Foundation Maths GCSE: Breakfast Warm Up 1 Calculator B

Calculate 2 × 5 − 32 . Write 0.23 as a fraction. Calculate (−4)2 . Write down the first five square Simplify
numbers. 𝑥 + 2𝑦 + 2𝑥 − 𝑦

List the first five multiples of 8. Find the mode from this set of Solve Expand Find 30% of £8.
data: 𝑥
=8 3(5𝑥 − 2)
10
4, 5, 5, 6, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, 9, 9, 10, 11

Round 4.56259 to three decimal There are 900 students in a Solve 4𝑥 − 8 = 12 What is the sum of the interior
Convert 270 minutes into hours.
places. school of which 20% are in Year angles of a quadrilateral?
11. How many students are in
Year 11?

What type of triangle is this?
Find the volume of this cuboid. Calculate In a sale, a DVD player was
Find the value of 𝑦 when 𝑥 = 5
reduced from £160 to £136.
√15.6
𝑦 = 2𝑥 2 What was the percentage
180 − 5.92
reduction?
Give your answer to three
decimal places.
Foundation Maths GCSE: Breakfast Warm Up 2
List all the factors of 12.
A straight line has equation
𝑦 = −4𝑥 + 9
Write down a) the gradient and
b) the coordinates of the 𝑦
intercept.
What inequality is represented
here?
List all the different ways Megan
A recipe uses flour to sugar in
the ratio 4:5. How much sugar is
needed with 200g of flour?
What is the size of angle 𝑦?
Find the area of a circle with
diameter 5.5cm.
Megan has three cards:
can arrange these letters.
Simplify
18𝑝5 𝑞18 ÷ 3𝑝𝑞15
Calculator B
Calculate Solve Write down the next three terms
of the sequence
4.53 5𝑥 + 4 = 2𝑥 + 16
11, 6, 1, -4, ...
2.5𝜋
Give your answer to three
decimal places.
Find the value of Find the cube root of 50. Round The angles in a quadrilateral are
your answer to 1 decimal place. in the ratio 1 : 2 : 4 : 2.
1.25 × 105 − 5.3 × 103
What's the size of the largest
Answer in standard form. angle?
Expand
Write 108 as a product of prime What is the size of angle 𝑦?
factors. Give your answer in
(5𝑥 + 1)2
index form.
Round 56,085 to 2 significant After a 5% reduction in a sale, a Solve 20 − 𝑥 = 28
figures. TV now costs £114. What was
the original price?
Higher Maths GCSE: Breakfast Warm Up 1 Calculator B
Simplify Work out 𝑥. What do we call these angles?
What is the size of angle 𝑦? Find the value of 𝑦 when

𝑥 = −4
5𝑥 2 + 6𝑥 + 6 − 2(2𝑥 + 3 − 4𝑥 2 )

𝑦 = 𝑥 2 − 5𝑥

Jo is 37 years old. Her age is Find the size of angle 𝑥. The volume of a sphere is
4
𝜋𝑟 3 . Prove that 0.54̇ =
49
Ed drives 2,800 metres in 200
90
represented by 𝑥. Give the error 3 seconds. What's his average
Find the radius if the volume is
interval for 𝑥. speed in km/h?
200𝑐𝑚3 .

Find the mean Factorise OABC is a parallelogram. Write Find the surface area of a cube
(16𝑥 8 )0.5 = 𝑎𝑥 𝑏
vector ⃗⃗⃗⃗⃗
𝑂𝐵 in terms of 𝐚 and 𝐜. with side length 3cm.
𝑥 𝑓
Write down the value of 𝑎 and 𝑏.
4𝑥 2 − 1
5 8
6 12
7 15

There are 6 runners in a race. In
how many different ways can the
bronze, silver and gold medals
be allocated?
Find the equation of a line with A car travels 25km, correct to the Simplify 𝑃(𝐴) = 0.8
gradient −1 which passes nearest km. It takes 45 minutes, 25𝑥 2 + 15𝑥 10𝑥 − 50 𝑃(𝐵) = 0.5
through the point (2,3). correct to the nearest 5 minutes. × 2 𝑃(𝐴 ∪ 𝐵) = 0.9
Find the upper bound of its 𝑥 2 − 25 5𝑥 + 3𝑥
Find 𝑃(𝐴 ∩ 𝐵)
average speed in km/h.
Higher Maths GCSE: Breakfast Warm Up 2 Calculator B

Factorise If the area of the major sector is Work out the length of side ℎ.
49√7 can be written as 7𝑘 .
10𝑐𝑚2 , what is its radius?
What is the value of 𝑘?
𝑥3 − 𝑥

Work out the size of angle 𝑏.

