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Edexcel Practice GCSE Examination Paper Standard equipment: pen, pencil, ruler, protractor,
Higher Set 3 Paper 1 Non-Calculator compasses.
Do not use a calculator.
Instructions to candidates: You must show all of your working.
Write all answers in the spaces provided.

1. Solve x2  10 x  21  0

x= (3)
Total 3 Marks

2. Justine and Kate are training for a race.

At every training session Justine runs x miles and Kate runs 3 more miles than Justine.

In one week, Justine and Kate both train every day.

In the 7 days they run 63 miles in total between them.

How many miles do Justine and Kate each run per day?

Justine:

Kate: (3)
Total 3 Marks

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3. Simon wants to build his house exactly halfway between the local shop and the local post
office.
The local shop is at point S; the local post office is at point P.
By construction, locate the exact point where Simon should build his house.
You must show all of your working.

S P

Total 3 Marks

4. Write down the equation of a line that is parallel to y  6 x  7

(1)
Total 1 Mark

5. Mei is making fruit punch.

She makes the fruit punch by mixing fruit juice and lemonade in the ratio 1 : 3.
The fruit juice costs £1.80 per litre.
The lemonade costs 75p per litre.
Work out the total cost of making 16 litres of fruit punch.

£ (4)
Total 4 Marks

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6. Here is a graph of 3 y  x  5.

14

12

10

–4 –3 –2 –1 0 1 2 3 4
–2

–4

–6

–8

(a) On the axis above, plot the graph of y  4  2x for all values of x from –4 to 4. (3)

(b) Using the graph, or otherwise, solve 3y  x  5

y  4  2x

x= y= (1)
Total 4 Marks

 
2
7. Write 2  5 in the form a  b 5

(3)
Total 3 Marks

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8. y is inversely proportional to x.

When x = 2.5, y = 4.

Find the value of y when x = 8.

y= (3)
Total 3 Marks

x5
9. Rearrange the equation y  to make x the subject.
2x  2

x= (4)
Total 4 Marks

3x  2 7x 1 37 x  2
10. Show that  can be simplified to
4 3 12

Total 2 Marks

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11. AB, CD and PQ are straight lines.
All angles are in degrees.

Not
P Drawn
Accurately

7x + 23
3x + 7
A B

9x – 7
C D

Show that AB is parallel to CD.

Total 4 Marks
2

3
12. Evaluate 27

(3)
Total 3 Marks

13. Express x2  16 x  40 in the form  x  p   q , where p and q are integers.

2

You must show all of your working.

(2)
Total 2 Marks

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14. Five positive integers have:
 a mode of 9,
 and a median of 7,
 and a mean of 6.

What is the greatest possible range of the five integers?

(3)
Total 3 Marks

15. (a) What is the exact value of tan 60?

(1)

(b) What is the exact value of sin 120?

(1)

(c) The graph below can be represented by the equation y  ax2  b where a and b are
both positive numbers.
y

For the following graph, write an equation to represent it using a and b.

Give your answer in its simplest possible form.
y

(1)
Total 3 Marks
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16. The diagram shows 9 identical circles that just fit side by side inside a square.

18 cm

Find the size of the shaded area.

Give your answer in terms of π.

cm2 (4)
Total 4 Marks

17. Triangles ABC and BCD are mathematically similar.

9 cm
12 cm Not
B C Drawn
Accurately

D
Calculate the area of BCD.

cm2 (3)
Total 3 Marks

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18. Two straight lines are shown on the axes.
B is the midpoint of AC.
TB : BS is in the ratio 2 : 5.

y Not
Drawn
Accurately

C
T
(29, 18)
A B
(17, 12)

(48, 5)

O x

Work out the co-ordinates of the point T.

( , ) (4)
Total 4 Marks

4 11
19. Simplify
5  11

(3)
Total 3 Marks

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20. ABCD is a trapezium.
B
Not
Drawn
Accurately
A

D C
E is a point on BC.
DE is parallel to AB.
Prove that triangle ABE is congruent to triangle AED.

Total 3 Marks

21. Write down the value of 130

(1)
Total 1 Mark

22. Write 4800 as a product of its prime factors.

Give your answer using index notation.

(3)
Total 3 Marks

23. (a) Work out (7.2 × 10–6) × 300

Give your answer in standard form.

(2)

(b) Work out (1.8 × 107) ÷ (9 × 103)

Give your answer in standard form.

(2)
Total 4 Marks

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24. A coin was flipped repeatedly.
After every 20 flips the cumulative number of tails thrown was recorded.

(a) Complete the table below.

Number of Throws 20 40 60 80 100

Number of Tails 12 22 36 42 58
Relative Frequency 0.6 0.6 0.58
(1)

(b) On the grid below, draw a relative frequency graph to represent the information in the
table.

Relative
frequency

0 20 40 60 80 100
Number of Throws
(2)

(c) Which value, from the table, gives the best estimate for the probability of throwing a
tails?
You must give a reason for your answer.
_____________

Reason:

(1)

(d) Do you think that this is a fair coin?

You must give a reason for your answer.
_____________

Reason:

(1)
Total 5 Marks

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25. There are some green crayons and some purple crayons in a box.
There are 24 purple crayons in the box.
The ratio of the number of green crayons to the number of purple crayons is 1 : 3.

(a) Work out the number of green crayons in the box.

(3)

Abbi puts some more green crayons into the box.

The ratio of the number of green crayons to the number of purple crayons is now 5 : 8.

(b) How many green crayons did Abbi put into the box?

(2)
Total 5 Marks

Total For Paper: 80 Marks

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