Adult Numeracy Level 2 - Exemplar 2

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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.

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

Questions

Questions 1 to 4 are about the sales at an ice-cream stall.

Mary runs an ice-cream stall. To check how popular each flavour is, she records the number of each flavour sold.

FLAVOUR OF ICE-CREAM	NUMBER SOLD
Strawberry	4
Mint Choc Chip	5
Raspberry	7
Chocolate	14
Banana	3
Toffee	6
Vanilla	8
Tutti Frutti	3

1. Which ice-cream flavour sold only two-thirds as many as toffee?
A. Banana
B. Strawberry
C. Mint Choc Chip
D. Tutti Frutti

2. What percentage of all the sales was the chocolate flavour?
A. 7%
B. 14%
C. 28%
D. 30%

3. Mary used 1 litre of vanilla ice-cream. How much chocolate ice-cream did she use if all the ice-creams were the same size?
A. litre
B. litre
C. litres
D. litres

4. Additional data was recorded from a group of children who all had tutti frutti ice-cream. This made tutti frutti the unique mode for all the data. What is the minimum number of children in the group to give this statistic?
A. 3
B. 11
C. 12
D. 17

Questions 5 to 8 are about a camping holiday. Some friends are planning a camping holiday in May.

The table below shows information on the prices of some of the campsites available.

Campsite Information
Site	Price per night	Discounts
Happy Camper	Ł10 per tent	50% off third night
Rovers' Rest	Ł4 per tent plus Ł2 per person	-
Vibram Farm	Ł15 per tent	25% off all nights in May
Wood Nook	Ł2 per tent plus Ł4 per person	-

5. There are 4 people in the group and they are taking 2 tents for 3 nights in May. They calculate that Rovers' Rest is the cheapest for them and Vibram Farm would be the most expensive. How much would they save by going to Rovers' Rest rather than Vibram Farm?
A. Ł6.50
B. Ł8.50
C. Ł19.50
D. Ł25.50

6. There is a brilliant surfing beach 25 kilometres from Rovers’ Rest but no one can remember its name. One of the friends has a map with a scale of 2cm to 5km and he measures the distance from Rovers’ Rest on the map to 4 local beaches. Which one is the surfing beach?
A. Blackrock Sands 2cm
B. Gull Cove 5cm
C. St Peter’s Bay 7cm
D. Whitesands 10cm

7. Their car uses 1 litre of petrol to travel 14.8 kilometres. The campsite is 88 kilometres away from their home town. They estimate how much fuel they will need for the trip there and back. Which of these 4 attempts gives the closest estimate of the fuel required?
A. 90 ÷ 15 = 6 litres
B. 90 ÷ 10 = 9 litres
C. 180 ÷ 15 = 12 litres
D. 180 ÷ 10 = 18 litres

8. One of the items on their list of supplies is 6 yoghurts. The supermarket has several special offers. Which would work out cheapest?
A. Original price 26p: buy one, get a second half-price
B. Original price 26p: buy two, get the third free
C. Original price 27p: one third off
D. Original price 28p: 25% off

Questions 9 and 10 are about sale labels in a clothes shop.

Kay has been given 4 labels to put on the sale rails at the clothes shop where she works.

9. Which label should she put on the trousers that are down from Ł24 to Ł16?
A. Label 1
B. Label 2
C. Label 3
D. Label 4

10. Which label should she put on the coats that are down from Ł50 to Ł35?
A. Label 1
B. Label 2
C. Label 3
D. Label 4