Final Examination / 1st Term Cambridge Lower Secondary Stage 9

Student Section Section

Name

CAMBRIDGE LOWER SECONDARY MATHEMATICS

Date ____ /___/ 2023/24

Time allowed: 90 minutes

Give your answers on the question paper.

INSTRUCTIONS
 Answer all questions.

 Write your answer to each question in the space provided.

 You should show all your working on the question paper.

INFORMATION
 The total mark for this paper is 50.

 The number of marks for each question or part question is shown in brackets [ ].

 Give non-exact numerical answers correct to 2 significant figures, or 1 decimal place.

1. A prism is made from four identical cubes.

Tick () to show the number of planes of symmetry the prism has.

[1]

2. The diagram shows triangle ABC drawn on a grid.

The triangle ABC is enlarged by a scale factor of 2 from centre of enlargement (0,0). Find the
coordinates of the new position of vertex C.

( …….., ………. ) [1]

3. A circle has a radius of 3 cm.
Tick () to show the area of the circle correct to the nearest cm2 .

[1]

4. Shape A and shape B are drawn on the grid.

Shape A is mapped onto shape B by a combination of two transformations.

The first transformation is a reflection in the line y = x

Describe fully the second transformation.

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. [1]
5. Here are some ratios.

Write each ratio in the correct position in the table.

One has been done for you.

[1]

6. Look at this sequence of calculations.

1 × 5 – 2 × 3 = ‒1
2×6–3×4=0
3×7–4×5=1
4×8–5×6=2
(a) Write down the next calculation in this sequence.

………. × ………. −¿ ………. × ………. ¿ ……….

[1]

(b) Use the sequence to work out.

37 × 41 – 38 × 39
[1]
7. The point P has coordinates (1, 2).

The point P is translated by the vector (−51)to give the point Q.

The point Q is then reflected in the line y = –1 to give the point R.
Find the coordinates of the point R.
(………… ,……….. ) [2]

8. (a) The population of Italy is about 60000000

Write this population in standard form.

……………………………. [1]
(b) The mass of a beetle is 0.0032kg.

Write this mass in standard form.

………………………………..[1]
9. Here are the nth term rules of three sequences.

Sequence A 7n
Sequence B 5n – 1
Sequence C 20 – 3n

Match each of these numbers to the sequence it is a term in.

[1]

10. A rectangle has an area of 8 cm 2 .

The sides of the rectangle are enlarged by a scale factor of 3
Find the area of the enlarged rectangle.

………………………cm 2 [1]
11. The nth term of sequence S is 2n + 5
The nth term of sequence T is 3n – 6

(a) Show that 91 is a term in sequence S.

……………………………….. [1]

(b) Show that 91 is not a term in sequence T.

…………………………….. [1]

(c) Find the value of the term that is in both sequences and is in the same position in each
sequence.

………………………………. [1]
12. Here is an algebraic fraction.
12 x +4
4

Tick ( L) to show which expression is equivalent to this fraction.

………………………………. [1]
13. Here are the first four terms in a sequence.

1, 8, 27, 64
(a) Find the next term in this sequence.

………………………………. [1]

(b) Find the nth term of this sequence.

………………………………. [1]
14. Simplify
4 5
x ×x

………………………………. [1]
15.
(a) Find the exterior angle of a regular pentagon.

………………………………. [1]
(b) Find the interior angle of a regular pentagon

………………………………. [1]

(c) Tick () to show which of these regular polygons will tessellate and which will not tessellate.
One has been done for you.

………………………………. [1]
16.
(a) Naomi thinks of a number n.

She changes her number using this rule

 multiply by 3
 then square
 then add 4

Tick () to show the expression for her number after using this rule.

………………………………. [1]
(b) Mia thinks of a number m.
2
She changes her number using the rule 4(m – 5)
 Complete the rule for Mia’s number.

Her rule is

 ……………………………………………

 then ……………………………………………

 then ……………………………………………
………………………………. [3]

17. Here is a rectangle.

2
The area of the rectangle is 119 cm
The length of the shorter side of the rectangle is (5x + 2) cm.

(a) Write down an expression in terms of x for the length of the longer side of the rectangle.

………………………………. [1]
(b) The longer side of the rectangle is 7 cm.
Find the value of x.

X=………………………………. [2]
18. Here is an expression
2
3 ( x −2 )
5

A value of x is substituted into the expression.

Tick () the operation that is performed first when the value of this expression is calculated.

………………………………. [1]
19. The cross-section of a prism is a regular pentagon.
Draw a ring around the number of planes of symmetry of the prism.

1 2 5 6

………………………………. [1]
20. Find the missing expressions:

3 7 11
(a) U ×………× u =u

………………………………. [1]

5
… … … ×m
(b) 3 = m6
m

………………………………. [1]
21. Pierre says,

Write down an algebraic expression for Pierre’s rule.

………………………………. [2]

22. The diagram shows two shapes on a grid.

Shape Q is an enlargement of shape P.

(a) Write down the scale factor of this enlargement.

 ………………………………. [1]

(b) Find the centre of the enlargement.

(……………… , …………… ) [2]

23. It takes 5 workers 300 minutes to decorate some cakes.

Find how many minutes it would take 12 workers to decorate the same number of cakes.

………………………………. [1]

24. Safia drives for 4 hours from A to B.

Angelique drives at half the speed of Safia.

Find how many hours Angelique takes to drive from A to B.

………………………………. [1]

25. Here are the times ( in minutes ) that 24 tennis games lasted.

102 126 216 104 66 93 129 186 54 73 194 138

98 77 145 90 238 55 87 165 181 94 110 176

(a) Complete the frequency table.

Time t (mins) Tally Frequency

40 ≤ t ¿ 80
80 ≤ t ¿ 120
120 ≤ t ¿ 160
160 ≤ t ¿ 200
200 ≤ t ¿ 240

………………………………. [1]
 (b) Write down the modal class.

………………………………. [1]

(c) Write down the class interval that contain the median value.

………………………………. [1]

(d) Write down an estimate of the range.

………………………………. [1]

26. Write down whether each person is using a primary or secondary data sources.

(a) Lucy records the number of pages in books on her bookcase.

………………………………. [1]

(b) Max measures the length of bananas.

………………………………. [1]

(c) Natalia finds the mass of the planets orbiting the sun in a text book.

………………………………. [1]

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27. A filed of area 20 000 m consists of wheat except for a rectangular water reservoir of length
5000 cm and width 2500cm.

(a) What are the length and width of the reservoir in meters?

………………………………. [1]
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(b) What is the area of the reservoir in m ?

………………………………. [1]