Maths Foundation Paper 2

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1. a) What is the place value of the 4 in:
2 346 890?
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Answer
0.8345?
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Answer
b) Write the number 349 432 using words

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Answer
2. Mark the positions of the following events on this probability scale:
a) A fair, six-sided dice landing with a 3 upwards when it is rolled.

[1 mark]
b) A fair, six-sided dice landing with a number less than 3 upwards when it is rolled.
[1 mark]
c) A fair, six-sided dice landing with an even number upwards when it is rolled.
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d) A coin landing on a head or tail when it is tossed.

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0 1
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3. Fully simplify the following:
6
a)
16
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b) 18:27:45
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4. Fully simplify the following:
a) 3 × y
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b) y+y+y+y
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c) y × y × y
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d) 4y + 3y
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5. Eb the dog was born at the beginning of November and was weighed at the end of every month
for the first six months of his life. His monthly mass, measured in kg, correct to 2 decimal places is
recorded in the table below.
End of the
November December January February March April
month
Mass (kg) 2.14 6.59 12.30 17.12 22.95 25.68
a) During which month did his mass increase by the greatest amount? Show all of your
working.
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b) Give the ratio of his mass at the end of November to his mass at the end of April in the form
1:n.
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6. There are 30 children in 11J. 14 of them are boys. 5 of the boys wear glasses and 10 of the girls
wear glasses. Fill in the missing information on the lines on the frequency tree:
[3 marks]
wear glasses
wear glasses
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7. After a stay in hospital, Chase is given painkillers to take every 12 hours and another medication to
take every 9 hours to reduce swelling. If he takes both at 9am on Sunday, when is the next time that
he will take both at the same time again?
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Answer
8. A large pile of British coins is on a table.
a) Paul picks three coins. He says “The total number of pence I have is a cube number between 100
and 200.” Which three coins did Paul pick?
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b) Tamsin picks 3 different coins. She says “The highest common factor of my coin values, in pence,
is 20.” How much money does she get altogether?
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c) Daisy picks a 10p, a 20p and two other coins. She says “The number of pence I have is a prime
number between 30 and 40.” Which other coins did she pick?
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Answer
d) Audrey picks 4 coins. She says “The total of my money, in pence, is a multiple of 27 and is less
than 100.” Give every possible combination of coins she could have picked.
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9. a) Evaluate:
5041
5 × 103 giving your answer in full, in decimal form.
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b) Give your answer to part a) rounded correct to 1 significant figure.

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10. Peter and Jemima share some sweets in the ratio 4:9. If Jemima gets 180 more sweets than Peter,
how many sweets does Jemima get?
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11. The exterior angle in a regular polygon is 12°.
a) How many sides does the polygon have?

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b) What is the sum of interior angles in this polygon?

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12. The sign shows the price and diameter of pizzas and the price of extra toppings at Paige’s Pizza
Parlour.
Paige's Pizza Parlour
30cm Pizza £7.80
25cm Pizza £6.00
20cm Pizza £5.20
Extra toppings 55p
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a) What is the total cost of a 30cm pizza with two extra toppings, two 25cm pizzas and a 20cm
pizza with one extra topping?
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b) What is the area of a pizza with diameter 30cm? Give your answer correct to 1 decimal place.
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c) Which pizza offers better value for money, the 30cm pizza or the 25cm pizza? You must show
your working.
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13. In equilateral triangle ABC, the length of side AB is 2x + 3, side AC has length 4y - 5 and BC is of
length 5x - 9, with all lengths given in cm. Find the values of x and y.
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x= cm, y= cm
14. The bearing of the school from the castle in Grangeville is 037°.
a) Draw a sketch to show this; your sketch does not need to be to scale.
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b) What is the bearing of the castle from the school? Give angle reasons for your answer, referring to
the sketch.
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15. a) Vojtek bought a tin containing 450g of sweets. After eating 215g of the sweets, what percentage
of his sweets has he eaten? Give your answer correct to 1 decimal place.
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Answer
b) Hannah has eaten 27% of her 280g chocolate bar. How many grams of chocolate does she have
left?
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Answer
c) Rupa has eaten 55% of her bag of crisps. She has 18g left. What mass of crisps did she have to
begin with?
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16. In a multipack of planet chocolate bars, there are x individual bars. Robert buys 7 packs and 5
individual bars. Phil buys 2 packs and 30 individual bars. Robert then has fewer planet bars than
Phil.
a) Write an inequality to show this information.

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b) Solve the inequality.

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c) What are the possible values of the number of bars in a multipack?

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17. a) Ranjit has measured w, the width of his dining table. He says that it is 1.1m correct to 1 decimal
place. Give the upper bound for w.
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b) Mary has measured the length, l metres, of the table. She says that it is 1.4m, truncated to 1
decimal place. Give the error interval for l.
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18. a) Complete the table of values below for y = 2x + 5.

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x -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3
y 1 9
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b) Draw the graph of y = 2x + 5 on the axes below.

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12
11
10
-3 -2 -1 1 2 3
-1
-2
-3
19. Bob gets 38 different jars of mustard for his birthday. 7 of them are German. He tastes them all after
breakfast and says that 15 of them are mild. 3 of the German mustards are mild.
a) Complete the Venn diagram to show this information.

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Mild German
b) Bob picks a jar at random from all of his jars. What is the probability that the jar he picks will be
mild or German or both?
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Answer
c) If Bob picks a jar at random from his mild jars. What is the probability that the jar he picks will
be German?
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Answer
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1. a) What is the place value of the 4 in:

b) Write the number 349 432 using words

2. Mark the positions of the following events on this probability scale:

a) A fair, six-sided dice landing with a 3 upwards when it is rolled.

d) A coin landing on a head or tail when it is tossed.

3. Fully simplify the following:

4. Fully simplify the following:

Mass (kg) 2.14 6.59 12.30 17.12 22.95 25.68

8. A large pile of British coins is on a table.

b) Give your answer to part a) rounded correct to 1 significant figure.

11. The exterior angle in a regular polygon is 12°.

a) How many sides does the polygon have?

b) What is the sum of interior angles in this polygon?

30cm Pizza £7.80

25cm Pizza £6.00

20cm Pizza £5.20

Extra toppings 55p

a) Write an inequality to show this information.

b) Solve the inequality.

c) What are the possible values of the number of bars in a multipack?

18. a) Complete the table of values below for y = 2x + 5.

b) Draw the graph of y = 2x + 5 on the axes below.

a) Complete the Venn diagram to show this information.

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