Edexcel GCSE Foundation November 2024 Paper 1 (non-calculator)
26 questions · 80 marks. Every question from the paper, recreated, with the official mark scheme, an annotated worked solution and a shadow question (the same skill with new numbers). Open the paper in the Ultimate Exam Question Finder to present it, print it or build a set.
Question 1 (1 mark)
Write 25% as a decimal.
(1 mark)
Question 2 (1 mark)
Here are the first four even numbers.
2 4 6 8
Find the 10th even number.
(1 mark)
Question 3 (1 mark)
Change 15 centimetres into millimetres.
(1 mark)
Question 4 (1 mark)
Write down the multiple of 9 that is between 20 and 30
(1 mark)
Question 5 (1 mark)
Work out 500 + 145
(1 mark)
Question 6 (3 marks)
Javid hires a car for 10 days.
He pays £45 for each day.
He also pays £30 for insurance.Javid pays with ten £50 notes.
Work out how much change he should get.
(3 marks)
Question 7 (3 marks)
Here is an accurately drawn triangle.
Diagram: An accurately drawn triangle with the side PQ along the bottom, P on the left and Q on the right. Its third corner is above, nearer to P. The angle at Q is marked x. A centimetre scale bar, 0 to 3 cm, is drawn under the triangle so lengths can be measured on screen.
(a)
Measure the length of the side PQ.
Give your answer in centimetres.(1 mark)
(b)
What type of angle is the angle marked x?
(1 mark)
(c)
Measure the size of the angle marked x.
(1 mark)
Question 8 (3 marks)
Diagram: A coordinate grid with x and y from –5 to 5. Point C is marked with a cross at the top left and point A with a cross at the right, above the x-axis.
(a)
Write down the coordinates of point A.
(1 mark)
(b)
On the grid, mark with a cross (×) the point (3, -4)
Label this point B.(1 mark)
(c)
Write down the coordinates of the midpoint of AC.
(1 mark)
Question 9 (7 marks)
Milly collects stickers of sports players.
She only has stickers of tennis players, football players and cricket players.The incomplete bar chart shows some information about the number of stickers Milly has.
Diagram: A bar chart of number of stickers, with a grid line for every 1 up to 20, numbered every 2. tennis players: a bar to 12. football players: a bar to 17. cricket players: no bar.
Milly has a total of 40 stickers.
(a)
Complete the bar chart.
(3 marks)
(b)
What fraction of the 40 stickers are stickers of tennis players?
Give your fraction in its simplest form.(2 marks)
(c)
Ewan also collects stickers.
He only has large stickers and small stickers.
For Ewan’s stickers,
the number of large stickers : the number of small stickers = 5 : 4Write down the fraction of Ewan’s stickers that are large stickers.
(1 mark)
(d)
Write the ratio 5 : 4 in the form n : 1
(1 mark)
Question 10 (3 marks)
Diagram: A coordinate grid with x and y from –5 to 5. A dashed mirror line goes across the grid through 1 on the y-axis. Above it is a shaded four-sided shape with corners at (1, 2), (1, 3), (3, 4) and (4, 2).
(a)
On the grid, reflect the shaded shape in the mirror line.
(2 marks)
(b)
Write down the equation of the mirror line.
(1 mark)
Question 11 (5 marks)
500 people were asked what type of film they liked best.
280 of the 500 people were adults.
100 of the adults said they liked action films best.
80 of the children said they liked thriller films best.
150 of the people said they liked action films best.
200 of the people said they liked comedy films best.(a)
Complete the two-way table.
Comedy Thriller Action Total Adults Children Total 500 (3 marks)
(b)
One of these 500 people is chosen at random.
Find the probability that this person is an adult who said they liked action films best.
(2 marks)
Question 12 (1 mark)
Olly was asked to work out 5 – 3 × 4
Olly wrote 5 – 3 = 2
He then worked out 2 × 4Explain what is wrong with Olly’s method.
(1 mark)
Question 13 (4 marks)
Here is a number machine.
