L2 GOLA A Part 2

A company wants to compare the wages of its male and female employees. A manager gathers this data.

1. What is the range of the female wages?

• £180

• £210

• £229

• £230

2. The manager works out that the mean wage for males is £255. How much less than this is the mean wage for females?

• £26

• £36

• £40

• £45

3. A child makes a model of a boat. The instructions say the length of the real is 22 metres. The scale of the model is 1:40. What is the length of the model boat?

• 5.5cm

• 8.8cm

• 55.0cm

• 88.0cm

4. The child sails his model boat 8 times around a circular boating lake. The diagram shows the plan view of the lake.

What is the distance the boat travels?

• 180m

• 720m

• 1440m

• 21600m

5. A Sunday newspaper offers advertising space for house sales at a reduced rate. The normal price for a house sales advert is £84. The reduced price is £28, giving a saving of £56. Which of these calculations gives the saving as a percentage of the normal price?

• 84/28 x 100

• 84/56 x 100

• 28/84 x 100

• 56/84 x 100

6. A student carried out a survey in a town centre car park. During the survey 251 cars entered the car park. Between 8am an 2pm, 148 cars entered the car park. The fraction of cars in the survey which entered the car park between 8am and 2pm is about:

• 3/8

• 2/5

• 3/5

• 5/8

7. An artist makes a photograph frame from two identical L-shaped piece of wood. The diagram shows the measurements.

The artist wants to check the size of the viewing area in the frame. Which calculation checks the viewing area in cm²?

• 16x11

• 16x13

• 18x13

• 20x15

8. A student heats up a pan of water. He measures the temperature of the water every 10 seconds. His results are shown in the table.

What percentage of the total increase in temperature happens during the first half of the time taken to do the experiment?

• 48%

• 50%

• 80%

• 88%

9. Anne goes to a swimming club. She weighs 12 stone. The scales at the club measure weight in kilograms. 1 stone = 6.3 kilograms. What is Anne's approximate weight?

• 18kg

• 19kg

• 72kg

• 76kg

10. Anne's target weight is 10.5 stone. What fraction of her current weight (12 Stone) does she aim to lose?

• 1/12

• 1/8

• 1/6

• 1/4