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PA/CORE/8/HOLIDAYHW/07.

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SURNAME: ……………… OTHER NAMES……………………………

CLASS: ……………………… TEACHER……………………………………

HOLIDAY HOMEWORK

JULY-AUGUST 2024

MATHEMATICS

YEAR 8

Time: 6 HOURS

ADDITIONAL MATERIALS: Calculator


Geometrical Instruments
Tracing Paper (Optional)

INSTRUCTIONS

• Answer all questions.


• Use a black or dark blue pen.
• Write your name in the spaces at the top of the page.
• Write your answer to each question in the space provided.
• Do not use an erasable pen or correction fluid.
• Your handwriting should be legible.
• You may use a calculator.
• You should show all your working and use appropriate units.

INFORMATION

• The total mark for this homework is 300.


• The number of marks for each question or part question is shown in brackets [ ].

This paper consists of printed pages.


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PART I
1 Write the number two million eight hundred and forty thousand three hundred and twenty-seven in figures.

......................................................... [1]

[Total: 1]

2 Write down a common multiple of 18 and 24.

......................................................... [1]

[Total: 1]

3 Find a factor of 63 between 5 and 10.

......................................................... [1]

[Total: 1]

4 Find a multiple of 3 between 70 and 80.

......................................................... [1]

[Total: 1]

5 Find a cube number between 60 and 90.

......................................................... [1]

[Total: 1]
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6 f is a common factor of 14 and 28.


m is a common multiple of 10 and 25.
p is a prime number.

Work out the largest possible value of .

................................................. [4]

[Total: 4]

7 Factorise completely.

......................................................... [3]

[Total: 3]

8 Simplify.

................................................... [2]

[Total: 2]
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9 Solve.

t = ................................................... [3]

[Total: 3]

10 Joe thinks of a number, n, trebles it, and subtracts 5.


The result is 22.

Write this as an equation in terms of n, and solve the equation.

n = ................................................... [3]

[Total: 3]

11 Solve.

w = ................................................... [2]

[Total: 2]

12 Find the value of .

......................................................... [1]

[Total: 1]
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13 Work out .
Give your answer correct to 2 decimal places.

................................................... [2]

[Total: 2]

14 Find the value of

(a) ,

................................................... [1]

(b) ,

................................................... [1]

(c) .

................................................... [1]

[Total: 3]

15

Fraction Decimal Percentage

= 0.5 = 50

.................... = 0.25 = ....................

= .................... = 20

Complete the table. [3]

[Total: 3]
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16 Complete the table.

Fraction Percentage

= 47%

[3]

[Total: 3]

17 Write these numbers in order, starting with the smallest.

34% 0.345

.............................. < .............................. < .............................. < .............................. [2]

[Total: 2]

18 Write the following in order of size, starting with the smallest.

Answer .................... < .................... < .................... < .................... [2]

smallest

[Total: 2]
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19 Mr Zhang, his wife and three children go on a holiday from Shanghai to Auckland.

The flight for an adult costs $630.


The cost for a child is of the adult cost.

Show that the total cost of the flight for the family is $2441, correct to the nearest dollar.

[3]

[Total: 3]

20 Without using a calculator, work out


You must show all your working.

........................................ [2]

[Total: 2]

21 Write 6538 correct to the nearest ten.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 1]

22 Calculate.

Give your answer correct to 3 decimal places.

................................................... [2]

[Total: 2]
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23 Write these numbers correct to 2 significant figures.

(a) 0.076 499

................................................... [1]

(b) 10 100

................................................... [1]

[Total: 2]

24

(a) By writing each number correct to 1 significant figure, work out an estimate for p.
You must show all your working.

................................................... [2]

(b) Calculate the exact value of p.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 3]

25 Here is part of a bus timetable.

Abbots 06 50 08 25 09 20

Callet 07 12 08 47 09 42

North Moor 07 30 09 05 10 00

South Moor 07 37 09 12 10 07

Centre Point 08 00 09 35 10 30

(a) Rashid catches the 09 20 bus at Abbots.

