ABC Education · 11+ Practice

Week 63 · Maths Practice Paper

48 questions · 104 marks · Suggested time: 1 hour.

Question 1

[1 marks]

Calculate 4187 + 2956

Question 2

[1 marks]

Calculate 4187 − 2956

Question 3

[1 marks]

Calculate 4193 × 6

Question 4

[1 marks]

Calculate 5184 ÷ 4

Question 5

[2 marks]

A thermometer scale runs from −15°C to 30°C in steps of 5°C; the mercury reaches the 4th mark above 0°C. A second thermometer scale runs from −12°C to 24°C in steps of 4°C; its mercury reaches the 2nd mark below 0°C. Write down the two temperatures shown.

Question 6

[3 marks]

Evaluate the following:

(a)
5 + 4 × 6
(b)
36 ÷ 6 + 3
(c)
20 ÷ 4 × 5

Question 7

[2 marks]

What type of angle (acute, right, obtuse or reflex) is:

(a)
150°?
(b)
205°?

Question 8

[1 marks]

What number is sixty-eight less than two-thousand-and-fifteen?

Question 9

[1 marks]

Write down the number represented by MCDXLVII

Question 10

[2 marks]

What fraction is shaded?

(a)
A 2-by-6 grid of 12 equal squares has 7 of them shaded.
(b)
A regular octagon is divided into 8 equal triangles from its centre; 5 are shaded.

Question 11

[2 marks]

Round 48,352 to:

(a)
the nearest 100
(b)
the nearest 1000

Question 12

[2 marks]

Shape A is a trapezium with parallel sides 5 m and 9 m. Shape B is a parallelogram with sides 6 mm and 9 mm.

(a)
Name shape A
(b)
Find the perimeter of shape B

Question 13

[2 marks]

Identify the following shapes from their nets:

(a)
A net made of one square in the middle, with a triangle attached to each of its four sides, folding up to meet at a point.
(b)
A net made of three identical rectangles in a row, with a triangle attached to the top and bottom of the middle rectangle.

Question 14

[4 marks]

Here are some numbers: 21, 19, 27, 11, 16, 14

(a)
Write down all of the numbers which are prime
(b)
Write down all of the numbers which are square numbers
(c)
Write down all of the numbers which are multiples of 7
(d)
Write down all of the numbers which are cube numbers

Question 15

[1 marks]

Write the following numbers in order from largest to smallest: 0.528, 0.5, 0.58, 0.058, 0.508

Question 16

[2 marks]

Complete the number sentence: 15 × 3 = ___ + 12 = 70 − ___

Question 17

[1 marks]

What is 58 of 136?

Question 18

[3 marks]

Evaluate the following:

(a)
14 + 18
(b)
7816
(c)
4 × 512

Question 19

[2 marks]

Party hats come in packs of 6. Priya has 50 party hats.

(a)
Work out the exact value of 50 ÷ 6
(b)
What is the smallest number of packs of party hats Priya could have bought?

Question 20

[1 marks]

A box of sweets costs £1.85. Charlotte buys four boxes of sweets with a £20 note. How much change does she receive?

Question 21

[2 marks]

Temperatures on 1st January: Rome 4°C, Oslo −1°C, Cairo 7°C, Toronto −5°C, Athens 6°C, Reykjavik ?

(a)
How much warmer was it in Cairo than in Toronto?
(b)
The temperature in Reykjavik was five degrees lower than Rome. What was the temperature in Reykjavik?

Question 22

[1 marks]

An L-shape is made from two rectangles. Its overall height is 10 cm, overall width 14 cm, with a notch 7 cm tall cut from one top corner leaving a top edge of 5 cm. Find the perimeter of the shape.

cm

Question 23

[1 marks]

Find the area of a triangle drawn on a grid (1 square = 1cm²) with base 10 cm and height 4 cm.

cm²

Question 24

[1 marks]

A shape is made by joining two congruent right-angled triangles along their hypotenuse to form a rectangle with unequal sides (not a square). How many lines of symmetry does the resulting rectangle have?

Question 25

[2 marks]

A shape has vertices at (2,7), (4,7), (4,5), (6,5), (6,3). Reflect it in the line y = 12 − x. Give the reflected coordinates.

Question 26

[1 marks]

One cup is approximately 240 ml. How many cups are approximately the same as 3.2 litres? Circle the closest answer: 10, 12, 13, 15

Question 27

[3 marks]

A train timetable shows stops at Ashford, Warehorne, Appledore, Snowmond, Ham, Brookland and Dungeness. Train 1: 0715, 0723, 0729, 0736, 0741, 0745, 0749. Train 2: 0730, –, –, 0748, 0753, 0800, 0806. Train 3: 0745, 0753, 0759, 0806, 0811, 0816, 0821. Train 4: 0800, 0808, –, 0821, 0826, 0833, 0839.

(a)
How long does the 07:30 train from Ashford take to reach Snowmond?
(b)
Noah arrives at Appledore at twenty-past-seven (7:20). How long must he wait for a train to Ham?
(c)
Which is the latest train I can catch at Ashford to make sure I get to Ham by quarter-past-eight (8:15)?

Question 28

[2 marks]

A lizard is exactly 6 inches long. Annie says that 2.5 cm is the same as one inch.

(a)
How long, in centimetres, does Annie think the lizard is?
(b)
Bea says the lizard is 15.6 cm long. How many centimetres does Bea think are the same as one inch?

