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2025 Pearson Edexcel GCE Advanced Subsidiary Level Further Mathematics (8FM0) Paper 21 Further Pure Mathematics 1 ACTUAL QUESTION PAPER AND MARKING SCHEME (MERGED)

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Advanced Subsidiary
Further Mathematics options
21: Further Pure Mathematics 1
(Part of options A, B, C and D)




Candidates may use any calculator allowed by Pearson regulations.
Calculators must not have the facility for symbolic algebra manipulation,
differentiation and integration, or have retrievable mathematical
formulae stored in them.
Instructions

• If pencil is used for diagrams/sketches/graphs it must be dark (HB or B).
centre number and candidate number.
Answer all questions and ensure that your answers to parts of questions are
clearly 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 working may not gain full credit.
Inexact answers should be given to three significant figures unless otherwise stated.



• The total mark for this part of the examination is 40. There are 5 questions.
– use this as a guide as to how much time to spend on each question.

• Read each question carefully before you start to answer it.
• Check your answers if you have time at the end. Turn over

, 1. In this question you must show all stages of your working.
Solutions based entirely on calculator technology are not acceptable.
The surface temperature of the water in a lake during a particular year is modelled by
the equation

15 27
S = 12 – cos x° – sin x° (I)
2 10
where S is the temperature in degrees Celsius and x is the number of days after the start 
of the year. 

(a) Use the model to write down the surface temperature of the water in the lake at the
start of the year. 
(1)
Using the substitution t = tan  
x
 
 2 
(b) show that equation ( I ) can be rewritten as

At 2  Bt  C
S=
10 1  t 2 


where A, B and C are integers to be determined.
(3)
(c) Hence determine, according to the model, the number of days after the start of the
year when the surface temperature of the water in the lake is 10 °C for the second
time that year. Give your answer to the nearest day.
(5)




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