ABC Education · 11+ Practice

Week 55 · Maths Practice Paper

45 questions · 100 marks · Suggested time: 1 hour 15 minutes.

Question 1

[1 marks]

Work out 3568 + 4753

Question 2

[1 marks]

Work out 8214 − 3567

Question 3

[1 marks]

Work out 2846 × 7

Question 4

[1 marks]

Work out 5376 ÷ 8

Question 5

[1 marks]

Work out 56 of 108

Question 6

[1 marks]

Write down the next number in the sequence. 91, 82, 73, 64, ___

Question 7

[2 marks]

Write a number in each box to complete the statements.

(a)
15.8 × 1000 = ___
(b)
___ ÷ 1000 = 2.35

Question 8

[1 marks]

Write in numerals, the number that is two hundred less than nineteen thousand and thirty.

Question 9

[1 marks]

Write the missing sign ( =, < or > ) in the box. 14 × 9 ___ 18 × 7

Question 10

[1 marks]

In Berlin the temperature is −8°C and in Rome the temperature is 19 degrees warmer. What is the temperature in Rome?

°C

Question 11

[1 marks]

Priya thinks of a number. She multiplies it by 6 and then subtracts 5. Her result is 43. What was the number Priya first thought of?

Question 12

[1 marks]

A decorative tile pattern is made from 40 identical small squares arranged in a star outline. 15 of the small squares are shaded grey. What fraction of the star is shaded? Give your answer in its simplest form.

Question 13

[1 marks]

Ellis left home at 8.07 a.m. and reached school 52 minutes later. At what time did Ellis reach school?

a.m.

Question 14

[1 marks]

What is the difference between a third of 9 and a quarter of 8?

Question 15

[4 marks]

A two-stage number machine changes numbers according to the rule 'Subtract 4, then multiply by 3'.

(a)(i)
Work out the output when the input is 5.
(a)(ii)
Work out the input when the output is 15.
(b)
There are two possible machines (each made of two simple steps) that turn 5 into 3, and 9 into 15 — one of them is the machine above. Work out the rules for both possible machines.

Question 16

[4 marks]

Freya has six number cards: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9. The cards can be placed side by side to form different numbers.

(a)
Using five cards, what is the smallest 5-digit multiple of 5 that can be made?
(b)
Using five cards, what is the nearest number to 70,000 that can be made?
(c)
What is the largest 3-digit multiple of 3 that can be made?
(d)
What is the largest 2-digit prime number that can be made?

Question 17

[5 marks]

In a magic square the sum of the numbers in each row, column and diagonal is the same. The numerals 1 to 9 are used in this magic square. Complete the magic square.

2654
Fill in the five missing numbers.

Question 18

[3 marks]

Nadia has correctly performed the following multiplication using her calculator: 26 × 34 = 884. Without doing any long multiplications, use Nadia's calculation to help you write down the results of the following:

(a)
27 × 34
(b)
26 × 17
(c)
88.4 ÷ 34

Question 19

[5 marks]

Mia uses these ingredients to make lemonade: For 8 people — 400 millilitres water, 150 grams sugar, 600 grams lemon juice, 4 lemons.

(a)
Calculate the ingredients needed to make this lemonade for 20 people.
(b)
For how many people is Mia making this lemonade if she uses exactly 300 grams of sugar?

Question 20

[1 marks]

Ben and Chloe have each thought of an integer (whole number) between 0 and 20. The product of their numbers is 72, and the difference between the numbers is the same as Ben's number. What is Chloe's number?

Question 21

[3 marks]

The Venn diagram below is being used for sorting even numbers from 2 to 24 inclusive.

multiples of ..........multiples of 8612248210142022
(a)
Complete the label of the left-hand set: 'multiples of ...'.
(b)
Which region should the number 4 go in?
(c)
Which region should the number 16 go in?
(d)
Which region should the number 18 go in?

Question 22

[2 marks]

Plums cost 68p each; blueberries cost 4p each. Tom buys as many plums as he can for £4, and spends all of his change on blueberries.

(a)
How many plums does Tom buy?
(b)
How many blueberries does Tom buy?

Question 23

[2 marks]

A shape has vertices at (2,3), (6,3), (6,7), (4,9) and (2,7). Reflect it in the vertical line x = 6. Give the reflected coordinates.

Question 24

[1 marks]

Priya missed the 3.15 p.m. train by four minutes.

Train ATrain B
City A (depart)3.15 p.m.3.58 p.m.
City B (arrive)4.01 p.m.4.47 p.m.
How long must she wait to catch the 3.58 p.m. train?

Question 25

[1 marks]

A square has perimeter 32 cm. Work out the area of the square.

cm²

Question 26

[1 marks]

A pencil is placed along a ruler marked in centimetres. Its sharp tip is at the 2.3 cm mark and its blunt end is at the 11.8 cm mark. What is the length of the pencil?

cm

Question 27

[1 marks]

Freddie's marks in six spelling tests are: 8, 10, 6, 10, 4, 9. What is the range of his marks?

Question 28

[3 marks]

The table below shows the results of a survey into the number of snails found under stones in a garden: Pot P: 8, Pot Q: 8, Pot R: 10, Pot S: 5, Pot T: 9.

(a)
How many snails were found under Pot P?
(b)
What was the total number of snails found?
(c)
Fern removes a quarter of the snails from Pot Q and 30% of the snails from Pot R, and puts them under a new stone, Pot U. How many snails are under Pot U?

Question 29

[3 marks]

Mum, Dad and Uncle Joe have three drinks: tea, coffee and juice. Mum likes tea or juice. Dad only likes coffee, and Uncle Joe likes all three. How can it be arranged so that they each get a drink that they like?

