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Cambridge International Examinations
Cambridge International Advanced Subsidiary and Advanced Level
THINKING SKILLS 9694/11

Paper 1 Problem Solving May/June 2015
1 hour 45 minutes
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1 In a motor race, a lap normally lasts up to 90 seconds, except the first one which is slower as the
cars have to start from a stationary position. As the cars use up fuel they become lighter and
achieve higher speeds. However, they need to stop twice during the race to refuel. Each pit stop
will add about 37 seconds to their lap time.
One team elects to try out its tyres on a track in a rehearsal for a full race where there are no
other vehicles to interrupt the steady progress of the vehicle. The driver performs well and makes
no driving errors to affect the times and the conditions remain constant.
Which one of the graphs shows the lap times of the rehearsal?
140 A
120
100
Lap 80
time 60
40
20
0
140 B
120
100
Lap 80
time 60
40
20
0
140 C
120
100
Lap 80
time 60
40
20
0
140 D
120
100
Lap 80
time 60
40
20
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2 I buy my sandwiches for each day from the work canteen. The prices are shown in the table
below.
Filling Small roll Large roll Baguette

Cheese $1.00 $1.20 $1.50
Egg $1.20 $1.50 $1.80
Beef $1.80 $2.00 $2.20
Chicken $1.80 $2.00 $2.50
Ham $2.00 $2.50 $2.80
Pork $2.20 $2.50 $2.80
For salad add 20¢ 30¢ 50¢
I plan to have a large cheese roll on Monday and Thursday, a chicken baguette with salad on
Tuesday and a large egg roll on Wednesday and Friday.
The canteen has a special offer: if I order all of my sandwiches for the week then I will get the
cheapest one free.
How much will I need to pay for my sandwiches for the week?
A $6.00
B $6.70
C $7.20
D $8.40
3 A taxi journey is charged at $0.52 per minute. For example, a 10-minute journey would cost a
total of $5.20. I took a taxi this morning at 10:20 and at the end of my journey I noticed that the
fare in dollars (2 digits) and cents (2 digits) was the same as the time in hours (2 digits) and
minutes (2 digits).
How much was my taxi fare?
A $10.30
B $10.40
C $10.50
D $11.00
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4 Four daily newspapers are published in Bolandia. They are The Bugle, The Clarion, The Herald
and The Messenger.
In a survey, 180 Bolandian residents were asked which of the four newspapers they had bought
on a specific date.
Of the 116 people who said they had bought newspapers on that date,
58 had bought The Clarion,

53 had bought The Herald,
42 had bought The Bugle,
19 had bought The Messenger.
Which one of the following can be confirmed from the information given?
A Half of those asked bought The Clarion on that date

B More than half of those asked bought The Herald or The Bugle on that date
C Some of those asked bought more than one newspaper on that date
D Some of those asked couldn’t remember if they had bought newspapers on that date
5 Photographs of pupils are taken and offered for sale in various packages.
2 large and 3 small: $8

These prices include the same amount for postage and packing.
What is the cost of postage and packing included in these prices?
A $1
B $2
C $3
D $4
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6 The town council did a survey to find out what new facility the local residents would most like to
have built in the town. The results are as shown in the table:
Facility Votes
Leisure centre 513
Library 271
Museum 150
Swimming pool 128
Other suggestions 18
The results were also shown on a pie chart, but the regions were not labelled.
Which one of the following correctly represents the results?
A B C D
7 In the first phase of the annual Kolfeit Ice Hockey Tournament the 32 participating teams are
divided into 8 groups of 4. In each group all the teams play each other once.
The group winners progress to the knockout phase, which consists of quarter-finals, semi-finals
and the final. This means that all the teams play at least 3 matches, whilst the two teams that
contest the final play 6 matches.
As well as the winners’ trophy, there is also an award made to the team with the highest average
number of goals scored per game during the tournament. This year’s ‘highest average’ award
was won by the Blizzards, with an average of 4.75 goals per match.
How far did the Blizzards progress in this year’s tournament?
A Not beyond the first phase

B To the quarter-finals, but no further
C To the semi-finals, but no further
D To the final

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8 Phoebe is an air stewardess. Her plane has just landed at Berghaan airport at 20:09 (local time)
after flying to Tapaculo, where the local time is 2 hours behind Berghaan, and back. The total
flying time was 9 hours 43 minutes, and departure from Tapaculo was 1 hour 25 minutes after
arrival.
Which one of the pieces of information given above is not needed to work out the (local) time at
which Phoebe took off from Berghaan earlier today?
A Departure from Tapaculo was 1 hour 25 minutes after arrival

B Landing time at Berghaan was 20:09
C Tapaculo’s local time is 2 hours behind Berghaan
D Total flying time was 9 hours 43 minutes
9 One of the most important parts of a railway track is the sleepers (also known as ties) to which
the metal rails are attached. These sleepers make sure that the rails do not move and the
distance between the rails remains the same.
Originally, the sleepers were made from wood like oak, but in modern times they are made from
concrete. As the wood rots, the oak sleepers are replaced with concrete ones. Each 10 km
section is replaced over a period of 3 months. There are 2400 sleepers per km of track.
In the first month, one third of the sleepers were replaced. In the second month two fifths of the
remaining sleepers were replaced.
How many sleepers had to be replaced in the final month to complete the task?
A 6400
B 8000
C 9600
D 14 400
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10 In Bolandia, car registration plates have two letters followed by two digits.
The allowed letters are A, B, C, D and E.

The allowed digits are 1, 2 and 3.
The two letters must be different from each other.
The two digits must not add up to 4 as this is considered unlucky.
How many different registration plates could there be?
A 80
B 120
C 150
D 180
11 A window in my new house is made of six panes of glass. Half of each pane of glass is coloured
and half is clear. Unfortunately, one of the panes is missing so the window currently looks as
shown below.
I want to fill in the missing pane of glass so that at every edge the colours match.
Which one of the panes of glass could I use to fill the gap (the pane can be rotated or turned
over)?
A B C D

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12 A firm makes 9 different products (A–I) and managed to sell more of every product this year than
last year. The sales of 2 products each rose by more than 100%, 3 rose by between 50% and
100%, 1 by between 25% and 50%, and the rest by less than 25%.
Which of the following charts could represent the data above?
120 A
100
80
Last year
60
This year
40
20
0
A B C D E F G H I
120 B
100
80
Last year
60
This year
40
20
0
A B C D E F G H I
120 C
100
80
Last year
60
This year
40
20
0
A B C D E F G H I
120 D
100
80
Last year
60
This year
40
20
0
A B C D E F G H I
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13 The local shop has an offer on DVDs. All DVDs are priced at $15, $20 or $22. When you have
chosen your DVDs, if the total price is a two-digit number and not a multiple of 10, then you can
reverse the digits of the price before you pay (i.e. a price of $65 would become $56, but you
would not be able to change a price of $80).
Henry has just bought some DVDs. What is the largest saving that he can possibly have made
from this offer?
A $63
B $72
C $81
D $91
14 The local public transport system’s charges are given in the table below. Each journey made
requires one ticket.
Single ticket for one journey $1.00

Book of four tickets $3.20
Book of six tickets $4.50
Book of eight tickets $5.60
Books of tickets can be used on the day they are bought and the following day. They cannot be
used after that.
Ethan’s job is such that the number of journeys he needs to make depends on the day of the
week. The pattern is shown below.
Day Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun

Journeys 5 7 5 4 3 1 0
What is the smallest weekly expenditure on tickets that will allow Ethan to take all these
journeys?
A $17.80
B $18.60
C $18.80
D $19.00

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15 The table shows the costs incurred on the ski slopes of some popular Alpine ski resorts.
Adult 6-day Child 6-day Price of a Price of a

Resort Country ski pass ski pass coffee beer
(€) (€) (€) (€)
Andermatt Switzerland 160.50 79.50 2.50 3.20
Brand Austria 133.00 89.00 2.20 2.80
Courchavel France 182.00 127.50 3.00 5.00
Galtur Austria 131.00 87.00 2.50 2.80
Gressoney Italy 190.80 95.00 1.00 2.50
Les 2 Alpes France 172.50 135.80 1.35 2.50
Pila-Aosta Italy 179.00 95.00 0.90 2.00
Val d’Isere France 208.50 167.00 1.80 3.50
Verbier Switzerland 194.00 194.00 2.22 1.50
A family that would require two adult 6-day ski passes, two child 6-day ski passes, and would
drink about 20 coffees and 20 beers is going to go on a skiing trip.
In which country is the resort, from those listed above, at which this family would spend least on
the items in the table?
A Austria
B France
C Italy
D Switzerland
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16 Peter is laying out his vegetable plot, which is 3 m x 3 m. He wants to divide it into four sections,
as shown, all of equal area.
NOT TO SCALE
How long should the line marked ‘x’ be?
A 0.50 m
B 0.75 m
C 1.00 m
D 1.25 m
17 The Gatwick Express is a high speed railway service between Gatwick Airport and central
London. Journey time is 30 minutes. When a train arrives at its destination, there is a minimum
20 minute wait before it makes the return journey. This is to allow the driver and guard to have a
rest and to walk from one end of the train to the other. The schedule is set out below.
London to Gatwick Gatwick to London
First Train 03:30 First train 03:45

04:30 05:20
Every 15 minutes from 05:00 Every 15 minutes from 05:50
Until 00:00 Until 00:50

Last train 00:32 Last Train 01:35
How many trains are needed to run this service?
A 5
B 6
C 7
D 8

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18 A plan view of the buildings at a college campus is shown below, along with the heights of each of
the buildings 1–6.
5
2
1 60
3 2 40
3 55
4 35
4 5 15
1 6 25
6
Which of the following represents the sky line view from ‘X’?
A B
C D
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The drawing shows the cross-section of a container which is used to water plants. The container
is filled with water and is suspended above a houseplant. There is a small hole at the lowest point
of the container, through which the water escapes at a constant rate. An observer draws a graph
to show how the depth of water in the container changes with time, from when it is completely full
of water.
Which of the following graphs best represents the given information?
A B
Depth Depth
Time Time
C D
Depth Depth
Time Time

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20 Mary is considering buying a new car. Ideally she wants 5 doors, 4 or more seats, a diesel engine
and alloy wheels; but she is prepared to accept a car featuring 3 out of 4 of these requirements.
Also, if it has an automatic gear box, it must have at least an 1800cc engine; and if it does not
have air conditioning it must have a sun roof.
Name of car Jupiter Mars Mercury Neptune Pluto Saturn Venus

No. of doors 4 5 2 5 5 4 5
No. of seats 4 5 2 4 5 4 4
Engine (cc) 1600 2000 1500 1700 1800 2000 1500
Air conditioning Yes No Yes Yes No Yes No
Sun roof No No Yes No Yes No Yes
Gear box Manual Manual Auto Manual Auto Manual Auto
Alloy wheels No Yes Yes No Yes Yes No
Metallic paint Yes Yes No No No Yes No
Central locking Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes
Fuel Petrol Diesel Diesel Petrol Petrol Petrol Diesel
Which car satisfies her requirements?
A Mars
B Neptune
C Pluto
D Venus
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21 The table shows how rainfall can be used to classify different regions by type of climate.
Type of climate Annual Rainfall (mm)

Desert 0–100
Semi-desert 100–250
Arid 250–500
Semi-arid 500–800
Semi-humid 800–1500
Humid 1500–2000
Wet Tropics Over 2000
The charts below show the rainfall during a 12-month period from four regions of the world.
Which region would be classified as arid?
J F M A M J J A S O N D
A 50 125 60 75 20 50 75 25 20 70 25 55
B 75 50 40 35 45 55 75 75 20 30 35 25
C 5 35 25 25 10 20 25 30 10 20 0 0
D 60 40 50 25 25 25 55 50 30 10 20 15

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22 Earlier today I bought a digital clock that was being offered for sale at a greatly reduced price. I
have now discovered why it was so cheap. It works perfectly, except that only one of the digits is
in its correct position.
Its appearance at this particular moment is:
How will this clock appear in one minute’s time?
A B
C D
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23 My friend is getting married next week and I still need to buy a present from the wedding list. The
remaining items on the list are shown in the table below with the maximum numbers that can be
bought.
Item Price each ($) Maximum needed

Small Plate 2 12
Large Plate 3 6
Cup 2 6
Casserole dish 29 1
Toaster 25 1
Serving plate 24 1
I want to spend as close to $50 as possible, without going over $50 and I do not want to buy
more than two different types of item, although I might buy more than 1 of each type of item that I
choose.
What is the largest number of items that I could buy to achieve these aims?
A 8
B 11
C 13
D 14
24 On my computer I recorded the amount of money I spent each day last week, but I accidentally
mixed up the data. So my table, shown below, may not now show the correct amounts next to
some or all of the days.
Day Amount ($)

Sunday 52
Monday 41
Tuesday 25
Wednesday 18
I remember that the combined amount for Monday and Tuesday was more than the combined
amount for Sunday and Wednesday. I also remember that the combined amount for Sunday and
Tuesday was more than the combined amount for Monday and Wednesday.
Which one of these statements cannot be true?
A Sunday’s amount is more than Monday’s amount

B Monday’s amount is more than Tuesday’s amount
C Tuesday’s amount is more than Wednesday’s amount
D Wednesday’s amount is more than Sunday’s amount

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25 Charlie delivers takeaway meals. He offers 5 different meals. He is to deliver meals to a party of 8
people but, unfortunately he has lost the original order as well as the telephone number of the
party organiser. He decides to take a mix of the meals, but wants to guarantee that everybody
gets either their first choice meal or what would have been their second choice.
What is the lowest number of meals Charlie can take and be sure everybody gets at least their
second choice?
A 16
B 20
C 25
D 32
26 A cube hangs from a piece of string directly under a light source. The string is attached to one of
the corners of the cube.
Which of these shapes is the shadow made on the floor?
A B C D
27 I have wanted to buy two particular books for some time, but, as they are quite expensive, I have
been waiting for the inevitable special offers to appear.
Now, this week, both Blackers and Wetrock’s have special offers, as follows:
Blackers: Buy any 2 books – pay half price for the cheaper one.
Wetrock’s: 15% discount on total purchases of at least $50.

