Four pencils and three rubbers cost £3.40. Two pencils and five rubbers cost £3.10. Using for the cost of a pencil and for a rubber, in pounds, find both prices.
[4]The Common Entrance maths Additional paper
One extra 60-minute calculator paper, worth 100 marks, taken alongside the Core papers.
Who sits it
Pupils who are secure at Core and aiming for the top sets, or for a scholarship that assumes Additional content. Harrow and Tonbridge, for example, set scholarship maths at this level.
With Additional, the exam is 340 marks in 190 minutes in total.
What it adds to Core
- Reverse percentages and inverse proportion
- Simultaneous equations and simple quadratics
- Changing the subject of a formula
- The nth term of a sequence
- Pythagoras, prisms and cylinders
- Average speed over several stages