AQA GCSE Maths Paper 3: Calculator Foundation November 2017 question paper 8300/3F

Circle the cube number.

100 1000 10 000 100 000

A fair ordinary dice is thrown once. Circle the probability of getting a 2 or a 3

Circle the decimal that is greater than and less than

0.152 0.200 0.215 0.251

What is a litre a unit of? Circle your answer.

area density mass capacity

5 2.5 kg of carrots cost £1.70 Work out the cost of 3.25 kg of carrots.

Gina makes a sandwich using bread (B) or a roll (R) and ham (H) or cheese (C) and salad (S) or pickle (P)

List all the possible types of sandwich Gina could make. One has been done for you.

B H S

What fraction of the possible types of sandwich have cheese and pickle?

ABC is a right-angled triangle. A is the point (–3, –2) B is the point (1, –2) C is a point on the line y = 4

Draw triangle ABC on the centimetre grid below.

Work out the area of triangle ABC.

Complete the number machine so that q = 7 r – 2

Write down the output y in terms of x.

A farmer has 580 eggs to put into boxes. The boxes come in three sizes.

at least 10 boxes of 20 eggs at least 15 boxes of 12 eggs at least 25 boxes of 6 eggs. The farmer fills 54 boxes with the 580 eggs. Show how he does this.

boxes of 20 eggs

boxes of 12 eggs

Megan says, “If you add any three multiples of 10 the total must be a multiple of 10 and a multiple of 3” Is she correct? You must show your working.

A fair spinner has 12 equal sections. Label each section A, B, C or D so that when the arrow is spun,

the probability it lands on B is equal to the probability it lands on C the probability it lands on D is double the probability it lands on A.

a – b = 5

Work out the value of 2(a – b)

Work out the value of 7 a – 7 b

Work out the value of b – a

A cube has edge length 0.9 metres.

Work out the total surface area of the cube. Give your answer in square centimetres.

£1700 is invested for 3 years at 4% per year simple interest. Work out the total interest.

Here is a map showing two towns, P and Q. Scale: 1 cm represents 50 km

Work out the actual distance between towns P and Q.

Town R is 200 km due South of town P. Mark R on the map.

A train has 1 first-class carriage and 6 standard carriages. The first-class carriage has 64 seats.

Each standard carriage has 78 seats. in each carriage are being used. Are more than half the seats on the train being used? You must show your working.

Circle the equation which has the solution x = 6

x is greater than 5 and less than or equal to 9 Circle the inequality that shows this.

The following data comes from a large sample survey of the audience at a concert.

Make three comparisons of males and females at the concert. Use the headings given.

Proportion of the audience

In a tennis tournament, 98 players took part in the singles only 34 players took part in the doubles only twice as many players took part in the singles as took part in the doubles. How many players took part in both the singles and the doubles? You may use the Venn diagram to help you.

The distance by road from Newport to London is 140 miles. Tom travels by coach from Newport to London. The coach leaves Newport at 1.30 pm

He assumes the coach will travel at an average speed of 50 mph Use his assumption to work out the arrival time in London.

In fact, the coach has a lower average speed. How does this affect the arrival time?

ABCD is a parallelogram.

Work out the size of angle x.

Show that 268 can be written as the sum of a power of 3 and a square number.

y is inversely proportional to x and k is a constant. Circle the correct equation.

Work out the force when the pressure is 24 N/m² and the area is 3 m² Circle your answer.

0.125 N 8 N 27 N 72 N

42 men and 38 women visit a restaurant. 44 of these people have a voucher. Three times as many men as women do not have a voucher.

Complete the frequency tree.

A voucher takes 15% off the bill. After using the voucher, the bill for a meal is £27.20 How much was the bill before using the voucher?

Rearrange v = u + at to make t the subject of the formula.

Complete this table with consistent metric units.

Multiply out and simplify (x 8)²