20% discount on total purchases of at least $100.
Surprisingly, the two books will cost exactly the same altogether this week, whether I buy them at
Blackers or Wetrock’s.
The full price of the cheaper of the two books is $42. What is the full price of the other one?
A $63
B $84
C $98
D $105
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28 A train travelling at a constant 80 kilometres per hour is passed by a train travelling in the
opposite direction at a constant 60 kilometres per hour. A passenger on the first train notes that
the second train takes 5 seconds to pass by.
Which one of these quantities can be calculated from this information alone?
A The length of the first train

B The length of the second train
C The combined lengths of the two trains
D The time taken for the first train to pass an observer in the second train
29 A road has two sets of traffic lights, which alternate between red and green. The first set is red for
15 seconds and green for 40 seconds. The second set is red for 35 seconds and green for 15
seconds. It takes a car 60 seconds to travel between the first and second set.
A pedestrian sees both sets of lights change to red at the same time. How long does he have to
wait until he sees a car that is just stopped by the first set turning red which will go on to be just
stopped by the second set turning red?
A 235 seconds
B 275 seconds
C 290 seconds
D 385 seconds

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30 My digital clock has a special feature that can be set to count down to my next birthday.
On a number of occasions today the clock has displayed all the digits from 1 to 9 inclusive
simultaneously, for instance:
days to my birthday
In how many days from now will the clock next display all the digits from 1 to 9 inclusive
simultaneously?
A Somewhere between 1 and 10 days

B Somewhere between 11 and 20 days
C Somewhere between 21 and 30 days
D Somewhere between 31 and 40 days
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1 Mr and Mrs Dax are going to the Startrakkers sci-fi convention this weekend with their two
children and Mr Dax’s father. The Dax children are 7 and 13, and Mr Dax’s father is in his sixties.
The parents will attend both days with the elder child but Mr Dax’s father and the younger child
will spend one day visiting relatives. Ticket prices are listed below.
One-day Two-day
ticket ticket
Adult $12 $20
Child $9 $15
Concession* $7 $14
*Under 12, Starman pass or over 55
How much will the convention cost the Dax family if they buy the cheapest tickets?
A $63
B $69
C $71
D $74
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2 The drawing shows the cross-section of a container used in the storing of liquids. A liquid is
poured into the container at a constant rate, until the liquid is at the base of the neck of the
container. After a short pause, more liquid is poured in, at the same constant rate, until the
container is full.
An observer draws a graph to show how the depth of the liquid changes with time, as the
container is being filled.
Which one of the following graphs is consistent with the given information?
A B
Depth Depth
Time Time
C D
Depth Depth
Time Time

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3 At the Bolandia zoo, baby hippanas need to be given tablets, according to their masses, as
shown in the table on the left. Extra tablets are needed if the hippana has an elevated
temperature, as detailed in the table on the right.
Number of Number of
Mass Temperature
tablets extra tablets
20 – 35 grams 2 30 – 31 degrees 0
35 – 50 grams 2 31 – 32 degrees 0
50 – 65 grams 3 32 – 33 degrees 1
65 – 80 grams 4 33 – 34 degrees 1
80 – 95 grams 4 34 – 35 degrees 2
95 – 110 grams 5 35 – 36 degrees 3
Two baby hippanas, with masses of 55 grams and 82 grams, need to be given tablets. Their
temperatures are 33.3 degrees and 31.4 degrees respectively.
How many tablets will be needed in total?
A 7
B 8
C 9
D 10
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4 Aaron and Eve are booking a photographer for their wedding. The following table shows the
packages on offer from four local firms.
PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN FORMAT

FIRM Before the COST
Ceremony Reception Disco CD Video Album
ceremony
Digiphoto $3000
Galloshoot $1800
Memories $2250
Snapshots $2400
As a record of their special day, Aaron and Eve want an album showing pictures of the wedding
ceremony, the reception and the disco and they also want to keep their budget as small as
possible.
Which photographic firm should Aaron and Eve choose?
A Digiphoto
B Galloshoot
C Memories
D Snapshots
5 Among the films showing at Kevin’s nearest multiplex cinema there are two that Kevin would like
to see. The start times and running times are in the table below.
Title Start times

Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride 11:45 13:30 15:15 17:00
(76 minutes) 18:45 21:00
Wallace and Gromit in the 12:30 13:30 14:15 15:00
Curse of the Were-Rabbit 16:00 16:45 17:30 18:30
(85 minutes) 19:15 20:00 21:45
Kevin’s plan is to see these films tomorrow. He does not mind what order he sees them in but
wants to arrive at the cinema as late in the day as possible. Buses from his house arrive at the
cinema at 10 minutes and 40 minutes past each hour. The last bus for the day returning from the
cinema to Kevin’s house leaves at 23:00.
What is the arrival time at the cinema of the latest bus that Kevin can take to fulfil his plan?
A 18:10
B 18:40
C 19:10
D 19:40

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6 The table below shows the examination results of groups of pupils from the same year from two
schools in their end-of-school exams and their university degree. Results are expressed as
percentages of each group achieving the top grades. Mansera College has significantly smaller
class sizes than Hamid Higher.
Mansera Hamid
School
College Higher
End-of School exams 65 40
University degree results 10 12
Two newspapers made different comments on this report:
1: Mansera College is better than Hamid Higher at teaching to achieve good results in the
end-of-school exams.
2: Hamid Higher prepares pupils better than Mansera College for university education.
Which of the comments made above is a plausible explanation of the data in the table?
A Both comment 1 and comment 2
B Neither comment 1 nor comment 2
C Only comment 1
D Only comment 2
7 A view of a carved block is shown below.
Which of the following plan views is not a possible representation of the carved block as seen
from above?
A B C D
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8 My local film club conducted a survey to find out what types of film were preferred by its
members. The films were grouped into five categories. The conclusion was that 75% of the
members preferred either romantic or comedy films while 15% preferred science fiction. The
remaining two categories had smaller numbers.
Which one of the following pie charts could not represent the results of the survey?
A B C D
9 An oil tank can be filled using one or more of five sources. Source 1 fills at 10 litres per second,
source 2 at 20 litres per second, source 3 at 30 litres per second, source 4 at 40 litres per
second, and source 5 at 50 litres per second. Currently the tank is being filled at 90 litres per
second.
Which one of the following pieces of information would be sufficient to identify, with certainty,
which sources were being used?
A One of the sources being used is source 2

B One of the sources being used is source 3
C One of the sources being used is source 4
D One of the sources being used is source 5
10 In a rather wet spring a farmer harvests his barley at 20% water content by weight. He has to dry
it partially to deliver to the maltings at 12% water content.
How much barley must he harvest to deliver 1 tonne (1000 kg) to the maltings?
A 1080 kg
B 1100 kg
C 1400 kg
D 1667 kg

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11 I tiled the floor of a room in my house last week.

At the DIY store the tiles I chose were $2.50 each or $24.00 for a pack of 12. I bought 5 packs.
When I had completed the job I had 6 tiles left over.
How much more than necessary did I spend on the tiles?
A $3
B $9
C $12
D $15
12 A group of friends plans to make a round trip using a boat service along a river, so that they can
see the city from the waterfront. The sightseeing journey will start from Chelsea Harbour and take
the boat service to both ends, finishing back at Chelsea Harbour. The friends are ready to take
their first boat at 07:50. They want as little time as possible waiting for a boat, so they will always
get the next available boat.
Eastbound
Putney 07:25 08:00 08:40 09:25 10:10
Wandsworth 07:35 08:10 08:50 09:35 10:20
Chelsea Harbour 07:45 08:20 09:00 09:45 10:30
Cadogan 07:50 08:25 09:05 09:50 10:35
Embankment 08:10 08:45 09:25 10:10 10:55
Blackfriars 08:20 08:55 09:35 10:20 11:05
Westbound
Blackfriars 07:20 08:25 09:10 09:50
Embankment 07:30 08:35 09:20 10:00
Cadogan 07:50 08:55 09:40 10:20
Chelsea Harbour 07:55 09:00 09:45 10:25
Wandsworth 08:05 09:10 09:55 10:35
Putney 08:15 09:20 10:05 10:45
At what time will they return to Chelsea Harbour?
A 09:40
B 09:45
C 10:25
D 10:30
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13 During the holiday period, the RiverRock bookshop has a special offer. All books are priced at
$15, $20 or $22. When you have chosen your books, if the total price is a two-digit number and
not a multiple of 10, then you can multiply the digits of the price before you pay (i.e. a price of $65
would become $30, but you would not be able to change a price of $80).
I am only going to visit the shop once. What is the largest saving that I can make with this offer?
A $73
B $74
C $82
D $92
14 I have gone to a drop-in surgery to see a doctor. I take a number from a dispenser and wait for
my turn to be shown on the display board.
The rota of the doctors is shown on a printed notice:
18:00 – 20:00 20:00 – 22:00 22:00 – 00:00 00:00 – 02:00

Dr Bilius
Dr Curemall
Dr Killemov
Dr Ziswoanert
The doctors take it in turns alphabetically to see patients and they spend 10 minutes with each
one.
I arrive at 23:03 and am given the number 87. The number on the display board says 64.
Which doctor will I see?
A Dr Bilius
B Dr Curemall
C Dr Killemov
D Dr Ziswoanert

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15 Goodman’s is a courier company. One of their clients is on an offshore island, connected to the
mainland by a toll bridge which charges vehicles $15.00 to cross to the island and return. There
is an option to buy a 12-week pass costing $720 which permits unlimited crossings during that
period.
The number of deliveries to the island varies between 0 and 7 each week. Each delivery requires
a separate journey and takes a whole day. The Goodman’s manager is not informed until 9 am
each day whether a delivery is required or not. He takes an optimistic view and buys the 12-week
pass.
The following table shows how many deliveries per week were made in the first seven weeks of
the period.
Week 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Deliveries 3 7 4 5 3 4 1
What is the lowest average number of deliveries per week that are needed over the next 5 weeks
to avoid losing money on the purchase of the pass?
A 4.0
B 4.2
C 4.8
D 5.4
16 The postcode for 1 Hills Road, Cambridge is CB1 2EU. The second part of the UK postcode is
always a digit followed by two letters. Any digit 0 – 9 is allowed, but certain letters, such as O, are
never used.
The probability of guessing the second part purely at random is one of the following. Which one
must it be?
A 1 in 4000 (10 × 20 × 20)

B 1 in 5400 (9 × 25 × 24)
C 1 in 5625 (9 × 25 × 25)
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17 Four retailers, Jim, Kevin, Lance and Michael, sell pencils.
Jim charges $0.18 each. Kevin charges $0.24 each for the first 100 pencils, then $0.17 for any
further pencils. Lance charges $0.19 each, with a discount of 5% on the total cost if more than
500 pencils are purchased at the same time. Michael sells pencils in boxes of 200, charging $45
per box if 1 to 4 boxes are purchased and $35.80 per box if 5 or more boxes are purchased at the
same time.
Eric wishes to buy 1000 pencils from one of the four retailers.
Which retailer should he choose in order to minimise the cost?
A Jim
B Kevin
C Lance
D Michael
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HOCKNEY WATERPARK
Adults Children
$15 $9
Three adults and eight children have arrived at Hockney Waterpark. They have the following two
special offer vouchers cut out of the local newspaper:
HOCKNEY WATERPARK HOCKNEY WATERPARK
2 CHILDREN ENTER FREE

$5 OFF ALL TICKETS
WHEN 1 ADULT PAYS FULL PRICE
(MAXIMUM 12)
(VALID FOR UP TO 4 ADULTS)
What is the maximum amount that this group can save on normal prices using either or both of
these vouchers?
A $53
B $55
C $58
D $64

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19 I want to create a rectangular pond in my garden. I have not yet decided on the exact
dimensions, but its length will be twice its width and will be between 2 metres and 6 metres
inclusive. There will also be a strip of concrete of width 0.5 metres around the edges of the pond,
as illustrated below.
0.5 m
NOT TO
SCALE
Which of the following graphs best represents how the surface area of the pond and the area of
the concrete vary with the length of the pond?
A B
pond pond
Area Area
(m2) concrete (m2) concrete
0 2 4 6 0 2 4 6
Length (m) Length (m)
C D
pond pond
Area Area
(m2) concrete (m2) concrete
0 2 4 6 0 2 4 6
Length (m) Length (m)
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20 Harry has a large 24-hour digital clock at work. These are the shapes of the numbers as they
appear on the display:
He can see the time both directly and through a mirror. He notices that some of the times look the
same when viewed directly and through the mirror, e.g. 01:10.
How many times does this happen between 09:00 and 17:00?
A 2
B 3
C 4
D 7

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21 Four batteries were reviewed in a technology magazine and compared using a spider chart.
The table below shows the ratings given to each battery, using five categories.
Specific Energy Nom Pulse

Battery Cost
Energy Density Discharge Discharge
Prismatic 4 4 2 3 3
Turnigy nano-tech 4 4 3 4 4
GBS 3 2 4 1 1
Headway 3 4 3 1 1
Which of the following could be a spider chart for the GBS battery?
A B
Specific energy Specific energy
Pulse Energy Pulse Energy

discharge density discharge density
Nom Cost Nom Cost

discharge discharge
C D
Specific energy Specific energy
Pulse Energy Pulse Energy

discharge density discharge density
Nom Cost Nom Cost

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22 Abe, a middle-distance runner, and Ben, a marathon runner, have agreed to compete in a race
over a distance of 30 km.
Ben plans to run the whole race at his normal marathon-level pace of 3 mins per km, and
completes the course in 90 minutes. Abe’s plan is to start the race at his 3000 m pace of 2 mins
40 secs per km, and build up a good lead.
Naturally, after the first 3 km (3000 m), Abe begins to tire. He runs the next 6 km at 3 mins per km
(the same pace as Ben), and the next 6 km after that at 3 mins 20 secs per km. Then for the whole
of the second half of the race he slows to 3 mins 30 secs per km.
Ben wins. At what point in the race does he overtake Abe?
A At 10 km
B At 12 km
C At 15 km
D At 20 km
23 Tanja drives to work every morning. Her journey starts with a section of 5 km where the speed
limit is 50 km/h. She then joins a motorway where the speed limit is 90 km/h. She can leave the
motorway at one of two exits and the last part of her journey is on roads where the speed limit is
60 km/h. If she stays on the motorway until the later exit then the part of her journey after she
leaves the motorway is 10 minutes shorter than if she leaves at the earlier exit.
If Tanya drives at the speed limit for the whole journey, then either route will take a total of 1 hour.
What is the difference between the total lengths of Tanja’s two routes?
A 5 km
B 10 km
C 15 km
D 25 km

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24 At the local tennis club, there are monthly mini-leagues made up of players of roughly equal
abilities, and, if they have the time and can organise the match, each player plays everyone else
in the league once. The winner of each league gets a small prize. Matches in the league are
determined over the best of three sets, so a match is won by either two sets to zero, or two sets
to one. The table below shows the points awarded to players in division 5 for the May league.
v. Anita v. Diane v. Jeyna v. Lizzie Total points

Anita 5 5 0 10
Diane 3 3 5 11
Jeyna 2 5 5 12
Lizzie 0 2 3 5
Which of the following sets of rules for awarding points could explain the points in this table?
A Three points for a win, and one point for each set won
B Two points for a win, one point for each set won, and one point for playing the match
C One point for a win, one point for each set won, and two points for playing the match
D Two points for each set won and one point for playing the match
25 A supermarket sells 4 types of bread. At the beginning of a month their prices were:
Golden Grain $1.30

