ADMISSION

NUMBER

DATE

FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATION - MARCH 2023

GRADE 9 (EDEXCEL)

MATHEMATICS
PAPER I
Duration : 2 hours

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

Instructions
• Answer all questions.
• Without sufficient working, correct answers may be awarded no marks.
• Answer the questions in the spaces provided.
• Calculators may be used.

Information
• The total mark for this paper is 100.
• The marks for each question are shown in brackets.

Advice
• Read each question carefully before you start to answer it.
• Check your answers if you have time at the end.

Grade 9 (Edexcel) Mathematics I - First Semester Examination - March 2023

Prepared for Lyceum International School by Lyceum Assessments
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1. (a) Write
i) 1448 correct to the nearest hundred.

……………………………………….
(1)
(1)
ii) 0.978 correct to 1 decimal place

……………………………………….
(1)
(1)
iii) 3.57 correct to the nearest whole number.

……………………………………….
(1)
(1)
(b) By writing each number correct to one significant figure, estimate the
value of
(4.67)2 × 12.4

……………………………………….
(3)
(3)
(c) Convert 1.4̇ into a fraction. Show your working clearly.

……………………………………….
(3)
(3)

( Total for Question 1 is 9 marks )

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2. (a) Write 0.00157 in standard form.

……………………………………….
(2)
(2)
(b) Write 3.51× 103 as an ordinary number.

……………………………………….
(2)
(2)
(c) Write 72 as product of prime factors. Show your working clearly.

……………………………………….
(3)
(3)

( Total for Question 2 is 7 marks )

3. (a) Simplify 𝑚7 × 𝑚5 .

……………………………………….
(2)
(2)
(b) If 𝑦 8 ÷ 𝑦 −3 𝑝
= 𝑦 , find the value of 𝑝. Show your working.

𝑝 = ……………………………………….
(2)
(2)

( Total for Question 3 is 4 marks )

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4. (c) A car can travel 120 kilometers with using 8 liters of petrol.
How far it can travel using 5 liters of petrol.

………………………………………. 𝐾𝑚
(2)
(2)
( Total for Question 4 is 2 marks )

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5. (a) Write as a decimal. Show your working.
4

……………………………………….
(2)
(2)
(b) In a class there are 24 students and 18 of them are girls.
Showing all the working, calculate the percentage of the girls in
the class.

………………………………………. %
(2)
(2)

( Total for Question 4 is 4 marks )

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6. (a) Calculate of 240 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠.
5

………………………………………. 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠
(2)
(2)

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(b) In an Island the ratio of the number of children to the number of adults
is 8 : 7.
What fraction of the population is adults?

……………………………………….
(2)
(2)
4
(c) Write the reciprocal of 2 .
9

……………………………………….
(2)
(2)

( Total for Question 5 is 6 marks )

7. (a) Find the value of

i) 2−3

……………………………………….
(2)
(2)
ii) (𝑥 2 − 1)0

……………………………………….
(1)
(1)
(b) Find the highest common factor ( HCF ) of 48 and 32.
Show your working clearly.

……………………………………….
(3)
(3)

( Total for Question 6 is 6 marks )

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8. Length of a table is 87 𝑐𝑚 and the breadth is 62 𝑐𝑚

Both measurements are correct to the nearest centimeter.
(a) Find the lower bound of the length of the table.

………………………………………. 𝑐𝑚
(2)
(2)
(b) Find the lowest possible perimeter of the table.
Show your working. [ Perimeter of a rectangle is 2𝑙 + 2𝑏 ]

………………………………………. 𝑐𝑚
(4)
(4)

( Total for Question 7 is 6 marks )

9. (a) Write 8 : 40 in the form of 1 : 𝑛 .

……………………… : …………………….
(2)
(2)
(b) Find the simplest form of the ratio 18 : 24.

……………………… : …………………….
(2)
(2)

( Total for Question 8 is 4 marks )

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10. (a) Represent 𝑥 ≤ 2 on the following number line.

-5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5

(2)
(2)

(b) Write all the integer values which satisfy the following inequality.

−1 ≤ 𝑥 < 2

……………………………………….
(3)
(3)

( Total for Question 9 is 5 marks )

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11. (a) Rationalise the denominator of .
√2

……………………………………….
(3)
(3)

(b) Simplify.

7√2 − 3√2 + 3√2

……………………………………….
(2)
(2)
( Total for Question 10 is 5 marks )
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12. (a)
800

2𝑥
3𝑥

Find the value of 𝑥.

𝑥 = ……………………………………….
(3)
(3)

(b)

2𝑝
2𝑝

Find the value of 𝑝.

𝑝 = ……………………………………….
(4)
(4)

(Total for Question 11 is 7 marks )

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13. (a) What is the special name of the polygon with eight sides?

…………………………………………………………….
(1)
(1)

(b) A quadrilateral is having the following properties.

All the sides are equal in length
Diagonals are perpendicular to each other
Diagonals bisect each other

What is the special name of the quadrilateral?

…………………………………………………………….
(2)
(2)
(c) Write down two differences between a rhombus and a square?

……………………………………….
(2)
(2)

( Total for Question 12 is 5 marks )

14. (a) Equation of a straight line graph is 3𝑦 − 6 = 12𝑥.

i) Find the gradient of the graph. Show your working.

……………………………………….
(2)
(2)

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ii) Find the coordinates of the point where the line cuts the 𝑦 – axis.

……………………………………….
(3)
(3)

( Total for Question 13 is 5 marks )

15. (a) Express 35% as a fraction in its simplest form.

……………………………………….
(2)
(2)
(b) Find the value of 𝑚 in the following statement.
5 𝑚
=
7 42

𝑚 = ……………………………………….
(1)
(1)
(c) Simplify.
3 1 1
+ −
5 4 2

……………………………………….
(3)
(3)

( Total for Question 14 is 6 marks )

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16. (a) Simplify.

−7𝑥 + 5𝑥 − 2𝑥

……………………………………….
(2)
(2)

(b) Remove the bracket.

−5(2𝑥 − 1)

……………………………………….
(2)
(2)

(c) Solve the equation.

3𝑥 + 2 = −5

𝑥 = ……………………………………….
(2)
(2)
( Total for Question 15 is 6 marks )

17. The size of an exterior angle of a regular polygon is 240 .

(a) Calculate the size of one interior angle of the polygon.
Show all your working.

……………………………………….
(2)
(2)

(b) Find the number of exterior angles of the polygon.

……………………………………….
(2)
(2)

( Total for Question 16 is 4 marks )

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18. (a) If 𝑎 = 5 and 𝑏 = −2 find the value of −5𝑏 + 3𝑎.

Show all your working.

……………………………………….
(3)
(3)

(b) 𝑅 is proportional to the square of (𝑥 + 2).

𝑅 = 36.75, when 𝑥 = 1.5.
Find 𝑅 when 𝑥 = 5.

𝑅 = ……………………………………….
(3)
(3)

(c) Simplify. Show the working.

2 1 1
+ −
𝑚 3𝑚 2𝑚

……………………………………….
(3)
(3)

( Total for Question 17 is 9 marks )

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