L'école Chempaka International

Model Paper-Term 1- P2

CP Stage 3

Paper 2 Mathematics September 2023

INSTRUCTIONS 1 Hour
 Answer all questions. Marks: 50
 Write your answer to each question in the space provided.
 You should show all your working on the question paper.
 You are allowed to use a calculator.

INFORMATION
 The total mark for this paper is 50.
 The number of marks for each question or part question is shown in brackets [ ].

1 Solve the equation

4b + 11 = 39

b= [2]

This document consists of 8 printed pages

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2 The table shows hourly rates of pay in a factory.

Day rate Night rate

$7.20 per hour $8.80 per hour

Sanjit works for 6 hours during the day on Monday and for 5 hours on Tuesday night.

Calculate how much money Sanjit earns altogether.

[2]

3 A teacher asks all the students in her class to write down an algebraic expression.
Julie writes down this expression:

4n – 5

2n + 14

n makes the value of Julie’s expression equal to the value of Jim’s

expression?

You must show your working.

[2]
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4 Pupils in Grade 7 and Grade 8 can study either Arabic, Spanish or Mandarin.

Arabic Spanish Mandarin Total

Grade 7 11 45

Grade 8 19

Total 37 50 120

[2]

5 Tim thinks of a number.

His number rounded to 2 decimal places is 5.46

What is the smallest possible number Tim could have thought of ?

[2]

6. The distance from the Earth to the Sun is 92 868 000 miles.

Write this distance correct to 3 significant figures.

miles [1]

7 A baby elephant has a mass of 105 kg.

The elephant increases in mass by 95 kg per year.

Work out how many years

elephant’s mass to increase to 2 tonnes.

Give your answer to the nearest year.

years [3]
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8 A circular fish pond has an area of 20 m2

Calculate the diameter of the fish pond.

m [3]

9 Simplify

(a) 3a × a

[1]

(b) 7 – 5a + 2 + 3a

[1]

10 Put a ring around all the calculations that simplify to give 910

9 2 × 97 × 9

34 × 36 913 ÷ 93

920 ÷ 92 9 5 × 92

[2]
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11 Factorise fully

18 – 12e

[1]

Expand and simplify

4c – 7(2d + c)

[2]

12 Angelina, Lotte and Manuel all buy petrol.

Angelina buys 18.5 litres of petrol and pays $27.01

Lotte pays $40.15 for her petrol.
Manuel buys 28.3 litres of petrol.

Who buys more petrol, Lotte or Manuel?

Lotte Manuel

Show how you work ed out your answer.

[3]
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13 Simplify

(a) t × t × t × t

[1]

(b) 3r – r2 + 5r + 3r2

[2]

14
Tick () all the correct statements about the number 6

6 is a multiple of 12
6 is a factor of 18

6 is a prime factor of 30

6 is a common factor of 42 and 60

6 is the highest comm on factor of 24 and 36

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15 Gemma can pay for a book in dollars ($) or in euros (€).

$8.10
€5.70

Gemma wants to pay the lowest amount for the book.

Work out which currency Gemma should use.

You must show your working.

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16 Here is a relationship involving powers of 7

7 x  7 y  78

x and y are positive whole numbers each greater than 1

one possible pair of values for x and y.

x=

y= [1]

(b) Here is another relationship involving powers of 5

5m  5n  54

m and n are positive whole numbers each greater than 1

one possible pair of values for m and n.

m=

n= [1]

17 Work out.

(a) 16.8 × 9
(b) 8.76 ÷ 6 [4]

18 Match each calculation to its answer.

The first one has been done for you.

0.6 × 0.6 0.36

0.64 × 0.4 1.6

0.64 ÷ 0.4 0.625

0.4 ÷ 0.64 0.256

[2]

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19
a) Draw a ring around the best estimate of 56

7.1 14 7.5 7.9 28

b) Draw a ring around the best estimate of 3 25

2 3 5 8 [2]

20 Expand and simplify.

(x − 5)(x + 3)
[1]

21 The diagram shows two rectangles that both have a width of 6 cm.

NOT TO
6 cm SCALE

6 cm

The difference between the perimeters of the two rectangles is 10 cm.

Calculate the difference between the areas of the two rectangles.

[4]