Harvest Loaf $1.60
Seeded Batch $1.50
Wholemeal Sliced $1.40
By the end of the month all had changed price by more than 10 cents. Seeded Batch had come
down in price more than Golden Grain and Harvest Loaf. Wholemeal Sliced had gone up in price.
Which one of the following is not a possible list of the breads, in ascending order of price, at the
end of the month?
A Golden Grain, Seeded Batch, Harvest Loaf, Wholemeal Sliced

B Seeded Batch, Harvest Loaf, Golden Grain, Wholemeal Sliced
C Seeded Batch, Golden Grain, Harvest Loaf, Wholemeal Sliced
D Golden Grain, Harvest Loaf, Seeded Batch, Wholemeal Sliced
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26 A large square of card was cut into exactly four pieces. These are shown below, along with one
other piece cut from a different piece of card. Some of the pieces of card may have been turned
over.
Shape A Shape B Shape C Shape D Shape E
Which one of the five shapes was not cut out of the large square?
A Shape A
B Shape B
C Shape C
D Shape D
27 A passenger train and a goods train are travelling in the same direction on parallel tracks. They
depart from the same place and have the same destination. The goods train departs at 12:05 and
the passenger train departs at 12:15. Both trains travel at uniform speed throughout their
journeys. The passenger train catches up with the goods train after 10 minutes.
Which of the following further pieces of information, on its own, would be sufficient to determine
the speed of the passenger train?
A The time that the passenger train takes to complete the journey
B The time that the goods train takes to complete the journey
C The speed of the goods train
D The total distance of the journey
28 A chef is preparing a meal for 120 people to celebrate the local football team winning the league.
For dessert he is making apple pies, blueberry pies, cherry pies and damson pies. Everybody will
have one pie, but the chef doesn’t want to make so many pies as to guarantee that everybody
gets their first choice pie. He decides that he will make enough pies to ensure that there are no
more than twenty people who can’t get their first or second choice.
What is the total number of pies he should make?
A 140
B 160
C 200
D 220

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29 Two strangers started to talk to each other whilst travelling on a train. During the conversation,
the older one announced, “My date of birth, 24/06/1938, is the only date of the twentieth century
that is made up of three multiples of 6 and has no repeated digits”. “What a coincidence,” replied
the younger one, “my date of birth is one of only two dates of the twentieth century that are made
up of three multiples of 7 and have no repeated digits, but it is the only one whose eight digits
add up to a multiple of 7 as well.”
What was the age difference between the two strangers?
A 5 years
B 7 years
C 8 years
D 15 years
30 Harry lives in Tessalia by the junction marked ‘H’ and works by the junction marked ‘W’. All road
sections in Tessalia are 100 m long. Harry likes to vary his walk to work, but always walks the
shortest possible distance.
How many different routes can he take?
A 2
B 4
C 5
D 8
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1 John feeds the wild birds in his garden with bird seed placed in three feeders. Two of these
containers have the same capacity, each holding 300 grams of seed, whilst the third feeder holds
900 grams of seed. His seed storage bin contains 18 kilograms of seed. Because more birds can
visit the large container, it takes the same amount of time to become empty as the smaller ones,
and all three containers have to be refilled every second day.
How many days will he be able to feed the birds for?
A 20 days
B 23 days
C 24 days
D 30 days
2 Last year James saved up to buy a car. The following diagram is a graph of the amount of money
that he added to his savings each month over a nine-month period.
Which of the following graphs, if suitably labelled, shows the growth of James’s total savings over
the same period of time?
A B
C D
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3 This is the net of a triangular prism.
Which one of the following is not a view of the prism?
A B C D
4 Elvis wishes to emigrate and has done some research. He wants to move to a country which
matches at least four of the following five criteria: male long-term unemployment is below 1.5%;
GDP is between $15 000 and $30 000; car mortality is below 5 in every 100 000; annual oil
consumption is less than two tonnes per capita; and the urban population is below 80%.
Male long-term Oil Consumption Urban

GDP Car mortality
unemployment per capita population
($) per 100 000
(%) (tonnes per year) (% of total)
Australia 24 765.55 0.71 1.98 88.53 5.34
Denmark 32 767.40 0.62 1.70 86.23 2.33
Greece 14 801.55 2.13 1.93 60.68 11.20
Mexico 6333.08 0.16 0.82 76.91 9.47
Poland 5932.47 4.18 0.63 61.25 7.52
Spain 16 351.11 1.39 1.77 76.93 7.10
United Kingdom 29 771.30 1.62 1.30 79.21 3.38
United States 38 710.89 0.50 3.12 81.30 5.46
Which two countries should he consider moving to?
A Australia and Denmark
B Denmark and Spain
C Spain and United Kingdom
D United Kingdom and United States

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5 Three friends are travelling by aeroplane and want to pay as little as possible in total for their
luggage.
The airline rules are:
Every passenger may carry 10 kg of luggage for free.

Every extra 1 kg above this costs $5.
The maximum amount of luggage any one passenger may carry is 20 kg.
In total, the three friends are carrying four items weighing 6 kg, 7 kg, 9 kg and 12 kg.
Anyone may carry any item of luggage.
What is the least total cost for their luggage?
A $20
B $25
C $30
D $35
6 William buys a bus ticket every day, Monday to Friday, for $2.50. The bus company has just
introduced a card which can be bought to get a discount on all bus fares. Each card is valid for 4
weeks. William has worked out that he will pay exactly the same amount if he gets the card as he
will if he continues to buy tickets at the normal price.
Which of the following could be the price and discount for the card?
A $5 for the card and a discount of 10% on ticket prices

B $5 for the card and a discount of 50% on ticket prices
C $10 for the card and a discount of 50% on ticket prices
D $10 for the card and a discount of 80% on ticket prices
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7 Sealand Books currently has the following offer.
3 FOR THE PRICE OF 2
Buy 2 books and get 1 free
(the lowest-priced book of the three is free)
The following books are availabIe:
The Michaelangelo Cypher $7.49 Moondance $8.49 The Green Lion $6.99
Revenge $6.49 Maze $7.99 Dr. Odd $5.99
Major Dante’s Cello $5.49 The Crystal Mansion $8.99 Barbados Hotel $9.49
I have only $15 to spend and I want to make the most of the offer by buying the greatest value of
three different books for my money.
Which one of the following will be included in my selection?
A Dr. Odd
B Maze
C Moondance
D The Michaelangelo Cypher
8 Amelia is running around a circular 6 km loop. Her friend Boris is injured, so is not going to run the
full distance. At the same time and place that Amelia starts, Boris sets out in the opposite
direction around the loop, walking at half her running speed. When they meet, Boris turns around
and returns to the beginning with Amelia, running at her pace.
How far did Boris run?
A 1.5 km
B 2.0 km
C 3.0 km
D 4.0 km

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9 Colin is an air steward. His plane has just landed at Gallinazo airport at 22:17 (local time) after
flying to Ortolan, where the local time is 3 hours ahead of Gallinazo, and back. The total flying
time was 12 hours 38 minutes, and the plane departed from Ortolan 1 hour 45 minutes after its
arrival.
Which one of the pieces of information given above is not needed to work out the (local) time at
which Colin took off from Gallinazo earlier today?
A Landing time at Gallinazo was 22:17

B Ortolan’s local time is 3 hours ahead of Gallinazo
C The plane departed from Ortolan 1 hour 45 minutes after its arrival
D Total flying time was 12 hours 38 minutes
10 My cookbook says that a salad sauce should be made of 1/3 lemon juice and 2/3 oil.
I put in 50 ml oil but my hand slipped when adding the lemon juice and the total volume is now
90 ml.
How much oil must I add to have the correct proportions?
A 10 ml
B 30 ml
C 40 ml
D 80 ml
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11 Water is allowed to flow at a constant rate into a glass vessel. This graph shows the height that
the water has reached in the vessel over time.
Cynthia looks at the graph and amuses herself by drawing the following 4 sketches of what she
thinks the glass vessel might look like in reality.
Which one of Cynthia’s 4 sketches was closest to what the glass vessel looked like in reality?
A B C D
12 Steve Lumber sells airbeds. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of his store opening, he decides to
hold a competition to see who can blow up an airbed in the least time. In order to showcase his
range, he uses three different airbeds.
Contestant 1 has a standard single bed with a volume of 150 litres, and will be using an air
compressor which will deliver between 26 and 30 litres per minute.
Contestant 2 has a double bed with a volume of 450 litres and has a 0.5-litre hand pump, which
she can operate at 3 pumps per second.
Contestant 3 has a queen-sized bed, also with a volume of 450 litres, and is equipped with a
3-litre foot pump which he can operate at 25 pumps per minute.
Which one of the following outcomes is possible?
A Contestants 1 and 2 complete the race at the same time

B Contestants 1 and 3 complete the race in the same time
C Contestant 3 wins by 1 minute
D Contestant 1 wins by more than 1 minute

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13 A boxer must burn at least 1000 calories each day in training. Below is a timetable for Monday to
Wednesday for Rhod the Boxer.
Swim Run Spar Skip Gym

Calories used 700 550 600 450 500
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Rhod completes two exercises each day. He never does an exercise more than twice in a week.
How many ways can the timetable be completed?
A 4
B 6
C 8
D 12
14 As part of national celebrations, the town’s head gardener has been instructed to create a
representation of the national flag using flowering plants to provide the colours. The ratio of the
colours needed is 6 Red : 5 White : 4 Blue.
There will be 60 rows of 100 plants. In order to make sure that there are replacements for any
plants that die, an extra 10% of each colour will be grown.
How many red plants in total will need to be grown?
A 2160
B 2400
C 2640
D 3000
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15 At the beginning of January, Jimmy started to save up for a new racing cycle. At the end of each
month he put his savings into a bank account from which he made no withdrawals before June.
The total amount that he had in his bank account at the end of each month up to May is given in
the following table.
Month Total savings

January $98
February $146
March $232
April $280
May $410
Which of the following pie charts, if suitably labelled, would represent the amount Jimmy put into
the bank account each month?
A B C D
16 A motor garage undertakes between 100 and 120 car services every 3 months. As part of the
service the engine oil is completely replaced. The cars which are serviced have an engine oil
capacity of between 4 and 6 litres.
At the end of every 3-month period, the garage’s oil tank must be emptied and cleaned, with any
surplus oil being wasted. However, the garage must buy enough oil to ensure they do not run out.
The oil is purchased from one supplier only. The prices for four possible suppliers are shown
below.
Which supplier will be the cheapest for the garage to use?
A Wholesale Oils: 10 litres for $16

B Gasoil Ltd.: 20 litres for $38
C All Oils: 80 litres for $163
D Car Lubricants: 200 litres for $300

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17 Eleven students have to decide who should get the award of “tutor of the year”. There are 3
candidates for the award, Paris, Arthur and Monica. Each student has secretly ranked these three
in order. The preferences for each student are given in the table below.
Student First choice Second choice Third choice

1 Paris Arthur Monica
4 Paris Monica Arthur
5 Monica Arthur Paris
8 Monica Paris Arthur
9 Arthur Monica Paris
10 Arthur Monica Paris
11 Arthur Paris Monica
There are two proposals about how these rankings should be used to determine the award
winner.
Proposal 1 is that the tutor with the fewest first choices should be eliminated. Then the second
choices of the students who chose this tutor as their first choice should be added to the first
choices of the other two tutors. Whoever now has the most first choices gets the award.
Proposal 2 is that there should be three comparisons made: Arthur against Monica, Arthur
against Paris, and Monica against Paris. Each comparison is won by the tutor who was ranked
higher by more students. If a tutor wins both of his/her comparisons he/she should get the award.
If no tutor wins both comparisons, no award will be made.
With the rankings in the table above, who would get the award under proposal 1 and under
proposal 2?
A Proposal 1: Monica Proposal 2: Arthur

B Proposal 1: Monica Proposal 2: Monica
C Proposal 1: Paris Proposal 2: Arthur
D Proposal 1: Paris Proposal 2: Paris
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18 A hexacube is made from six cubes glued together face to face. One hexacube is shown below.
Which one of the hexacubes below will fit with the one above exactly to make a cuboid?
A B C D
19 Colin likes to support local artists, but also likes to think he can pick artists whose work will
increase in value. He has up to $8000 to spend on paintings and is limiting his choice to the
paintings in the table below. The table gives the price he would have to pay for the painting, and
the amount Colin thinks its value will increase by before his planned sale of paintings in three
years’ time. He will buy paintings so as to make his expected increase in value as large as
possible.
Expected increase
Title Artist Price ($)
in value ($)
Artichokes Alban Ache 1000 500
Blue Boil Betty Blue 1500 700
Calm Chaos Curly Collar 2500 1000
Dirt on Dog Deidre Den 3000 1400
Eels Edna Elastic 4000 2100
Foolsmate Fiona Fresh 5000 2400
By how much in total does Colin think that the paintings he intends to buy will increase in value?
A $3800
B $3900
C $4000
D $4200

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20 “Leave It To Us” is a company that organizes children’s parties. They charge a basic price of $24,
plus additional charges per hour of the party and per child attending.
I hired the company last year for my daughter’s birthday. The party was a great success, so I
have hired them again this year.
Last year the party lasted for 3 hours and 15 children were present. The total cost was $120. This
year the party will last for 4 hours, but there will only be 12 children. “Leave It To Us” has not
changed any of the charges since last year, and the total cost will again be $120.
What is the scale of charges employed by “Leave It To Us”?
A $24 + $12 per hour + $4 per child

B $24 + $15 per hour + $5 per child
C $24 + $17 per hour + $3 per child
D $24 + $18 per hour + $2 per child
21 Charlie’s car uses 1 litre of fuel for every 10 km that it travels. The fuel tank holds 50 litres and
Charlie never lets the amount of fuel in the tank fall below 10 litres. At the moment there are 30
litres of fuel in the tank.
He is about to embark upon a long journey of 800 km to Bugu and there are only a few stations
where he can buy fuel on the way. The first is 100 km from the start of the journey with fuel at
$1.50 per litre. Then there is another station, 200 km further on where fuel is $1.00 per litre and
then in a further 200 km a station with fuel at $2.00 per litre. There are no more stations before
Bugu, where fuel can readily be bought.
What is the least Charlie must spend on fuel before he reaches Bugu?
A $50
B $55
C $75
D $85
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22 This is the squad that will represent Habitatia at this year’s Swingball World Cup:
Name Date of Birth

Buddy Aviary 21/10/1984
Jack Burrow 07/01/1978
Leo Den 18/02/1979
Cyril Drey 26/04/1981
Ed Eyrie 04/09/1987
Harry Form 17/06/1982
Archie Hive 07/01/1985
Otto Holt 24/12/1980
Todd Lair 04/09/1982
Caspar Lodge 21/08/1976
Robin Nest 13/09/1981
Melvin Sett 24/11/1986
Greg Stable 30/11/1989
Peter Warren 19/10/1987
Clearly two pairs of squad members share the same birthdays (Burrow and Hive – 7th January,
and Eyrie and Lair – 4th September). Less obvious, however, is the fact that two pairs have dates
of birth that are numerical anagrams of each other (the same digits in a different order).
Nest and Stable form one of these pairs. Which two squad members make up the other pair?
A Aviary and Holt

