Pearson Edexcel Level 1

Certificate in Essential

Skills – Application of

Number (Northern Ireland)

Sample Assessment Material –

Mark Scheme

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Instructions

• Use black ink or ball-point pen. • Fill in the boxes at the top of this page with your name, centre number and candidate number. • Answer all the questions. • Answer the questions in the spaces provided – there may be more space than you need. • Calculators may be used.

Information• The total mark for this paper is 45. • The marks for each question are shown in brackets

– use this as a guide to how much time to spend on each question. • You must show clearly how you get your answers because marks will be awarded for your working out. • Check your working and your answers at each stage.

•This sign shows where marks will be awarded for showing your check.

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Pearson Edexcel Level 1 Certificate in

Essential Skills – Application of Number

Sample Assessment Material Paper Reference

Time: 1 hour 30 minutes

You must have:

Pen, calculator, HB pencil, eraser, ruler graduated in cm

and mm, protractor, a pair of compasses.

Total Marks

45

Section A: New bathroom

Answer all questions in this section.

Write your answers in the spaces provided.

1 Sophie wants a new bathroom. She wants to buy a new basin, a bath and a toilet. Sophie finds these prices for a basin, a bath and a toilet.

Price

Basin £94.92

Bath £399.48

Toilet £189.00

She would also like to buy a shower fitting for £58 Sophie has a budget of £750

Use the box below to show your working and your answer.

(a) Is £750 enough to pay for the basin, bath, toilet and shower fitting?

(3)

Show your check in the box below.

(Total for Question 1 is 4 marks)

(b) Show a check of your working (1) Q1a

(1)

2 Sophie wants to put tiles on a wall in her bathroom.

The wall is rectangular 3 m wide and 2.4 m high. The tiles Sophie likes are square 60 cm by 60 cm.

Use the box below to show your working and your answer.

2.4 m

3 m

(a) How many of these tiles will Sophie need? (5)

Sophie wants to buy tiles for her bathroom floor. The tiles cost £75.50 plus VAT at 20%.

Use the box below to show your working and your answer.

(Total for Question 2 is 7 marks)

(b) What is 20% of £75.50? (2)

3 Sophie needs to work out where to put the toilet and the basin in her bathroom.

The toilet must be in a corner of the bathroom. It needs a rectangular floor space 50 cm by 125 cm. The basin must be against a wall. It needs a square floor space with sides of 75 cm. Sophie draws a plan of the bathroom on a grid.

Key: 1 square on the grid is 25 cm by 25 cm in the bathroom. Wall

(Total for Question 3 is 4 marks)

Draw and label the space for the toilet and the space for the basin on the grid. Remember to use the key. (4)

Window

Bath

Door

Section B: Cycling holiday

Answer all questions in this section.

Write your answers in the spaces provided.

4 Dan and Matt plan to go on a cycling holiday in France.

They decide to stay at camping sites on their holiday.

Dan and Matt each need to buy a new sleeping bag. They find this advert for a sleeping bag they both like.

Matt says

Will Dan and Matt save £20 each? Show why you think this. (3)

Use the box below to show your working and your answer.

Alpha sleeping bag

£75

Special offer: Buy one get a second one half price

If we put our money together and use the

special offer then we will save £20 each.

(Total for Question 4 is 3 marks)

5 Dan cycles every week to prepare for his holiday. He records the total distance, in kilometres, he cycles each week.

Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5

Distance (km) 180 254 288 272 264

Dan thinks he has cycled a mean distance of 250 km a week. Use the box below to show your working and your answer. Write your answer in the box below.

(a) Is Dan correct?

Show why you think this (3)

(b) What is the range of the weekly total distance Dan cycled? (1)

Dan wants to display his progress in a graph.

He needs to show total distances he cycled each week over the 5 weeks.

The number of kilometres I cycled increased.

The number of kilometres I cycled decreased.

The number of kilometres I cycled increased then decreased.

The number of kilometres I cycled decreased then increased.

(Total for Question 5 is 8 marks)

(c) Draw a suitable graph for Dan.

(3)

(d) Select the correct comment for Dan to describe his cycling over the 5 weeks. (1)

6 Dan needs to buy a new cycle helmet in France.

He sees one he likes for 48 euros.

Dan uses this rule to change between euros (€) and pounds (£). He knows the same make of helmet costs £40 in Northern Ireland. Dan thinks the price in France is the same as the price in Northern Ireland. Use the box below to show your working and your answer.

Money in euros (€)

Divide by 6 Multiply by 5 Money in

pounds (£)

(a) Is Dan correct? Show why you think this. (3)

(b)

Show your check in the box below.

(Total for Question 6 is 4 marks)

Show a check of your working. (1)

Section C: The garage

Answer all questions in this section.

Write your answers in the spaces provided. 7 James owns a garage. He employs three car mechanics.

James has to make some bookings for customers on Monday.

Mr Kelly, service, 3 hours

Pat Best, tyre and brake change, 3 hours 30 minutes

Ms Donnelly, MOT, 1 hour after 10 am

Grace Finnegan, repair, 2 hours.

There are already some bookings in the diary.

James has to write the name of the customer and the job in the diary. Write the bookings in the diary on the next page.

Make bookings for these four customers.

(4)

Monday Name of car mechanic

Time Emma Tom Jack

8.30 – 9.00

9.00 – 9.30

9.30 – 10.00

10.00 – 10.30 Mr Walsh Service

10.30 – 11.00 Ms McLaughlin

Service

11.00 – 11.30

11.30 – 12.00 Break

12.00 – 12.30 Break

12.30 – 1.00 Break

1.00 – 1.30

1.30 – 2.00

2.00 – 2.30 Chris Clarke

MOT

2.30 – 3.00 Kev Dunne

MOT + service

3.00 – 3.30

3.30 – 4.00

4.00 – 4.30

4.30 – 5.00

(Total for Question 7 is 4 marks)

8 The garage has a special offer on the cost of a car service.

Special offer on car service

Usual price £217.50

This week 1

3 off this price

James needs to complete the bill for Mr Walsh.

Write the missing amounts in the bill below.

Description Amount

Car service £217.50

Discount of 1

3

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Total

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __

Use the box below to show your working and your answers.

(b) Show a check of your working. (1)

Show your check in the box below.

(Total for Question 8 is 4 marks)

(a) Complete the bill. (3)

9 A customer brings an old motorbike to the garage for a service. Emma knows the motorbike needs a petrol to oil mix in the ratio 50:1 She uses 300ml of oil.

Use the box below to show your working and your answer.

(Total for Question 9 is 3 marks)

Work out the correct amount of petrol to mix with 300 ml of oil.

Give your answer in litres (3)

10 The garage is in Omagh.

On Friday James needs to

collect some spare tyres in Mountfield

collect parts in Dromore.

visit a taxi company in Ballygawley James needs to start and finish in Omagh. He wants to take the shortest route possible. The diagram shows the distances between the towns.

21 miles

8 miles

17 miles

15 miles

7.5 miles

Dromore

Mountfield

16.5 miles

Ballygawley

Omagh

Describe a suitable route for James to use. What is the total distance of this route?

(4)

Use the box below to show your working and your answer.

(Total for Question 10 is 4 marks)

TOTAL FOR PAPER IS 45 MARKS

September 2016

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