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Maths · OCR J560 · Paper 5: Non-calculator · Higher · November 2022

OCR GCSE Maths Paper 5: Non-calculator Higher November 2022 question paper J560/05

1h 30m 100 marks

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OCR J560 · Paper 5

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Question 4

Layla and Jamal open a box of sweets. Layla and Jamal share all of the sweets in the ratio 2: 3.

(a)

Write down the fraction of the sweets that Layla receives.

[1]

(b)

Layla eats some of her sweets. She is then left with 18% of the sweets that were in the box.

Work out the percentage of her sweets that Layla has eaten.

[4]

Question 5

Ashley goes on a journey. She travels by taxi for fraction of the journey. She travels by train for fraction of the journey. She walks for the remaining 900 m of the journey.

Find the length of this journey in kilometres. You must show your working.

[6]

Question 6

The graph shows information about the population of a village.

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(a)

The population of the village in 2021 was 4740.

Plot this point on the graph.

[1]

(b)

Work out the increase in the population of the village between 2016 and 2018.

[2]

(c)

Rowan says that there was a huge increase in the population of the village between 2015 and 2020.

Describe how Rowan may have been misled by the graph.

[1]

(d)

Blake says that the population of the village will be greater than 4800 in 2022.

Write down an assumption Blake has made.

[1]

Question 12

The time, t seconds, taken by each of 60 students to complete a puzzle is recorded.

The table shows information about these times.

Time (t seconds)20 < t ⩽ 3030 < t ⩽ 4040 < t ⩽ 5050 < t ⩽ 7070 < t ⩽ 90
Frequency80123010
(a)

Two students are picked at random. Reece works out the probability that they both took longer than 50 seconds to complete the puzzle. Reece’s working is shown below.

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Explain the error in their method and write the correct calculation that Reece needs to do.

You do not need to work out the answer to the calculation.

The correct calculation is........

[2]

(b)

Two students are picked at random from those who took 50 seconds or less.

Find the probability that one of them took 30 seconds or less and the other took more than 40 seconds. You must show your working.

[5]

Question 13

Points A, B, C and D lie on the circumference of a circle. Line AC intersects line BD at point E.

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Prove that triangle AED is similar to triangle BEC.

[3]

Question 14

The number of bees, P, in a colony is given by the formula

P = abx

where x is the number of months after the start of July.

At the start of July, there were 25 000 bees in the colony. After one month, there were 23 500 bees in the colony.

Find the value of a and the value of b. Give the value of b as a decimal.

[4]

Question 20

Kai has a box in the shape of a cuboid. The internal dimensions of the box are 10 cm by 4 cm by 6 cm.

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Question 20, shown as an image

Kai is given a pencil of length 13 cm.

Show that the pencil does not fit completely inside the box.

[4]

Question 21

The graph of y = fraction is drawn on the grid for -2 ⩽ x ⩽ 6.

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(a)

There are no values of x for which fraction = k. Find the value of k.

[1]

(b)(i)

Use the graph to find approximate solutions to the equation fraction = 3x - 1. Give your answers to 1 decimal place. Show your working on the graph.

(b)(i) x =........ or x =........

[4]

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