B Den and Warren
C Drey and Sett
D Form and Lodge
23 Jenny invited 17 guests to a party. She gave each guest a number from 2 to 18, keeping the
number 1 for herself. She then challenged her guests to pair everyone such that the sum of each
pair’s numbers was a perfect square, i.e. 4, 9, 16 or 25.
What was the number of Jenny’s partner?
A 3
B 8
C 15
D 17

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24 There are 20 students taking an examination. The exam paper is divided into Section A and
Section B and there are three questions in each section. Students are required to answer 3
questions in total, with at least one question from each section. The examiner knows that different
questions will take different times to mark. Her estimates of the time each question takes to mark
are given below.
Section A Question 1 5 minutes

Section B Question 4 10 minutes
The examiner knows the students well, and is confident that no more than 10 will attempt
Question 3 and no more than 5 will attempt Question 6, but at least 15 will attempt Question 4.
The examiner wishes to make sure that she sets aside enough time to make sure she can
complete the marking.
How much time should the examiner leave free for marking?
A 10 hours
B 10 hours 50 minutes
C 13 hours 20 minutes
D 16 hours 40 minutes
25 In the student canteen the breakfast menu lists the prices of an egg, a rasher of bacon, a
sausage, a portion of mushrooms, a pot of tea, and a pot of coffee. You choose which and how
many of these you want.
Joe chose two eggs, two rashers of bacon, one sausage, a portion of mushrooms and a pot of
coffee. It cost him $5.00.
Mary chose one egg, one rasher of bacon, one sausage, and a pot of coffee. It cost her $3.25.
Bill chose two eggs, two rashers of bacon, two portions of mushrooms and a pot of coffee.
Which one of the following pieces of information would be sufficient to calculate the cost of Bill’s
breakfast?
A The price of an egg

B The price of a rasher of bacon
C The price of a portion of mushrooms
D The price of a pot of coffee
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26 I have two nephews and one niece who will visit me this afternoon. I have decided to give them
each some money to buy some sweets on the way home. I cannot give them the money and ask
them to share it because they will argue, so I need to make sure that I give them each exactly the
same amount of money. The money that I have is a combination of 20¢, 50¢ and $1 coins and
totals $7.50. Unfortunately, I cannot split this into three sets of $2.50 because of the numbers of
each type of coin.
What is the largest possible amount that I could give to each of the children if I make sure that
they each receive the same in total?
A $2.00
B $2.20
C $2.30
D $2.40
27 When my mobile phone is not being used it displays the time and the date. Shortly after I bought
it, I noticed this display with nine different digits visible.
It set me wondering when I could expect to see all ten different digits simultaneously. I was
surprised to discover that this will not occur until June 2034.
When all ten different digits eventually do become visible simultaneously on this phone for the
first time, what time of day will it be?
A Between 00:00 and 06:00

B Between 06:00 and 12:00
C Between 12:00 and 18:00
D Between 18:00 and 00:00

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28 In a galaxy quite far away there live people who do not use numbers to display the time – they
use letters instead. They have a 60-minute hour and a 24-hour day, just like us.
They use the letters a to l to represent the numbers 1 to 12.

The time is displayed using two 3-letter combinations: the first for the hours and the second
for the minutes.
Each 3-letter combination must be in alphabetical order.
The hours or minutes are found by multiplying the values of their three letters together.
For example, 08:55 might be written as aah:aek or bbb:aek.
There are obvious limitations to this system, such as the inability to express 17 minutes past any
hour. However, it is the preferred method of telling the time.
How many different ways of writing 12:24 are there in this system?
A 2
B 20
C 486
D 720
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29 Byron, Jane, Katriona and Ron went to Delhi. Between them they had $700, in the proportions
shown in Fig. 1.
Ron
Byron
Jane
Katriona
Fig. 1
Fig. 2 shows the proportions at some later time.
Ron
Byron
Jane
Katriona
Fig. 2
Which of the following best describes the single event that happened between the first and
second chart?
A Jane and Ron each lost half of their money

B Ron and Byron changed their money at the airport at a rate of 90 rupees per dollar while
Jane and Katriona changed theirs in Delhi at a rate of 110 rupees
C They each paid a $5 commission charge and received an exchange rate of 100 rupees per
dollar
D Ron received $70 from Byron, Jane and Katriona to cover a hotel room he paid for before
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30 Jonathan wants to design a die for a game. Each face of the die must contain an arrow pointing
to one of the edges. No edge of the die can have more than one arrow pointing towards it.
Which of the following nets would be suitable to create the die?
A B
C D
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1 Study the evidence and answer the questions that follow.
Source A
News report
from Eastland Gazette
Several international newspapers have published documents which are evidence of

widespread corruption within the government of the Democratic Republic of Marinia. John
Obanji, a senior civil servant, has fled the country. He is widely believed to have been the
source of the leaks. Mr Obanji has been accused of treason, which carries the death penalty.
He has applied for asylum in Eastland.
Source B
Extradition request
To: Eastland Ministry of Justice
We have received credible reports that John Obanji, a Marinian citizen suspected of very
serious criminal offences, is being sheltered in your country. On behalf of my government I
protest against hospitality being given to a terrorist. Under the extradition treaty between our
two countries, I require you to deliver him to our police force so that he can face these
charges.
(signed) Marinian Minister of Justice
Source C
Reply to Extradition Request
To: Marinian Minister of Justice
We have carefully considered your request for the extradition of your citizen John Obanji. It is
clear that the charges against him are political in nature and are therefore not covered by the
extradition treaty, which refers to criminal offences only. We have granted him asylum and
must refuse your request for his extradition.
(signed) Eastland Minister of Justice
Source D
Evidence to Examining Magistrate
My name is Henry Hole. I am a member of the Marinian security services. I quite often visit
Palacetown, in the neighbouring country of Kaldovia, when I am off duty. I was there last
week, when I heard a burglar alarm go off. I saw a man running from the National Bank. I was
not close enough to be able to stop him, but I could see his face clearly. The police
subsequently showed me a photograph of John Obanji and I identified him as the man I had
seen running from the bank.
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Source E
Statement
from John Obanji’s lawyer
The government of Kaldovia has announced that John Obanji has been accused of armed
robbery in Palacetown and has asked for him to be extradited for questioning. My client
absolutely denies this ridiculous charge. He believes that if he is sent to Palacetown, he will
be extradited or even kidnapped and taken to Marinia. In that country, he will be in danger of
being assassinated or executed in revenge for having revealed the corruption in the
government. On my client’s behalf, I urge the Eastland government to refuse to send him to
Kaldovia.
(a) How significant is Source C in explaining why John Obanji has been accused of armed
robbery? [3]
(b) On the basis of the information in Source D, suggest one factor which may make the
evidence of Henry Hole unreliable. [2]
(c) Marinia and Kaldovia are close allies. Suggest two ways in which this information is
significant in relation to the evidence given in Source D and/or Source E. [4]
(d) In your opinion, why has John Obanji been accused of armed robbery?
Write a short, reasoned argument to support your conclusion, with critical reference to the
evidence provided and considering a plausible alternative conclusion. [6]

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Source A
News report
Early morning exercise can be bad for your health, according to researchers. They have
discovered that the body’s immune system cannot cope with intense exercise first thing in the
morning. Their research suggests that evening is the best time to exercise.
The researchers, at the Sports Science Department at Brunel University in West London,
examined the levels of cortisol, a stress hormone that can suppress the immune system, in
fourteen British competition swimmers with an average age of 18. The swimmers performed
their practice routines at 6 am and 6 pm on different days. Tests revealed cortisol levels were
lower (that is, better) in the evenings. In addition, levels of antibodies in the blood that help
fight off infection were down sharply in the morning, causing swimmers to be at greater risk of
picking up infections.
Source B
News report
The afternoon is the best time to exercise if you want to avoid injuries. Body temperature is at
its highest between 4 and 5 pm, which makes muscles warm and flexible and therefore less
likely to be hurt. Strength output is 5% higher at around mid-day than at other times of day.
Anaerobic performance, such as sprinting, improves by 5% in the late afternoon, while
endurance is approximately 4% higher in the afternoon.
However, although afternoon exercise is best from a physiological standpoint, research also
shows that people who exercise in the morning are more likely to stick to it than those who
take their exercise later in the day.
Source C
News report
Exercising before breakfast is better for you than exercising afterwards, according to new
research by scientists at the University of Glasgow.
The research was based on a sample of ten overweight men who did not normally undertake
any exercise. The experiment had three stages. First, the men performed no exercise then ate
breakfast; a week or two later, they walked briskly for 60 minutes before eating breakfast; in
the third stage, they did the same walk after breakfast.
On average, exercising before breakfast used up 298 kcal more energy (and so the men lost
more fat) than the day without exercise, compared with only 216 kcal if the exercise took place
after breakfast.
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Source D
News report
Average weight gain aer 6 weeks
Many trainers advise that you should eat something
before engaging in heavy exercise, but researchers
in Belgium have now discovered that exercising 6
before eating is better, especially if you are trying to pounds
lose weight. For six weeks, 27 healthy young men
ate a diet high in sugar, fat and calories. A third of
the men ate the unhealthy diet and did no exercise.
The other two-thirds used exactly the same exercise 3
routine, but half of them exercised before breakfast pounds
and the other half exercised after breakfast. In 0
addition, those who exercised before breakfast drank pounds
only water during their exercise, but the group which No Exercise Exercise
exercised after breakfast consumed energy drinks exercise aer before
while exercising. breakfast breakfast
(a) Suggest two reasons why the findings from Source A may not apply to everyone. [3]
(b) Source A recommends exercising in the evening, whereas Source B says the afternoon is
the best time. Give two reasons why these research results do not contradict one another. [3]
(c) Suggest two weaknesses in the support given in Source D for its claim that “exercising
before eating is better, especially if you are trying to lose weight”. [3]
(d) ‘The best time to exercise is the time most convenient to yourself.’
To what extent do you agree with this claim? Write a short, reasoned argument to support
your conclusion, using and evaluating the information provided in Sources A–D. [6]

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3 Read the passage and answer the questions below.
1 Colour television has been available in many parts of the world since the late 1960s. No one ever
complained about the reliability of the signal or the quality of the picture and sound. Then
somebody decided that the existing system was out of date and needed to be replaced by ‘digital’
television. This was described as an ‘improvement’. Eventually, broadcasters stopped
transmitting in the old system, which meant everyone had to buy new televisions. The quality of
picture and sound are no better now than they used to be, while the reliability of the signal is
worse. This example shows that improvements are always worse than what they replace.
2 Something very similar is true about reforms. In the past, people who campaigned against
injustice succeeded in bringing about important political and social changes, which were known
as ‘reforms’. In those days, reforms were good, but governments now use the word ‘reform’ to
signify making people work longer for less money and reducing the quality of services by
employing fewer people. Anything which is described as a reform should be opposed. It is certain
to be a change for the worse.
3 There are always good reasons for the arrangements which exist. They have evolved gradually in
response to the demands of the situation. Any difficulties have already been identified and
resolved. No change can have such strong support, because it cannot have stood the test of
time.
4 Making changes involves considerable waste of time and effort. It would be more cost-effective to
devote that time and effort to making the current system work as well as possible.
5 Admittedly, some changes do eventually turn out to have been for the better, but the difficulty is
that we cannot tell in advance which ones they will be. It is always more likely that any particular
proposal will lead to disaster than that it will result in an improvement. So the best policy is to be
safe, by opposing all change.
(a) Using the exact words from the passage as far as possible, identify the main conclusion. [2]
(b) Using the exact words from the passage as far as possible, identify three reasons which
directly support the main conclusion. [3]
(c) Evaluate the strength of the reasoning in the argument. In your answer you should consider
any flaws, unstated assumptions and other weaknesses. [5]
(d) ‘New technology has improved the quality of our lives.’
Write your own short argument to support or challenge this claim. The conclusion of your
argument must be stated. Credit will not be given for repeating ideas from the passage. [5]
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Source A
Magazine extract
from ‘Winter Pursuits’
Hotels and other businesses in the winter holiday resort of Snowville are suffering from a
second poor season. Visitor numbers have declined a further 20% this year. The poor
weather, economic recession and increased costs of getting to the resort have all been
blamed for this. Hotel owners in particular are struggling, but the bigger hotels, which offer a
range of ‘in-house’ attractions such as spa treatments, are doing a bit better.
Source B
Newspaper report
from the ‘Snowville Echo’
Several people were injured, some seriously, when caught in an avalanche whilst walking
near Snowville last week. They all had previous experience of winter conditions. They had
been advised by the owner of the hotel where they were staying (Hotel Splendide) that there
was a slight avalanche risk but that conditions were suitable for experienced walkers such as
themselves. It had been a poor week for weather up to that point and some were thinking of
cutting their holiday short – they now wish they had.
Source C
Extract from television interview
with the owner of the Hotel Splendide
Interviewer:
“It has been suggested that you gave irresponsible advice to your guests when you said it was
all right for them to go out walking.”
Hotel owner:
“They were all experienced walkers. Walking in the mountains is always a risky business and I
am sure they were aware of this. The local tourist information office did indicate there was an
avalanche risk. However, if the risk had been serious they would have closed the paths in the
mountains.”
Source D
Statement
from mountain walking guide
No matter how experienced one is in walking in the mountains, there is not a lot one can do
about the risk of avalanche apart from not walking when there is a risk of them. They happen
so suddenly and unpredictably that there is no way that even an experienced guide such as
myself can take avoiding action. Many walkers just accept the risk; indeed the element of risk
is what attracts many of them to winter mountain walking in the first place.
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Source E
Statement
from one of the injured walkers
The whole resort was rather empty and seemed a bit desperate for visitors. Some businesses
seemed to have already closed down. I gather they had suffered from weeks of bad weather.
The first few days we were there, it was so foggy one couldn’t see a thing. We were thinking
of cutting our losses and going home, but the weather cleared so we decided to go for a walk.
The hotel owner said it would be OK. We’re used to winter walking, though not in quite as
much snow as they have here.
(a) How relevant is the information in Source A in assessing the motives of the owner of the
Hotel Splendide in the advice he gave to the walkers? [4]
(b) How reliable is the report in Source B? [2]
(c) How significant is the statement on the walkers’ degree of experience in the last sentence in
Source E? [3]
(d) To what extent was the hotel owner to blame for the walkers being injured in the avalanche?