Diagram: Number machine: input, then + 5, then ÷ 2, then output.
(a)
Find the output when the input is 11
(2 marks)
(b)
Here is a different number machine.
Diagram: Number machine: input, then ……, then × 4, then output.
When the input is 10, the output is 28
Complete this number machine.
(2 marks)
Question 14 (5 marks)
(a)
Here is a cuboid of length 10 cm and width 4 cm.
Diagram: A cuboid with its length 10 cm along the front, its width 4 cm going back, and its height marked “height”.
The cuboid has a volume of 200 cm³
Work out the height of the cuboid.
(2 marks)
(b)
Here is a different cuboid.
Diagram: A cuboid 6 cm by 5 cm by 3 cm.
Work out the total surface area of this cuboid.
(3 marks)
Question 15 (4 marks)
(a)
Factorise 6a + 15
(1 mark)
(b)
Solve 4(3y + 1) = 28
(3 marks)
Question 16 (5 marks)
1 cup of tea and 1 cup of coffee cost £4.50
3 cups of tea and 1 cup of coffee cost £8.50Work out the total cost of 4 cups of tea and 3 cups of coffee.
You must show all your working.(5 marks)
Question 17 (3 marks)
Gita wants to make 24 litres of green paint.
She is going to mix blue paint, yellow paint and white paint in the ratio 4 : 3 : 1She has
12 litres of blue paint
7 litres of yellow paint
5 litres of white paint.Does Gita have enough blue paint, yellow paint and white paint to make 24 litres of
green paint?
You must show how you get your answer.(3 marks)
Question 18 (3 marks)
Work out 818.4 ÷ 1.2
(3 marks)
Question 19 (4 marks)
The table shows the probabilities that a biased dice will land on 3, on 4, on 5 and on 6
Number on dice 1 2 3 4 5 6 Probability 0.10 0.30 0.05 0.25 Karim assumes that the probabilities that the dice will land on 1 and on 2 are the same.
Karim rolls the biased dice 500 times.
(a)
Assuming Karim is right, work out an estimate for the number of times the dice will
land on 2(3 marks)
(b)
Karim is wrong.
The probability that the dice will land on 2 is greater than the probability that the dice
will land on 1How does this information affect your answer to part (a)?
(1 mark)
Question 20 (5 marks)
(a)
Work out 31/2 – 11/6
Give your answer as a mixed number.(2 marks)
(b)
Show that 51/4 ÷ 21/3 = 21/4
(3 marks)
Question 21 (3 marks)
ABCD is a parallelogram.
Diagram: Parallelogram ABCD with A at the top left, B at the top right, C at the bottom right and D at the bottom left, and the diagonal AC. Angle BAC is marked e. Angle ADC is marked 3e.
All angles are measured in degrees.
Find an expression, in terms of e, for the size of angle CAD.
Give a reason for each stage of your working.(3 marks)
Question 22 (4 marks)
A car travelled 4.96 miles at an average speed of 30.4 miles per hour.
(a)
Work out an estimate for the time taken by the car.
Give your answer in minutes.(3 marks)
(b)
Is your answer to part (a) an underestimate or an overestimate?
Give a reason for your answer.(1 mark)
Question 23 (4 marks)
Here is a pentagon.
Diagram: A pentagon. Its interior angles are marked a, b, c, d, e, going round clockwise from the corner on the left.
Angle a = angle c
Angle b = 155°
Angle d is three times the size of angle c
Angle e is two times the size of angle cWork out the size of angle a
(4 marks)
Question 24 (1 mark)
The graph shows the volume of water, V litres, in a tank at time t seconds.
Diagram: A graph of volume (V litres, 0 to 20) against time (t seconds, 0 to 50). A straight line goes down from 20 litres at 0 seconds to 0 litres at 50 seconds.
What does the gradient of this graph represent?
(1 mark)
Question 25 (2 marks)
Make w the subject of the formula y = 3w – 10
(2 marks)
Question 26 (3 marks)
Solve x² – 2x – 15 = 0
(3 marks)
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