07 Practice Tests Set 13 - Paper 2H-3H

GCSE Mathematics
Practice Tests: Set 13

Paper 2H/3H (Calculator)
Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
You should have: Ruler graduated in centimetres and millimetres,

protractor, pair of compasses, pen, HB pencil, eraser, calculator.
Tracing paper may be used.
Instructions
 Use black ink or ball-point pen.
 Fill in the boxes at the top of this page with your name,
centre number and candidate number.
 Answer all questions.
 Answer the questions in the spaces provided
– there may be more space than you need.
 Calculators may not be used.
 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.
Edexcel GCSE Mathematics (9–1) Practice Tests Set 13: Paper 2H/3H – Spring 2020 (Version 1.0) 1
Answer ALL questions.
Write your answers in the spaces provided.
You must write down all the stages in your working.
1 The diagram shows a rectangle and a diagonal of the rectangle.
Work out the length of the diagonal of the rectangle.

Give your answer correct to 1 decimal place.
....................................................... cm
(Total for Question 1 is 3 marks)
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2 A plane takes 3 hours 36 minutes to fly from the Cayman Islands to New York.
The plane flies a distance of 2470 km.
Work out the average speed of the plane in km/h.
Give your answer correct to the nearest whole number.
....................................................... km/h
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3 The diagram shows a box in the shape of a cuboid.
The box is put on a table.

The face of the box in contact with the table has length 1.2 metres and width x metres.
The force exerted by the box on the table is 27 newtons.
The pressure on the table due to the box is 30 newtons/m2
Work out the value of x.
x = .......................................................
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4 Betsy was given £75 for her birthday.
She saved some of the money and spent the rest on a T-shirt and a bag.
Betsy saved 40% of the £75
She spent £12 more on the bag than she spent on the T-shirt.
Work out how much Betsy spent on the bag.
£.......................................................
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5 The diagram shows two right-angled triangles, DEF and EFG.
Work out the length of EG.

Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.
...................................................... cm
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6 Hamish buys a new car for £20 000
The car depreciates in value by 19% each year.
Work out the value of the car at the end of 3 years.
Give your answer to the nearest £.
£.......................................................
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7 The diagram shows Yuen’s garden.
The garden is in the shape of a semicircle of radius 7.2 m.

Yuen is going to cover his garden with grass seed.
Yuen has 12 boxes of grass seed.
Each box of grass seed contains enough seed to cover 6 m2 of the garden.
Has Yuen enough grass seed for his garden?
Show your working clearly.

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8 The table shows information about the surface area of each of the world’s oceans.
Surface area in
Ocean
square kilometres
Pacific 1.56 × 108
Indian 6.86 × 107
Southern 2.03 × 107
Arctic 1.41 × 107
Atlantic 1.06 × 108
(a) Work out the difference, in square kilometres, between the surface area of the
Atlantic Ocean and the surface area of the Indian Ocean.
Give your answer in standard form.
....................................................... square kilometres

(2)
The surface area of the Pacific Ocean is k times the surface area of the Arctic Ocean.
(b) Work out the value of k.
Give your answer correct to the nearest whole number.
k = .......................................................
(1)
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9 5 children are playing on a trampoline.
The mean weight of the 5 children is 28 kg.
2 of the children get off the trampoline.
The mean weight of these 2 children is 26.5 kg.
Work out the mean weight of the 3 children who remain on the trampoline.
...................................................... kg
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10 The table gives information about the amount of money, in £, that Fiona spent in a
grocery store each week during 2019
Amount spent (£x) Frequency

0  x < 20 5
20  x < 40 11
40  x < 60 8
60  x < 80 19
80  x < 100 9
Work out an estimate for the total amount of money that Fiona spent in the grocery store
during 2019
£.......................................................
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11 In a sale, the normal price of a hat is reduced by 15%
The sale price of the hat is 20.40 euros.
Work out the normal price of the hat.
...................................................... euros
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12
The diagram shows a prism ABCDEFGH in which ABCD is a trapezium with BC parallel
to AD and CDEF is a rectangle.
BC = 7 cm AD = 12 cm DE = 10 cm
The height of trapezium ABCD is h cm
The volume of the prism is 608 cm3
Work out the value of h.
h = .......................................................
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13 (a) Solve
Show clear algebraic working.
x = .......................................................
(3)
(b) Solve the inequality 5y2 – 17y  40
..................................................................................
(3)
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14 Pablo made a solid gold statue.
He melted down some gold blocks and used the gold to make the statue.
Each block of gold was a cuboid, as shown below.
The mass of the statue is 5.73 kg.

The density of gold is 19.32 g/cm3
Work out the least number of gold blocks Pablo melted down in order to make the statue.
......................................................
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15 Steffi is going to play one game of tennis and one game of chess.
The probability that she will win the game of tennis is 0.6
The probability that she will win both games is 0.42
Work out the probability that she will not win either game.
......................................................
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16 The diagram shows two congruent isosceles triangles and parts of two congruent regular
polygons, X and Y.
The two regular polygons each have n sides.

Work out the value of n.
n = .......................................................
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17 Use algebra to show that
(2)

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TURN OIVER FOR QUESTION 18
18 Cody has two bags of counters, bag A and bag B.
Each of the counters has either an odd number or an even number written on it.
There are 10 counters in bag A and 7 of these counters have an odd number written on them.
There are 12 counters in bag B and 7 of these counters have an odd number written on them.
Cody is going to take at random a counter from bag A and a counter from bag B.
(a) Complete the probability tree diagram.
(2)
(b) Calculate the probability that the total of the numbers on the two counters will be an
odd number.
.......................................................
(3)
Harriet also has a bag of counters.

Each of her counters also has either an odd number or an even number written on it.
Harriet is going to take at random a counter from her bag of counters.
The probability that the number on each of Cody’s two counters and the number on
Harriet’s counter will all be even is

(c) Find the least number of counters that Harriet has in her bag.
.......................................................
(3)
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19
The histogram gives information about the heights of all the Year 11 students at a school.
There are 160 students in Year 11 with a height between 155 cm and 170 cm.
Work out the total number of students in Year 11 at the school.
......................................................
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20 The diagram shows two similar vases, A and B.
The height of vase A is 9 cm and the height of vase B is 13 cm.

Given that
surface area of vase A + surface area of vase B = 1800 cm2
calculate the surface area of vase A.
....................................................... cm2
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21 The diagram shows the prism ABCDEF with cross section triangle ABC.
Angle BEC = 40° and angle ACB is obtuse.

AC = 6 cm and CE = 13 cm
The area of triangle ABC is 22 cm2
Calculate the length of AB.
Give your answer correct to one decimal place.
...................................................... cm
TOTAL FOR PAPER IS 80 MARKS

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GCSE Mathematics

Practice Tests: Set 13

Time: 1 hour 30 minutes

You should have: Ruler graduated in centimetres and millimetres,

Write your answers in the spaces provided.

You must write down all the stages in your working.

1 The diagram shows a rectangle and a diagonal of the rectangle.

Work out the length of the diagonal of the rectangle.

The box is put on a table.

Work out the value of x.

Work out the length of EG.

The garden is in the shape of a semicircle of radius 7.2 m.

(Total for Question 7 is 3 marks)

....................................................... square kilometres

Amount spent (£x) Frequency

The mass of the statue is 5.73 kg.

The two regular polygons each have n sides.

(Total for Question 17 is 2 marks)

Harriet also has a bag of counters.

Harriet’s counter will all be even is

The height of vase A is 9 cm and the height of vase B is 13 cm.

Angle BEC = 40° and angle ACB is obtuse.

TOTAL FOR PAPER IS 80 MARKS

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