𝑥 from 0 to 4
Plot the graph on your Graphical Display Calculator and work out solution to the
simultaneous equations
4𝑥 – 3𝑦 = 12 and 3𝑥 + 2𝑦 = 6
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Q.12. Rationalise the denominator and Simplify: 1
1+
√2
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(b) Another function machine is shown below:
1 1 𝑎𝑥+𝑏
Q.14. Show that ÷ simplifies to where a, b, c and d are integers.
6𝑥 2 +7𝑥−5 4𝑥 2 −1 𝑐𝑥+𝑑
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