Edexcel GCSE Maths Paper 2: Calculator Foundation November 2017 question paper 1MA1/2F

Write down a multiple of 6 that is between 40 and 50

Simplify 3 fg

Simplify t × t

Ken buys some fruit.

He buys apples, bananas, peaches and oranges. Ken buys

4 apples weighing 125 g each 2 bananas weighing 170 g each 3 peaches weighing 135 g each

Each orange has a weight of 90 g.

The fruit has a total weight of 1.785 kg.

Work out how many oranges Ken buys.

Jane wants to buy 15 tomatoes. She asks for 1 kg of tomatoes at a shop. Jane assumes that each tomato has a weight of 75 g.

If Jane’s assumption is correct, will she get 15 tomatoes? You must show how you get your answer.

If Jane’s assumption is not correct, could she get 15 tomatoes? Justify your answer.

5 60 students were asked how they get to school.

The table shows the results.

What fraction of the 60 students did not walk to school?

Complete the pie chart for the information in the table.

Annie and Lily share some money in the ratio 4: 3

What fraction of the money does Lily get?

Rosie and Dan share some sweets. Dan gets of the sweets.

Write down the ratio of the number of sweets Rosie gets to the number of sweets Dan gets.

Steve says,

“There are more prime numbers between 20 and 30 than there are between 10 and 20”

Is Steve right? You must show how you get your answer.

Chrissy drew this graph to show the percentage of buses that got to a bus stop on time for six months.

Write down one thing that is wrong with the graph.

Describe the trend in the percentage of buses that got to the bus stop on time.

Here is a map of an island.

A straight road joins the two villages, Backley and Cremford.

Work out the real distance between the two villages.

Find the bearing of Cremford from Backley.

The diagram shows two shapes drawn on a centimetre grid.

Find the area of shape P.

Write down the mathematical name of quadrilateral Q.

The table shows a cricket club’s income in 2016 from a fete, a quiz and membership fees.

Express as a ratio

the income from the fete to the income from the quiz to the income from membership fees.

Give your ratio in its simplest form.

200 people live in a village.

23 people do not have a garden. 10 males do not have a garden. 95 people are male.

Use this information to complete the frequency tree.

One of the people who does not have a garden is chosen at random.

Write down the probability that this person is female.

Ellie makes hats. She makes at least 17 hats per hour. She is paid 46p for each hat she makes.

Reaze is a waiter. He works 35 hours and is paid a total of £266

Show that Ellie’s hourly rate of pay is more than Reaze’s hourly rate of pay.

a and b are odd numbers.

Give an example to show that the value of 2(a + b) is a multiple of 4

Show that, when a and b are both odd numbers, the value of 2(a + b) will always be a multiple of 4

Mr Page uses oil to heat his home.

At the beginning of November there were 1000 litres of oil in his oil tank.

Mr Page bought enough oil to fill the tank completely. He paid 50p per litre for this oil. He paid a total amount of £750

At the end of February Mr Page had 600 litres of oil in the tank. He bought enough oil to fill the tank completely. The cost of oil had increased by 4%.

Work out the total amount Mr Page paid for the oil he bought in February.

Solve 5 x − 6 = 3(x − 1)

Emily buys a pack of 12 bottles of water. The pack costs £5.64

Emily sells all 12 bottles for 50p each.

Work out Emily’s percentage profit. Give your answer correct to 1 decimal place.

Hasmeet walks once round a circle with diameter 80 metres.

There are 8 points equally spaced on the circumference of the circle.

Find the distance Hasmeet walks between one point and the next point.

Four of the points are moved, as shown in the diagram below.

Hasmeet walks once round the circle again.

Has the mean distance that Hasmeet walks between one point and the next point changed? You must give a reason for your answer.

There are only blue cubes, yellow cubes and green cubes in a bag.

There are

twice as many blue cubes as yellow cubes and four times as many green cubes as blue cubes.

Hannah takes at random a cube from the bag.

Work out the probability that Hannah takes a yellow cube.

Rotate trapezium T 180° about the origin. Label the new trapezium A.

Find the value of x.

(7²)^y10

Find the value of y.

100^a × 1000^b can be written in the form 10^w

Show that wa + 3b

ABCD is a trapezium.

Work out the size of angle CDA. Give your answer correct to 1 decimal place.

Write down all the figures on your calculator display.

Write your answer to part (a) correct to 2 decimal places.

Solve 2x²

Expand and simplify (2 x + 1)(3 x − 2)

Factorise x² + 6x + 9