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Numeracy Higher June 2019 Unit 1 Q11

11.

(a) Alun is a jeweller.
He is designing a symmetrical pendant, as shown below.
Outline of a symmetrical pendant

Diagram not drawn to scale

The pendant will be made from solid silver, with a uniform thickness of 3 mm.
In order to calculate the cost of making the pendant, Alun wants to calculate an estimate of the volume of the pendant.
He has accurately drawn one of the symmetrical halves of the shape on graph paper.

The pendant turned on its side with its line of symmetry along the x-axis, the upper half above the axis
Graph paper, y (mm) from 0 to 6 against x (mm) from 0 to 12, showing the curve of the upper half of the pendant from (0, 0) through (2, 2), (4, 4), (6, 4.4), (8, 4), (10, 2.6) to (12, 0)

Calculate an estimate of the volume of the whole pendant.
Use the graph above, with 6 strips of equal width. [5]

(b) Alun makes pendants that are mathematical shapes.
The following table shows the pendants and the number of these pendants that Alun made last month.
PendantTriangleCircleRectangleTrapezium
Number made last month52963062

At the end of last month, Alun took a stratified sample of 30 of these 240 pendants to check their quality.

Calculate how many pendants of each shape were in Alun’s sample.
You must show all your working. [4]

PendantTriangleCircleRectangleTrapezium
Number in sample    
(c) Alun has 5 identical metal cylinders, each of length 40 mm.
Five identical cylinders, each of length 40 mm

Diagram not drawn to scale

He has been asked to make a solid sphere of radius 30 mm.

Sphere of radius 30 mm

Diagram not drawn to scale

He melts the 5 cylinders and recasts all the metal to make the sphere.

Calculate the radius of each of the cylinders.

Give your answer in mm, in the form \(a\sqrt{b}\), where \(a\) and \(b\) are integers, and \(b\) is as small as possible. [6]

From the formula list: Volume of sphere \(= \dfrac{4}{3}\pi r^3\)