Expand
𝑥+7 Prove that the sum of three There are 30 boys in a class. The What does this graph tell us
𝑓(𝑥) = consecutive integers is always teacher chooses two boys at (2𝑥 + 3)3 about the acceleration?
𝑥
divisible by 3. random. How many different
Find the inverse function 𝑓 −1 (𝑥). pairs can be chosen?

1 There are 50 people on the bus, Simplify Solve for 𝑥 Sketch the graph of 𝑦 = 𝑥3.
3
= 𝑎𝑥 𝑏 rounded to the nearest 10. At the
(2𝑥) next stop 15 people get off, rounded
5√𝑥(3√𝑥 + √4𝑥𝑦)
to the nearest five. No one gets on.
What's the maximum number of
Write down the value of 𝑎 and 𝑏.
people left on the bus?

Work out the distance travelled Solve Solve the simultaneous Sketch the graph of 10𝑥 – 𝑥 2 ≡ 𝑝 − (𝑥 − 𝑞)2 .
equations
6 20 1
− =4 𝑦= +2 Find the values of 𝑝 and 𝑞.
𝑦– 𝑥 = 3 𝑥
𝑥 𝑥+2
𝑥 2 + 𝑦 2 = 29
Foundation Maths GCSE: Breakfast Warm Up 1 ANSWERS Calculator B
Calculate 2 × 5 − 32 . Write 0.23 as a fraction. Calculate (−4)2 . Write down the first five square Simplify
numbers 𝑥 + 2𝑦 + 2𝑥 − 𝑦

1 23 16
100 1, 4, 9, 16, 25 3𝑥 + 𝑦

List the first five multiples of 8. Find the mode from this set of Solve Expand Find 30% of £8.
data: 𝑥
=8 3(5𝑥 − 2)
10
4, 5, 5, 6, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, 9, 9, 10, 11
8, 16, 24, 32, 40 £2.40
6 𝑥 = 80 15𝑥 − 6

Round 4.56259 to three decimal There are 900 students in a Solve 4𝑥 − 8 = 12 What is the sum of the interior
Convert 270 minutes into hours
places school of which 20% are in Year angles of a quadrilateral?
11. How many students are in
Year 11?
4.563 4.5 hours 𝑥 = 5 360o
180

Find the volume of this cuboid. Calculate In a sale, a DVD player was
What type of triangle is this? Find the value of 𝑦 when 𝑥 = 5
reduced from £160 to £136.
√15.6
𝑦 = 2𝑥 2 What was the percentage
180 − 5.92
reduction?
Give your answer to three
decimal places.
𝑦 = 50
Isosceles 400𝑚3 0.027 15%
Foundation Maths GCSE: Breakfast Warm Up 2 ANSWERS Calculator B

List all the factors of 12.
1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12
A straight line has equation
𝑦 = −4𝑥 + 9
Write down a) the gradient and
b) the coordinates of the y
intercept.
What is the size of angle 𝑦? Calculate Solve Write down the next three terms
of the sequence
4.53 5𝑥 + 4 = 2𝑥 + 16
11, 6, 1, -4, ...
2.5𝜋
Give your answer to three
60o decimal places.
𝑥= 4 −9, −14, −19
11.602
Find the area of a circle with Find the value of Find the cube root of 50. Round The angles in a quadrilateral are
diameter 5.5cm. your answer to 1 decimal place. in the ratio 1 : 2 : 4 : 2.
1.25 × 105 − 5.3 × 103
What's the size of the largest
Answer in standard form. angle?

23.8𝑐𝑚2 3.7
a) gradient = −4 1.197 × 10 5
160o
b) y intercept = (0,9)
Expand
What inequality is represented Megan has three cards: Write 108 as a product of prime What is the size of angle 𝑦?
here? factors. Give your answer in
(5𝑥 + 1)2
index form.

List all the different ways Megan

can arrange these letters. 22 × 33 25𝑥 2 + 10𝑥 + 1
𝑥>4 𝑦 = 105 0
ABC, ACB, BAC, BCA, CAB, CBA

A recipe uses flour to sugar in Simplify Round 56,085 to 2 significant After a 5% reduction in a sale, a Solve 20 − 𝑥 = 28
the ratio 4:5. How much sugar is figures. TV now costs £114. What was
needed with 200g of flour? 18𝑝5 𝑞18 ÷ 3𝑝𝑞15 the original price?

