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Maths · OCR J560 · Paper 3: Calculator · Foundation · June 2019

OCR GCSE Maths Paper 3: Calculator Foundation June 2019 question paper J560/03

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OCR J560 · Paper 3

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Question 11

Megan’s Cafe sells ice cream. Customers choose to have a tub or a cone, and a wafer or no wafer. They can choose vanilla, lemon or chocolate ice cream.

This frequency tree shows the number of people making some of the choices.

Figure for question 11
(a)

Anaya buys an ice cream.

One choice she can make is

a cone, no wafer and vanilla.

How many different choices can she make?

[1]

(b)

Complete the frequency tree.

[2]

(c)

Which flavour of ice cream was most popular? Show how you decide.

[3]

Question 13

Delroy drives 240 miles. His car averages 40 miles per gallon of petrol. Petrol costs £1.30 per litre.

1 gallon is 4.5 litres.

How much does Delroy spend on petrol for this journey?

[4]

Question 14

Joan makes cups of tea and coffee at a lunch club. Each cup requires 250 ml of boiling water. She has a kettle that boils up to 1.7 litres of water each time.

She boils 10 litres of water in an urn. She then uses the kettle to boil the rest of the water she needs.

Find the least number of times that Joan needs to boil the kettle to make 56 cups. Show how you decide.

[5]

Question 15

(a)

50 sweets weigh 200 g.

If each sweet weighs the same, work out the weight of 7 sweets.

[2]

(b)

b is directly proportional to a. b is 10 when a is 8.

Work out b when a is 9.

[2]

(c)

A graph is drawn below.

Figure for question 15

Explain how you know that y is not directly proportional to x.

[1]

Question 17

A grain of salt weighs 6.48 × 10-5kg on average. A packet contains 0.35 kg of salt.

(a)

Use this information to calculate the number of grains of salt in the packet.

[2]

(b)

Explain why your answer to part (a) is unlikely to be the actual number of grains of salt in the packet.

[1]

Question 18

Tom researches the weights of plant seeds.

• One poppy seed weighs 3 × 10-4grams.

• 250 pumpkin seeds weigh 21 grams.

• One sesame seed weighs 3.64 × 10-6 kilograms.

Write the three types of seed in order according to the weight of one seed. Write the lightest type of seed first. You must show how you decide.

lightest

[4]

Question 20

Sophie is organising a raffle.

• Each raffle ticket costs 50p.

• She sells 400 tickets.

• The probability that a ticket, chosen at random, wins a prize is 0.1.

• Each winning ticket receives a prize worth £3.

Sophie says

I expect the raffle to make over £100 profit.

Show that Sophie is wrong.

[4]

Question 21

A bag contains some counters.

• There are 300 counters in the bag.

• There are only red, white and blue counters in the bag.

• The probability of picking a blue counter is fraction

• The ratio of red counters to white counters is 2: 1.

Calculate the number of red counters in the bag.

[4]

Question 23

The diagram shows a regular hexagon made from six equilateral triangles. Each side is 10 cm. The angle ACB is a right angle.

Figure for question 23
(a)

Show that AC = 8.66 cm, correct to 3 significant figures.

[4]

(b)(i)

Show that the area of triangle ACB is 21.7 cm2, correct to 3 significant figures.

[2]

(b)(ii)

Find the area of the hexagon, giving your answer to an appropriate degree of accuracy.

[2]

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