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AQA Maths Calculator Paper - How Did It Go?

it was on the penultimate pages.

there was also a question on: find the cube of 0.03 or something. i just wrote the calculator standard form display...how about you?

Reply 21

EarthQuaker

ohh yeah it was like find the cube of 8.7 something like that. first page yeah?
yep i just wrote what the calculator said.

and the one about finding y length, i used pythagoras to find the length for the first triangle, then the next triangle to find the angle i used trig..

Reply 22

mdmfsnfsfiosiq

if you did that exam was it the simultaneous equations on the last page for you?

for me it was ok but the trial and error question was annoyingly long.

Reply 23

EarthQuaker

hmm no. i think we may have done different boards :wink:

mine was AQA.

Reply 24

mdmfsnfsfiosiq

ah right you must have done the different spec because i did modular.

Reply 25

EarthQuaker

ahh right, that must be it then :smile:

did you do c/w?

Reply 26

LPK

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Garfield

what tier were you guys doing?

i panicked quite a bit (i did intermediate) on the question before the triangle enlargement question did you guys use trigonometry and
the cos^-1 method?

Intermediate. :smile:

Reply 27

LPK

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Garfield

it was on the penultimate pages.

there was also a question on: find the cube of 0.03 or something. i just wrote the calculator standard form display...how about you?

Was that the 0.03 cubed? Or something like that? I just remember getting a few numbers followed by a strange minus thing. :p:

Reply 28

mdmfsnfsfiosiq

yeah erm i think you would have been ok if you wrote down the calculator display. can anyone clarify.

ah well, also, i was stuck bad on drawing the rhombus by looking at the not drawn to scale diagram.

and yeah i did coursework and modular exams.

Reply 29

Sandhu

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Lol I didn't do the rotation one properly :frown:

Reply 30

mikeski

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How did everyone find the question (on higher) about the area of the shape that was like a rectangle with a square to the bottom right-hand side? You then had to use your formula to solve the equation?

Reply 31

mikeski

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Also, the very last question. I used tan^-1. Did anyone use that?

Reply 32

Katiepala

mikeski

How did everyone find the question (on higher) about the area of the shape that was like a rectangle with a square to the bottom right-hand side? You then had to use your formula to solve the equation?

I struggled with that question to start with, then I went back and I tried to do it, I'm not sure if I did it right or not. I just divided it up into a rectabngle and square, then multiplied together. It came to 6x^2 + 6x -108.
That can then be divided by 6 which gives the x^6 + x -18 which they gave in the question

Reply 33

Katiepala

mikeski

Also, the very last question. I used tan^-1. Did anyone use that?

Yes I did! I used tan firstly to find the side, TG i think it was :s-smilie:

Then I used tan^-1 to ffind the angle.

Reply 34

mikeski

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Katiepala

I struggled with that question to start with, then I went back and I tried to do it, I'm not sure if I did it right or not. I just divided it up into a rectabngle and square, then multiplied together. It came to 6x^2 + 6x -108.
That can then be divided by 6 which gives the x^6 + x -18 which they gave in the question