Numeracy Unit 1 - Foundation

The gardens at Castell Gwynhir cover an area of 714 000 m2.

Water ponds cover 2/7 of the area of the gardens.

Calculate the area covered by water ponds.

Suzanna and her 2 friends are studying at Aberystwyth University.

They rent a 3-bedroom house together.

 

The 3 friends share the cost of the rent equally between them.

In April, the rent was £720 per month.

 

In October, the rent is to be increased by 15%.

How much rent will Suzanna pay in October?

Suzy buys a Jack Russell dog.

The dog costs her £450.

Pet insurance costs £18 per month.

Food for a Jack Russell costs £7 per week.

 

Calculate the total cost of buying, insuring and feeding Suzy’s dog for the first year

Mr and Mrs Blanc have 3 children, Valerie, Theo and Anton. The family is visiting Wales.

Valerie and Theo are 14-year-old twins.

Anton is 2 years old.

 

They visit Castell Gwynhir ruins and gardens.

 

A copy of the entrance board is shown.

The family decides to pay the standard charges to visit Castell Gwynhir.

How much change will they get from £20?

Marcin has a market stall to sell his printed T-shirts. 

It costs him:

• £250 to buy 100 plain T-shirts,

• 50p to print a design on each T-shirt.

Marcin sells his printed T-shirts for £4.00 each.

 

At the start of the week:

• His bank account balance is £820.

• Marcin has 100 printed T-shirts ready to sell.

• He has already paid for these printed T-shirts.

 

During the week:

• Marcin sells his stock of 100 T-shirts.

• He pays all the money he takes from selling T-shirts into his bank account.

• He buys and prints another 400 T-shirts.

• Marcin does not sell any of these 400 T-shirts.

How much will Marcin have in his bank account at the end of this week?

Tref-tiles sells boxes of small wall tiles.

Three different boxes are available.

 

Catrin is buying a very large quantity of these small tiles to cover all the walls in her bathroom.

Which box offers the best value for money?

• Box of 25

• Box of 40

• Box of 100

Write the number four thousand and thirty five, in figures

Rob puts some books and a weight on a set of balance scales.

All the books are identical.

 

What is the mass of one book?

A school raised £1200 for charity by holding a non-uniform day.

• A third of the money is given to a national children’s charity.

• 20% of the money is given to a national animal charity.

• The rest of the money is shared equally between 4 local charities.

 

How much does each of the 4 local charities receive?

There are 34 pupils in class 10A. Dewi carried out a survey to find out how many of these pupils take part in swimming, running and judo.

He displayed his results in a Venn diagram, as shown below.

How many of the pupils in class 10A take part in both judo and running?

• 1

• 8

• 4

• 3

• 21