Answer: Dad
Mum
Uncle Joe

Question 30

[2 marks]

For a regular hexagon,

(a)
how many lines of symmetry does it have?
(b)
what is its order of rotational symmetry?

Question 31

[4 marks]

A spinner has the numbers 1 to 20 on it, and is equally likely to land on each number. Give each answer as a fraction in its simplest form.

(a)
P(lands on an odd number)
(b)
P(lands on a multiple of 4)
(c)
P(lands on a square number)
(d)
P(lands on 25)

Question 32

[3 marks]

Tick the correct box for each statement: 'Always true', 'Sometimes true' or 'Never true'.

(a)
A triangle has three acute angles.
(b)
A square is a rectangle.
(c)
A pentagon has two right angles.

Question 33

[2 marks]

A parcel is weighed on a scale marked from 0 to 5 kg in 0.1 kg intervals. The pointer rests exactly one fifth of the way from the 2 kg mark to the 3 kg mark. Write down the mass

(a)
in kilograms
(b)
in grams.

Question 34

[2 marks]

Nadia has a jug of capacity 2 litres, which is full of juice. She has six cups, each of capacity 200 ml, which she fills from her jug.

(a)
What volume of juice is left in the jug?
(b)
Nadia has four 3-litre bottles of juice. How many times could she completely fill her jug from these bottles?

Question 35

[2 marks]

On a centimetre square coordinate grid, P (2,3), Q (7,4) and R (6,9) have been plotted. PQRS is a square.

(a)
Write down the coordinates of point S.
(b)
AC is the longer diagonal of kite ABCD, which has area 10 cm². If AC = 5 cm, find the length of the shorter diagonal, BD.

Question 36

[3 marks]

Two congruent right-angled triangles each have legs of 3 cm and 4 cm.

(a)
The two triangles are joined together along their hypotenuses to form a rectangle. Find the area and the perimeter of the rectangle.
(b)
The same two triangles are instead joined together along their 3 cm legs to form a parallelogram. Find the perimeter of the parallelogram.

Question 37

[3 marks]

Nina has a rectangular card that measures 20 cm by 8 cm.

(a)
What is the perimeter of the card?
(b)
What is the area of the card?
(c)
Rectangular stickers measure 4 cm by 2 cm. What is the maximum number of stickers Nina can fit on the front of the card without any overlapping?

Question 38

[1 marks]

Cube A has a volume of 27 cm³. Another cube, B, has edges which are three times the length of the edges of cube A. Work out the volume of cube B.

cm³

Question 39

[3 marks]

A grain of rice weighs 0.02 grams.

(a)
What would be the mass of 2000 grains?
(b)
How many grains would you expect there to be in a 500 g pack of rice?
(c)
A small bag holds 300 grains of rice, and the plastic wrapper weighs 0.6 g. How many bags of rice are in a 132 g box? (The 132 g includes the wrappers, not just the rice.)

Question 40

[3 marks]

Sam wants to buy a sandwich. The options are: bread — white 30p (W) or wrap 45p (R); filling — cheese 80p (C) or tuna 65p (T); extra — pickle 20p (P) or mayonnaise 15p (M).

(a)
How many different combinations of bread, filling and extra could Sam choose?
(b)
Sam has exactly £1.30 and wishes to spend all of it. Which two combinations of bread, filling and extra could she choose?

Question 41

[4 marks]

A sequence of patterns is made from small squares. Pattern 1 has 1 square, Pattern 2 has 3 squares — the number of squares in Pattern n follows the triangular numbers. The perimeter of Pattern n (in units) follows the rule 'perimeter = 4 × pattern number'.

Pattern number12345
Number of squares13???
Perimeter (units)48???
(a)
How many squares are in Pattern 4, and how many more squares does Pattern 4 have than Pattern 3?
(b)
Complete the table.
(c)
Use the perimeter rule to calculate the perimeter of Pattern 15.
(d)
The number of squares in Pattern n can also be found with these instructions: start with n; add 1 to give m; multiply m by n; divide by 2. Use this to calculate the number of squares in Pattern 50.

Question 42

[3 marks]

Three squirrels, Nora, Effie and Tara, are collecting acorns. Nora collects three times as many as Effie. Effie collects twice as many as Tara. Between them they collect 252 acorns. How many did each collect?

Nora
Effie
Tara

Question 43

[5 marks]

Starting with a 2-digit number, Hana applies the rule 'Square the difference between the digits', repeatedly, until her result is a single-digit number. Example: 84 → (8−4)² = 16 → (6−1)² = 25 → (5−2)² = 9 (3 steps).

(a)(i)
Apply the rule to 51.
(a)(ii)
Apply the rule to 88.
(b)
List all the starting numbers between 40 and 59 inclusive which give the single-digit result 1 in a single step.
(c)
List, in order, the single-digit results that are possible for any 2-digit starting number.
(d)
What is the most common single-digit result, if you calculated the result for every 2-digit starting number?

Question 44

[2 marks]

In the time that Alex can cycle 90 metres, Ben can cycle only 54 metres. Ben has a 90 metre head start, then Alex sets off in pursuit. How many metres will Alex cycle before he catches Ben?

metres

Question 45

[4 marks]

Ravi has two counters, each with a different whole number on each side. He throws them once and adds the numbers he sees: 3 + 8 = 11. He throws them several more times and gets the following totals: 9, 14, 16.

(a)
What number is on the other side of the counter showing 3?
(b)
What number is on the other side of the counter showing 8?
(c)
Priya gives Ravi a third counter. When he throws all three counters together, he can get the following totals: 13, 15, 18, 20, 21, 23, 26, 28. What are the two numbers on the third counter?