CML 2017 Paper EH3E PDF

Name Class
For Pearson Edexcel

Level 1/Level 2 GCSE (9 – 1)
Mathematics
Paper 3 (Calculator)
Higher Tier
Time: 1 hour 30 minutes Churchill Paper 3E
You must have: Ruler graduated in centimetres and millimetres, Total Marks
protractor, pair of compasses, pen, HB pencil, eraser, calculator.
Instructions
● Use black ink or ball-point pen.
● Write your name in the box at the top of this page.
● Answer all questions in the spaces provided.
● Calculators may be used.
● If your calculator does not have a π button, take the value of π to be 3.142
unless the question instructs otherwise.
● Diagrams are NOT accurately drawn, unless otherwise indicated.
● You must show all your working out.
Information
● The total mark for this paper is 80.
● 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.
Written by Shaun Armstrong

Only to be copied for use in a single school or college having purchased a licence
2017 EH3E Page 1 © Churchill Maths Limited

Licensed to Cranford Community College
Answer ALL questions.
Write your answers in the spaces provided.
You must write down all the stages in your working.
1 Liz asks 40 people to give her the receipt from their main weekly supermarket shop.
She draws this stem and leaf diagram showing how many items were on each receipt.
3 1 3 3
4 0 1 6 6 6 8 9
5 0 0 2 3 4 4 7 8 8
6 3 3 4 6 6 6 7 8 9 9
7 0 0 1 2 4 7
8 1 4 4 5 6
Key: 3 1 represents 31 items
Liz gives a gift voucher to one of the people who gave her their receipt.
She chooses one of the receipts at random for this.
(a) Find the probability that the receipt chosen has more than 75 items on it.
............................................
(1)
(b) Find the median number of items.
............................................
(2)
(c) Is the mean number of items likely to be more or less than the median?
Give a reason for your answer.
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.....................................................................................................................................................................
(1)
(Total for Question 1 is 4 marks)

2 Here are the ingredients for a recipe to make 30 cookies.
225 g butter
110 g caster sugar
270 g plain flour
85 g chocolate chips
(a) Work out the weight of the raw ingredients in one cookie.
......................................... g
(2)
(b) Jack has 180 g of plain flour and plenty of the other ingredients.
Work out how many cookies Jack could make.
............................................
(1)
Here are the prices for the cookie ingredients in Jill's local supermarket.
Butter 85 p for 250 g

Caster sugar £2.45 for 2 kg
Plain flour £1 for 1.5 kg
Chocolate chips 80 p for 100 g
(c) Jill is going to make cookies every week. That means she will never waste any of the
ingredients that she buys.
Work out how much the ingredients cost Jill for each cookie she makes.
Give your answer in pence to 1 decimal place.
........................................ p
(3)

3 Bobby is playing with plastic rectangles.
Each rectangle measures 6 cm by 4 cm.
He takes 5 of the rectangles and arranges them into a larger rectangle like this.
Bobby then moves two of the rectangles to make a different large rectangle like this.
The two larger rectangles have different perimeters.
Work out the percentage change in the perimeter as a result of the change Bobby made.
State clearly whether the change is an increase or decrease.
.....................................................................................................

4
Mrs. Bugle's House
Scale: 1 : 100
The map shows Mrs Bugle's house using a scale of 1 : 100
Mrs. Bugle owns a goat called Billy.

There is grass all around the house which Billy likes to graze on.
However, he is tethered to the corner of the house labelled A by a 10 metre long rope.
Construct the region of grass that Billy is able to reach.

5 Marketing
Fund (£)
8000
6000
4000
2000
O 5 10 15 20 25 Number
of Days
The graph shows the amount of money in a charity's marketing fund and the number of days
since it launched an appeal.
(a) How much money was in the marketing fund at the start of the appeal?
£...........................................
(1)
(b) Find the gradient of the graph.
............................................
(2)
(c) Explain what this gradient represents.
.....................................................................................................................................................................
.....................................................................................................................................................................
(1)

6 70% of the animals that visit a pet grooming salon are dogs.
75% of the dogs that visit come back within one month.
40% of the other animals that visit come back within one month.
Work out the percentage of all the animals that visit the salon that come back within one month.
........................................ %
7 Three friends, Ayyub, Bran and Curtis, each have some mini chocolate eggs.
Bran has 1 more egg than Ayyub.

