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3. / Use your calculator to find the answer to the following

What is 0.6% of 85?
A new college has Dh 2 million to spend on computers. The chosen computer costs Dh 3450. How many computers can the college buy? / 1 mark
2 marks
3 marks
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5. / Simplify

Waleed and Yahya are putting up shelves. They each have the same amount of wood. Waleed uses of his wood and Yahya uses of his. Who uses more wood? (Show your working.) / 2 marks
2 marks
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8. / There is a small hole in a bag of cement. The cement leaks out at the rate
of 7 grams per second. Write this rate in kilograms per minute.
A school has 475 students. 247 of the students are girls.
What percentage are boys?
Light travels at 300 million metres per second. How far (in metres) does light travel in one hour? Give your answer as an ordinary decimal number. / 3 marks
3 marks
3 marks
9. / Write the following ratios in their simplest form.
(a) 5.3 : 2.12
(b) : :
(c) 400 cm : 75 m / 6 marks

10. This is a view of a camel racing track. It is made from two half circles attached

to the ends of a rectangle.

Calculate the distance around the track. Give your answer to the nearest metre.

4 marks

11. Juma pays Dh 1176 to hire a car for 6 days. At the same rate, how much will it cost to hire the car for three weeks?

3 marks

12. / A private college has 6 classes of 22, 19, 24, 20, 23 and 17 students. All the students study English, 92% of the students study maths and of the students study Arabic.
(a) What is the total number of students?
(b) How many students study Arabic?
(c) What is the ratio of students studying English to students studying Maths?
(Write your answer in its simplest form.)
(d) The college charges each student Dh 15 650 per year. In one year, how much money does it make in total from these students? / 7 marks

13. Find the area of the shape below.

5 marks

14. Fadel is paid Dh 7600 a month. He receives a salary increase of 17%.

Find his monthly salary after the rise.

3 marks

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16. / A building company employs 785 staff. The number of labourers is 13 less than twice the number of administration staff. How many labourers does the company employ?
Simplify the following, leaving your answer in positive exponential form.
/ 5 marks
4 marks
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18. / Simplify the following. Leave your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.

Solve algebraically the following system of equations.
5x - 4y = 9
2x - 3y = 5 / 4 marks
5 marks
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/ Solve the following equations, for the given variable.
(a) 7x - 18 - 2x = 21 - 3x + 17
(b) 3 - 5 (6 - 0.3t) = 4.1t - 4.9
(c) / 9 marks
4 marks

20. / Sulaiman works in a supermarket. He is paid Dh 1716 for a regular working
week of 44 hours. Overtime is paid at time and a quarter.
One week he worked the number of hours shown in the table below.
(a) Find his regular hourly rate of pay.
(b) Calculate the overtime pay for the week given.
(c) What is his total pay for the week? / 7 marks
3 marks

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22. / A student divides her study time for the subjects Maths, English and Computers in the ratio of 30 : 70 : 15. In one week she studies for a total of 46 hours. How long does she spend studying computers?
Last summer Sara worked in a hotel doing different jobs, as shown in the table below.
What was her average hourly rate of pay? / 3 marks
4 marks

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For the line in the graph above, find the following

(a) slope

(b) y-intercept

5 marks

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25. / Khaled bought one binder and five pens for Dh 34.50. Faisal bought 3 binders
and 2 pens for Dh 45. Find the cost of a binder.
Hassan collects old stamps. His collection of 280 stamps is worth Dh 1050.
He sells one stamp for Dh 13 and buys another for Dh 41. What is the new average value of the stamps in his collection? / 5 marks
3 marks
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27. / The number of patients registered in the Corniche hospital in May was 704. This is a decrease of 12% on the number of patients registered in April.
How many patients were registered in April?
A shop sells two brands of coffee. Coffee X is Dh 22.50 per jar. Coffee Y is Dh 17.50 per jar. 140 jars are sold for Dh 2900. How many jars of each brand
are sold?
/ 3 marks
5 marks

28. / Using the grid below, draw the graph of the line whose equation is
3x = y + 6 / 5 marks
4 marks

29. / The weights of some students in kilograms (kg) are shown in the table below.
(a) Calculate the mean weight of a student.
(b) What is the median weight?
(c) What is the mode for this set of data?
/ 5 marks

30. / Mohammed is a conservation officer in Fujairah. Last week he drove through the desert. The histogram below shows the number of camels he saw each day.
(a) Mohammed saw 16 camels on Wednesday. Show this on the graph above.
(b) How many camels did Mohammed see on Sunday?
(c) On how many days did Mohammed see at least 25 camels?
(d) What is the mode for this data?
(e) What is the average number of camels seen per day? / 7 marks

31. The graph below shows the number of holidays sold by two travel companies.

(a) What was the maximum number of holidays sold by Oasis Travel

in one month?

(b) What was the minimum number of holidays sold by Travel Express

in one month?

(d) What was the total number of holidays sold in May 2000 by both companies?

(e) Which company sold the most holidays over the period shown?

(f) Calculate the percentage increase in holidays sold by Oasis Travel from

January 2000 to May 2001.

9 marks

32.

Use the pie chart above to answer the following questions

(a) Which city had the greatest number of Foundations students?

(b) What percentage of Foundations students were enrolled in Abu Dhabi?

was 1716. How many students were enrolled in Ras Al Khaimah?

(d) What fraction of Foundations students were enrolled in Al Ain?

(Give your answer in its simplest form.)

8 marks

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