GCSE Mathematics

Practice Paper 2023

Paper 2 (Calculator)

Foundation Tier

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 Answer ALL questions.
Write your answers in the spaces provided.
You must write down all the stages of your working.

1. Write 7829 to the nearest thousand

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(1 mark)

2. Write down the name of this 3D shape.

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(1 mark)

3
3. Shade of this shape.
4

(1 mark)

4. Write 0.07 as a percentage

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(1 mark)

5. Here is a list of numbers

4 7 9 25 27 31 64
From the numbers in the list, write down a cube number.

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(1 mark)
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6. Thoyab, Kaiden and Luke are going to play a game.
At the end of the game, one of them will be in first place, one of them will be in
second place and one of them will be in third place.
Use the table below to list all the possible outcomes of the game.

First Place Second Place Third Place

(2 marks)

7. Olivia makes hats.

She makes at least 17 hats per hour.
She is paid 46p for each hat she makes.

Anwar is a waiter.
He works 35 hours and is paid a total of £266

Show that Olivia’s hourly rate of pay is more than Anwar’s hourly rate of pay.

(3 marks)

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8. 65% of the students at a school walk to school.
a) Work out the percentage of the students who do not walk to school.

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b) What fraction of the students walk to school? (1 mark)

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(1 mark)

9. You can use this graph to change between stones and kilograms.

a) Change 3 stones into kilograms.

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b) Change 80 kilograms into stones. (1 mark)

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(2 marks)

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10. The length of a car is 3.6 metres.

Jaiya makes a scale model of the car.

She uses a scale of 1cm to 30cm.

Work out the length of the scale model of the car.

Give your answer in centimetres.

………………………………… cm
(2 marks)

11. Abigail is watching a film at the cinema.

The film started at 14:30

The film is 105 minutes long.

When the film ends, Abigail takes 20 minutes to get to the bus stop.

A bus leaves the bus stop at 16:45

Does Abigail get to the bus stop in time to get this bus?
You must show all your working.

(3 marks)

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12.

WXYZ is a quadrilateral.
XYV is a straight line.

a) Find the size of the angle marked a.

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(1 mark)
b) Give a reason for your answer to part (a)

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(1 mark)

Angle ZWX = Angle WXY

c) Work out the size of angle ZWX.

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(2 marks)

13. The stem and leaf diagram shows information about the heights, in cm, of the boys in
a class.

a) Find the median height.

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(1 mark)
b) Find the range of the heights.

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(1 mark)

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14. An exam has two papers, Paper 1 and Paper 2

Paper 1 has 60 marks.

Paper 2 has 90 marks.

2
The pass mark is of the total number of marks.
3

Giya gets 70% of the marks for paper 1.

How many of the marks for Paper 2 must Giya get in order to get the pass mark?

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(4 marks)

15. Ryan makes a drink by mixing

1 part of orange squash with 9 parts of water.
He uses 750 millilitres of orange squash.
Ryan is going to put the drink he has mixed into 1 litre bottles.
Work out the greatest number of 1 litre bottles that Ryan can completely fill.

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(3 marks)

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16. Kai works in a café.
At 11am one day he records the number of customers sitting at each table in the café.
Here are his results.

a) Write down the modal number of customers sitting at a table.

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(1 mark)
b) Work out the mean number of customers sitting at a table.

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(3 marks)

17. Evie goes on holiday to South Africa

Evie wants to change £850 into South African rand.

She wants to get as many 200 rand notes as possible.

The exchange rate is £1 = 18.53 rand.

Work out the greatest number of 200 rand notes that Evie can get for £850.

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(3 marks)

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18. a) Expand and Simplify (𝑥 + 5)(𝑥 − 9)

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(2 marks)
b) Factorise fully 9𝑥 2 𝑦 + 6𝑥𝑦 2

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(2 marks)

19.

Describe fully the single transformation that maps triangle C onto triangle D.

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(2 marks)

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20. a) Work out the reciprocal of 0.125

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(1 mark)
3140 ×359
b) Write as a power of 3
349

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(2 marks)
c) (5𝑦 )3 = 560
Work out the value of y.

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(1 mark)

21. E = {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13}
A = {multiples of 3}
B = {even numbers}
Complete the Venn diagram for this information.

(4 marks)

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22. A supplier sells packets of sweets to shop owners.

On Monday three shop owners buy sweets from the supplier.

Each shop owner buys small packets, medium packets and large packets of sweets.

Shanir buys 400 packets of sweets.

32% are small packets.

40% are large packets.

Stacey buys 500 packets of sweets.

3
are small packets.
10
1
are large packets.
10

Ruxton buys 150 small packets of sweets so that

Number of small packets : number of medium packets = 3 : 4

Work out the total number of medium packets of sweets these shop owners buy.
You must show your working.

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(5 marks)

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23. a) Solve 14𝑛 > 11𝑛 + 6

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(2 marks)

b) On the number line below, show the set of values of x for which −2 < 𝑥 + 3 ≤ 4

(3 marks)

24. In a sale, the normal price of a book is reduced by 35%

The sale price of the book is £5.59
Work out the normal price of the book.

£ ……..………………………..
(2 marks)

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25. Here is a triangular prism.

Work out the volume of the prism.

Give your answer to 3 significant figures.

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(5 marks)

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26. a) Complete this table of values for 𝑦 = 𝑥 2 + 𝑥 − 4

(2 marks)

b) On the grid, draw the graph of 𝑦 = 𝑥 2 + 𝑥 − 4 for values of x from -3 to 3

(2 marks)

c) Use the graph to estimate a solution to 𝑥 2 + 𝑥 − 4 = 0

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(1 mark)

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