Curtis has 50% more eggs than Bran.
Altogether, Ayyub, Bran and Curtis have 48 chocolate eggs.
Curtis gives eggs to each of Ayyub and Bran so that they all have the same number of eggs.
Work out how many eggs Curtis gives away in total.
..........................................

8 D
4 cm
B 7.5 cm C
Triangle ACD is similar to triangle ABC.
Angle ACD = angle ABC = 90º.
AB = 4 cm and BC = 7.5 cm.
Work out the area of quadrilateral ABCD, giving your answer correct to 3 significant figures.
.......................................... cm2

9 p and q are both prime numbers.
(a) Faruq says “2p + 1 will always be a prime number”.
Show that Faruq is not correct.
(2)
(b) Graham says “If p and q are both greater than 2 then pq + 1 cannot be a prime number”.
Prove that Graham is correct.
(3)

10 John and Gemma are asked to solve the equation x(x + 4) = x + 10
(a) Here is John's working.
x(x + 4) = x + 10
x + 10
x=
x +4
x + 10
x=
x +4
10
x=
4
x = 2.5
John has made a mistake.
Circle his mistake and explain why it is a mistake.
.....................................................................................................................................................................
.....................................................................................................................................................................
.....................................................................................................................................................................
(2)
(b) Here is Gemma's working.
x(x + 4) = x + 10
x 2 + 4 = x + 10
x2 – x – 6 = 0
(x + 3)(x – 2) = 0
x = –3 or 2
Describe the mistake or mistakes in her working.
.....................................................................................................................................................................
.....................................................................................................................................................................
.....................................................................................................................................................................
.....................................................................................................................................................................
(2)

(c) Solve the equation x(x + 4) = x + 10
....................................................................
(2)
11 A researcher wants to estimate the number of adult trout in a lake.
One day she captures 40 adult trout from the lake.

She marks them with a special paint and returns them to the lake.
Two weeks later she returns to the lake and captures 60 adult trout.
She finds that 5 of the trout are marked with the special paint.
(a) Work out an estimate for the number of adult trout in the lake.
...........................................
(2)
(b) Describe one reason why the estimate made in part (a) may be too low.
.....................................................................................................................................................................
.....................................................................................................................................................................
.....................................................................................................................................................................
(1)

12 1000
Distance
(metres)
800
600
400
200
O 30 60 90 120 150 180

Time (seconds)
The distance-time graph above is for a runner from the start of an 800 m race.
(a) How long did this runner take to complete the race?
.......................................... s
(1)
(b) Gill says “At the end of the race, the runner's speed was less than half of
his speed at the halfway point of the race.”
Is Gill correct?
Show how you decide.
..........................................
(3)

13 A sketch of the graph y = f(x) is shown on each diagram below.
(a) y
(0, 4)
(–5, 0) O x
On the diagram above, sketch the graph of y = f(x – 5).

(2)
(b) y
(0, 4)
(–5, 0) O x
On the diagram above, sketch the graph of y = f(–x).

(1)

14 In a TV gameshow, a contestant starts with a pot of money containing £8000.
The contestant has to complete a task to win some or all of this money.
If the contestant completes the task in less than a minute, they keep all £8000.
After each full minute spent doing the task, the money in the pot decreases by 20%.
(a) James says
“If they take longer than 5 minutes they don't win any money.”
Explain why James is not correct.
.....................................................................................................................................................................
.....................................................................................................................................................................
.....................................................................................................................................................................
(1)
(b) Show that a contestant who completes the task in 2 minutes and 21 seconds wins £5120.
(2)

15 T is directly proportional to m2.
When m = 2, T = 15.
(a) Show that when m = 6, T = 135.
(3)
(b) Jacob says
“So whenever m increases by 4, T increases by 120.”
Show that Jacob is not correct.
(2)

16 Will and Grace want to find an approximate solution to the equation x2 – √ x = 4.
Will uses the iterative process xn + 1 =

√ xn + 4 and x0 = 2.
xn
Grace uses the iterative process xn + 1 = √( √ x n + 4 ) and x0 = 2.
(a) Find out which of these two iterative processes will be most useful to them?
Give a reason for your answer.
....................................................................................................................................
(3)
(b) Find the solution to the equation x2 – √ x = 4 correct to 4 decimal places.
.....................................................
(1)

17
The diagram shows a box in the shape of a square prism.
Inside the box is a glass paperweight in the shape of a hemisphere.

