# 4MA1 Mathematics A Oct/Nov 2024 Paper 2F (Foundation Tier Paper 2)

Pearson Edexcel International GCSE 4MA1 Mathematics A past paper 2F, Foundation Tier Paper 2, Oct/Nov 2024. Open it online or download the question paper PDF free.

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- Board: Edexcel
- Qualification: Pearson Edexcel International GCSE
- Subject: 4MA1 Mathematics A (https://mathvsarham.com/past-papers/4ma1/)
- Session: Oct/Nov 2024
- Paper: 2F (Foundation Tier Paper 2)
- Component code: 4MA1/2F
- Time allowed: 120 minutes
- Total marks: 100
- Pages: 24

## Question paper text

Extracted automatically from the PDF; diagrams are missing and notation may be imperfect.

Question 1
(a) Write the number 7823 correct to the nearest hundred.
Answer: ____ [1]
(b) Write a number in each box so that each calculation is correct.
(i) 0.4 × = 4000 [1]
(ii) 3600 ÷ = 3.6 [1]
(c) Write down four factors of 18
Answer: ____ [1]
(d) Which one of the following numbers is a prime number?
[Diagram or table: see page 3 of the paper]
Answer: ____ [1]

Question 2
Here are the first five terms of a number sequence.
[Diagram or table: see page 4 of the paper]
(a)(i) Write down the next term of the sequence.
Answer: ____ [1]
(ii) Explain how you found your answer to part (a)(i)
Answer: ____ [1]
The 14th term of the sequence is 63
(b) Find the sum of the 16th term and the 17th term of the sequence.
Answer: ____ [2]
Felix says that 98 is a term of the sequence. Felix is wrong.
(c) Explain why Felix is wrong.
Answer: ____ [1]

Question 3
The bar chart shows information about the area, in thousands of hectares, that was used to grow cucumbers in each of four countries in 2021
[Diagram or table: see page 5 of the paper]
(a) Write down the number of hectares that were used to grow cucumbers in Egypt.
Answer: ____ thousand [1]
More hectares were used to grow cucumbers in Mexico than in Spain.
(b) How many more?
Answer: ____ thousand [1]
In Norway, 17 thousand hectares were used to grow cucumbers.
(c) Show this information on the bar chart. [1]

Question 4
Here is a rectangle made of squares.
(a) Shade 3/7 of the rectangle. [1]
Here are five fractions.
[Diagram or table: see page 6 of the paper]
(b) Write down the two fractions that are equivalent to 3/4
Answer: ____ and ____ [2]
(c) Write 24/7 as a mixed number.
Answer: ____ [1]
(d) Write 9/10 as a percentage.
Answer: ____ % [1]
There are 80 crayons in a box.
2/5 of the crayons are red.
(e) Work out the number of crayons that are not red.
Answer: ____ [2]

Question 5
The table shows information about the shoe sizes of the 25 children in a nursery class.
Shoe size Frequency
18 2
19 4
20 5
21 6
22 8
Find the median shoe size.
Answer: ____ [2]

Question 6
Plates cost $14 each. Ben has $250 to spend.
Ben buys as many plates as he can.
How much of the $250 does he have left?
Answer: $ ____ [3]

Question 7
One weekend, Marion went on four walks.
Here are the distances Marion walked
[Diagram or table: see page 8 of the paper]
The same weekend, Talha walked a total of 8 kilometres.
Talha walked a greater distance than Marion walked.
How much greater? Give your answer in metres.
Answer: ____ metres [4]

Question 8
(a) Simplify 7g  3h  4g  5h
Answer: ____ [2]
(b) Simplify 7a × 4m
Answer: ____ [1]
(c) Solve 5x  7  12
[Diagram or table: see page 9 of the paper]
Answer: ____ [2]
(d) Expand 57k  3
Answer: ____ [1]
(e) Factorise 9 y + 12
Answer: ____ [1]
Max has c counters. Bulan has 3 times as many counters as Max. Chanda has 7 more counters than Max.
(f) Write an expression, in terms of c, for the total number of counters that Max, Bulan and Chanda have. Simplify your answer.
Answer: ____ [3]

Question 9
Don got on a bus at 07 35
He got off the bus at 13 25
How long was Don on the bus? Give your answer in hours and minutes.
Answer: ____ hours ____ minutes [2]

