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Jan 21 2H Model Answer

This document outlines the examination details for the Pearson Edexcel International GCSE Mathematics A Paper 2H, scheduled for January 13, 2021. It includes instructions for candidates, information about the total marks, and advice on how to approach the exam. The document also contains various mathematical questions that candidates are required to answer.

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Jan 21 2H Model Answer

This document outlines the examination details for the Pearson Edexcel International GCSE Mathematics A Paper 2H, scheduled for January 13, 2021. It includes instructions for candidates, information about the total marks, and advice on how to approach the exam. The document also contains various mathematical questions that candidates are required to answer.

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( Ca ndidate surn ame I


Please check the examination details below before entering your ca ndidate Information

Othername,
)
-
Centre Number Candi date Number
Pearson Edexcel
Internationa l GCSE Cf [ I I II I I I I
( Wednesday 13 January 2021 J
Afternoon (Time: 2 hours) Paper Reference 4MA 1/2H
Mathematics A
Paper 2H \:>/J-ex~
Higher Tier d
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.
• Without sufficient working, correct answers may be awarded no marks.
• Answer the questions in the spaces provided ...,..
- there may be more space than you need. i , .).
• Calculators may be used. '"" l l
• You must NOT write anything on the formulae page. ~-f e:,,.:J ,..._
!
Anything you write on the formulae page will gain NO credit.

Information
• The total mark for this paper is 100.
• The marks for each question are shown in brackets "'
- use 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.
• Check your answers if you have time at the end.

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Answ er ALL TWE NTY TWO questi ons.

Write your answe rs in the spaces provid ed.

You must write down all the stages in your worki ng.

1 A train takes 6 hours 39 minutes to travel from New Delhi to Kanpur.


The train travels a distan ce of 429 km.

Work out the averag e speed of the train .


Give your answe r in km/h con-ect to one decimal place.

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km/h

(Total for Question 1 is 3 marks)


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3 Gladys buys a table for $465 to sell in her shop.
She sells the table for $520

(a) Work out the percentage profit Ihat Gladys makes from the sale of the table.
Give your answer correct to 3 significant fi gures.

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%

Gladys has a sale in her shop.


· s by 12%
She decreases all the norma I p~ce
The normal price of an armcha ir was $550

(b) Work out the sale price o~ t,he armchair.

100 (:_:3> ~8

? 5- 0 0
55 0 X SB
/ 00
4S lf
$ .. .... ..... ... . .. .. ......... . .. .... .... ....... ..
(3)

(Total for Questi on 3 is 6 marks )


4

(a) On the grid , draw and label the straight line


with equ atio n
(i) X = 1.5
(ii) y =x
(iii) x+ y =6
(3)
(b) Show, by shading on the grid , the region that
satisfies all three of the ineq uali ties

X? 1.5 y? x x +y ~ 6
Label the regi on R .

(I)

(Total for Questio f!._ i is 4 marks)


(a) Expand and simplify 4x(2x + 5) - 3x(2x - 3)

g' ~ ?_ -f <) o::c - 6 :::c1 f-9_::c,

9 ::;t,1--f c;)':11
(2)

y5 X y"
Given that = yl 3
y6

(b) work out the value of n .

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5
~
(:>-~ Y")
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>.-.~;
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X :)
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,

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:= ),'\."
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~ 1t ::) n=

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(c) (i) Solve the inequality 7t- 8 < 2t + 7

(ii) On the number line below, represent the solution set of the inequality solved in
part (c)(i)

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-5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 I 2 3 4 5
(1)

_ _ __,c(Total for Question 5 is 7 marks)

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6 (a) Write down the valu e of y'
'.._ ,/

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(b) Work out 9.6 x 10141 + 6.4 x 10140
3.2 X 10 16
Give your answer m
. standard fo rm.

16
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3 X lo
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1o 3) ( Jo -t 2) ········ ·· ···· ..... .. .. .

(3)
(Total for Quest'ion 6 is
. 4 marks)

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, 7 There are 5 cocoa pods in a bag.
The mean weight of the 5 cocoa pods is 398 grams.

A sixth cocoa pod is put into the bag.


The mean weight of the 6 cocoa pods is 40 I gra ms.

Work out the weight of the sixth cocoa pod that is put into the bag.
5 t 33i =- (990

b X 4,ol ::::

)9 9 0 41 6

4/6 . .... . . . . . grams


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· I with centre 0 .
8 A, Band Care points on a circ e
~
Diagram Not \ .
accurately draw11 ,~

AOC is a diameter of the circle.

