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International Lower
Secondary Curriculum

Mathematics
Year 9
Achievement Test

Thursday 31 May 2018 – Afternoon Paper Reference

Time 1 hour 20 minutes LMA01/01

You must have: Total Marks
Ruler graduated in centimetres and millimetres, protractor, compasses,
pen, HB pencil, eraser, calculator. Tracing paper may be used.

Instructions
• Fill
Use black ink or ball-point pen.
• centrein the boxes at the top of this page with your name,
number and candidate number.
• Answer allthequestions.
Answer
• – there may bequestions in the spaces provided
more space than you need.
• Calculators are allowed.
Information
• The total mark for this paper is 80.
• T–heusemarks for each question are shown in brackets
this as a guide as to how much time to spend on each question.

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

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 SECTION A

Answer ALL questions.

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In Section A put a cross in one box to indicate your answer. If you change your mind,
put a line through the box and then put a cross in another box .
Each question in Section A is worth one mark.

1 Find the value of 3a + 5b when a = 18 and b = 9

99 117 377 531

2 A rectangle is made by putting two squares with side 5 cm together as shown.

5 cm Diagram NOT
accurately drawn

5 cm

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What is the perimeter of the rectangle?

30 cm 35 cm 40 cm 50 cm

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3 Which one of these decimals is equivalent to ?
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0.58 0.625 1.6 5.8

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975, 870, 208, 975, 284, 784, 825

703 767 825 975

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 5 What are the coordinates of the midpoint of the line joining (–2, 7) and (4, –3)?

(1, 2) (1, 5) (3, 2) (3, 5)

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6 Calculate
5 + 4 × 3 – 22
13 23 225 625

7 What name is given to a straight line that joins 2 points on the circumference of a circle
but does not go through the centre of the circle?

Chord Diameter Radius Tangent

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8 A football team plays 40 matches.

The team wins 32, draws 5 and loses 3 of the matches.
This information is presented in a pie chart.
What is the angle that should represent ‘wins’?

32° 80° 144° 288°

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9 A box has some small, medium and large shirts.
Some of the shirts are long-sleeved and the rest are short-sleeved.

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This two-way table gives some information about the shirts.

Small Medium Large Total

Long-sleeved 40 20 70
Short-sleeved 4
Total 83 59

How many of the shirts are short-sleeved?

70 72 116 186

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10 A rectangle has an area of 160 mm2
What is the area, in cm2, of this rectangle?

1.6 16 1600 16000

11 A cuboid has length 7 cm, width 2 cm and height 3 cm.

What is the total surface area of the cuboid?
41 cm2 42 cm2 48 cm2 82 cm2

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12 Round 1.288 to 2 decimal places.

1.2 1.3 1.28 1.29

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 13 What is 90 written as a product of its prime factors?

1×2×3×3×5 2×2×3×5 2×3×3×5 2×5×9

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14 Expand and simplify

7 – 2(6m – 5) + 4m

–3 – 8m –3 – 16m 17 – 8m 17 – 16m

15 If a = 5, b = 2 and c = 3, evaluate the expression

2a × (4c – b) – a2

75 93 1000 9025
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16 What is the nth term of this sequence?

8, 11, 16, 23, 32, …

2n + 1 3n + 5 n2 + 7 8n2

17 Factorise fully
16d 3 – 12d

d(16d 2 – 12) 2(8d 3 – 6d) 4(4d 3 – 3d) 4d(4d 2 – 3)

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18 The temperature, in °C, at midday on 10 days in April is recorded below.
22 13 19 22 27

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16 21 24 11 15
What was the modal temperature?

19 20 21 22

19 The price of a chocolate bar is increased by 20%.

The chocolate bar now costs $1.80
How much was the chocolate bar before the price increase?

$1.44 $1.50 $2.16 $2.25

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20 What is the size of each interior angle in a regular octagon?

45° 60° 120° 135°

21 The length of a crayon is 10.0 cm to the nearest millimetre.

What is the minimum possible length of the crayon?

9.5 cm 9.95 cm 10.05 cm 10.5 cm

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22 Write 31.74 × 103 in standard form.

31 740 3 174 000 3.174 × 102 3.174 × 104

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 23 Write (m6)3 as a single power of m.

m2 m9 m18 m63
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24 Round 245 to 2 significant figures.

24 25 240 250

25 The two shorter sides of a right-angled triangle are 8 cm and 10 cm.

To the nearest centimetre, what is the length of the longest side?

4 cm 6 cm 12 cm 13 cm
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26 A daily train service can arrive early, arrive on time or arrive late.
The probability that the train arrives late is 0.2
The probability that the train arrives on time is 0.24
What is the probability that the train will arrive early?

0.26 0.44 0.56 0.74

27 Factorise fully
x2 – 49
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(x ­– 7)(x – 7) (x + 7)(x – 7) x(x – 49) 7(x2 – 7)

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28 Two fair, six-sided dice both have sides labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6
Both dice are rolled and the sum of the scores on the two dice is recorded.