Find the time the bus arrives at South Moor.

................................................... [1]
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(b) Annisa leaves home at 8.27 am and takes 25 minutes to walk to the bus stop at Callet.
She catches the next bus to Centre Point.

Find the total time, in minutes, for her journey from leaving home to arriving at Centre Point.

................................................... min [2]

[Total: 3]

26 Georgiana is travelling by train from Redtown to Teignley.

Georgiana travels on two trains.


The first train goes from Redtown to Southford.
The second train goes from Southford to Teignley.
She has written down some information about the times of her trains.

(a) Write 13 45 using the 12-hour clock.

................................................... [1]

(b) Work out how long the first train should take to travel from Redtown to Southford.
Give your answer in hours and minutes.

.................... h .................... min [1]


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(c) The first train arrives at Southford 46 minutes late.

By how many minutes has Georgiana missed her second train?

................................................... min [2]

[Total: 4]

27 Helga buys some items to do some knitting.

Complete Helga's bill.

Item Cost ($)

2 pairs of knitting needles at $4.95 a pair

6 buttons at $0.65 each

1 knitting pattern at $3.60 3.60

Total

[3]

[Total: 3]

28 Mrs Reeve buys 6 ice creams.


Each ice cream costs $1.30 .

How much change does she receive from $10?

$ ................................................... [2]

[Total: 2]
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29

The diagram shows two straight lines intersecting two parallel lines.

Find the value of x.

x = ................................................... [2]

[Total: 2]

30

In the diagram, PQ = PR and QRS is a straight line.

(a) Write down the mathematical name of triangle PQR.

................................................... [1]

(b) Work out angle QPR.

Angle QPR = ................................................... [3]


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[Total: 4]

31

The diagram shows the base of a triangle.


The lengths of the other two sides are 6 cm and 4 cm.

Using a ruler and compasses only, construct the other two sides of the triangle.
Show all your construction arcs.
[2]

[Total: 2]

32 Victoria records the colour of each of 240 cars leaving a car park.
Some of this information is shown in the pie chart.
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(a) Show that 60 cars are blue.

[1]

(b) The rest of the cars are either red or white.


110 cars are red.

Complete the pie chart to show this information.

[2]

[Total: 3]

33 On Monday, Main Street station sells 40 tickets.


There are four types of ticket; infant, child, adult and senior.
The bar chart shows the number of infant, child and adult tickets sold.
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(a) Complete the bar chart. [3]

(b) Find how many more adult tickets were sold than child tickets.

................................................... [1]

(c) Write down the modal type of ticket.

................................................... [1]

(d) One of these 40 people is chosen at random.

Find the probability that this person is a child.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 6]
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34

Shade some squares so that both shapes have the same fraction shaded. [2]

[Total: 2]

35 Saskia has $600.


She spends of the $600 on a coat and gives of the $600 to her son.

What fraction of the $600 does she have left?


Give your answer in its simplest form.

................................................... [3]

[Total: 3]

36 Billie asks 60 students in his school what their favourite type of book is.
He has started to draw a pictogram to show his results.
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The science fiction row in the pictogram is complete.

(a) Complete the key. [1]

(b) Complete the pictogram. [2]

(c) Write down the mode.

................................................... [1]

(d) Work out how many more students choose detective books than music books.

................................................... [1]

(e) Work out the fraction of students who did not choose romance books.

................................................... [2]

[Total: 7]

37 The temperature, in ° C, is recorded at the same time in six cities.

London Helsinki Oslo Paris Madrid Berlin

6 −2 −5 7 9 2
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(a) Which city has the coldest temperature?

...................................................... [1]

(b) What is the difference in temperature between Helsinki and Paris?

.................................................° C [1]

[Total: 2]

38 The average temperature at the North Pole is −23 °C in January and −11 °C in March.

(a) Find the difference between these temperatures.

