GCSE Mathematics

Practice Booklet Set 2

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 Answer ALL questions.
Write your answers in the spaces provided.
You must write down all the stages of your working.

3 1
1. Work out 1 × 1
4 3

Give your answer as a mixed number in its simplest form.

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(3 marks)

2. Express 180 as a product of prime factors.

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(3 marks)

3. Find the value of the reciprocal of 1.6

Give your answer as a decimal.

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(2 marks)

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4. a) 37.2 has been rounded to 1 decimal place.
Write down the error interval.

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(2 marks)
b) 340 has been rounded to 2 significant figures.
Write down the error interval.

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(2 marks)

𝑉
5. 𝑅=
𝐼

𝑉 = 43.52 correct to 2 decimal places.

𝐼 = 5.437 correct to 3 decimal places.
Work out the upper bound for 𝑅.
Give your answer to 3 decimal places.

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(3 marks)

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6. A train takes 3 hours to complete a journey correct to the nearest 5 minutes.
The length of the journey is 260 miles correct to the nearest 10 miles.
By considering bounds, work out the average speed of the train.
You must give a reason for your answer.

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(4 marks)

7. a) Evaluate 3−2

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(2 marks)
1
b) Write down the value of 25−2

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(2 marks)

4𝑥+1
8. Solve = 2𝑥 − 2
3

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(3 marks)
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9. a) Solve the inequality 3𝑥 − 5 < 7

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(2 marks)
b) Show your answer to part (a) on the number line.

(2 marks)

10. a) Solve the inequality −5 ≤ 2𝑥 + 3 < 7

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(3 marks)
b) Show your answer to part (a) on the number line.

(2 marks)

10. The point (3,4) lies on the circumference of a circle centre (0,0)
Write down the equation of the circle

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(3 marks)

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11. Write down the equation of the line that passes through the points (−3,4) and (5,8)

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(3 marks)

12. A line passes through the points (1,5) and (5,7).

Find the equation of a perpendicular line that passes through the point (−1,7).

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(3 marks)

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13. a) Find the equation of the tangent to the circle with equation 𝑥 2 + 𝑦 2 = 17 at the
point (1, 𝑝) where 𝑝 is positive.

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(4 marks)
b) Hence, find the coordinates where the tangent intersects the 𝑥-axis.

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(2 marks)

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14. a) Expand and simplify 4(𝑥 − 3) − 2(1 − 𝑥)

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(2 marks)
b) Expand and simplify (2𝑥 − 1)(2𝑥 − 5)

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(2 marks)

15. a) Factorise 𝑥 2 − 2𝑥 − 15

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(1 mark)
b) Solve 2𝑥 2 − 𝑥 − 1 = 0

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(2 marks)

16. Solve 3𝑥 2 + 2𝑥 − 13 = 0
Give your answers correct to 3 significant figures.

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(3 marks)

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17. a) Write 𝑥 2 − 8𝑥 − 4 in the form (𝑥 − 𝑎)2 − 𝑏 where 𝑎 and 𝑏 are integers.

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(3 marks)

b) Hence, find the coordinates of the turning point for the graph 𝑦 = 𝑥 2 − 8𝑥 − 4

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(1 mark)

18. a) Given that 𝑓(𝑥) = 3𝑥 + 4

Work out an expression for 𝑓 −1 (𝑥)

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(2 marks)
b) Given that 𝑓(𝑥) = 2(𝑥 + 2)
Work out the value 𝑓 −1 (10)

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(3 marks)

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19. The triangular numbers are 1 , 3 , 6 , 10 , …
1
The nth term of this sequence is 𝑛(𝑛 + 1)
2

Find the 200th triangular number.

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(2 marks)

20. £360 is shared between Abby, Ben, Chloe and Denesh.

The ratio of the amount Abby gets to the amount Ben gets is 2: 7
Chloe and Denesh each get 1.5 times the amount Abby gets.
Work out the amount of money that Ben gets.

