Edexcel GCSE Maths Paper 3: Calculator Foundation November 2023 question paper 1MA1/3F

Write 35% as a decimal.

Write 8061 correct to the nearest hundred.

Write down a number that is less than –5

Here is a grid of squares.

What fraction of the grid is shaded?

Write down the value of the 9 in the number 27.963

The pictogram shows information about the number of chocolate cakes, vanilla cakes and lemon cakes sold by Year 7 at a school fair.

24 banana cakes were sold by Year 7

Use this information to complete the pictogram. At the fair, Year 8 sold a total of 150 cakes.

Which Year sold most cakes at the fair, Year 7 or Year 8? You must show how you get your answer.

Miklos is swimming lengths of a swimming pool. Each length of the pool is 25 m. Miklos has swum 178 lengths of the pool. He wants to swim a total distance of 8050 m. Calculate how many more lengths Miklos needs to swim.

Here are the first four terms of a number sequence. 97 91 85 79

Explain how to work out the next number of the sequence.

Work out the difference between the 5th term and the 7th term of the sequence.

Explain why 52 is not a number in this sequence.

Mandy buys a 12 kilogram bag of dog food. Mandy’s dog has 3 meals a day. She gives her dog 105 grams of dog food for each of these meals. How many complete weeks will the bag of dog food last? You must show all your working.

Here is a polygon.

Write down the mathematical name of this polygon.

Here is a prism.

Each edge of the prism has a length of 7.5 cm.

Work out the total length of the edges of the prism.

There are only red counters, blue counters and green counters in a bag. number of red counters: number of blue counters: number of green counters = 2: 16: 7 What fraction of the counters in the bag are green counters?

12A chess match lasted 3 hours. The match finished at 14 10 At what time did the chess match start?

Simplify 8h³ + 14h³ – 2h³

Simplify (9y + 12y) ÷ 3

Write the following numbers in order of size. Start with the smallest number.

A travel agent sold 100 holidays in April. Each of these holidays was in the UK or was abroad. 64 of the 100 holidays were sold to families. The rest of the holidays were sold to couples. 11 of the 18 holidays abroad were sold to couples.

Use this information to complete the frequency tree.

One of the holidays sold to a family is chosen at random.

Find the probability that this holiday was not abroad.

Blake works 32 hours a week in the UK. She is paid £473.28 per week. Blake applies for a job in Australia. The rate of pay is 26.40 Australian dollars per hour. £1 = 1.796 Australian dollars Blake thinks the rate of pay in Australia is greater than the rate of pay in the UK. Is Blake correct? You must show how you get your answer.

Here is a shape made from a rectangle and a triangle.

The shape has exactly one line of symmetry. The area of the rectangle is 3.5 times the area of the triangle. The width of the rectangle is w cm. Work out the value of w. You must show all your working.

The front elevation of a cuboid is shown on the centimetre grid below.

The volume of the cuboid is 224 cm³ On the grid, draw the plan of the cuboid.

Write 468 000 in standard form.

Write 5.037×10^–4 as an ordinary number.

Here is a biased spinner.

The table shows the probabilities that when the spinner is spun it will land on A, on B, on C and on D.

Luka will spin the spinner 200 times. Work out an estimate for the number of times the spinner will land on A.

Seija works at a weather station. The table gives information about the temperature, T °C, at midday for each of 50 cities in the UK on Tuesday.

Temperature (T °C)	Frequency
10 T 15	2
15 T 20	8
20 T 25	13
25 T 30	21
30 T 35	6

Calculate an estimate for the mean temperature.

Seija says, “The median temperature is 22.5 °C because 22.5 is the middle number in the middle group.”

Is Seija correct? Give a reason for your answer.

23Jenna is asked to show the inequality –3 < x ≤ 4 on a number line. Here is her answer.

Write down two mistakes Jenna has made.

Work out the greatest integer that satisfies the inequality

Ali buys packs of balloons and boxes of pencils. There are 30 balloons in each pack. There are 24 pencils in each box. Ali buys exactly the same number of balloons and pencils. Work out how many packs of balloons and how many boxes of pencils she could have bought. You must show all your working.

_........ packs of balloons

A company orders a large number of plates from a factory. It would take 30 hours to make all the plates using 4 machines. How many machines are needed to make all the plates in 6 hours?

Riley travelled by car and by aeroplane. He travelled 143 miles by car at an average speed of 55 miles per hour. Riley then travelled for 5 hours and 20 minutes by aeroplane. Work out, in hours and minutes, Riley’s total travelling time.

27The diagram shows a solid cube placed on a horizontal table.

The pressure on the table due to the cube is 3.5 newtons/cm² The force exerted by the cube on the table is 504 newtons. Show that the total surface area of the cube is less than 900 cm²

The line L is shown on the grid.

Find an equation for L.

A, B, C and D are points on a circle such that ABCD is a square.

The square ABCD has sides of length 3.5 cm. Calculate the circumference of the circle. Give your answer correct to 1 decimal place. You must show all your working.