AB = 8cm BC = 15cm

Angle ABC = 90°

Work out the total area of the regions shown shaded in the diagram.
Give your answer co1Tect to 3 significant figures.
.

AC ; { ~1-- 16'2- --

16 6 , ::; a
1..va ~ ......... U' . . &'-'••
- -
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9 A = 23 X 32 X 52 X 11
B = 24 X 3 X 54 X 13

Find the lowest common multiple (LCM) of A and B.


Give your answer as a product of powers of prime numbers.

4 a.. 4~
2 x J X5 X: 11 VIJ

(Total for Question 9 is 2 marks)


l1 The people working for a company work in Team A or in Team B.

~ number of people in Team A: number of people in Team B = 3 : 4


4
5 of Team A work full time.
24% of Team B work full time.

~ork out what fraction of the people working for the company work full time.
Give your fr ac t·ion 111
· · •
its snnplest fo1m.

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Simplify fully 4 9)-2


9t w
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l.; t 4 vJ ?,.
(Total for Question 11 is 3 marks)
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12@ eople were asked how long, in minutes, they had been waiting for a bus .
Here are the results.

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2 3 3 5 _6__6_ 8 _:_ 10 __1_1 G) _14_ _ 1_s _ _ 1_s_


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a: Find the interquartile range of these times.
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..... minutes

(Total for Question 12 is 2 marks)


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13 P, Q, R, Sand Tare points on a circle with centre 0 .

Diagram No,

p
accurately drawn

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1/.
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QOS is a diameter of the circle. I

angle POS = 124 ° i


angle PRS = m0 angle PTS = n° /

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(a) Find the value of •~'·
1/, ;
.·,, ~
(i) m ·'
?0 /
I ~.o' ·

(ii) n
. . . . b .Q ~,z
';

;:;o ·
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m

(b) Find the size of angle QPO.


(2) ·i
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0

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5 4

o: I Show clear algebra ic working.


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(b) Mak0 1e subject of the formula P= V3+c

~ 1, =- 0-- C -f-' 'g


3P -+ cp
1-,
C p ~ °'-c

C ( f°'L_o---)

(Total for Question 14 is 7 marks)

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15 A postman records the weight of each parcel that he delivers.

The histogram shows info1mation about the weights of all the parcel s that the postman
delivered last Monday. No parcels weighed more than 6 kg.

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density
..

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'

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0
0 2 3 4 5 6
(1 Weight (kg)
c;,---

~ f the parcels that the postman delivered last Monday each had a weight between
0.5 kg and 2 kg.

(a) Work out the total number of parcels the postman delivered last Monday.
w A- I µ
P, o,S ;1 4)S 9+
3
6.3 t+.$1.
~ /-1

C
l I
,6
Q

The postman picks at random two of the records of the parce ls he delivered
last Monday.

(b) Work out an estimate for the probability that each parcel we ighed more than 2.25 kg.

o ,75X 2 lf~ -f 3o + lo ~ 6<-f


67 Q
64 --
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_____ J Total for Question 15 is 6 marks)_ __


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f 6 Some studen ts were asked the fi . .
0 11
owing question .
"Which of the subjects Russian (R) F ·
Of these studen ts 1
' 'enc 1 (F) and German ( G) do yo u stud y?"

14 Study
st all three of Russian , French and German
0 udy Russia n and French
13
study French and Genna n
6 study Russia n and Genna n
24 study Genna n
11 study none of the three subjects
the number who study Russian only is twice the number who study French only.
Let x be the numbe r of students who study French only.

(a) Show all this infonn ation on the Venn diagram, giving the number of student
s in
each approp riate subset, in terms of x where necessary.

9 G

(3)
Given that the num b er o f students who were asked the question was 80

(b) work out the numbe r of these students that study Russian . { /

3 ':f_ + I o -f ~ -,. 1g -f-~ - 80

3 ~ - 3.3 3g (3)
::L- - · 13 I)

R ;- Q_( 13) +. Iof "'iTetal for . U!Stien It is' marks)

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17 The diagram shows a solid prism ABCDEFGH
F Di agram NOT
\ ~
accuratel y drawn 1\

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)

20cm <)o
#,;
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I

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/ 24 cm

A c.+ , 5 37 cm D

The trapezium ABCD, in which AD is parallel to BC, is a cross section of the prism.
The base ADEH of the prism is a horizontal plane.
ADEH and BCFG are rectangles.
The midpoint of BC is vertically above the midpoint of AD so that BA = CD.

AD = 37 cm GF = 28 cm DE = 24 cm
The perpendicular distance between edges AD and BC is 20 cm _

(a) Work out the total surface area of the prism .

