Morgan wants to buy the following items from a shop.
Morgan uses a calculator to find the total cost of the items.
He thinks the total is £112.44.
What mistake has Morgan made?
[1]
Morgan pays for all the items with a £20 note.
How much change will he get?
[2]
Complete the key for the pictogram.
[2]
How many pupils from 8T are going on the trip?
[1]
There are 110 pupils and 11 teachers going to Glan-llyn. They will all travel by bus. Each bus has 37 seats for passengers.
Find the least number of buses needed.
[3]
All 24 pupils from 8N chose an afternoon activity. A teacher recorded how many pupils chose each activity. He has the following 3 notes:
Complete the missing information in the table above.
[3]
One pupil is selected at random from 8N. Which of the expressions below best describes the chance that this pupil chose the high ropes?
Circle your answer.
impossible unlikely even chance likely certain
[1]
In this part of the question, you will be assessed on the quality of your organisation, communication and accuracy in writing.
Mari is buying a new mobile phone. She sees two deals for the same phone, as shown below.
Which deal is the cheaper for Mari over 24 months? How much cheaper is this deal?
You must show all your working.
[7]
Geraint needs to put a fence along one edge of his garden.
He decides to make his fence using posts and panels, as shown below. Each post has a width of 7 cm. Each panel has a length of 180 cm.
Geraint’s fence will have 6 posts. Calculate the total length of Geraint’s fence.
Give your answer in centimetres.
[4]
Shiona is saving to pay for a holiday.
She has 13 weeks to save £510 to pay for her holiday.
Shiona already has savings of £95. In the first week, she knows she can save £70.
She plans to save equal amounts of money in each of the remaining weeks.
How much does Shiona need to save in each of the remaining weeks so that she can pay for her holiday?
You must show all your working.
[4]
Idris flies from Cardiff to Faro, in Portugal.
The actual flying time is 133 minutes. The plane flies at an average speed of 8 miles per minute.
Calculate the flying distance between Cardiff and Faro.
Give your answer in miles.
[2]
Calculate the plane’s average speed in miles per hour.
[2]
Idris takes a cabin bag on board his flight. His bag measures 55 cm by 40 cm by 23 cm. The label on his cabin bag says,
Is this label correct?
Yes No
You must show all your working and give a reason for your answer.
[3]
Find the size of each of the angles a, b, c and d.
[4]
Gracie knows that the exchange rate is £1 = $1.25.
She wants to buy the ZX31 camera that is the best value for money.
Which of the advertisements offers the best option for Gracie?
You must show all your working.
[5]
During the 30 days in the month of September, Andras used 138 m3 of gas.
The cost of this gas was 12p per kWh.
The formula used to calculate the number of kWh for the gas used is as follows: Number of kWh = number of m3 of gas × 39.5 × 1.02264 ÷ 3.6
The standing charge was 32p per day. VAT at 5% was payable on the sum of the cost of the gas used and the standing charge.
Calculate Andras’s gas bill for September.
You must show all your working.
[7]
The Severn Bridge was built in 1966 to allow vehicles to travel between England and Wales.
The bridge has a width of 23 m and a total length of 1600 m. The section of the bridge between the two towers is 988 m long.
The tarmac road surface is 0.035 m thick.
The cables from the towers to support the road are made from 18 000 miles of wire.
What fraction of the total length of the bridge is the section between the two towers?
Give your fraction in its simplest form.
[2]
Calculate the length of the wire used to make the cables in kilometres.
[2]
The cost of tarmac is £250 per m3.
Calculate the cost of the volume of the tarmac needed to resurface the total length of
the Severn Bridge.
[3]
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