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This document is an 18 question GCSE exam paper covering topics in mathematics. It includes questions involving ratios, equations, inequalities, loci, functions, probability, statistics, geometry, and more. Students are required to show all working and reasoning to receive full marks for the multi-step problems.

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Edexcel June 1999 Paper 5

This document is an 18 question GCSE exam paper covering topics in mathematics. It includes questions involving ratios, equations, inequalities, loci, functions, probability, statistics, geometry, and more. Students are required to show all working and reasoning to receive full marks for the multi-step problems.

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June 1999 Edexcel GCSE Paper 5 (Higher Level)

Time: 2 hours
Answer all EIGHTEEN questions. You must write down all stages of your working.

1. Jack shares £180 between his two children, Sharleena and Kevin, in the ratio 5:4.
(a) Work out how much each child receives. [3]
(b) Kevin then gives 10% of his share to Sharleena. What percentage of the
original £180 does Kevin now have? [3]

2. (a) Solve the equation 4x+3 = 2(x-3) [3]


(b) Solve the inequality 2x+3 ≤ 8 [2]

3. A solution to the equation x3-9x = 5 is between 3 and 4.


Use the method of trial and improvement to find this solution. Give your answer
correct to 2 decimal places. You must show all of your working. [4]

4. Draw a straight line AB 7.5cm long. Now draw the locus of all points which are 3cm
away from the line AB. [3]

5. The formula C = 180R+2000 gives the capacity, C litres, of a tank needed to supply
water to R hotel rooms. Make R the subject of the formula. [2]

6. Tony carries out a survey about the words in a book. He chooses pages at random. He
then counts the number of letters in each of the first hundred words on the page. The
table shows Tony’s results.

Number of letters in word 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8


Frequency 6 9 31 24 16 9 4 1

(a) A word is chosen at random from the first 100 words. What is the probability
that it will have five letters? [2]
(b) The book has 25000 words. Estimate the number of five letter words in the
book.
[2]
(c) The book has 125 pages with a total of 25,000 words. The words on the first
75 pages are counted. The mean is 192. Calculate the mean number of words
per page on the remaining 50 pages. [3]

7. Solve the simultaneous equations: 2x+6y =


17
3x-2y = 20 [4]

8. The boxes show four expressions in which p and q represent lengths. The numbers 2
and 3 have no dimensions.
A B C D
3 2 2
p +3q p +2q 2p+3q 3p +2pq

(a) Which expression represents a length? [1]


(b) Which expression which represents an area? [1]
(c) The expression pn(p+q) represents a volume. Find the value of n. [1]
9. 1m3=220 gallons and 1m3=106cm3.
(a) How many m3 are equal to one gallon? You should write your answer in
standard form, correct to 3 significant figures. [3]
(b) The petrol tank of a small car hold 6 gallons when 80% full. What is the
capacity of the tank in cm3? Give your answer to 3 significant figures. [3]

10. Fred carried out a survey of the time, in seconds, between one car and the next car on
a road. His results are shown in the cumulative frequency graph on the answer sheet.
(a) How many cars were there in the survey? [1]
(b) Use the graph to estimate the median time. [2]
(c) Use the graph to estimate the percentage of times that were greater than 25
seconds. [3]

11. In the diagram, ABC is a right angled triangle and


ED is parallel to BC.
(a) Calculate the area of trapezium BCDE. [2]
(b) Calculate the value of x. [3]
In the diagram, all lengths are given to the nearest
millimetre.
(c) Calculate the least possible value of θ. [3]

12. The sketch shows the curve with the equation y = f(x).
The vertex of this curve is at A(2,12). Write down the
coordinates of the vertex for each of these curves:
(a) y = f(x)+6 [1]
(b) y = f(x+3) [1]
(c) y = f(-x) [1]
(d) y = f(4x) [1]

3
13. A is the point (0,4) and AB =  
2
(a) Find the coordinates of B. [1]
(b) C is the point (3,4) and BD is a diagonal of the parallelogram ABCD. Express
BD as a column vector. [3]
 1 
(c) If CE =   , calculate the height of AE. [3]
 − 3

14. y is directly proportional to the cube of x. When x=2, y=64.


(a) Find an expression for y in terms of x. [3]
(b) Hence calculate the value of y when x = ½. [1]
(c) Hence also calculate the value of x when y=27. [2]
15. A solid statue is contained within a hemisphere of
diameter 500cm.
(a) Calculate the total surface area of the
hemisphere including the base. Give your
answer in m3, correct to 3 significant
figures. [5]

(b) The solid statue has a height of 80cm and a


mass of 1.5kg. A larger solid statue is geometrically similar and is made of
the same material. It has a height of 128cm. Calculate the mass of the larger
solid statue, giving your answer in kg, correct to 3 significant figures. [3]

16. The incomplete histogram and table on the answer sheet show information about
prices, in pounds, of cars advertised for sale in a newspaper.
(a) Use the information in the histogram to complete the table. [3]
(b) Use the information in the table to complete the histogram. [3]

17. The sketch shows part of the graph with the equation y = pqx, where p and q are
constants. The points with coordinates (0,8), (1,18) and (1.5,k) all lie on the graph as
shown in the diagram. Calculate the values of p,q and k. [6]

18. The table


shows the numbers of boys and the numbers of girls in Year 10 and Year 11 of a
school. The headteacher wants to find out what the pupils think about a new Year 11
common room. A stratified sample of size 50 is taken from Year 10 and Year 11.

Year 10 group Year 11 group

Male 100 50

Female 90 60

(a) Calculate the number of pupils to be sampled from Year 10. [2]
(b) Two pupils are to be chosen at random to speak to the headteacher. One pupil
is to be chosen from Year 10 and one pupil is to be chosen from Year 11.
Calculate the probability that both pupils will be boys. [2]
The headteacher changes his mind and decides to pick two pupils at random from
Years 10 and 11 together.
(c) Calculate the probability that both pupils will be boys. [2]
(d) Calculate the probability that both pupils will be from different Year groups.
[3]

END OF EXAMINATION PAPER

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