Year 10 Baseline Test
Mathematics
Foundation
Calculator
Time: 1 hour
Marks: 60 marks
Name
Date Class
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1. Jack wants to hire a bouncy castle for a birthday party. Hiring the bouncy castle will cost
£20 to set up and then £15 per hour.
a. Using t to represent the number of hours, write an expression to describe the cost.
[2 marks]
b. Jack decides to hire the bouncy castle for 5 hours. Calculate the total cost. [1 mark]
2. a. Factorise fully: 6a + 15 [1 mark]
b. Expand: 5(2b − 3) [1 mark]
c. Simplify: 3a + 5b + 7a – 8b [2 mark]
3. a. Select all the square numbers: [1 mark]
5 10 2 4 1 1000 100
b. Alex states that when two prime numbers are added together, the answer will always
be even. Is Alex correct? Justify your answer. [1 mark]
3
4. a. Find 25% of 4 of 60. [2 marks]
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b. Increase 240 by 18%. [2 marks]
5. Identify the triangle which is similar to triangle A. [1 mark]
6
5
3
A
8 C
6
7 B 14
10
4
8 10
17
E
9 D
10 14
6. a. Calculate the area of the circle. Give your answer correct to 1 decimal place.
[2 marks]
12cm
cm2
b. The perimeter of another circle is 10cm. Find its radius, giving your answer correct
to 2 decimal places. [2 marks]
cm
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7. A gardener measures the heights of 10 sunflowers. The results are shown in the table.
a. Calculate the mean height of the sunflowers. Give your answer
180cm
correct to the nearest centimetre. [2 marks]
195cm
154cm
160cm
213cm
163cm
cm
177cm
183cm b. Calculate the range of the heights of the sunflowers. [1 mark]
196cm
201cm
8. Calculate the area of the trapezium. [2 marks]
Diagram not drawn accuractely.
3.5cm
5.5cm
cm2
7.5cm
9. The diagram summarises the results of a survey which asked 72 people how they travel
to work.
other a. Calculate how many people travel by bus.
[1 mark]
walk
car
cycle b. Calculate how many people travel by train.
[2 marks]
bus
train
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c. The table below summarises the results of how long the journeys to work take. Draw
a pie chart to represent this data. [3 marks]
Journey Time (mins) Frequency
0 < t ≤ 15 36
15 < t ≤ 30 12
30 < t ≤ 45 18
45 < t ≤ 90 6
10. The chart shows the number of wins, draws and losses for a local football team.
8
6
4
2
0
win draw lose
a. Using the chart, estimate the probability that the team will lose their next match.
[1 mark]
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Next season, the football team will play another local team. The results of the season
so far for this team are shown in the chart below.
8
6
4
2
0
win draw lose
b. Make 2 comparisons between the results of the two teams. [2 marks]
c. If the teams are awarded 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for a
loss, which team scored more points for the season? You must show your working.
[3 marks]
11. Input ×5 +3 Output
a. Calculate the output if the input is 2.8. [1 mark]
b. Calculate the input if the output is 9.5. [2 marks]
12. A car travels at an average speed of 42mph. Calculate the total distance the car will
travel in 100 minutes. [2 marks]
miles
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13. Two bags contain the same number of counters. The expressions on the bags give the
numbers of counters in terms of x. How many counters does each bag contain?
[3 marks]
5x + 3 7x – 3
14. a. Describe the single transformation that maps shape ABCD to shape EFGH. [2 marks]
6
5
D
4
A
3
2
1
b. Calculate the area of ABCD. [2 marks]
B C
-6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
E H
-1
-2
-3
F
-4
G
-5
-6
9 c. Translate triangle ABC by the vector
8 2
()
3 . [2 marks]
7
6
A
5
4
C
3
2
B
1
-6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4
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15. a. Calculate the size of angle x. [2 marks]
Diagram not drawn accuractely.
163°
x= °
b. Calculate the value of y. [2 marks]
6y
5y
5y y= °
2y
16. In a local area, the council collects taxes based on the values of people’s houses.
They split the taxes into 3 bands. Tax bands A, B and C pay taxes in the ratio of: 6:7:8.
a. If the total amount of tax collected is £525 000, calculate the total amount collected
from people in band A. [2 marks]
b. The council can increase the total taxes by a maximum of 6% each year.
Calculate the maximum total tax they could collect next year. [2 marks]
17. Two trains enter a station at 10:10am. Train A is a local train which returns every 15
minutes. Train B is a national train and returns every 40 minutes.
Find the next time they will enter the station at the same time. [3 marks]
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