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Y10 Mathematics
Assessment 1: Higher Tier
Saturday 26 November 2021
Time: 1 hour and 30 minutes

You must have: Ruler graduated in centimetres and Total Marks

millimetres, protractor, pair of compasses, pen, HB
pencil, eraser. Tracing paper may be used.

Instructions
• Use black ink or ball-point pen.
• Fill in the boxes at the top of this page with your name, centre number and candidate
number.
• Answer all questions and ensure that your answers to parts of questions are clearly
labelled.
• You may do questions in any order.
• Answer the questions on separate sheets.
• You must show all your working.
• Diagrams are NOT accurately drawn, unless otherwise indicated.
• Calculators may not be used.

Information
• The total mark for this paper is 80.
• The marks for each question are shown in brackets – use this as a guide as to how much
time to spend on each question.

Advice
• Read each question carefully before you start to answer it.
• Keep an eye on the time.
• Try to answer every question.
• Check your answers if you have time at the end

1 Date:
You need to show your working for all the questions. You may use calculator
for all questions highlighted Green .
1. The value of a house worth £350 000 is appreciating at the rate of 10% per
annum.
In how many minimum years will its value be increased over £620 000. (3)

2. Martin truncates the Number N to 1 digit. The result is 7.

Write down the error interval for N. (2)

3. 𝜖 = {𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 1 𝑎𝑛𝑑 25}

𝐴 = {2,8,10,24}

𝐵 = {6,8,20}

𝐶 = {8,18,20,22}

a) Create a Venn diagram for this information.

A number is chosen at random from 𝜖.

b) Find the probability that the number is a member of 𝐴 ∩ 𝐵 (5)

4. A rope is 8m long but it shrinks after each wash. It shrinks after first wash by
2%, second wash by 5% and third wash by 3%.

a. What will be rope’s length after each wash? (3)

b. What is the effective percent shrinkage after second? (2)

5.

(3)

6. The house prices of houses in increased by 8.75% in 2020. If Yohan bought

his house for £256000 last year. What is its value now? (3)

7. The floor area of a room is 16 m2. Huma buys a rug that is 120 cm wide and
160 cm long.

What fraction of area will be covered by this rug? (3)

2 Date:
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(4)
9.

(3)

3 Date:
10.
Katy invests £2000 in a savings account for 3 years. The account pays
compound interest at an annual rate of
2.5% for the first year
x% for the second year
x% for the third year

There is a total amount of £2124.46 in the savings account at the end of 3

years.

a. Work out the rate of interest in the second year

Katy goes to work by train. The cost of her weekly train ticket increases by
12.5% to £225

b. Work out the cost of her weekly train ticket before this increase.
(5)
11. A printing machine was purchased 2 years ago. Its value decreases by 8%
every year. Its present value is £49514.4. What was the purchased price of
the machine? (4)

12. Jun has two rolls of cotton fabric. One roll has 72 meters on it; the other has 90
metres on it. He wants to cut the rolls to make pieces of equal length without
wasting any of it. What is the longest possible length the pieces can be? (3)
13. A box measures 24 cm by 18 cm by 15 cm. The box is to be filled with cubes
of equal size. What is the length of the side of the largest cube that could be
used to fill the box? (3)
14.

(2+2)
15. Use factorisation to identify the square numbers from the following. Give
reason for your answer.

4 Date:
 a. 7056
b. 9072 (4)

16. What is the largest number which divides 116 and 238 leaving remainder 6
and 7 respectively? (3)

17. There are only red counters and blue counters in a bag.

Joe takes at random a counter from the bag.

The probability that the counter is red is 0.65
Joe puts the counter back into the bag.

Mary takes at random a counter from the bag.

She puts a counter back into the bag.

a) What is the probability that Joe and Mary take counters of different
colours?
There are 78 red counters in the bag.
b) How many blue counters are in the bag. (4)

18. Last year Jo aid £245 for her car insurance.

This year she has to pay £883 for her car insurance.
Work out the percentage increase in the cost of the her car insurance. (3)

19.

(5)

20.

(6)

5 Date:
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(4)

6 Date: