2122 Math Set of Questions for the IGCSE

2x 1
1) Given: f : x  x2  5x  6 , g : x  2x 1 and k:x , x2
x2
a) Solve f  x   0 d) Find fg  x 

b) Find g 1  x  e) Find k 1  x 

c) Find gf  3 f) Find kg  x 

2) Given the three functions: f  x   3x  4 , g  x   1  x 2 and k  x   x x

i) Find the value of x such that f  x   6  2 x v) find k  2

ii) Find the inverse of f  x  vi) find the value of k  6.5 , giving your

iii) Find the value of gf  2   fg  2 answer to 6 significant figures

give a reason why k  0.25 is not a real
Find fg  x  , giving the answer in simplest
vii)
iv)
number
form.

3) a) The function f  x  is given by f  x   7 x  3 . Find in its simplest form,

i) f 1 f  x  ii) ff  x 

x7
b) If g  x   , x0
2x
1 1
i) Calculate g   ii) Solve g  x  
4 4
4)
x 4 3 2 1 0 1 2 3 4

f  x 15 9.75 16.5 11.25 0 11.25 16.5 9.75 15

a) Using a scale of 2 cm to represent 1 unit on the x-axis and 2 cm to represent 4 units on the y-axis, draw
axes for 4  x  4 and 17  y  17 . Draw the curve y  f  x 

b) Using your graph find the roots of f  x 

c) On the same grid, draw h  x   x  2 for 4  x  4

d) Write down the values of

i) h  2 iv) the positive solution of f  x   h  x 

ii) fh  2  v) By drawing a suitable tangent estimate the

gradient of the curve at x  3
iii) h 1  4 

4
5) A table of values for y  is given below. (The values for y are correct to 1 decimal place).
x2
x 4 3 2 1 0.8 0.8 1 2 3 4
y 0.3 0.4 1.0 4.0 6.3 6.3 4.0 1.0 0.4 0.3
a) Using a scale of 2 cm to represent 1 unit on the x-axis and 1 cm to represent 1 unit on the y-axis, draw
4
the graph of y 
x2
b) Draw the line y  1.25x  4.5 on your graph.
4
c) Using your graph solve for  1.25 x  4.5
x2
d) By drawing a suitable tangent to your curve, estimate the gradient of the curve at x  2 .

6) For the curve (C) with equation y  x4  8x2  3

a) Find the coordinates of each of the stationary points and determine their nature.
The point M, on the curve (C), has x-coordinate 1.
b) Find the equation of the tangent to C at M.
7) A rectangular sheet of metal measures 12 cm by 8 cm. squares of side x cm are cut from each corner of the
sheet and the remainder is folded to make an open tray.
a) State the range of possible values of x
b) Find the volume, V cm3, of the tray
c) Find the value of x for which V is maximum and find the maximum value of V.
8) A particle moves in a straight line so that its displacement, s meters, from the fixed point O after t seconds is

given by s  t  7t  24t  6 ,
3 2

a) Calculate the value of s when t  3

b) Find the distance traveled in the 3rd second
c) Calculate
i) the value of t when the acceleration is 10 m/s2
ii) Is there any time t when the particle is at rest? Justify.

9) The speed-time graph of a particle is given below.

a) Calculate the acceleration during the last 15
seconds.
b) Calculate the distance traveled in the first
30 seconds.
c) Calculate the average speed for the entire
45 seconds.
d) For how long the acceleration of the
particle was 0 m/s?

10) The two leg journey of a train A starts at 10:00 from Beirut. The first leg is covered in 40 minutes at a speed
1
of 45 km/hr and the remaining 60 km to Tripoli in a further 1 hours at a slower constant speed. Train B
2
left Tripoli at 10:25 at a constant speed and arrived at Beirut at the same time as Train A arrived at Tripoli.
a) Illustrate the above information on a distance-time graph using 1 cm for 10 minutes on the time axis and
1cm for 10 km on the distance axis.
b) Find the distance between Tripoli and Beirut.
c) Calculate the speed of train B.
d) Using your graph, find the time at which the two trains passed each other.
 5 cm R
11) a) Calculate the length of PX and the length of QX S
2 cm 4 cm
It is also given that the area of triangle RSX is 3.80 cm2. X
b) Calculate the area of triangle PQX to two significant
figures.
c) Find SRX to the nearest degree. Q
8 cm
P

12) Given ABC, AB  12 cm, BC  8 cm and ABC  92 .

Calculate , giving your answers to 2 significant figures,
a) the length of AC
b) the measure of A
c) the area of ABC

13) ABCDEFGH is a cuboid in which

AD = 2cm, AB = 3cm and BF = 4cm.
Calculate, giving your answers to 3 significant figures,
a) the length, in cm, of CF,
b) the size of CFB,
c) the size of FDA.

14) A cyclist goes from A to B on a bearing of 110 and then from B to C.

If BC  200 m, AC  220 m and angle ABC  68 .
A 110
a) Calculate the bearing of C from B.
b) Calculate the bearing of C from A, to the nearest degree
68 B

C
15) The diagram shows a circle ABC with diameter AC. AB and BC are
chords, AC=10cm and AB = 6 cm. Calculate, to one decimal place,
a) the area, in cm2, of the semi-circle ABC,
b) the size of ABC,
c) the length, in cm, of the chord BC,
d) the area, in cm2, of ABC,
e) the total area, in cm2, of the shaded region

A
16) Given that the radius of the outer circle is 10 cm
and the radius of the inner circle is 5 cm and
ABC is an equilateral triangle.
O
a) Calculate BM
B M C
b) Calculate the shaded region.

17) The adjacent figure where the points A, B , C and D are

A
points of a circle is not to scale. Answer the following:
i) Calculate the area of DXC to three significant
53.7B
34.2 cm
figures.
25.7 cm
89
ii) Find the measure of ACD . Justify your answer.
X
iii) Find the length of AB.
20.1cm

D C

M
18) MP is a diameter which intersects RN at S. line QN is a N
5 cm
secant such that SN=5cm, RQ=8cm, P=14cm
a) Calculate the length of S

i) RS R
ii) PS and MP to 3 significant figures 8 cm
b) Calculate the area, in cm2 of triangle QSP.
Q 14 cm P
19) Using the figure find the measure of:
i) angle CDE,
ii) angle CDB,
iii) angle BCE.

C
20) Using the given figure calculate the NOT TO SCALE
a) length of AC D
b) Measure angle ADC. Justify your answer. 12.6 cm
42
c) length of AD.
Point E belongs to the circle such that EA = EC E
A
d) Calculate the area of triangle ACE. 80
8.2 cm
B

21) AD is a diameter of the circle. Find the values of

A B
w, x, y and z and give a reason for each answer. 24
w
The figure is not to scale.

x 70
y z
E D
 F

22) AB and AE are tangent to circle O, mCOB  70
C B
a) Calculate the measures of angles
i) CBF,
ii) DCE, A
O
iii) BDE,
iv) DEC
c) If AB  10 cm, find the length of AE D E

23) Answer the whole of this question on a sheet of graph paper.

a) Using a scale of 1 cm to represent 1 unit on each axis, draw an x-axis for 7  x  9 and a y-axis for

0  y  13 . Mark the points A  6, 2 , B  3,12 , C  9,7  and D  4,1 . Draw quadrilateral ABCD.
b) Construct the locus of points: i) 7 cm from A and inside quadrilateral ABCD
ii) equidistant from B and from C
iii) equidistant from AB and from AD.
c) Shade the region inside quadrilateral ABCD which is less than 7 cm from A and nearer to AB than to AD.
Label this region R.
d) Shade the region inside quadrilateral ABCD which is nearer to B than to C and nearer to AD than to AB
and more than 7 cm from A. Label this region S.

24) a) Construct triangle ABC such that BC = 7.5 cm, AC = 5 cm, mACB  40
b) Construct the perpendicular bisector of AC
c) Construct the bisector of angle ACB
d) Shade the region inside the triangle nearer to C than to A and nearer to CA than to BC
e) Shade the region that is at a distance less than 3 cm from B and inside triangle ABC.
 25) For the given shape, write down
a) the number of lines of symmetry
b) the order of rotational symmetry.

26) find the number of lines of symmetry and the order of rotational symmetry of a
a) Rectangle c) Rhombus
b) Square d) Parallelogram

27) Which of the following has a exactly one line of symmetry: I, G, C, S, E

28) Which of the following has a exactly two order of rotational symmetry: S, A, B, I, S

29) ABCD is a parallelogram. AB  6 cm, BC  4 cm and A P B

h  3.5 cm. PQ is an arc of a circle centered at B and
radius 2 cm. h Q
a) If AC  5.2 cm, find the measure of angle ABC.
b) Calculate the area, in cm2, of the shaded region. C
D
c) Calculate the perimeter, in cm, of the shaded region.
30) The diagram shows a right circular cone. The height of this cone is 12
cm and the slant height is 13 cm. Calculate to the nearest whole number,
a) the volume, in cm3
b) the lateral area , in cm2,

c) the total surface area , in cm2.

31) a) What is the area of an equilateral triangle with side length 6 cm?
b) The circumference of a circle is 6 cm. Calculate the radius of this circle.
c) Find the surface area of a regular tetrahedron with side = 6 cm
d) The figures represent the nets of 2 solids. Each
straight line is 6 cm long. Each circle has a circumference
of 6 cm. the arc length in figure 2 is 6 cm.
i) Name the solid whose net is figure 1. Calculate the
volume of the solid.
ii) Name the solid whose net is figure 2. Calculate the
height of the solid.

32) The cross section of a swimming pool is a trapezoid ABCD with parallel sides 0.8 m and 1.1 m and vertical
height of 0.7 m. the swimming pool is 500 m long.
a) Calculate the volume of water in the swimming pool when it is full.
b) One cubic meter of water has a mass of 1.8 tonnes. Calculate the mass of water in the pool, giving your
answer in kg and in standard form.
c) When the pool is empty, a cylindrical pipe, radius 0.25 m and length 500 m is laid at the bottom of the
swimming pool. Calculate the volume of the pipe.
d) The pool is then refilled with water. Calculate the volume of water put back into the pool as a percentage
of the original amount of water removed.
e) If water flows through the pipe at 0.8 m/s, how many liters will flow through the pipe in 1 hour?
[1 m3 = 1000 l]
33) The figure above shows a rectangular prism. The
rectangular prism is such that the length of CE is
70 cm, the height HE is 49 cm and the area of the
face BCGF is 1,764 cm2. Calculate,
a) the length, in cm, of CG,
b) the length, in cm, of GH,
c) the volume, in cm3, of the rectangular prism,

d) the angle that CE makes with the face CDHG.

34) a) Find the volume of a cylindrical tank whose radius is 50 cm and the height is 120 cm.
b) If the water flows through a pipe of cross sectional area 1.2 cm2 at a rate of 12 cm/s, find the time
needed by the pipe to fill the tank giving your answer correct to the nearest minute.
c) If the water in the tank is put in another cylindrical tank of cross sectional area 70 m2, calculate the
depth of water in the new cylindrical tank.

35) The real area of the land occupied by a tower is 96,000 m2. However, the area on a scale model is
6,000 cm2. Given that the height of the tower is 30 m.
a) Find, in cm, the height of the model tower.
The volume of a room in the model is 36 cm3.
b) Calculate the volume in m3 of the real room.

36) The diameter of an open cylindrical container is 30 cm. water is poured into it until the depth of the water is
20 cm.
a) Find the volume of the water in the container to 3 significant figures.
200 metal spheres of radius x cm are now placed in the container and are all completely covered by the
water. No water overflows from the container.
c) Calculate the radius, in cm, to 2 significant figures of each sphere, if the new level of water is
21.8 cm.
37) a) Find the volume of water in a tank whose shape is a rectangular prism with dimensions 120 cm by 90 cm
by 70 cm, giving your answer in standard form.
The tank is initially empty and water flows into it from a circular pipe. The radius of the pipe is 0.8 cm.
and the water flows along the pipe at a rate of 25 cm/s.
b) Find the time taken to fill the tank. Give your answer in hours and minutes, correct to the nearest minute.

38) OBCA is a parallelogram and O is the origin. OB  b

The figure is not to scale
and OA  a . E is on AB so that BE : EA  2 :1
Express the following vectors in terms of a and b. A C

i) BA
a E
ii) BE

iii) CE
O b B
iv) the position vector of E

39) The points C and D have position vectors a and b respectively relative to
C
the point O as origin. The point T is the midpoint of OC. The point X is
on OD such that X divides OD in the ratio 3:1 and the point Y is on CX
T
such that Y divides CX in the ratio 4:1.
Y
a) Express OT , OX and OY in terms of a, b or a and b.
O X D
1
b) Show that DY   a  2b 
5 The figure is not to scale
c) Deduce D, Y and T are collinear
d) Calculate the ratio DY : YT
40) OA  a , OB  2OA , OC  2b and 2OQ  3OC
Q
a) Find, in terms of a and b, AQ and BC
C
b) If AT  λ AQ ( λ is a constant) Use BAT to find an expression T

for BT in terms of λ , a and b. 

B A O
c) If BT  mBC (m is a constant) Find BT in terms of m, a and b
and then find the values of λ and m.

41) OA  a , OB  b . M is the midpoint of AB. A

2
BN  BO . Find in terms of a and b
3 M

a) ON

B N O
b) OM

c) MN

 3 6 1 
42) Given that a    , b    and c    . Calculate the values of the scalar k for which a  kb is parallel
 2  9 8
to c.

43) Given the three points  4,1 ,  2,3 and  3,3

a) Using a scale of 2 cm to represent 1 unit draw on your graph paper triangle A with coordinates taking
4  x  5 and 5  y  4 .
1
b) Draw triangle B, the enlargement of triangle A, centre  0,0 , scale factor .
2
c) Draw triangle C, the rotation of triangle A, through 90 clockwise about the origin.
d) Draw triangle D, the reflection of triangle A in the line x  1
 2 
e) Draw triangle E, the translation of triangle A by the vector   .
 4 
f) Draw triangle E, the reflection of triangle A in the line y  x
44) The coordinates of point D are  2,1 . It is translated onto the point F  5, 4

i) Write down the vector which translates D onto F

ii) Write down the vector which translates F onto D

45) Draw x and y axes using a scale of 1 cm to one unit on each axis taking 6  x  10 and 0  y  14

b) Draw and label triangle T with vertices  6, 4 , 8,10 and 10,6 

c) Triangle T is reflected in the line y  x

i) Draw the image of triangle T. Label this image K.
ii) Write down the matrix which represents this reflection.
d) Draw the image of triangle T under an enlargement center the origin scale factor 1/2. Label this
image L.
e) Draw and label triangle M with vertices 1,9  ,  5,11 and  1,13 .

f) Describe fully the transformation that maps triangle T onto triangle M.

 1
g) Draw the image of triangle M under a translation   and label it X.
 9 

46) a) Draw x and y-axes from 8 to 8 using a scale of 1 cm to 1 unit. Draw triangle ABC with
A  2, 2 , B 5, 2 and C  5, 4

 8 
b) Draw the image of triangle ABC under a translation of   . Label it T .
 4
c) Draw the image of triangle ABC under a reflection in the line y  2 . Label it V .

d) Draw the image of triangle ABC under an enlargement, scale factor 2, center  6,0 . Label it E .

e) Draw the image of triangle ABC under a rotation 180° about the origin , label R
47) The nth term of a sequence is given by an  3n  2 .

a) Find a25

b) Find n if an  37
c) Find which term of the sequence is the first to have a value greater than 120.
d) What is the product of the nth term and the  n  1 th term?

48) Given an arithmetic sequence whose first term is 5 and common difference is 3 .
a) Find the nth term of the sequence.
b) Find the 50th term of the sequence.

49) a) Find the common difference and the first three terms of the sequence f  n   2n  6

b)Show that the sequence 15, 8, 1,6,13,..... is arithmetic sequence and find the general term.

50) The population of Canada doubles every 70 years. If the population of Canada in 2012 is 30 million, then
what would be the population in 2222?

51) A man bought a car and a painting in 2010. He paid $20,000 for the car and $5,500 for the painting. The
price of the car was depreciating at a factor of 0.75. That is, its value t years after it was purchased was

V  t   y  20,000  0.75 . The value of the paining was appreciating at the rate of $1,000 each year. That
t

is, its value t years after it was purchased was P  t   y  5,500  1,000t . Graph both functions on the same

set of coordinate axes and determine in what year, approximately, both items will be worth the same.
52) The number of bacteria cells in a certain culture doubles every 3 hours. The number of bacteria cells can be

 
modeled using the function c  t   176 2t 3 , where t is measured in hours.

a)  
What does the number 176 represent in the equation c  t   176 2t 3 ?

b) Evaluate the function c(t) for t  3 . What does the value of c  3 represent?

c) How many bacteria cells are in the culture after 3 hours?

d) After how many hours will the number of bacteria cells reach 704?

53) An investor deposits $6,000 in a bank that pays an annual interest rate of 6% and keeps the money for 5
years. Find the value of the money after 5 years if the interest is compounded weekly.
[Use 1 year = 52 weeks].

