Test 2

MATHEMATICS

Fill in the following particulars:

Name..............................................

Candidate Number.........................

Primary School...............................

Boy or girl.......................................

Date of birth....................................

Today's date...................................

Test Taken At.................................

READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY:

1. Do not turn over until you are told to do so.

2. You may work the questions out in your head, or by writing on the white area around the question.

3. Work as quickly and as carefully as you can.

4. Make any alterations to your answers clearly. You will not lose marks for crossing out.

5. You will have 35 minutes to do the test. If you find you cannot do a question, do not waste time on
it but go on to the next one.

6. Once the test has begun, you should not ask about questions in the test.

7. The use of electronic calculators of any description (including calculator watches) is NOT
permitted.
 You have thirty-five minutes to complete this paper. Please do
Do your working out in the spaces on the paper. not write in
this space.

1. Calculate: 489 + 25 + 208

Space for working:

Answer:_________________

2. Calculate: 3248 ÷ 8

Answer:_________________

3. Calculate: ¼ × 10

Answer:_________________

4. Calculate: 87 − 14.3

Answer:_________________

5. Zach worked out the average of his test scores using long division and came up with 74.968
Write down his score to the nearest 10.

Answer:________________
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 6. Which of the numbers below is not divisible by either 3 or 8?

7200 9024 4772 2128

Answer:________________

7. Which of the following letters has only one line of symmetry?

F    H    N    O    S    W    X    Z 

Answer:________________

8. Jamie is helping his younger brother build walls with his blocks. How many blocks will they need
for the next wall if Jamie carries on the series?

Answer:________________

9. Imogen is cutting up 10m of wool for a scarf. In total she needs eight pieces. When she has cut
seven pieces she has used 8.45m of wool. She then cuts off another piece that is 118cm long.
How much wool has she got left?

Answer:______________cm
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 10. The children in 6B, 6C, 6H and 6W had an interclass competition. They could play in either the
rugby or the basketball teams. The table below gives information about which team the children
chose to play for.
How many children chose to play rugby?

RUGBY BASKETBALL
6B 13 15
6C 11 9
6H 14 8
6W 12 18

Answer:________________

11. One seventh of a number is 9. What is one third of the number?

Answer:________________

12. Calculate: 17.4 + 2.035

Answer:________________

13. Calculate: 11 − 17

Answer:________________

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 14. Calculate: 369 × 85

Answer:________________

15. Find the next number in this sequence:

256, 64, 16, 4, ?

Answer:________________

16. The girls in Year 6 are 18 minutes late back from a netball tournament. They were due back at
school at 16.45, what time did they get back to school?

Answer:________________

17. A recipe for sugar mice uses 360g of sugar to make three mice. How much sugar will Eisa need to
make five mice?

Answer:_______________g ( /4)

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 18. Joseph is trying to work out how long he has to travel in December when he has a football match
in Colchester followed by a cubʼs water safety course in Chelmsford.

Travel times in minutes 
  Basildon  Billericay  Canvey  Chelmsford  Colchester  Leigh  Southend 
Basildon  –  13   18  30  60  21  24 
Billericay  13   –  30  23  55  29  30 
Canvey  18  30  –  31  60  19  23 
Chelmsford  30  23  31  –  38  32  32 
Colchester  60  55  60  38  –  62  63 
Leigh  21  29  19  32  62  –  6 
Southend  24  30  23  32  63  6  – 

How long does it take him in total to travel from Leigh to Colchester, from Colchester to Chelmsford
and then from Chelmsford back to Leigh?

Answer: ____hours ____minutes

19. What is the size of the angle marked x?

95°

x 113°

Answer:________________°
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 20. The diagram shows a square school playground with a square tennis court painted on it? The side
of the playground measures 60m and the side of the tennis court measures 50m. If David runs
once around the perimeter of the playground and Ethan runs once around the perimeter of the
tennis court, how much further does David run than Ethan?

Answer:_______________m

21. Hannah drew a plotted a house on some graph paper. What are the coordinates of the fourth
point?

(5, 8)

(?, ?) (8, 6)

(2, 2) (8, 2)

Answer: (______,______)

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 22. Olivia makes this pattern from matchsticks. What is the smallest number of matchsticks that she
can add so that the pattern has a line of symmetry?