................................................... °C [1]

(b) The average temperature in July is 28 °C higher than the average temperature in March.

Find the average temperature in July.

................................................... °C [1]

[Total: 2]

39 Solve the inequality.

................................................... [2]

[Total: 2]
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40 x is an integer and .

Find the values of x.

................................................... [2]

[Total: 2]
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PART II
1 A stone has volume 45 cm3 and mass 126 g.
Find the density of the stone, giving the units of your answer.

[Density = mass ÷ volume]

.............................. .................... [2]

[Total: 2]

2 A shop sells cereal in boxes A, B and C.

Work out which box is the best value.


You must show all your working.

Box ................................................... [3]

[Total: 3]

3 268 of the 604 passengers on a plane are women.

Find the percentage of the passengers that are women.

................................................... % [1]
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[Total: 1]

4 These are the first four terms of a sequence.

29 32 35 38

(a) Write down the next term.

................................................... [1]

(b) Write down the rule for continuing this sequence.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 2]

5 2, 3, 6, 11, 18, ...

(a) Write down the next two terms in this sequence.

Answer(a) .............................. , .............................. [2]

(b) Describe, in words, the rule for continuing this sequence.

Answer(b)......................................................................................................................................... [1]

[Total: 3]

6 Pip and Ali share $785 in the ratio Pip : Ali = 4 : 1.

Work out Pip's share.

Answer $ ................................................... [2]

[Total: 2]

7 1 mile = 1.609344 kilometres

Change 6 miles into metres.


Give your answer correct to the nearest metre.

................................................... m [3]
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[Total: 3]

8 (a) Calculate the volume of a cylindrical vase with radius 14.2 cm and height 18 cm.

................................cm3 [2]

8 (b) Change your answer to part (a) into litres.

..............................litres [1]

[Total: 3]

9 Soraya makes rectangular flags.

(a) On the rectangle, draw the lines of symmetry. [2]

(b) Each flag measures 1.2 m by 1.8 m.

Calculate the area of one flag.

................................................... m2 [2]

[Total: 4]
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10 A cuboid has a square base.


The volume of this cuboid is 867 cm3 and its height is 12 cm.

Calculate the length of one side of the square base.

...................................cm [3]

[Total: 3]

11
NOT TO
SCALE

5 cm
9 cm

12.5 cm

Calculate the volume of this cuboid.


Give the units of your answer.

Answer .............................. .......... [3]

[Total: 3]

12 For the line , write down

(a) the gradient,

................................................... [1]

(b) the y-intercept.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 2]

13 The equation of a line is .


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(a) Write down the gradient of this line.

................................................... [1]

(b) (i) Find the coordinates of the point where this line crosses the y-axis.

( .................... , .................... ) [1]


(ii) Find the coordinates of the point where this line crosses the x-axis.

( .................... , .................... ) [2]

[Total: 4]

14 (a) Write down the co-ordinates of point A.

( .................... , .................... ) [1]

(b) On the grid, plot point B (1, –3). [1]

[Total: 2]

15 The scale drawing shows the positions of two villages, A and B.


The scale is 1 centimetre represents 200 metres.

North

North

A Scale: 1 cm to 200 m
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(a) Measure the bearing of B from A.

Answer(a) ................................................... [1]

(b) Work out the actual distance from A from B.

Answer(b) ................................................... m [1]

[Total: 2]

16 A train travels 36 km at an average speed of 75 km/h.

Work out the journey time.


Give your answer in minutes.

................................................... min [2]

[Total: 2]
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17
William Toby
Town 4

Distance
2
(km)

Home 0
10 00 10 04 10 08 10 12 10 16 10 20 10 24 10 28 10 32

Time

Toby and William cycled into town.


Their journeys are shown on the travel graph.

(a) For how many minutes did Toby stop on his journey into town?

