GCSE Higher Maths

Practice Paper 1
(Non-Calculator)
Edexcel Specification
Time: 1 hour 30 minutes (80 Marks)

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 GCSE Higher Maths Practice Paper 1 (Non-Calculator) Edexcel Specification

1. A
BCD, EFGH, BFI and CGI are straight lines. ABCD and EFGH are parallel. FI = GI. Angle FIG = 48°.
Find angle BCG, giving reasons for your answer.

D
C

A
H

G
F

E
48°

[4 marks]

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2. K
ela is going to buy 8 new mugs. She has found the mugs she wants for
Mugs R Us
sale in the stores ‘Mugs R Us’ and ‘Muggins’. The price list of each store
Set of 6 for £12.99
is given. At which store could Kela buy the mugs for the lowest price,
and by how much? You must show all of your working. Individual mugs £3.00
Sale now on:
1
off all prices
3

Muggins
Set of 4 for £5.95 + V.A.T.
@20%

[6 marks]

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3. Evaluate:
a. 324 × 67

[3 marks]

b. 3.24 × 0.67

[1 mark]

4. P
oint A has coordinates (2,7). Point M is the midpoint of line AB and has coordinates (3, 1). What are
the coordinates of point B?

[2 marks]

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5. The map shows the positions of the wi-fi router and the power points in Adisa’s office. In order for his
computer to function, his desk needs to be within 2m of a power point and within 4m of the router.
Shade the area in which he could put his desk.

router
power point

Scale 1m:2cm

[4 marks]
power point

6. a. Expand: 4𝑥(2𝑥 + 3)

[2 marks]

b. Factorise fully: 9x²y − 15xy

[2 marks]

c. Expand and simplify: 3(2x + 4y) − 2(4y − 2x)

[2 marks]

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7. George is going to Florida. On the day that he changes his money, the exchange rate is £1 = $1.27.
a. Draw a conversion graph for £ to $, for values from 0 to £50.

70

60

50
Dollars ($)

40

30

20

10

0
0 10 20 30 40 50
Pounds (£) [1 mark]

b. George buys a pair of flip flops for $11 while he is in Florida. Use your graph to give an
approximate value of the cost of the flip flops in British pounds.

[2 marks]

c. A currency conversion graph shows an example of (tick 1 answer):

Inverse proportion

A reciprocal relationship

Direct proportion

A quadratic relationship

[1 mark]

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8. Bella, Carlos and Ellie play in a football league.

Bella scored x goals.

Carlos scored 3 fewer goals than Bella.
Ellie scored double the amount of goals Carlos scored.
Altogether, they scored 51 goals.

Form and solve an equation to calculate the number of goals Ellie scored.

[3 marks]

9. Evaluate the following, giving your answer as a fully simplified mixed number.
7
+3
15 5

[2 marks]

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10. 6
0 retired people were asked how long they spent using the Internet on a typical day. The results are
shown below:

Time, t (minutes) Frequency

0 ≤ t ≤ 60 33
60 < t ≤ 120 19
120 < t ≤ 180 5
180 < t ≤ 240 3

a. Draw a cumulative frequency diagram to show this information.

60

50
Cumulative Frequency

40

30

20

10

0
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200 220 240
Time (minutes) [3 marks]

b. Another survey shows that 95% of a group of 60 students spend more than 200 minutes per day
using the Internet. Compare the group of teenagers to the group of retired people in terms of
Internet usage. Your answer should contain a comparative figure and a summarising comment.

[2 marks]

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11. a. Write 464 000 000 in standard form.

[1 mark]

b. Write 3.6 × 10-7 as an ordinary number.

[1 mark]

12. a. i) Explain why this is a geometric sequence: 1, 10, 100, 1000

[1 mark]

ii) What is the common ratio in this sequence?

[1 mark]

b. What are the next two terms in this geometric sequence? 5, 5 2, 10, ... , ....

[1 mark]

c. Jadyn is training to run a marathon. On day one of his training programme, he runs 2 miles. On day
two, he runs 2.5 miles. Each day after that, he runs 0.5 miles further than he ran the day before.
Tick the type of sequence formed by the daily distances run.

Fibonacci

Geometric

Arithmetic

Quadratic

[1 mark]

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13. Mo runs 1000m in 4 minutes. Usain runs 1.8km in 7 minutes 30 seconds. Who has the greater average
speed, Usain or Mo?

[3 marks]

14. James and Emma share £2520 in the ratio x:7. James gets £2016. Find x.

[3 marks]

15. The Venn diagram shows the number of members in the sets A, B, C and . ε

A B
ε
12
5 7

4
10 1

3
6
C

Find:
a. n(A)


[1 mark]

b. n(A ∩ B)


[1 mark]

c. n((A ∩ C) ∪ A')


[1 mark]

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16. T
he equation of a circle is x² + y² = 4.
a. Sketch the circle on this set of axes.
5

-5 -4 -3 -2 -1 1 2 3 4 5
-1

-2

-3

-4 [2 marks]
-5

b. Points A and B lie on the circle and have x coordinates of 1. A is above the 𝑥 axis and B is below it.
Find the y coordinates of A and B. Give your answers in surd form.

[2 marks]

c. Find the equation of the tangent to the circle at A, giving your answer in surd form.

[5 marks]

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17. Candace makes a cake. The top of it is circular, with a circumference of 40cm. She uses green icing in
the centre of the circle and a 5cm ring of white icing on the outside, as shown. If the icing is 2mm thick,
what volume of white icing did she use? Give your answer in terms of π, in cm3.

green

5cm

40cm

[7 marks]

a
18. 83 × 162 = 4

What is the value of a?

[4 marks]

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19. The diagram shows the side view of a slide at a park. The slide is 6m long, as shown. The angle that the
slide makes with the horizontal ground is 30° and the angle that the steps make with the horizontal
ground is 45° . What is the length of the steps, l, as shown on the diagram? Give your answer as a
simplified surd.

sli 6m
ps

de
l
ste

30o

[5 marks]

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