54) The half-life of Potassium-42 is 12 hours. Suppose that at a given time there is 1 kilogram of Potassium-42
present. How many grams will be left after 62 hours?

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55) The probability that Ali forgets to take his medicine today is . If he forgets today, the probability that he
5
3 2
will forget tomorrow is . If he does not forget today, the probability that he will forget tomorrow is .
4 3
a) Draw a tree diagram to illustrate the above information.
b) Calculate the probability that Ali forgets to take his medicine on both days.
d) Calculate the probability that he will take his medicine tomorrow.
1
56) a) In a basketball game, the probability that Ola gets the ball in the basket is . She throws the ball
5
three times. Find the probability that she scores
i) three times
ii) at least once
iii) only two times.
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b) If Elie throws a ball, the probability that he scores is . He throws the ball until he scores. Find the
3
probability that he first scores with his
i) fifth throw
ii) nth throw.

57) A student is taking driving test. Each time he tries the probability that he succeeds is 0.7. Each time he fails
he tries again.
a) Find the probability that, to succeed, it takes
i) exactly 3 tries,
ii) one, or two or three tries,
iii) exactly five tries.
e) Write down a formula for the probability that he has succeeded after n tries.

58)  W L

60 40 35

45

  employees in a company

W  women who have children

L  employees who have more than one child

The Venn diagram shows the number of employees in each subset, in a company of 180 employees.
a) How many women have only one child?
b) An employee is selected at random. What is the probability that this employee has more than one
child?
 c) If all women in set  have children and a women is selected at random. What is the probability
that she has more than one child?
d) An employee who has more than one child is selected at random. What is the probability that this
employee is a woman?

59) The number of students who sat for the IGCSE Math exam during one week in the ISC is shown in the table
below. On graph paper, represent this information as a bar chart taking 2 cm for the width of each bar and 2
cm to represent 10 students.
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
55 35 60 45 40 65

60) The results of an Arabic test in ISC are shown in the following histogram.
The number of students in the modal class is 125.
a) How many students score marks in the
range 0  x  50 ?
b) How many students score marks in the
range 50  x  75 ?
c) Estimate the mean mark of this Arabic test.
d) 2 students are selected randomly, what is the
probability that they both scored above 75?

61) The time (t in minutes) taken by 120 students to read a term paper is shown in the table below.
t minutes 30  t  35 35  t  40 40  t  50 50  t  60 60  t  75
Frequency 6 9 32 a 24
a) Find a
b) Draw a histogram to represent this information.
c) State the modal class
d) Estimate the mean time taken to read the term paper to the nearest minute.
62) A shop sells four categories of flavors of ice-cream. The four kinds are
represented by the pie chart. Knowing that the number of vanilla ice- Coffee Vanilla
flavour flavour
cream cones sold was 135 and the corresponding angle is 45, calculate 75 45
a) The total number of ice-creams sold Lemonade 
b) The number of mango flavor cones sold. flavour 140
100 Mango flavour
65% of the lemonade ice-cream cones were sold with a topping.
f) Calculate the number of lemonade ice-creams without
topping.

63) Students are given marks 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4 in a drop quiz in history. The table shows the number of students
getting each mark.
Mark 0 1 2 3 4
Frequency 3 10 12 9 b

a) The average of the students is 2.125. Find the value of b.

b) Find the interquartile range of these marks.
64) The heights (h centimeters) of plants in a garden are shown in the histogram below. All the plants are less
than 60 cm high. One bar has not been drawn on the histogram.
a) There are 21 plants in the interval 25  h  30 .
How many plants are there in the intervals
i) 20  h  25
ii) 10  x  20 ?
b) There are 42 plants in the interval 30  h  60 .
This can be shown by a single bar on the
histogram. Calculate the height of this bar.
c) Calculate an estimate of the mean height of the
plants.

