ABC Education · 11+ Practice

Week 48 · Maths Practice Paper

21 questions · 103 marks · Suggested time: 1 hour.

Question 1

[8 marks]

Work out:

(a)
4216 − 1587
(b)
42 × 536
(c)
428.4 ÷ 6
(d)
16.925 + 782.36

Question 2

[6 marks]

Fill in the missing numbers in these sequences:

(a)
12, 16.5, 21, ___, 30, ___
(b)
2, -6, -14, ___, ___
(c)
115, 215, 15, 415, ___, ___

Question 3

[4 marks]

Find:

(a)
Three eighths of £320
(b)
25% of £184

Question 4

[4 marks]

The shape below is made up of a 6cm square and a rectangle. The rectangle is 4cm wide and extends 4cm above the square's top edge, aligned to the right.

6cm12cm4cm
(a)
What is the area of the whole shape? (Square 6cm × 6cm, rectangle 4cm × 4cm on top)
(b)
The square and rectangle are re-arranged so the rectangle (3cm wide, 4cm tall) sits beside the square along the same bottom edge. What is the perimeter of this new shape?

Question 5

[4 marks]

Fill in the blanks to make the calculation correct.

(a)
12 − 18 + 25 = ___
(b)
(20 − ___) × 4 = 32
(c)
20 − (5 × ___) = 9 × (6 − ___) = 0

Question 6

[3 marks]
(a)
Round 468 to the nearest 100
(b)
Round 987 to the nearest 10
(c)
A number has been rounded to the nearest 10 to give 230. What is the largest whole number it could possibly have been?

Question 7

[4 marks]

In the diagram, two straight lines cross to form a triangle with a base angle of 28°. The angle vertically opposite the triangle's apex angle, on the other side of the crossing point, is 95°. Find the third angle of the triangle (a), the exterior angle formed by extending the base line (b), and the exterior angle at the apex vertex (c).

a =
°
b =
°
c =
°

Question 8

[3 marks]

Put these in order from smallest to largest:

0.68      78      1320

Question 9

[6 marks]

On a coordinate grid, points A(2,5), B(-1,3) and C(2,-2) are plotted.

(a)
Find a fourth point D such that ABCD is a quadrilateral with exactly one line of symmetry (the line through A and C).
(b)
B is midway between A and another point E. What are the coordinates of E?

Question 10

[5 marks]

You are given the following list of numbers: 5, 9, 7, 15, 9

(a)
What is the mode of the numbers?
(b)
What is the mean of the numbers?
(c)
Two more numbers are added to the list. This changes the mode and increases the mean. What are the two numbers that have been added?

Question 11

[3 marks]

What is the third smallest number which is a multiple of 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6?

Question 12

[3 marks]

A pattern is made of 4 regular hexagons and 7 equilateral triangles, all with the same side length (each hexagon's area equals 6 triangle areas). If one hexagon and three triangles are shaded, what fraction of the whole pattern's area is shaded?

Question 13

[5 marks]

A shape has vertices at (1,7), (1,5), (3,5) and (4,7).

(a)
Reflect the shape in the line y = x. What are the coordinates of the reflected vertices?
(b)
What type of quadrilateral is the original shape?
(c)
If each square on the grid is 1cm by 1cm, what is the area of the original shape?

Question 14

[4 marks]

Benny has £10 to spend on ingredients for a salad. He chooses to spend it on apples and carrots — each pack of apples costs £1.25 and each bag of carrots costs 65p.

(a)
If Benny buys 7 bags of carrots, what is the maximum number of apple packs he can buy?
(b)
If instead Benny ends up with £1.10 left of his money, how many apple packs and how many bags of carrots did he buy?

Question 15

[4 marks]

A pie chart with 6 equal slices shows the favourite colours of a Year 7 class: Blue (3 slices), Red (2 slices), Yellow (1 slice).

(a)
If 6 more students chose Blue than Yellow, how many students were in the class altogether?
(b)
Complete: 'If a student is chosen at random, it is ___ likely that they chose Blue rather than Yellow.' And: 'it is ___ likely that they chose Red rather than Blue.'

Question 16

[8 marks]

The instruction x ⊕ y means divide x by y and then subtract the result from 120. For example, 6 ⊕ 2 = 120 − (6 ÷ 2) = 117.

(a)
Work out the value of 72 ⊕ 6
(b)
Work out the value of 12 ⊕ 24
(c)
Work out the value of a if a ⊕ 4 = 110
(d)
Work out the value of b if 32 ⊕ b = b ⊕ 8, given that b is positive.

Question 17

[5 marks]

An L-shaped figure can be split into two rectangles: a rectangle x cm wide by 8cm tall, sitting on top of a second rectangle (x+2) cm wide by 4cm tall, aligned to the left, giving a total height of 12cm.

(a)
If the total area of the figure is 68 cm², find x.
(b)
Find the perimeter of the figure.

Question 18

[8 marks]

Nina swims on every date that is a multiple of 2. Omar swims on every date that is a multiple of 3. Priya swims on every date that is a multiple of 4. Consider only dates 1 to 30 of a month.

(a)
What is the first date when all three swim together?
(b)
Which two friends never swim together without the third also joining them?
(c)
Without making any further calculations, explain why this will also be true in any other month.

Question 19

[5 marks]

Below are the first three shapes in a sequence, where each new shape is made by adding a ring of small squares around the outside of the last shape. Shape N has 2N² − 2N + 1 small squares (Shape 1 has 1 square, Shape 2 has 5, Shape 3 has 13).

(a)
How many small squares will make up the 4th shape in the sequence?
(b)
Which shape in the sequence will be the first one to have over 150 small squares? How many little squares will it be made up of?

Question 20

[5 marks]

6 decorators take 5 hours to paint 4 rooms. Assuming the decorators work at the same pace and the rooms are the same size,

(a)
How long would it take 6 decorators to paint 7 rooms?
(b)
How long would it take 12 decorators to paint 4 rooms?
(c)
How long would it take 10 decorators to paint 6 rooms?

Question 21

[6 marks]

The square ABCD consists of four identical rectangles arranged around a central square. Each rectangle has a perimeter of 40cm. The area of the central square is 4 times bigger than the area of each rectangle. What is the length of each side of the central square, to the nearest cm?

cm