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First teaching 2021

Last exams 2024

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Area & Perimeter (CIE IGCSE Maths: Extended)

Exam Questions

45 mins18 questions
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Rectangle A measures 3 cm by 8 cm.

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Five rectangles congruent to A are joined to make a shape.

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Work out the perimeter of this shape.

........................................... cm

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Calculate the area of the trapezium.
 

 .......................................... cm2

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The diagram shows a right-angled triangle.

Calculate the area.


.......................................... cm2

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Calculate the area of this triangle. 
 

 ........................................ cm2

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Find the area of triangle ABC.


............................................. m2

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The area of triangle A B C is 27 space cm squared and A B space equals space 6 cm.
Calculate the value of h.


h space equals space................................................

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The diagram shows a right-angled triangle.

Calculate the perimeter.


............................................ cm

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A rectangle measures 8.5 cm by 10.7 cm, both correct to 1 decimal place.

Calculate the upper bound of the perimeter of the rectangle.


 ............................................ cm

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The sides of a square are 15.1 cm, correct to 1 decimal place.

Find the upper bound of the area of the square.

............................................. cm2

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An equilateral triangle has sides of length 15 cm, correct to the nearest centimetre.
Calculate the upper bound of the perimeter of this triangle.
 

....................................... cm

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An equilateral triangle has side length 12 cm, correct to the nearest centimetre.

Find the lower bound and the upper bound of the perimeter of the triangle.
 

Lower bound = ......................................... cm     
Upper bound = ......................................... cm     

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The area of a square is 42.5 cm2, correct to the nearest 0.5 cm2.
 
Calculate the lower bound of the length of the side of the square.
 

 .......................................... cm

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The length of the side of a square is 12 cm, correct to the nearest centimetre.

Calculate the upper bound for the perimeter of the square.

........................................... cm

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ABDF is a parallelogram and BCDE  is a straight line.
AF = 12cm, AB = 9 cm, angle CFD = 40° and angle FDE = 80°.

i)
Calculate the height, h, of the parallelogram.

h space equals ........................................... cm [2]
ii)
Calculate the area of the trapezium ABCF.


 .......................................... cm2 [3]

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Find the area of a regular hexagon with side length 7.4 cm.


.......................................... cm2

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The vertices of a square ABCD lie on the circumference of a circle, radius 8 cm.
 
Calculate the area of the square.
 

 ......................................... cm2

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The sides of an isosceles triangle are measured correct to the nearest millimetre.
One side has a length of 8.2 cm and another has a length of 9.4 cm.

Find the largest possible value of the perimeter of this triangle.

............................................ cm

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The diagram shows a shaded region bold T formed by removing an equilateral trianglespace P Q R spacefrom a regular hexagon A B C D E F.

The points P and Q lie on A B such that A B space equals space 1.5 cross times P Q.

Given that the area of region bold T is 72 square root of 3 space cm squared work out the length of P Q.

......................................................space cm space

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