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Edexcel GCSE
Mathematics B
Unit 1: Statistics and Probability (Calculator)

Foundation Tier
Mock Paper Paper Reference

Time: 1 hour 15 minutes 5MB1F/01

You must have: Total Marks
Ruler graduated in centimetres and millimetres, protractor, compasses,
pen, HB pencil, eraser, calculator. Tracing paper may be used.

Instructions
• Use black ink or ball-point pen.
• Fill in the boxes at the top of this page with your name,
centre number and candidate number.
• Answer all questions.
• Answer the questions in the spaces provided
– there may be more space than you need.
• Calculators may be used.
• 3.142 unless the question
If your calculator does not have a π button, take the value of π to be
instructs otherwise.

Information
• The total mark for this paper is 60.
• –Theusemarks for each question are shown in brackets
this as a guide as to how much time to spend on each question.
• written
Questions labelled with an asterisk (*) are ones where the quality of your
communication will be assessed
– you should take particular care with your spelling, punctuation and grammar, as
well as the clarity of expression, on these questions.

Advice
• Read each question carefully before you start to answer it.
• Keep an eye on the time.
• Checkanswer
Try to every question.
• your answers if you have time at the end. Turn over

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Formulae: Foundation Tier

You must not write on this formulae page.

Anything you write on this formulae page will gain NO credit.

a
1
Area of trapezium = 2 (a + b)h h

cross
Volume of prism = area of cross section × length section

length

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 Answer all questions.

Write your answers in the spaces provided.

You must write down all stages in your working.

1. The pictogram gives information about the number of points scored in each of three
weeks by a rugby team.

Week Number of points

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Key:

Represents 4 points

(a) Write down the number of points scored

(i) in Week 1

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

(ii) in Week 2

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

(2)
In Week 4, the team scored 12 points.
(b) Show this on the pictogram.
(1)
In Week 5, the team scored 10 points.
(c) Show this on the pictogram.
(1)

(Total for Question 1 is 4 marks)

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2. The table gives information about some televisions.

Screen size Internet

Television Price (£) Freesat HD ready
(inches) TV
Panoramic 450 32 √ √

Sonic 480 26 √

Amrand 520 32 √ √

CG 490 26 √

Powersave 515 32 √ √

(a) What is the price of the Amrand television?

£ ...............................
(1)
(b) Which television has a screen size of 26 inches and is HD ready?

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

(1)
(c) Which television has a 32 inch screen but does not have Internet TV?

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

(1)

(Total for Question 2 is 3 marks)

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3. At Coldharbour School, all students study one of French or Spanish or German or
Japanese.
The dual bar chart gives information about which one of these languages is studied by
the students.
20
18
16
14
12
Girls
Frequency 10 Boys
8
6
4
2
0
French Spanish German Japanese

(a) How many boys study Spanish?

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

(1)
(b) Which is the most popular of these languages studied by the girls?

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

(1)
There are more girls than boys.
(c) How many more?

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

(2)

(Total for Question 3 is 4 marks)

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4. Here is a fair 6-sided spinner.

Red
Green
Red
Red
Blue
Green

Kathy is going to spin the spinner once.

(a) Which colour is the spinner least likely to land on?

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

(1)
(b) Write down the probability that the spinner will land on yellow.

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

(1)

(Total for Question 4 is 2 marks)

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5. Gregor eats in a cafe.
He can choose one Drink and one Cake.

Drink Cake
Coffee Fruit
Tea Sponge
Juice Banana

(a) Write down all the combinations that he can choose.

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(2)
On Monday, 150 people came into the cafe.
1
of the 150 people ordered a coffee.
5
1
(b) Work out of 150
5
...............................

(1)
On Tuesday, 35% of the customers ordered tea.
(c) Write 35% as a fraction.
Give your fraction in its lowest terms.

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

(2)

(Total for Question 5 is 5 marks)

6. Liam throws a fair 50p coin.
On the probability scale below, mark with a cross (×) the probability that he will get a
head.

0 1 1
2

(Total for Question 6 is 1 mark)

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7. Here are eight numbers
8 2 7 5 3 4 2 2
(a) Write down the mode.

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

(1)
(b) Work out the range.

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

(2)
(c) Work out the median.

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

(2)

(Total for Question 7 is 5 marks)

8. Train A leaves a station at 11:30 am.
Train B leaves the station 3 hours later.
(a) At what time does train B leave the station?

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

(2)
Graham catches a train to Glasgow at 14 00
1
The train journey takes 5 hours.
2
Graham then waits 45 minutes for a train to Aberdeen.
The train gets to Aberdeen 1 hour and 20 minutes later.
(b) At what time does the train get to Aberdeen?

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

(3)

(Total for Question 8 is 5 marks)

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*9. Abi carried out a survey of the colours of the cars in the school car park.
Here are her results

Colour Tally

Silver

Blue

Red

Black

White │││

Draw a suitable chart or diagram to represent Abi’s results.

(Total for Question 9 is 4 marks)

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10. The two-way table gives some information about how 60 students travel to school.

Bus Train Walk Bicycle Total

Boys 5 2 31

Girls 14 13

Total 23 2 60

(a) Complete the two-way table.

(3)
One of these students is going to be chosen at random.
(b) Write down the probability that this student travels to school by bus.

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

(2)

(Total for Question 10 is 5 marks)

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11. Some girls and some boys were each asked to name their favourite sport.
The pie charts were drawn from this information.

Girls Boys

Golf Golf
Rugby
24° 16°
Rugby

72°
120°
120° 192°
Football 144°
Football 32°

Tennis Tennis

Six girls named rugby as their favourite sport.

The same number of boys as girls named golf as their favourite sport.
How many boys named football as their favourite sport?

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

(Total for Question 11 is 3 marks)

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12. This graph can be used to convert between gallons and litres.

50

40

30

Litres

20

10

0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Gallons

Hugh wants to put 15 gallons of petrol in his car.

Petrol costs 120.9p per litre.
How much will the petrol cost?

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

(Total for Question 12 is 4 marks)

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13. The scatter diagram shows the height, in cm, and arm length, in cm, of some adults.

90

80

Arm length (cm) 70

60

50
150 160 170 180 190
Height (cm)

The table shows the height and the arm length of two more adults.

Height (cm) 175 163

Arm length (cm) 70 67

(a) On the scatter graph, plot the information from the table.
(1)
(b) What type of correlation does this scatter graph show?

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(1)
(c) Estimate the arm length of an 165 cm tall adult.

............................... cm
(2)

(Total for Question 13 is 4 marks)

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14. Kalipha wants to find out how much time students spend using their computers.
He will use a questionnaire.
Design a suitable question he could use on his questionnaire.

(Total for Question 14 is 2 marks)

15. The probability that a biased dice will land on a three is 0.4
Paul is going to roll the dice 200 times.
Work out an estimate for the number of times the dice will land on a three.

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

(Total for Question 15 is 2 marks)

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16. Sarah went on holiday to Antigua.
In the shops, prices are given in either US dollars ($) or in East Caribbean dollars (EC$).
The exchange rate was $1 = EC$2.70
The price of a hat was EC$65
Sarah knew that £1 = $1.45
Work out the price of the hat in pounds.

£ ...............................

(Total for Question 16 is 3 marks)

17. The table gives information about the times, in minutes, that 50 people waited to pay at
a supermarket check-out.

Time (t minutes) Frequency

0<t≤2 23
2<t≤4 9
4<t≤6 8
6 <t≤8 6
8 < t ≤ 10 4

Work out an estimate for the mean time.

............................... minutes

(Total for Question 17 is 4 marks)

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