BADMINTON SCHOOL

MATHS ENTRANCE EXAMINATION

YEAR 10 (14+) 2015 ENTRY

TIME ALLOWED: 1 HOUR

CANDIDATE NUMBER: ………………………………………………………………………………………….

DATE OF BIRTH: ……………………………………………………………………………………………………

TODAY’S DATE: ……………………………………………………………………………………………………

Instructions:

1. Answer as many questions as possible.

2. Write your answers in the spaces provided.
3. Please show all your workings as marks may be awarded for partly correct solutions.
4. You will need a calculator.

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1. Nicole, Barry and David have a stall in the market selling clothes. They share the profit according
to the number of days each of them work.
Nicole works 5 days a week, David 3 and Barry only 1.
a) What is the ratio of the amount Nicole gets to the amount David gets?

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b) If the total profit for one week is £423 how much will they each receive?

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c) If in another week David gets £111 what is the total profit for that week and what do the others receive.

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2. Work out the following, giving your answer in standard form.

a) (4.75  103) + (2.8  10–2) + 0.4

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b) The number of seconds in a week?

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3. A circle is drawn inside a square as shown.
The square has sides of length 15 cm.
Calculate the area of the shaded region.
Give your answer to 3 significant figures.

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4. There’s a sale on in a music shop.

i) A violin has been reduced in price from £450 to £315. What percentage decrease is this?

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ii) A guitar is reduced by 18% to £213.20
How much did it cost before the sale started?

iii) A trumpet that was bought for £180 is being sold for £228.60
What is the percentage profit?

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iv) Heidi buys a piano, priced at £1400. She decides to buy on credit.
She pays a 30% deposit and then 9 monthly instalments of £125
How much more than the original price does she pay?

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5. Ian has a bag of 10 marbles. He weighs them individually and records the weight of each one in a list.

47g 53g 30g 190g 30g 50g 60g 45g 250g 55g

i) Arrange the list in order of size, smallest first.

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ii) Calculate the range of values.

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iii) Find
a) The mean

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b) The mode

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c) The median

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iv) Which of these gives the worst idea of the average weight of a marble? Give
a reason for your answer

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6. a) Solve this inequality: 5 > 3n + 2 > 1

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b) List the possible integer values of n where
–2.7 < n  3

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c) Find the greatest integer value of n where7 – 4n > 1

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7. James drives from Bristol to Devon in 1hour and 45 minutes.
The distance he covers is 112 miles.
a) What is his average speed in miles per hour?

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b) Given that 1 km = 8 mile what is his average speed in km per hour.

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c) Given that the journey required 11.5 litres of petrol what is the average fuel consumption of
James’s car in km/l.

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8. a) Calculate the interior angle of a regular 12 sided polygon.

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b) A regular polygon has an exterior angle of 12°. How many sides does the shape have?

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9. Which line has a gradient of 1 and passes through the point (5, 5)?

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10. A line passes through the point with coordinates (4, 2) and is perpendicular to the line with equation
Y = 2x + 5. Find the equation of the line.

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11. Calculate the value of y.
y
17 m
Give your answer to 2 decimal places.
15 m

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12. Factorize these expressions completely:
a) x2 + 3x – 24

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b) 2x – 50

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13. Expand and simplify this expression:
a) 7(x + 5) – x( x – 4)

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14. Solve this equation:
a) 2(x – 4) + 2x = 3(2x – 4)

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15. Calculate the size of the angle marked with the letter in this right angled triangle:
Give your answer to 2 decimal places.

a)
11
8

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16. Write 645 as a product of prime numbers.

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17. Multiply out the brackets and simplify your answers

a) (3x –2)(5x + 1)

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b) (3b – 4)²
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18. There are 2 spinners. The first spinner is red and blue and the second spinner can
land on a 1, 2 or a 3.
The first spinner has an equal chance of landing on red or blue.
The second spinner has an equal chance of landing on a 1, 2 or 3.
The 2 spinners are spun together.
i) How many different possible outcomes are there?

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What is the probability:

ii) That the first spinner lands on red?

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iii) That the second spinner lands on a 1?

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iv) That the result is a red and a 1?

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19. Draw co-ordinate axes with x and y going from –8 to +8
Plot the points (3 , 2), (3, 4), (7 ,2) and (6 ,4) and join them up to make a quadrilateral.
Label this shape A.
Draw the image of A after:
i) A reflection in the line x = 1 (Label this shape B).
ii) A rotation of 90 anticlockwise about (0, 0). (Label this shape C).
Note: for both parts rotate the original object A.

TOTAL MARKS 100

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