WJEC GCSE Numeracy Unit 1: Non-calculator Foundation November 2016 question paper 3310U10-1

A landscape gardener designs gardens.

He uses a coordinate grid to show the position of plants and trees. He has started to create a plan for one of his customers. The table below shows some of the items that are to be put into the garden.

Wooden table & chairs Fountain Flowering shrub

The gardener is going to place • the wooden table and chairs at A (–1, 2) • a flowering shrub at B (1, 0).

Plot the positions of points A and B on the grid above.

The lawn in the garden is rectangular. It has length 4.5 metres and width 3 metres.

What units should be used for the area of the lawn?

Circle your answer.

What is the area of the lawn?

The gardener has a stack of bricks to build a barbeque. The stack is 154 cm tall.

Each layer of bricks has the pattern shown below.

The thickness of one layer of bricks is 7 cm.

How many bricks are there in the stack altogether?

A flight to New York had 450 passengers.

A survey was completed to see what the 450 passengers did for most of their time during the flight. • 120 passengers watched films • 60 passengers played games • 130 passengers listened to music • 30 passengers read a book • The rest slept.

Draw a pictogram to represent what the 450 passengers did for most of their time during the

flight to New York.

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

Aled plans a Christmas party. He decides to use Table Toppers to supply tables, chairs and catering. The circular tables each seat 6 people and the rectangular tables each seat 10 people.

Table Toppers charge as shown below.

All the people invited to the party will fit around 3 circular tables and 2 rectangular tables. There will be no spare seats.

Aled hires 3 circular tables, 2 rectangular tables, and a chair for each person at the party. He decides to provide a buffet meal for each person.

How much does Table Toppers charge Aled in total?

You must show all your working.

All of the straight lines on the netball court are to be painted white.

What is the total length of the white lines that need to be painted?

The scale used in the diagram is 1 cm represents 2 m.

Abi passes the ball to Beti.

Use the scale to work out the distance between Abi and Beti in metres.

Abi, Beti, Cala and Delaney played a practice game. Abi scored 9 goals. Beti scored 6 goals. Cala scored 5 goals.

The mean number of goals scored by all four players was 7.

How many goals did Delaney score?

Marcus is a farmer.

He has his own conversion graph to change between acres and square yards.

Complete each of the following statements.

3 acres is equal to_{………………........ ……………………….} square yards.

5.5 acres is equal to_{………………........ ……………………….} square yards.

300 ml for 66p
400 ml for 92p
500 ml for £1.25

Roland is going to buy some orange juice for a party. Which size bottle of orange juice offers the best value for money?

You must show your working.

Galina needs to buy exactly 800 ml of orange juice. Which is the best option for Galina? You must show your working and consider all options.

You must give a reason for your choice.

A survey was carried out to find how often teenagers buy DVDs.

The following two questions were asked in a questionnaire.

Q1. Where do you live?

Q2. How often do you buy DVDs?

Never 1-10 times 10-15 times More than 15 times

For each question give one reason why it is not suitable.

The survey was carried out by leaving copies of the questionnaire on the DVD shelves in a supermarket.

Give one criticism of how the survey was carried out.

The map shows a part of Wales.

Write down the bearing of Welshpool from Newtown.

Name the place on the map that is on a bearing of 235° from Newtown.

The distance from Newtown to Welshpool is approximately 14 miles by road.

Estimate the distance by road from Welshpool to Llanfair Caereinion in miles.

Megan lives in Cemmaes Road. To travel to work, she starts by heading towards Machynlleth. Her journey to work is approximately 40 km.

Convert 40 km to miles.

In which town or village could Megan work?

Students are taking tests in English and Welsh. The English test is marked out of 80. The Welsh test is marked out of 70.

Dyfed scores 35 in his English test. Estimate Dyfed’s score as a percentage.

Circle your answer.

4% 20% 23% 44% 51%

Liam scores 22 in his Welsh test. Estimate Liam’s score as a percentage.

Circle your answer.

Rowena states a hypothesis, ‘Boys do better than girls in their English tests.’

She displays the test marks for 5 girls and 5 boys in scatter diagrams.

Boys’ test results Mark in Welsh

Does the data support Rowena’s hypothesis?

You must give a reason for your answer.

How could Rowena improve the testing of her hypothesis?

Marcin has a market stall to sell his printed T-shirts.

It costs him: • £250 to buy 100 plain T-shirts, • 50p to print a design on each T-shirt. Marcin sells his printed T-shirts for £4.00 each.

At the start of the week: • His bank account balance is £820. • Marcin has 100 printed T-shirts ready to sell. • He has already paid for these printed T-shirts.

During the week: • Marcin sells his stock of 100 T-shirts. • He pays all the money he takes from selling T-shirts into his bank account. • He buys and prints another 400 T-shirts. • Marcin does not sell any of these 400 T-shirts.

How much will Marcin have in his bank account at the end of this week?

You must show all your working.

When it is 21:30 on a Tuesday in London, it is 02:30 on a Wednesday in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

It takes 10 hours 30 minutes to fly from Dhaka to London. A flight leaves Dhaka on Thursday at 13:00 local Dhaka time.

On what day and at what time should this flight arrive in London?

Give your answer in local London time.

Arrival in London: