GCSE Mathematics

Practice Paper 2023

Paper 3 (Calculator)

Higher 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. a) Express 56 as the product of its prime factors.

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(2 marks)
b) Find the Highest Common Factor (HCF) of 24 and 60

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(2 marks)

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2. Caitlyn records the maximum daily temperature each day for 10 days.
She records the number of children going to a paddling pool for each of these
days.

She draws this scatter graph for her information.

Caitlyn’s information for one of these days is an outlier on the scatter graph.

a) Give one possible reason for this.

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(1 mark)

b) What type of correlation does the scatter graph show?

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(1 mark)
th 𝑜
On the 11 day, the maximum daily temperature was 19 𝐶

c) Write down an estimate for the number of children going to the paddling pool
on the 11th day.

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(1 mark)

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 It would not be sensible to use the scatter graph to predict the number of children
going to the paddling pool on a day when the maximum daily temperature was 13𝑜 𝐶.
d) Give a reason why.

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(1 mark)

3. ABCD is a trapezium.

Work out the length CD.

Give your answer correct to 1 decimal place.

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(3 marks)

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 𝑔+6
4. Make 𝑔 the subject of the formula 𝑇 = √
2

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(3 marks)

5. A garden is the shape of a rectangle, ABCD, and a semi-circle.

AD is the diameter of the semicircle.

Lexi is going to cover the garden with fertiliser. A box of fertiliser costs £4.99.
Lexi has been told that one box of fertiliser will cover 12𝑚2 of garden.
1. Work out the cost of buying enough fertiliser to cover the garden completely.

£ ……………………………..…..………
(5 marks)
2
Lexi finds out that one box of fertiliser will cover more than 12𝑚 of garden.
2. Explain how this might affect the number of boxes she needs to buy.

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(1 mark)

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6. Solve 𝑥 2 − 7𝑥 − 18 = 0

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(3 marks)

7.
3
𝑎 = (−7 ) 𝑏 = (42)

Work out 𝑏 − 2𝑎 as a column vector

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(2 marks)

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8. Here are four graphs.

Each of the equations in the table is the equation of one of the graphs.
Complete the table.

(2 marks)

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9. The table shows information about the heights of 80 children.

a) Find the class interval that contains the median.

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(1 mark)
b) Draw a frequency polygon for the information in the table.

(2 marks)

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10. A number, 𝑚, is rounded to 2 decimal places.
The result is 9.46
Complete the error interval for 𝑚.
.

…………….…… ≤ m < …………….……

(2 marks)

11. Keyan invests £12 000 in an account paying compound interest for 3 years.
In the first year the rate of interest is 𝑥%
At the end of the first year the value of Keyan’s investment is £12 336

𝑥
In the second year the rate of interest is %
2

What is the value of Keyan’s investment at the end of 3 years?

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(4 marks)

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12. Show that
(3𝑥 − 1)(𝑥 + 5)(4𝑥 − 3) = 12𝑥 3 + 47𝑥 2 − 62𝑥 + 15

For all values of 𝑥.

(3 marks)

13. The points 𝐴, 𝐵, 𝐶 and 𝐷 lie in order on a straight line.

𝐴𝐵: 𝐵𝐷 = 1: 5
𝐴𝐶: 𝐶𝐷 = 7: 11
Work out 𝐴𝐵: 𝐵𝐶: 𝐶𝐷

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(3 marks)

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14. On the grid, shade the region that satisfies all these inequalities.

𝑦>1 𝑥+𝑦 <5 𝑦 > 2𝑥

Label the region R.

(3 marks)

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15. Rachel wants to find an estimate for the number of bees in her hive.

On Monday she catches 90 of the bees.

She puts a mark on each bee and returns them to her hive.

On Tuesday she catches 120 of the bees.

She finds that 20 of the bees have been marked.

a) Work out an estimate for the total number of bees in her hive.

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(3 marks)

Rachel assumes that none of the marks had rubbed off between Monday and
Tuesday.
b) If Rachel’s assumption is wrong, explain what effect this would have on your
answer to part (a).

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(1 mark)

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16. Three solid shapes A, B and C are similar.

The surface area of shape A is 4𝑐𝑚2

The surface area of shape B is 25𝑐𝑚2

The ratio of the volume of shape B to the volume of shape C is 27: 64

Work out the ratio of the height of shape A to the height of shape C.
Give your answer in its simplest form.

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(4 marks)

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17.

Work out the length of AD.

Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

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(5 marks)

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18.
At the start of year 𝑛, the quantity of radioactive metal is 𝑃𝑛
At the start of the following year, the quantity of same metal is given by

𝑃𝑛+1 = 0.87𝑃𝑛

At the start of 2016 there were 30 grams of the metal.

What will be the quantity of the metal at the start of 2019?

Give your answer to the nearest gram.

……………………………… grams

(3 marks)

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19. A car moves from rest.
The graph gives information about the speed, 𝑣 metres per second, of the car 𝑡
seconds after it starts to move.

a) Calculate an estimate of the gradient of the graph 𝑡 = 15

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(3 marks)
b) Describe what your answer to part (a) represents.

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(1 mark)
c) Work out an estimate for the distance the car travels in the first 20 seconds of
its journey. Use 4 strips of equal width.

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(3 marks)

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20.

The area of triangle ABC is 42𝑐𝑚2

Find the length AB.
Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

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(5 marks)

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21. A, B, C and D are points on the circumference of a circle, centre O.

Prove that the sum of angle ABC and angle ADC is 180𝑜

(4 marks)
 6𝑛
22. 𝑛 is an integer such that 3𝑛 + 2 ≤ 14 and >1
𝑛2 +5

Find all possible values of 𝑛.

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(5 marks)

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