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Every Edexcel GCSE Maths exam question on R5 Sharing in a ratio, 2017–2025, with its mark scheme and examiner’s report.
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- June 2025, Paper 1H, Q4 (6 marks): There are 280 chocolates in a box. There are only dark chocolates, milk chocolates and white chocolates. 1 7 of the 280 chocolates are dark chocolates. The numb
- June 2025, Paper 2H, Q2 (3 marks): Sid, Tam and Musa share £6900 in the ratio 2 : 3 : 5 Work out how much money each person receives. Sid £ Tam £ Musa £
- June 2025, Paper 3H, Q7 (3 marks): ABC is a straight line. y C B (8, 12) A (2, 7) O x Point A has coordinates (2, 7) Point B has coordinates (8, 12) BC = 1 2 AB Find the coordinates of point C. (
- 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
- June 2024, Paper 1H, Q7 (5 marks): Kasim has some small jars, some medium jars and some large jars. He has a total of 400 jars. 3 8 of the 400 jars are empty. For the empty jars, number of small
- June 2024, Paper 2H, Q4 (4 marks): There are only red discs, blue discs and yellow discs in a bag. There are 24 yellow discs in the bag. Mel is going to take at random a disc from the bag. The pr
- June 2024, Paper 2H, Q6 (4 marks): Andy, Luke and Tina share some sweets in the ratio 1 : 6 : 14 Tina gives 3 7 of her sweets to Andy. Tina then gives 12 1 2 % of the rest of her sweets to Luke.
- November 2023, Paper 2H, Q5 (4 marks): Chris, Debbie and Errol share some money in the ratio 3 : 4 : 2 Debbie gets £120 Chris then gives some of his share to Debbie and some of his share to Errol. Th
- June 2023, Paper 1H, Q18 (4 marks): 7 kg of carrots and 5 kg of tomatoes cost a total of 480p cost of 1 kg of carrots : cost of 1 kg of tomatoes = 5 : 9 Work out the cost of 1 kg of carrots and th
- 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
- November 2022, Paper 1H, Q6 (6 marks): Rizwan writes down three numbers a, b and c a : b = 1 : 3 b : c = 6 : 5 (a) (i) Find a : b : c (ii) Express a as a fraction of the total of the three numbers a,
- November 2022, Paper 3H, Q2 (1 mark): Rob has been asked to divide 120 in the ratio 3 : 5 Here is his working. 120 ÷ 3 = 40 120 ÷ 5 = 24 Rob’s working is not correct. Describe what Rob has done wron
- November 2022, Paper 3H, Q4 (4 marks): Karina has 4 tanks on her tractor. Each tank is a cylinder with diameter 80 cm and height 160 cm. 80 cm 160 cm The 4 tanks are to be filled completely with a mi
- November 2022, Paper 3H, Q19 (3 marks): There are only blue counters, red counters and green counters in a box. The probability that a counter taken at random from the box will be blue is 0.4 The rati
- June 2022, Paper 1H, Q3 (5 marks): A delivery company has a total of 160 cars and vans. the number of cars : the number of vans = 3 : 7 Each car and each van uses electricity or diesel or petrol.
- June 2022, Paper 1H, Q11 (3 marks): Cormac has some sweets in a bag. The sweets are lime flavoured or strawberry flavoured or orange flavoured. In the bag number of lime flavoured sweets : number
- June 2022, Paper 2H, Q5 (4 marks): The points L, M and N are such that LMN is a straight line. The coordinates of L are (−3, 1) The coordinates of M are (4, 9) Given that LM : MN = 2 : 3, find th
- November 2021, Paper 1H, Q5 (3 marks): Rosie, Matilda and Ibrahim collect stickers. number of stickers : number of stickers : number of stickers = 4 : 7 : 15 Rosie has Matilda has Ibrahim has Ibrahim
- November 2021, Paper 3H, Q2 (4 marks): Natalie makes potato cakes in a restaurant. She mixes potato, cheese and onion so that weight of potato : weight of cheese : weight of onion = 9 : 2 : 1 Natalie
- November 2021, Paper 3H, Q14 (4 marks): Olivia and Jessica have in total half as many sweets as Fran and Gary have in total. Fran and Gary share their sweets in the ratio 2 : 3 Olivia and Jessica shar
- November 2020, Paper 1H, Q23 (3 marks): There are four types of cards in a game. Each card has a black circle or a white circle or a black triangle or a white triangle. number of cards number of cards
- 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 2019, Paper 1H, Q2 (4 marks): There are 60 people in a choir. Half of the people in the choir are women. The number of women in the choir is 3 times the number of men in the choir. The rest
- November 2019, Paper 2H, Q3 (4 marks): Tom and Adam have a total of 240 stamps. The ratio of the number of Tom’s stamps to the number of Adam’s stamps is 3 : 7 Tom buys some stamps from Adam. The rat
- November 2019, Paper 3H, Q13 (4 marks): Liquid A and liquid B are mixed together in the ratio 2 : 13 by volume to make liquid C. Liquid A has density 1.21 g/cm3 Liquid B has density 1.02 g/cm3 A cylin
- June 2019, Paper 1H, Q6 (4 marks): A shop sells packs of black pens, packs of red pens and packs of green pens. There are 2 pens in each pack of black pens 5 pens in each pack of red pens 6 pens
- June 2019, Paper 2H, Q7 (4 marks): £360 is shared between Abby, Ben, Chloe and Denesh. The ratio of the amount Abby gets to the amount Ben gets is 2 : 7 Chloe and Denesh each get 1.5 times the am
- June 2019, Paper 2H, Q17 (4 marks): There are some small cubes and some large cubes in a bag. The cubes are red or the cubes are yellow. The ratio of the number of small cubes to the number of lar
- 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
- June 2018, Paper 1H, Q8 (4 marks): The perimeter of a right-angled triangle is 72 cm. The lengths of its sides are in the ratio 3 : 4 : 5 Work out the area of the triangle. cm2
- June 2018, Paper 1H, Q16 (3 marks): There are only red counters, blue counters and purple counters in a bag. The ratio of the number of red counters to the number of blue counters is 3 : 17 Sam ta
- November 2017, Paper 1H, Q2 (4 marks): Kiaria is 7 years older than Jay. Martha is twice as old as Kiaria. The sum of their three ages is 77 Find the ratio of Jay’s age to Kiaria’s age to Martha’s ag
- June 2017, Paper 1H, Q14 (4 marks): White shapes and black shapes are used in a game. Some of the shapes are circles. All the other shapes are squares. The ratio of the number of white shapes to t
- June 2017, Paper 2H, Q2 (5 marks): On Saturday, some adults and some children were in a theatre. The ratio of the number of adults to the number of children was 5 : 2 Each person had a seat in th
- 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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