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COMMON ENTRANCE EXAMINATION AT 11+

MATHEMATICS
Specimen Paper

(for first examination in Autumn 2016)

Please read this information before the examination starts.

• This examination is 60 minutes long.

• Please try all the questions.

• Write your answers on the dotted lines.

• All working should be written on the paper.

• Tracing paper may be used.

• Calculators are not allowed.

• Fraction answers should be given in their simplest form.

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1. Write down the answers to these questions.
(You may work them out in your head.)

(i) 48 1 35

Answer: ..................................... (1)

(ii) 613 2 123

Answer: ..................................... (1)

(iii) 28 4 4

Answer: ..................................... (1)

(iv) 23

Answer: ..................................... (1)

(v) twenty-five percent of eighty

Answer: ..................................... (1)

(vi) 6.3 3 100

Answer: ..................................... (1)

(vii) 398 1 297

Answer: ..................................... (1)

(viii) 27 3 5

Answer: ..................................... (1)

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2. (a) Write down all the prime numbers between 10 and 20

Answer: ..................................... (2)

(b) Write down the first three multiples of 12

Answer: ..................................... (1)

(c) Write down all the factors of 16

Answer: ..................................... (2)

3. A box of 7 grapefruit costs £3.29

(i) What is the cost of one grapefruit?

Give your answer in pence.

Answer: ................................... p (2)

Patrick buys 2 boxes of grapefruit and pays with a £20 note.

(ii) How much change should he receive?

Answer: £ .................................. (2)

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4. These thermometers show the temperatures inside and outside a window at 10 a.m.
one winter’s day.

      

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(i) How many degrees warmer was it inside than outside the window?

Answer: ................................. °C (1)

At 10 p.m., the temperature outside had fallen by 2 °C.

(ii) What was the temperature outside the window at 10 p.m.?

Answer: ................................. °C (1)

5. Fill in the boxes to make the following statements true.

(i) 8 1 4 3 5 36

(1)

(ii) 5 3 (4 2 ) 5 15

(1)

(iii) 10 2 (5 1 )523

(1)

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6. Shape P is drawn on the centimetre-square grid below.

(i) Reflect shape P in the dashed line.

Label the new shape Q.(2)

(ii) Translate shape P  3 units right and 4 units up.

Label the new shape R.(2)

(iii) Work out the area of shape P.

Give your answer with the correct units.

Answer: ..................................... (2)

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

(i) V

Answer: ..................................... (1)

(ii) M

Answer: ..................................... (1)

(b) Which year is written in Roman numerals as MMXVII?

Answer: ..................................... (1)

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8. (a) Work out the following.

(i) 3579 1 1824

Answer: ..................................... (2)

(ii) 3579 2 1824

Answer: ..................................... (2)

(iii) 264 3 27

Answer: ..................................... (3)

(iv) 1595 4 11

Answer: ..................................... (2)

(b) Round 2089 to the nearest 100

Answer: ..................................... (1)

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9. Calculate the mean of these numbers.

9   14   7   17   8

Answer: ..................................... (2)

10. Here is a list of fractions:

3 5 15 8 4
4     8     11     12     5
Choose from the list

(i) a fraction which is greater than 1

Answer: ..................................... (1)

(ii) a fraction equivalent to 80%

Answer: ..................................... (1)

(iii) a fraction equivalent to 0.75

Answer: ..................................... (1)

(iv) a fraction which is not in its simplest form

Answer: ..................................... (1)

11. A sunflower is 150 cm tall.

How tall will it be if its height increases by 10%?

Answer: ............................... cm (2)

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12. Here are 5 number cards:

    
The cards can be put together to form numbers.
For example, the smallest number which could be made using 4 of the cards is:

   

(i) Using all 5 cards

(a) what is the largest possible even number?

Answer: ..................................... (1)

(b) what is the number which is closest to 80 000?

Answer: ..................................... (1)

(ii) Use exactly 2 of the cards to make the smallest possible prime number.

Answer: ..................................... (1)

(iii) Arrange any 4 of the cards to show a sum below which will give the smallest possible
answer.

(1)

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13. Put these distances in order from smallest to largest.