Answer: ________________

23. The bar chart below shows what type of holiday Year 6 had last summer.

Holidays 
20 
18 
16 
14 
Number of children 

12 
10 
8 
6 
4 
2 
0 

What percentage of Year 6 went to the beach?

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Answer:_______________%
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 24. The angles of this triangle are 3x, 2x+20, x+40.

What type of triangle is it? Not to scale

A) Scalene x+40
B) Right-angled
C) Isosceles
D) Equilateral
E) Right-angled and scalene
3x 2x+20

Answer:________________
(Give the correct letter)
25. Joshua is four times older than his brother Ted.
In four years time he will be twice as old as Ted.
How old is Joshua now?

Answer: ___________ years

26. Calculate: 7⅔ − 6¼

Answer:________________

27. Four children each have a conversation with each other.

Each child only speaks once to each of the other children.

How many conversations are there?

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Total
Answer:_________ conversations ( /34)

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 Paper 5 – Answers with Brief Explanations
(The explanations are not necessarily the quickest methods, but a simple method)

1. 489 + 25 + 208 = 722 1 mark 15. 256, 64, 16, 4, 1 1 mark

(Each number is divided by 4.)
2. 3248 ÷ 8 = 406 1 mark
16. 17:03 1 mark
3. ¼ × 10 = 2.5 1 mark (16:45 to 17 takes 15 mins, leaving
(10 ÷ 4 = 2.5) three mins to add on to the hour.)

4. 87 − 14.3 = 72.7 1 mark 17. 600g 1 mark

–87.0 (add the zero) (360 ÷ 3 = 120. 120 × 5 = 600)
–14.3
–72.7 18. 2 hrs, 12 mins 1 mark
(Add up the minutes
5. 74.968 to the nearest 10 = 70. 1 mark 62 + 38 + 32 = 132, then put into hrs
(Do not round the .9 to make 75 and and mins.)
then round to 80.)
19. 28° 1 mark
6. Which of the numbers below is not 1 mark (Find the angle inside the triangle
divisible by either 3 or 8 = 4772. 180 – 95 = 85 and 180 – 113 = 67,
(7200 and 9024 are recognisable as then subtract the new angles from
divisible by three – sum of digits is in 3× 180. 180 – 85 = 95 – 67 = 28.)
table. Leaving a quick check for 8×
table.) 20. 40m 1 mark
(4 sides to a square.
7. W (F, none; H, O, X two; N, S, Z 1 mark Playground perimeter = 4 × 60 = 240.
only rotational) Tennis court = 4 × 50 = 200.
240 – 200 = 40)
8. 30 (1 × 2, 2 × 3, 3 × 4, 4 × 5, 5 × 6) 1 mark
21. (2, 6) 2 marks
9. 37cm 8.45m + 118cm = 1 mark (x-axis point from below.
8.45 + 1.18 = 9.63. y-axis point from other side.)
10.00 – 9.63 = 0.37
(Convert to metres, add on the eighth 22. 1 2 marks
piece of wool, subtract from 2.00,
convert to cm).

10. 13 + 11 + 14 + 12 = 50 1 mark 23. 36% 2 marks

(All the children from the rugby column.) (Add up all of the columns. Total
children = 50. 18 out of 50 is the same
11. 7 × 9 = 63, 63 ÷ 3 = 21. 1 mark as 36 out of 100.)
(Find the whole number and then divide 24. D 2 marks
by 3.) 3x + 2x+20 + x+40 = 6x + 60.
6x + 60 = 180 (angles in a triangle)
12. 17.4 + 2.035 = 19.435 1 mark 6x = 120, x = 20.
–17.400 (add the zeros) 3x = 60, 2x + 20 = 60, x + 40 = 60
+12.035 25. 8 Use 4× table. J = 4, T = 1 2 marks
–19.435 but 4 + 4 = 8 and 4 + 1 = 5. 2 × 5 ≠ 8.
J = 8, T = 2
13. 11− 17 = –6 1 mark and 4 + 8 = 12, 4 + 2 = 6. 2 × 6 = 12
(Use a thermometer as an example) 26. 1 5/12 (7 − 6 = 1, ⅔ − ¼ = 2 marks
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/12 − 3/12 = 5/12)
14. 369 × 85 = 31,365 1 mark 27. 6 (Person 1 speaks to three people, 2 marks
person 2 speaks to two people,
person 3 speaks to one person.
3 + 2 +1 = 6) 34 marks