GCSE Mathematics

Practice Tests: Set 18

Paper 2F/3F (Calculator)
Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
You should have: Ruler graduated in centimetres and millimetres,
protractor, pair of compasses, pen, HB pencil, eraser, calculator.
Tracing paper may be used.

Instructions
 Use black ink or ball-point pen.
 Fill in the boxes at the top of this page with your name,
centre number and candidate number.
 Answer all questions.
 Answer the questions in the spaces provided
– there may be more space than you need.
 Calculators may be used.
 Diagrams are NOT accurately drawn, unless otherwise indicated.
 You must show all your working out.

Information
 The total mark for this paper is 80
 Questions are in order of mean difficulty as found by students achieving Grade 4.
 The marks for each question are shown in brackets
– use 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.
 Keep an eye on the time.
 Try to answer every question.
 Check your answers if you have time at the end.

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 Answer ALL NINETEEN questions.

Write your answers in the spaces provided.

You must write down all the stages in your working.

1The diagram shows a cuboid.

Work out the volume of the cuboid.

....................................................... cm3
(Total for Question 1 is 2 marks)
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2 (a) Write 25 as a fraction of 145
Give your fraction in its simplest form.

.......................................................
(2)
(b) Work out 9 as a percentage of 25

.......................................................%
(2)
The cost of 16 sandwiches of the same type is 28 euros.

(c) Work out the cost of 27 of these sandwiches.

....................................................... euros
(2)
(Total for Question 2 is 6 marks)
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3T = 6p – 4d

(a) Work out the value of T when p = 8 and d = 3

T = .......................................................
(2)
T = 6p – 4d

(b) Work out the value of p when T = – 41 and d = 5

p = .......................................................
(3)
(c) Solve 4(x – 3) = 7x + 15

Show clear algebraic working.

x = .......................................................
(3)
(Total for Question 3 is 8 marks)
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4Here is a rhombus.

Work out the value of x.

Give a reason for your answer.

x = .......................................................
(Total for Question 4 is 3 marks)
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5 There are 54 fish in a tank.
Some of the fish are white and the rest of the fish are red.

Jeevan takes at random a fish from the tank.

The probability that he takes a white fish is

(a) Work out the number of white fish originally in the tank.

…...................................................
(2)

Jeevan puts the fish he took out, back into the tank.
He puts some more white fish into the tank.

Jeevan takes at random a fish from the tank.

The probability that he takes a white fish is now

(b) Work out the number of white fish Jeevan put into the tank.

......................................................
(2)
(Total for Question 5 is 4 marks)
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6 Victor buys 12 bottles of apple juice for a total cost of $21
Victor sells all 12 bottles at $2.45 each bottle.

Work out Victor’s percentage profit.

.......................................................%
(Total for Question 6 is 3 marks)
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7 Ali and Badia each have 25 000 dollars to invest.

Cyclone Bank Tornado Bank

Invest 25 000 dollars Invest 25 000 dollars
4.5% compound interest per year Receive 1150 dollars interest each year
for 3 years for 3 years

Ali invests in the Cyclone Bank for 3 years.

Badia invests in the Tornado Bank for 3 years.

By the end of the 3 years, Ali will have received more interest than Badia.

How much more?

Show your working clearly.
Give your answer correct to the nearest dollar.

....................................................... dollars
(Total for Question 7 is 4 marks)
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8 Trains leave Agra station to go to New Delhi every 40 minutes.
Trains leave Agra station to go to Mumbai every 48 minutes.

At 6 a.m. a train leaves Agra station to go to New Delhi and at the same time a train leaves
Agra station to go to Mumbai.

Work out the next time a train leaves Agra station to go to New Delhi and at the same
time a train leaves Agra station to go to Mumbai.

.......................................................
(Total for Question 8 is 3 marks)
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9 The table gives information about the amounts of money, in euros, that 70 of Anjali’s
friends spent last Saturday.

Money spent (S euros) Frequency

0<S≤8 6
8 < S ≤ 16 14

16 < S ≤ 24 19

24 < S ≤ 32 25
32 < S ≤ 40 6

One of Anjali’s 70 friends is going to be chosen at random.

(a) Find the probability that this friend spent more than 24 euros last Saturday.

.......................................................
(1)
(b) Work out an estimate for the mean amount of money spent by Anjali’s friends last Saturday.
Give your answer correct to 2 decimal places.

....................................................... euros
(4)
(Total for Question 9 is 5 marks)
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10 Ravina leaves her home at 1 35 p.m. in her car.

Ravina drives 60 km from her home to get to an appointment.

She drives at an average speed of 80 km/h.

At what time does Ravina get to her appointment?

.......................................................
(Total for Question 10 is 3 marks)
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11 ABC and DEF are similar triangles.

(a) Work out the length of AB.

....................................................... cm
(2)
Given that BC = 54 cm,

(b) work out the length of EF.

....................................................... cm
(2)
(Total for Question 11 is 4 marks)
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12 In 2018, the population of Sydney was 5.48 million.
This was 22% of the total population of Australia.

Work out the total population of Australia in 2018

Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

...................................................... million
(Total for Question 12 is 3 marks)
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13 The diagram shows the front of a wooden door with a semicircular glass window.

Julie wants to apply 2 coats of wood varnish to the front of the door, shown shaded in
the diagram.

250 millilitres of wood varnish covers 4 m2 of the wood.

Work out how many millilitres of wood varnish Julie will need.
Give your answer correct to the nearest millilitre.

...................................................... millilitres
(Total for Question 13 is 5 marks)
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14 Yasmin has some identical rectangular tiles.
Each tile is L cm by W cm.

Using 9 of her tiles, Yasmin makes rectangle ABCD shown in the diagram below.

The area of ABCD is 1620 cm2

Work out the value of L and the value of W.

L = ............................. W = .............................
(Total for Question 14 is 5 marks)
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15 The diagram shows a regular octagon ABCDHIJK and a pentagon DEFGH.

Angle GHD = angle FGH.

Work out the size of the angle marked x.

Show your working clearly.

.......................................................°
(Total for Question 15 is 5 marks)
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16 A solid aluminium cylinder has radius 10 cm and height h cm.

The mass of the cylinder is 5.4 kg.

The density of aluminium is 0.0027 kg/cm3

Calculate the value of h.

Give your answer correct to one decimal place.

h = ......................................................
(Total for Question 16 is 5 marks)
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17 A rainwater tank contains 2.4  107 raindrops.
The rainwater tank also contains 1.75  106 bacteria.

Work out the number of bacteria per raindrop in the tank.

Give your answer in standard form correct to 2 significant figures.

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(Total for Question 17 is 3 marks)
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18 Alison buys 5 apples and 3 pears for a total cost of $1.96
Greg buys 3 apples and 2 pears for a total cost of $1.22

Michael buys 10 apples and 10 pears.

Work out how much Michael pays for his 10 apples and 10 pears.
Show your working clearly.

$ ......................................................
(Total for Question 18 is 5 marks)
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19 ABC is an isosceles triangle with BA = BC.

N is the point on AC such that AN = 9.3 cm and BN is perpendicular to AC.

Work out the perimeter of triangle ABC.

Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

....................................................... cm
(Total for Question 19 is 4 marks)

TOTAL FOR PAPER IS 80 MARKS

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