0607.E1.12.02 — discount.: past paper questions

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1. 0607/32 · May/June 2025 · Q15[3]

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2. 0607/32 · May/June 2025 · Q16a[1]

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3. 0607/32 · May/June 2025 · Q16b[2]

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4. 0607/43 · May/June 2022 · Q1a[2]

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5. 0607/43 · May/June 2022 · Q1b[3]

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6. 0607/43 · May/June 2022 · Q1c[4]

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What examiners said

Many candidates incorrectly used a simple interest formula to answer this question. However, only a minority of candidates gained many marks. Of those that did use the correct formula, some then forgot to subtract the original amount invested to find the interest. Some could not cope with the 1.3% becoming 0.013 in the formula and others quoted the formula incorrectly.

— Examiner report, May/June 2025, 0607/32 Q15 (Cambridge)

Nearly all candidates correctly multiplied 2000 and 0.9759 to find the answer.

— Examiner report, May/June 2025, 0607/32 Q16(a) (Cambridge)

Nearly half of the candidates gave fully correct answers to this part. After a correct calculation, some did not round their answer appropriately and gave, for example, 462.9. One incorrect start seen was to subtract 1500 from 2000 instead of subtracting it from 1951.80.

— Examiner report, May/June 2025, 0607/32 Q16(b) (Cambridge)