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Source A
The world cannot go on relying on fossil fuels such as coal and oil. They are finite and a major
cause of global warming. Solar energy will be the most important type of renewable energy in
the future. While solar panels generate the most electricity on clear days when sunshine is
abundant, they continue to work when the weather is cloudy. On a cloudy day, typical solar
panels can produce 10–25% of their rated capacity. The exact amount will vary depending on
the density of the clouds and also on the type of solar panel being used: some kinds of panel
are better at absorbing diffuse light than others. Ultraviolet light also reaches the Earth’s
surface during cloudy days, as the experience of getting sunburnt on the beach when it is
cloudy illustrates.
Source B
In the early days, solar panels were so expensive that they could not compete with fossil fuels
for electricity production. However, costs have decreased dramatically over the years. In the
1950s electricity from solar panels cost $200 per kilowatt of power but by 2010 this had
dropped to $2.70 per kilowatt. As the pricing becomes increasingly competitive, there will be a
huge increase in the amount of electricity being produced using solar panels.
Source C
Germany is a country that has many cloudy days. Nevertheless, it is the world’s biggest
producer of electricity from solar energy. The Germans generate about 25 gigawatts of solar
power – half of the entire world’s supply. This shows that a country does not have to be sunny
in order to produce solar power effectively. This form of energy promises to be the leading
alternative to fossil fuels such as coal and oil in the future.
Source D
A number of environmental scientists maintain that large solar installations will be inefficient.
They won’t produce electricity at night and some of the energy they generate will be lost as it
flows through hundreds of kilometres of transmission lines. Industrial-scale solar energy will
also come at a steep environmental price, they argue. Groundwater will be depleted to cool
machinery operating at high temperatures. Construction will sometimes require scraping
native vegetation down to bare soil, destroying the fragile ecosystems which actually help
reduce the impact of global warming. Moreover, these huge solar projects will be obsolete
almost as soon as they are built because photovoltaic panels, which can be deployed on
residential rooftops, are rapidly becoming more efficient and affordable. A further problem,
even with this smaller scale solar technology, is that solar panels actually start to malfunction
in extremely hot temperatures.
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(a) “This shows that a country does not have to be sunny in order to produce solar power
effectively” (Source C). How reliably can this conclusion be drawn? [3]
(b) “Some of the energy they generate will be lost as it flows through hundreds of kilometres of
transmission lines” (Source D). How effective is this statement as an objection to solar
energy production? [3]
(c) ‘Countries with a lot of sun will inevitably choose solar power as their main source of energy
supply in the future.’ Suggest three factors about such a country that, if true, would
undermine this claim. [3]
(d) ‘Solar energy will be an important source of renewable energy in the future.’
How justified is this statement? Write a short, reasoned argument to support your conclusion,
using and evaluating the information provided in Sources A–D. [6]

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1 Many doctors have doubts about cough medicines which can be purchased over the counter at a
pharmacy. They maintain that they do little to alleviate coughing and can actually make it worse.
However, doctors would be better advised to deal with their own problems, since a number of the
medicines that they prescribe have harmful side effects. This is in spite of their having been
tested.
2 This attitude is all the more curious given the reliance of doctors on prescribing medicine. The
action in the vast majority of cases when they are presented with symptoms is to prescribe a pill.
It is hypocritical of doctors to criticise cough medicines; prescribing medicines is what they do
most of the time. This is like a doctor eating cream cakes and then saying that people should
avoid unhealthy food.
3 Buying cough medicine makes economic sense. A typical price for a 125 ml bottle is $5.00 in the
USA. This is a small price to pay in order to get rid of an irritating cough. Coughs often keep
people awake at night so the potential economic cost of missed days at work because of
tiredness is far greater than the cost of cough medicine.
4 Cough medicine is popular and sales of over-the-counter medicines were worth £3 billion in the
UK in 2012. This must mean that people are happy to pay for cough medicines and that they
think they are good value.
5 Finally, throughout the world, medicines sold to people in pharmacies are subject to strict
regulation. They have been thoroughly tested, often on people who volunteer for this task.
Anybody taking these medicines can be assured that they will come to no harm as a result. So
you should reject the doubts that doctors have about these medicines – this is just professional
arrogance.
(d) ‘People should not be able to purchase medicines on the internet.’
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Source A
Newspaper report
The Millennium Museum suffered a major loss yesterday when a Chinese Ming vase worth
$50 000 was accidentally broken. The manager of the museum had seen the vase in its usual
place in a corner at the top of some stairs at 3 pm when he was doing his rounds. At 3.30 pm a
highly agitated member of staff came to him and told him that the vase had been discovered
smashed to pieces. The manager told us that investigations had narrowed the field down to
two key suspects.
Source B
Statement
by Andy Jones, part-time student worker at the museum
I saw a mother with a badly behaved child in the museum around the time the vase must have
been damaged. The child was running around out of control and I heard the mother say that if
he wasn’t careful he would knock something over like he had done in the supermarket the
week before. I understand you have interviewed a Mrs Smith who claims that the mother had
full control of the child. However, I observed Mrs Smith talking to the mother when they were
both queuing for the toilet, so they are probably friends.
Source C
Statement
by mother of the child
I saw Andy Jones at around 3.15 pm. I understand he is a part-time worker at the museum.
I recognised him because he used to go to the same school as my elder son. He was looking
very flustered and I noticed his hand was bleeding. I remember my son saying he was rather
clumsy and was always bumping into things.
Source D
Statement
by Mrs Smith
I understand that the finger of suspicion for the broken vase is being pointed at a mother and
a child who were in the museum at the time. I observed this lady in the queue for the toilets at
around 3.10 pm and remember being struck by what a good relationship she had with her
child. It is typical that mothers and children immediately get the blame if something like this
happens. Surely the whole point of museums is to educate children.
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Source E
Letter
from college principal to Andy Jones
received on the day of the accident
You have missed three seminars and you are behind with your written work. Informal reports
suggest that you are spending too much time going to parties and getting up late. You should
take this letter as a final warning. A failure to change your attitude will lead to dismissal from
the college. This would be regrettable as your laboratory work earlier in the course suggested
you had some promise as a scientist.
(a) How significant is Andy Jones’ evidence that he observed Mrs Smith talking to the mother?
(Source B) [3]
(b) How useful is Mrs Smith’s evidence in Source D? [3]
(c) How relevant is the evidence in Source E in assessing Andy Jones’s possible guilt? [3]
(d) Which of the two key suspects is more likely to have caused the vase to be smashed?

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Source A
There are two main theories of why good street lighting may discourage crime. The first
suggests that better lighting leads to increased surveillance of potential offenders (both by
improving visibility and by increasing the number of people on the street), which deters them.
The second suggests that better lighting improves the image of an area, leading to increased
community pride, community cohesiveness and informal social control.
Source B
A key way of conserving world energy supplies would be to limit the amount of street lighting
in towns and cities. Critics of this idea argue that it would encourage crime. However, crime
usually occurs when there are few (if any) witnesses, and so the lighting levels are irrelevant.
Lighting can show up potential targets, security lapses and even escape routes. Lighting can
help criminals see what they are doing, minimising any risk to themselves. Finally, lights can
hide criminal activity with glare, providing ideal cover for a burglar by blinding potential
witnesses. They can also obscure security camera images.
Source C
Some people disagree with the idea that street lighting discourages crime. Instead, they say
that a lack of street lighting causes a fear of crime rather than an increase in actual crime.
However, studies have shown that crime decreases in neighbourhoods where there is a mix of
ages and social classes out on the streets. Reducing the fear of crime encourages all types of
people to go out at night. Restaurants and other businesses benefit from such a night time
economy where there is such a social mix.
Source D
The fact that so many offences take place after dark does not necessarily mean they have
been caused by inadequate lighting. Street crime tends to occur in leisure-time contexts, often
taking place when people – both offenders and victims – have gone out to enjoy themselves
and where inhibitions are loosened. A study of 550 offences involving violence or public
disruption in a city in the UK showed that almost half occurred between 6.00 pm on Friday and
6.00 pm on Sunday. This is the main time of the week when people are at leisure.
Source E
Numbers of crimes in an area before and after street lighting was installed in 2003
Criminal
Year Burglary Assault Car theft
Damage
2001 50 76 78 90
2002 45 70 68 80
2003 52 78 69 92
2004 30 35 50 45
2005 25 30 40 35
2006 22 25 35 30
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Source F
There are a number of negative consequences of street lighting. Light pollution means that the
night sky cannot be studied effectively by astronomers. Wildlife is disorientated as to whether
it is night or day. Lighting may damage health, particularly where all-night street lighting
causes sleep disturbance. The correlation between lack of sleep and poor physical as well as
psychological health is now well-established. Finally, street lighting is extremely expensive to
install, run and maintain.
(a) Is the passage in Source C an argument? Explain your answer. [2]
(b) Source A suggests that increased community pride can reduce crime. Does this give
sufficient grounds for the installation of street lighting? [3]
(c) Look at Source E. Suggest four factors that could account for the decline in crime after 2003
other than the installation of street lighting. [4]
(d) ‘Good street lighting makes a major contribution to crime control.’
How justified is this statement? Write a short, reasoned argument to support your conclusion,
using and evaluating the information provided in Sources A–F. [6]

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1 Many drivers now rely on satellite navigation systems (satnav) in order to guide them to their
destination. Whilst hailed as a key advance by technological geeks, we should regret its
introduction; it is a most unwelcome invention.
2 As people have come to rely on satnav, they have lost the ability to read maps. This most useful
skill has traditionally been taught in geography lessons. All this learning is now going to waste as
drivers do not need to bother with maps. They can look and listen to their satnav instead. If they
used maps, drivers would not suffer from the distracting effects of satnav. They could plan their
journey in advance and arrive at their destination safely, free from distraction. Discouraging the
use of satnav would make a positive contribution to road safety.
3 Because of the visual aspect of satnav, drivers will look at it, rather than the road. This is
particularly the case at busy and complicated road junctions in cities, where driving requires full
concentration. It represents a hazard to other road users. Compared to cars in the past, modern
cars already have a multitude of instruments that drivers need to look at. They do not need yet
another one to add to the distraction. The modern car’s instrument panel now resembles
something that would be more appropriate in an aeroplane. Manufacturers only include this array
of dials and flashing lights to make the car look more impressive.
4 Satnav frequently makes mistakes. For example, it often fails to indicate where a river crossing is
by ferry and some motorists, over-reliant on their satnav, have been known to drive off jetties into
the water. It also takes motorists on the shortest route, which is not always the one most suitable
as regards road width. There have been many cases of heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) getting
stuck on narrow roads as a result of drivers following instructions from their satnavs.
(d) ‘Young people should be encouraged to travel.’
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not correct. Marks may be lost if working needed to support an answer is not shown.
Calculators should be used where appropriate.
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1 Kerry has been commissioned to produce a design for the way that a wall will be painted. She
has decided that the design will be created by painting the bricks of the wall so that any individual
brick is painted in one particular colour. The area to be painted is shown below.
Kerry wants to make the design so that every brick touches exactly one other brick of the same
colour. Some of the bricks at the edges are smaller but will be treated in the same way.
Before working on the full design Kerry works out a design for a smaller wall. The numbers in the
bricks represent different colours.
1
2
2
3
(a) Explain why the small brick on the left in the second row must be coloured using colour 1. [1]
(b) Copy the diagram of the small wall and complete the design using only colours 1, 2 and 3. [1]
The diagram below shows how Kerry has started to colour the wall.
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n
A 1 4 1 1
B 1 4 2
C 2 2 3 2 2
D 3 3 2
E 4 4 3
F 3 4
G 2 3 4
Each whole brick is identified by one capital and two lower case letters. For example, brick Bjk is
coloured using colour 2 and brick Flm is coloured using colour 4. The smaller bricks are identified
using one capital letter and one lower case letter, e.g. Ba.
Kerry will only use four colours for her design.
(c) What colour must brick Ckl be painted? Explain your answer. [1]
(d) Explain why bricks Acd and Bde must be the same colour. [2]
(e) Write down the colours of all of the bricks in row D, in order from left to right. [2]
(f) Draw all the different ways that Kerry can colour the set of bricks {Fa, Fbc, Gab, Gcd}. [3]
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2 The Goscinny train company announced a significant decrease in the fare from Babaorum to
Laudanum: a Single ticket in either direction would be reduced from $36 to $24.
The trains are never full, indeed there are always plenty of spare seats. Each ticket is only valid
on a specified day, and no refunds are given for unused tickets.
What was not mentioned in the advertising was that they would no longer offer a Day Return
ticket for $37, which allowed one trip in each direction. They would now simply charge $48 for a
pair of $24 tickets for those wanting to go in both directions on the same day.
(a) Charles travels from Babaorum to Laudanum and back 5 times each week. He used to buy
Day Return tickets every time. How much more does he now have to pay each week? [2]
Some travellers used to buy a Day Return even if they were not certain that they would use the
return portion.
(b) What must the probability of needing the return portion have exceeded to have made it
worthwhile to risk buying a Day Return ticket? [1]
It was thought that a few travellers who only needed a Single would buy a Day Return and sell
the other portion to someone wanting just a Single in the other direction. After the change there
was nothing to be gained from doing this.
(c) Before the change, what range of prices would have made both a saving for the person
selling the half-used ticket, and a saving for the person buying it? [1]
(d) Assume that people only bought tickets they were certain to use themselves.
If people’s requirements for journeys remained the same, what proportion of tickets would
have to have been Singles to result in no change in the company’s income? [2]
The numbers of tickets sold for travel on the Wednesday before the change were 20 Singles and
50 Day Returns, but there were 30 Singles sold separately and 76 Singles sold in pairs for the
Wednesday after the change.
The number of passenger journeys was:
From Babaorum From Laudanum
Before 52 56
After 51 52
The inspectors checked that each passenger had a valid ticket.
(e) What was the change in the total income? [2]
(f) How many journeys were paid for but not used
(i) on the Wednesday before the change? [1]
(ii) on the Wednesday after the change? [1]

