Maths11plus11 - The Haberdasher Askes' Boys' School
Maths11plus11 - The Haberdasher Askes' Boys' School
Elstree, Herts
MATHEMATICS
Time : One Hour
Full Name
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Candidate Number
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Work quickly but accurately. You are recommended to use pencil, but
you can use pen or biro if you wish.
Add:
48 + 27
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2.
Subtract:
91 25
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3.
Multiply:
62 7
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4.
Divide:
92 4
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5.
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6.
7.
8.
Barbie earns 23,450 a year and her partner Ken earns 700
less than Barbie. How much do the couple earn altogether?
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9.
10.
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11.
12.
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13.
Answer
14.
15.
For breakfast I eat a slice of buttered toast and a cup of coffee. The time
taken to complete these activities is as follows:
Brown toast in toaster
Butter the toast
Make coffee in machine
3 minutes
1 minute
2 minutes
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The chart below shows the mileage between five places in North London.
For example it gives the distance between Kenton and Hampstead as
4 miles.
ON
T
EN
N
DE
N
PE
AR
19
11
18
SO
20
13
AT
HG
T
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EA
ST
P
M
HA
10
BS
HA
Answer
17. The rate of VAT (value-added tax) in this country is 20%.
In the shop CoCost, the price of a TV excluding VAT is 550.
Work out the cost of the TV after the VAT is added on.
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19. The diagram below shows a piece of abstract art hanging up on Andrews
bedroom wall. To make this look even more interesting he decides to
rotate this painting through 90 degrees clockwise. In the space provided
show what the painting will look like in its new position.
Answer
20. Every evening Diana has a bath. She turns on the taps and waits
patiently for the bath to fill before she turns them off and steps in.
At the end of her bath she steps out of the water before pulling out
the plug to empty the bath.
A graph of the volume of water (measured in litres) plotted against time
(measured in minutes) is shown below.
Volume
of water
in litres
1000
750
500
250
10
20
15
25
30
Time in minutes
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Work out the number of litres of water that flow into the bath
per minute as the bath fills up.
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Does the bath empty at a faster, slower or the same rate as it fills?
Faster, slower or same? _______________
SPACE FOR WORKING
Answer
21.
Amar (form captain), Brian (vice captain), Charles and Daniel are
best friends in the same class at school. They always like to stand next to
each other in the lunch queue.
On Mondays it is a school rule that the form captain is at the front of the
queue followed by the vice captain. There are two ways in which these boys
can queue up on a Monday: ABCD and ABDC.
On Tuesdays, the form captain must again queue up first but the remaining
three boys can follow in any order. There are six ways in which these boys
can queue up on a Tuesday. Four of these ways are listed below. Write
down the remaining two: ABCD, ABDC, ACBD, ACDB, _______, _________
On Wednesdays there are no restrictions and all four boys can queue up
together in any order. In how many ways can this be done? ____________
22.
Isolde enjoys making cubes. She first draws out shapes on pieces of
cardboard and then folds them along the lines to form a cube.
The diagrams below show six attempts.
Unfortunately only five of these actually work.
Cross out the shape which is impossible.
23.
Width of Wembley
Stadium pitch
Height of an average
man
Length of a piece of
standard A4 paper
Height of Mount
Everest
300 mm
5600 km
135 m
1750 mm
8800 m
6900 cm
Answer
24.
Child
Answer
26. The average of a set of numbers is worked out by adding the numbers together
and then dividing by the number of numbers.
Work out the average of:
1, 1, 1
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1, 1, 4
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1, 4, 7
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4, 7, 13
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Describe, in words, a simple pattern that you notice about these answers:
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Class 6A go on a Geography trip to Eastbourne and investigate the size of
pebbles on the beach. Jonnie picks up seven small pebbles and measures
their lengths in millimetres. The lengths of the first six pebbles are:
1, 1, 1, 4, 7, 13
Assuming that the pattern that you observed above continues to hold, work
out the length of Jonnies seventh pebble.
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27.
Answer
28.
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square number 4
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square number 10
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29. In the triangles shown below each number is the sum of the two numbers
directly underneath it. For example, 26 = 12 + 14 and 5 = 1 + 4.
26
12
5
1
14
7
7
3
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8
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7
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8
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Answer
30. The diagram below shows a rectangle, 9 units long, 6 units wide and with
parts of non-overlapping circles drawn all over it. The circles all have the
same radius and the area of each is 7 square units.
Work out the shaded area.
9 units
6 units
3 units
Shaded area =