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International GCSE
Time 2 hours
Paper
reference 4MA1/1F
Mathematics A
PAPER: 1F
Foundation Tier

You must have: Total Marks

Ruler graduated in centimetres and millimetres, protractor, compasses,
pen, HB pencil, eraser, calculator. Tracing paper may be used.

Instructions
• Use black ink or ball‑point pen.
• centre
Fill in the boxes at the top of this page with your name,
number and candidate number.
• Withoutallsufficient
Answer questions.
• Answer the questions working, correct answers may be awarded no marks.
• – there may be more spacein the spaces provided
than you need.
• You must NOT write anything on the formulae page.
Calculators may be used.
• Anything you write on the formulae page will gain NO credit.
Information
• The total mark for this paper is 100.
• – usemarks
The for each question are shown in brackets
this as a guide as to how much time to spend on each question.

Advice
• Read each question carefully before you start to answer it.
• Good luck
Check your answers if you have time at the end.
• with your examination.

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International GCSE Mathematics
Formulae sheet – Foundation Tier

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Area of trapezium = (a + b)h
2

Volume of prism = area of cross section × length

cross
section

length

Volume of cylinder = πr2h

Curved surface area of cylinder = 2πrh

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Answer all TWENTY FIVE questions.

Write your answers in the spaces provided.

You must write down all the stages in your working.

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8 9 17 35 48 80

From the numbers in the box, write down

(a) a factor of 40

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(1)
(b) a multiple of 7

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(1)
(c) a prime number

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(1)
(d) a square number

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(1)
(e) the two numbers with a difference of 31

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(1)

(Total for Question 1 is 5 marks)

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2 The diagram shows part of a number line.

12 13 14

(a) Write down the number marked with the arrow.

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(1)
The diagram shows a parcel on weighing scales.

11 0 1
10 kg 2
9 3
8 4
7 5
6

The parcel weighs less than 6 kg.

(b) How many kilograms less?

....................................................... kilograms
(1)
(c) Change 7.6 metres into centimetres.

....................................................... centimetres
(1)
(d) Change 91 600 millilitres into litres.

....................................................... litres
(1)
Ivan goes to the gym at 7 15 pm.
(e) Write this time using the 24-hour clock.

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(1)

(Total for Question 2 is 5 marks)

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3 Find the number that is exactly halfway between 3.7 and 6.1

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(Total for Question 3 is 2 marks)

4 (a) Simplify  3 × 10d

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(1)
(b) Simplify  8e + e − 5e

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(1)
(c) Solve  6g = 42

g = .......................................................
(1)
(d) Solve   24 = 10 + h

h = .......................................................
(1)

(Total for Question 4 is 4 marks)

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5 (a) Write these numbers in order of size.
Start with the smallest number.

2.08        2.13        2.7        2.0034        2.111

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(1)
(b) Write 5.8394 correct to 2 decimal places.

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(1)
(c) Write 0.73 as a fraction.

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(1)
(d) Write down the value of the 6 in the number 0.067

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(1)
(e) Write 17% as a decimal.

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(1)
70% of a number is 252
(f) Work out the number.

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(2)

(Total for Question 5 is 7 marks)

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6 Janine has 2 litres of orange squash.
She also has some empty cups.
When full, each cup holds 300 millilitres of orange squash.
Janine fills as many cups as possible.
How much orange squash does Janine have left after filling as many cups as possible?
State the units of your answer.

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(Total for Question 6 is 3 marks)

7 The diagram shows a rectangle and a square.

10 cm Diagram NOT
accurately drawn
6 cm

The perimeter of the rectangle is equal to the perimeter of the square.

The area of the rectangle is less than the area of the square.
Work out by how much the area of the rectangle is less than the area of the square.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . cm²

(Total for Question 7 is 4 marks)

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8 Some students leaving a language school one day were each asked which language lesson
they had just attended.
The table and the pie chart give some information about their answers.

Language Frequency Angle in pie chart

Italian 24 30°

French 95°

Arabic 48

English

Spanish 80

30°
95°
Italian

French

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(a) Work out the number of students who answered French.

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(2)
(b) Complete (i) the table and (ii) the pie chart.
(3)

(Total for Question 8 is 5 marks)

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9 In a shop, pens cost 34 cents each.
The shop has a special offer on the pens.

Special offer

Pay for 2 pens and get 1 free

34 cents 34 cents Free

Moritz wants 25 pens.

Work out how much Moritz has to pay for 25 pens.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . cents

(Total for Question 9 is 3 marks)

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10 (a) Write these fractions in order of size.
Start with the smallest fraction.
3 1 7 5
8 4 20 16

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(2)
There are only green beads and red beads in a bag.
The ratio of the number of green beads to the number of red beads is 5 : 9
(b) What fraction of the beads in the bag are green beads?

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(1)

(Total for Question 10 is 3 marks)

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11 The diagram shows a square ABCD and a regular pentagon CDEFG.

