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Maths · OCR J560 · Paper 1: Calculator · Foundation · November 2019

OCR GCSE Maths Paper 1: Calculator Foundation November 2019 question paper J560/01

1h 30m 100 marks

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OCR J560 · Paper 1

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Question 4

A theme park asked 900 people to choose their favourite activity from a list of five. The pictogram shows the results for four of the activities.

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Question 4, shown as an image
(a)(i)

How many people chose entertainment?

[1]

(a)(ii)

How many more people chose water rides than family rides?

[2]

(a)(iii)

All 900 people chose one of the five activities.

Complete the pictogram for children’s rides.

[3]

(b)

Will plays a game at the theme park. There are 20 cards numbered from 1 to 20. Will takes a card at random. He wins if the card he chooses shows a prime number.

Work out the probability that Will wins. Give your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.

[4]

(c)

A family ticket for the theme park costs £68. If the ticket is bought online it costs 15% less.

How much does it cost to buy a family ticket online?

[3]

Question 8

Plaza United are playing a football match away from home.

(a)

379 supporters are going to the match by coach. Each coach seats 45 people.

What is the smallest number of coaches that will be needed?

[2]

(b)

In their last 50 matches, Plaza United have drawn 10 matches, lost 5 and won the rest.

Sam claims

The probability that Plaza United will win this match is 0.7.

(b)(i)

Show calculations to support Sam’s claim.

[2]

(b)(ii)

Give one reason why Sam’s claim may not be reliable.

[1]

Question 9

Mr and Mrs Jones buy cinema tickets for themselves and their three children. The cost of an adult ticket is £6 more than a child ticket. The total cost of the five tickets is £45.

Work out the cost of an adult ticket.

An adult ticket costs £........

[5]

Question 16

Carol makes birthday cards. Each card takes the same amount of time to make.

She makes 3 cards in 48 minutes. She has an order for 80 cards.

Can she complete this order in 3 days if she works 8 hours each day? Show how you decide.

[5]

Question 17

The table below shows the area, in square kilometres (km2), of some countries.

CountryArea (km2)
Australia7.69 × 106
Latvia6.46 × 104
Luxembourg2.59 × 103
Russia1.71 × 107
Singapore7.24 × 102
Sweden4.50 × 105
(a)

Write the area of Sweden as an ordinary number.

[1]

(b)

Which of the above countries has the smallest area?

[1]

(c)

Alexis says

The area of Australia is approximately three times larger than the area of Luxembourg

Is she correct? Show how you decide.

Alexis is........ because........

[2]

(d)

Work out the total area of Russia and Australia. Give your answer in standard form, correct to 2 significant figures.

[4]

Question 18

Bob makes dry concrete by mixing cement, sand and stone in the ratio 1: 2: 3 by weight. He buys the cement, sand and stone in bags as shown in this table.

Weight of bag (kg)Cost per bag (£)
Cement255.50
Sand202.00
Stone153.90

He packs the dry concrete into 30 kg bags.

Bob buys just enough cement, sand and stone to make 50 bags of dry concrete.

(a)

Show that Bob buys 500 kg of sand.

[3]

(b)

Bob sells the 50 bags of dry concrete for a total of £396.

Calculate Bob’s percentage profit.

[5]

Question 19

12 students take two tests. Each test is out of 60. The scatter diagram shows the results for 10 of the students.

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(a)

The table shows the results for the other 2 students.

Test 13638
Test 24441

Plot these results on the scatter diagram.

[1]

(b)

Describe the type of correlation shown in the scatter diagram.

[1]

(c)(i)

Draw a line of best fit on the scatter diagram.

[1]

(c)(ii)

Another student was absent for Test 2. The student scored 40 marks on Test 1.

Use your line of best fit to estimate a result for this student on Test 2.

[1]

(d)

Work out the percentage of the 12 students whose result on Test 1 is lower than their result on Test 2.

[4]

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