65) The cumulative frequency diagram

shows the marks of students in an
English exam. Write down
a) the median mark,
b) the interquartile range,
c) the lowest possible mark scored by
the top 30 students,
d) the number of students scoring more
than 20 marks.
 66) Roula asked 200 people how much juice they consume every week. Amount of juice Number of
The table shows her results. (x litres) people
a) Write the modal class. 0  x  0.5 7
b) Estimate the mean. 0.5  x  1 28
c) Using a scale of 4 cm to 1 litre of juice on the horizontal axis and 1  x  1.5 40
1 cm to 10 people on the vertical axis, draw the cumulative 1.5  x  2 36
frequency graph.
2  x  2.5 55
d) Use your cumulative frequency graph to find
2.5  x  3 24
i) the interquartile range
3  x  3.5 6
ii) the 60th percentile
3.5  x  4 4
iii) the number of people who drink at least 3.2 litres of juice
e) A nutrition recommends that a person drinks at least 1.8 litres of juice each week.
What percentage of these 200 people do not drink enough juice?
f) If two people are selected at random,
what is the probability that both of them do not drink enough juice.?

67) 720 animals live in three zoos A, B and C. 90 animals live in zoo A.
a) Find the percentage of animals living in zoo A.
The number of animals living in each zoo is represented by a pie chart. The angle of the sector
representing the number of animals living in zoo C is 19.
b) Calculate the number of animals living in zoo C.

68) By shading the unwanted regions, find and label the region R which satisfies the following inequalities.
x  y  4
y  2 
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y0 
x0 
69) Ziad works during summer holidays. In one week, he spends x hours painting the rooms of his home and y
hours arranging his toys. The time he spends arranging his toys is at least equal to the time he spends
painting the room. He spends no more than 14 hours working. He spends at least 2 hours painting.
a) Write down two inequalities in x and / or y to illustrate the above information.
b) Draw x and y axes from 0 to 14 using a scale of 1 cm to represent one unit on each axes to show
the graph of the three inequalities. Shade the unwanted region.
c) Ziad receives $3 each hour painting and $1.5 each hour for arranging his toys. What are the least
and largest amount he could receive?
70) The figure above shows three sets A, B and C such that:
n     134

n  A  B  C   10 n  A  B  C  6

n  A  C  B  x n  C  A  B   2 x

n  A  C  B   3x n  A  B  C  5x

n  A  40 and n  C   50
a) Complete the diagram by writing the number of
elements in each of the regions on the diagram.
b) Calculate the value of x.

71) shade the region which represents :

b) A  B
a)  A  B 
 A B  A B
72) Describe, in set notation, the shaded region in the 
diagram.
P Q

73) Figure shows a Venn diagram where = {pupils in a school},

B = {pupils who have a brother},and
S = {pupils who have a sister}. Using the information given
in the diagram, write down the number of pupils who have
a) a sister,
b) neither a brother nor a sister.
c) Explain in words, not using set notation, the meaning of
B   S.

74)  = {4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9}, A = {4, 5, 6, 7},

B = {5, 7}, & C = {6, 8}.
a) Enter the numbers 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 on the diagram.
b) Complete the following,
i) A  C  {...............................},

ii)  B  C   ............................... .

75) In each of the following shade the required region

76) On each of the Venn Diagrams below shade the region which represents the set stated,

77) Describe in set notation, the region shaded in each of the Venn Diagrams below.
78) Given the three sets
 = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8},
A = {1, 3, 6, 8},
B = {2, 4, 6, 8},

Write down
a) A B, b) A  B , c) n  A  B   A   B

79) Given the reference set  = {2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10},

and the three sets
P = {x: x is prime}
Q = {x: x is a multiple of 2} ,
R = {x: x is a multiple of 3}.

a) Enter the above information on the diagram below.

b) List each of the following sets,
i) Q R
ii) P  Q

80) The number of football players in France is 60,000. The number of football players in Ireland is 52,000.
a) Calculate the ratio of the football players in the two countries in its simplest form.
b) In Ireland, 38% of the football players are above the age of twenty five. Calculate how many
football players in Ireland are above the age of twenty five.
c) In France, 16,800 football players are below the age of twenty. Calculate the percentage of
football players in France below the age of twenty.
d) The number of football players in Ireland is 160% greater than it was fifty years ago. Calculate
the number of football players in Ireland fifty years ago.
e) In France, the ratio of men playing football :women playing football is 18:12. Calculate the
number of women, playing football in France.
81) The ink used per 10,000 words in a main page of a newspaper is 10.4 liters. However, the ink
used per 10,000 words in any other page of the newspaper is 8.2 liters.
a) How much ink is used on a newspaper of 25,000 words on a main page?
b) On other pages, how many words can be printed with 12.3 liters of ink?
c) A newspaper consists of 12,800 words on a main page and 23,700 on other pages. How much ink
is used?