1.

$25,000 is invested in an account that pays compound interest of 3.5% per annum compounded annually. Find the total interest earned at the end of 3 years.

Answer:

[3]

2.

A car is travelling at 67 km/h. Find its speed in metres per second.

Answer: Find the distance between the points (1, 5) and (3, 4).

m/s

[2]

3.

Answer:

[2]

4.

A map is drawn to a scale of 1 : 250 000. The actual length of a road is 17.5 km. Find, in centimetres, the length of the road on the map.

Answer:

[2]

2 5. In the diagram, ABC = 90o, AD 11cm, BC 12cm and CD = 13cm. Find (a) the length of AC, (b) (c) (d) the value of BCD, the value of cos ADC, the area of triangle ADC. A 11 D 13 B C

12

Answers: (a) (b) (c) (d) 6.

8 The population of Europe is approximately 7.0 10 . The population of Asia is 9 approximately 3.5 10 . The mean mass of the people of Europe is approximately 62 kg. (a) Giving your answers in standard form, estimate (i) the total mass of the population of Europe. (ii) how many more people live in Asia than in Europe. (b) Express the population of Europe as a percentage of the population of Asia.

[1] [1] [1] [1]

Answers: (a)

(i) (ii)

[1] [1]

(b). [1]

3 7. The waiting times in minutes for 80 patients at two hospitals are given as follows.

Hospital A

Estimated waiting time For Hospital A, do the following. (a) Calculate (i) the median waiting time, (ii) interquartile range [1] [2]

(b)

A person is chosen at random from the group of people who waited more than 45 minutes. Find the probability that he waited more than 55 minutes. [2]

4 Hospital B

Estimated waiting time

(c) (d)

Calculate the interquartile range for Hospital B. Compare, briefly, the waiting time for the two hospitals.

[1] [2]

8.

In the diagram, AE = DE, ABD = 75o and CED = 40o . (a) CAD, (b) AEC, A

75 40

C D

Answers: (a) (b)

[1] [2]

5 9. In the figure, not drawn to scale, a regular hexagon of sides 5 cm is inscribed in a circle with centre O. Find the area of the shaded region in the figure. (a) Find EOD . (b) Calculate area of DOED . (c) Hence, calculate the area of the shaded region.

Answer: (a) (b) (c)

[1] [2] [3]

6 10. Jeremy wants to go to London to watch the Olympics in 2012. (a) He needs to borrow $30 000 from a bank. The table below shows the interest rates of 2 banks. Bank for Kings Simple interest of 10% p. a. for the first 2 years. Compound interest on the accumulated loan of 8% p.a. for every remaining year. Bank for Queens Compound interest of 7% p.a. every 8 months.

Jeremy intends to pay the loan within 4 years. (i) (ii) Calculate the total interest payable if he loans from Bank for Kings. Calculate the total loan amount payable if he loans from Bank for Queens. [3] [2] [1]

(iii) Which bank gives a better loan option?

(b)

He bought himself a Canon EOS E40D camera to bring to the Olympics. The camera costs $2050. He paid 15% deposit and repayment is to be made in 24 months at 3% per annum simple interest rate. (i) (ii) Calculate the total amount instalments he has to pay. Calculate his monthly instalments. [2] [1]

(c)

Jeremy received 1471.40 after exchanging some Singapore dollars. Given that the current exchange rate is S$ 1 = 0.49047, how much did he exchange? Leave your answer to the nearest thousand. [1]