Tuesday, July 1, 2014

GCSE/ IGCSE Mathematics Sample Questions

Each caravan has a width of 12 feet.
 Use 1 foot = 30 centimetres to work out the width of a caravan.
 Give your answer in metres
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At 7 am the temperature was –3C.
 By noon the temperature was 11C higher.
 Write down the temperature at noon.
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At 9 pm the temperature was –5C.
 By midnight the temperature had gone down by 7C.
 Write down the temperature at midnight.
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There is enough space for 80 boxes of cornflakes in a stockroom.
 On Monday there are 65 boxes of cornflakes in the stockroom.
 On Tuesday 17 boxes of cornflakes are taken out of the stockroom.
 On Wednesday 29 boxes of cornflakes are put into the stockroom.
 Work out how many more boxes of cornflakes can now be put into the stockroom.
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Jack is 1.78 m tall.
 Amy is 5 cm taller than Jack.
 How tall is Amy?
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Fareeda has four types of fruit
bananas
apples
pears
oranges
 Fareeda is going to choose 2 different types of fruit.
 Write down all the possible combinations of fruit she can choose.
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Here are the costs of pens in two shops.
Shop A- 3 Pens for £2
Shop B: 5 Pens for £3
Mrs Evans wants to buy 30 pens for the cheapest possible cost.
 Which shop should she buy the pens from?
 You must show all your working.
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Work out 2 × (8 – 3)
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Find the square root of 16
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A ticket for a seat at a school play costs £2.95
 There are 21 rows of seats.
 There are 39 seats in each row.
 The school will sell all the tickets.
 Work out an estimate for the total money the school will get.
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One kilogram of cheese costs £5.60
 Jane buys 200 g of cheese.
 Work out how much Jane pays.
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Solve x + 9 = 19
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Solve 2y = 17
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Expand 3(2 + t)
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There are 40 people at a meeting.
 Each person travelled to the meeting either by car or by train.
 13 of the people are male.
 10 females travelled by train.
 8 males travelled by car.
 Work out the total number of people who travelled by car.
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Mr Mason asks 240 Year 11 students what they want to do next year.
 15% of the students want to go to college.
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4 of the students want to stay at school.
 The rest of the students do not know.

 Work out the number of students who do not know



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