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3 Claudel is a sculptress who is considering how she can best make a profit from her skills. She
makes her calculations based on the following:
• She will work 200 hours in each calendar month.
• Each commission will earn her $900, after paying for materials, and takes 30 hours of
sculpting work.
• Each commission also requires 10 hours of unskilled work. She can either do this herself
or hire an assistant. The minimum wage for an assistant is $10 per hour.
• New commissions are always available.
(a) Show that Claudel is able to make $4500 per month if she does the unskilled work herself. [1]
When doing her calculations, Claudel decides to include the appropriate fraction of earnings for
any commission that is only partially completed. For example, if she is halfway through a
commission at the end of a month, she considers that as $450 earned. When paying an
assistant, she treats the unskilled work in the same way.
(b) If Claudel hires a part-time assistant at the beginning of the first month, what is the maximum
profit she can make by the end of that month? [3]
(c) What is the maximum that Claudel could pay an assistant per hour and ensure that she still
makes the same amount of profit in the first year as she would on her own? [3]
Claudel decides that she will pay any unskilled assistants that she hires at the minimum wage of
$10 per hour. She can either do the sculpting work herself, or pay skilled artisans at a rate of $15
per hour. Each assistant or artisan will work no more than 200 hours per calendar month. Each
artisan requires continual support and quality control: supervising their work requires her to spend
12 minutes with each artisan per hour of work. This time is not spent sculpting – and therefore the
artisan only spends 48 minutes sculpting in every hour (which amounts to 4 hours sculpting, in
every 5 hours of paid work). Skilled artisans will not do unskilled work.
(d) How much profit could Claudel make per month if she employed one skilled artisan full-time
and a part-time unskilled assistant? [3]
Claudel is considering hiring several artisans and doing no work herself other than supervising.
(e) How many artisans working full time would make it necessary to hire a second assistant? [2]
She discovers that if she pursues her plan, she will have to register as a ‘small business’. The
only extra cost involved in this process is that of registering employees, which will cost $1000 per
year for each of her employees, paid in advance.
(f) Calculate the maximum profit Claudel could make per year. [3]
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4 Last month, in Juneau, Alaska, Pasta Masta opened its 500th restaurant in the USA. There are
now Pasta Masta restaurants in 16 States.
To celebrate, Pasta Masta has been running the Great State Giveaway promotion, giving
customers the opportunity to win up to $500. For every main course ordered, customers receive a
sealed envelope containing one card, which could be a Prize Card, Wild Card or Bonus Card.
Prize Cards
TENN SOTA MING KEN ZONA GAN ORNIA ALA MONT
$270 $260 $250 $240 $230 $220 $210 $200 $190
MICHI HOMA ANA RIDA FLO NEBRA TUCKY ESSEE NEV
$180 $170 $160 $150 $140 $130 $120 $110 $100
CALIF WYO SKA OKLA MINNE BAMA ARI VER INDI
$90 $80 $70 $60 $50 $40 $30 $20 $10
Wild Cards Bonus Cards
A–A M–N– –O–A + + + + +
$0 $0 $0 $100 $80 $60 $40 $20
Each dash on these cards can

represent any required letter.
A cash prize can be claimed by combining two cards to spell the name of one of the 16 States
with Pasta Masta restaurants:
ALABAMA MINNESOTA
ALASKA MONTANA
ARIZONA NEBRASKA
CALIFORNIA NEVADA
FLORIDA OKLAHOMA
INDIANA TENNESSEE
KENTUCKY VERMONT
MICHIGAN WYOMING
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The prize is the sum of the amounts on the two cards. It can be increased by the appropriate
amount if the claimant also submits a bonus card. However, only one bonus card may be used
with each claim.
(a) Mary has two cards that spell KENTUCKY, and a +$60 bonus card. How much can she
claim? [1]
(b) Which State must be formed in order to be able to claim the top prize of $500? [1]
(c) What is the largest prize that can be claimed by combining a –O–A wild card with another
card, but no bonus card? [1]
(d) (i) Which State can only be formed by combining a prize card and a wild card? [1]
(ii) Which State can be formed by combining two wild cards? [1]
(e) Louis won $330 with FLO + RIDA + $40.
Give three other examples of a single claim that would win $330. [3]
Tex and Carol have both been collecting Great State Giveaway cards.
Tex has ALA, INDI, ORNIA, VER, +$100 and +$80.

Carol has ANA, BAMA, ESSEE, NEBRA, –O–A and +$20.
They have eaten together at Pasta Masta this evening, and have just opened their envelopes.
Tex has MONT and Carol has SKA, so both of them can now claim a prize.
(f) (i) How much can Tex claim? [1]
(ii) How much can Carol claim? [1]
They realise that they can win more in total if they put all their cards together.
(g) What is the maximum they can claim in total? [3]
George has been collecting cards for a long time, but is still not able to claim a prize.
(h) What is the maximum number of different prize cards that someone could have and still not
be able to claim a prize? [2]
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1 The activity boards at CONFEST offer various 60-minute workshops in three locations: the
smallest, Unity; medium-sized Bliss; and the largest, The Stage. This is the timetable for
Wednesday which was displayed at the information tent at 8 am:
Time Unity Bliss The Stage
10 am Meditation Hatha Yoga
11 am Macrobiotic Food
12 noon Vinyasa Yoga Cuddles
1 pm Carpathian Water Buffalo Origami
2 pm Body Painting Healing
3 pm Tree Hugging Privacy Rights in International Law
4 pm Ashtanga Yoga Fire Twirling Massage
5 pm Sunflowers Mud Bath
6 pm Recycling Tea Ceremony Spontaneous Choir
7 pm Chanting
8 pm Iyengar Yoga Silent Disco
It is possible to move events to later in the day (at the risk of some people not being able to go to
another workshop at that time) and it is possible to move an event to a larger venue if it is free.
Starting earlier is not possible as those planning to attend would not know of the change.
Amethyst is considering offering a small workshop on flower arranging, which could be held at
any of the locations, but she does not want to miss the Macrobiotic Food session or any form of
Yoga.
(a) What is the earliest she could offer a workshop, and where would it be? [1]
In fact, she realises that many people will not know it is on, so offers it later in the week instead.
At 9.30 am on Wednesday there was concern that flooding might make Unity unusable for the
whole day, and the committee looked at moving and/or postponing workshops. It would not be
possible to add another session at 9 pm.
(b) (i) How many workshops would have to be moved to a later date? [1]
(ii) Suggest a revised timetable with the fewest workshops changed as possible, and the
fewest times changed. [2]
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There was no flood, but too many people came at 1 pm for the talk on Carpathian Water Buffalo.
The tent at Bliss can accommodate no more than 40 people, including the organiser. The next
two periods in Bliss were still vacant.
Of the 54 people who came for the talk on Carpathian Water Buffalo:
12 said they intended to go to Body Painting;
30 said they intended to go to Healing;
21 said they intended to go to Tree Hugging;
11 said they intended to go to Privacy Rights in International Law.
At least one of the 54, the organiser, Michel, didn’t want to go to another session, and arranged
to hold his talk on water buffalo twice so that everybody could attend.
(c) Which two of 1 pm, 2 pm and 3 pm did he choose? Explain your answer. [2]
Some of those who had attended Origami found that they could now also attend Carpathian
Water Buffalo, because they were not intending to go to workshops offered at 2 pm or 3 pm.
(d) Assuming that everyone who came to Bliss at 1 pm did attend one of the two sessions, what
are the maximum and minimum numbers of other people that could attend the second
session? [3]
The fire marshals declared at 3 pm that it is not safe to do the Fire Twirling in a venue as small as
Bliss, so the workshop must be moved.
(e) What is a two-move re-arrangement that will still allow Alys to attend the workshops on
Sunflowers, Chanting and Fire Twirling? [1]

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2 Three sisters have devised a method to share a cake between them. Although none of the three
is very good at cutting 120° slices, they are all good at identifying a fair portion. Assume that all
portions are a whole number of degrees.
Their method involves allowing one of them to propose a cut, by marking lines on the icing on the
top of the cake. The cake is then passed to the next sister who will improve upon the proposed
division, if she can, by smoothing out one of the lines and re-marking it herself. The third sister
then does the same.
Their method for improving upon a division involves moving the line between the largest and
smallest portions so as to even out those portions. Where the largest and smallest portions add
up to an odd number of degrees, one of the resulting portions is 1° bigger than the other. For
example, portions of 110° and 136° would be adjusted to become two portions of 123° each, and
portions of 110° and 137° would become portions of 123° and 124°.
The first sister’s division never includes portions bigger than 165° or smaller than 75°. The sisters
never attempt to improve a division where the difference between the largest and smallest
portions is 10° or less.
(a) The first sister marked a cake into portions of 102°, 128° and 130°, and each of the other two
sisters made an improvement upon the division.
What sizes were the portions after each sister had made her improvement? [2]
(b) The first sister marked a second cake into portions, which was then improved by the second
sister, giving portions of 104°, 128° and 128°.
Give an example of what the first division might have been. [1]
Once the final portions are arrived at, the sisters are happy if all three portions are between 115°
and 125° (inclusive). If not, they will eat the cake but will have an argument.
(c) A third cake had final portions which resulted in an argument. Give an example of a first
division that would have led to this situation. [2]
(d) On a fourth cake, the first sister made a division which the others were unable to improve
upon, but which resulted in an argument. Give two possibilities for the first division. [2]
(e) The first sister wants to make a division that would result in one of the final portions being as
large as possible. Give an example of a first division that would achieve this. [3]
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3 Roger’s cleaning company calculates its prices for cleaning buildings in the following way:
• There is a fixed charge of $20.
• $0.50 is charged for every square metre of floor area in the building.
• An additional $10 is charged for every room in the building.
In this question assume that all rooms in buildings have a floor area that is a whole number of
square metres.
(a) What would be the price for Roger’s company to clean a building containing 5 rooms and
having a total floor area of 50 square metres? [2]
Trevor is planning to set up a cleaning company, but only wants to calculate his prices based on
the floor area to be cleaned. He will not have a fixed charge or add any extra to the price for the
number of rooms.
(b) What should he charge per square metre of floor area to match the price of Roger’s company
for a building containing 5 rooms and having a total floor area of 50 square metres? [1]
Trevor has decided to set his charge at $1.50 per square metre to be cleaned.
(c) If a building has 6 rooms and would cost the same to clean with either company, what is the
total floor area? [3]
Trevor also intends to offer an ‘Express’ service in which he will have 3 cleaners clean the
building, rather than just 1. He wants to set the price for this service so that he earns twice what
he would from the standard service, after paying his cleaners. Trevor pays each cleaner $0.90
per square metre to be cleaned.
(d) How much should Trevor charge per square metre of floor area for the ‘Express’ service? [3]
As soon as Trevor announced his prices, Roger’s company reduced their prices by making the
extra charge per room just $5. One of the bookings that Trevor had received was cancelled
because Trevor’s price at the standard rate had been cheaper, but was now $15 more expensive
than Roger’s price.
(e) (i) What is the minimum number of rooms that could be in such a building? [1]
(ii) What is the floor area of a building with this minimum number of rooms? [2]
Trevor decided that he would offer to clean the smallest room in any building with more than
3 rooms for free. This meant that Trevor’s price for the job that he lost was now cheaper again.
(f) What is the maximum number of rooms that there could be in this building? Justify your
answer. [3]

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4 Every year the winners of the four regional heats compete in the final of the National Quiz
Challenge for the Wenwich Cup. The winner of the Cup is also presented with $500, and the
runner-up receives $200.
There are 7 rounds in the final, each one consisting of 20 multiple-choice questions. Rounds 3
and 6 are General Knowledge rounds, whilst in each of the others the contestants are given a
choice of three categories from which they must select one. No contestant may select the same
category twice.
In all 7 rounds, a correct answer scores 5 points, and 3 points are deducted for an incorrect
answer. Each contestant is allowed to pass (choose not to answer) 3 questions per round without
penalty, but 2 points are deducted for all further passes.
Each contestant has the option to Double Dare one of the Category rounds. The intention to
Double Dare must be declared when announcing the choice of category. In a Double Dare round,
that contestant scores 10 points for every correct answer, but has 20 points deducted for every
incorrect answer and every pass. Contestants may not Double Dare a General Knowledge round.
If two contestants finish with the same number of points, the contestant with the greater number
of correct answers beats the other.
This year’s finalists are Eamonn, Norma, Sophie and Wesley, and the final is currently in
progress. Round 6 has been completed, and the categories for Round 7 have just been revealed
as Literature, People and Science.
The categories for the previous rounds were:

Round 1 – History, Music and Sport
Round 2 – Geography, Literature and Science
Round 4 – History, Music and People
Round 5 – Current Affairs, Geography and Sport
The contestants’ choices were as follows:
Round 1 Round 2 Round 4 Round 5

Eamonn Music Literature People Current Affairs
Norma Music Science People Geography
Sophie History Science Music Geography
Wesley Sport Geography People Current Affairs
After 6 Rounds:
Wesley is in first place with 478 points and has given 99 correct answers;
Norma is in second place with 432 points and has given 93 correct answers;
Eamonn is in third place with 420 points and has given 92 correct answers;
Sophie is in fourth place with 381 points and has given 93 correct answers.
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Their performances, round by round, are detailed below:
Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5 Round 6

Pts Correct Pts Correct Pts Correct Pts Correct Pts Correct Pts Correct
Eamonn 62 14 80 16 74 16 70 15 74 16 60 15
Norma 71 16 74 16 69 15 63 14 77 16 78 16
Sophie 71 15 64 14 82 17 20 14 76 17 68 16
Wesley 70 15 85 17 77 16 80 16 82 17 84 18
(a) How many correct answers altogether have been given to Geography questions? [2]
(b) Norma gave one more correct answer in Round 1 than Sophie, yet they both scored
71 points.
(i) How many incorrect answers and how many passes did Norma have in Round 1? [1]
(ii) How many incorrect answers and how many passes did Sophie have in Round 1? [1]
Norma is the only contestant not to have Double Dared so far.
(c) What category did Wesley Double Dare? [2]
(d) Sophie’s decision to Double Dare Music in Round 4 proved costly.
If she had not Double Dared but had given the same number of correct answers,
(i) what is the minimum number of points she could have scored in Round 4? [1]
(ii) what is the maximum number of points she could have scored in Round 4? [1]
(e) It is not compulsory to Double Dare, and Norma is considering whether or not to Double Dare
Round 7.
(i) What category must Norma select for Round 7? [1]
(ii) If she decides to Double Dare, what is the minimum number of correct answers she
needs to guarantee that she will win the Cup? [2]
(iii) If she decides not to Double Dare, how many correct answers from Wesley would
guarantee that he will win the Cup, even if he answers all of his other questions
incorrectly? [2]
(iv) Should Norma Double Dare Round 7, or not? Explain the reasoning behind your opinion.
[2]
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1 Kerry has been commissioned to produce a design for the way that a wall will be painted. She
has decided that the design will be created by painting the bricks of the wall so that any individual
brick is painted in one particular colour. The area to be painted is shown below.
Kerry wants to make the design so that every brick touches exactly one other brick of the same
colour. Some of the bricks at the edges are smaller but will be treated in the same way.
Before working on the full design Kerry works out a design for a smaller wall. The numbers in the
bricks represent different colours.
1
2
2
3
(a) Explain why the small brick on the left in the second row must be coloured using colour 1. [1]
(b) Copy the diagram of the small wall and complete the design using only colours 1, 2 and 3. [1]
The diagram below shows how Kerry has started to colour the wall.
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n
A 1 4 1 1
B 1 4 2
C 2 2 3 2 2
D 3 3 2
E 4 4 3
F 3 4
G 2 3 4
Each whole brick is identified by one capital and two lower case letters. For example, brick Bjk is
coloured using colour 2 and brick Flm is coloured using colour 4. The smaller bricks are identified
using one capital letter and one lower case letter, e.g. Ba.
Kerry will only use four colours for her design.
(c) What colour must brick Ckl be painted? Explain your answer. [1]
(d) Explain why bricks Acd and Bde must be the same colour. [2]
(e) Write down the colours of all of the bricks in row D, in order from left to right. [2]
(f) Draw all the different ways that Kerry can colour the set of bricks {Fa, Fbc, Gab, Gcd}. [3]
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2 The Goscinny train company announced a significant decrease in the fare from Babaorum to
Laudanum: a Single ticket in either direction would be reduced from $36 to $24.
The trains are never full, indeed there are always plenty of spare seats. Each ticket is only valid
on a specified day, and no refunds are given for unused tickets.
What was not mentioned in the advertising was that they would no longer offer a Day Return
ticket for $37, which allowed one trip in each direction. They would now simply charge $48 for a
pair of $24 tickets for those wanting to go in both directions on the same day.
(a) Charles travels from Babaorum to Laudanum and back 5 times each week. He used to buy
Day Return tickets every time. How much more does he now have to pay each week? [2]
Some travellers used to buy a Day Return even if they were not certain that they would use the
return portion.
(b) What must the probability of needing the return portion have exceeded to have made it
worthwhile to risk buying a Day Return ticket? [1]
It was thought that a few travellers who only needed a Single would buy a Day Return and sell
the other portion to someone wanting just a Single in the other direction. After the change there
was nothing to be gained from doing this.
(c) Before the change, what range of prices would have made both a saving for the person
selling the half-used ticket, and a saving for the person buying it? [1]
(d) Assume that people only bought tickets they were certain to use themselves.
If people’s requirements for journeys remained the same, what proportion of tickets would
have to have been Singles to result in no change in the company’s income? [2]
The numbers of tickets sold for travel on the Wednesday before the change were 20 Singles and
50 Day Returns, but there were 30 Singles sold separately and 76 Singles sold in pairs for the
Wednesday after the change.
The number of passenger journeys was:
From Babaorum From Laudanum
Before 52 56
After 51 52
The inspectors checked that each passenger had a valid ticket.
(e) What was the change in the total income? [2]
(f) How many journeys were paid for but not used
(i) on the Wednesday before the change? [1]
(ii) on the Wednesday after the change? [1]