The paperweight fits tightly and touches each side of the box.
The mass of the paperweight is 400g.

The density of the glass is 3 g/cm3.
Work out the volume of the box.
4
[ The volume of a sphere of radius r is 3 π r 3 ]
.......................................... cm3

18 M
A B
P
2p N
O C
4q
OABC is a rectangle.
M is the point on AB such that AM : MB = 1 : 3
N is the midpoint of BC.
P is the point on MN such that MP : PN = 3 : 2
OA = 2p and ⃗
⃗ OC = 4q.
(a) Show that ⃗

MN = – p + 3q.
(3)

Dinesh says that P lies on OB.
(b) Is Dinesh correct?
Justify your answer.
..........................................
(3)

19 Kelli has a bottle containing 12 tablets.
There are 3 different types of tablet in the bottle.
The bottle contains 4 of tablet A, 4 of tablet B and 4 of tablet C.
Kelli tips the bottle until 3 tablets come out into her hand.
(a) Work out the probability that Kelli has one of each type of tablet in her hand.
............................................
(3)
(b) (i) State an assumption you have made in working out your answer to part (a).
.....................................................................................................................................................................
.....................................................................................................................................................................
(1)
(ii) Explain how your assumption is likely to have affected your answer to part (a).
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.....................................................................................................................................................................
(1)
TOTAL FOR PAPER IS 80 MARKS


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Name Class

For Pearson Edexcel

Time: 1 hour 30 minutes Churchill Paper 3E

Written by Shaun Armstrong

2017 EH3E Page 1 © Churchill Maths Limited

Write your answers in the spaces provided.

You must write down all the stages in your working.

(b) Find the median number of items.

Give a reason for your answer.

(Total for Question 1 is 4 marks)

2017 EH3E Page 2 © Churchill Maths Limited

Work out how many cookies Jack could make.

Butter 85 p for 250 g

Give your answer in pence to 1 decimal place.

(Total for Question 2 is 6 marks)

2017 EH3E Page 3 © Churchill Maths Limited

The two larger rectangles have different perimeters.

State clearly whether the change is an increase or decrease.

(Total for Question 3 is 3 marks)

2017 EH3E Page 4 © Churchill Maths Limited

Mrs. Bugle's House

The map shows Mrs Bugle's house using a scale of 1 : 100

Mrs. Bugle owns a goat called Billy.

Construct the region of grass that Billy is able to reach.

(Total for Question 4 is 4 marks)

2017 EH3E Page 5 © Churchill Maths Limited

(Total for Question 5 is 4 marks)

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(Total for Question 6 is 3 marks)

Bran has 1 more egg than Ayyub.

Altogether, Ayyub, Bran and Curtis have 48 chocolate eggs.

Work out how many eggs Curtis gives away in total.

(Total for Question 7 is 4 marks)

2017 EH3E Page 7 © Churchill Maths Limited

Triangle ACD is similar to triangle ABC.

Angle ACD = angle ABC = 90º.

AB = 4 cm and BC = 7.5 cm.

(Total for Question 8 is 4 marks)

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(a) Faruq says “2p + 1 will always be a prime number”.

Show that Faruq is not correct.

Prove that Graham is correct.

(Total for Question 9 is 5 marks)

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(a) Here is John's working.

John has made a mistake.

Circle his mistake and explain why it is a mistake.

(b) Here is Gemma's working.

Describe the mistake or mistakes in her working.

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(Total for Question 10 is 6 marks)

11 A researcher wants to estimate the number of adult trout in a lake.

One day she captures 40 adult trout from the lake.

(Total for Question 11 is 3 marks)

2017 EH3E Page 11 © Churchill Maths Limited

O 30 60 90 120 150 180

Show how you decide.

(Total for Question 12 is 4 marks)

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