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Edexcel
International GCSE

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Mathematics B
Paper 1

Friday 11 May 2012 Afternoon

Time: 1 hour 30 minutes

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protractor, compasses, pen, HB pencil, eraser, calculator. Tracing
paper may be used.

Total Marks

Instructions

black ink or ball-point pen.

t Use
in the boxes at the top of this page with your name,
t Fill
centre number and candidate number.
all questions.
t Answer
the questions in the spaces provided
t Answer
there may be more space than you need.
t Calculators may be used.

Information

total mark for this paper is 100.

t The
The
marks
each question are shown in brackets
t use this asfora guide
as to how much time to spend on each question.

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Read each question carefully before you start to answer it.
t Check
answers if you have time at the end.
t Withoutyoursufficient
working, correct answers may be awarded no marks.
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Answer ALL THIRTY questions.

Write your answers in the spaces provided.
You must write down all stages in your working.

1 Tickets for a show are priced at 12.50 for an adult ticket and 7.20 for a child ticket.
Find the total cost, in , for 5 adult tickets and 4 child tickets.

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(Total for Question 1 is 2 marks)
2

Diagram NOT
accurately drawn

(2x 40)

(3x + 10)
R

In the diagram AQB is parallel to CRD and PQRS is a straight line. Find the value of x.

x = ..............................................................................
(Total for Question 2 is 2 marks)
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3 Solve the equation 5 x = x 7

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(Total for Question 3 is 2 marks)

4 The bearing of ship A from ship B is 145
Calculate the bearing of ship B from ship A.

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(Total for Question 4 is 2 marks)

5 A clock loses 3 minutes every day.
Find the number of seconds the clock loses every hour.

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(Total for Question 5 is 2 marks)

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6 Expand and simplify ( 2 x 3)(3 x 2)

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(Total for Question 6 is 2 marks)

7 Showing your working clearly, find the Highest Common Factor (HCF) of 72, 162, 270

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(Total for Question 7 is 2 marks)

1
8 a= , b=
2

1
4

Find a 2b

a 2b =
(Total for Question 8 is 2 marks)
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9 A sheet of gold leaf is 1.25 105 cm thick. Find the total thickness of 6000 of these
sheets. Give your answer in cm and in standard form.

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(Total for Question 9 is 2 marks)

2

10 Evaluate

(125 3 812 )

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(Total for Question 10 is 2 marks)

11 Factorise completely 27 x 2 12 y 2

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(Total for Question 11 is 3 marks)

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12 A competition consists of 5 rounds. In each round, the number of matches played is

4n + 1, where n is the number of the round.
(a) Write down the number of matches played in the 5th round.

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(1)
(b) Calculate the total number of matches played in all 5 rounds.

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(2)
(Total for Question 12 is 3 marks)
13 A fuel tank on a car contains 68 litres of fuel when full. At the start of a journey, the
fuel tank is full. When the car has travelled 612 km, the fuel tank is a quarter full.
Find the number of kilometres travelled per litre of fuel.

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(Total for Question 13 is 3 marks)

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km

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E
B

12

10

1
3

C
4

The numbers in the diagram give the number of elements in the relevant subset.
Find
(a) n(A B)
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(1)
(b) n(A B C)

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(1)
(c) n(A (B C))

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(1)
(Total for Question 14 is 3 marks)

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15 A plot of land is for sale at 24 000. A group of x people decides to buy the land and
each person in the group is to pay the same amount of money, A.
(a) Write down a formula for A in terms of x.

A = ..............................................................................
(1)
Given that each person pays 1500,
(b) find the number of people in the group.

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(2)
(Total for Question 15 is 3 marks)
16 (a) Write down the number of lines of symmetry of a regular hexagon.

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(1)
Each exterior angle of a regular polygon is 30.
(b) Find the order of rotational symmetry of this polygon.

