# 4MA1 Mathematics A May/June 2025 Paper 2F (Foundation Tier Paper 2)

Pearson Edexcel International GCSE 4MA1 Mathematics A past paper 2F, Foundation Tier Paper 2, May/June 2025. 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: May/June 2025
- Paper: 2F (Foundation Tier Paper 2)
- Component code: 4MA1/2F
- Time allowed: 120 minutes
- Total marks: 100
- Pages: 24

## Question paper text

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Question 1
Cho finds this information about the areas, in square kilometres, of some South American countries.
[Diagram or table: see page 3 of the paper]
(a) Which of these countries has the largest area?
Answer: ____ [1]
(b) Write the number 163 800 in words.
Answer: ____ [1]
(c) Circle the word that describes the value of the 7 in 406 752
[Diagram or table: see page 3 of the paper]
[1]
(d) Write the number 173 626 correct to the nearest thousand.
Answer: ____ [1]
(e) Work out the difference between the area of Chile and the area of Uruguay.
Answer: ____ _square_kilometres [1]

Question 2
Zia asks 20 adults to name their favourite African animal. Here are her results.
[Diagram or table: see page 4 of the paper]
(a) Complete the frequency table to show this information.
[Diagram or table: see page 4 of the paper]
[2]
(b) Complete the bar chart for the information in your table.
[Diagram or table: see page 4 of the paper]
[3]

Question 3
(a) Simplify d + d + d + d
Answer: ____ [1]
(b) Simplify w × w × w × w × w
Answer: ____ [1]
(c) Solve 6x = 42
Answer: x = ____ [1]
(d) Simplify 7r + 9y + 3r – 4y
Answer: ____ [2]

Question 4
The diagram shows a number line.
[Diagram or table: see page 5 of the paper]
(a) Write down the number marked with the arrow.
Answer: ____ [1]
(b) On the number line below, mark with an arrow ( ) the number 265
[Diagram or table: see page 5 of the paper]
[1]

Question 5
The diagram shows three points, P, Q and R, marked on a grid.
[Diagram or table: see page 6 of the paper]
(a) Write down the coordinates of point P
Answer: ( ____ , ____ ) [1]
(b) On the grid, mark with a cross (×) the point with coordinates (3, –1) Label this point T [1]
(c) Find the coordinates of the midpoint of QR
Answer: ( ____ , ____ ) [2]

Question 6
(a) Write 19/5 as a mixed number.
Answer: ____ [1]
(b) Circle the two fractions that are equivalent.
[Diagram or table: see page 7 of the paper]
[1]
(c) Write 0.3 as a fraction.
Answer: ____ [1]

Question 7
2 cupcakes and 5 doughnuts cost $4.50 3 cupcakes cost $2.25
Work out the cost of 1 doughnut.
Answer: $ ____ [4]

Question 8
[Diagram or table: see page 8 of the paper]
ABC and EBD are straight lines. Triangle BCD is isosceles with BD = BC
Angle ABE = 104°
Work out the value of x
Answer: x = ____ [3]

Question 9
Roy has 2 litres of orange juice in a jug and some empty cups. He pours orange juice from the jug to completely fill as many cups as possible. He pours 180 millilitres of orange juice into each cup.
Work out how much orange juice Roy has left in the jug after he has completely filled as many cups as possible. Give your answer in millilitres.
Answer: ____ _millilitres [4]

Question 10
Lui is asked to work out the value of 30 – 4x when x = –5
Here is his working and his answer.
30 – 4x = 30 – 4 × –5
[Diagram or table: see page 10 of the paper]
Lui’s answer is wrong.
(a) Explain what Lui has done wrong in his working.
Answer: ____ [1]
Oni thinks of a number. She calls the number Y
Y is a positive, odd number and Y  9
(b) Write down all the possible values of Y
Answer: ____ [2]

Question 11
The children at a holiday club play sport either on Monday or on Tuesday. They each choose one sport from tennis or athletics or cricket. The two‑way table shows some information about their choices.
[Diagram or table: see page 11 of the paper]
(a) Complete the two‑way table. [3]
One of the children who plays cricket is chosen at random.
(b) Write down the probability that this child plays cricket on Monday.
Answer: ____ [1]

