Edexcel Past Paper 6

Jai needs to buy 25 lollipops for a party.
He sees this offer.

Jai knows a normal selection bag contains 18 lollipops.
He thinks he will have enough lollipops if he buys a selection bag with this offer.

Is Jai correct?

Here is a formula.

Find the value of d when n = 5

Andrew is a member of a walking club.

He sees this sign next to a footpath.

Andrew will walk from this sign along the footpath to Glossop to meet his friend.

They will then both walk back along the footpath to the sign and then onto New Mills.

Work out the total distance that Andrew walks.

Give your answer as a mixed number.

A box contains bags of crisps.

Each bag of crisps is either beef flavour, prawn flavour or cheese flavour.

Beth is going to take at random a bag of crisps from the box.

The table shows each of the probabilities that the flavour will be beef or will be cheese.

Work out the probability that Beth takes a bag of prawn flavour crisps.

Olivia plans to drive from Birmingham to Manchester non-stop.

The distance is 87 miles. She has allowed 1.5 hours for the journey.

What is the average speed she must drive to complete the journey in 1.5 hours?

Brian is a sports reporter.

Team A played 30 rugby matches.

The table shows information about the number of tries team A scored in these matches.

Work out the mean number of tries team A scored per match.

Brian wants to compare two teams.

He knows
• team A had a range of 3 tries
• team B had a range of 4 tries.

Which team is more consistent scoring tries?

The head teacher at a school is organising for some year 7 and some year 8 pupils to go on a school trip.

72 people in total will go on the school trip.

There will be 1 adult to every 5 pupils.

The ratio of the number of year 7 pupils to the number of year 8 pupils will be 3 : 1

How many adults, year 7 pupils and year 8 pupils will go on the trip?

Josh drives a lorry. He is planning his route.

On the planned route there is a low bridge.
The maximum height of a lorry allowed under the bridge is 14 feet.

Josh knows the lorry is 4.2 m high.

Josh uses 1 foot = 0.3048 m.

Will the lorry be allowed under the bridge?

Yasmine invests £4000

For the first 2 years she receives annual compound interest of 3%
In year three she receives annual compound interest of 2.5%

At the end of year three Yasmine wants to buy a car for £4500

She will use all of the investment and interest towards the cost of the car.

Work out how much more money Yasmine needs to buy the car.

Write down the coordinates of point A.

Carlos records the number of tweets his company posts every year on social media.

Find the median number of tweets.

In 2019, 6% of the tweets were about job vacancies.

(b) How many of the tweets in 2019 were about job vacancies?

Carlos records the number of tweets his company posts every year on social media.

In 2019, 6% of the tweets were about job vacancies.

How many of the tweets in 2019 were about job vacancies?

Myra works as a volunteer at her local pony club.
She is going to cover the front of the stables with paint.

The diagram shows a sketch of the front of the stables.

Myra will buy the paint she needs.

1 tin of paint

• covers 7 m²
• costs £6.45

She uses this rule.

Area in square feet ÷ 10.764 = area in square metres.

Work out the total cost of the tins of paint Myra will buy

Nigel is the secretary of a football club.

He pays three match officials each week.

He has this information for the payments he made for the last 5 weeks

The table shows the match fees and expenses the officials will receive in week 6

The total payment for each official is made up of a match fee and expenses.
Nigel pays 67% of the total payments for these three match officials.

Nigel thinks the payment he makes in week 6 is more than the median payment he made for the previous 5 weeks.

Is Nigel correct?

Tammy wants to make chocolate sweets.

The sweets will be solid chocolate in the shape of a sphere.
Each sweet will have a radius of 2 cm.

Tammy will melt chocolate blocks to make the sweets.
Each chocolate block is a cuboid 19 cm by 14 cm by 0.75 cm.

She has this formula

Tammy wants to make 45 sweets.
She thinks 7 blocks of chocolate are enough to make 45 sweets.

Is Tammy correct?