GCSE Higher Revision Mat (1)
1) A hockey team manager wishes to
choose a captain and vice-captain for
her team.
She has 18 players to choose from.
How many different combinations are
possible?
5) a) Find the values of a and b when
x² + 12x + 39 ≡ (x + a)² + b
b) Write down the coordinate of the Calculate the probability that exactly one
turning point of y = x² + 12x + 3
9) A cylinder has height 4.3 cm and radius
3.7 cm. Both measurements are correct
to 2 significant figures. Find the maximum
possible volume of the cylinder.
13) The functions f(x) and g(x) are given as:
f(x) = 3x + 2
g(x) = x² – 8
a) Find f -1(x)
b) Write an expression for gf (x)
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2) The diagram shows a shot put arena 3) Simplify: x² + 5x + 6 4) Freddie wants to estimate the total number of
which is in the shape of a sector of a circle. ants in his ant farm. On Monday, he traps 30 ants and
x² – 3x + 2 marks each one with a yellow dot, before releasing
Calculate the perimeter of the arena. them back into his ant farm. On Tuesday, Freddie
catches 42 ants and 5 of them are marked with a
yellow dot.
a) Use the information to estimate the number of
ants in Freddie’s ant farm.
28 m 28 m
b) What assumptions have been made?
47º
6) Reuben has 10 bars of chocolate in a tin. 7) Express 0.27 as a fraction. 8) Factorise 6x² – 32x + 10
They are identical in size and shape. Three
of the bars are coffee flavoured; the others
are orange flavoured. Reuben chooses one
bar at random and eats it. He then chooses a
second bar at random.
of the bars that Reuben chooses is coffee
flavoured.
10) Simplify the following: 50 11) Complete the table of values for the 12) XZ and YZ are tangents to the circle, centre O.
equation y = x³ + 5. Angle XZO = 27º. Calculate angle XOY. Give a reason
Write your answers in the form a b . for each step of your calculation.
X
27º
x -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 Z O
y Y
14) Expand and simplify: 15) Calculate AC. B 16) Prove that the sum of the squares of
(x + 7)(x – 2)(x + 6) 11 cm 70º three consecutive integers will be one
13 cm less than a multiple of 3.
A
GCSE Tier: Higher