WJEC GCSE Numeracy Unit 1: Non-calculator Foundation June 2017 question paper 3310U10-1

Owen buys houses in Wales. He then rents them out to people. He uses a website to find the average price for a detached house in 6 different counties.

Calculate the difference between the average house price in the most expensive county and least expensive county.

Give your answer correct to the nearest £1000.

Owen says,

“The average house price in four of the counties is less than £180 000.”

Is Owen correct?

Give a reason for your answer.

Which of the following is the best approximation for the average house price in Powys?

Circle your answer.

£199 990 £199 900 £199 000 £190 000 £200 000

Tamsin and Sophie make biscuits. They plan to cover the top surface of each biscuit with the same thickness of chocolate.

The biscuits are shown on the centimetre squared grid below.

Tamsin thinks that Sophie’s biscuit will need more chocolate to cover it. Estimate the area of each biscuit. Decide whether or not Tamsin is correct.

Show all your working.

Tamsin and Sophie have carried out a survey to find which biscuits are the most popular. The four most popular biscuits are chocolate cookies, custard creams, jammy dodgers and digestives. Design a tally chart that Tamsin and Sophie could have used to collect their data and

show their results.

Tomas makes rectangular biscuits. The top of each biscuit has a surface area of 30 cm². Tomas covers the surface area of the top of each biscuit with chocolate. The chocolate costs 3 pence per 10 cm².

Calculate the cost of covering 200 of these biscuits with chocolate.

Jo is a keen runner.

She tracks each of her runs using an app on her phone. Information about her last four runs is shown below.

In Jo’s last four runs,

what was the shortest distance that she ran?

what was the longest time that she ran for?

Circle either TRUE or FALSE for each of the following statements about Jo’s last 4 runs

On the 10th May 2017, Jo set a target time of 1 hour 45 minutes to complete her run. By

how many minutes and seconds did Jo miss her target?

Mrs Henry works part time in a factory. The amount of time for each day that she worked last week is shown in the table.

Mrs Henry’s pay is calculated using the following:

Tuesday to Friday: • £8 per hour for the first 15 hours • £9 per hour for any extra hours

Saturday: • double the usual rate of £8 per hour

In this part of the question, you will be assessed on the quality of your organisation, communication and accuracy in writing.

Work out Mrs Henry’s total pay for last week.

You must show all your working.

On another week Mrs Henry was paid £188.

She puts 20% of her weekly wage into a savings account.

How much did Mrs Henry put into her savings account that week?

Circle your answer.

£9.40 £18.80 £34.20 £37.60 £150.40

Huw is going to make vegetable soup for 6 people.

A recipe for 2 people uses 10 ounces of potatoes. He has placed some potatoes on his weighing scales as shown below.

The weighing scales display the mass in grams. Huw knows that 1 ounce is approximately 28 grams. How many more grams of potatoes does Huw need to make vegetable soup for 6 people? [5]

Extra mass of potatoes needed is_{…………........ ……………………….} grams

Siân wrote the following:

‘For the last 7 days I have recorded the number of cars parked in my local car park at 10 a.m. each day. This is what I found. • The car park always had some cars parked in it. • The greatest number of cars was 11. • The range was 8 cars. • The median was 9 cars. • The mode was 10 cars. • On one day, there were 6 cars in the car park. • On another day, there were 7 cars in the car park.’

Gareth asked, ‘What was the mean number of cars in the car park at 10 a.m. for these 7 days?’

Complete Siân’s reply to Gareth’s question. You must list the 7 numbers Siân recorded and show all your working.

‘The mean number of cars in the car park at 10 a.m. for these 7 days was

Eleri and Yvon are sisters.

They both live at Cwm Uchel. They do not go to the same school. The graph represents each of their journeys to school and back.

Key:

Distance from home (km)

At what time did Yvon arrive home from school?

Circle your answer.

14:45 15:15 15:30 15:45 16:00

Eleri cycles along a straight road to school and back. How far does she cycle when going to school and back in one day?

Circle your answer.

6 km 8 km 9 km 12 km 16 km

Martha looks at the graph and says,

‘The school Eleri attends is 2 km from Yvon’s school.’

Is this true?

Certainly true
Certainly false
Can’t tell

Give a reason for your answer.

Rhodri and Lars are planning a camping holiday, staying at Maes Alun Camping. They are going to: • take only one tent between them, • take a tent covering a rectangular ground area, measuring 2.5 metres by 4.4 metres, • both stay for a total of 12 nights.

Their holiday is just 8 weeks away. They each plan to save £15 per week from now until their holiday in 8 weeks’ time.

Will the amount they save be enough to pay for their holiday?

You must show all your working.

Kari is making a jigsaw puzzle. She has designed the pattern on a piece of paper. Kari plans to make each piece of the jigsaw a different colour.

Part of her plan is shown below.

Kari now sketches a diagram of the red piece of the jigsaw, which is shown below. She shows some extended lines and indicates all the angles she needs to find.

Find the 4 missing angles in the red piece of the jigsaw. Draw the red piece of Kari’s jigsaw accurately.

One side has been drawn for you.

Space for drawing the red piece of jigsaw:

Lazar wants to send a package to Germany. He looks at pricing charts for three different companies, ParcelMax, DirectGo and Pack2save

ParcelMax Total cost =

DirectGo Total cost =

Pack2save Total cost = Total area of all 6 faces measured in cm² × £0.02

Lazar’s parcel is a cuboid measuring 10 cm by 20 cm by 30 cm.

Find the cost of sending the parcel for each of the three different companies. Give each of your answers in pounds (£).

ParcelMax

DirectGo

Pack2save

Ollie has a job in a workshop that makes decorations.

He makes decorations using small squares of stained glass.

Ollie has made the following decorations.

He labels the first decoration D1. He labels the next 3 decorations in order, D2, D3 and D4.

He continues to make decorations and labels following this pattern.

After making decoration D5, Ollie notices he only has 10 small squares of stained glass left.

How many more squares of stained glass will Ollie need to make decoration D6?

Ollie uses a rule to work out how many squares he needs for each decoration. He states that to make decoration D10 he would need 55 squares. Is Ollie correct?

You must show your working.