Edexcel Maths Level 1 Practice Set 3

Here are 4 numbers.

29.4     50.8    24.7    19.9

Work out the mean of these numbers.

Greta manages a visitor attraction.
She knows 48 600 people visited the attraction last spring.

Greta says
“There has been a 15% increase in the number of visitors this spring compared to spring last year.”

Work out how many people visited the attraction in spring this year for Greta.

Fabio is a restaurant manager.

He has this list of jobs.

Fabio thinks he can complete all of these jobs in 4¹/₄ hours.

Is Fabio correct?

Here are five numbers.

10 754    9241    4249    7012   13 958

Calculate the range of these numbers.

Emily is making sausage rolls for a party.
She has this list of ingredients.

Emily wants to make 75 sausage rolls for the party.
ready-made pastry comes in packs.

There are 500 g of pastry in each pack.
Emily thinks 9 packs of ready-made pastry is the smallest number she needs to make 75 sausage rolls.

Is Emily correct?

Gareth is changing his gas supplier to GES Energy.
He has this information.

Last year Gareth used 42 000 kWh of gas.
Gareth thinks he will use the same amount of gas this year.
He will pay by direct debit.

Work out the total gas bill Gareth will pay using GES Energy.

Maninder wants to put slabs in part of her garden.
She has this sketch.
All corners are right angles.

Each slab is in the shape of a square with sides of length 600 mm.

Maninder thinks she needs 65 slabs for this part of the garden.

Are 65 slabs enough for this part of the garden?

Write 1³/₄ as a percentage.

Write 1²/₃ as a decimal.
Give your answer correct to two decimal places.

Natasha is designing a building with a restaurant on the top floor.
She needs to know how long it will take for a total of 40 people to travel in the lift
from the ground floor to the restaurant.

Natasha uses this formula.

Natasha thinks it will take more than 6 minutes for a total of 40 people to travel in the lift from the ground floor to the restaurant.

Is Natasha correct?

George is a farmer.
He is going to put water piping along all the edges of a field.
George draws this sketch of the field

Water piping costs £0.59 per metre.

Calculate the total cost of the water piping George needs for this field.

John is organising a charity sailing race on the sea.
He starts to draw this accurate scale map of the course.

Sailors begin the race at the start and follow the course to the finish.
John says
“The course has a total distance of more than 18 km.”

Is John correct?

John writes a large cheque to be used for publicity.

Write this in digits.