AQA GCSE Maths Paper 2: Calculator Foundation November 2017 question paper 8300/2F

How many minutes are there in 2 hours? Circle your answer.

135 145 215 225

Which of these numbers is half of a square number? Circle your answer.

1 2 3 4

Circle the value of the digit 3 in the number 17.03

The value of A is double the value of B. Circle the correct formula.

Simplify y × y

Simplify 5 a + 2 – a + 9

The table shows information about the birds in a garden.

Draw a bar chart to show the information.

Eve has these coins.

Ola has these coins.

Eve gives three of her coins to Ola. Now, Ola has the same amount of money as Eve.

Which coins does Eve give to Ola?

A dry cleaning shop has the following offers.

Work out the total price for 2 suits and 6 dresses.

Karl has twin sisters.

The sum of the ages of Karl and his twin sisters is 39 In 4 years’ time the twins will be 18

How old will Karl be in 4 years’ time?

One of the angles in a triangle is 60°

Tick a box for each statement.

Which of these numbers has exactly two factors? Circle your answer.

6 7 8 9

Circle your answer.

19.5 25.5 331.5 380.25

Use approximations to 1 significant figure to check if your answer to part (a) is sensible.

Chris sells lawnmowers. The table shows the number he sold each quarter for three years.

In which year did he sell the most lawnmowers? You must show your working.

He uses the table to decide the number of lawnmowers to stock each quarter.

At the start of which quarter should Chris stock the most lawnmowers? Circle your answer.

Quarter 1
Quarter 2
Quarter 3
Quarter 4

In a test, Section A has 80 marks Section B has 120 marks.

Riya scores 55% in Section A 70% in Section B.

To pass, Riya needs to score 65% of the total marks.

Does she pass? You must show your working.

A wheel is made of a circular rim and 8 spokes as shown.

The length of each spoke is 37 cm

Work out the total length of the rim and spokes.

Here is a formula to convert degrees Celsius (°C) to degrees Fahrenheit (°F).

F = 1.8 C + 32

F is the number of degrees Fahrenheit C is the number of degrees Celsius

Show that –40°C = –40°F

The temperature is –15°C Nick says, “Because the temperature is negative in Celsius, it must be negative in Fahrenheit.”

Is he correct? You must show your working.

Here are five cards.

One of the cards is removed.

The mean of the numbers on the remaining four cards is 6

Which card was removed?

You must show your working.

Divide 120 in the ratio 1: 4

Write the ratio 7: 4 in the form n: 1

In 2015, Han was paid £1350 per month.

In 2016, he had a 2% increase in his monthly pay worked 37.5 hours per week worked for 47 weeks.

Work out Han’s average pay per hour for 2016

An experiment is carried out 200 times. The possible outcomes are K, L and M.

Complete the table.

Altogether, the experiment is carried out 500 times.

How many times would you expect the outcome to be K?

The table shows information about the UK and Germany.

Compare the population densities of the UK and Germany.

Which one of the following is discrete data? Circle your answer.

Mass of a television
Time taken to deliver a television

Height of a television mast
Number of televisions sold

Describe fully the single transformation that maps triangle A to triangle B.

The graph shows information about prisms with the same volume.

Give one example to show the volume is 24 cm³

The diagram shows a prism with volume 24 cm³ The height of the triangular cross section is h.

Work out the height, h.

A ball is thrown from a height of 15 metres. It bounces to height h₁, then to height h₂ as shown.

h₁ is three quarters of the original height.

Jack expects h₂ to be three quarters of h₁

Work out the value of h₂ that he expects.

In fact, h₂ is two thirds of h₁

How does this affect the answer to part (a)?

Show working to support your answer.

Work out the next term of this quadratic sequence.

5 8 14 23 ……

Work out the size of angle x.