AQA GCSE Maths Paper 1: Non-calculator Foundation November 2021 question paper 8300/1F

Circle the answer to 0.02 × 100

0.2 2 20 200

Circle the expression that is equal to x + x + x – x + x

x 2 x 3 x 4 x

What is 260 millimetres in centimetres? Circle your answer.

0.26 cm 2.6 cm 26 cm 2600 cm

Which shape can have sides with lengths that are all different? Circle your answer.

trapezium kite parallelogram rhombus

Work out (– 8) × 5

Luke buys 4 apples and 5 bananas. The total cost is £3.70 Each apple costs 35p Work out the cost in pence of each banana.

Rashid counted the pieces of homework he had done in three subjects. He draws a pictogram to show the results.

Rashid had done 5 pieces of Geography homework. Show this information on the pictogram.

Rashid spent 30 minutes on each piece of homework. Work out the total time he spent on homework for these three subjects. Give your answer in hours and minutes.

A travel company is taking some passengers on a trip. They can use coaches or minibuses. Each coach can carry 53 passengers. Each minibus can carry 12 passengers. The passengers going on the trip would exactly fill 3 coaches. If the company uses only minibuses, how many will they need?

One side of a triangle is extended.

Circle the size of angle x.

100 ° 80 ° 60 ° 40 °

Pavel uses his calculator to work out 352 × 7268 Circle the last digit in the answer.

0 2 6 8

Complete the diagram so that it has rotational symmetry of order 4 centre of rotation at point A.

10% of 2100 is 210 Work out 43% of 2100

Katy records the number of cars using a drive-through each hour for 24 hours. Here are the results. 36 20 37 53 42 41 24 18 39 35 40 47 38 17 23 18 13 35 10 7 6 18 31 57 Katy makes this tally and frequency chart to put the data into groups.

Make two criticisms of Katy’s tally and frequency chart. You do not need to complete the chart.

Counters in a bag are red, white or blue. A counter is picked at random. Complete the table.

Here is a calculation.

You can use the calculation to help answer the following questions.

Work out 2604 ÷ 84

Work out 3.1 × 8.4

Work out 31 × 85

A password has 30 characters. It is made up of 5 numbers, 15 letters and some symbols. Work out the ratio numbers: letters: symbols Give your answer in its simplest form.

Give your answer as a mixed number.

The cost of making a phone call is a fixed charge and a charge per minute. The costs of phone calls up to 5 minutes are represented by the graph.

Write down the fixed charge.

Work out the charge per minute.

Work out the cost of a phone call lasting 7 minutes.

A company sells bags of toffees and bags of mints.

Here are the numbers of sweets in 11 bags of toffees. 55 50 49 51 55 47 54 50 49 55 57

Here are the numbers of sweets in 10 bags of mints. 46 47 47 48 48 50 53 54 54 54

The company claims that the average number of sweets per bag is at least 50 Using medians, is the company’s claim correct for each type of sweet? You must work out the median for toffees and the median for mints.

Tick a box for toffees.

Tick a box for mints.

His answer is 37.65 By rounding each number to the nearest 10, show that his answer is incorrect.

A straight line passes through two parallel lines.

Circle the angle that is corresponding to angle x.

a b c d

Lucy wants to simplify 6 a – (7 b – 2 a) She writes 4 a – 7 b Is she correct?

Give a reason for your answer.

Lucy also wants to simplify 3p² × 5p⁷ She says, “Add 3 and 5, then add 2 and 7”

Tick a box for each part of her method.

Lucy thinks of a number. 10 × the number = 10 ÷ the number Give a possible value of the number.

Lily’s age is 2 years and 4 months. Hugo’s age is 1 year and 8 months. Write Lily’s age in months as a fraction of Hugo’s age in months. Give your fraction in its simplest form.

Working alone, it takes Kevin 4 hours to paint an area of 12 m² Kevin and Steve are going to paint an area of 24 m² Kevin says, “Working together at the same rate it will take us 8 hours, because 24 is 2 × 12” Is he correct?

Give a reason for your answer.

Solve 5x + 6 3x + 15

Write down the inequality represented by the number line.

The diagram shows an octagon.

x = 1 and y = 5 are lines of symmetry. Work out the coordinates of point Q.

Work out 2000 × 70 000 Give your answer in standard form.

Give your answer as an ordinary number.

A, B, C and D are junctions on a motorway.

distance CD = 3 × distance AB distance BC = 25 miles Salma drives from A to C. She drives for 30 minutes at an average speed of 62 miles per hour. Work out the distance AD.

Here is a sketch of a graph.

Circle the equation of the graph. k is a constant.

Write 200 as a product of prime factors. Give your answer in index form.

Here is a right-angled triangle.

Use trigonometry to work out the value of x.

Factorise x² + 7x + 10