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Edexcel Practice GCSE Examination Paper Standard equipment: pen, pencil, ruler, protractor,
Higher Set 8 Paper 3 Calculator compasses, calculator.
You may use a calculator.
Instructions to candidates: Do not write on this paper. You must show all of your working.
Write all answers on separate paper, except where instructed to answer in your work booklet.
In an examination you will normally be required to write your answers in the spaces provided in the question paper.

1. Donna is painting her living room.

The total area of all the walls in her living room is 72 m2.
She goes to a store to buy the paint.
Each tin of paint covers a total area of 2.7 m2.
A worker at the store advises Donna to buy enough paint to cover an extra 15% of the
area of the walls.
Donna assumes this means she will have to buy 15% more tins of paint.

Is Donna’s assumption correct?

You must show working to support your answer. Total 4 Marks

2. Here are the equations of five straight lines.

Line A: y  3x  2 Line D: y  5x  3
Line B: 2x  4 y  7 Line E: y  2x  3
Line C: 6x  3 y  9

Two of these lines are parallel.

Write down the letters of the two parallel lines. Total 2 Marks

3. (a) Solve 4 x2  100 (3)

(b) Solve x2  6 x  8  0 (3)

Total 6 Marks

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4. Here is a rectangle.
3y

2x

Four of these rectangles are placed together to form a shape which has an internal
perimeter and an external perimeter.

(a) Work out an expression for the internal perimeter of the shape.
Give your expression in its simplest form. (2)

The external perimeter is equal to three times the internal perimeter.

(b) If y = 4, work out the value of x. (4)

Total 6 Marks

5.
y
9 A
E Not
Drawn
Accurately
C

B
O 7 x
D

C is the midpoint of AB.

DCE is perpendicular to ACB.
Work out the equation of the line DCE. Total 5 Marks

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6. Rachel invests £1,500 in a savings account for 3 years.
The compound interest paid by the account is at a rate of
1.8% for the first year
x% for the second year
x% for the third year

At the end of the 3 years, Rachel has £1,563.87 in her savings account.

Calculate the rate of interest in the second year.

Give your answer correct to 2 significant figures. Total 4 Marks

7. w is directly proportional to z.
When z = 36, w = 21.

(a) Write down an expression for w in terms of z. (2)

b is inversely proportional to a2.

When a = 8, b = 2.

(b) Show that when a = 4, b = 8. (3)

Total 5 Marks

8. The diagram below shows a square containing four equally sized triangles drawn inside a
circle.

Not
Drawn
Accurately

Find the percentage of the circle that is shaded.

Give your answer correct to 1 decimal place. Total 3 Marks

9. Isaac asked 60 people which of the colours they liked from red, blue or yellow.
All 60 people chose at least one of the three colours.
18 people liked all three colours.
9 people like both yellow and red but not blue.
20 people do not like blue.
7 people like red only.
5 people like both blue and red but not yellow.
37 people like yellow.
Isaac selects one of the 60 people at random.

(a) Work out the probability that this person likes red. (4)

(b) Given that the person selected likes yellow, find the probability that this person also
likes at least one other colour. (2)
Total 6 Marks

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10. A universal set contains the whole numbers from 1 to n.
n is an odd number less than 100.
O is the set of odd numbers.
E is the set of even numbers
S is the set of square number.

(a) Explain why there are no numbers in O ⋂ E. (1)

(b) If n = 99, how many numbers are in set E ⋂ S? (1)
Total 2 Marks

11. Three ships, P, Q and R, are positioned as shown in the diagram.

N
P
160°
Not
Drawn
R 80°
Accurately

Ship Q is 90 km from ship P on a bearing of 160°.

Ship R is 62 km from ship P.
Angle PRQ = 80°.

Find the bearing of ship R from ship P.

Give your answer to the nearest whole degree. Total 5 Marks

x x
12. (a) Express  as a single fraction.
x5 x2
Give your answer in its simplest possible form. (3)

81x 2  64
(b) Express in its simplest possible form. (4)
27 x  24
Total 7 Marks

13. (a) Expand and simplify  x  5  x  3  (1)

(b) Fully factorise 10 xy  2x2 (1)

Total 2 Marks

14. Factorise x  9 x  8
2
Total 2 Marks

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15. Andrea collected information about the heights of some different oak trees.
She recorded the information in the histogram below.

2.5

2.0

1.5

Frequency
Density
1.0

0.5

0
0 10 20 30 40 50
Height (m)

(a) Show that Andrea collected information about 50 trees. (3)

Simon claims that the median height of an oak tree is 30 m.

(b) (i) Does the data Andrea collected support Simon’s claim? (2)

(ii) Explain why your calculations in part (b)(i) may not give the exact median height
of the trees Andrea collected information about. (1)

Andrea uses the table below to record the ages of the trees in her survey.

Age, a (years) 0 ≤ a ≤ 10 10 ≤ a ≤ 50 50 ≤ a ≤ 100 100 ≤ a ≤ 150

Frequency

(c) Comment on a problem with this table. (1)

Total 7 Marks

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16. The point A on a graph is connected to the origin by a line of length 2 13 .
2
The gradient of the line is .
3

y
●
A
Not
Drawn
Accurately

O x

Work out the coordinates of A. Total 4 Marks

17. (a) Solve 8 x  17  2 x  7 (2)

(b) 3  3n  9 where n is an integer.

Write down all the possible values of n. (2)
Total 4 Marks

18. There are x yellow buttons and 8 green buttons in a tin.

There are more green buttons in the tin than yellow.
Sonia takes two buttons from the tin at random.
8
The probability that Sonia takes 1 yellow button and 1 green button is .
15
(a) Show that x2  15 x  56  0 (3)

(b) Find the probability that Sonia takes two yellow buttons. (3)
Total 6 Marks
Total For Paper: 80 Marks

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