Question 12
(a) Make y the subject of w = 3y – d
Answer: ____ [2]
Diego buys b boxes of crayons and p packets of crayons.
There are 12 crayons in each box. There are 3 crayons in each packet.
Diego buys a total of T crayons.
(b) Write down a formula for T in terms of b and p
Answer: ____ [3]
[Diagram or table: see page 13 of the paper]

Question 13
Work out the value of
Write down all the figures on your calculator display.
Answer: ____ [2]

Question 14
A company makes cars.
The company makes 125 cars each hour for 9 hours a day. The company makes cars for 5 days each week.
24% of the cars the company makes are red.
Work out the number of red cars that the company makes each week.
Answer: ____ [3]

Question 15
A circle has radius 16 cm
Calculate the circumference of the circle. Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.
Answer: ____ cm [2]

Question 16
The diagram shows the positions of two villages, A and B
[Diagram or table: see page 14 of the paper]
The bearing of B from A is 073
Work out the bearing of A from B
[Diagram or table: see page 14 of the paper]
Answer: ____ [2]

Question 17
Here is a list of ingredients to make spaghetti carbonara for 4 people.
[Diagram or table: see page 15 of the paper]
Joe is going to make spaghetti carbonara for 12 people.
(a) Work out how much cheese he needs.
Answer: ____ _g [2]
Ruhi makes spaghetti carbonara. She uses 180 g of butter.
(b) Work out how many people Ruhi makes the spaghetti carbonara for.
Answer: ____ [2]

Question 18
Rio has six cards. He writes a number on each card so that
the range of the numbers is 10 the median of the numbers is 7.5 the mode of the numbers is 6
Rio arranges the cards so that the numbers are in order of size.
[Diagram or table: see page 16 of the paper]
Three of the numbers are hidden.
Complete the cards above to show the three numbers that are hidden. [3]

Question 19
[Diagram or table: see page 17 of the paper]
(a) On the grid, enlarge shape A with scale factor 3 and centre (0, 1) [2]
[Diagram or table: see page 17 of the paper]
(b) Describe fully the single transformation that maps triangle P onto triangle Q
Answer: ____ [3]

Question 20
Show that 7 1/3  3 4/7  316/21 [3]

Question 21
Using ruler and compasses only, construct the perpendicular bisector of the line AB Show all your construction lines.
[Diagram or table: see page 18 of the paper]
[2]

Question 22
The diagram shows two similar quadrilaterals, ABCD and EFGH
[Diagram or table: see page 19 of the paper]
(a) Work out the value of x
Answer: x = ____ [2]
(b) Work out the value of y
Answer: y = ____ [2]

Question 23
Pau, Sam and Tia share £240 in the ratios 3 : 4 : 5
Sam and Tia each give £10 of their share to Pau.
Work out the ratios of the amounts of money that Pau, Sam and Tia now have. Give your answer in its simplest form.
Answer: ____ _: ____ _: ____ [4]

Question 24
Tim buys a bracelet for 4000 Swiss francs. The value of the bracelet increases by 7% each year.
Work out the value of the bracelet at the end of 3 years. Give your answer correct to the nearest Swiss franc.
Answer: ____ _Swiss_francs [3]

Question 25
Solve the simultaneous equations
[Diagram or table: see page 21 of the paper]
Show clear algebraic working.
Answer: x = ____
Answer: y = ____ [3]

Question 26
(a) Solve the inequality 7 – 3t < 2t + 15
Answer: ____ [2]
The region R, shown shaded in the diagram, is bounded by three straight lines.
[Diagram or table: see page 22 of the paper]
(b) Write down three inequalities that define the region R
Answer: ____ [3]

Question 27
ABD and ABC are right‑angled triangles.
[Diagram or table: see page 23 of the paper]
AB = 16 cm BC = 12 cm AD = 1.5 × AC
Find the length of CD Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.
Answer: ____ cm [5]

Question 28
Khalid has a box of counters.
17 of the counters are red 28 of the counters are blue the rest of the counters are orange
Khalid is going to take at random a counter from the box.
The probability that Khalid will take an orange counter is
Work out the number of orange counters that are in the box.
Answer: ____ [3]