Edexcel Past Paper 8

Eve buys lunch on her way to work.
She sees this meal deal.

Eve chooses these items.

Chicken sandwich      £2.85
Fruit snack pot            79p
Coffee                            £1.59

Work out how much money Eve will save using the meal deal.

Work out 74.88 ÷ 1.2
You must show your working.

ABCD is a 4-sided shape.
BD is a line of symmetry of the shape.

Work out the value of x.

Max is building a new shed.
He has drawn this sketch.

Each shaded wall of the shed is in the shape of a trapezium.
The other two walls are rectangular.

Max wants to cover the four walls with wood cladding.
He will not use any cladding for the floor or the roof.

Max will buy the cladding in packs.
Each pack of cladding covers 1.1m²

The cladding can be cut and joined.
Max knows that the two rectangular walls need 8.8m² of cladding in total.

Work out how many packs of cladding Max needs to cover the four walls.

Mandy spins a fair spinner twice.

The colours on the spinner are red, blue, green, orange and pink.
The table shows all the possible outcomes.

What is the probability of getting the same colour on both spins?

Mandy spins a fair spinner twice.

The colours on the spinner are red, blue, green, orange and pink.
The table shows all the possible outcomes.

What is the probability of getting at least one blue in the two spins?

Habiba wants to make pastry by mixing butter and flour.
She needs to mix the butter and the flour in the ratio 4 : 9

Habiba wants to make 650 grams of pastry.
She has 425 grams of flour.

Does Habiba have enough flour to make 650 grams of pastry?

Habiba also wants to make cupcakes.
She has this list of ingredients.

Habiba wants to make 30 cupcakes.
1 fl oz = 28.413 ml

How much milk does Habiba need to make 30 cupcakes?

Misha rows in a team of 8 people.
She wants to compare the mean BMI of the people in the rowing team with the mean BMI of women in the UK.

Misha uses this formula to calculate her BMI.

Misha has a weight of 73.3 kg and a height of 67 inches.
1 inch = 2.54 cm
The table shows some information about the BMIs of the people in the rowing team.

The mean BMI of women in the UK is 26.9

Work out the Mean BMI of people in the rowing team.

Write three million, six hundred and seventy five thousand in figures.

Write 760 grams as a fraction of 1 kilogram.

Give your answer in its simplest form.

Nyam looks at the screen time report on his phone.
This week his average screen time per day is 28% greater than his average screen time per day last week.
This week Nyam’s average screen time per day is 3 hours and 44 minutes.

Work out Nyam’s average screen time per day for last week.

Frank wants to fit underfloor heating in his kitchen.
The kitchen is in the shape of a rectangle.

He has this sketch.

The shaded space shows the part of the floor covered by cabinet bases.
Each cabinet has a depth of 600 mm.

Frank will cover part of the floor space with heating cable.
Frank needs to leave a gap of 100 mm between the base of the cabinets and the part of the floor space he will cover.

He needs to buy a cable pack.

The table shows information about the different sizes of heating cable packs and the maximum floor area each pack can cover.

Frank wants to spend as little as possible.

Work out the cost of the cable pack Frank needs to buy.

Sammi has designed a sweet tin in the shape of a cylinder.
The plan and the front elevation of the tin are shown on the centimetre grid below.

Find the volume of the sweet tin.

Write ¹⁵⁄₇ as a mixed number.

Here is a list of numbers.
−3,   6,   −5,   4,   4,   0

Find the median.

Write 28% as a decimal.

Andrew pays 38.90 euros for a meal in Spain using his British bank card.
The British bank charges a fee for changing currency.
The fee is 2.75% of the amount he pays for the meal.
£1 = 1.127 euros

Work out the total amount Andrew pays for the meal and the fee.

Bilal works for a supermarket.
His usual pay is £8.70 per hour.

Bilal will work for 7¹⁄₂ hours this Sunday.
The supermarket will pay Bilal time and a half for working on a Sunday.

Bilal thinks the supermarket will pay him more than £100 for working this Sunday

Is he correct?

Mina works in a different shop.
The table shows some information about the wages for Bilal and the wages for Mina for the last six weeks.

Bilal says,
“My wages were more consistent than Mina’s wages for the last six weeks.”

Were Bilal’s wages more consistent than Mina’s wages?