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(a) Solve : \(7(x + 4) - \frac{2}{3}(x - 6) \leq 2[x - 3(x + 5)]\)

(b) A transport company has a total of 20 vehicles made up of tricycle and taxicabs. Each tricycle carries 2 passengers while each taxicab carries four passengers. If the 20 vehicles carry a total of 66 passengers at a time, how many tricycles does the company have?

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(a) 

In the diagram, < RTS = 28°, < VRM = 46°, MQ is a tangent to the circle VRSTU at the point R. Find < VUS.

(b) A cylinder tin, 7cm high, is closed at one end. If its total surface area is 462\(cm^{2}\), calculate its radius. [Take \(\pi = \frac{22}{7}\)].

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Scores 1 2 3 4 5 6
Frequency 25 30 x 28 40 32

The table shows the outcome when a die is thrown a number of times. If the probability of obtaining a 3 is 0.225;

(a) How many times was the die thrown?

(b) Calculate the probability that a trial chosen at random gives a score of an even number or a prime number.

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(a)  

In the diagram, PQST is a parallelogram, PR is a straight line, |TS| = 8cm, |SM| = 6cm and area of triangle PSR = \(36 cm^{2}\). Find the value of |QR|.

(b) A tree and a flagpole are on the same horizontal ground. A bird on top of the tree observes the top and bottom of the flagpole below it at angle of 45° and 60° respectively. If the tree is 10.65m high, calculate, correct to 3 significant figures, the height of the flagpole.

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(a) Find the sum of the Arithmetic Progression (AP) 1, 3, 5,..., 101.

(b) Out of the 95 travellers interviewed, 7 travelled by bus and train only, 3 by train and car only and 8 travelled by all 3 means of transport. The number, x, of travellerswho travelled by bus only was equal to the number who travelled by bus and car only. If 47 people travelled by bus and 30 by train :

(i) represent this information in a Venn diagram;

(ii) calculate the 

(1) value of x ; (2) number who travelled by at least two means.

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