Edexcel Maths Level 1 Past Paper 4

Su has a new job.
She wants to compare the cost of travelling to work by train with the cost of
travelling to work by car.

Su travels to work 5 days each week.
She knows that it will be more expensive to travel to work by car.

How much more expensive is travelling to work by car each week?

Use a common fraction to work out an estimate for 73% of 120
You must show your working.

Evie needs to make 200 scones.
Her recipe uses 150 ml of milk to make 10 scones.

How many litres of milk does Evie need for 200 scones?

Fred makes solid pyramids.
The height of each pyramid is 9 cm.
The base of each pyramid is in the shape of a square with side length 6 cm.

Fred needs to know the volume of one pyramid.
He uses this formula to work out the volume of one pyramid.

Fred thinks that the volume of one pyramid is more than 100 cm³

Is Fred correct?

Mia has a job interview at 9:20 am.

When Mia wakes up she will need
• 1³/₄ hours to get ready
• 25 minutes to walk to the interview.

What is the latest time Mia needs to wake up?

Jonathan is writing a report about recycling in the local town.
In 2019
• there were 2170 people living in the town
• each person in the town recycled an average of 395.4 kg of waste.

Jonathan knows that 1 tonne = 1000 kg.

How many tonnes of waste were recycled in the town in total in 2019?
Give your answer correct to 2 decimal places.

Layla gives
• 120 scarves to Shop A to sell
• 152 scarves to Shop B to sell.

Shop A sold 15% of its 120 scarves.
Shop B sold an eighth of its 152 scarves.

Which shop sells the most scarves?

On Monday Selma has £202.69 in her bank account.
Selma needs to pay a bill of £465.20 from the account on Wednesday.

She will pay some money into the account on Tuesday so that there is

• enough money in the account to pay the bill
• £10 left in the account after the bill has been paid.
No other payments occur.

How much money does Selma pay into the account on Tuesday?

Kelly is designing a pattern on a grid.
The pattern must
• cover all the grid
• use only black squares and white squares
• have exactly 2 lines of symmetry.

Which one of these nets will make a cube?

Carl is running a charity race.
Here is a map for part of the route.

Carl wants to know the bearing of the route.

(a) Find the bearing of the drink stop from the start

Carl is running the race as part of a team.
The table shows the running times for all the team members.

Work out the range of the running times.

The same team ran the race last year.
The mean running time for the runners in the team last year was 45 minutes.
Carl thinks that the mean running time for the runners in the team this year is less than 45 minutes.

Is Carl correct?

Jasmine has an allotment.
The allotment is in the shape of a rectangle.

Jasmine wants to put a fence around the edge of the allotment.
There needs to be a gap in the fencing of 1.5 m for a gate.
Fencing is sold in whole metres.

Work out the length of fencing Jasmine needs to buy.

Samir is planning a new kitchen.
He has this diagram of one of the walls.

The diagram shows the space for a fridge.
Samir has these fridges to choose from.

Samir wants to buy the largest fridge possible to fit in this space.

Which fridge should Samir choose?

Rita wants to buy an oak shelf from a shop.
The normal price of the shelf is £170
The shop has this offer.

45% off the normal price

Rita will use this offer.
She has a budget of £100 to buy the shelf.

Can Rita buy the shelf?

Tom rolls an ordinary fair dice.

What is the probability he rolls an even number?

Tom has a fair dice with 12 faces of equal size.

There is one number on each face.
The numbers are 1 to 12
Tom rolls the dice and looks at the number on the top face.

What is the probability that this number is more than 5?

Georgia is an office manager.
The office floor is in the shape of a rectangle.
The diagram shows the floor space of the office.

A total of 65 people work in the office.
Each person needs at least 4 m² of floor space to work in.

Georgia wants to increase the number of people working in the office by 20%.
She thinks that each person will still have at least 4 m² of floor space to work in.

Is Georgia correct?