Edexcel Past Paper 3

Kate is making some pastry.
She will use 20 ounces of flour.
Kate has a recipe that uses 8 ounces of flour with 3 ounces of butter.
Work out how many ounces of butter Kate needs to use.

Work out the value of 4x + 3 when x = 2

Work out the value of A when B = 16

Work out ⁵/₈ of 320

Kanya makes and sells jewellery items.

In one week she sells earrings, bracelets and necklaces in the ratio 13 : 24 : 15

What fraction of the total items sold were bracelets?

Give your answer in its simplest form.

Paul sees this advert for a payment plan for a laptop.

Does using the payment plan save 8% of the normal price?

The scatter diagram shows the temperature at different heights on Mount Everest for one afternoon in May.

What is the correlation shown by the scatter diagram?

Jenni is an editor for a newspaper.

She checks information in an article.

The article states, ‘In 2019 there were 300 people per square kilometre in the UK.’ Jenny knows that in 2019
• the area of the UK was 242 500 square kilometres
• the population of the UK was 66.9 million.

Is the statement in the article correct?

Wesley is a salesman.

He wants to work out the total cost of the petrol he will use for travel next week.

Wesley knows

• he will drive a total of 520 miles
• his car uses 1 gallon of petrol per 28 miles
• petrol costs 128.4 pence per litre
• 1 gallon = 4.55 litres.

Wesley thinks the petrol he will use for travel next week will cost more than £100

In October Mr Barker gave a group of 250 students a history test.

These are the results.

Mr Barker estimates the mean mark to be 12

Is Mr Barker correct?

Mia is the manager of an ice cream shop.

In August she sold 960 ice lollies.

In September she sold 810 ice lollies.

Mia thinks she sold 18% fewer ice lollies in September than in August.

Did Mia sell 18% fewer ice lollies in September than in August?

Abi has a mirror in the shape of a rectangle with a semicircle on one of the shorter edges.

The radius of the semicircle is 30 cm.

The longer edge of the rectangle is 85 cm.

Abi buys a 500 cm length of mirror trim to go around all the edges of the mirror.

She thinks she will use more than ²/₃  of the length of the mirror trim.

Is Abi correct?

Andy and his brother set up eco cabins.

It takes the 2 of them 6 days to set up one eco cabin.

A friend starts working with them.

How many days will 3 people take to set up one eco cabin?

Gavin is a car salesman.

The table shows the number of cars he sold in one week.

The cost of each car is £20 950

For every car Gavin sells he earns 1.25% of the cost of the car in commission a bonus of £50.

Work out the median amount Gavin earned per day for this week.

Maninder is the manager of a restaurant.

She wants to cover the floor of the restaurant with tiles.

This is a plan of the floor of the restaurant.

Maninder will buy the tiles in packs.

Each pack covers an area of 0.945 m²

One pack of tiles costs £16.15

Work out the total cost of the packs of tiles Maninder will buy.