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The following is a list of basic pure maths
questions that students should be able to
tackle if they are prepared for a subset of
the AS-Level Pure Maths exam. They have
been designed to cover the techniques that
will be needed in order to tackle some
aspects of the pure maths exam. However,
these questions do not necessarily
resemble the type of exam question
students might be faced with, these
questions should be used to practice those
techniques needed. Having said that, early
questions in the exam may look a lot like
the questions you see here.
1. Simplify .
2. Evaluate .
3. Factorise .
4. Solve the inequality .
5. Rationalise the denominator of .
6. How many roots does the graph of
have?
7. Evaluate .
8. Let . Find and
.
9. Sketch the graph of .
10. Solve the simultaneous equations
and .
11. The first term of a sequence is 58 and
the common di!erence is -2. Find the
107th term.
12. Rationalise the denominator of .
13. Find the set of values of k for which the
quadratic has two
di!erent roots.
14. Integrate .
15. Evaluate .
16. Factorise .
17. Sketch the graph of .
18. The first 10 terms of a sequence,
whose common di!erence is 4, adds
up to 210. Find the first term.
19. Simplify .
20. Di!erentiate .
21. Solve the inequality .
22. Using the quadratic formula, solve the
equation . Leave your
answer in surd form.
23. Sketch the graph of .
24. If , find the value of y.
25. Integrate
26. Let . Find .
27. Solve by completing the square:
28. Di!erentiate .
29. Write in the form .
30. Sketch the graph of .
31. Write in the form
.
32. Find the equation of the tangent to the
curve of when .
33. The curve of such that
and passes
though the point . Find the
equation for y.
34. A line passes through the points
and . Find the midpoint
of AB and the equation of the line that
passes through A and B.
35. Sketch the graph of .
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