Eton College King’s Scholarship Examination 2017

MATHEMATICS A
(One and a half hours)

Candidate Number:..............................................................................

Please answer on the paper in the spaces provided.

Please write your candidate number on every sheet.

Answer Question 1 and as many of the other five questions as you can.
Question 1 is worth 50 marks. All other questions are worth 10 marks each.

Show all your working.

The use of calculators is NOT permittted.

ADDITIONAL MATERIALS: None

Do not turn over until told to do so.

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1. This question is compulsory.

a) This part is about percentages.
i) Find 27% of 32,000. [2]

ii) Richard invests £7,000 in an account that gives 1.2% interest per year. He
invests a second amount in a different account that offers 1.5%. Overall
after one year he receives 1.25%. How much did he invest in the second
account? [3]

b) Solve the following equations, leaving your answers as simplified fractions as

appropriate:
i) 37 x  58  126  65x [2]

5x  2 2 x 1 1
ii)   [3]
16 5 80

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c) Two thirds of a theatre audience are children and the rest are adults. A fifth of
the children and three eighths of the adults arrive late. What fraction, of those
who arrived late, were adults?
[4]

d) An isosceles triangle ABC has side lengths AB = AC = 29 cm and BC = 42

cm. Find the area of the triangle ABC.
[5]

e) Solve the simultaneous equations:

7 x  2 y  25
9 x  5 y  17
[4]

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f) Solve the following inequalities, leaving your answers as simplified fractions

as appropriate:
i) 5x 11  1 x [2]

x x 1
ii)   [3]
4 3 2

bc
g) Given that a  , find the value of a when b = -13 and c = -65, giving your
bc
answer as a decimal. [3]

h) This part is about lowest common multiples.

i) Find the lowest common multiple of 72 and 90. [3]

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ii) Two numbers 72 and N have a lowest common multiple 720. What is the
smallest possible value of N? [3]

i) By what do I need to
15x
i) multiply 10x 2 to get ; [2]
y

10 y
ii) divide 15x to get ? [2]
x

j) Given that 473×271 = 128183, calculate the following:

i) 473×171 [2]

ii) 473×271271 [3]

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k) A regular polygon with n sides has an interior angle of xo. Show that a regular
polygon with 2n sides has an interior angle of (90 + ½ x)o. [4]

[Total for Question: 50]

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2. The diagram shows a 5 by 3 grid. A route is a set of moves, starting at the white
dot and ending at the black dot, where each move takes you to an adjacent corner
on the grid. Move R takes you to the grid point to the right of where you start,
move U takes you to the grid point above where you start, as illustrated on the
diagram.

The route R, followed by R, followed by U, followed by R, is illustrated below.

a) Illustrate on the diagram below the route U, followed by R, followed by R,

followed by R.
[2]

b) Explain why there are 4 different routes from the white dot to the black dot on
the diagram below.
[2]

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c) Find the number of routes on this diagram.

[2]
d) Use your answers to b) and c) to find the number of routes on this diagram.

[2]
e) Find the number of routes on this diagram.

[2]

[Total for Question:10]

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3. In the diagram below, shape A is a semicircle and shape B comprises a semicircle

and rectangle. The radius of the semicircle in shape A is 1 cm more than the
radius of the semicircle is shape B. The height of the rectangle in shape B is h cm.

Diagram not to
scale.

 2
a) Suppose the two shapes have the same perimeter. Show that h  . [5]
2

b) Suppose INSTEAD that the area of the two shapes are equal and h = 3. Find
the radius of the semicircle in shape A. [5]

[Total for Question:10]

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4. This question is about angles and lengths.

a) In the diagram below, angle ABD is a right angle. The lengths AC and BC are
equal and the lengths BD and DE are equal. Giving reasons, find the angle
ADE. [4]

A
Diagram not to
scale.
75° C

B D

b) In the diagram below, PQ = QR and PR + PQ = QS. Futhermore PR and QS

are parallel. Show that angle QSR is half angle QPR. [6]

Q S

Diagram not to
scale.

P R

[Total for Question:10]

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5. This question is about reversing digits in numbers e.g. starting with a number
1347 and replacing it with 7431.
a) Adam starts with a two digit number and reverses its digits. He then adds the
two numbers together to get an answer.
i) Show that if he starts with the number with tens digit a and units digit b,
his answer will be 11(a + b). [2]

ii) For how many different starting numbers could his answer be 143? [2]

b) Ben starts with a 4 digit number and reverses its digits. He then adds the two
numbers together.
i) Show that his answer is always a multiple of 11. [3]

ii) Show that his answer will be a multiple of 143 exactly when the two
middle digits of the original number add to either 0 or 13. [3]

[Total for Question:10]

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6. The diagrams below show that

1+2=4–1
1+2+4=8–1
1 + 2 + 4 + 8 = 16 – 1

a) Draw a diagram ( not to scale ) to show that 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 16 = 32 – 1

[2]

b) Explain why 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 +…..22016 = 22017 – 1

[2]

A set of numbers is said to be sum-free if it is not possible to write any number in

the set as the sum of other numbers in the set, using the other numbers at most
once. For example, the set {1, 2, 4, 8, 11} is not sum-free as 11 = 1 + 2 + 8, but
{1, 2, 4} is sum-free.
c) Show that the set {1, 2, 4, 8, 16} is sum-free.
[2]

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d) Is the set { 1, 2, 4, 8, 16,…….. 22017} sum-free?

[2]

e) Mark starts writing down the numbers 1, 2018, 4035, 6052 etc. If he continues
this, will it be always have a sum-free set?
[2]

[Total for Question: 10]

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