June 2003 GCSE Paper 6 (Higher level)

Time: 2 hours – With calculator

Answer ALL TWENTY TWO questions. You must write down all stages in your working.

Question 1 (5 marks)
The diagram shows a cylinder with a height of 10cm and a radius of 4cm.
(a) Calculate the volume of the cylinder. Give your answer correct to 3
significant figures.
(b) The length of a pencil is 13cm. The pencil cannot be broken. Show
that this pencil cannot fit inside the cylinder.

Question 2 (7 marks)
(a) Express the following numbers as products of their prime factors:
(i) 60
(ii) 96
(b) Find the highest common factor of 60 and 96
(c) Work out the lowest common multiple of 60 and 96

Question 3 (6 marks)
A garage keeps records of the costs of repairs to its customers’ cars. The table gives information about
the costs of all repairs which were less than £250 in one week.

Cost, £C Frequency
0 < C ≤ 50 4
50 < C ≤ 100 8
100 < C ≤ 150 7
150 < C ≤ 150 10
200 < C ≤ 250 11
(a) Find the class interval in which the median lies.
(b) There was only one further repair that week, not included in the table. That repair cost £1000. Dave
says “The class interval in which the median lies will change.” Is Dave correct? Explain your
answer.
(c) The garage also sells cars. It offers a discount of 20% off the normal price for cash. Dave pays
£5200 cash for a car. Calculate the normal price of the car.

Question 4 (6 marks)
A cuboid has a square base of side x cm. The height of the cuboid is 1cm
more than the length x cm. The volume of the cuboid is 230 cm3.
(a) Show that x3 + x2 = 230.
(b) The equation x3 + x2 = 230 has a solution x=5 and x=6. Use a trial
and improvement method to find this solution. Give your answer
correct to 1 decimal place. You must show all your working.

Question 5 (3 marks)
The diameter of a semi-circle is 15cm. Calculate the area of the semi-circle. Give your answer to three
significant figures.
Question 6 (5 marks)
A straight line has equation y = ½ x + 1
The point P lies on the straight line. P has a y-coordinate of 5.
(a) Find the x-coordinate of P.
(b) Write down the equation of a different straight line that is parallel to y = ½ x + 1
(c) Rearrange y = ½ x + 1 to make x the subject.

Question 7 (4 marks)
Solve 2x – 3y = 11
5x + 2y = 18

Question 8 (4 marks)
BE is parallel to CD. AE = 6cm, ED = 4cm, AB = 4.5cm,
BE = 4.8cm.
(a) Calculate the length of CD.
(b) Calculate the length of the perimeter of the trapezium
EBCD.

Question 9 (3 marks) ab
a = 3 x 108 and b = 2 x 107 and a formula gives y2 =
a +b
Find y, giving your answer in standard form to two significant figures.

Question 10 (3 marks)
The diagram shows triangle ABC. Work out the length of AB. Give
your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

Question 11 (9 marks)
Julie does a statistical experiment. She throws a dice 600 times. She
scores six 200 times.
(a) Is the dice fair? Explain your answer.
Julie then throws a fair red dice once and a
fair blue dice once.
(b) Copy and complete the probability tree
diagram, showing the probabilities
clearly.
(c) (i) Julie throws a fair red dice once and
a fair blue dice once. Calculate the
probability that Julie gets a six on both
the red dice and the blue dice.
(ii) Calculate the probability that Julie
gets at least one six.

Question 12 (8 marks)
The diagram represents a large cone of
height 30cm and base diameter 15cm. The
large cone is made by placing a small cone,
A, of height 10cm and base diameter 5cm
on top of a frustrum, B.
(a) Calculate the volume of the frustrum B.
Give your answer correct to 3 sig figs.
(b) The diagram shows a frustrum. The diameter of the base is
3d cm and the diameter of the top is d cm. The height of the
frustrum is h cm. The formula for the curved surface area, S
cm2, of the frustrum is:
S = 2πd h 2 + d 2
Rearrange the formula to make h the subject.

(c) Two mathematically similar frustrums have heights of 20cm

and 30cm. The surface area of the smaller frustrum is 450
cm3. Calculate the surface area of the larger frustrum.

Question 13 (5 marks)
A trapezium has the top and bottom sides parallel. The bottom side has length 20cm, and the top side
has length x cm. The trapezium is 2x cm high. he area of the trapezium is 400 cm2.
(a) Show that x2 + 20x = 400
(b) Find the value of x. Give your answer correct to three decimal places.

Question 14 (6 marks)
Triangle ABC is as shown in the diagram.
(a) Calculate the area of the triangle, giving your answer correct
to three significant figures.
(b) X is the point on AB such that angle CXB = 90o. Calculate
the length of CX, giving your answer correct to three
significant figures.

Question 15 (6 marks)
(a) Show that (2a – 1)2 – (2b – 1)2 = 4(a – b)(a + b – 1)
(b) Prove that the difference between the squares of any two odd numbers is a multiple of 8. (You
may assume that any odd number can be written in the form 2r – 1, where r is an integer.)

Question 16 (5 marks)
Elliott did an experiment to find the value of g m/s2, the acceleration due to gravity. He measured the
time, T seconds, that a block took to slide down a smooth slope of angle xo.He then used the formula
below to calculate an estimate for the value of g.

2L
g=
T sin x o
2

T = 1.3 correct to 1 decimal place

L = 4.50 correct to 2 decimal places
x = 30 correct to the nearest integer.

(a) Calculate the lower bound and the upper bound for the value of g.
Give your answers correct to three decimal places.
(b) Use yours answers to (a) to write down the value of g to a suitable degree of accuracy. Explain
your reasoning.

Question 17 (5 marks)
In this question, x = 2p and y = 2q. Express in terms of x and/or y:
(a) 2p+q
(b) 22q
(c) 2p-1
Given that xy = 32 and 2xy2 = 32, find the value of p and the value of q.
Question 18 (5 marks)
For all values of x and m, x2 – 2mx = (x – m)2 – k
(a) Express k in terms of m.
(b) The expression x2 – 2mx has a minimum value as x varies. Find this minimum value.
(c) State the value of x for which this minimum value occurs. Give your answer in terms of m.
Question 19 (2 marks)
The probability that Betty will be late for school tomorrow is 0.05
The probability that Colin will be late for school tomorrow is 0.06
The probability that both Betty and Colin will be late for school tomorrow is 0.011
Fred says that the events “Betty will be late tomorrow” and “Colin will be late tomorrow” are
independent. Justify whether Fred is correct or not.

Question 20 (3 marks)
The graph of y = a – bcos(kt) for values of t between 0 and 120 degrees is drawn on the grid.
Use the graph to find an estimate of
(a) a
(b) b
(c) k

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