<J_ Q =:i( (R8 ; t')X~ ~

B 0-- se -=- J 1- X 1J 4 : : ;:;- ( 3 o8

Top 9- i X 'd-0

3 .8. IJ ..<f . ..cm 2


(➔)

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(b) Calculate the size
of the angl b
e etween AF ancI tl1c plane AD E!J
G. n·ect t d . .
1ve yo ur answ er co o one cc 1111 Jl place.

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marks )
(Total for Question 17 is 7
19
18 A rectangle ABCD 1.s to be drawn on a centimetre grid such that

1 has coordinates (-4, - 2)


has coordinates ( l , I 0)
\
_; has coord inates ( 19, a) ( 1~ 1 g, 5 \
has coordinates (b, c)

(a) Work out the va lue 0 f· a, the value of b and the value of c. v I
C 1; 1o) C.

0 ( f AD)
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s f+ (- L, t;;)
- 4 -1
£ J1i 1- L:

_s
m
BG= ,~ Cj ~ -
C ~ 1~. Q ~)
f) .:. (o L.,)
/9 - b :=;: S
')O- f ~o.._-:: CjO
J
lo -::; 11..f
l 'Jo -90 :::- ( Qo__ a= .
9 ,;;-
. .

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. .

t1 ~- C --
3o = 190- 0,-J -
b= . 1. 4
<;}_ 5 .... 1;2 ~(_
c= .. ~9_,S-
__ .::..__
- g 5 :::: c__ (4)

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i ca lculate the perimeter' in c en t ·
/)) unetre s, o f rectan gle AB CD

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(3)
cm 1•
vv- . '

19 A Panicle p · .
The fixed p ~s moving along a straight line.
oint O li es on thi s line
At · .
time t seconds wl1
erc t ~ 0, th e di splacement, s metres, o f P fro m O is g iven by

s = 13 I 512 8/ I I0
Find the ct · ~
isplacemcnt of p ti
Tom O when P is instantaneo usly at_!est. V- 0
Gi ve you t. answer . the .c- a
111 .
'01111 -b whe1·e a an d b are 111tege rs.

3t~ --1- lo t - g - 0

( 36 -.:::-_
Q)( t- +~ )
t --- 9- i (L

metres

(Total for Question 19 is 5 marks)


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Diagram NOT
lI
accurately drawn
F

The diagram shows a shaded region T formed by removing an eq uilaleral lriangle PQR
from a regular hexagon ABCDEF. •-

The points P and Q lie on AB such that AB = I .5 x PQ

Given that the area of region T is 72 ✓3 cm 2

work out the length of PQ.

(!___d p Q.::: ~
A e = 1,s:::L
- -- - - - - -
/\ pQ
LJc
O
I\ fA.reo- = ro/
;_,.c..-
X. <; , n 60 _ r;;--
'I J
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LI

~ -::} ::£ 1 _ j_ J, I __ f :J_


eg Lf

2) -:£
1 =- ;).. - - ::: L/ .~
1 ,-,- cm

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8
" =
( f n
~
S-- ____ __ (To_t~I for Question 20 is 4 marks)
i
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21 Write _ 25x 2 _
64 2
X x - 8x + 15
Sx2 - l 3x -
Sx + 8 - (x - 7)
6
.
.
as a si n g le fr act10n in .t si.mples t fo rm
Sh r . 's ..
ow cl ea r al g eb arc workin g.

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( S x -t:2.)( -.. - 3 ~5- I

( 5" L - g) {X ---S-) -
(',:x_ -+~)

yj
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:x. "J - 3 3 . z -------
5 : :.:£ l _ 3 : )/?.t:. ,,-- + u--.-- - -0 - { - ~-
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d' (6 + x)cm.
. with centre O and ra ,us
cJrcle
22 The diagram show s a sector OBC of a
0 Diagram NOT
t accu ratel y drawn
6cm
B
f
x cm
~
C

that OA == OD == 6 cm
A is the point on OB and D is the point on OC such

Angle BOC = 50°

Given that
triangle OAD
the perimeter of sector OBC = 2 x the perimeter of

find the value of x.


Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

AO :::-

~--e A) - - ( ;- ; [9)'r1( 01-xJJ


0
~-
_s-,rr-- ( b r:2) V

-txJ + 1? +? x ~ J ( 6-rb f ,;-;


V

51 r ( b o 114)
/8
~Q_ (1 7 , 0 l- 11/)-1<;1

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(Total for Question 22 is 6

0 M AR KS
TOTAL F OR PAPER IS 10

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