Edexcel Practice Paper 2

Work out 700 – 7²

Here is a list of numbers.

29  31  46  43  29  31  38  34  43  35  43

Write down the mode of these numbers.

Ola will run from her house to a local park and back to her house.
She sees this sketch of the route she will take.

What is the total distance of the route Ola will run?

Give your answer as a mixed number.

Saima is making a filling for a cake.
Saima mixes jam, sugar and soft cheese in the ratio 4 : 1 : 16
She uses 32 oz of soft cheese.
Saima knows that 1 oz is 28.3 grams.

How many grams of jam does Saima need?

Jack is a jeweller.
He makes a pendant in the shape of a triangular prism as shown in the diagram.

Jack makes the pendant from solid gold.

He uses this formula.

Jack knows that

• mass = density × volume
• the density of gold is 19 grams per cm³
• the cost of 1 gram of gold is £40

Jack sells the pendant for £382 more than the total cost of the gold needed to make the pendant.

How much does Jack sell the pendant for?

Luke plays a computer game where he manages a city.
He buys two buildings.

Luke receives

• 135 coins every 8 hours from building A
• 36 coins every 15 minutes from building B.

Luke thinks he receives a total of 4000 coins in 24 hours from these buildings.

Is Luke correct?

The tree diagram shows the probability of selecting a car owner by their age and the type of car they have.

A person is chosen at random.

Work out the probability that this person is under 30 and has an electric car.

Sasha is the manager at a factory.
Last weekend 15 employees assembled 390 identical wardrobes.

Sasha wants 1200 of these wardrobes to be assembled next weekend.

How many employees does Sasha need next weekend?

Vera is a shop manager.

She has this information about the income in her shop for eight weeks this year.

The median income for the same eight weeks last year was £49 300

Vera knows that the median income for these eight weeks has decreased this year compared to last year.

Work out the percentage decrease of the median income.

Carlos invests £4500 for 3 years.
He receives compound interest of 1.5% per year.

Carlos thinks the total of the money he invests and the interest will be more than £4750 at the end of the 3 years.

Is he correct?

Write 21.9% as a decimal.

Work out 37% of 4618.57

Give your answer to 1 decimal place.

Write fifty-one million forty-nine thousand one hundred and twelve in figures.

Jessie needs to cover a wooden floor with varnish.

The floor is in the shape of a rectangle and a quarter circle.

A tin of varnish

• covers 6 m²
• costs £5.41

Jessie has £25 to buy the tins of varnish she needs to cover this wooden floor.

Is £25 enough to buy all the tins of varnish Jessie needs?

Here is a coordinate grid.

Write down the coordinates of point A.

Kevin buys a second-hand car for £7346
He knows that the car is worth 27% less than when it was brand new.

Kevin thinks that the car cost more than £9000 when brand new.

Is Kevin correct?

Emma is the recruitment manager in a large company.

She has this information about the number of workers in each of the 20 offices of the company.

Emma estimates the mean number of workers in an office as 30

Is Emma correct?

Claire is a designer.
She needs to put some lights around a circular bandstand in a park.

Claire has this scale diagram of the plan view of the bandstand.

Claire knows that

• a set of lights is 4.75 m in length
• each set of lights costs £27.99

Work out the total cost for the sets of lights Claire needs.