AQA Maths Level 1 Past Paper March 2022 Paper 2

Select the smallest number.

Complete the table to show equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages.

A(2, 3) and B(8, 3) are points on a grid.

Work out the coordinates of the midpoint of line AB.

Here are six numbers.

7   10   13   7   15   8

Work out the median.

Express 76 as a percentage of 200

Share 126 in the ratio 3 : 11

Which is closer to 9.5

9.073 or 9.916 ?

Miya manages a pet shop.
She reduces the price of all fish tanks by 17%
She puts this sticker on one of the tanks.

Has Miya calculated the new price correctly?

Alex makes food for his dogs. box
He uses 2 pounds of mince to make 12 portions of food.
He has 1.5 kilograms of mince.

Is this enough to make 21 portions of food?
Use 1 kg = 2.2 pounds

Sophie has a hutch for her pet rabbit.
The floor area of the hutch is 4.46m²
Sophie builds a new hutch with the floor in the shape of a regular octagon.

The side length of the floor of the new hutch is 1.1 m
How much bigger is the floor area of the new hutch than the floor area of the old hutch?

Lisa is buying a summer house for her garden.

Lisa buys the summer house, with a delivery charge for 84 miles.

She uses the payment plan.

Work out the deposit and the amount of each monthly payment.

Lisa is buying a heater for the summer house.
To work out the correct heater size she uses the formula

Minimum heater size (kW) = area of the front (m²) × length (m) × 0.058

Here is the front view of the summer house.

The length of the summer house is 4.5 m
Lisa can buy a 1 kW heater or a 2 kW heater.

Which heater should she buy?

Jamal works for a company.
His normal rate of pay is £9.50 per hour.
His overtime rate of pay is 1.5 times his normal rate.
One week, Jamal works
38 hours at his normal rate
and
6 hours overtime.

From his earnings, the company deducts
Income Tax at 20% on his earnings over £242
National Insurance at 12% on his earnings over £18

Work out Jamal’s net pay that week, after Income Tax and National Insurance are deducted.

Jamal decides to put £2500 in a savings account for 3 years.
He compares the interest paid by two banks.

Which bank should Jamal choose, A or B?

At a soft play centre one morning,
there are 6 staff on duty
the ratio of staff to children is 2 : 17
35 of the children are aged under 7

How many of the children are aged 7 or over?

A new sand pit is built at the soft play centre.
The sand pit is in the shape of a cylinder of radius 120 cm
The sand pit will be filled with play sand to a depth of 15 cm

Play sand is sold in 50-litre bags and each bag costs £9.97
1 litre = 1000 cm³

How much will it cost to buy enough bags of sand to fill the sand pit to a depth of 15 cm?

The table shows the ages of children at the centre one day.

One of the children is chosen at random to win a free soft play visit.
The manager says,
“The probability that the child is aged 7–9 is more than ³/₁₀”

Is the manager correct?