FUNCTIONAL SKILLS MATHS LEVEL 1

PRACTICE PAPER

FSMO109

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 SECTION A
Question 1
Calculate –10 + 3
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(1 mark)

Question 2
Calculate 1000 × 0.15
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(1 mark)

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Question 3
Calculate 45.53 – 24.37
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(1 mark)

Question 4
Calculate 105 – 25 × 2
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(1 mark)

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Question 5
2
Which of the following percentages is equivalent to ?
5
10% 20% 25% 40% 80%
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(1 mark)

Question 6
Put the following fractions in order of size:
3 1 1 1 2
1 1
5 4 2 5 3
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(1 mark)

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Question 7
Sasha is an art teacher.
She buys art materials in packs and then sells them on individually to her students at
cost price.
The prices she pays for the packs of items are shown in the following table:
Item Quantity Cost price
Paint brushes Pack of 100 £39.00
Canvas board Pack of 10 £18.50
Tubes of paint Pack of 10 £14.29

A student buys two paint brushes, three tubes of paint and one canvas board.
How much in total should Sasha charge the student?
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(4 marks)

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Question 8
Sasha wants to make orange paint by mixing red and yellow paint in the ratio 3:2.
She uses 180ml red paint.
She has 100ml of yellow paint.
Has Sasha got enough yellow paint?
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(2 marks)

Question 9
Sasha needs to put tape around the edge of five paintings.
The paintings are rectangular and are 48.9cm long and 32.6cm wide.
Estimate how much tape she needs altogether for the five paintings.
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(3 marks)

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 SECTION B
Question 10

The diagram above shows the plan view of which shape below?

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(1 mark)

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Question 11
The table below shows the ages of 18 visitors to a museum.

2 4 28 35 19 21

7 31 35 48 10 41

38 8 9 27 18 25

Complete the table below.

Age (years) Frequency
0-9
10-19
20-29
30-39
40-49

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(1 mark)

Question 12

Which of the following percentages is the highest?

37% 42% 85% 87% 56% 57% 18%

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(1 mark)

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Question 13

Eilish owns a children’s soft-play area.

She has a ball pit which is 2.4m by 2.4m and has a depth of 0.45m.

The ball pit needs 2250 balls for each cubic metre (m³).

How many balls will it take to fill the ball pit?

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(4 marks)

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Question 14

Eilish has 30 mats to cover the floor of the soft-play area.

The soft-play floor mats come in three colours: black, light grey and dark grey.

1
of the soft-play floor mats are black.
5

There are equal numbers of light grey and dark grey mats.

On the diagram of the floor seen below, arrange the mats in a pattern with at least
one line of symmetry. You can do this by writing the initials of the colour of mat in the
boxes.

(B) Black

(DG) Dark Grey

(LG) Light Grey

Show your calculations and/or workings.

(3 marks)

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Question 15

The soft-play area can be hired for children’s parties. The prices are as follows:

£90 to hire the soft play area for up to 40 children

£17 for party food for 5 children

£12 for 10 party bags

15% discount for parties Monday to Thursday

Eilish takes a booking for a party of 30 children for a Thursday including food and a
party bag for each child.

How much should she charge for the soft-play party for 30 children including food
and party bags for each child?
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(5 marks)

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Question 16

Write 832304 in words.

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(1 mark)

Question 17

There are three red sweets, four yellow sweets and three blue sweets in a bag.

What is the probability that a sweet taken out of the bag at random is red?

Give your answer as a fraction.

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(1 mark)

Question 18

Calculate the range of this set of numbers.

23.1 25.8 25.3 23.6 19.1 21.2

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(1 mark)

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Question 19

Amy is 36 years old and wants to improve her fitness level.

She uses this formula to find the healthy upper and lower heart rate limits, in beats
per minute (bpm), for her age during moderate exercise.

Lower heart rate = (220 – age) x 0.6

Upper heart rate = (220 – age) x 0.7

Her heart rate while exercising is 118 bpm.

During exercise, is her heart rate within the healthy upper and lower limits for her
age?

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(3 marks)

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Question 20

Amy records how much exercise she completed during the past week:

• ¾ hour swimming on both Monday and Thursday

• 1¼ hours in the gym on Saturday
• 20 minutes brisk walking on five days

How much time did she spend exercising altogether over the week?

Give your answer in hours and minutes.

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(2 marks)

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Question 21

Amy walks 6680 steps on Monday.

Each step length is an average of 0.7m.

Using her average step length, how many kilometres does she walk on Monday?

Give your answer to one decimal place.

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(4 marks)

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Question 22

Amy records her blood pressure over the week.

These are her blood pressure values:

Day Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun

Blood Pressure 113 121 99 112 118 115 129

She has been told that to calculate her mean blood pressure she should remove the
highest and lowest values first.

What is Amy’s mean blood pressure?

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(3 marks)

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Question 23

The table below shows the number of parcels delivered by a delivery driver over four
weeks.

Weeks 1 2 3 4

Number of parcels 430 560 720 850

Draw a line graph to show the number of deliveries over the four weeks.

(3 marks)

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Question 24

Liam is a student who has worked over the summer.

He has earned £2304.26 altogether.

He earns £8.72 per hour.

He is entitled to 0.12 hours of holiday for every hour he has worked.

How many hours holiday is he entitled to?

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(4 marks)

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Question 25

Liam earned £2304.26 altogether.

He spent £399 on a new laptop and puts half of his remaining earnings into a
savings account.

The savings account pays 5% interest per year.

How much money will Liam have in his savings account after one year?

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(3 marks)

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Question 26

Anya is planting some fruit trees in her orchard.

The dimensions of the orchard are shown below:

Diagram not to scale

She needs to have an area of at least 64 m² for each fruit tree.

How many fruit trees will she be able to plant in her orchard?

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Write your answer in the box below.

(5 marks)

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