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International GCSE

Wednesday 13 January 2021

Afternoon (Time: 2 hours) Paper Reference 4MA1/2H

Mathematics A
Paper 2H
Higher Tier

You must have: Total Marks

Ruler graduated in centimetres and millimetres, protractor, compasses,
pen, HB pencil, eraser, calculator. Tracing paper may be used.

Instructions
• Use black ink or ball‑point pen.
• centrethe
Fill in boxes at the top of this page with your name,
number and candidate number.
• Answer all questions.
• Without sufficient working, correct answers may be awarded no marks.
• – there may questions
Answer the in the spaces provided
be more space than you need.
• Calculators may be used.
• You must NOT write anything on the formulae page.
Anything you write on the formulae page will gain NO credit.

Information
• 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.

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International GCSE Mathematics

Formulae sheet – Higher Tier

Arithmetic series 1
n Area of trapezium = (a + b)h
Sum to n terms, Sn = [2a + (n – 1)d] 2
2
The quadratic equation a

The solutions of ax2 + bx + c = 0 where

a ¹ 0 are given by: h

−b ± b2 − 4ac
x=
2a b

Trigonometry In any triangle ABC

C a b c
Sine Rule = =
sin A sin B sin C

b a Cosine Rule a2 = b2 + c2 – 2bc cos A

1
Area of triangle = ab sin C
A B 2
c

1 2 Volume of prism
Volume of cone = πr h = area of cross section × length
3
Curved surface area of cone = πrl

l cross
h section

length
r

Volume of cylinder = πr2h 4 3

Curved surface area Volume of sphere = πr
3
of cylinder = 2πrh
Surface area of sphere = 4πr2
r

r
h

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Answer ALL TWENTY TWO questions.

Write your answers in the spaces provided.

You must write down all the stages in your working.

1 A train takes 6 hours 39 minutes to travel from New Delhi to Kanpur.

The train travels a distance of 429 km.
Work out the average speed of the train.
Give your answer in km/h correct to one decimal place.

......................................................  km/h

(Total for Question 1 is 3 marks)

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2 Ava writes down five whole numbers.

For these five numbers
the median is 7
the mode is 8
the range is 5
Find a possible value for each of the five numbers that Ava writes down.

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(Total for Question 2 is 3 marks)

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3 Gladys buys a table for $465 to sell in her shop.

She sells the table for $520
(a) Work out the percentage profit that Gladys makes from the sale of the table.
Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

...................................................... %
(3)
Gladys has a sale in her shop.
She decreases all the normal prices by 12%
The normal price of an armchair was $550
(b) Work out the sale price of the armchair.

$. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(3)

(Total for Question 3 is 6 marks)

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4
y
7
6
5
4
3
2
1

O 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 x

(a) On the grid, draw and label the straight line with equation
(i) x = 1.5
(ii) y=x
(iii) x+y=6
(3)
(b) Show, by shading on the grid, the region that satisfies all three of the inequalities

x  1.5 yx x+y6

Label the region R.

(1)

(Total for Question 4 is 4 marks)

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5 (a) Expand and simplify 4x(2x + 5) – 3x(2x – 3)

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(2)
y5 × yn
Given that  = y 13
y6
(b) work out the value of n.

n = ......................................................
(2)
(c) (i) Solve the inequality 7t – 8 < 2t + 7

......................................................

(2)
(ii) On the number line below, represent the solution set of the inequality solved in
part (c)(i)

t
–5 –4 –3 –2 –1 0 1 2 3 4 5
(1)

(Total for Question 5 is 7 marks)

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6 (a) Write down the value of  y 0

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(1)
9.6 × 10 + 6.4 × 10
141 140
(b) Work out
3.2 × 1016
Give your answer in standard form.

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(3)

(Total for Question 6 is 4 marks)

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7 There are 5 cocoa pods in a bag.

The mean weight of the 5 cocoa pods is 398 grams.
A sixth cocoa pod is put into the bag.
The mean weight of the 6 cocoa pods is 401 grams.
Work out the weight of the sixth cocoa pod that is put into the bag.

...................................................... grams

(Total for Question 7 is 3 marks)

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8 A, B and C are points on a circle with centre O.

C
Diagram NOT
accurately drawn

O
15 cm

A
8 cm
B

AOC is a diameter of the circle.

AB = 8 cm BC = 15 cm
Angle ABC = 90°
Work out the total area of the regions shown shaded in the diagram.
Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

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......................................................  cm2
(Total for Question 8 is 5 marks)

9 A = 23 × 32 × 52 × 11
B = 24 × 3 × 54 × 13
Find the lowest common multiple (LCM) of A and B.
Give your answer as a product of powers of prime numbers.

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(Total for Question 9 is 2 marks)

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10 The people working for a company work in Team A or in Team B.

number of people in Team A : number of people in Team B = 3 : 4

4
of Team A work full time.
5
24% of Team B work full time.
Work out what fraction of the people working for the company work full time.
Give your fraction in its simplest form.

