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MATHEMATICS
Foundation Tier Paper 2 Calculator
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Monday 6 November 2017 Morning Time allowed: 1 hour 30 minutes
Materials For Examiner’s Use
For this paper you must have:
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• a calculator
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• mathematical instruments.
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Instructions
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• Use black ink or black ball-point pen. Draw diagrams in pencil.
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• Answer all questions.
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• You must answer the questions in the spaces provided. Do not write
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• Do all rough work in this book. Cross through any work you do not want to 16–17
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1 How many minutes are there in 2 hours?
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Circle your answer.
[1 mark]

135 145 215 225

2 Which of these numbers is half of a square number?

Circle your answer.
[1 mark]

1 2 3 4

3 Circle the value of the digit 3 in the number 17.03

[1 mark]

3 1 3 1
10 30 100 300

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4 The value of A is double the value of B.

Circle the correct formula.
[1 mark]

B
A=B+2 A = 2B A= A = B2
2

5 (a) Simplify y×y

[1 mark]

Answer

5 (b) Simplify 5a + 2 – a + 9
[2 marks]

Answer

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6 The table shows information about the birds in a garden.

Bird Number

Robin 2

Sparrow 5

Wren 3

Lark 1

Draw a bar chart to show the information.

[3 marks]

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7 Eve has these coins.

Ola has these coins.

Eve gives three of her coins to Ola.

Now, Ola has the same amount of money as Eve.

Which coins does Eve give to Ola?

[3 marks]

Answer , ,

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8 A dry cleaning shop has the following offers.

Suit Dress

Normal price £12.50 Normal price £9.75

1st suit normal price Three for the price of two
2nd suit half price

Work out the total price for 2 suits and 6 dresses.

[4 marks]

Answer £

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9 Karl has twin sisters.

The sum of the ages of Karl and his twin sisters is 39

In 4 years’ time the twins will be 18

How old will Karl be in 4 years’ time?

[3 marks]

Answer

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10 One of the angles in a triangle is 60°

Tick a box for each statement.

Must be true Cannot be true Might be true

The triangle is equilateral

The triangle has at least

one other acute angle

The triangle is right-angled

The other two angles are

each less than 60°

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11 Which of these numbers has exactly two factors?

Circle your answer.
[1 mark]

6 7 8 9

12 Work out 7.5 2 + 18 2

Circle your answer.
[1 mark]

19.5 25.5 331.5 380.25

18 953 × 437
13 (a) Use your calculator to work out the exact value of
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[1 mark]

Answer

13 (b) Use approximations to 1 significant figure to check if your answer to part (a) is sensible.
[3 marks]

10

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14 Chris sells lawnmowers.

The table shows the number he sold each quarter for three years.

Quarter 1 Quarter 2 Quarter 3 Quarter 4

2016 17 64 50 5

2015 9 72 61 1

2014 19 58 53 2

14 (a) In which year did he sell the most lawnmowers?

You must show your working.
[2 marks]

Answer

14 (b) He uses the table to decide the number of lawnmowers to stock each quarter.

At the start of which quarter should Chris stock the most lawnmowers?
Circle your answer.
[1 mark]

Quarter 1 Quarter 2 Quarter 3 Quarter 4

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15 In a test,
Section A has 80 marks
Section B has 120 marks.

Riya scores
55% in Section A
70% in Section B.

To pass, Riya needs to score 65% of the total marks.

Does she pass?

You must show your working.
[4 marks]

Answer

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16 A wheel is made of a circular rim and 8 spokes as shown.

Not drawn
accurately

The length of each spoke is 37 cm

Work out the total length of the rim and spokes.

[3 marks]

Answer cm

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17 Here is a formula to convert degrees Celsius (°C) to degrees Fahrenheit (°F).

F = 1.8C + 32

F is the number of degrees Fahrenheit

C is the number of degrees Celsius

17 (a) Show that –40°C = –40°F

[2 marks]

17 (b) The temperature is –15°C

Nick says,
“Because the temperature is negative in Celsius, it must be negative in Fahrenheit.”

Is he correct?
You must show your working.
[1 mark]

Answer

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18 Here are five cards.

1 5 7 9 11

One of the cards is removed.

The mean of the numbers on the remaining four cards is 6

Which card was removed?

You must show your working.
[3 marks]

Answer

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19 (a) Divide 120 in the ratio 1 : 4

[2 marks]

Answer :

19 (b) Write the ratio 7:4 in the form n:1

[1 mark]

Answer :

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20 In 2015, Han was paid £1350 per month.

In 2016, he
had a 2% increase in his monthly pay
worked 37.5 hours per week
worked for 47 weeks.

Work out Han’s average pay per hour for 2016

[5 marks]

Answer £

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21 An experiment is carried out 200 times.

The possible outcomes are K, L and M.

21 (a) Complete the table.

[2 marks]

Outcome K L M

Frequency 84 54

Relative
0.42
frequency

21 (b) Altogether, the experiment is carried out 500 times.

How many times would you expect the outcome to be K?

[2 marks]

Answer

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22 The table shows information about the UK and Germany.

Population Area (square miles)

UK 64 000 000 95 000

Germany 82 000 000 140 000

population
Population density =
area

Compare the population densities of the UK and Germany.

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23 Which one of the following is discrete data?

Circle your answer.
[1 mark]

Mass of a television Time taken to deliver a television

Height of a television mast Number of televisions sold

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24 Describe fully the single transformation that maps triangle A to triangle B.

[3 marks]

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25 The graph shows information about prisms with the same volume.

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25 (a) Give one example to show the volume is 24 cm
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25 (b) The diagram shows a prism with volume 24 cm3

The height of the triangular cross section is h.

Work out the height, h.

[3 marks]

Answer cm

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26 A ball is thrown from a height of 15 metres.

It bounces to height h1 , then to height h2 as shown.

Not drawn
accurately

h1 is three quarters of the original height.

26 (a) Jack expects h2 to be three quarters of h1

Work out the value of h2 that he expects.

[2 marks]

Answer metres

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26 (b) In fact, h2 is two thirds of h1

How does this affect the answer to part (a)?

Tick a box.

The ball bounced higher than he expected

The ball bounced lower than he expected

Show working to support your answer.

[2 marks]

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27 Solve 4(3x − 2) = 2x 5
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x=

28 Work out the next term of this quadratic sequence.

[2 marks]

5 8 14 23 ……

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29 Work out the size of angle x.

Not drawn
accurately

[2 marks]

Answer degrees

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