Answer(a) ................................................... min [1]

(b) Explain what happened at 10 20.

Answer(b)......................................................................................................................................... [1]

(c) Work out how long William took to cycle into town.

Answer(c) ................................................... min [1]

(d) Calculate William’s speed in km/h.

Answer(d) ................................................... km/h [2]

[Total: 5]

18 The favourite sport of each of 135 boys is recorded in the table.


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Favourite sport Frequency Pie chart sector angle

Soccer 54 144°

Hockey 45

Rugby 27

Other 9

(a) Complete the table.

[2]

(b) Complete the pie chart to show these results.


The sector for soccer has been drawn for you.

Soccer

[2]

(c) One of these boys is picked at random.

Find the probability that soccer is his favourite sport.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 5]

19 The table shows the number of screws of different lengths in a box of 100 screws.
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Length (mm) 20 40 50 60

Number of screws 18 36 24 22

A screw is chosen at random from the box.

Find the probability that the screw has length

(a) 50 mm,

................................................... [1]

(b) less than 60 mm,

................................................... [2]

(c) 70 mm.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 4]
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20
C

NOT TO
6 cm SCALE

O B

5 cm

The diagram shows a shape made from a quarter-circle, OAB, and a right-angled triangle OBC.
The radius of the circle is 5 cm and OC = 6 cm.

Calculate the area of the shape.

................................................... cm2 [3]

[Total: 3]
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21
NOT TO
SCALE

The diagram shows a circle inside a square.


The circle touches the four sides of the square.
The area of the square is 81 cm2.

Calculate the shaded area.

................................................... cm2 [4]

[Total: 4]

22 Calculate , giving your answer correct to 4 significant figures.

................................................... [2]

[Total: 2]
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23 Use your calculator to work out .

Give your answer correct to 2 decimal places.

Answer ......................................... [2]

[Total: 2]

24

On the diagram, draw all the lines of symmetry. [2]

[Total: 2]

25 Simplify.

......................................................... [2]

[Total: 2]

26 Simplify.

................................................... [2]

[Total: 2]
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27 Natalie buys 4 tomato plants and 3 pepper plants for $9.35 .


Samir buys 2 tomato plants and 11 pepper plants for $16.55 .

Write down a pair of simultaneous equations and solve them to find the cost of one tomato plant and the cost
of one pepper plant.
You must show all your working.

Tomato plant $ ................................................

Pepper plant $ ................................................. [5]

[Total: 5]

28 Find

(a) a multiple of 14,

................................................... [1]

(b) ,

................................................... [1]

(c) ,

................................................... [1]

(d) .

................................................... [1]

[Total: 4]
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29 Kirsty changes $380.80 into pounds (£) when £1 = $1.19 .

Calculate the amount Kirsty receives.

£ ................................................... [2]

[Total: 2]

30 A tourist changes $500 to euros (€) when the exchange rate is €1 = $1.0697 .

Calculate how many euros he receives.

€ ................................................... [2]

[Total: 2]

31

Fraction Decimal Percentage

= 0.5 = 50

.................... = 0.25 = ....................

= .................... = 20

Complete the table. [3]

[Total: 3]
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32
204 mm NOT TO
SCALE

72 mm

180 mm

Work out the area of this trapezium.

................................................... mm2 [5]

[Total: 5]

33 A circle has a radius of 18 cm.

Calculate the circumference of this circle.

................................................... cm [2]

[Total: 2]
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34 Six donkeys are each given two 5 ml spoons of medicine three times each day.

Calculate the number of whole days a 2 litre bottle of medicine will last.

Answer ................................................... days [3]

[Total: 3]

35 (a) Change 6.54 kilometres into metres.

................................................... m [1]

35 (b) Change 7850 cm3 into litres.

................................................... litres [1]

[Total: 2]
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PART III
1 Find a multiple of 3 between 70 and 80.

