Syllabus Edition

First teaching 2023

First exams 2025

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Working with FDP (CIE IGCSE Maths: Extended)

Exam Questions

1 hour28 questions
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Sasha takes a music exam.

The table shows the result that Sasha can get for different percentages in her music exam.

Percentage Result
50% - 69% Pass
70% - 84% Merit
85% - 100% Distinction


Sasha gets 62 out of 80 in her music exam.

What result does Sasha get?
You must show your working.

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Karen got 32 out of 80 in a maths test.
She got 38% in an English test.

Karen wants to know if she got a higher percentage in maths or in English.

Did Karen get a higher percentage in maths or in English?

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Use algebra to show that the recurring decimal 0.3 8 with bullet on top space equals space 7 over 18

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Use algebra to show that the recurring decimal 0.2 stack 6 with dot on top with bullet on top space equals space 4 over 15

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i)
Kristian has $72 and spends 45% of this on a computer game.
    
Calculate the price of the computer game.
 

 $ ...............................................  [1]

ii)
Kristian also buys a meal for $8.40.
  
Calculate the fraction of the $72 Kristian has left after buying the computer game and the meal.
Give your answer in its lowest terms.

[2]

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Dev makes 600 cakes.
18% of the 600 cakes go to a hotel and 2 over 3 of the 600 cakes go to a supermarket.

Calculate how many cakes he has left.

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Prove that the recurring decimal 0.3 with bullet on top 6 with bullet on top equals space 4 over 11

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James is taking three examination papers in Spanish.
Here are his first two results.

Paper 1:   43 over 80         Paper 2:   38 over 65

Paper 3 is out of 95.
The marks in each of the three papers are added together.

Find the lowest mark that James needs in Paper 3 to achieve 60% of the total marks.

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Write the recurring decimal 0.4 7 with dot on top as a fraction.
Show all your working.

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Write the recurring decimal 0.7 with dot on top as a fraction. 

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Write the recurring decimal 0.2 with dot on top 3 with dot on top as a fraction.

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Write the recurring decimal 0.6 with dot on top 3 with dot on top as a fraction.

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Write the recurring decimal 0.8 with dot on top as a fraction.

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