SECTION 1: Non-Calculator

Student's Name: ………………………………… Marks

1. Simplify fully:
Teacher's Initials:………………………………...
(a) 2 x - x 2 + 3x + 9 x 2 1

Monday 16th May 2016

GPF*
YEAR 9 Period 3 (b) 14m ÷ -7m3 2
LMD Period 4 or 6

GDH
5.3 MATHEMATICS Time: 55 minutes

TE Major Assessment Task

VAB
Algebra & Indices
(c) 102 - 82 1
170 copies
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ASSESSMENT
Trigonometry 1
Products and factors
Time Allowed: 55 minutes
INSTRUCTIONS TO STUDENTS:

* Answer ALL questions in the spaces provided.

2. Expand and fully simplify where necessary:
* Show ALL necessary working.

* Marks may not be awarded for careless or badly arranged work. (a) -4( p 2 + 2 p - 5) 2

* Diagrams are NOT drawn to scale.

This examination consists of TWO sections.

SECTION 1 : NON-CALCULATOR (30 minutes)

SECTION 2 : CALCULATOR (25 minutes)

(b) (a + 3) (2a - 5) 2
SECTION 1 46 marks

SECTION 2 28 marks

TOTAL : 74 marks
3. Simplify fully: x2 + 4 x x -3
(f) - 3
0 8 5
(a) 3a 1

e4
(b) 18e3 ´ 2
2

( -2m )
3
2
(c) 2
4. Write down an example of an irrational number. 1

5. What two numbers multiplied together give 48, added together give -19 ? 1
d2 9cd c2
(d) ÷ ÷ - 3
12 4 3d

•
6. Express 0.4 2 as a fully simplified fraction. 2

5 x
(e) + 2
x 10
7. Fully factorise:

(a) -5m2 n + 15mn3 2 10. The angle a is drawn in the right-angled triangle below.

Label the opposite, adjacent and hypotenuse sides to angle a . 2

(b) 2 x + 10 - xy - 5 y 2

11. Fill in the blanks:

(a) 1

(c) x3 - 20 x 2 - 21x 2
7 3

40°

3
____ 40° =
7

(b) 1

3 4
8. Write the number four hundred and two thousand nine hundred and thirty seven
q
in scientific notation, correct to 3 significant figures. 2
5

cos(90° - q ) = ____

1
92
12. Evaluate 2
2-4
9. Round the angle 47°34 '08'' off to the nearest degree. 1
13. In each of the following diagrams, find the bearing of A from B:

(a) N (b) N 2

70°
A
B 15°

14. Which of the following numbers in the largest?

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( ) 1
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(a) (0.9)5 , the reciprocal of 0.4 2, 7 - 11 , or 1
p

(b) sin 45°, cos 45° or tan 45° 1

15. Evaluate 1792 - 212 : 2

END OF SECTION 1
SECTION 2 (25 minutes): Calculator (28 Marks) Student's Name: ……………………………….…… 18. Simplify fully:

Teacher's Initials:………………………………... -15 p -3q 4

(a) 2
3 p2q
Marks

16. Evaluate the following, correct to 3 significant figures:

(a) (4.51´10-7 ) ´ (2.07 ´105 ) 2

(b) 15cos 60°53' 2

-2
æ m4 ö
(b) ç ÷ 2
è 3n ø

17. Fully factorise:

(a) x 2 - 10 x - 56 2

5
(c) 32a10 2

(b) x(a 2 - 49) - y(a 2 - 49) 2

19. Find the value of the unknown, correct to 1 decimal place.

(a) 2

9 35°
(c) 1 - m2 2
16 14

(b) 2
30
q
50
20. How far up a wall can a 2.4m ladder reach if it makes an angle of elevation to the ground of 60° ? 22. Two identical circles fit perfectly inside a square box such that they are in contact with each other

(correct to 1 decimal place) 2 as well as the sides of the square, as shown in the diagram below.

Given the radii of the two circles is 1cm,

find the area of the square box (correct to 1 decimal place). 2

21. A fishing trawler leaves the docks (D) on a bearing of 073° and travels 20km out to fishing spot (A).

Not having much success at its first location, it travels 11km on a bearing of 163°

to a different fishing spot (B), before eventually returning home to the docks.

(i) Complete the sketch below, illustrating the measurements involved in the trawlers’ journey. 1

N
A

D (Docks)

(ii) Find the size of ÐDAB . 1

(iii) What bearing would the trawler need to take from fishing spot B to return home?

(correct to the nearest degree) 2

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