Edexcel GCSE Maths Paper 3: Calculator Foundation November 2017 question paper 1MA1/3F

Write 3758 correct to the nearest 1000

Simplify y + 3 y – 2 y

Write down all the factors of 18

The table gives information about the prices of cinema tickets.

Mr Edwards and his 3 children go to the cinema.

It is cheaper for Mr Edwards to buy 1 family ticket rather than 4 separate tickets.

How much cheaper?

The film starts at 6.45 pm. The film lasts 102 minutes.

What time does the film finish?

Thais has a large bottle of shampoo. There are 2 litres of shampoo in the large bottle.

Thais also has some empty small bottles. Each small bottle can be completely filled with 150 m l of shampoo.

How many small bottles can be completely filled with shampoo from the large bottle?

The incomplete pictogram shows information about the number of cycles sold in a shop on Tuesday, on Wednesday and on Thursday.

A total of 20 cycles were sold on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

8 cycles were sold on Friday. 15 cycles were sold on Saturday.

Use this information to complete the pictogram.

BCD is a straight line. ABC is a triangle.

Show that triangle ABC is an isosceles triangle. Give a reason for each stage of your working.

The picture shows a bus next to a building. The bus has a length of 12 m.

The bus and the building are drawn to the same scale.

Work out an estimate for the height, in metres, of the building.

Nidah writes down two different prime numbers.

She adds together her two numbers. Her answer is a square number less than 30

Find two prime numbers that Nidah could have written down.

Jim thinks of a number.

Work out of Jim’s number.

Jack’s driving school has two offers.

The normal price of a driving lesson is £24

Douglas is going to have 12 driving lessons.

Which is the cheaper offer for 12 driving lessons, Offer 1 or Offer 2? You must show how you get your answer.

2.5 kg of apples cost £3.60

Work out the cost of 3.5 kg of apples.

Complete the table of values for y = − 1

On the grid, draw the graph of y = − 1 for values of x from −2 to 3

Use your graph to find the value of x when y = 0.3

Describe fully the single transformation that maps shape A onto shape B.

The ratio of the cost of one metre of cotton fabric to the cost of one metre of silk fabric is 2: 5

Complete the table of costs.

Chloe has a van.

She is going to use the van to deliver boxes. Each box is a cuboid, 40 cm by 30 cm by 35 cm.

The space for boxes in the van has maximum length 2.4 m maximum width 1.5 m maximum height 1.4 m

The space for boxes is empty. Chloe wants to put as many boxes as possible into the van.

She can put 3 boxes into the van in one minute. Assume that the space for boxes is in the shape of a cuboid.

Work out how many minutes it should take Chloe to put as many boxes as possible into the van.

The space for boxes might not be in the shape of a cuboid.

Explain how this could affect the time it would take Chloe to put as many boxes as possible into the van.

Factorise 4 m + 12

expression equation formula identity

inequality term factor multiple

Choose two words from the box above to make this statement correct.

5y is a_........ in the_........ 3x + 5y

Here is a sequence of patterns made with counters.

pattern number 1 pattern number 2
pattern number 3

Find an expression, in terms of n, for the number of counters in pattern number n.

Bayo has 90 counters.

Can Bayo make a pattern in this sequence using all 90 of his counters? You must show how you get your answer.

The table shows information about the heights of 80 children.

Height (h cm)	Frequency
130 h 140	4
140 h 150	11
150 h 160	24
160 h 170	22
170 h 180	19

Find the class interval that contains the median.

Draw a frequency polygon for the information in the table.

In London, 1 litre of petrol costs 108.9p In New York, 1 US gallon of petrol costs $2.83

1 US gallon = 3.785 litres £1 = $1.46

In which city is petrol better value for money, London or New York? You must show your working.

A gold bar has a mass of 12.5 kg.

The density of gold is 19.3 g/cm³

Work out the volume of the gold bar. Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

There are only blue pens, green pens and red pens in a box.

The ratio of the number of blue pens to the number of green pens is 2: 5 The ratio of the number of green pens to the number of red pens is 4: 1

There are less than 100 pens in the box.

What is the greatest possible number of red pens in the box?

Find the value of the reciprocal of 1.6 Give your answer as a decimal.

Jess rounds a number, x, to one decimal place. The result is 9.8

Write down the error interval for x.

Here is a rectangle.

The length of the rectangle is 7 cm longer than the width of the rectangle.

4 of these rectangles are used to make this 8-sided shape.

The perimeter of the 8-sided shape is 70 cm.

Work out the area of the 8-sided shape.

Work out (13.8 × 10⁷) × (5.4 × 10⁻¹²) Give your answer as an ordinary number.

When a drawing pin is dropped it can land point down or point up.

Lucy, Mel and Tom each dropped the drawing pin a number of times.

The table shows the number of times the drawing pin landed point down and the number of times the drawing pin landed point up for each person.

Rachael is going to drop the drawing pin once.

Whose results will give the best estimate for the probability that the drawing pin will land point up? Give a reason for your answer.

Stuart is going to drop the drawing pin twice.

Use all the results in the table to work out an estimate for the probability that the drawing pin will land point up the first time and point down the second time.

Solve the simultaneous equations

x + 3 y = 12 5 x − y = 4