250𝑔 6𝑝4 𝑞 3 56,000 £120 𝑥 = −8

Higher Maths GCSE: Breakfast Warm Up 1 ANSWERS Calculator B
Simplify Work out 𝑥. What do we call these angles?
What is the size of angle 𝑦? Find the value of 𝑦 when

𝑥 = −4
5𝑥 2 + 6𝑥 + 6 − 2(2𝑥 + 3 − 4𝑥 2 )
𝑦 = 𝑥 2 − 5𝑥

13𝑥 2 + 2𝑥 Alternate angles

120 o 36 𝑥 = 3.75𝑐𝑚

Jo is 37 years old. Her age is Find the size of angle 𝑥. The volume of a sphere is
4
𝜋𝑟 3 . Prove that 0.54̇ =
49
Ed drives 2,800 metres in 200
90
represented by 𝑥. Give the error 3 seconds. What's his average
Find the radius if the volume is 𝑥 = 0.54444 …
interval for 𝑥. 10𝑥 = 5.4444 … speed in km/h?
200𝑐𝑚3 .
100𝑥 = 54.4444 …
90𝑥 = 49
49
𝑥=
37 ≤ 𝑥 < 38 104o 3.63𝑐𝑚
90 50.4𝑘𝑚/ℎ

Find the mean Factorise OABC is a parallelogram. Write Find the surface area of a cube
(16𝑥 8 )0.5 = 𝑎𝑥 𝑏
vector ⃗⃗⃗⃗⃗
𝑂𝐵 in terms of 𝐚 and 𝐜. with side length 3cm.
𝑥 𝑓
Write down the value of 𝑎 and 𝑏.
4𝑥 2 − 1
5 8
6 12 (2𝑥 + 1)(2𝑥 − 1)
𝑎=4 54𝑐𝑚2
7 15
6.2 𝑏=4
𝐜+𝐚
There are 6 runners in a race. In Find the equation of a line with A car travels 25km, correct to the Simplify 𝑃(𝐴) = 0.8
how many different ways can the gradient −1 which passes nearest km. It takes 45 minutes, 2
25𝑥 + 15𝑥 10𝑥 − 50 𝑃(𝐵) = 0.5
bronze, silver and gold medals through the point (2,3). correct to the nearest 5 minutes. × 2 𝑃(𝐴 ∪ 𝐵) = 0.9
be allocated? Find the upper bound of its 𝑥 2 − 25 5𝑥 + 3𝑥
Find 𝑃(𝐴 ∩ 𝐵)
average speed in km/h.
120 𝑦 = 5−𝑥 50
0.4
36𝑘𝑚/ℎ 𝑥+5
Higher Maths GCSE: Breakfast Warm Up 2 ANSWERS Calculator B

Factorise If the area of the major sector is Work out the length of side ℎ.
49√7 can be written as 7𝑘 .
10𝑐𝑚2 , what is its radius?
What is the value of 𝑘?
𝑥3 − 𝑥

Work out the size of angle 𝑏.

𝑥(𝑥 + 1)(𝑥 − 1) 𝑘 = 2.5
o
72 𝑟 = 2.2𝑐𝑚 116.6

Expand
𝑥+7 Prove that the sum of three There are 30 boys in a class. The What does this graph tell us
𝑓(𝑥) = consecutive integers is always teacher chooses two boys at (2𝑥 + 3) 3 about the acceleration?
𝑥
divisible by 3. random. How many different
Find the inverse function 𝑓 −1 (𝑥). 𝑛+𝑛+1+𝑛+2 pairs can be chosen?
= 3𝑛 + 3 8𝑥 3 + 36𝑥 2 + 54𝑥 + 27
7 = 3(𝑛 + 1) 435
𝑓 −1 (𝑥) =
𝑥−1 ∴ divisible by 3 Zero acceleration
(constant velocity)

1 There are 50 people on the bus, Simplify Solve for 𝑥 Sketch the graph of 𝑦 = 𝑥3.
3
= 𝑎𝑥 𝑏 rounded to the nearest 10. At the
(2𝑥) next stop 15 people get off, rounded
5√𝑥(3√𝑥 + √4𝑥𝑦)
to the nearest five. No one gets on.
What's the maximum number of
Write down the value of 𝑎 and 𝑏.
people left on the bus?
1 41 15𝑥 + 10𝑥√𝑦
𝑎= 𝑏 = −3 𝑥 = 2.5
8

Work out the distance travelled Solve Solve the simultaneous Sketch the graph of 10𝑥 – 𝑥 2 ≡ 𝑝 − (𝑥 − 𝑞)2 .
equations 1
6 20 𝑦– 𝑥 = 3 𝑦= +2
𝑥 Find the values of 𝑝 and 𝑞.
− =4 𝑥 2 + 𝑦 2 = 29
𝑥 𝑥+2
1 𝑥 = −5, 𝑦 = −2 𝑝 = 25 𝑞 = 5
25𝑚 𝑥 = −6 𝑥 = 𝑥 = 2, 𝑦 = 5
2
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