Diagram NOT
D
A accurately drawn

B C

x
G

Work out the size of the angle marked x.

°
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(Total for Question 11 is 3 marks)

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12 The diagram shows a shaded shape on a grid.

y
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1

O 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 x

(a) On the grid, reflect the shape in the line with equation x = 6
(2)
The diagram below shows triangle P and triangle Q drawn on a grid.

y
7
6
5
Q
4
3
2
P
1

O 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 x

(b) Describe fully the single transformation that maps triangle P onto triangle Q.
(3)

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............................ ............................................................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(Total for Question 12 is 5 marks)

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13 Buses leave a bus station to go to the hospital every 16 minutes.
Buses leave the same bus station to go to the college every 20 minutes.
At 9 am a bus leaves the bus station to go to the hospital and at the same time a bus
leaves the bus station to go to the college.
Work out the next time that a bus leaves the bus station to go to the hospital and at the
same time a bus leaves the bus station to go to the college.

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(Total for Question 13 is 3 marks)

14 E = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15}

A = {even numbers}
B = {multiples of 3}

E
A B

Complete the Venn diagram for the sets E, A and B.

(Total for Question 14 is 3 marks)

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15 150 students were each asked to name their favourite sport from hockey, rugby and football.
The two-way table gives information about the results.

Hockey Rugby Football Total

Year 10 42 78

Year 11 27

Total 39 58 150

(a) Complete the two-way table.

(3)

(b) Work out what percentage of the 150 students are in year 10

...................................................... %
(2)

(Total for Question 15 is 5 marks)

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16 A plane flew from Madrid to Dubai.
The distance the plane flew was 5658 km.
The flight time was 8 hours 12 minutes.
Work out the average speed of the plane.

...................................................... km/h

(Total for Question 16 is 3 marks)

17 Here are the first 4 terms of an arithmetic sequence.

85      79      73      67
Find an expression, in terms of n, for the nth term of the sequence.

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(Total for Question 17 is 2 marks)

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18
x cm
A B Diagram NOT
accurately drawn
8 cm

14 cm
C

E D
13 cm

The diagram shows the shape ABCDE.

The area of the shape is 91.8 cm²
Work out the value of x.

x = . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(Total for Question 18 is 4 marks)

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19 On a farm there are chickens, ducks and pigs.
The ratio of the number of chickens to the number of ducks is 7 : 2
The ratio of the number of ducks to the number of pigs is 5 : 9
There are 36 pigs on the farm.
Work out the number of chickens on the farm.

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(Total for Question 19 is 3 marks)

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20 (a) Expand and simplify 3x(2x + 3) – x(3x + 5)

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(2)
(b) Make t the subject of the formula p = at – d

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(2)
n
w ×w
5
Given that = w10
w 3

(c) work out the value of n.

n = .......................................................
(2)

(Total for Question 20 is 6 marks)

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21 Grace has a biased 5-sided spinner.

orange pink

green red
blue

Grace is going to spin the arrow on the spinner once.

The table below gives the probabilities that the spinner will land on red or on blue or on green.

Colour Red Blue Green Orange Pink

Probability 0.20 0.12 0.08

The probability that the spinner will land on orange is 3 times the probability that the
spinner will land on pink.
(a) Work out the probability that the spinner will land on orange.

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(3)
Grace spins the arrow on the spinner 150 times.
(b) Work out an estimate for the number of times the spinner lands on blue.

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(2)

(Total for Question 21 is 5 marks)

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22 (a)

x
–3 –2 –1 0 1 2 3

Write down the inequality shown on the number line.

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(1)
−4  2y < 6
y is an integer.
(b) Write down all the possible values of y.

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(2)
(c) Solve the inequality 7t – 3  2t + 31
Show your working clearly.

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(2)

(Total for Question 22 is 5 marks)

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23 The table shows the populations of five countries.

Country Population
China 1.4 × 109
Germany 8.2 × 107
Sweden 9.9 × 106
Fiji 9.1 × 105
Malta 4.3 × 105

(a) Work out the difference between the population of China and the population of Germany.
Give your answer in standard form.

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(2)
Given that
1
population of Fiji = × population of Sweden
k

(b) work out the value of k.

Give your answer correct to the nearest whole number.

k = .......................................................
(2)

(Total for Question 23 is 4 marks)

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24 (a) Factorise fully 25a4c7d + 45a9c3h

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(2)
(b) Solve (2x + 5)2 = (2x + 3)(2x – 1)

x = .......................................................
(3)

(Total for Question 24 is 5 marks)

25 Jethro has sat 5 tests.

Each test was marked out of 100 and Jethro’s mean mark for the 5 tests is 74
Jethro has to sit one more test that is also to be marked out of 100
Jethro wants his mean mark for all 6 tests to be at least 77
Work out the least mark that Jethro needs to get for the last test.

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(Total for Question 25 is 3 marks)

TOTAL FOR PAPER IS 100 MARKS

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