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Every Edexcel GCSE Maths exam question on R9 Percentages, 2017–2025, with its mark scheme and examiner’s report.
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- June 2025, Paper 2H, Q5 (3 marks): This year the total weight of potatoes grown on a farm is 1 5 less than last year. This year the total weight of potatoes grown is 8000 tonnes. Work out the tot
- June 2025, Paper 3H, Q3 (3 marks): Mia pays £25 for 200 oranges. Mia puts the oranges into bags. She puts 5 oranges into each bag. Mia sells all the bags of oranges for £1 each bag. Work out Mia’
- June 2025, Paper 3H, Q12 (4 marks): The price of a holiday is increased by 10% After the increase, the price of the holiday is £440 Jim says, “10% of £440 is £44 so the price of the holiday before
- November 2024, Paper 2H, Q6 (4 marks): The cost of a first class stamp increased from 76p to 85p. The cost of a second class stamp increased from 65p to 66p. Filip says, “The percentage increase in
- November 2024, Paper 3H, Q5 (5 marks): Robyn buys a total of 240 pens and pencils, where number of pens : number of pencils = 3 : 5 Robyn pays 9p for each pen. She sells each pen for 11p. Robyn pays
- November 2024, Paper 3H, Q10 (2 marks): In a sale, the normal prices are reduced by 15% Amina buys a dress in the sale for £46.75 Work out the normal price of the dress. £
- June 2024, Paper 1H, Q9 (1 mark): In a sale, the normal price of a coat is reduced by R% Given that sale price = 0.7 × normal price find the value of R. R =
- November 2023, Paper 1H, Q8 (2 marks): The normal price of a mattress is reduced by 40% in a sale. The price of the mattress in the sale is £660 Work out the normal price of the mattress. £
- November 2023, Paper 2H, Q2 (4 marks): Karen is organising a party for a charity. She spends £100 on food £120 on a hall £80 on a DJ. Karen sells 54 tickets for the party. Each ticket costs £7.50 Wor
- June 2023, Paper 1H, Q7 (2 marks): The price of a holiday increases by 20% This 20% increase adds £240 to the price of the holiday. Work out the price of the holiday before the increase. £
- June 2023, Paper 2H, Q6 (3 marks): Last year a family recycled 800 kg of household waste. 57% of this waste was paper and glass. weight of paper recycled : weight of glass recycled = 12 : 7 Calcu
- June 2023, Paper 3H, Q2 (5 marks): Jonny wants to know how much coffee he will need for 800 people at a meeting. Each person who drinks coffee will drink 2 cups of coffee. 10.6 g of coffee is nee
- June 2023, Paper 3H, Q9 (2 marks): Some people were asked if they wanted a new television. 70% of the people said yes. 80% of the people who said yes wanted a television with a large screen. What
- November 2022, Paper 2H, Q8 (3 marks): Chanda buys a necklace for £120 She sells the necklace for £135 Work out her percentage profit. %
- November 2022, Paper 2H, Q10 (3 marks): Aaliyah bought a car. In the first year after she bought the car, its value depreciated at a rate of 23% per annum. In the second year after she bought the car,
- November 2022, Paper 3H, Q25 (5 marks): The pyramid P is formed from two parts made of different materials. top bottom The top part of P has a mass of 92.8 g and is made from material with a density o
- June 2022, Paper 3H, Q4 (4 marks): Jo is going to buy 15 rolls of wallpaper. Here is some information about the cost of rolls of wallpaper from each of two shops. Chic Decor Style Papers Pack of
- June 2022, Paper 3H, Q10 (3 marks): Jane bought a new car three years ago. At the end of the first year the value of the car had decreased by 12.5% The value of the car then decreased by 10% each
- November 2021, Paper 1H, Q4 (4 marks): At the end of 2017 the value of Tamara’s house was £220 000 the value of Rahim’s house was £160 000 At the end of 2019 the value of Tamara’s house had decreas
