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Mathematics: Paper 3 (Calculator) Foundation Tier

1. The document is the front cover and first two questions of a mathematics GCSE exam paper. It provides instructions for students on how to complete the paper and lists the total marks. 2. The first question asks students to order five rivers by length and show that one river is more than three times as long as another. 3. The second question provides information about cups being sold in packs and boxes, and asks students to write an expression for the total number of cups bought in terms of the number of packs and boxes.
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Mathematics: Paper 3 (Calculator) Foundation Tier

1. The document is the front cover and first two questions of a mathematics GCSE exam paper. It provides instructions for students on how to complete the paper and lists the total marks. 2. The first question asks students to order five rivers by length and show that one river is more than three times as long as another. 3. The second question provides information about cups being sold in packs and boxes, and asks students to write an expression for the total number of cups bought in terms of the number of packs and boxes.
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Pearson Edexcel Centre Number Candidate Number


Level 1 / Level 2
GCSE (9–1)

Mathematics
Paper 3 (Calculator)
Foundation Tier
Tuesday 13 June 2017 – Morning Paper Reference

Time: 1 hour 30 minutes 1MA1/3F


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

Instructions
• Use black ink or ball-point pen.
• centre
Fill in the boxes at the top of this page with your name,
number and candidate number.
• Answer allthequestions.
Answer
• – there may bequestions in the spaces provided
more space than you need.
• You must show all your working.
• Calculatorsaremay
Diagrams NOT accurately drawn, unless otherwise indicated.
• If your calculator does
be used.
• unless the question instructs
not have a ʌ button, take the value of ʌ to be 3.142
otherwise.

Information
• The
The total mark for this paper is 80
• – usemarks for each question are shown in brackets
this as a guide as to how much time to spend on each question.

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

Write your answers in the spaces provided.

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You must write down all the stages in your working.

1 The table shows the lengths of five rivers.

River Length (km)


Trent 297
Don 112
Severn 354
Thames 346
Mersey 113

(a) Write down the rivers in order of length.

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Start with the shortest river.

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(1)
Ami says,
“The River Thames is more than three times as long as the River Don.”
(b) Show that Ami is correct.

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(Total for Question 1 is 2 marks)

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2 Cups are sold in packs and in boxes.
There are 12 cups in each pack.
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There are 18 cups in each box.


Alison buys p packs of cups and b boxes of cups.
Write down an expression, in terms of p and b, for the total number of cups Alison buys.

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(Total for Question 2 is 2 marks)

3 Here are four digits.


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5 6 1 9

(i) Write down the smallest possible two digit number that can be made with two of the digits.

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(1)
(ii) Write down the three digit number closest to 200 that can be made with three of the digits.
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(1)

(Total for Question 3 is 2 marks)

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4 of a number is 32
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Find the number.

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(Total for Question 4 is 2 marks)

5 A path is made of white tiles and grey tiles.


1
of the tiles are white.
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(a) Write down the ratio of white tiles to grey tiles.

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(1)
There is a total of 56 tiles.
(b) Work out the number of grey tiles.

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(2)

(Total for Question 5 is 3 marks)


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6 Here is a list of numbers.

12 15 14 17 22 19 13
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Bridgit says,
“To work out the median you find the middle number,
so the median of these numbers is 17”
Bridgit’s answer is not correct.
(a) What is wrong with Bridgit’s method?

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(1)
(b) Work out the range of the numbers in the list.
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(2)
(c) Work out the mean of the numbers in the list.

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(2)

(Total for Question 6 is 5 marks)


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7 Priti is going to have a meal.
She can choose one starter and one main course from the menu.

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Menu
Starter Main Course

Salad Pasta
Fish Rice
Melon Burger

Write down all the possible combinations Priti can choose.

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(Total for Question 7 is 2 marks)

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8 Joanne wants to buy a dishwasher.
The dishwasher costs £372
Joanne will pay a deposit of £36
She will then pay the rest of the cost in 4 equal monthly payments.
How much is each monthly payment?

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£. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(Total for Question 8 is 2 marks)

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9 Davos is a cleaner.
The table shows information about the time it will take him to clean each of four rooms
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in a house.

Room Time
Kitchen 2 hours
Sitting room 1 hour 40 minutes
1
Bedroom 1 hours
2
Bathroom 45 minutes

Davos wants to clean all four rooms in one day.


He will have breaks for a total time of 75 minutes.
Davos is going to start cleaning at 9 am.
Will he finish cleaning by 4 pm?
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You must show all your working.


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(Total for Question 9 is 3 marks)

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10 ABC is a straight line.

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A B C

The length AB is five times the length BC.


