Eton College King’s Scholarship Examination 2022

MATHEMATICS A

(One and a half hours)

Candidate Number:………………………………………………………

Please write your candidate number on EVERY sheet.

Please answer on the paper in the spaces provided.

This paper is divided into two sections:

Section I (Short-answer questions) – 50 marks available
Section II (Extended questions) – 50 marks available

Answer all of Section I and as many questions as you can from Section II.

The marks for each part of each question are given in square brackets.

Show all your working.

No diagram is drawn to scale.

Neither calculators nor protractors may be used.

ADDITIONAL MATERIALS: NONE

Do not turn over until told to do so.

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Section I: Short-answer questions (50 marks)

1. Fully simplify the following expressions.

a. 5𝑦 + 16 − 8𝑦 − 4

[1]

3 𝑦
b. 𝑦−
4 2

[1]

𝑦×𝑦×𝑦×𝑦×𝑦
c.
𝑦3

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2. Find the value of the following, giving your answers as reduced, mixed fractions.

1 2 4
a. 115 + 62 − 71
3 5 9

[3]

81 6 154
b. ( ÷3 )×
98 7 9

[4]

2 2
c. (3 − 2)
3

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3. Find the value of the following, giving your answers as a decimal.

a. 0.018 × 0.0045

[3]

b. 0.2 − (0.2)3

[4]

c. 0.403 ÷ 0.062

[3]

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4.

2 15 60

12 47 9

51 19 34

I choose a number at random from the grid shown above. I am equally likely to
choose any of these numbers. Giving your answers as fully simplified fractions, find
the probability that the number I choose is:

a. odd;

[1]

b. a multiple of 5;

[1]

c. a prime number;

[1]

d. not a multiple of 3.

[1]

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5. If 𝑝 = 6, 𝑞 = −2 and 𝑟 = , find the value of the following expressions, fully
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simplifying your answers.

2𝑞
a. 𝑝2 −
𝑟

[3]

𝑝3 +𝑞 3
b.
𝑝+𝑞

[3]

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6. Solve the following simultaneous equations.

5𝑥 + 7𝑦 = 11
4𝑥 + 3𝑦 = 14

[4]

7. Solve the following equation for 𝑥. Give your answer as a reduced, mixed fraction.

2𝑥 + 1 𝑥 − 1
+ =2
4 10

[3]

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8. There are 8 more boys than girls in a football squad of 32. What is the ratio of girls to
boys in the squad in simplified form?

[3]

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9. Annie is 44 years old and her father is 36 years older than her. How many years ago
was Annie’s father three times her age?

[3]

10. Megan, Flossy and Emma are sisters. Megan is 80% taller than Emma. Flossy is 25%
taller than Emma. Find the percentage by which Megan is taller than Flossy.

[4]

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Section II: Extended questions (50 marks)

11.
a. I visit three stores with some pocket money. I spend one fifth of my pocket
money in the first shop and one quarter of what remains in the second shop.
What fraction of the original amount is left over to spend in the third shop?

[3]

b. I am choosing a new washing machine. The standard model costs £200 and
1
uses 17 pence of electricity per hour in operation. The energy-saving model
2
1
costs £550 but only uses 3 pence of electricity per hour in operation. I
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operate my washing machine for twenty hours a week, on average. If I buy the
energy-saving model, after how many weeks would my reduced electricity
costs balance out the additional purchase price?

[3]

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c. I run a cake stall on a Friday afternoon and spend 10 hours making 60 cakes.
The ingredients for each cake costs me £1.60 and I charge £6 an hour for my
labour. The sale price for a cake is 75% more than the total cost of making it. I
have a special offer on this week which gives 20% discount on my normal sale
price. How much will a customer pay for one of my cakes this week?

[4]

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12.
a. A triangle 𝐴𝐵𝐶 is made up of four smaller triangles. 𝐸𝐵𝐹 and 𝐷𝐹𝐶 are
isosceles triangles. Angle 𝐸𝐹𝐷 is 𝑥° and is acute. Calculate the size of the
angle 𝐸𝐴𝐷 in terms of 𝑥.

𝑥°
B C
F

[3]

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b. The shape below is formed by joining an isosceles triangle 𝐴𝐵𝐸 and a

90−5𝑦 °
parallelogram 𝐵𝐶𝐷𝐸. 𝐴𝐵𝐶 is a straight line and angle 𝐵𝐶𝐷 is ( ).
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i. Find angle 𝐵𝐴𝐸 in terms of 𝑦, fully simplifying your answer.

[3]

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The line 𝐴𝐹 intersects 𝐵𝐸 at 𝑋 as shown in the diagram below. It is given that

the length 𝐷𝐶 = 17 cm and the ratio of the length 𝐴𝑋 and 𝑋𝐹 is 3: 2.

E
D

A F
X
17 cm

B
C

ii. Given that the area of 𝐴𝐵𝐸 is 78 cm2, calculate the area of the
parallelogram 𝐵𝐶𝐷𝐸.

[4]

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13.
a. A triangle 𝑂𝐴𝐵 is cut out of a circle with centre 𝑂. 𝑂𝐴 and 𝑂𝐵 are radii of
length 35 cm and the chord 𝐴𝐵 is of length 56 cm.

i. Find the area of the triangle 𝑂𝐴𝐵.

[2]

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ii. Using
7
as an approximation for 𝜋, calculate an estimate for the
shaded area, to the nearest 10 square centimetres.

[2]

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b. Pentagon 𝐴𝐵𝐶𝐷𝐸 is irregular but all five sides are each 34 cm long. Diagonal
𝐴𝐶 is 66 cm and is parallel to side 𝐸𝐷.

i. Show that the area of triangle 𝐴𝐵𝐶 is 33√𝑥 cm2, where 𝑥 is a positive
whole number less than 100.

[2]

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ii. Show, by calculating its value, that the area of quadrilateral 𝐴𝐶𝐷𝐸 is a
whole number of square centimetres.

[3]

iii. By making a suitable estimate for √𝑥 in part i., find the area of
pentagon 𝐴𝐵𝐶𝐷𝐸 correct to the nearest 10 square centimetres.

[1]

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14.
7+𝑛 1+𝑚 𝑚+𝑛
a. If 𝑚 = and 𝑛 = , find the value of .
2 2 2

[2]

b. 𝑥, 𝑦 and 𝑧 are positive numbers.

𝑥×𝑦=6
𝑦 × 𝑧 = 27
𝑧×𝑥 = 2

i. Find the value of (𝑥𝑦𝑧)2.

[2]

ii. Hence find the values of 𝑥, 𝑦 and 𝑧.

[3]
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c.
𝑢 + 𝑣 = −3
𝑣 + 𝑤 = −2
𝑤+𝑢 =6

Find the values of 𝑢, 𝑣 and 𝑤.

[3]

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15.
a. X is a three-digit whole number. The sum of its digits is 12. If the second and
third digits (that is, the “tens” digit and the “units” digit) are switched, the
resulting number is 45 more than X.

Showing your method clearly, find all possible values for X.

[Hint: let the letters a, b and c represent the three digits of X and start by
finding two equations involving a, b and c].

[4]

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b. The numbers 1327231 and 394493 are both palindromic: they read the same
when the order of their digits is reversed.

i. Find the largest five-digit palindromic whole number which is divisible

by 3 but not divisible by 9.

[2]

ii. Of all possible five-digit palindromic whole numbers divisible by 15,

Y is the largest and Z is the smallest. Find the difference between Y
and Z.

[4]
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