PAPER 5A
QUESTION 1 [2 marks]
Work out
Answer type: Simple text answer
ANSWER: 16
WORKING:
QUESTION 2 [2 marks]
What is
Give your answer as an improper fraction.
Answer type: Fraction
ANSWER:
WORKING:
QUESTION 3 [1 mark]
Choose the plan view that accurately represents the 3D shape shown.
Answer type: Multiple choice type 1
A: B:
C: D:
ANSWER: A
QUESTION 4 [2 marks]
Here are the ages of children at a birthday party:
, , , , , , , , ,
Find the median.
Answer type: Simple text answer
ANSWER: 11.5
WORKING:
Order the numbers from smallest to largest.
The median is the th value, so lies half way between the th and th value.
Median
QUESTION 5 [2 marks]
Ruth is on holiday in Spain.
She spends in a restaurant.
The exchange rate is
Calculate how much she spends in pounds .
Answer type: Simple text answer
ANSWER: £71.25
WORKING:
QUESTION 6 [3 marks]
If housemates get through litres of milk per day, how much milk will they need for days when friends stay for the weekend?
Assume that each person consumes milk at the same rate.
Answer type: Simple text answer
ANSWER: 4.8 litres
WORKING:
litres
QUESTION 7 [1 mark]
Calculate the following:
Answer type: Simple text answer
ANSWER: 46.479
QUESTION 8 [2 marks]
Find the missing angle labelled .
Answer type: Simple text answer
ANSWER: 45
WORKING:
Triangles with sides the same length are isosceles triangles, therefore triangle ABC has equal angles.
All angles in a triangle add up to
PAPER 5B
QUESTION 1 [1 mark]
Choose the correct coordinates of the point on the graph below.
Answer type: Multiple choice type 1
A:
B:
C:
D:
ANSWER: A
QUESTION 2 [2 marks]
Wayde van Niekerk set the world record for the m with a time of seconds.
Determine his average speed over the course of the race.
Give your answer to decimal place.
Answer type: Simple text answer
ANSWER: 9.3 m/s
WORKING:
m/s ( dp)
QUESTION 3 [4 marks]
Sugar can be purchased from four different shops.
Which shop provides the best value per gram of sugar?
Answer type: Multiple choice type 1
A: Shop A
B: Shop B
C: Shop C
D: Shop D
ANSWER: C
WORKING:
Shop A p per gram
Shop B p per gram
Shop C p per gram
Shop D p per gram
Shop C is the cheapest.
QUESTION 4 [4 marks]
In , there were electric cars in the United Kingdom.
In , there were electric cars.
Assuming the percentage increase of electric cars remains the same year on year, how many electric cars would you expect there to be in ?
Answer type: Simple text answer
ANSWER: 156250
WORKING:
:
:
QUESTION 5 [5 marks]
Laura used to earn per week. She was given a pay rise equal to of her weekly income at the start of the year.
Laura earns in bonuses over the next year, which is added to her annual income.
The first of her annual income is tax-free.
tax is deducted on any annual earnings over
Given that there are weeks in a year, calculate Laura’s income this year after tax.
Answer type: Simple text answer
ANSWER: £16548
WORKING:
of
Weekly income
Yearly income before bonuses
Yearly income including bonuses
over that gets taxed
earned over
Final yearly income
QUESTION 6 [3 marks]
A football coach records the number of goals scored by his squad in the first few games of the season.
Calculate the mean number of goals scored per person. Give your answer to two decimal places.
Answer type: Simple text answer
ANSWER: 0.63
WORKING:
Total number of goals
Total frequency
Mean ( dp)
QUESTION 7 [4 marks]
students are asked to choose between strawberry and chocolate ice-cream.
of the students picked chocolate.
of the students are girls.
of the students are girls who chose chocolate.
Work out the number of boys who selected strawberry.
Answer type: Simple text answer
ANSWER: 72
WORKING:
(Total number of students who picked chocolate)
(Total number of girl students)
(Total number of girls who picked chocolate)
boys selected strawberry.
QUESTION 8 [1 mark]
A multivitamin contains mg of vitamin C. This is of the recommended daily intake.
What daily intake of vitamin C is recommended?
Give your answer in milligrams.
Answer type: Simple text answer
ANSWER: 67.5 mg
WORKING:
mg
QUESTION 9 [5 marks]
A shape is made from a cylinder of radius cm and height cm.
A cuboid measuring cm wide, cm long and cm deep is cut out of the centre as shown.
Calculate the surface area of the new shaped formed by removing the cuboid.
You are given that
Give your answer as a decimal to decimal place.
Answer type: Simple text answer
ANSWER: 326.6 cm
WORKING:
Surface area of cylinder
Surface area of cylinder – cuboid faces:
Inside faces:
Total: cm
QUESTION 10 [3 marks]
A person wishes to post a package that weighs lb.
When they get to the post office, they’re told that the first kg cost to post, and every interval of g over will cost an additional
If lb g, how much will it cost to post the package?
Answer type: Simple text answer
ANSWER: £14
WORKING:
g
The first kg costs
Then there are intervals of g over, which costs
Total
QUESTION 11 [2 marks]
Four friends order pizza from a take away. The amount of pizza each person eats is shown below.
Matthew eats of a pizza
Lily eats of a pizza
George eats of a pizza
Sam eats of a pizza
Which person eats the most pizza?
Answer type: Multiple choice type 1
A: Sam
B: Lily
C: Matthew
D: George
ANSWER: A
WORKING:
and
Sam eats the most, since is the biggest.
QUESTION 12 [2 marks]
Choose the correct drawing of the shape on the cm by cm grid at a scale of cm
Answer type: Multiple choice type 1
A:
B:
C:
D:
ANSWER: A
QUESTION 13 [4 marks]
The diagram shows the outline of a cuboid, .
The cuboid has a mass of g
Given that: cm, cm, and cm.
Find the density of the cuboid.
Give your answer to decimal places.
Answer type: Simple text answer
ANSWER: 0.52 g/cm
WORKING:
cm
g/cm ( dp)
QUESTION 14 [2 marks]
The table below displays the time taken by students to complete an event on a school sports day.
What proportion of students completed the event in minutes or under?
Give your answer as a decimal correct to two decimal places.
Answer type: Simple text answer
ANSWER: 0.47
WORKING:
to two decimal places
QUESTION 15 [3 marks]
This is a conversion graph between cm and inches.
The ratio between the size of a cricket ball and the size of a table tennis ball is
The diameter of a cricket ball is inches.
Using the conversion graph, calculate the diameter of a table tennis ball, in cm.
Your answer should be a whole number.
Answer type: Simple text answer
ANSWER: 4 cm
WORKING:
Using the conversion graph, inches cm
part of ratio: inches
Diameter of table tennis ball in inches inches
Diameter of table tennis ball in cm cm