Edexcel GCSE Maths Paper 3: Calculator Foundation June 2018 question paper 1MA1/3F

Write 0.3 as a percentage.

Write the number 2538 correct to the nearest hundred.

Here are the first 4 terms of a sequence.

2 9 16 23

Write down the next term in the sequence.

Explain how you got your answer.

Work out the 10th term of the sequence.

Here are four digits.

7 3 4 9

Use three of these digits to write down the largest possible 3-digit number.

Here are four different digits.

8 2 1 6

Put one of these digits in each box to give the smallest possible answer to the sum. You must use each digit only once.

Write down all the factors of 30

David has twice as many cousins as Becky. Becky has twice as many cousins as Nishat.

Nishat has 6 cousins.

How many cousins does David have?

Find the value of (3.54 – 0.96)² – 4.096

This is part of a bus timetable between Bury and Manchester.

How many minutes should the 08 25 bus take to go from Bury to Manchester?

Daniel goes from Whitefield to Manchester by bus.

Daniel takes 17 minutes to get from his house to the bus stop in Whitefield. He takes 15 minutes to get from the bus stop in Manchester to work.

Daniel has to get to work by 10 am. He leaves his house at 8.45 am.

Does Daniel get to work by 10 am? You must show all your working.

Bronwin works in a restaurant.

The table gives her rates of pay.

Bronwin worked for a total of 20 hours last week. She worked 8 of these 20 hours at the weekend.

Show that Bronwin was paid less than £200 last week.

Last year the cost of a season ticket for a football club was £560 This year the cost of a season ticket for the club has been increased to £600

Write down the increase in the cost of a season ticket as a fraction of last year’s cost.

The diagram shows a scale drawing of a tennis court.

The scale of the drawing is 1: 200

Work out the perimeter of the real tennis court. Give your answer in metres.

Here are six straight line graphs.

Match each equation in the table to the correct graph. Write the letter of the graph in the table.

Here are the marks 20 students got in a French test.

Show this information in a stem and leaf diagram.

One of these students is going to be chosen at random.

The pass mark in the French test is 71

Omar writes, The probability that this student failed the French test is

Omar is wrong.

Explain why.

Jenny is asked to find the value of 12 – 2 4

Here is her working.

Jenny’s answer is wrong.

Explain what Jenny has done wrong.

Rehan is asked to find the range of the numbers 3 1 8 7 5

Here is his working. Range = 5 – 3 = 2

This is wrong.

Explain why.

Alan, Bispah and Chan share a sum of money. Alan gets of the money. Bispah gets of the money.

Chan gets the rest of the money.

Alan gets £2.50

Work out how much money Bispah gets.

Find the ratio amount of money Alan gets: amount of money Chan gets

Give your answer in the form a: b where a and b are whole numbers.

ABC is an isosceles right-angled triangle.

The area of the triangle is 162 cm²

Work out the value of x.

Give your answer in standard form.

The scatter diagram shows information about 12 girls.

It shows the age of each girl and the best time she takes to run 100 metres.

Time in

Age in years

Write down the type of correlation.

Kristina is 11 years old. Her best time to run 100 metres is 12 seconds.

The point representing this information would be an outlier on the scatter diagram.

Explain why.

Debbie is 15 years old. Debbie says, “The scatter diagram shows I should take less than 12 seconds to run 100 metres.”

Comment on what Debbie says.

Expand and simplify 5(p + 3) – 2(1 – 2 p)

When a biased 6-sided dice is thrown once, the probability that it will land on 4 is 0.65 The biased dice is thrown twice.

Amir draws this probability tree diagram. The diagram is not correct.

Write down two things that are wrong with the probability tree diagram.

ABC is a right-angled triangle.

Work out the size of angle ABC. Give your answer correct to 1 decimal place.

The length of the side AB is reduced by 1 cm.

The length of the side BC is still 7 cm. Angle ACB is still 90

Will the value of cos ABC increase or decrease? You must give a reason for your answer.

There are some counters in a bag. The counters are red or white or blue or yellow.

Bob is going to take at random a counter from the bag.

The table shows each of the probabilities that the counter will be blue or will be yellow.

There are 18 blue counters in the bag.

The probability that the counter Bob takes will be red is twice the probability that the counter will be white.

Work out the number of red counters in the bag.

A marble is going to be taken at random from a box of marbles. The probability that the marble will be silver is 0.5

There must be an even number of marbles in the box.

Explain why.

ABCDE is a pentagon.

Angle BCD = 2 angle ABC

Work out the size of angle BCD. You must show all your working.

Work out the length of DF.

Work out the length of CB.

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