Year 10 Higher Tier Mathematics

Assessment 1 - November 2003

Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper.
Show all of your working.
You may not use a calculator.

1. a) Write down all the factors of 36 [1]

b) Write 84 as the product of prime factors [1]
c) What is the highest common factor of 36 and 48 [1]

2. Write down the first 20 square numbers [1]

3. Solve the following equations

a) 4 x + 19 = 51 [2]
b) 10 x − 4 = 4 x + 14 [3]

4. Rearrange the following formula to make x the subject of the

formula
ax +12 = m [2]

5. Calculate the angles marked with a letter

[3]
c

b
124°

6. Name the following shapes

a) A polygon with 5 sides [1]
b) A regular quadrilateral with two pairs of parallel sides and [1]
diagonals that bisect each other at right angles. The interior
angles are not right angles.
c) A quadrilateral with only one pair of parallel sides. [1]

7. If two shapes are said to be congruent, what do you know [1]

about the shapes?

8. Write a sentence to describe;

a) Quantitative data [1]
 b) Qualitative data [1]
c) Discrete data [1]

9. “Do you have a driving license?” was asked to 80 people. 34 [4]

males said that they could drive and 24 females said they did
not have a license. There were 38 females surveyed in total.
Show these findings in a two way table

10. a) Draw a scatter diagram to represent the following data, [5]

including a line of best fit.

Mathematics Test Score Physics Test Score

8 10
4 6
19 18
17 18
13 14
16 13
2 4
10 9
11 8
17 2

b) Comment on the type of correlation [2]

c) Write a comment which could explain the final result in the [1]
table.

11. a) Increase £240 by 15% [1]

b) Decrease £180 by 30% [1]

12. £640 is shared between Anne, Bill and Carl in the ratio 4:5:7. [2]
Calculate how much each person receives.

13. Write the following numbers in standard form

a) 876000 [1]
b) 0.000000625 [1]

14. Write down one reason why numbers are sometimes written in [1]
standard form

Total Marks: [40

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