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(4 marks)

21. The points A, B, C and D lie in order on a straight line.

AB : BD = 2 : 5 and AC : CD = 4 : 7
Find AB : BC : CD

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(3 marks)

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22. At the end of 2015
the value of Alice’s house was £240,000
the value of Karl’s house was £170,000

At the end of 2018

the value of Alice’s house had decreased by 20%
the value of Karl’s house had increased by 30%

At the end of 2018, whose house had the greater value?

You must show how you get your answer.

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(4 marks)

23. Tame Valley is a company that makes yoghurt.

A machine fills trays of 20 pots with yoghurt.
In one hour, the machine fills a total of 15,000 pots.
Work out how many seconds the machine takes to fill each tray of 20 pots.

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(3 marks)

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24. It takes 8 machines 9 days to complete a job.
On the first day 3 machines are used,
on the second day 6 machines are used,
for the remaining days, 7 machines are used.
How many day does it take to complete the job?

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(3 marks)

𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒
25. 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 =
𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑎

A force of 70 newtons acts on an area of 20𝑐𝑚2

The force is increased by 10 newtons
The area is increased by 10𝑐𝑚2

Does the pressure decrease by less than 20%?

You must show how you get your answer.

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(3 marks)

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26. The plan, front elevation and side elevation of a solid prism are drawn on a
centimetre grid.

In the space below, draw a sketch of the solid prism.

Write the dimensions of the prism on your sketch.

(2 marks)

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27.

The radius of the base of a cone is 5.7 cm.

Its slant height is 12.6 cm.
Calculate the volume of the cone.
Give your answer correct to 2 decimal places.

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(3 marks)

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28. The diagram shows a solid hemisphere of radius 8cm.

Work out the surface area of the hemisphere.

Give your answer to 2 decimal places.

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(4 marks)

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29. 𝐴𝐵𝐶𝐷𝐸 is a pentagon.

Work out the area of 𝐴𝐵𝐶𝐷𝐸

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(5 marks)

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30. Two cylinders are mathematically similar.
The height of cylinder A is 3cm.
The height of cylinder B is 9cm.
The volume of cylinder B is 540𝑐𝑚2 .
Work out the volume of cylinder A.

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(2 marks)

31.

PQ = PR.
S is the midpoint of PQ.
T is the midpoint of PR.
Prove triangle QTR is congruent to triangle RSQ.

(3 marks)

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32. The table gives information about the languages studied by a group of year 11
students.

French German Spanish

30 37 53

Draw an accurate pie chart for this information.

A number is chosen at random from E.

b) Find the probability that the number is a member of (A Ո B)

(3 marks)

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33. 20 men, 10 women and 10 children are in a competition.

The mean score for the women is 15.6

The mean score for the children is 9.2
The mean score for all 40 people is 11.2

Work out the mean score for the men.

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(3 marks)

34. Rosie had 10 boxes of drawing pins.

She counted the number of drawing pins in each box.
The table gives information about her results.

Number of Frequency
drawing pins
29 2
30 5
31 2
32 1

Work out the mean number of drawing pins in a box.

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(3 marks)

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34. Hannah is planning a day trip for 195 students.
She asks a sample of 30 students where they want to go.
Each student chooses one place.
The table shows information about her results.

Place Number of Students

Theme Park 10
Theatre 5
Sports Centre 8
Seaside 7

a) Work out how many of the 195 students you think will want to go to the theme park.

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(2 marks)

b) State any assumption you made and explain how this may affect your answer.

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(1 mark)

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35. An electronic game can show red or blue or green or yellow.
The table shows the probabilities that the colour shown will be red or will be green or
will be yellow.

Colour Red Blue Green Yellow

Probability 0.15 0.41 0.24

Arthur plays the game.

a) Work out the probability that the colour will be blue.

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(2 marks)
Janice is going to play the game 50 times.
b) Work out an estimate for the number of times the colour shown will be yellow.

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(2 marks)

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