......................................................... [1]

[Total: 1]

2 Write down the six factors of 28.

.................... , .................... , .................... , .................... , .................... , .................... [2]

[Total: 2]

3 27 28 29 30 31 32 33

From the list of numbers, write down

(a) a multiple of 7,

................................................... [1]

(b) a cube number,

................................................... [1]

(c) a prime number.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 3]

From the list of numbers, write down

(a) the square numbers,

................................................... [1]

(b) a prime factor of 99.

................................................... [1]
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[Total: 2]

5 Find the value of .


Give your answer correct to 3 decimal places.

................................................... [2]

[Total: 2]

6 Find the value of

(a) ,

................................................... [1]

(b) ,

................................................... [1]

(c) .

................................................... [1]

[Total: 3]

7 The table shows the temperature at Lexford Station at 10 00 each day for a week.

Day Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun

Temperature
−3 4 −1 0 −5 2 1
(°C)

(a) Write down the day which had the coldest temperature.

................................................... [1]

(b) Work out the difference in the temperature between Monday and Tuesday.

................................................... °C [1]
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(c) The temperature falls 6°C from 10 00 to midnight on Sunday.

Work out the temperature at midnight.

................................................... °C [1]

[Total: 3]

8 Write 32 cm as a fraction of 2 m.
Give your answer in its simplest form.

......................................................... [2]

[Total: 2]

9 Write down

(a) a fraction that is equivalent to ,

................................................... [1]

(b) the 7th odd positive number,

................................................... [1]

(c) a decimal number that is larger than 0.0467 but smaller than 0.0468 .

................................................... [1]

[Total: 3]

10 The table gives some information about the numbers of visitors at a leisure centre one day.

Adult Child Total

Male 144 240

Female 129 260

Total 225 275 500

(a) Complete the table. [1]


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(b) Work out how many more child visitors than adult visitors there are.

................................................... [1]

(c) Write down the fraction of visitors that are adults.


Give your answer in its lowest terms.

................................................... [2]

(d) Write the ratio number of males : number of females.


Give your answer in its simplest form.

.............................. : .............................. [2]

(e) One of these visitors is selected at random.

Find the probability that this visitor is a male child.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 7]

11 Complete the table.

Fraction Percentage

= 47%

[3]

[Total: 3]
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12 Write these in order of size, starting with the smallest.

0.38 30%

.................... < .................... < .................... < .................... [2]

[Total: 2]

13 Find the value of

(a) ,

................................................... [1]

(b) ,

................................................... [1]

(c) .

................................................... [1]

[Total: 3]

14 Calculate.

Give your answer correct to 3 decimal places.

................................................... [2]

[Total: 2]

15 Write 15.0782 correct to


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(a) one decimal place,

Answer(a) .............................. [1]

(b) the nearest 10.

Answer(b) .............................. [1]

[Total: 2]

16 Divide $200 in the ratio 7 : 3.

$ ........................ , $ ........................ [2]

[Total: 2]

17 Pip and Ali share $785 in the ratio Pip : Ali = 4 : 1.

Work out Pip's share.

Answer $ ................................................... [2]

[Total: 2]

18 A train travels 36 km at an average speed of 75 km/h.

Work out the journey time.


Give your answer in minutes.

................................................... min [2]


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[Total: 2]

19 Simplify .

........................................ [2]

[Total: 2]

20 Solve the equation .

x = ................................................... [2]

[Total: 2]

21 Joe thinks of a number, n, trebles it, and subtracts 5.


The result is 22.

Write this as an equation in terms of n, and solve the equation.

n = ................................................... [3]

[Total: 3]
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22

Measure the marked angle.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 1]

23 Complete the statements.

3.5 kg = ......................................... g

1.4 m2 = ......................................... cm2 [2]

[Total: 2]
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24 Rectangle A measures 3 cm by 8 cm.

Five rectangles congruent to A are joined to make a shape.

Work out the perimeter of this shape.

................................................... cm [2]

[Total: 2]
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25

Calculate the area of the trapezium.

