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MATHEMATICS
Foundation Tier Paper 2 Calculator
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Monday 3 June 2024 Morning Time allowed: 1 hour 30 minutes
Materials For Examiner’s Use
For this paper you must have:
• a calculator Pages Mark
• mathematical instruments 2–3
• the Formulae Sheet (enclosed).
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Instructions 8–9
• Use black ink or black ball-point pen. Draw diagrams in pencil. 10–11
• Fill in the boxes at the top of this page.
• Answer all questions. 12–13
• You must answer the questions in the spaces provided. Do not write 14–15
outside the box around each page or on blank pages.
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• If you need extra space for your answer(s), use the lined pages at the end of
this book. Write the question number against your answer(s). 18–19
• Do all rough work in this book. Cross through any work you do not want to 20–21
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• The marks for questions are shown in brackets.
• The maximum mark for this paper is 80.
• You may ask for more answer paper, graph paper and tracing paper.
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1 (a) Write 0.27 as a fraction.

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Answer

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1 (b) Write as a decimal.
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1 (c) Write 0.35 as a percentage.

[1 mark]

Answer %

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2 (a) Simplify fully x + 4x box
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2 (b) Simplify fully 5 × 2w

[1 mark]

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2 (c) Simplify fully 2m ÷ m

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2 (d) Simplify fully y×y×y

[1 mark]

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3 Here is a quadrilateral. box

3 (a) Write down the letter of the obtuse angle.

[1 mark]

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3 (b) Write down the letter of an acute angle.

[1 mark]

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3 (c) How many lines of symmetry does the shape have?

[1 mark]

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4 (a) One lettuce costs £1.29 box

How much do seven of these lettuces cost?

[1 mark]

Answer £

4 (b) Five cucumbers cost £6.40 in total.

How much do two of these cucumbers cost?

[1 mark]

Answer £

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5 A company sells three types of bottle. box

The pictogram shows how many bottles they sold one week.

5 (a) The company sold more plastic bottles than glass bottles that week.

How many more?

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5 (b) The company sells each steel bottle for £17.50

Work out the total amount of money made from selling steel bottles that week.
[3 marks]

Answer £

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6 Shape ABCDE is drawn on a centimetre grid. box

6 (a) Complete this statement.

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AB : =5:1

6 (b) On this centimetre grid,

draw a rectangle with the same area as shape ABCDE.
[2 marks]

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7 Use a ruler for this question. box

Here is an accurate drawing of an equilateral triangle.

By measuring, work out the perimeter of the triangle.

State the units of your answer.
[3 marks]

Answer

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8 There are 56 cubes in a box. box

The cubes are green, red, blue or white.

17 cubes are green.
There are an equal number of red, blue and white cubes.

8 (a) How many red cubes are in the box?

[2 marks]

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8 (b) 24 more cubes are added to the box.

A cube is picked at random.
The probability that the cube is green is 0.4

How many of the 24 cubes added to the box are green?

[3 marks]

Answer

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9 An electric car uses 1 unit of electricity to travel 3 miles. box

1 unit of electricity costs 50 pence.

Work out the cost of electricity, in pounds, to travel 270 miles.

[3 marks]

Answer £

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10 (a) Leema buys 2 metres of linen at £8.50 per metre. box

She also buys 5 metres of cotton.

The total cost is £38

What is the cost of one metre of cotton?

[4 marks]

Answer £

10 (b) Buttons cost 65p each.

The greatest number of buttons Leema can buy with £5 is 7
She says,
“The greatest number of buttons I can buy with £10 is 14 because £10 is double £5”

Is she correct?
Tick a box.

Yes No

Show working to support your answer.

[2 marks]

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11 Here is a table of values for the equation y = 3x + 1 box

x 1 2 3 4

y 4 7 10 13

11 (a) Draw the graph of y = 3x + 1 for values of x from 1 to 4

[2 marks]

11 (b) Work out the value of y when x = 2.5

[2 marks]

y=

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12 A code has five different digits written in order, starting with the smallest. box

The last digit is the only square number.

The middle digit is the only even number.

Work out the code.

[3 marks]

Answer

13 Four numbers have a mean of 10

Three of the numbers are 5 8 9

Work out the other number.

[3 marks]

Answer

10

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14 (a) Rearrange d=h–4 to make h the subject. box
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h=

w
14 (b) Rearrange p= to make w the subject.
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[1 mark]

w=

15 A linear sequence begins

2 5 8 11

Work out an expression for the n th term.

[2 marks]

Answer

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16 The diagram shows a circle, centre O, and three straight lines. box

Use one word to describe each shaded region.

Choose from

arc chord sector segment tangent

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Region A

Region B

 1  4 
17 Work out  2 +  6
   
[1 mark]

 
Answer  
 
7

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18 Bag A and bag B contain counters. box

Bag A Bag B

1 3 are white
are red
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2 are green
The rest are blue

18 (a) Complete the tree diagram.

[2 marks]

18 (b) One counter is taken at random from each bag.

Work out the probability that one is red and one is white.
[2 marks]

Answer

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19 box
Not drawn
accurately

Use trigonometry to work out the value of x.

[3 marks]

x= cm

20 The mass of an iceberg is 2 200 000 kg

This value is a 12% reduction from the original mass of the iceberg.

Work out the original mass of the iceberg.

Give your answer in standard form.
[3 marks]

Answer kg

10

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21 A chef has a tub of blueberries. box

She wants to
use all the blueberries
put the same number of blueberries on each dessert.

k
D=
b

D is the number of desserts.

b is the number of blueberries on each dessert.

21 (a) What does the constant k represent?

Tick the correct box.
[1 mark]

The number of blueberries in the tub

The number of desserts

The number of blueberries on each dessert

None of the above

21 (b) Complete the table.

[2 marks]

b 2 6

D 120 30

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22 (a) A fair spinner has six equal sections, each with the number 5, 6, 7 or 8 box

Each number appears at least once.

P(even number) = P(7)

Work out P(5)

You may use the blank spinner to help you.
[3 marks]

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22 (b) A different spinner has ten sections, each labelled A, B, C or D.

A B C D

Probability 0.1 0.5 0.2 0.3

Give one reason why there must be a mistake in the table.

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23 (a) Here is a sketch of the graph y = –2 x + 6 box

Complete the coordinates of C and D.

[2 marks]

C( 0 , ) D( , 0 )

23 (b) Here is a sketch of a quadratic graph.

Complete the following statements.

[2 marks]

The value of the y-intercept is

The x-coordinate of the turning point, T, is

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24 Archie flips a biased coin 200 times. box

Here is some information about the outcomes after each 50 flips.

Total number of flips 50 100 150 200

Number of heads 10 27 37 52

Work out the best estimate for the probability of flipping a head.
Give a reason for your answer.
[2 marks]

Answer

Reason

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25 A lion is sprinting in a straight line away from its den. box

The graph shows the lion’s distance from the den.

Work out the speed of the lion in metres per second.

[3 marks]

Answer m/s

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