Modelling with sequences and series: Edexcel A‑Level Maths questions
Edexcel A-Level Maths past-paper questions on 4.7 Modelling with sequences and series, 2010–2025, with mark schemes and examiner’s reports where available. Add MadAsMaths questions to your practice, or browse them separately by topic and difficulty.
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- June 2024, Pure 2, Q2 (5 marks): Jamie takes out an interest‑free loan of £8100 Jamie makes a payment every month to pay back the loan. Jamie repays £400 in month 1, £390 in month 2, £380 in mo
- June 2022, Pure 1, Q13 (7 marks): (i) In an arithmetic series, the first term is a and the common difference is d. Show that Sn = n 2 [2a + (n − 1)d] (3) (ii) James saves money over a number of
- November 2021, Pure 1, Q5 (6 marks): In this question you should show all stages of your working. Solutions relying entirely on calculator technology are not acceptable. A company made a profit of
- November 2020, Pure 1, Q5 (6 marks): A car has six forward gears. The fastest speed of the car ● in 1st gear is 28 km h–1 ● in 6th gear is 115 km h–1 Given that the fastest speed of the car in succ
- June 2019, Pure 1, Q11 (7 marks): A competitor is running a 20 kilometre race. She runs each of the first 4 kilometres at a steady pace of 6 minutes per kilometre. After the first 4 kilometres,
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