Question 10
Here is a cuboid.
[Diagram or table: see page 10 of the paper]
Work out the volume of the cuboid.
Answer: ____ cm³ [2]

Question 11
[Diagram or table: see page 11 of the paper]
ABC is a triangle. BCD and ACE are straight lines.
Work out the value of x
[Diagram or table: see page 11 of the paper]
Answer: ____ [2]

Question 12
In an orchard, there are 240 fruit trees. There are only apple trees and pear trees such that
number of apple trees : number of pear trees = 5 : 3
64% of the apple trees produce cooking apples.
Work out the number of apple trees that produce cooking apples.
Answer: ____
[4]

Question 13
(a) Use your calculator to work out the value of
Give your answer as a decimal. Write down all the figures on your calculator display.
Answer: ____ [2]
(b) Write your answer to part (a) correct to one decimal place.
Answer: ____ [1]

Question 14
The diagram shows a shape ABCDE made from a square ABDE and an isosceles triangle BCD
[Diagram or table: see page 13 of the paper]
The area of square ABDE is 49 cm^2 The perimeter of triangle BCD is 27 cm
Work out the perimeter of ABCDE
Answer: ____ cm [3]

Question 15
[Diagram or table: see page 14 of the paper]
Describe fully the single transformation that maps shape A onto shape B
Answer: ____ [3]

Question 16
A circle has radius 9 cm
Work out the area of the circle. Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.
Answer: ____ cm² [2]

Question 17
Show that 15/7  2 3/16  3 3/4 [3]

Question 18
The length of a table is measured as 1.4 metres correct to one decimal place.
(a) Write down the upper bound of the length of the table.
Answer: ____ metres [1]
(b) Write down the lower bound of the length of the table.
Answer: ____ metres [1]

Question 19
The diagram shows triangle PQR
[Diagram or table: see page 16 of the paper]
Work out the value of x Give your answer correct to one decimal place.
[Diagram or table: see page 16 of the paper]
Answer: ____ [3]

Question 20
N is a number. 17% of N is 357
(a) Work out the value of N
[Diagram or table: see page 17 of the paper]
Answer: ____ [2]
In 2019, the population of a village was 650 In 2020, the population of the village was 806
(b) Work out the percentage increase in the population.
Answer: ____ % [3]

Question 21
Cody has a biased 5-sided spinner, numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
The table gives the probabilities that when the spinner is spun it will land on 2 or on 3 or on 5
[Diagram or table: see page 18 of the paper]
The probability that the spinner will land on 1 is the same as the probability that the spinner will land on 4
Cody is going to spin the spinner 400 times.
Work out an estimate for the number of times the spinner will land on 4
Answer: ____ [4]

Question 22
The diagram shows a solid triangular prism.
[Diagram or table: see page 19 of the paper]
Work out the total surface area of the triangular prism.
Answer: ____ cm^2 [3]

Question 23
(a) On the grid, draw the straight line with equation
(i) x = 3 (ii) y = 1 (iii) x  y  7
Label each line with its equation.
[Diagram or table: see page 20 of the paper]
[3]
(b) Show, by shading on the grid, the region that satisfies all three of the inequalities
[Diagram or table: see page 20 of the paper]
Label the region R [1]

Question 24
Kim puts 4 bananas in a bag. The mean weight of the 4 bananas in the bag is 145 grams.
Andy puts one more banana into the bag. The mean weight of the 5 bananas in the bag is 142 grams.
Work out the weight of the banana that Andy puts into the bag.
Answer: ____ grams [3]

Question 25
Nisha invests 20 000 euros for 3 years in a savings account. She gets 3.5% per year compound interest.
Work out how much money Nisha will have in her savings account at the end of the 3 years. Give your answer correct to the nearest euro.
Answer: ____ euros [3]

Question 26
All the students in year 10 and all the students in year 11 named their favourite science subject from Biology, Chemistry and Physics.
The pie chart shows information about the results for the year 10 students. The table shows information about the results for the year 11 students.
[Diagram or table: see page 22 of the paper]
There are 300 students in year 10 There are 320 students in year 11
More students in year 10 than in year 11 said Biology was their favourite science subject.
How many more?
Answer: ____ [5]

Question 27
[Diagram or table: see page 24 of the paper]
ABCDE is a regular pentagon. DEFGHI is a regular hexagon.
AF is a straight line.
Work out the size of angle EAF
[Diagram or table: see page 24 of the paper]
Answer: ____ [5]