Edexcel Past Paper 5

Gareth sells hot drinks.
He sells cups of tea, cups of coffee and cups of hot chocolate.

Of all the hot drinks he sold last week

• ²⁄₅ were cups of tea
• ¹⁄₃ were cups of coffee.

What fraction of all cups of hot drinks sold were cups of hot chocolate?

Work out 13.4 × 5.2

Mitch works in a fitness centre.
He gives one raffle ticket to each of 1000 people that attend the fitness centre.

Mitch selects a raffle ticket at random.

What is the probability that the ticket he selects belongs to a person
aged under 50 whose favourite class is cardio?

Dave is going to paint a wall.
Here is a scale diagram of the wall.

Dave will paint this wall twice.
He thinks the total area that he needs to paint is greater than 30 m²

Is Dave correct?

Here is a set of data.

15   10   16   8   14   0   13   8   15   8

Find the median and the mode.

Last year Jim bought 15 prizes for work.
The prizes cost £27 each.

This year Jim will buy 18 prizes.
He will spend the same total amount of money as he spent last year on the prizes.

Each of the 18 prizes must cost the same amount of money.

Work out the cost of each prize this year

Karen invests £2 500 for 3 years.

The investment earns 1.7% compound interest per year.

Work out the value of the investment at the end of 3 years.

Here is a cylinder.

Using y = 11, calculate the area of the curved surface of the cylinder.

Here is a trapezium.
The trapezium has one line of symmetry.

Choose the correct calculation to work out the perimeter of the trapezium.

Write 45% as a fraction in its simplest form.

Calculate    5 + 13²
11 − 9.5

Kate is making biscuits.
She uses flour, butter and sugar in the ratio 5:3:2

Kate has

• 800 g flour
• 550 g butter.

Kate wants to make the maximum number of biscuits possible.
She works out how much sugar she needs.

How much sugar does Kate need?

Lou wants to go to a gym.
She sees these two offers at the gym.

Lou wants to attend 2 classes each week for one year.

Lou thinks if she uses offer A she will save at least 28% on the total cost of classes
compared to using offer B.

Is she correct?

Here is a grid with points A, B, C and D plotted.

Write down the coordinates of point A.

Rav provides food for events.
Last year 550 people attended an event.
This year there will be 748 people attending the event.

Calculate the percentage increase in the number of people attending.

Meg has a dog.

She has this information about dog food.

Meg knows that her dog weighs 29 lbs.

Meg has 24 packs of dog food.

What is the maximum number of days she can feed her dog with the 24 packs?

Ria works in a factory making solid steel spheres.
She has this information about the number of spheres made each day for the last 100 days.

Ria will use this information to estimate the mean number of spheres made each day.
She knows that the volume, v, of a sphere is

Each sphere has a diameter of 15 mm.

Calculate the mean volume of steel used each day to make spheres.

Give your answer to the nearest thousand.