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MATHEMATICS
Higher Tier Paper 2 Calculator
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Wednesday 7 June 2023 Morning Time allowed: 1 hour 30 minutes
Materials
For this paper you must have: For Examiner’s Use
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Instructions 6–7
• Use black ink or black ball-point pen. Draw diagrams in pencil. 8–9
• Fill in the boxes at the top of this page.
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• Answer all questions.
• You must answer the questions in the spaces provided. Do not write 12–13
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• If you need extra space for your answer(s), use the lined pages at the end 16–17
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• Do all rough work in this book. Cross through any work you do not want to
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1 Write 30 : 12 in the form n : 1

[1 mark]

Answer :1

2 Four consecutive triangular numbers are 6 10 15 21

Write down the next triangular number.

[1 mark]

Answer

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3 Write down the reciprocal of
7
[1 mark]

Answer

4 The price of a toy increases by 12.5% to £19.53

Work out the original price of the toy.

[2 marks]

Answer £

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5 Jess saves 2p, 5p and 10p coins. box

She has
• 45 10p coins
• 8 times as many 2p coins as 10p coins
• £17.70 in total.

Work out total value of 2p coins : total value of 5p coins

Give your answer in its simplest form.
[4 marks]

Answer :

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6 (a) Part of a regular polygon is shown. box

Not drawn
accurately

Assume that the polygon is an octagon.

Work out the size of an exterior angle.

[2 marks]

Answer °

6 (b) In fact, the polygon has more sides than an octagon.

What does this mean about the size of an exterior angle?

Tick one box.
[1 mark]

It is more than the answer to part (a)

It is the same as the answer to part (a)

It is less than the answer to part (a)

It could be any of the above

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7 In a game, box

• an ordinary fair six-sided dice is rolled

• the fair spinner shown is spun.

The score is the dice number substituted into the spinner expression.

7 (a) Complete the table to show all of the possible scores.

[2 marks]

1 2 3 4 5 6

2x 8

3x 6

x2 25

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7 (b) A player wins the game if their score is 10 or more. box

Work out the probability that they win the game.

[1 mark]

Answer

7 (c) The game is played 711 times.

Estimate the number of games that are won.

[2 marks]

Answer

8 (a – 3) x2 + 2b ≡ 5x2 + 12

Work out the values of a and b.

[2 marks]

a= b=

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9 A (1, 3) and B (2, 9) are points on a centimetre grid. box

ABCD is a parallelogram.
AD and BC are horizontal and each has length 5 cm
The diagonals of ABCD cross at E.

Work out the two possible pairs of coordinates of E.

[4 marks]

Answer ( , ) and ( , )

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10 Write down the translation vector that maps shape A onto shape B. box
[2 marks]

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4
Volume of a sphere = πr3
3

A bowl is a hemisphere with radius 12 cm

Water is poured into the bowl

at a rate of 325 cm3 per second
for 8 seconds.

Does the water fill more than 70% of the bowl?

You must show your working.
[4 marks]

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12 Show that these two rectangles are similar. box
[2 marks]
Not drawn
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13 A factory packs x boxes of teabags per hour.

Each box contains 80 teabags.

4x
Show that the factory packs teabags per minute.
3
[2 marks]

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14 A company has 123 employees. box

Information about their hourly rates of pay is shown in the table.

Number of
Hourly rate, £p
employees

10 ⩽ p < 14 66

14 ⩽ p < 20 32

20 ⩽ p < 40 15

40 ⩽ p < 100 10

Total = 123

The owner of the company uses the data to make two statements.

Statement A
“Over 30% of employees have an hourly rate that is
more than £17”

Statement B
“The average hourly rate of pay is more than £20”

14 (a) Show working that supports Statement A.

[3 marks]

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14 (b) Why might Statement A not be true? box
[1 mark]

14 (c) Work out an estimate of the mean to support Statement B.

[3 marks]

14 (d) Why is the mean not the best average to represent the data?
[1 mark]

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15 Expand (x – 9xy)(2x + 5y) box

[2 marks]

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16 Line A
has equation y = ax – 1
passes through the point (7, 13)

Line B has equation 5y – 3x = 4

Show that line A has a greater gradient than line B.

[3 marks]

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Not drawn
accurately

Work out the size of angle x.

[4 marks]

x= °

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18 x+8 box
Rearrange y= to make x the subject.
x
[3 marks]

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19 Here are the first four terms of a quadratic sequence. box

3 20 47 84

Work out an expression for the nth term of the sequence.

[4 marks]

Answer

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20 (a) P, Q and R are points on a circle. box

S is a point inside triangle PQR. Not drawn

accurately

Assume that S is the centre of the circle.

Work out the size of angle x.

[1 mark]

x= °

20 (b) In fact, the centre of the circle is on PS but not at S.

What does this mean about the size of angle x ?

Tick one box.
[1 mark]

It is the same as the answer to part (a)

It is greater than the answer to part (a)

It is smaller than the answer to part (a)

It is impossible to tell

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20 (c) For a different circle, box

AB is a tangent at A
C and D are on the circumference of the circle
AC = CD
Not drawn
accurately

Here is Simon’s method to work out the size of angle y.

Angle ADC = 70° (alternate segment theorem)

Therefore y = 70° (angles in an isosceles triangle)

Is he correct?
Give a reason for your answer.
[1 mark]

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21 Magana decides to put £500 into an account that pays compound interest. box

She wants to have at least £560 in the account after 3 years.

Work out to 1 decimal place the minimum annual interest rate she needs.
[3 marks]

Answer %

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22 An approximate value of a root of an equation, x, can be found using the iterative formula box

xn+1 = 3 5( xn )2 − 2 xn − 3

The starting value is x1 = 4

22 (a) Work out the values of x2 and x3

[2 marks]

x2 =

x3 =

22 (b) By continuing the iteration, show that the value of x is more than 4.25
[1 mark]

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23 Here are three sets of cards. box

Set A 1 1 3 5 5 5 6 8

Set B 1 2 4 6 8 8 9

Set C 3 4 5 6

In a game, a player has two options.

Option 1 Option 2
Pick two cards from Set A Pick one card from Set B
and
pick one card from Set C

The cards are picked at random.

The player wins if the total of their two cards is exactly 10

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Which option gives a better chance of winning? box

Option 1 Option 2

Show working to support your answer.

[4 marks]

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24 a = 65 to the nearest integer box

b = 30 to 1 significant figure

Work out the upper bound for 2a2 – b2

You must show your working.
[3 marks]

Answer

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25 x−5 x+5 box

Show that +
x−2 x+2
ax 2 − b
simplifies to where a and b are integers.
x2 − 4
[3 marks]

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Here is a sketch of y=x box

26 (a) The minimum point of y = x2 is at (0, 0)

Write down the coordinates of the minimum point of y = x2 + 2

[1 mark]

Answer ( , )

26 (b) The graph y = x2 is reflected in the x axis.

Write down the equation of the graph after this transformation.

[1 mark]

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26 (c) y = x2 is now transformed to give y = (x + 3)2

Describe fully this single transformation.

[2 marks]

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