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What is the probability that the recorded score is more than 10?
2 3 3 6
12 12 36 36

29 A triangle is enlarged by a scale factor of 4

The area of the triangle is now 64 cm2.

What was the area of the triangle before it was enlarged?

4 cm2 16 cm2 32 cm2 256 cm2

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30 Find the value of
2

729 3

81 486 19 683 177 147

TOTAL FOR SECTION A IS 30 MARKS

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 SECTION B

Answer ALL questions.

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You must show all your working.

31 (a) Expand
7 (3a – 5)

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(b) Solve the equation

8c – 3 = 20
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c = ..................................................................................
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(c) Solve the inequality
6d + 5 < 38

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(2)
(d) Make e the subject of the formula
e+7
f =
3
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(2)

(Total for Question 31 is 7 marks)

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32 (a) Calculate the size of the angle marked x

Diagram NOT

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50° accurately drawn

°
x = ..........................................
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(b) Five of the angles in a hexagon each measure 110°
Calculate the size of the other angle in this hexagon?

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°
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(2)

(Total for Question 32 is 4 marks)

33 (a) What is the Highest Common Factor of 24 and 32?

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(b) What is the Lowest Common Multiple of 24 and 32?
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(Total for Question 33 is 2 marks)

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 34 A bag contains 8 black beads and 2 white beads.
One bead is taken from the bag and its colour is recorded.
The bead is then put back into the bag.
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A second bead is taken from the bag and its colour is recorded.
(a) Complete the tree diagram.

First bead Second bead

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Black

Black
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White
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Black
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White

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In a different bag the probability of taking a red bead is
10
One bead is taken from the bag and its colour is recorded.
The bead is then put back into the bag.
This is then repeated 200 times.
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(b) How many times would you expect to take a red bead?

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(1)

(Total for Question 34 is 3 marks)

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35 (a) The first term of a sequence is 7
The term-to-term rule for the sequence is add 4

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Write down the first 5 terms of the sequence.

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(1)
(b) A different arithmetic sequence begins

14, 11, 8, 5, …
(i) What are the next two terms in this sequence?

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(ii) What is the nth term of this sequence?

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(Total for Question 35 is 4 marks)

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 36 Describe the correlation that is shown on the scatter diagram.
y
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80 –

70 –

60 –

50 –

40 –

30 –

20 –

10 –

0– x
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0 20 40 60 80 100 120

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(Total for Question 36 is 1 mark)

37 (a) Sadiq is paid $36 000 per year.

He is awarded an 8% pay rise.
How much will he now be paid per year?

$. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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(b) Sunita earns $4 800 each month.
She spends $1 800 each month on rent.
What percentage of her monthly salary is spent on rent?
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(1)
(c) Naasir gives $800 of his salary to his children.
He gives money to Ana, Boris and Cara in the ratio 9 : 6 : 5
How much money is Boris given?

Boris = $. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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(Total for Question 37 is 4 marks)

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38 (a) The heights of 16 boys are recorded in a frequency table.

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Height (h) in cm Frequency

140  h < 150 3

150  h < 160 5

160  h < 170 6

170  h < 180 2

Calculate an estimate of the mean height of the boys.

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 (b) The heights of 16 girls are listed below.
138 cm 143 cm 166 cm 151 cm
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140 cm 159 cm 135 cm 161 cm

153 cm 134 cm 169 cm 166 cm
134 cm 138 cm 160 cm 155 cm
Illustrate this data in an ordered stem and leaf diagram.
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Key:
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(Total for Question 38 is 6 marks)

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39 (a) A circle has radius 12 cm.
(i) What is the circumference of the circle?

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(ii) What is the area of the circle?

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.......................................... cm2
(2)
(b) Another circle has diameter 50 cm.
This circle is cut in half to make a semicircle.
What is the perimeter of the semicircle?

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(2)

(Total for Question 39 is 4 marks)

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 40 A 5 m ladder leans against a vertical wall.
The bottom of the ladder is placed on horizontal ground.
The bottom of the ladder is 1.5 m away from the bottom of the wall.
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(a) How far up the wall is the top of the ladder?

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.......................................... m
(2)
(b) What angle does the ladder make with the wall?
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(2)

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41 (a) Write as a single fraction
w 3w
+

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5 4

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(2)

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(b) Write this recurring decimal as a fraction.

0.744444444...

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 42 (a) Simplify
(i) m3 × m8
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(ii) n9 ÷ n4

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(iii) 40

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(b) Calculate
(1.8 × 103) + (2.3 × 104)
Give your answer in standard form.
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(Total for Question 42 is 5 marks)

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43 Draw the straight line graph with a gradient of –2 and intercept at 4 on the y-axis.

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y
8

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−2 −1 O 1 2 3 4 x
−1

−2

−3

−4

(Total for Question 43 is 2 marks)

TOTAL FOR SECTION B IS 50 MARKS

TOTAL FOR PAPER IS 80 MARKS
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