Edexcel GCSE Maths Paper 3: Calculator Foundation November 2021 question paper 1MA1/3F

Write 45% as a decimal.

Write down two factors of 35

What is the time 2 hours 40 minutes after 8.05 am?

AB is a straight line. Mark with a cross (X) the midpoint of AB.

A B

Simplify ab4

Simplify 4x + 3 – x + 5

There are three cards in bag A and two cards in bag B. There is a letter on each card.

James takes a card from bag A and then a card from bag B. List all the possible outcomes.

On Monday, Sandy pays for 2 plane tickets, 7 nights in a hotel and 2 theme park tickets.

Show that Sandy pays more than 2500 dollars on Monday.

Vadim has 56 clocks. The clocks are only red, only blue or only black. 32 of the clocks are plastic. 5 of the 14 blue clocks are plastic. 8 of the 12 red clocks are not plastic. Use this information to complete the two-way table.

Corina has £300 to spend on books. Each book costs £4.85 Work out the greatest number of books Corina can buy.

Write 196 minutes in hours and minutes.

A train travels x miles in 2 hours.

Write down an expression, in terms of x, for the average speed of the train.

The diagram shows two places on a map.

Scale: 1 centimetre represents 20 kilometres

What is the actual distance, in kilometres, from Shelton to Trilby?

On a scale drawing, the scale is given as 1: 1200

How many metres does 5 centimetres represent on this drawing?

In the Northern hemisphere the ratio of the area of land to the area of water is 2: 3

Work out what percentage of the area of the Northern hemisphere is land.

20% of the area of the Southern hemisphere is land.

Work out the ratio of the area of land to the area of water in the Southern hemisphere.

A stadium cost £600 million. of this cost was for the building. The rest of the cost was for the land. Work out the cost of the land.

Jenna measures all the angles around a point. Her results are 23, 145, 23 and 69 Explain why these results cannot be true.

Here is a diagram showing triangle ABC and triangle ADE.

Describe fully the single transformation that maps triangle ABC onto triangle ADE.

Expand y (y + 5)

Factorise 4a – 6

Solve 2(5x – 4) = 21

Simplify 4e²f 5ef³

18Change 1 m² into cm²

This diagram shows two squares.

Work out the area of the square shown shaded in the diagram.

Here are the heights, in centimetres, of 15 plants. 15 20 25 33 17 22 25 18 22 19 32 35 24 28 19 Draw a stem and leaf diagram for these heights.

The scatter graph shows information about the volume of traffic and the carbon monoxide level at a point on a road each day for 22 days.

One point is an outlier.

Write down the coordinates of this point.

For another day, 370 cars pass the point on the road.

Estimate the carbon monoxide level for this day.

Alfie says, “Because there is an outlier, there is no correlation.”

Is Alfie correct? You must give a reason for your answer.

Natalie makes potato cakes in a restaurant. She mixes potato, cheese and onion so that weight of potato: weight of cheese: weight of onion = 9: 2: 1 Natalie needs to make 6000 g of potato cakes. Cheese costs £2.25 for 175 g. Work out the cost of the cheese needed to make 6000 g of potato cakes.

Write 4.510⁵ as an ordinary number.

Write 0.007 in standard form.

Work out 4.210³ + 5.310² Give your answer in standard form.

A water tank is empty. Anil needs to fill the tank with 2400 litres of water. Company A supplies water at a rate of 8 litres in 1 minute 40 seconds. Company B supplies water at a rate of 2.2 gallons per minute. 1 gallon = 4.54 litres Company A would take more time to fill the tank than Company B would take to fill the tank. How much more time? Give your answer in minutes correct to the nearest minute.

The first four terms of a Fibonacci sequence are a 2 a 3 a 5 a The sum of the first five terms of this sequence is 228 Work out the value of a.

In a bag there are only red counters, blue counters, green counters and pink counters. A counter is going to be taken at random from the bag. The table shows the probabilities of taking a red counter or a blue counter.

The probability of taking a green counter is 0.2 more than the probability of taking a pink counter.

Complete the table.

There are 18 blue counters in the bag.

Work out the total number of counters in the bag.

The diagram shows a sector OPQR of a circle, centre O and radius 8 cm.

OPR is a triangle. Work out the area of the shaded segment PQR. Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.