WJEC GCSE Numeracy Unit 1: Non-calculator Foundation June 2025 question paper 3310U10-1

Dafydd was celebrating his birthday.

He asked his friends to choose one activity. They could choose cinema, trampolining or bowling.

This table shows the results.

Dafydd says, “Cinema is more popular than trampolining.”

Is Dafydd correct?

You must show working to support your answer.

Yes No

15 of Dafydd’s friends said they preferred bowling.

How many of Dafydd’s friends were there altogether?

Dafydd and his friends decide to take the train from Briton Ferry to Cardiff. Dafydd finds the following information on the internet.

How many minutes will the journey take?

20 people go bowling on Dafydd’s birthday. The cost is £10.50 per person.

They pay using the following offer.

How much will it cost the 20 people to go bowling using this offer?

Local authorities in Wales recycle household waste. The chart below shows the percentages of waste that some local authorities recycled in 2021 and 2022.

Local authorities

How many of these local authorities recycled a greater percentage of waste in

2022 than they recycled in 2021?

In 2022, four of the local authorities recycled 70% or more of their household waste.

Name these four local authorities.

In 2022: • 65∙2% of household waste was recycled in Wales • 59∙7% of household waste was recycled in Caerphilly.

Calculate the difference between these two percentages.

This bar chart shows the percentage of waste recycled in the UK in 2020.

Write down two things that are wrong with the bar chart.

Kristian tries to recycle as much as possible. He had some spare square and rectangular tiles, as shown below.

Rather than replace his garden table, Kristian used his spare tiles to tile the top of the table. The tiled table top is shown below.

Kristian wants to put a border around the perimeter of the table.

What length of border will he need?

Ellie wants to decorate her living room.

She sees paint that she likes in her local DIY shop. The paint is sold in 2-litre tins and 8-litre tins.

Which size tin of paint is the better value?

You must show all your working.

2 litres 8 litres

What is the name given to the 3D shape that best represents the tins of paint shown in the diagram above?

Circle your answer.

Sphere Cylinder Cube Cone Cuboid

Ellie pays a decorator to paint her living room. The decorator uses the following formula to calculate the total cost.

Total cost = £30 × number of hours + £45

The decorator takes 7 hours to paint Ellie’s living room.

How much does Ellie pay?

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

Angharad has a food truck. She sells hotdogs at festivals. Each hotdog consists of a bread roll and a sausage.

The table shows her costs for a festival last month.

Angharad bought enough bread rolls and sausages to make 300 hotdogs. She sold all the hotdogs for £5 each.

What was Angharad’s total profit?

You must show all your working.

Furlongs and yards are both measures of length.

In the past, these measures were used in farming. The conversion graph below can be used to convert between furlongs and yards.

Complete each of the following statements.

330 yards is equal to_........ furlongs.

7 furlongs is equal to_........ yards.

1320 yards is equal to_........ furlongs.

Viktor is a farmer.

Viktor wants to buy some animal feed for his sheep. He can either buy a bag of Sean Sheep Mix or a bag of Rugged Sheep Mix.

Sean Sheep Mix (20 kg bag)
Rugged Sheep Mix (20 kg bag)

Now 15% off
Now off

Which of these two animal feeds is cheaper and by how much?

_........ Sheep Mix is cheaper

It is cheaper by £_........

Viktor sells butter and ice cream in his farm shop. He sells his butter in 250 g packets. Each packet costs £3.25.

Sioned buys 500 g of butter and 1.5 litres of ice cream. She pays a total of £18.50 for the butter and the ice cream.

Calculate the cost of 1 litre of ice cream.

1 litre of ice cream costs £_........

Viktor orders a new water trough for his cows. It is in the shape of a cuboid. The internal measurements are: length 4 m, width 0. 5 m and height 0. 8 m.

Calculate the capacity of the new water trough in m³.

Ralph completed a survey.

He asked people to describe where they live.

Ralph’s results are shown on the accurately-drawn pie chart below.

In Ralph’s survey, 480 people answered ‘Town or city’.

Calculate the number of people who answered ‘Seaside’ in Ralph’s survey.

A survey was carried out to find how many books children read during the holidays.

The following two questions were asked in a questionnaire.

Q1. Most children read lots of books.

Do you read lots of books?........

Q2. How many books do you read during the holidays?

None 1–10 books 10–20 books More than 20 books

Give one reason why Q1 was not a suitable question.

Give one reason why Q2 was not a suitable question.

The survey was carried out by asking children as they left the library on a Saturday morning.

Give one criticism of how the survey was carried out.

The flight manager has drawn a frequency diagram to display her findings. She used groups of width 10 minutes:

How many passengers waited less than 10 minutes to be served?

How many passengers were on this flight to Spain?

What fraction of the total number of passengers had to wait 40 minutes or more to be served a drink?

Express your answer in its simplest form.

What is the modal group of these recorded times?

The flight manager says,

Is the flight manager correct?

Give a reason for your answer.

Yes No

Ewan keeps bees and sells jars of honey.

For both sizes of jar, Ewan charges the same price per 100 ml for the honey itself.

Ewan charges his customers £3.40 for a 500 ml jar of honey. This price is for the honey and the jar.

How much should Ewan charge for a 200 ml jar of honey?

You must show all your working.