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(2)
(Total for Question 16 is 3 marks)

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17 Find the largest integer which satisfies 5 x 2 < 3(5 x)

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(Total for Question 17 is 3 marks)

18 Triangle ABC is a right-angled triangle with ABC = 90
Given that sin BAC =

8
, find the value of tan BAC as a fraction.
17

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(Total for Question 18 is 3 marks)

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1 1 1 a
1 0
= 
19

2 1 b 1
0 1
Find the values of a, b and .

a = ..............................................................................

b = ..............................................................................

 = ..............................................................................
(Total for Question 19 is 3 marks)
20
Diagram NOT
accurately drawn

54
A

The diagram shows a quadrilateral ABCD in which A = 54

The sizes of the other three interior angles B, C and D are in the ratio 6 : 7 : 4
(a) Calculate the size, in degrees, of the largest angle.

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(3)
(b) Give the geometrical name for the quadrilateral ABCD.
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(1)
(Total for Question 20 is 4 marks)

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21 In the summer of 2010, 14% of candidates who sat an examination obtained an A*

grade. Given that 15 000 candidates sat the examination,
(a) calculate the number of candidates who obtained an A* grade.

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(2)
In the summer of 2011, the same number of candidates obtained an A* grade.
This was 16% of the total number of candidates who sat the examination.
(b) Calculate the number of candidates who sat the examination in the summer of 2011.

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(2)
(Total for Question 21 is 4 marks)
1
when x = 60, find the
22 Given that y varies inversely as the square of x and that y =
24
value of y when x = 10.

y = ..............................................................................
(Total for Question 22 is 4 marks)

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23 Two similar containers have volumes 0.25 litres and 16 litres. The larger container has a
base radius of 24 cm. Calculate the base radius, in cm, of the smaller container.

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cm

(Total for Question 23 is 4 marks)

24 The velocity v m/s of a point moving in a straight line at time t seconds is given by
v = 4t 3 t 2 2t , t . 0
(a) Write down the value of v when t = 3

v = ..............................................................................
(1)
(b) Find an expression for the acceleration, in m/s2, of the point.

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(3)
(Total for Question 24 is 4 marks)

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25
A

ABCD is a rectangle.
Leaving in all your construction lines, construct the locus of all points inside the
rectangle which are
(a) equidistant from D and C,
(2)
(b) equidistant from the lines AD and DC.
(2)
The region R consists of all the points inside the rectangle which are closer to C
than to D and closer to AD than to DC.
(c) Show by shading the region R. Label the region R.
(1)
(Total for Question 25 is 5 marks)

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26 A bag contains 3 red balls and 5 black balls. Two balls are to be taken at random,
without replacement, from the bag.
(a) Complete the probability tree diagram.

First ball

Second ball

2
7

Red

Red

3
8

5
7

Black

Red
..................
..................

Black

..................

Black
(3)

(b) Find the probability that the two balls taken are of the same colour.

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(2)
(Total for Question 26 is 5 marks)

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27

34 cm

18 cm
Diagram NOT
accurately drawn
A hemispherical bowl of radius 34 cm contains water to a depth of 18 cm.
Calculate the area, in cm2 to 3 significant figures, of the surface of the water.

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cm2

(Total for Question 27 is 5 marks)

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28 Solve

2
3
+ =3
2x 1 x

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(Total for Question 28 is 5 marks)

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29 An international courier company delivers parcels around the world. The table gives
information about the weights of 80 parcels delivered one day.
Weight
(x kg)

Frequency

0<x-2

2<x-4

4<x-6

6<x-8

8 < x - 10

35

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(a) Write down the modal class for this information.

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(1)
Calculate an estimate for
(b) the mean weight of the 80 parcels,

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(3)
(c) the median weight of the 80 parcels.

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(2)
(Total for Question 29 is 6 marks)

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30 A curve C has equation y = x3 x2

Find
(a)

dy
,
dx

dy
= ..............................................................................
dx
(2)
(b) the x-coordinates of each point on C at which the tangent is parallel to y = 5x.

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(5)
(Total for Question 30 is 7 marks)
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