Numeracy Foundation November 2016 Unit 1 Q1
1. A landscape gardener designs gardens.
He uses a coordinate grid to show the position of plants and trees.
He has started to create a plan for one of his customers.
The table below shows some of the items that are to be put into the garden.


Circle your answer. [1]
(4, 3) (3, 3) (3, –3) (3, 4) (4, –3)
- the wooden table and chairs at A (–1, 2)
- a flowering shrub at B (1, 0).
It has length 4·5 metres and width 3 metres.
Circle your answer. [1]
m cm m2 m3 yards
The gardener has a stack of bricks to build a barbeque.
The stack is 154 cm tall.
Each layer of bricks has the pattern shown below.

The thickness of one layer of bricks is 7 cm.
How many bricks are there in the stack altogether? [4]
| Scheme | Marks | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| (4, 3) | B1 |
| Scheme | Marks | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Points plotted at (-1, 2) and (1, 0) | B2 | Accept any unambiguous indication of the points. Award B1 for either plotted correctly. Award SC1 if only the correct points are plotted but are incorrectly labelled. |
| Scheme | Marks | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| (i) m2 | B1 | |
| (ii) 4.5 × 3 13.5 (m2) | M1 A1 | If (i) not attempted but answer in (ii) has m2 then award B1 for (i). |
| Scheme | Marks | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| (Number of layers =) 154 ÷ 7 22 (Number of bricks =) 22 × 8 176 | M1 A1 M1 A1 | Award M1 A1 for 7 ÷ 154 = 22. Award M0A0 for 7 ÷ 154 = 21 (i.e. for a slip in working) FT ‘their 22’ Do not FT for 154 × 8 or 7 × 8 154 ÷ 7 × 8 = 176 award M1A1M1A1 154 ÷ 7 × 8 only, gets M1A0M1A0 |