27.8 
km   2.087 
km   2 
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m   2.708 
km

Answer: ............................., ............................., ............................., ............................. (3)
smallest largest

14. (i) Draw accurately triangle ABC where AB 5 5.5 cm, angle A 5 45° and angle B 5 90°

(Point A is already drawn for you.)

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(ii) Measure and write down the length of side BC.

Answer: ................................ cm (1)

(iii) equilateral   isosceles   scalene   right-angled

Circle any appropriate words from the box above to describe triangle ABC.

Give reasons for your answer.

..................................................................................................................................

.................................................................................................................................. (2)

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15. (i) Two identical rectangles are divided into 15 equal squares.
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(a) Shade 5
of this rectangle:

(1)


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(b) Shade 3
of this rectangle:

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(c) Which is larger:  53  or  23  .

Give a reason for your answer.

Answer: ............................ because..................................................................

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........................................................................................................................... (2)

(ii) Arrange these fractions in order from smallest to largest.

13 2 4 3
1 31     3     5     15     5

Answer: ....................., ....................., ....................., ....................., ..................... (2)
smallest largest

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16. Work out
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(i)
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2 61

Answer: ..................................... (2)

2
(ii)
5
33

Write your answer as a mixed number.         

(You may use the diagrams to help you.)

Answer: ..................................... (2)

17. In a box of 24 pens, one eighth are green, 25% are red and the rest are blue.

What fraction of the pens is blue?

Answer: ..................................... (3)

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18. (a) Jake hangs a peg basket on a washing line.

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Find the size of one of the shaded angles in the diagram above, if both are the
same size.

Answer: ....................................° (2)

(b) The diagram below shows two straight lines.

Find the sizes of the angles marked a, b and c.

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Answer: c 5 ............................ (3)

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19. Sarah measured the temperature of a beaker of liquid every 10 minutes during a science
experiment.

She plotted her results on the graph below.












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(i) What was the lowest temperature of the beaker?

Answer: ................................. °C (1)

(ii) At what time was the temperature of the beaker 15 °C?

Answer: ..................................... (1)

Sarah measured the temperature of the beaker again 4 hours and 30 minutes after the
last reading on the graph.

(iii) At what time did she take this measurement?

Answer: ..................................... (1)

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20. Farmer Jack and Farmer Giles each have a rectangular field.

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Farmer Jack’s field has an area of 24 m2.

Its length is 8 m.

(i) Work out the width of Farmer Jack’s field.

Answer: .................................. m (2)

(ii) Work out the perimeter of Farmer Jack’s field.

Answer: .................................. m (2)

Farmer Giles’ field has a perimeter of 20 m.

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Answer: .................................. m (2)

(iv) Work out the area of Farmer Giles’ field.

Answer: .................................m2 (1)

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 Farmer Josephine also has a rectangular field.

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The width of Farmer Josephine’s field is x m and the length is y m.

Farmer Josephine builds a fence along the perimeter of her field.

(v) If the total length of this fence is 30 m, write down two possible values of x and y.

Answer: x 5 ............................ m and y 5 ............................... m

or   x 5 ............................ m and y 5 ............................... m (2)

21. Sanjay is making purple paint.

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mix 2 litres of red paint for
every 3 litres of blue paint

   

(i) If he uses 6 litres of red paint, how much blue paint should he use?

Answer: ............................. litres (1)

(ii) How much blue paint is needed to make 35 litres of purple paint?

Answer: ............................. litres (2)

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22. (a) Annie and Bradley each think of a number.       
The difference between their numbers is 6
The sum of their numbers is 20

What are the two numbers?

Answer: ......................... and....................... (1)

(b) Alice thinks of a number.

Alice calls her number a.
Alice adds 7 to her number, and then doubles her answer.
Write an expression, using a, to show what Alice does.

Answer: ..................................... (2)

(c) Jack thinks of a number.

Jack calls his number n.
Jack multiplies his number by 3, and then subtracts 5
He gets the answer 16
Use this information to write down an equation, and then solve it to find n.

Answer: n 5 .............................. (2)

(Total: 100 marks)

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