Paper Reference(s)

7360/01
London Examinations GCE
Mathematics Syllabus A
Ordinary Level
Paper 1 – Arithmetic and Trigonometry
Monday 21 May 2007 – Morning
Time: 2 hours
Materials required for examination Items included with question papers
Answer book (AB12) Nil
2 mm graph paper (ASG2)
Four-figure mathematical tables
and/or electronic calculators

Instructions to Candidates
Answer ALL questions in Section A. In Section B, you can obtain full marks by answering THREE
questions. If you attempt more than three questions in Section B, only the best three answers will be
taken into account.
In the boxes on the answer book, write the name of the examining body (London Examinations), your
centre number, candidate number, the subject title (Mathematics A), the paper reference (7360/01),
your surname, other names and signature.
Write your answers in the answer book. Make sure your answers to parts of questions are clearly
numbered. Use supplementary answer sheets if necessary.
You must show sufficient working to make your methods clear to the examiner. Answers without
working may gain no credit.
Electronic calculators may be used and mathematical tables are provided.

Information for Candidates

The total mark for this paper is 100. The marks for parts of questions are shown in round brackets,
e.g. (2).
This paper has eleven questions.

Advice to Candidates
Write your answers neatly and legibly.

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 SECTION A

Answer ALL questions in this section

1. (a) Showing your working, calculate the exact value of (9 12 − 5 13 ) ÷ (1 125 + 32 ) , giving your answer in
its simplest form.
(5)
2.65 + 0.14
(b) Calculate the exact value of .
0.3 × 0.2
(2)

(Total 7 marks)

2. (a) (i) Express each of the numbers 72, 90 and 162 as a product of prime factors.
(3)

(ii) Hence find the HCF of 72, 90 and 162.

(2)

(b) Three partners A, B and C invested £500, £1750 and £2750 respectively in a small business.

(i) Calculate the ratio of their investments in the form A : B : C, giving your answer in its
simplest form.
(2)

After one year’s trading the profits were £860. The partners shared the profits in the ratio of
their investments.

(ii) Calculate the value of the largest share.

(2)

(Total 9 marks)

3. (a) The sum of £250 is invested at 5 12 % per annum simple interest.

Calculate the number of years of investment for the total sum to amount to £305.
(4)

(b) A lamp is sold for £13.50 at 12 12 % profit on the cost price.

Calculate the cost price of the lamp.
(3)

(c) A plan is drawn to a scale of 1 : 60. On the plan, a garden has an area of 95 cm2.
Calculate the area, in m2, of the actual garden.
(3)

(Total 10 marks)

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4. In this question take π as .
7

The inner diameter of a circular race-track of width 5 m is 130 m.

(a) Calculate the distance, in m, of the outer perimeter of the track.

(3)

An athlete runs round the outer perimeter of the track in a time of 2 minutes 12 seconds.

(b) Calculate, in km/h, the average speed of the athlete.

(4)

(Total 7 marks)

5. Figure 1

D B
9 cm
41 cm
C

Figure 1 shows a quadrilateral ABCD in which AB = AD, DC = 41 cm, BC = 9 cm and

∠DAB = ∠DBC = 90°. Calculate

(a) the length, in cm, of DB,

(3)
(b) the length, in cm to 3 significant figures, of AD,
(3)

(c) the size, in degrees to 3 significant figures, of ∠ADC.

(4)

(Total 10 marks)

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6. In this question take π as 3.142 or use the π button on your calculator.

Figure 2

48 cm
4m

48 cm

Figure 2 shows a drinking trough with a semi-circular cross section. The diameter of the cross
section is 48 cm and the length of the trough is 4 m. All the measurements are internal. The trough
is fixed with its open rectangular top horizontal.

(a) Calculate, in m3 to 3 significant figures, the total volume of water which the trough holds when
full.
(4)

The trough is filled in 81 seconds by means of a pipe, which has a cross section of area 3 cm2.
Given that the rate of flow of the water from the pipe is constant,

(b) calculate, in m/s to 3 significant figures, the rate of flow of the water.
(5)

(Total 9 marks)

TOTAL FOR SECTION A: 52 MARKS

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 SECTION B

Answer THREE questions in this section

7. The owner of a factory found that in 2004 the total cost of manufacturing 100 tins of shoe polish
was £125. The factory owner sold each tin of shoe polish for £1.95.