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3 Claudel is a sculptress who is considering how she can best make a profit from her skills. She
makes her calculations based on the following:
• She will work 200 hours in each calendar month.
• Each commission will earn her $900, after paying for materials, and takes 30 hours of
sculpting work.
• Each commission also requires 10 hours of unskilled work. She can either do this herself
or hire an assistant. The minimum wage for an assistant is $10 per hour.
• New commissions are always available.
(a) Show that Claudel is able to make $4500 per month if she does the unskilled work herself. [1]
When doing her calculations, Claudel decides to include the appropriate fraction of earnings for
any commission that is only partially completed. For example, if she is halfway through a
commission at the end of a month, she considers that as $450 earned. When paying an
assistant, she treats the unskilled work in the same way.
(b) If Claudel hires a part-time assistant at the beginning of the first month, what is the maximum
profit she can make by the end of that month? [3]
(c) What is the maximum that Claudel could pay an assistant per hour and ensure that she still
makes the same amount of profit in the first year as she would on her own? [3]
Claudel decides that she will pay any unskilled assistants that she hires at the minimum wage of
$10 per hour. She can either do the sculpting work herself, or pay skilled artisans at a rate of $15
per hour. Each assistant or artisan will work no more than 200 hours per calendar month. Each
artisan requires continual support and quality control: supervising their work requires her to spend
12 minutes with each artisan per hour of work. This time is not spent sculpting – and therefore the
artisan only spends 48 minutes sculpting in every hour (which amounts to 4 hours sculpting, in
every 5 hours of paid work). Skilled artisans will not do unskilled work.
(d) How much profit could Claudel make per month if she employed one skilled artisan full-time
and a part-time unskilled assistant? [3]
Claudel is considering hiring several artisans and doing no work herself other than supervising.
(e) How many artisans working full time would make it necessary to hire a second assistant? [2]
She discovers that if she pursues her plan, she will have to register as a ‘small business’. The
only extra cost involved in this process is that of registering employees, which will cost $1000 per
year for each of her employees, paid in advance.
(f) Calculate the maximum profit Claudel could make per year. [3]
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4 Last month, in Juneau, Alaska, Pasta Masta opened its 500th restaurant in the USA. There are
now Pasta Masta restaurants in 16 States.
To celebrate, Pasta Masta has been running the Great State Giveaway promotion, giving
customers the opportunity to win up to $500. For every main course ordered, customers receive a
sealed envelope containing one card, which could be a Prize Card, Wild Card or Bonus Card.
Prize Cards
TENN SOTA MING KEN ZONA GAN ORNIA ALA MONT
$270 $260 $250 $240 $230 $220 $210 $200 $190
MICHI HOMA ANA RIDA FLO NEBRA TUCKY ESSEE NEV
$180 $170 $160 $150 $140 $130 $120 $110 $100
CALIF WYO SKA OKLA MINNE BAMA ARI VER INDI
$90 $80 $70 $60 $50 $40 $30 $20 $10
Wild Cards Bonus Cards
A–A M–N– –O–A + + + + +
$0 $0 $0 $100 $80 $60 $40 $20
Each dash on these cards can

represent any required letter.
A cash prize can be claimed by combining two cards to spell the name of one of the 16 States
with Pasta Masta restaurants:
ALABAMA MINNESOTA
ALASKA MONTANA
ARIZONA NEBRASKA
CALIFORNIA NEVADA
FLORIDA OKLAHOMA
INDIANA TENNESSEE
KENTUCKY VERMONT
MICHIGAN WYOMING
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The prize is the sum of the amounts on the two cards. It can be increased by the appropriate
amount if the claimant also submits a bonus card. However, only one bonus card may be used
with each claim.
(a) Mary has two cards that spell KENTUCKY, and a +$60 bonus card. How much can she
claim? [1]
(b) Which State must be formed in order to be able to claim the top prize of $500? [1]
(c) What is the largest prize that can be claimed by combining a –O–A wild card with another
card, but no bonus card? [1]
(d) (i) Which State can only be formed by combining a prize card and a wild card? [1]
(ii) Which State can be formed by combining two wild cards? [1]
(e) Louis won $330 with FLO + RIDA + $40.
Give three other examples of a single claim that would win $330. [3]
Tex and Carol have both been collecting Great State Giveaway cards.
Tex has ALA, INDI, ORNIA, VER, +$100 and +$80.

Carol has ANA, BAMA, ESSEE, NEBRA, –O–A and +$20.
They have eaten together at Pasta Masta this evening, and have just opened their envelopes.
Tex has MONT and Carol has SKA, so both of them can now claim a prize.
(f) (i) How much can Tex claim? [1]
(ii) How much can Carol claim? [1]
They realise that they can win more in total if they put all their cards together.
(g) What is the maximum they can claim in total? [3]
George has been collecting cards for a long time, but is still not able to claim a prize.
(h) What is the maximum number of different prize cards that someone could have and still not
be able to claim a prize? [2]
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1 Study the information below and answer the question that follows.
How bad is cholesterol?
60
50
40
Risk of
heart men
30
disease women
(%)
20
10
0
less than 200 200-239 more than 239
Blood cholesterol concentration (mg / 100 cm3)
The above data were collected recently by a respected scientific publication, from a very large
sample of patients.
A newspaper commented on the data with the headline, “The more cholesterol you eat, the sooner
you will die.”
Make five criticisms of the data presented and/or the claim that, “The more cholesterol you eat,
the sooner you will die.” [5]
Questions 2, 3 and 4 refer to Documents 1 to 5.
2 Briefly analyse Business Studies Teacher’s argument in Document 1: Risk-based Pricing, by

identifying its main conclusion, intermediate conclusions and any counter-assertions. [6]
3 Give a critical evaluation of the strength of Business Studies Teacher’s argument in Document 1:
Risk-based Pricing, by identifying and explaining any flaws, implicit assumptions and other
weaknesses. [9]
4 ‘Financial products should be offered to everyone on equal terms.’
Construct a reasoned argument to support or challenge this claim, commenting critically on some
or all of Documents 1 to 5 and introducing ideas of your own. [30]
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DOCUMENT 1
Risk-based Pricing
At various stages of life, most people find they need to purchase financial products, such as insurance
policies, pensions and bank loans. It might seem obvious that these products should be sold to
everyone on equal terms, but in fact they should be priced according to risk. This has been the
system for many years, and there is therefore no need to change it.
Houses built on a flood plain are more likely than other houses to suffer flood damage during bad
weather. Similarly, homes in areas of high crime are more likely to be burgled than those in places
where neighbours notice and report suspicious behaviour. It would be unfair for all householders to
pay the same for their household insurance.
Similarly, the cost of insuring your car should vary according to the likelihood that you will be involved
in an accident. It would not be fair if a driver with an unblemished record had to pay the same
premium as someone who had several convictions for driving recklessly and exceeding the speed
limit.
Female drivers have fewer accidents than men, and insurance companies therefore offer them more
favourable terms. Sexist male judges have recently argued that women should pay the same for car
insurance as men, but women must resist this attempt to deprive them of one of the few advantages
they enjoy, because, if they give it up, they will gradually lose all the hard-won equality which they
have gained in recent years.
A special form of insurance is ‘life assurance’. Everyone dies eventually, and therefore the company
will have to pay out on every life assurance policy sooner or later. Whether the company makes a
profit or not depends on how many premiums you pay before you die. Insurance companies therefore
employ actuaries to calculate the odds for each insured person, and premiums are fixed accordingly.
Setting different charges for each individual is the fairest system for both the companies and their
clients.
The price of bank loans should take into account the possibility that the borrower will default on the
loan. No loan is completely risk-free, but some potential borrowers have less financial backing than
others and some of the purposes for which loans are sought are intrinsically more risky than others.
Banks have a responsibility to look after their funds and to protect themselves and their investors
against possible losses. If loans had to be provided on identical terms to all borrowers, vast sums of
money would be thrown away on hare-brained schemes with little chance that they would be repaid.
Business Studies Teacher

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What is risk-based pricing?
Risk-based pricing occurs when lenders offer different consumers different interest rates or other loan
terms, based on the estimated risk that the consumers will fail to pay back their loans.
This means, for example, that lenders will generally offer a higher interest rate to you if they view you
as a higher risk borrower – say, because you recently declared bankruptcy, lost a job, or are several
payments behind on a mortgage. For the same exact loan, lenders will generally offer a lower interest
rate if they view you as a lower risk – say, because you have a good credit score and are employed.
Lenders in the United States may NOT use certain legally prohibited factors to come up with their risk-
based pricing. The Equal Credit Opportunity Act makes it illegal for a creditor such as a lender or
dealer to discriminate in any credit transaction against any applicant because of:
• Race
• Colour
• Religion
• National origin
• Sex (Gender)
• Marital status
• Age (if the applicant is old enough to enter into a contract)
• Receipt of income from any public assistance program
• Exercising in good faith a right under the Consumer Credit Protection Act, which includes
consumer protection statutes relating to credit
US Government public information website
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Insurance premiums based on gender ‘discriminatory’
In 2011, The European Court of Justice ruled that using differences between men and women in
setting risk premiums for car and medical insurance and pension schemes breached EU rules on
equality.
The verdict was expected to force changes in the standard practice of basing insurance rates on
statistics about things like reckless driving, road accidents or life expectancy differences between the
sexes. Women had traditionally been able to obtain cheaper car insurance because statistics show
they have fewer accidents and make fewer claims. They had also been able to obtain cheaper life
insurance because they have longer life expectancies. By contrast, pension or annuity income for
men had tended to be higher, because on average men have fewer years in retirement than women.
But the court’s judgment said: “Taking the gender of the insured individual into account as a risk factor
in insurance contracts constitutes discrimination.”
The Association of British Insurers said the decision was “disappointing”, and highlighted the potential
changes in costs for consumers.
A British Member of the European Parliament (MEP), Sajjad Karim, said: “This ruling is utter
madness. It is a setback for common sense. It is a statistical reality that young men have more
accidents than women so it should be reflected in their premiums. Once again we have seen how an
activist European Court can over-interpret European human rights legislation. Unelected judges have
overruled the will of democratically elected MEPs and governments; is it any wonder people are so
disenchanted with the EU? Boy racers will now have even more money to buy unsafe fast cars, whilst
safer drivers will be hit hard in their insurance premiums. This is a victory for boy racers and a major
blow for both democracy and careful women drivers.”
But Ronnie Bowie, President of the Institute of Actuaries, warned that the longer-term impact of the
ruling would probably be on pensions, where men – who usually die younger – have been getting a
better deal than women. “As people reach retirement, they need to buy a pension – and men will find
they will not get anything like the pension they thought, with a reduction of about 10%, which doesn’t
sound much in the first year – but if you think that a man is going to live for about 25 years beyond
retirement, then that adds up to a very sizeable sum of money,” he said. “So motor insurance is the
short-term headline-catcher, but pensions are the longer-term issue.”
News report

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Consider a hypothetical case involving Lee, a junior executive at the ABC Marketing Firm, who has
recently applied for an automobile loan at the XYZ Bank. To secure the loan Lee agrees to complete
the usual forms required by the bank for loan transactions. He indicates that he has been employed at
the ABC Marketing Company for more than three years and that his current annual salary is
$120 000. He also indicates that he has $10 000 in a separate savings account, which he intends to
use as a down payment for a new BMW. On the loan form, Lee also indicates that he is currently
repaying a $15 000 personal loan used to finance a family vacation to Europe the previous year.
Thus far, the transaction between Lee and the bank seems appropriate. To borrow money from XYZ
Bank, Lee has authorized the bank to have the information about him – that is, his current
employment, salary, outstanding loans, etc. – that it needs to make an informed decision as to
whether or not to grant him the loan.
Next, imagine that the bank’s computing centre runs a data-mining program on information in its
customer databases and discovers a number of patterns. One reveals that executives earning more
than $120 000 but less than $150 000 annually, or who purchase luxury cars (such as BMWs) and
who take expensive vacations often go into business for themselves within five years of employment.
A second data-mining algorithm reveals that the majority of marketing entrepreneurs declare
bankruptcy within one year of starting their own businesses. All of a sudden, Lee is a member of a
group that neither he nor possibly even the loan officers at the bank had ever known to exist, namely,
the group of marketing executives likely to start a business and then declare bankruptcy within a year.
With this new category and new information about Lee, the bank determines that Lee, and people that
fit into Lee’s group, are long-term credit risks.
Herman T Tavani
Ethics and Technology: Ethical Issues in an Age of Information and Communication Technology,
Wiley, 2004
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Life Expectancy at Birth
90
80
70
60
Life
50
expectancy
(years) 40
30
20
10
0
France Finland Australia UK Japan China Papua
NG
Male Female
Involvement in Fatal Car Accidents by Age and Gender
70
60
50
Accidents 40
per
100 000
people 30
20
10
0
16–24 25–34 35–44 45–54 55–64 65–74 75–79 80+
Driver age
Male Female
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$5 000 000 a year wasted by local schools
A recent study suggests that local schools may have wasted as much as $5 000 000 in the last
year. The study looked at the prices paid for items such as books, furniture, computers and
building repairs in a number of local schools. The schools bought expensive items and services
when there were less expensive alternatives available. Apart from staff wages, the schools spent
a total of $100 000 over a period of one month, but they could have bought the equivalent for
$20 000 less if they had used other suppliers. Over a year that is a potential saving of $240 000.
The schools that were involved make up 5% of the schools in the county so it is likely that
schools in the county are wasting $4 800 000 every year.
Make five criticisms of the statistics used in the passage or any inferences drawn from them. [5]
2 Briefly analyse Student President’s argument in Document 1: Response by the Student Union of
Barchester University to the draft proposals for a new degree of Bachelor of Humanities, by
3 Give a critical evaluation of the strength of Student President’s argument in Document 1:

Response by the Student Union of Barchester University to the draft proposals for a new degree
of Bachelor of Humanities, by identifying and explaining any flaws, implicit assumptions and other
weaknesses. [9]
4 ‘Universities should award degrees on the basis of Continuous Assessment (CA).’
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Response by the Student Union of Barchester University to the draft proposals for a new
degree of Bachelor of Humanities
We are disappointed that, under the draft proposals, degrees will be awarded solely on the basis of
written examinations taken at the end of the course. Since the panel which produced the proposals
was chaired by the former Dean of Humanities, now retired, it is not surprising that the proposals are
so old-fashioned and backward-looking.
We recommend that the new degree should be assessed solely by essays and projects written during
the course. This will put our university in the forefront of innovation. Instead of remaining in the third
rank of universities, implementing our suggestion will make us be seen as trend-setters.
Some students perform badly in examinations because they are nervous under stress, have poor
memories or find it difficult to think quickly. It is unfair that they should be penalised for these
difficulties, because they are not their fault. These problems are especially relevant to this course,
because it is aimed at mature students, many of whom are likely to have a history of academic failure.
Traditional written examinations assess short-term memory, superficial thinking and the ability to write
quickly. These are not the skills which Higher Education should be developing. The purpose of
universities is to enable students to explore subjects at depth, to develop their own, informed opinions
on matters of universal importance, and to ponder unhurriedly on the mysteries of the universe.
The former Dean has argued that unseen written examinations produce a wider range of marks than
assessment by essays, but that is not a valid reason for relying on them. You could obtain an even
greater spread by listing the candidates according to their birthdays, but it would not be measuring
anything significant.
By contrast, writing an essay forces students to engage with the material they have been taught or
can discover for themselves and to apply it to a specific issue. These are the skills which employers
are looking for. Group projects are especially valuable, since they develop and assess teamwork in
addition to other skills. So anyone who passes a degree assessed in these ways should be in a very
strong position for gaining a job. This is also the reason why there is no merit in the superficial
criticism that students might “cheat” by obtaining their essays from the internet. The ability to answer
problems by researching on the internet is, in fact, one of the most valuable skills in the modern
workplace.
Assessing modules promptly has many advantages over the traditional pattern of assessment. It
consolidates the learning from each module more efficiently, and it also solves the problem of what to
do about students who miss final exams or perform below their best because of illness or family
problems. Finally, it helps students if any difficulties they may have in understanding or applying their
studies are revealed early enough in their education for them to try harder or to ask for help.
Student President

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Against Continuous Assessment
In recent years there has been a gradual move by higher education institutions worldwide in favour of
a continuous assessment approach. Very few courses are now assessed by means of all-or-nothing
‘finals’ at the very end. There are, admittedly, some advantages to the new approach, but continuous
assessment can have a harmful effect on the learning process.
Splitting an academic year in two and dividing exams between winter and summer does have
benefits. Most modules only last for a single semester and having an examination soon after the last
lecture of term makes a lot of sense. There is no point in waiting until the summer when it has been
months since you last looked at notes on that subject. However, I would not want to go any further
than that.
When choosing modules, I read through a module description and check how I shall be assessed. If a
module has an essay, a presentation and an end of semester exam, I am less inclined to take it.
Why? Because by week 4 the date is set for my presentation; by week 6 I receive the title of an essay
that is due on the last day of term and which I can’t really start working on until I’ve got the
presentation out of the way; then on top of all that, I have to study for an end-of-semester exam.
The result is that I am under constant pressure through the whole module, cramming and rushing to
finish essays and presentations. Instead of learning and having a real interest in the subject, I end up
concentrating all my attention on impending deadlines.
Student website
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Although you may be one of the best students, responsible and hardworking, there is always a
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circumstances. You may fall ill or have too much other stuff on your mind. If you buy coursework
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Every education system has its flaws. Sometimes it is physically impossible to cope with everything.
When it happens, try to pick what’s more important. It is often easier to buy coursework while working
on writing assignments for other classes.
Academic writing might be not your thing. Can you imagine a practical application of this kind of
educational activity? We can’t. However, a curriculum of every university includes tens of them. That
is why sometimes you feel so tired of doing unnecessary research that to buy coursework feels to be
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Again, you may be an excellent writer not confident in your talents. Sometimes a paper is just a
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The Bologna Process and the European Higher Education Area
The Bologna Process is a series of ministerial meetings and agreements between European countries
designed to ensure comparability in the standards and quality of higher education qualifications. This
process has created the European Higher Education Area (EHEA).
Universities which are part of the EHEA have had to develop a new way of looking at the
teaching—learning process. Students are at the centre of the learning process, and so the
assessment systems have to be designed to assist them in this process, by enabling them to know
throughout the term what they have (or have not) learned, to what extent they have achieved the
objectives of a subject or activity, in what areas they need to improve, and so on. This new learning
process demands, therefore, that student assessment should be continuous.
This new approach to the assessment process has caused important changes in the methodology of
lecturers. They must now include in their courses a variety of activities that will be assessed and thus
constitute part of the student’s final mark. Students are now required to do more work (such as
completing various assignments and participating in class) in order to pass the subject.
A survey of practice within the EHEA has discovered that the following methods of Continuous
Assessment are in use:
• End-of-term tests are very common and represent a hang-over from the previous system of
assessment, which relied entirely on end-of-course examinations.
• Mid-term exams are theoretical or practical tests done during the term; on some courses,
material tested in this way is never tested again and can therefore be forgotten.
• Exercises and case studies consist of practical exercises or analytical case studies that
students are assigned to do, either in class or privately.
• Essays are written assignments handed in by students and typically involve reading and
comprehension of texts and personal reasoning.
• Teamwork consists of a final essay or project, typically done throughout the term by several
students working together.
• Oral presentations are the equivalent of an essay, project or case study, presented orally to
a group instead of (or as well as) in writing.
• Student progress consists of the record of students’ attendance and observation by the
lecturer of the interest shown in class.
Guidebook to Higher Education in Europe
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Comparison between student results at Eastway University before and after

the introduction of continuous assessment in degree courses
35
30 1998 (end of course

examinations only)
25
2012 (continuous
20 assessment)
%
15
10
0
A+ A A– B+ B B– C+ C C– D+ D D–
Grade
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How bad is cholesterol?
60
50
40
Risk of
heart men
30
disease women
(%)
20
10
0
less than 200 200-239 more than 239
Blood cholesterol concentration (mg / 100 cm3)
The above data were collected recently by a respected scientific publication, from a very large
sample of patients.
A newspaper commented on the data with the headline, “The more cholesterol you eat, the sooner
you will die.”
Make five criticisms of the data presented and/or the claim that, “The more cholesterol you eat,
the sooner you will die.” [5]
2 Briefly analyse Business Studies Teacher’s argument in Document 1: Risk-based Pricing, by

3 Give a critical evaluation of the strength of Business Studies Teacher’s argument in Document 1:
Risk-based Pricing, by identifying and explaining any flaws, implicit assumptions and other
weaknesses. [9]
4 ‘Financial products should be offered to everyone on equal terms.’
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Risk-based Pricing
At various stages of life, most people find they need to purchase financial products, such as insurance
policies, pensions and bank loans. It might seem obvious that these products should be sold to
everyone on equal terms, but in fact they should be priced according to risk. This has been the
system for many years, and there is therefore no need to change it.
Houses built on a flood plain are more likely than other houses to suffer flood damage during bad
weather. Similarly, homes in areas of high crime are more likely to be burgled than those in places
where neighbours notice and report suspicious behaviour. It would be unfair for all householders to
pay the same for their household insurance.
Similarly, the cost of insuring your car should vary according to the likelihood that you will be involved
in an accident. It would not be fair if a driver with an unblemished record had to pay the same
premium as someone who had several convictions for driving recklessly and exceeding the speed
limit.
Female drivers have fewer accidents than men, and insurance companies therefore offer them more
favourable terms. Sexist male judges have recently argued that women should pay the same for car
insurance as men, but women must resist this attempt to deprive them of one of the few advantages
they enjoy, because, if they give it up, they will gradually lose all the hard-won equality which they
have gained in recent years.
A special form of insurance is ‘life assurance’. Everyone dies eventually, and therefore the company
will have to pay out on every life assurance policy sooner or later. Whether the company makes a
profit or not depends on how many premiums you pay before you die. Insurance companies therefore
employ actuaries to calculate the odds for each insured person, and premiums are fixed accordingly.
Setting different charges for each individual is the fairest system for both the companies and their
clients.
The price of bank loans should take into account the possibility that the borrower will default on the
loan. No loan is completely risk-free, but some potential borrowers have less financial backing than
others and some of the purposes for which loans are sought are intrinsically more risky than others.
Banks have a responsibility to look after their funds and to protect themselves and their investors
against possible losses. If loans had to be provided on identical terms to all borrowers, vast sums of
money would be thrown away on hare-brained schemes with little chance that they would be repaid.
Business Studies Teacher

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DOCUMENT 2
What is risk-based pricing?
Risk-based pricing occurs when lenders offer different consumers different interest rates or other loan
terms, based on the estimated risk that the consumers will fail to pay back their loans.
This means, for example, that lenders will generally offer a higher interest rate to you if they view you
as a higher risk borrower – say, because you recently declared bankruptcy, lost a job, or are several
payments behind on a mortgage. For the same exact loan, lenders will generally offer a lower interest
rate if they view you as a lower risk – say, because you have a good credit score and are employed.
Lenders in the United States may NOT use certain legally prohibited factors to come up with their risk-
based pricing. The Equal Credit Opportunity Act makes it illegal for a creditor such as a lender or
dealer to discriminate in any credit transaction against any applicant because of:
• Race
• Colour
• Religion
• National origin
• Sex (Gender)
• Marital status
• Age (if the applicant is old enough to enter into a contract)
• Receipt of income from any public assistance program
• Exercising in good faith a right under the Consumer Credit Protection Act, which includes
consumer protection statutes relating to credit
US Government public information website
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Insurance premiums based on gender ‘discriminatory’
In 2011, The European Court of Justice ruled that using differences between men and women in
setting risk premiums for car and medical insurance and pension schemes breached EU rules on
equality.
The verdict was expected to force changes in the standard practice of basing insurance rates on
statistics about things like reckless driving, road accidents or life expectancy differences between the
sexes. Women had traditionally been able to obtain cheaper car insurance because statistics show
they have fewer accidents and make fewer claims. They had also been able to obtain cheaper life
insurance because they have longer life expectancies. By contrast, pension or annuity income for
men had tended to be higher, because on average men have fewer years in retirement than women.
But the court’s judgment said: “Taking the gender of the insured individual into account as a risk factor
in insurance contracts constitutes discrimination.”
The Association of British Insurers said the decision was “disappointing”, and highlighted the potential
changes in costs for consumers.
A British Member of the European Parliament (MEP), Sajjad Karim, said: “This ruling is utter
madness. It is a setback for common sense. It is a statistical reality that young men have more
accidents than women so it should be reflected in their premiums. Once again we have seen how an
activist European Court can over-interpret European human rights legislation. Unelected judges have
overruled the will of democratically elected MEPs and governments; is it any wonder people are so
disenchanted with the EU? Boy racers will now have even more money to buy unsafe fast cars, whilst
safer drivers will be hit hard in their insurance premiums. This is a victory for boy racers and a major
blow for both democracy and careful women drivers.”
But Ronnie Bowie, President of the Institute of Actuaries, warned that the longer-term impact of the
ruling would probably be on pensions, where men – who usually die younger – have been getting a
better deal than women. “As people reach retirement, they need to buy a pension – and men will find
they will not get anything like the pension they thought, with a reduction of about 10%, which doesn’t
sound much in the first year – but if you think that a man is going to live for about 25 years beyond
retirement, then that adds up to a very sizeable sum of money,” he said. “So motor insurance is the
short-term headline-catcher, but pensions are the longer-term issue.”
News report

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DOCUMENT 4
Consider a hypothetical case involving Lee, a junior executive at the ABC Marketing Firm, who has
recently applied for an automobile loan at the XYZ Bank. To secure the loan Lee agrees to complete
the usual forms required by the bank for loan transactions. He indicates that he has been employed at
the ABC Marketing Company for more than three years and that his current annual salary is
$120 000. He also indicates that he has $10 000 in a separate savings account, which he intends to
use as a down payment for a new BMW. On the loan form, Lee also indicates that he is currently
repaying a $15 000 personal loan used to finance a family vacation to Europe the previous year.
Thus far, the transaction between Lee and the bank seems appropriate. To borrow money from XYZ
Bank, Lee has authorized the bank to have the information about him – that is, his current
employment, salary, outstanding loans, etc. – that it needs to make an informed decision as to
whether or not to grant him the loan.
Next, imagine that the bank’s computing centre runs a data-mining program on information in its
customer databases and discovers a number of patterns. One reveals that executives earning more
than $120 000 but less than $150 000 annually, or who purchase luxury cars (such as BMWs) and
who take expensive vacations often go into business for themselves within five years of employment.
A second data-mining algorithm reveals that the majority of marketing entrepreneurs declare
bankruptcy within one year of starting their own businesses. All of a sudden, Lee is a member of a
group that neither he nor possibly even the loan officers at the bank had ever known to exist, namely,
the group of marketing executives likely to start a business and then declare bankruptcy within a year.
With this new category and new information about Lee, the bank determines that Lee, and people that
fit into Lee’s group, are long-term credit risks.
Herman T Tavani
Ethics and Technology: Ethical Issues in an Age of Information and Communication Technology,
Wiley, 2004
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Life Expectancy at Birth
90
80
70
60
Life
50
expectancy
(years) 40
30
20
10
0
France Finland Australia UK Japan China Papua
NG
Male Female
Involvement in Fatal Car Accidents by Age and Gender
70
60
50
Accidents 40
per
100 000
people 30
20
10
0
16–24 25–34 35–44 45–54 55–64 65–74 75–79 80+
Driver age
Male Female
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