AC = 90 cm.
Work out the length AB.

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(Total for Question 10 is 3 marks)

11 T = 4v + 3
(a) Work out the value of T when v = 2

T = .......................................................
(2)
(b) Make v the subject of the formula T = 4v + 3

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(2)

(Total for Question 11 is 4 marks)

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12 The diagram shows a cube of side length 2 cm.
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2 cm

2 cm
2 cm

Vera says,
“The volume of any solid made with 6 of these cubes is 48 cm³ ”
(a) Is Vera correct?
You must show your working.

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(2)
(b) (i) Draw a cuboid that can be made with 6 of these cubes.
Write the dimensions of the cuboid on your diagram.
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(1)
(ii) Work out the surface area of your cuboid.

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(Total for Question 12 is 5 marks)

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13 The size of the largest angle in a triangle is 4 times the size of the smallest angle.
The other angle is 27° less than the largest angle.

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Work out, in degrees, the size of each angle in the triangle.
You must show your working.

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(Total for Question 13 is 5 marks)

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14 Andy went on holiday to Canada.
His flights cost a total of £1500
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Andy stayed for 14 nights.


His hotel room cost $196 per night.
Andy used wifi for 12 days.
Wifi cost $5 per day.
The exchange rate was $1.90 to £1
(a) Work out the total cost of the flights, the hotel room and wifi.
Give your answer in pounds.
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£ .......................................................
(5)
(b) If there were fewer dollars to £1, what effect would this have on the total cost, in
pounds, of Andy’s holiday?

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(1)
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(Total for Question 14 is 6 marks)

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15 E = {odd numbers less than 30}
A = {3, 9, 15, 21, 27}
B = {5, 15, 25}

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(a) Complete the Venn diagram to represent this information.

(4)

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A number is chosen at random from the universal set, E.
(b) What is the probability that the number is in the set A ‰ B?

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(2)

(Total for Question 15 is 6 marks)

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16 Solve the simultaneous equations

3x + y = –4
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3x – 4y = 6
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x = .......................................................

y = .......................................................
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(Total for Question 16 is 3 marks)

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17 The table shows some information about the dress sizes of 25 women.

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Dress size Number of women
8 2
10 9
12 8
14 6

(a) Find the median dress size.

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(1)
3 of the 25 women have a shoe size of 7
Zoe says that if you choose at random one of the 25 women, the probability that she has
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either a shoe size of 7 or a dress size of 14 is because
25
3 6 9
+ =
25 25 25

(b) Is Zoe correct?


You must give a reason for your answer.

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(Total for Question 17 is 2 marks)

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18 Daniel bakes 420 cakes.
He bakes only vanilla cakes, banana cakes, lemon cakes and chocolate cakes.
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2
of the cakes are vanilla cakes.
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35% of the cakes are banana cakes.
The ratio of the number of lemon cakes to the number of chocolate cakes is 4:5
Work out the number of lemon cakes Daniel bakes.
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(Total for Question 18 is 5 marks)


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19 In the diagram, AB, BC and CD are three sides of a regular polygon P.

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A
polygon P square

square C
B

regular 12-sided polygon

Show that polygon P is a hexagon.


You must show your working.

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(Total for Question 19 is 4 marks)

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20 The density of apple juice is 1.05 grams per cm3.
The density of fruit syrup is 1.4 grams per cm3.
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The density of carbonated water is 0.99 grams per cm3.


25 cm3 of apple juice are mixed with 15 cm3 of fruit syrup and
280 cm3 of carbonated water to make a drink with a volume of 320 cm3.
Work out the density of the drink.
Give your answer correct to 2 decimal places.
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(Total for Question 20 is 4 marks)


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3 cm

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12.5 cm
7.5 cm
4 cm 5 cm

10 cm

Show that these two triangles are mathematically similar.

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(Total for Question 21 is 2 marks)

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22 (a) Complete the table of values for y
x
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x 0.5 1 1.5 2 3 4 5 6

y 6 3 1.5

(2)
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(b) On the grid below, draw the graph of y = for values of x from 0.5 to 6
x
y

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10

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O 1 2 3 4 5 6 x

(2)

(Total for Question 22 is 4 marks)

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23 Harley’s house has a value of £160 000 correct to 2 significant figures.
(a) (i) Write down the least possible value of the house.

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£ .......................................................
(1)
(ii) Write down the greatest possible value of the house.

£ .......................................................
(1)
The value of Rita’s house increased by 5%.
Her house then had a value of £210 000
(b) Work out the value of Rita’s house before the increase.

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£ .......................................................
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(Total for Question 23 is 4 marks)

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