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Pearson Edexcel International GCSE

Time 2 hours
Paper
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4MA1/1F
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Mathematics
Year 9

You must have: Ruler graduated in centimetres and millimetres, Total Marks
protractor, pair of compasses, pen, HB pencil, eraser, calculator.
Tracing paper may be used.

Information
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• The total mark for this paper is 100.

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. Check
your answers if you have time at
the end.

Answer ALL TWENTY FIVE questions.

Write your answers in the spaces

provided.

You must write down all the stages in your working.

1 The table shows the average annual rainfall, in mm, for each of five countries.

Average
Country
annual
rainfall (mm)
Colombia 3240

Jamaica 2051

Brazil 1761

Japan 1668

France 867

(a) Write the number 2051 in words.

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(1)

(b) Write the number 1668 correct to the nearest hundred.

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(1)

The average annual rainfall for Colombia is more than the average annual rainfall
for Brazil.
(c) How much more?
 mm
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(1)

The average annual rainfall for Nigeria was 283 mm more than the average annual
rainfall for France.
(d) Work out the average annual rainfall for Nigeria.

mm
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(1)

(Total for Question 1 is 4 marks)

2 The pictogram shows information about the number of text messages Colin sent on each
of four days last week.

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Key:
Represents 8 text messages

(a) How many text messages did Colin send on Tuesday?

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 (1)

(b) Work out the total number of text messages that Colin sent on the four days from
Monday to Thursday last week.

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(2)
On Friday, Colin sent 26 text messages.

(c) Show this information on the pictogram.

(1)

(Total for Question 2 is 4 marks)

 3. a) Write down the value of the 2 in the number 3289
5
b). write as a fraction
8
c). Write these numbers in order of size. Start with the smallest number.
2.803 2.008 2.081 2.83 2.8
4. (a) Solve 5x = 30

(b) Solve y – 7 = 12

(c) Simplify h+h+h+h+h

(d) Simplify 5a + 7f – 2a + 4f

39
4. (a) Write as a percentage.
150

There are 30 dogs staying in some boarding kennels. 12 of the dogs are brown.
(b) What fraction of the dogs in the boarding kennels are not brown? Give your fraction in
its simplest form.
4 1
(c) Simplify + =¿
9 6

5. (a) Use your calculator to work out the value of

7.45
4.32 − 2.9

Give your answer as a decimal.

Write down all the figures on your calculator display.

(b) Write your answer to part (a) correct to 3 decimal places.

6. a) Simplify a7 × a4

(b) Simplify w15 ÷ w3

(c) Simplify (8x5y3)2
(d) Make t the subject of c = t3 – 8v

(e) Factorise y2 – 2y – 35
 7. Danil, Gabriel and Hadley share some money in the ratios 3 : 5 : 9 The
difference between the amount of money that Gabriel receives and the amount of
money that Hadley receives is 196 euros.

Work out the amount of money that Danil receives.

8. Simplify 8x – 2y + 3x + 6y

9. What is 6.0829 when written correct to two decimal places?

10. What is 30 when written as a product of its prime factors?

11. Work out the value of 3n + m when n = 2 and m = –4

12. Expand the brackets and simplify 3(2x + y) – 2(x – y)

13. Here are the first four terms in a sequence 8, 11, 14, 17 the sequence continues.
Write down the next two terms in this sequence.
14. (a) Factorise y2 – 3y
(b) Factorise fully 16a3 b + 24a 2b 2

(c ) Multiply out the brackets and then simplify (x – 9) (x + 2)

15. Suha and Kate share 75 sweets in the ratio 2:3 Suha then gives away 40% of
her sweets.How many sweets does Suha have left?

16. Solve 8x + 18 = 2(5 – x)

17. Write 67 000 as a number in standard form.

(b) Write 8.02 × 10–3 as an ordinary number.
(c) Work out (3 × 1012) × (2 × 10–7)