................................................... cm2 [2]

[Total: 2]

26 A circular pool has a diameter of 8 m.

Calculate

(a) the circumference of the pool,

................................................... m [2]

(b) the area of the pool.

................................................... m2 [2]

[Total: 4]
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27
North

North

Measure the bearing of point B from point A.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 1]

28

The diagram shows a rectangle 14 cm by w cm.


The diagonal is 23 cm.

Calculate the value of w.

w = ................................................... [3]

[Total: 3]
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29 Reflect this shape in the line AB.

[2]

[Total: 2]

30 The probability that Jane wins a game is

Find the probability that Jane does not win the game.

..................................... [1]

[Total: 1]

31 A bag contains 50 counters.


10 of the counters are red.
One of the counters is taken from the bag at random.

(a) Draw an arrow (↓) on the scale to show the probability that this counter is red.

[1]
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(b) Find the probability that the counter is not red.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 2]

32 Antonio has a shop near the beach.

(a) He makes a tally of the number of ice creams he sells on Friday.

Work out the number of ice creams he sells on Friday.

................................................... [1]

(b) 15 of the ice creams he sells on Friday are vanilla.

Work out the fraction of ice creams he sells on Friday that are vanilla.
Give your answer in its simplest form.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 2]

33 One day, Mahika records the number of teachers and students who cycle to school.

Tally Frequency

Teachers ////

Students //// //// //// //// ///

(a) Complete the frequency column in the table. [1]

(b) Work out the percentage of people who cycle that are students.

................................................... % [2]

[Total: 3]

34 Miguel records the length of time of each telephone call he receives, correct to the nearest minute.
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7 15 6 28 8 21 17 19 20 12
11 19 12 3 20 23 14 9 4 18

(a) Complete the frequency table.


You may use the tally column to help you.

Time (minutes) Tally Frequency

0−5

6 − 10

11 − 15

16 − 20

21 − 25

26 − 30

[2]

(b) Draw a bar chart to show this information.


Complete the scale on the frequency axis.

[3]

(c) Use the bar chart to write down the modal group.

........................ − ......................... [1]

[Total: 6]

35 These are the number of texts sent one day by each of 10 students.
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18 13 15 8 9 17 12 8 6 14

(a) Write down the mode.

................................................... [1]

(b) Calculate the mean.

................................................... [2]

[Total: 3]

36 Olga counts the number of letters in each of the last 50 words in the book she is reading.
She has only counted the letters in 43 words so far.
Her results for these 43 words are shown in the table below.

The last seven words in the book that Olga needs to add to the table are

………. and they all lived happily ever after.

(a) Complete the tally and frequency columns in the table. [2]
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(b) Find the range.

................................................... [1]

(c) Find the median.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 4]

37 Zachary asks the 30 students in his class which is their favourite sport.
The table shows the results.

Netball Football Hockey Tennis

7 12 6 5

Complete the pictogram.

Netball

Football

Hockey

Tennis

Key: represents 4 people

[2]

[Total: 2]

38 The stem-and-leaf diagram shows the number of hours that each of 16 students studied last week.

1 2 5 6 8
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0 1 1 7
2
9

3 2 3 4 5

4 4 5 7

Key 1|2 represents 12 hours

Find

(a) the median,

....................................h [1]

(b) the mode,

....................................h [1]

(c) the range.

....................................h [1]

[Total: 3]

39 Sara walks from home to school.


The travel graph shows her journey.

(a) Sara stops at a shop on her way to school.

Find the distance of the shop from her home.

................................................... km [1]
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(b) School starts at 08 55.

Find the number of minutes between the time Sara arrives at school and the time school starts.

................................................... min [1]

[Total: 2]

40 A closed box in the shape of a cuboid has length 5 cm, width 4 cm and height 2 cm.

Calculate the volume of the box.

................................................... cm3 [2]

[Total: 2]

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