Adult Numeracy Level 2 - Exemplar 1

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Try to do the test in 20 minutes. There are 10 questions. Read each question carefully and try to answer all of them.

Questions

You need:
A Ruler marked with mm and cm
Bilingual dictionaries may be used

Use the information below for questions 1, 2 and 3.

A Fire Service report shows the numbers of different types of fires attended during the year.

chimney fires: 420
vehicle fires: 770
derelict buildings: 44
occupied buildings: 960
others: 330

1. The Fire Service wants to present the number of each type of fire as a fraction of all fires. Which of these is the most effective way of presenting this information?
A. bar chart
B. scattergraph
C. line graph
D. pie chart

2. What fraction of all the fires were vehicle fires?
A. about 1/5
B. about 1/4
C. about 1/3
D. about 1/2

3. What is the ratio of chimney fires to fires in occupied buildings, expressed in the simplest terms?
A. 42 : 96
B. 7 : 16
C. 6 : 13
D. 3 : 8

Toby carried out a 'transport to college' survey for GNVQ students at his college. The table shows the survey results.

Transport to college	No. of people
Walk	18
Bike	19
Car	74
Bus	37

4. Which of these pie charts matches
the results most closely?

A.
B.
C.
D.

Use the information below for questions 5 and 6.

This is the label on a packet of weedkiller to treat a garden.

WEEDKILLER

Mix 60 grams of powder with 4.5 litres of water
To treat 20 square metres of ground
1 litre of water weighs 1000 g (1 kg)

5. What is the dilution of the weedkiller, expressed as a ratio of weight of weedkiller : weight of water?
A. 1 : 13
B. 1 : 17
C. 1 : 60
D. 1 : 75

6. For best results, the diluted weedkiller mix should be spread evenly over the ground. Approximately how much diluted weedkiller is needed per square metre of ground?
A. 0.2 litres
B. 3 litres
C. 9 litres
D. 225 litres

The sketch diagram below shows a design for a garden pond. The pond has shallow and deep parts for different plants. All the edges meet at right angles to each other. (1 litre equals 1000 cm³.)

7. How many litres of water will fill the pond to the top?
A. 144 litres
B. 384 litres
C. 456 litres
D. 540 litres

Use the information below for questions 8 and 9.

Burton District Council is finding out the extent of car ownership in the area, so that it can plan road development.

8. Which of these methods is best for collecting the information?
A. count the number of cars on all roads into town on a given day using an electronic counter
B. carry out a survey of each neighbourhood at night to count the cars parked
C. count the cars in town car parks each day for a week and calculate the average
D. take a questionnaire to every household and ask how many cars they have

9. In Victoria Street there are 30 households. 9 households have no car, 15 have one car, and 6 have two cars. What is the mean number of cars per household on Victoria Street?
A. 0.7 cars
B. 0.9 cars
C. 1.0 cars
D. 1.29 cars

Mark is cooking a 3 kilogram joint of beef. His cook book says that

Cooking time = (105 x weight in kilograms) _{+ 25}
in minutes ( 2 )

10. How long must he cook the beef for (to the nearest 10 minutes)?
A. 2 hours 30 minutes
B. 2 hours 50 minutes
C. 3 hours
D. 3 hours 10 minutes