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(Total for Question 10 is 3 marks)

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−2
 9t 4 w 9 
11 Simplify fully  6 10 
 18t w 

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(Total for Question 11 is 3 marks)

12 15 people were asked how long, in minutes, they had been waiting for a bus.
Here are the results.

2 3 3 4 5 6 6 8 9 10 11 13 14 15 18

Find the interquartile range of these times.

...................................................... minutes

(Total for Question 12 is 2 marks)

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13 P, Q, R, S and T are points on a circle with centre O.

Q
Diagram NOT
R accurately drawn
m°
P
O
124°

n°
T
S

QOS is a diameter of the circle.

angle POS = 124° angle PRS = m° angle PTS = n°
(a) Find the value of
(i) m

......................................................

(ii)
n

......................................................

(2)
(b) Find the size of angle QPO.

°
......................................................

(1)

(Total for Question 13 is 3 marks)

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9a − 7 3a − 7
14 (a) Solve − = 4.55
5 4

Show clear algebraic working.

a = ......................................................
(3)

ac + 8
(b) Make c the subject of the formula p=
3+c

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(4)

(Total for Question 14 is 7 marks)

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15 A postman records the weight of each parcel that he delivers.

The histogram shows information about the weights of all the parcels that the postman
delivered last Monday. No parcels weighed more than 6 kg.

Frequency
density

0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Weight (kg)

63 of the parcels that the postman delivered last Monday each had a weight between
0.5 kg and  2 kg.
(a) Work out the total number of parcels the postman delivered last Monday.

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(3)
The postman picks at random two of the records of the parcels he delivered
last Monday.
(b) Work out an estimate for the probability that each parcel weighed more than 2.25 kg.

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(3)
(Total for Question 15 is 6 marks)

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16 Some students were asked the following question.

“Which of the subjects Russian (R), French (F) and German (G) do you study?”
Of these students
  4 study all three of Russian, French and German
10 study Russian and French
13 study French and German
  6 study Russian and German
24 study German
11 study none of the three subjects
the number who study Russian only is twice the number who study French only.
Let x be the number of students who study French only.
(a) Show all this information on the Venn diagram, giving the number of students in
each appropriate subset, in terms of x where necessary.

E
R F

(3)
Given that the number of students who were asked the question was 80
(b) work out the number of these students that study Russian.

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(3)

(Total for Question 16 is 6 marks)

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17 The diagram shows a solid prism ABCDEFGH.

G 28 cm F
Diagram NOT
accurately drawn

B
C

20 cm H E

24 cm

A 37 cm D

The trapezium ABCD, in which AD is parallel to BC, is a cross section of the prism.
The base ADEH of the prism is a horizontal plane.
ADEH and BCFG are rectangles.
The midpoint of BC is vertically above the midpoint of AD so that BA = CD.
AD = 37 cm GF = 28 cm DE = 24 cm
The perpendicular distance between edges AD and BC is 20 cm.
(a) Work out the total surface area of the prism.

......................................................  cm²
(4)

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(b) Calculate the size of the angle between AF and the plane ADEH.
Give your answer correct to one decimal place.

°
......................................................

(3)

(Total for Question 17 is 7 marks)

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18 A rectangle ABCD is to be drawn on a centimetre grid such that

A has coordinates (–4, –2)
B has coordinates (1, 10)
C has coordinates (19, a)
D has coordinates (b, c)
(a) Work out the value of a, the value of b and the value of c.

a = ......................................................

b = ......................................................

c = ......................................................
(4)

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(b) Calculate the perimeter, in centimetres, of rectangle ABCD.

......................................................  cm
(3)

(Total for Question 18 is 7 marks)

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19 A particle P is moving along a straight line.

The fixed point O lies on this line.
At time t seconds where t  0, the displacement, s metres, of P from O is given by

s = t³ + 5t² – 8t + 10

Find the displacement of P from O when P is instantaneously at rest.

a
Give your answer in the form where a and b are integers.
b

......................................................  metres

(Total for Question 19 is 5 marks)

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A P Q B
Diagram NOT
accurately drawn
R
F C
T

E D

The diagram shows a shaded region T formed by removing an equilateral triangle PQR
from a regular hexagon ABCDEF.
The points P and Q lie on AB such that AB = 1.5 × PQ
Given that the area of region T is 72 3  cm2

work out the length of PQ.

......................................................  cm

(Total for Question 20 is 4 marks)

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25 x 2 − 64 x 2 − 8 x + 15
21 Write × − ( x − 7)
5 x 2 − 13 x − 6 5x + 8
as a single fraction in its simplest form.
Show clear algebraic working.

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(Total for Question 21 is 4 marks)

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22 The diagram shows a sector OBC of a circle with centre O and radius (6 + x) cm.

O
A
50° Diagram NOT
B 6 cm accurately drawn
D
x cm

A is the point on OB and D is the point on OC such that OA = OD = 6 cm

Angle BOC = 50°
Given that

the perimeter of sector OBC = 2 × the perimeter of triangle OAD

find the value of x.

Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

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x = ......................................................

(Total for Question 22 is 6 marks)

TOTAL FOR PAPER IS 100 MARKS

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