Question 29

[3 marks]

You are told that 15 × 1472 = 22,080. Use this answer to work out the values of:

(a)
7.5 × 1472
(b)
30 × 147.2
(c)
44,160 ÷ 300

Question 30

[2 marks]

A table shows how many cakes the Maths department sold each year: 2008: 7, 2009: 10, 2010: 9, 2011: 12, 2012: ?, 2013: 13, 2014: 15, 2015: 14, 2016: 18. In 2012 the department forgot to ice their cakes and sold only four cakes.

(a)
What value completes the table for 2012?
(b)
How many more cakes did the department sell in 2015 than in 2011?

Question 31

[3 marks]

Fill in the gaps in these sequences:

(a)
48, ___, 12, 6, ___
(b)
5, 6, 8, 12, ___
(c)
1.5, ___, ___, 3.9, ___

Question 32

[2 marks]

Put the following numbers in ascending order:

(a)
23, 56, 38, 14
(b)
1¾, 75, 1.3

Question 33

[2 marks]

Priya spent 25 of her money on a new top and 34 of the remainder on a skirt. She had £9 left. How much did Priya spend altogether?

Question 34

[4 marks]

To convert kilometres to miles: halve the number and write it down; halve the answer (don't write it down); halve that answer again and write it down; add the two written-down answers together. Example: 88 km → 44 (write) → 22 (don't write) → 11 (write) → 44+11 = 55 miles.

(a)
Convert 72 km into miles using this method.
(b)
What fraction of the original number is the first number written down?
(c)
What fraction of the original number is the second number written down?
(d)
What fraction of the original number is the final answer?

Question 35

[3 marks]

A diagonal joins two non-adjacent vertices of a shape. A square has 2 diagonals; a pentagon has 5.

How many diagonals does a hexagon have, a heptagon have, and a ten-sided shape (decagon) have?

Question 36

[2 marks]

A pie chart representing 75 pupils' favourite sport shows: Dance = 12 of the pupils, Football = 108° of the circle, Netball = 16%. What fraction of the pupils do Swimming (the remaining slice)?

Question 37

[2 marks]

Three corners of a rectangle are at (2,5), (0,2) and (6,−2). What are the coordinates of the fourth corner?

Question 38

[4 marks]

Sarah's shopping list: 400g potatoes, 4 cauliflowers, 1 bag of 5 pears, 4 cartons of orange juice, 3 pints of milk. Prices: Potatoes £1.40/kg, Cauliflower 90p each (offer: 2 for £1.60), Bag of 5 pears £1.20, Orange juice £1.10/carton (offer: buy 3 get 1 free), Milk: 60p for 1 pint, £1.10 for 2 pints, £1.90 for 4 pints.

(a)
How much does Sarah spend on potatoes?
(b)
How much does she spend on cauliflower?
(c)
How much does she spend on orange juice?
(d)
How much does she spend altogether (including £1.20 for pears and the best price for 3 pints of milk, £1.70)?

Question 39

[1 marks]

Two numbers have a sum of 13 and a product of 36. What is their difference?

Question 40

[2 marks]

On Planet Ward, instead of pounds and pence there are Bits, Coins, Tokens and Crowns: 3 Bit = 5 Coin, 4 Coin = 9 Token, 7 Token = 6 Crown.

(a)
How many Tokens are 12 Bit worth?
(b)
How many Coins are 54 Crown worth?

Question 41

[6 marks]

A maths quiz has ten questions: 5 marks are added for a correct answer, 1 mark is subtracted for an incorrect answer, 0 marks are given for a question with no answer.

(a)
If Leo gets 7 answers correct, 1 incorrect, and leaves out the last two questions, what is his score?
(b)
If Mia did not answer two questions and scored 28, how many questions did she get correct?
(c)
If Sam scored a total of 23 marks, how many questions did he answer correctly, incorrectly, and not answer at all?

Question 42

[3 marks]

Jill and Jess share some sweets. Jill has seven sweets for every four sweets Jess has. Jill gives twenty-three sweets to Jess. Now, Jill has three sweets for every five sweets Jess has. How many sweets do the girls have altogether?

Question 43

[3 marks]

A cuboid has faces with areas of 20cm², 15cm² and 12cm². What are the lengths of its sides?

Question 44

[2 marks]

Zoe has forgotten the passcode for her locker. She knows it is a 3-digit code using only the digits 2, 5 and 8 (each used exactly once, no repeats). She knows that the first digit is NOT the largest value (8), and the code is an even number. How many possible codes fit these clues, and what are they?

Question 45

[3 marks]

Frances writes down four whole numbers. The average (mean) of her numbers is nine. The difference between the smallest and largest numbers is five. The smallest number is seven. She did not write down the number 8. What numbers did she write down?

Question 46

[2 marks]

What is the largest number of 30cm by 10cm tiles you can fit in a space that is 1m wide and 2m long? Breaking tiles and overlapping tiles is not allowed.

Question 47

[5 marks]

In a magic square, the numbers in each row, column and both diagonals must add to the same number.

(a)
Complete this magic square, given: top row 4, _, 2; middle row _, 5, _; bottom row _, _, 6.
(b)
The same magic square has a = 2 (top-right) and b = 3 (middle-left). Match each expression to its cell: a³, a+3, b², 2(a+1), b−a, 2a+b, b+½a.

Question 48

[2 marks]

Each shape represents a number: diamond + star = pentagon; pentagon + pentagon = octagon; diamond + diamond + star = octagon. What is the value of the star?