City and Guilds Maths Level 1 Sample 3 

4.7 x 1000 =

16 ²/₃ is the same as

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What is 8% as a decimal?

12² =

What is 7.2857 rounded to two decimal places?

8 + (7 – 5) x 3 =

What is two hours and thirty eight minutes in minutes?

What is ²/₅ of 300m?

Which one of these lists of decimals is in increasing order?

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Which is a plan view of the object shown?

A community centre projects films on to a screen.
The manager wants to make a wooden border around the screen.
She needs to order the wood.

What length of wood does she need to order?

A sports club needs to replace the sand in a long jump pit.

The groundsman works out the capacity of the long jump pit to order enough sand.

What amount of sand does he order?

What is 10% of £68.50?

A boat is sailing North.

It turns 100 degrees in an anti-clockwise direction.

Which one of the following shows the direction in which the boat is now sailing?

A sea diver makes 7 different dives.
He measures how deep he dives.
This table shows his results:

What was the variation in depth for the seven dives?

What is the interest paid on £2500 at an interest rate of 15%

This chart shows the average monthly temperatures of Sydney and Dubai.

What is the difference in the average monthly temperature of Sydney and Dubai in July?

A parent wants a car seat for his child who is 36 months old.
He needs a seat that is front facing and uses a harness.
He looks at this table.

Which seat type should the parent buy?

A woman is training for a triathlon race, which includes a 1.5km swim.
She needs her swim time to be 33 minutes.
She trains in a swimming pool, which is 50m long.
She needs to know the average time she must swim each length.

What is this time?

A man wants to buy bags of gravel to cover his driveway.
He decides to work out the area of his driveway.
1 bag of gravel covers 14m²

What is the area of his driveway?
How many bags of gravel must he buy?

A football manager needs to pick his team for the next match.
He gets some information on players in the team from previous matches.
He needs to choose between two players based on their work rate.
He measures their work rate using average and variation of the distance they covered.

Which player should the manager choose?

A father and his child want to take self-defence lessons at a karate club for a year.
The club offers lessons for members and non-members.
The club holds one lesson per week.
Everyone who comes to lessons must buy a uniform and take out insurance for the year.
The father and child can only go to half of the lessons for the year.

He needs to decide whether to take lessons as members or non-members.

What should he decide to do to get the best deal?