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Geometry and measures worksheet — GCSE Foundation

Fifteen questions across the geometry and measures statements at Foundation tier. Choose the non-calculator filter to rehearse Paper 1, which counts for a third of the marks.

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Geometry and measures worksheet — GCSE Foundation

Maths · GCSE Foundation · Geometry and measures · Calculator · 15 questions

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1.A cheese counter sells cheddar at £8.40 per kilogram. Work out the cost of a 350 g piece of cheddar.
(a)£24.00
(b)£2.94
(c)£29.40
(d)£2940.00
2.A circle has a diameter of 24 cm. A sector of this circle has an angle of 90°. Using π = 3.14, work out the area of the sector.
(a)9.42 cm²
(b)113.04 cm²
(c)18.84 cm²
(d)452.16 cm²
3.A sector of a circle has radius 6 cm and angle 150°. Using π = 3.14, work out the perimeter of the sector.
(a)15.7 cm
(b)21.7 cm
(c)27.7 cm
(d)31.4 cm
4.A room measures 4.2 m by 3.6 m. A flooring company needs the area in cm² to order the right amount of vinyl flooring. Work out the area of the room in cm².
(a)15,120 cm²
(b)1,512 cm²
(c)151,200 cm²
(d)15.12 cm²
5.A triangular sail for a small boat has a base of 2.4 m and a height of 1.75 m. Sailcloth costs £12.50 per m². Work out the total cost of the sailcloth needed for the sail.
(a)£30.00
(b)£26.25
(c)£25.00
(d)£52.50
6.A quadrilateral has angles of 100°, 85° and 95° at three of its vertices. Work out the fourth angle.
(a)260°
(b)280°
(c)70°
(d)80°
7.A crane's hook starts at the point (3.4, 9.5) on a construction site plan measured in metres. It moves along the vector $(- 4.5 - 1.2)$ to pick up a beam, then along the vector $(- 2.5 0.8)$ to place it. Work out the single column vector that describes the hook's overall movement from its start position to where it places the beam.
(a) $(- 2 - 2)$
(b) $(- 7 - 0.4)$
(c) $(7 - 0.4)$
(d) $(- 7 2)$
8.A warehouse stores identical cube-shaped crates. Its plan view is a 2 by 4 rectangle of crate positions, and every position is filled to a height of 3 crates, except one corner position, which has only 2 crates stacked on it because a delivery was incomplete. How many crates are there in total?
(a)22
(b)23
(c)21
(d)24
9.An angle is measured with a protractor as 47°. What type of angle is this?
(a)Reflex
(b)Acute
(c)Obtuse
(d)Right angle
10.A bus journey takes 2.5 hours. Work out how many minutes this is.
(a)170 minutes
(b)120 minutes
(c)150 minutes
(d)250 minutes
11.A sector of a circle has radius 15 cm and angle 216°. Using π = 3.14, work out the arc length of the sector.
(a)94.2 cm
(b)56.52 cm
(c)28.26 cm
(d)113.04 cm
12.A raised garden bed is a prism whose cross-section is a triangle with a base of 1.2 m and a perpendicular height of 0.8 m. The bed is 3 m long. Work out the volume of soil needed to fill it, in m³.
(a)3.6 m³
(b)2.88 m³
(c)1.44 m³
(d)0.48 m³
13.A sector of a circle has radius 6 cm and angle 60°. Work out the arc length of the sector, in terms of π.
(a)12π cm
(b)6π cm
(c)π cm
(d)2π cm
14.A trapezium has an area of 45 cm², a perpendicular height of 5 cm, and one parallel side of length 10 cm. Work out the length of the other parallel side.
(a)18 cm
(b)28 cm
(c)8 cm
(d)4 cm
15.Write down which quadrant contains the point (−3, 5) when plotted on a coordinate grid.
(a)third quadrant
(b)second quadrant
(c)first quadrant
(d)fourth quadrant

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