Predicted Paper — Paper 1 (Non-calculator)

Question A1 (1 mark)

Which of these is a prime number?

Question A2 (2 marks)

Work out 3/4 + 2/5. Give your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.

Question A3 (3 marks)

A bag contains red and blue counters in the ratio 5 : 3. There are 40 counters in total. How many red counters are there?

Question A4 (1 mark)

Simplify 2x × 5x

Question A5 (3 marks)

The nth term of a sequence is 4n − 1. (a) Write the first two terms. (b) Is 99 a term in this sequence? Explain.

Question B1 (4 marks)

The lines y = 2x + 1 and y = 7 − x intersect at point P. Find the coordinates of P.

Question B2 (2 marks)

Write 0.000045 in standard form.

Question B3 (4 marks)

A rectangle has length (x + 3) cm and width (x − 1) cm. Its area is 40 cm². Show that x satisfies x² + 2x − 43 = 0.

Question B4 (1 mark)

Which inequality represents x is at least 4?

Question C1 (5 marks)

ABCD is a parallelogram. Angle ABC = 118°. (a) Find angle ADC. (b) Find angle BAD. Give reasons for each answer.

Question C2 (6 marks)

The probability that Sam wins a game is 0.35, independently each time. He plays twice. (a) Complete the tree or use a table. (b) Find the probability he wins exactly once.