- November 2020, Paper 1H, Q5 (3 marks): Sean pays £10 for 24 chocolate bars. He sells all 24 chocolate bars for 50p each. Work out Sean’s percentage profit. %
- November 2020, Paper 1H, Q18 (3 marks): x is proportional to y where y > 0 y is increased by 44% Work out the percentage increase in x. %
- November 2020, Paper 2H, Q3 (5 marks): Carlo puts tins into small boxes and into large boxes. He puts 6 tins into each small box. He puts 20 tins into each large box. Carlo puts a total of 3000 tins
- November 2020, Paper 2H, Q8 (5 marks): Tariq buys a laptop. He gets a discount of 5% off the normal price. Tariq pays £551 for the laptop. (a) Work out the normal price of the laptop. £ Joan invests
- June 2019, Paper 1H, Q12 (3 marks): Here are three spheres. P Q R The volume of sphere Q is 50% more than the volume of sphere P. The volume of sphere R is 50% more than the volume of sphere Q. Fi
- June 2019, Paper 3H, Q10 (3 marks): Marie invests £8000 in an account for one year. At the end of the year, interest is added to her account. Marie pays tax on this interest at a rate of 20% She p
- November 2018, Paper 1H, Q3 (5 marks): A bonus of £2100 is shared by 10 people who work for a company. 40% of the bonus is shared equally between 3 managers. The rest of the bonus is shared equally b
- November 2018, Paper 1H, Q11 (3 marks): Jack and Sadia work for a company that sells boxes of breakfast cereal. The company wants to have a special offer. Here is Jack’s idea for the special offer. Pu
- November 2018, Paper 2H, Q10 (5 marks): Robert makes 50 litres of green paint by mixing litres of yellow paint and litres of blue paint in the ratio 2 : 3 Yellow paint is sold in 5 litre tins. Each ti
- November 2018, Paper 3H, Q2 (3 marks): Last year Jo paid £245 for her car insurance. This year she has to pay £883 for her car insurance. Work out the percentage increase in the cost of her car insur
- June 2018, Paper 1H, Q3 (4 marks): Renee buys 5 kg of sweets to sell. She pays £10 for the sweets. Renee puts all the sweets into bags. She puts 250 g of sweets into each bag. She sells each bag
- June 2018, Paper 2H, Q4 (5 marks): Raya buys a van for £8500 plus VAT at 20% Raya pays a deposit for the van. She then pays the rest of the cost in 12 equal payments of £531.25 each month. Find t
- June 2018, Paper 2H, Q6 (3 marks): A force of 70 newtons acts on an area of 20 cm2 pressure = force The force is increased by 10 newtons. area The area is increased by 10 cm2 Helen says, “The pre
- June 2018, Paper 3H, Q9 (4 marks): T = d3 w = 5.6× 10–5 d = 1.4× 10–4 (a) Work out the value of T. Give your answer in standard form correct to 3 significant figures. T = w is increased by 10% d
- June 2018, Paper 3H, Q11 (3 marks): In 2003, Jerry bought a house. In 2007, Jerry sold the house to Mia. He made a profit of 20% In 2012, Mia sold the house for £162 000 She made a loss of 10% Wor
- November 2017, Paper 2H, Q2 (3 marks): is 3 marks)
- November 2017, Paper 3H, Q9 (5 marks): Jack bought a new boat for £12 500 The value, £V, of Jack’s boat at the end of n years is given by the formula V = 12 500 × (0.85)n (a) At the end of how many y
- June 2017, Paper 1H, Q9 (2 marks): Jules buys a washing machine. 20% VAT is added to the price of the washing machine. Jules then has to pay a total of £600 What is the price of the washing machi
- June 2017, Paper 2H, Q17 (5 marks): N A Q B O ONQ is a sector of a circle with centre O and radius 11 cm. A is the point on ON and B is the point on OQ such that AOB is an equilateral triangle of
- June 2017, Paper 3H, Q4 (5 marks): Daniel bakes 420 cakes. He bakes only vanilla cakes, banana cakes, lemon cakes and chocolate cakes. 2 of the cakes are vanilla cakes. 7 35% of the cakes are ban
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