TQUK Maths Level 1 Sample Paper 1

Work out –3 + 5

Work out 9 × 2.54

Work out 20 + 8 × 2

Work out 65.83 × 100

Work out the range of these numbers:
18 259 20 912 16 879 25 050 24 250

Lesley needs to cut a 56.2 centimetre (cm) long plank of wood into five pieces of equal length.
How long should Lesley cut each piece?

Work out the perimeter of this shape:

A shirt normally costs £42
It is on sale with a 30% discount.
Calculate the new cost of the shirt.

Alex has a part time job. Alex receives £12.50 per hour and works 10 hours each week. Alex wants to pay 1/4 of the total amount received each week into a savings account.
How much should Alex pay into the savings account each week?

Calculate 48²

How many pennies are there in £2.48?

Write this fraction: 5/8
(a) as a decimal
(b) as a percentage.

These sweets are in a bag:

• 2 yellow sweets
• 4 orange sweets
• 9 red sweets
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One sweet is chosen at random.
What is the probability that a red sweet is chosen?
Give your answer as a fraction.

The map shows the location of three UK cities.
Charlie thinks Brighton and Sheffield are over 198 km apart in a straight line on the map.

Is Charlie correct?

Kai is playing a fairground game.

• The probability that Kai wins a teddy bear is 2/5
• The probability that Kai wins a t-shirt is 3/8

Is Kai more likely to win a teddy bear or a t-shirt?

Red gold is a mixture of copper and gold.
The copper and gold are mixed in the ratio 1 : 3
Lee has plenty of gold but only 600 grams of copper.
Does Lee have enough copper to make 2 kilograms of red gold?

Drew is asked for part payment of a bill.
Drew is asked to pay two thousand and sixty pounds now.
This will be 1/5 of the total amount that needs to be paid.
How much will Drew need to pay in total?

Morgan reads that an adult should drink 1.2 litres of water each day.
Morgan drinks 8 cups of water each day.
Each cup holds 160 ml of water.
Does Morgan drink enough water?

A company made £144 895 from selling mobile phones in 2020
The company set a target of increasing this by at least 40% for 2021
The table below shows the amount made in sales from January 2021 to August 2021

The manager says:
‘If we make at least £84 500 more in sales, then we will have reached the target’.
Is the manager correct?

Last week it took Nicky 150 minutes to cook a chicken in the oven.
Nicky has now bought an air fryer.
The instructions say to reduce the cooking time by 20%.
Nicky wants a chicken, the same size as last week, to be fully cooked by 1 pm.
Nicky starts cooking the chicken at 11:15 am.
Will the chicken be fully cooked by 1 pm?

Jesse wants to make 125 cuboid candles.
The size of one candle is shown below:

Jesse makes these candles from a block of wax which is in the shape of a cube.
The cube has a side length of 80 cm.
Jesse melts this block of wax to make candles.
Is this block of wax big enough for Jesse to make 125 cuboid candles?

Jamie is having their kitchen floor tiled.
A plan view of Jamie’s kitchen floor is shown below.

Each tile covers one square metre and can be cut to size once bought.
Tiles are sold in packs of 4 and cost £38.70 per pack.
How much will it cost Jamie to tile their kitchen floor?