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PreIGCSE(P) November Third Exam Time allowed: 2 hours

( Year 8 ) ( Answer All questions. )
1. Work out the first three terms and the 10th term of a sequence with the given nth term.
(a) 8n – 6 (b) 15 – 4n (4 marks)

2. Write the multiple for

(a) an increase of 40% (b) an increase of 250% (c) a decrease of 35% (d) a decrease of 7% (4 marks)

3. (a) Find 70% of 4400.

(b) Increase 4400 by 70%, what is new value?
(c) Decrease 4400 by 70%, what is new value?
(d) What percentage of 4400 is 220?
(e) What percentage of 220 is 4400? (5 marks)

4. Work out an expression for the nth term for each sequence.
(a) 5, 8, 11, 14, … (b) 4, 9, 14, 19, … (c) 8, 6, 4, 2, … (d) −2, −7, −12, −17, …. (e) −3, 6, 15, 24, … (5 marks)

5. A city-wide gardening club is made up of men, women and children in the ratio 5: 4: 11.
All together these are 2240 members of the gardening club.
(a) How many members of the gardening club are
(i) men (ii) women (iii) children?
(b) How many more men than women are there in the gardening club?
(c) How many more children than men are there in the gardening club? (5 marks)

6. A bamboo plant is 1.2m tall. It grows 0.3 m every week.

(a) Work out the height of after
(i) 2 weeks (ii) 4 weeks
(b) How long will it take until the bamboo is 3m tall?
(c) Write a functon to show the height in meters (h) after (t) weeks? (5 marks)

7. A shop is selling a phone for $90. The shop increases the price by 10%.
(a) Find the new price?
After two weeks, the shop decreases the new price by 10%.
(b) Find the price of phone after decrease?
After next one week, the shop decreases the price by a further 5%.
(c) Find the price of the phone after 2nd time decrease. (6 marks)

8. Here are some multipliers. Write the percentage change in each case.
(a) × 0.82 (b) × 1.35 (c) × 0.25 (d) × 2.27 (e) × 0.05 (f) × 1.07 (6 marks)

9. Arun and Marcus are walking along the same path but in different
directions. The graph shows how far they are from home.
(a) How far from home is each person when they start
walking?
(b) How far does Arun walk in 5 hours?
(c) Arun is y km from home after x hours.
Write the equation for the line that shows Arun’s
journey.
(d) For how long did Marcus stop at 32 km from home?
(e) The lines cross. What does the point where they cross
indicate? (10 marks)
10. Elise, Raine and Avery buy a boat for $33,000. Elise pays $12,000, Raine pays $6,000 and Avery pays the rest. Six
years later, they sell the boat for 25,300. They share the money in the same ratio that they bought the boat. How
much money does Avery lose on the sale of the boat? (10 marks)

11. Simplify these ratios.

(a) 2 : 10 : 12 (b) 8 : 12 : 16 (c) 8 : 4 : 10 (d) 0.4 : 2 : 2.4 (e) 3.6:1.8:3 (f) 0.05 : 0.3 : 1
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(g) hour : 20minutes : 1400seconds (h) 4m : 0.008km : 600cm (15 marks)
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12. (a) Copy and complete this table of values for the function y = 3 – x.
x −2 −1 0 1 2 3 4 5
y 5 −2
(b) Use the table to plot the graph y = 3 – x.
(c) Where does the graph cross the x – axis?
(d) Where does the graph cross the y – axis?
(e) Is ( 10, −6 ) on your line?
(f) Write the gradient of this line?
(g) Write the y-intercept of this line?
(h) Write the equation of a parallel line that passes through the origin. (15 marks)