(a) Express the profit made by the factory owner as a percentage of the cost of manufacture.
(3)

In 2004, the cost of manufacture of the shoe polish consisted of the cost of raw materials and wages
in the ratio 9 : 16. In 2005 the price of raw materials increased by 20% and wages increased by
7 12 %.

(b) Calculate the cost of manufacturing one tin of shoe polish in 2005.
(9)

In 2005, the Government introduced a tax of 15% to be added to the cost of manufacturing the tins
of shoe polish.

(c) Calculate the total cost of manufacturing one tin of shoe polish, including the tax.
(2)

(d) Calculate the lowest price at which the factory owner must sell each tin of shoe polish in 2005,
in order to make a profit of at least 60% on the total cost of manufacture, including the tax.
[£1 = 100 p]
(2)

(Total 16 marks)

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8. Figure 3

45° 24 m
B C

m
45

24°

South

Figure 3 shows points A, B and C on horizontal ground. The point B is the foot of a vertical mast
TB, T being the top of the mast. The point A is 45 m due south of B. The point C is 24 m from B
on a bearing of 045°. The angle of elevation of T from A is 24°.

(a) Show that TB, to 3 significant figures, is 20.0 m.

(3)

Calculate

(b) the angle of elevation, to the nearest degree, of T from C,

(2)

(c) the length, in m to 3 significant figures, of AC,

(6)

(d) the bearing, to the nearest degree, of A from C.

(5)

(Total 16 marks)

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9. A man invested £3700 in 6% government stock at 92 12 . Calculate

(a) the amount of stock the man bought,

(2)
(b) the man’s net annual income from the stock after deducting income tax at 22%.
(4)

The man later sold £2000 of the stock at 90 and he invested the proceeds in industrial shares at a
cost of 80p per share.

(c) Calculate the number of shares he bought.

(4)

The dividend he received from the shares in the first year was £98.28, after deducting income tax
at 22%.

(d) Calculate the percentage gross dividend paid on the cost of each share.
[£1 = 100 p]
(6)

(Total 16 marks)

10. Figure 4

A 2.8 m B

6.4 m

56°
D C
E F
8.1 m

Figure 4 shows a trapezium ABCD in which AB is parallel to DC, AB = 2.8 m, BC = 6.4 m,

CD = 8.1 m and ∠BCD = 56°.
The perpendiculars AE and BF are drawn from A and B respectively to CD. Calculate

(a) the length, in m to 2 significant figures, of CF,

(3)
(b) the length, in m to 2 significant figures, of AE,
(4)
(c) the size, to the nearest degree, of ∠ADE,
(3)
(d) the length, in m to 2 significant figures, of AD,
(3)
(e) the area, in m2 to 2 significant figures, of trapezium ABCD.
(3)
(Total 16 marks)

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11. (a) Calculate the volume of a pyramid, in cm3, which has a square base with diagonals of
length 14 cm and slant edges of length 25 cm.
(6)
[The volume, V cm3, of a pyramid with base area A cm2 and height h cm is given by V = 13 Ah]

(b) In this question take π as 3.142 or use the π button on your calculator.

Figure 5

6 cm

14 cm

Figure 5 shows a biscuit cone with a base diameter 6 cm and height 14 cm. A “Woppa” ice
cream consists of the cone completely filled with ice cream together with a hemisphere of ice
cream mounted on top. The base of the hemisphere coincides with the base of the cone.
Calculate

(i) the volume of ice cream, in cm3 to one decimal place, needed to make one “Woppa”,
(6)

(ii) the number of “Woppas” that can be made from a cylinder, of diameter 20 cm and height
28 cm, which is completely full of ice cream.
(4)
[The volume, V cm3, of a cone of base radius r cm and vertical height h cm is given by
V = 13 πr 2h ]
[The volume, V cm3, of a sphere of radius r cm is given by V = 43 πr 3 ]
(Total 16 marks)

TOTAL FOR SECTION B: 48 MARKS

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