PEARSON A LEVEL FURTHER MATHEMATICS PAPER 1 COMBINED QUESTION PAPER & MARK SCHEME

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Pearson Edexcel Level 3 GCE
Tuesday 20 May 2025
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Afternoon (Time: 1 hour 30 minutes)
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Further Mathematics 

Advanced
PAPER 1: Core Pure Mathematics 1
You must have: Total Marks
Mathematical Formulae and Statistics Tables (Green), calculator



Candidates may use any calculator permitted by Pearson regulations. Calculators
must not have the facility for symbolic algebraic manipulation, differentiation and
integration, or have retrievable mathematical formulae stored in them.
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• centre number and candidate number.
Answer all questions and ensure that your answers to parts of questions are clearly

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labelled.
Answer the questions in the spaces provided
– there may be more space than you need.
• You should show sufficient working to make your methods clear. Answers without

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working may not gain full credit.
Inexact answers should be given to three significant figures unless otherwise stated.
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A booklet „Mathematical Formulae and Statistical Tables‟ is provided.

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There are 10 questions in this question paper. The total mark for this paper is 75.
The marks for each question are shown in brackets
– use this as a guide as to how much time to spend on each question.



PEARSON A LEVEL FURTHER MATHEMATICS PAPER 1 COMBINED QUESTION
PAPER & MARK SCHEME
Read each question carefully before you start to answer it.

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Try to answer every question.
Check your answers if you have time at the end.
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M a 3 1 where a is a constant O
2 a a N
(a) Determine the values of a for which the matrix M is singular. O
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Given that matrix M is non-singular and that RI
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• det(M) = −108
• a<0 IN
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(b) determine the matrix M −1 HI
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, 2. In this question you must show all stages of your working.
Solutions relying entirely on calculator technology are not acceptable. D
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Determine the exact values of x for which
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sinh 2x = 3sinh x
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