FUNCTIONAL SKILLS MATHEMATICS LEVEL 1

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FUNCTIONAL SKILLS

MATHEMATICS

LEVEL 1

PRACTICE QUESTION AND ANSWER PAPER

FSM140

YOU NEED

This question and answer paper A pen with black or blue ink

A pencil and an eraser A ruler marked in mm and cm

A protractor A non-programmable calculator

Do not open this paper until you are told to do so by the Exam Supervisor

THERE ARE THREE TASKS IN THIS EXAM

Total marks available: 50

Try to answer ALL questions

TIME ALLOWED: 90 MINUTES

INSTRUCTIONS

Make sure that your candidate information is entered correctly on this question and

answer paper Make sure that your writing is clear, and show all your working Answer each question in the space provided on this question and answer paper

If you use extra paper, make sure that it has your name and candidate number on it and is securely attached to your question and answer paper

At the end of the test, hand this question and answer paper and all notes to the Exam Supervisor

Candidate Name:……………………………………………………………………………………….………………………

Candidate Number:……………………………………………………………………………………………………………

Exam Date:…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

Centre Name:…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

Centre Code:………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………



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Task 1 (14 marks) Rob owns a printing company.

His company occupies two rectangular rooms. One room is for staff facilities and the other room is for business. The staff facilities room has three sections.

This table gives the size of the floor space in each of the two rooms

Room Dimensions in

metres (m)

Area in

square metres (m2)

Staff facilities

Rest section 6 by 5

Dining section 5 by 3

Kitchen section 3 by 3

Total area for staff facilities =

Business

Print workshop 20 by 16 Rob wants to move his company to another building. He finds this sketch plan of a warehouse that he could rent

1A

Complete the table by filling in the shaded boxes.

Does the warehouse have enough floor space for Rob’s business?

Examiner use only

(6 marks)



Show your working.

Explain your answer.

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Rob finds another warehouse to rent.

He will use a room that measures 22 metres by 18 metres as a print workshop. He uses a scale drawing to work out how to fit his equipment into the print workshop.

Printing equipment Number Width

(metres)

Depth

(metres)

Printer 1 12.0 5.0

Stacker 1 6.0 5.0

1B Show how Rob can fit the equipment into the print workshop on the page below.

Examiner use only

(3 marks)



Show your working.




Rob wants to check the printing data for last month. Printing data

Number of pages (in thousands) printed for each item

Item Flyer Brochure Leaflet Letter-head Poster

Number of pages 94 44 68 36 22

Make one comment on what your chart shows.

1C Draw a suitable chart for Rob to show the data in the table. Examiner use only

(5 marks)



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For Examiner use only

1A

1B

1C

Total for Task 1



Task 2 (19 marks)

Poppy is the manager of a unisex hair salon. The salon uses a mixture of three products for hair colouring. This table shows the number of millilitres (ml) of each product used for the mixture

Product Colour Developer Conditioner

Amount 30ml 60ml 60ml

Poppy has the following amount of each product in stock

3.5 litres of Colour

0.5 litres of Developer

2.2 litres of Conditioner

The salon has about 80 appointments for hair colouring per month.

Poppy can only order products in whole litres.

For next month, she thinks she has enough colour and conditioner in stock but she needs to order 4 litres of developer.

2A Is Poppy correct? Examiner use only

(5 marks)

Show your working.



Explain your answer.




Poppy decides to use adverts for six weeks to try to increase the number of customers. These are the numbers of customers per week for the 6 weeks during advertising

Week 1 2 3 4 5 6

Number of customers 104 112 117 123 135 141

In the six weeks before advertising, the salon had

2B Use statistics to find out if Poppy’s adverts worked. Show your working. Examiner

use only

(7 marks)

a mean average of 116 customers per week

and

a range of 25 customers per week



Explain your findings.

Should Poppy continue to use adverts?

Give a reason for your answer.




Poppy wants to set up a new cleaning contract for the salon. She has information from three companies.

The salon needs cleaning for one hour per day from Monday to Saturday for the 52 weeks in the year.

Show your working.

2C Which company should Poppy choose? Examiner

use only

(7 marks)

Spotless Specialists

£ 9.00 per hour Mon to Fri £11.00 per hour Sat to Sun

Plus 5% charge for products

calculated on total cleaning price

Minimum 5 hours per week

Cleaning Angels

One hour cleaning 6 days a week

52 weeks (1 year) contract only £3 150

All cleaning products free

Contract Cleaners

£10 per hour for 5 hours or more per

week Mon to Fri

£11 per hour for 4 hours or less

per week Mon to Fri

Saturday or Sunday

£10.50 per hour

Prices reduced in 2nd year of contract

All cleaning products free



Give a reason for your choice of company

Show how to check your answer for Spotless Specialists or Contract Cleaners.




Task 3 (17 marks)

Theo wants to put on a musical event in the community hall for charity. The community hall can hold a maximum of 200 people. Money from the sale of tickets will be used to pay for the cost of these items

Item Cost (£)

Hiring of community centre 150

Booking the band 220

Lighting 55

Security 135

Other 185

Theo wants to raise at least £400 for charity so he needs to include this amount of money in the ticket price.

Show your working.

3A How much do you think Theo should charge for each ticket? Examiner

use only

(6 marks)



Explain the choices you made to reach your answer.

Show how to check your answer.




Theo hires the hall from 4.30pm until midnight.

The members of the band say that it takes them

1 hour and 45 minutes to set up 20 minutes to test the speakers 45 minutes to pack up at the end of the evening.

The band will have a 30 minute break halfway through the evening.

The band will play for 3

hours. This will include their break.

3B Clearly state a suitable start time and a suitable finish time for the event. Examiner

use only

(6 marks)

Show your working.






Theo needs to get 200 tickets printed for the event.

He uses this rule to work out the cost of printing the tickets

Theo has these quotes from two different printing companies

Quote 2: 32 pence per ticket, £12.50 delivery charge, delivery next day

Show your working.

Quote 1: 35 pence per ticket, £5.95 delivery charge, delivery within 5 days

3C Which quote should he choose for the tickets? Examiner use only

(5 marks)



Give a reason for your choice of quote.

For Examiner use only

3A

3B

3C

Total for task 3



End of exam

Examiner use

Total mark

Examiner’s initials

Task 1

Task 2

Task 3

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