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ISEB Main Test

Paper 1

Instructions:
1. This examination is 60 minutes long.

2. Please try all the questions.

3. Write your answers on the dotted lines

4. All working should be written on the paper.

5. Tracing paper may be used.

6. Calculators are not allowed.

7. Fraction answers should be given in their simplest form.

Symbols used:

Go to the next Do not turn the page Stop working and


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1. Rose collects barbie stickers.


Her father gave her 64 stickers.
Her sister gave her 56 stickers.

(i) How many stickers did she get in total?

Answer:
She sticks all the stickers in her scrapbook.
On one page there are 8 stickers.

(ii) How many pages will she be able to fill?

Answer:

(iii) Her friend gave her 12 new sets of stickers.


If one set costs 45 pence.

(a) What is the cost of 12 sets of stickers?

Answer: £

Her friend paid with a £10 note.


(b) How much change does she get?

Answer: £

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2. Write down any number which is between


(a) 43 and 48

Answer:
(b) -3 and 1

Answer:
(c) 0.5 and 0.7

Answer:
(d) 1 and 1
7 5

Answer:

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3. These thermometers show the temperatures inside and outside a house at 11 a.m. in
Canada.

-5 0 5 10 15 20 25
Inside

-5 0 5 10 15 20 25
Outside

(a) How many degrees warmer was it inside than outside the house?

Answer:

At 11 p.m., the temperature outside had fallen by 1 °C.

(b) What was the temperature outside the house at 11 p.m.?

Answer:

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4. Here is the start of a number pattern:

5 11 17 23 29 35 41 47 53

i) From the numbers written above write down the following:

(a) A multiple of 7

Answer:
(b) Difference between 17 and 40

Answer:

(c) A number which is not a prime number.

Answer:

(d) Square root of 121

Answer:

(ii) Write down the next two numbers in the pattern.

Answer: and

(ii) What is the last number in the pattern smaller than 85?

Answer:

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5. 20130 people buy tickets for a dance performance.

(a) What is the value of the 2 in 20130?


Write your answer in words.

Answer:

(b) Write 20130 correct to the nearest thousand.

Answer:

(c) Each program ticket costs £15.


(i) How much do 10000 tickets cost?

Answer: £
(ii) Use your answer to part b) to estimate the total cost of all the tickets sold.

Answer: £

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6. (a) Write down the value of these Roman numerals.


(i) LX

Answer:
(ii) CIX

Answer:
(b) Write down 620 in the Roman Numerals.

Answer:

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7. 40.45 45.40 50.44 05.44 45.04 44.50 44.05 04.45 04.54

(i) Write down the largest number from the above list.

Answer:

(ii) Write down the second smallest number from the above list.

Answer:

(iii) Work out the difference between largest and second largest number in the list.

Answer:

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8. Olympiad marks of six friends are given below:

35 28 36 29 23 35

For these 6 marks, work out


i) the mode

Answer:

ii) the median

Answer:

iii) the mean

Answer:

iv) the range

Answer:

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9. (a) This image shows the ropeway hanging on a rope.

150°
a a

Find the size of the angle marked a.

Answer:

(b) The diagram below shows two straight lines.


Find the size of angles marked at p, q and r.

p r

55°

Answer: p =

Answer: q =

Answer: r =

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10. i) Construct triangle JKL, in which angle KJL = 41°and JK = 62 mm.


(Use the dashed line JL as the base of your triangle.)

J L

M
ii) Measure and write down the size of obtuse angle JML.

Answer:
iii) Measure and write down the length of MK.

Answer:
iv) What special type of quadrilateral is JKLM?

Answer:

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11. Laura has 80 coloured cards. Two-fifth of them are green.


(i) How many green cards does she have?

Answer:

35% of her cards are yellow.


(ii) How many yellow cards does she have?

Answer:

Rest of the cards are orange.


(iii) How many more yellow cards does she have than orange cards?

Answer:

Laura puts her 80 cards into a bag and picks one at random.
(iv) On the probability scale below, mark the following probabilities with the letter shown:

A: the probability that the card is green


B: the probability that the card is not yellow
C: the probability that the card is orange

Impossible even chance certain

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12. Shapes A and D are drawn on the centimetre square-grid below.

A
P

(i) Reflect shape A along the mirror line and label the shape as B.

(ii) Translate the shape A 3 units up and 4 units left. Label the shape as C.

(iii) Rotate the shape D through 270° clockwise about the point marked as p. Label the
shape as E.

(iv) Calculate the area of the shape E.

Answer: cm2

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13. (a) This solid shape is made with identical cubes of 2 cm edges.
There are no hidden cubes

(i) What is the volume of the shape?

Answer:
(ii) How many small cubes must be added to make a large cube with each side 8 cm?

Answer:

(b) A square based pyramid is made from a square and four equilateral triangles.
In the space below, draw an accurate net for the square based pyramid. The shaded
face has already been drawn for you.

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14. Robert asked his class about their favourite fruit, he put the result into the table but his
sister threw water colour on the table while he was making the bar chart.

Fruits Frequency

Banana 26

Apples 18

Oranges

Other

Total 90
Frequency

Banana Apple Oranges Others

18 children like apples.

(i) Use this information to write a scale on the vertical axis.

(ii) Use your scale to calculate the number of children who liked oranges

Answer:

(iii) Complete the bar chart.

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15. You are told that 1 yard = 0.91 metres


Use this information to write
(i) 8 yards in metres

Answer: m

(ii) 80 yards into centimetres

Answer: cm

16. Here are the patterns made from the tiles.

Pattern 1
Pattern 2

Pattern 3
(i) Draw pattern 4 on the grid.

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ii) Complete the table.

Pattern 1 2 3 4
Number
Number 4 8
of black
tiles

Number 5 17
of white
tiles

iii) a) How many black tiles are there in the pattern 7?

Answer: Black Tiles

b) There is a pattern with 101 white tiles.


Which pattern number is it?

Answer: Pattern Number

(iv) A pattern has 24 black tiles.


How many white tiles are in this pattern?

Answer: White Tiles

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