Functional Skills Maths Assessment. Level 2

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1 Functional Skills Maths Assessment Level 2 Learner name Learner registration number Learner signature Centre Assessment date 1a 1b 2a 2b 3a 3b 4 5 6a 6b 7a 7b NOCN USE ONLY Total Instructions to learners You may use a calculator. You will need a pen and a ruler. There are 7 tasks in this assessment. You must attempt all 7 tasks. Total marks available: 44 You have one and a half hours to finish the assessment M L2 Sample Paper DD - Being Employed V4 Page 1 of 16

2 Task 1 Applying for jobs Ruth is looking for a permanent job. She finds these three advertisements for similar jobs in the paper. Jones Department Stores An opportunity has opened up for a new Trainee Sales Manager Pay per month is 1750 for first 6 months, rising to 2000 per month after that King s Café Manageress required Pay is per hour 35 hours per week (weekend rate: time and a quarter) Required to work 5 of the 35 hours at the weekend every week Lewis Shopping Complex Section leader needed Starting salary: plus annual bonus of 12% of salary Task 1a Choose two of the jobs. Work out the total pay for one year. Decide which of the two Ruth should apply for. Show all your working in the box below. (4 marks) M L2 Sample Paper DD - Being Employed V4 Page 2 of 16

3 Ruth estimates she must pay a quarter of her annual salary in tax and other stoppages. Task 1b Work out what her annual salary is after she has paid tax and other stoppages for the job she has chosen in Task 1a. Show all your working in the box below. (2 marks) M L2 Sample Paper DD - Being Employed V4 Page 3 of 16

4 Task 2 Claiming Expenses Ruth has an interview for the job chosen in Task 1a. She wants to claim expenses for the interview. Here is some information about what she can claim for: Mileage claim: 40.2p per mile Parking fees and all standard rail and bus transport costs She drove to the interview. She must record how many miles she drove. She drove 89 miles that day. At the end of the day Ruth reads her milometer. The reading on the milometer at the end of the journey is Task 2a Fill in the blank boxes in this claim form to claim for Ruth s petrol costs. (2 marks) Date Place Purpose Milometer Reading From To Start End 17/09/10 Stockport Chesterfield Job interview Total Miles Detail Amount petrol p M L2 Sample Paper DD - Being Employed V4 Page 4 of 16

5 Ruth knows that she can normally drive 360 miles using a full tank of petrol. A full tank of petrol costs her 56. Task 2b Work out how much more Ruth has been paid per mile for attending the interview than it cost her per mile to fill up the car. Give your answer to the nearest penny. Show all your working in the box below. (3 marks) M L2 Sample Paper DD - Being Employed V4 Page 5 of 16

6 Task 3 Starting work A company wants to redesign this office space so that another employee can fit in. Office floor plan (not drawn to scale): 10m 3m 8m Height of office 2.5 metres 6m Health and Safety regulations state that: the volume of the room when empty divided by the number of people working in it, should be at least 11 cubic metres. Currently 12 people work in the office. M L2 Sample Paper DD - Being Employed V4 Page 6 of 16

7 Task 3a Check that having 13 people work in the office meets with health and safety regulations. Show all your working and explain your reasoning in the box below. (4 marks) Task 3b Calculate the maximum amount of floor area available for each of the 13 employees to work in to the nearest square metre. 12% of the floor areas is non-working area. Show all your working and explain your reasoning in the box below. (3 marks) M L2 Sample Paper DD - Being Employed V4 Page 7 of 16

8 Task 4 Being self-employed Samir starts a business making wooden toys. He plans to sell the toys to different toy shops. He makes toy cars, boats and trains. Toy shops can buy Samir s toys in two different sizes. Each of the toys he makes is available with a length of either 10cm or 20cm. Samir plans to show his toys to six different toy shops. He needs a data collection sheet to record how many of each sized toy each shop wishes to order. Task 4 Design a data collection sheet in the box on the next page which enables Samir to record his orders. (4 marks) M L2 Sample Paper DD - Being Employed V4 Page 8 of 16

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10 Task 5 Delivery Samir delivers the trains he has made. He puts the trains on a pallet. Goods can t be stacked more than one box high because they break easily. The pallet measures 1m by 2m. Each boxed train set measures 80cm by 30 cm by 20 cm. Task 5 Draw a scale drawing to show how to arrange the boxes on the pallet. Use the box on the next page. (4 marks) M L2 Sample Paper DD - Being Employed V4 Page 10 of 16

11 Draw your scale diagram here M L2 Sample Paper DD - Being Employed V4 Page 11 of 16

12 Task 6 Faulty Toys Samir employs two other people to make toys. Samir knows that each person is likely to make some toys which are not good enough to sell. Samir records the number of faulty toys each person makes in a three month period. Month 1 Month 2 Month 3 Satisfactory Faulty Satisfactory Faulty Satisfactory Faulty Ali Dave Task 6a Samir wants to know which employee on average makes the least number of faulty toys. Compare the mean weekly average number of faulty toys made by Ali and Dave. Explain the difference between the means in full in the box below. (5 marks) M L2 Sample Paper DD - Being Employed V4 Page 12 of 16

13 Samir wants to use the information in the table to work out the likelihood of an employee making a faulty toy. Task 6b Use Samir s idea to work out how many toys are likely to be faulty if Ali makes 500 toys. (4 marks) M L2 Sample Paper DD - Being Employed V4 Page 13 of 16

14 Task 7 Delivering the Toys A delivery man must deliver toys to five different customers and return to the depot. He leaves the depot at 9am. He allows about 15 minutes per customer for parking and delivery. The map (not drawn to scale) shows the location of each customer and the average driving speeds for each road. Bradfield Toys 7 miles 40mph 10 miles 40mph Play Time Delights 5 miles 40mph Toy Garden 6 miles 30mph 8 miles 40mph Toys R 4 U 7 miles 30mph 6 miles 40mph Depot 6 miles 60mph 15 miles 45 mph 6 miles 40mph Toys Galore You should use the formula t = d [t = time, d = distance travelled, s = average speed] s M L2 Sample Paper DD - Being Employed V4 Page 14 of 16

15 Task 7a Choose one route so that the delivery man delivers to all five customers. (1 mark) The manager at Toys R 4 U has asked for an estimated delivery time. Using the route you chose, calculate the delivery time at the Toys R 4 U shop. (6 marks) Check your answer. (1 mark) Task 7b Give one reason why the delivery time may not be accurate. (1 mark) M L2 Sample Paper DD - Being Employed V4 Page 15 of 16

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