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Maths · AQA 8300 · Paper 3: Calculator · Foundation · November 2018

AQA GCSE Maths Paper 3: Calculator Foundation November 2018 question paper 8300/3F

1h 30m 80 marks

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AQA 8300 · Paper 3F

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Question 7

Here are two groups of numbers, A and B.

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One number is moved from A to B. The sum of the numbers in B is now 20 more than the sum of the numbers in A. Which number is moved? You must show your working.

[3 marks]

Question 8

Beth sells hot dogs at a market. Each hot dog is a sausage in a bread roll.

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The table shows her costs.

Fee paid to market£240
Bread rolls42p per pack of 6
Sausages£2.50 per jar of 10
Other costs£57

Beth sells the hot dogs for £3 each. She sells 300 hot dogs. Work out her total profit.

[5 marks]

Question 9

A company sells houses. The line graph shows the number sold per week for 30 weeks.

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(a)

Work out the range of the number of houses sold per week.

[2 marks]

(b)

Work out the median number of houses sold per week.

[2 marks]

(c)

The company sells three houses. The prices are £185 000, £239 000 and £136 000 The company earns 2% commission on each house. In total, how much commission does the company earn on these three houses?

[3 marks]

Question 10

In a game, a fair spinner has five equal sections as shown.

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(a)

Chloe spins the spinner. Write down the probability that she gets ‘Miss a turn’.

[1 mark]

(b)

The spinner lands on ‘Go back 1 square’ three times in a row. Jamal is next to spin. Write down the probability that he gets ‘Go back 1 square’.

[1 mark]

(c)

In one game there are 85 spins. How many of these spins are expected to be ‘Go forward 2 squares’?

[2 marks]

Question 13

A small square has length x cm A large square has length 15 cm

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The area of the small square is fraction of the area of the large square. Work out the value of x.

[3 marks]

Question 16

Amal drives her car for work. She claims 40p per mile from her employer. Amal’s car travels 52 miles for each gallon of petrol. She pays £5.36 per gallon for petrol. On one journey Amal drives 260 miles. For this journey, how much more does she claim than she pays for petrol?

[4 marks]

Question 24

A music festival has taken place each year from 2011 The table shows the number of people who attended each year.

Year20112012201320142015201620172018
Number of people35058390614712023261232513780

The festival organisers draw a time series graph to represent the data. The first four years have been plotted.

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(a)

Complete the graph.

[2 marks]

(b)

Use the graph to estimate the number of people who will attend the festival in 2019

[2 marks]

Question 25

Doug owes an amount of £600 He wants to pay back this amount in five months. He says, “Each month, I will pay back 20% of the amount I still owe.” Show working to check if his method is correct.

[3 marks]

Question 27

A motor racing circuit consists of two parallel straight sections, each of length 0.75 km a semicircle of diameter 0.9 km three equal, smaller semicircles.

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The length of a motor race must be greater than 305 km What is the lowest number of full laps needed at this circuit? You must show your working.

[5 marks]

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