13 Maths Haberdashers Askes 2015

The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys’ School
Elstree, Herts
13+ Entrance Examination 2015
MATHEMATICS
Time : 1 hour
Full Name ...........................................................
Exam Number ......................................
Please follow these instructions
 You are not allowed to use a calculator in this examination

 Write all necessary working, and your answers, in the appropriate
spaces on the examination paper. You may get credit for correct
working if the answer is wrong.
 If there is a question you do not understand, move onto the next
question.
 There are 100 marks for the paper. The marks for each question are
shown in brackets. Do not spend too long on one question.
DO NOT OPEN THIS BOOKLET UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO SO.

1. Work out the value of the following calculations
(a) 2  83 [1]
(b) 23  (7)  12 [1]
(c) 30  (10  5)  2 [1]
(d) 0.2  0.4 [1]
2. Simplify the following expressions fully
(a) 4 x  5y  6x  7y [2]
(b) 4  2x  x 2  2x  4 [2]
(c) x  xy  y  yx  x [2]
3. Draw the reflection of shape X in the line l. [2]

4. Solve the following equations showing your method clearly.
(a) 7 x  20  3x  4
x= [3]
8
(b) 3
x
x= [2]
5. Find the gradient of the line drawn and hence find its equation.
Gradient
Equation [4]
6. The point A has coordinates (4, 4).
(a) Draw the line y  6 on the graph. Reflect the point A in the line
y  6 and label the image B. Write down the coordinates of B.
B= [3]
(b) A and B form two corners of a square. The other corners could be at
(8, 4) and (8, 8). There are two other possible squares with A and B at
two corners. Write down the pairs of coordinates for both corners of
both possible squares. You do not need to draw the squares.
and
and [4]
7. Work out the value of the following formulae when x is 8 and y is -2.
(a) 3x  1 [1]
(b) 2y 2  1 [1]
x4
(c) [1]
y 4
8. Bob has £500 and gives 70% to Edmund and 40% of what is left to
George. Work out how much money each person has.
Bob
Edmund
George [3]
9. Write down the missing two numbers in the common sequences below.
(a) 1, 3, 5, , 9, 11, [2]
(b) 1, 3, , 10, 15, 21, [2]
(c) , 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, [2]
(d) , 7, 15, 31, 63, 127, [2]

10. Raul is cycling a trail which is 33 kilometres long.
(a) Raul completes the trail in 3 hours. Find his average speed.
[2]
1
(b) Raul returns back along the same trail in 2 hours. Show that his
2
1
average speed for the return journey is 13 km/hr.
5
[3]
(c) Find his average speed for the total cycle.
[3]
11. When written in prime factorised form 420 is written as 22  3  5  7 .
(a) Write 72 in prime factorised form.
[3]
(b) Using your answer or otherwise find the highest common factor of 72
and 420 giving your answer as a number, not prime factorised form.
[2]
12. Three decorators are making shades of pink paint. Each one pours some
red paint and some white paint into his bucket to create his shade. The
higher the proportion of red paint, the darker the shade is.
Decorator Litres of White Litres of Red

Handy Andy 3 5
Ben the Builder 6 15
Charlie 5 13
(a) Handy Andy needs 240 litres of his shade. Find how much red paint
would be in the mixture.
[2]
(b) Write the ratio of white paint to red paint in Ben the Builder’s mixture
in simplest whole number form.
[2]
(c) Charlie increases the amount of white in his mixture by 30%. Find the
ratio of white to red in the new shade of pink, giving your answer in
simplest whole number form.
[2]
(d) Find which decorator made the darkest shade originally, showing your
working or giving reasoning clearly.
[3]
13. A wall is built in the shape below.
(a) Find the area of the wall in m2.
m2 [3]
(b) Find the area of the wall in cm2.
cm2 [1]
(c) The wall is extended by a length x metres to give the shape below. The
total area is now 7.45m2. By setting up an equation or otherwise, find
the value of x.
x= [3]
14. Find the labelled missing angles in the following diagrams. The
diagrams are not to scale.
(a) AB and CD are parallel lines. AB and AC are the same length.
a=
b=
c= [3]
(b) ABCDE is a regular pentagon and ABF is an equilateral triangle.
x=
y=
z= [3]
15. For this question the symbol  means that a  b  4a  2b . For
example, 7  3  4  7  2  3  22
(a) Find the value of 5  6 .
[1]
(b) Find the value of (5  6)  2 .
[1]
(c) Solve x  3  98 .
x= [3]
(d) Solve x  (x  1)  98 .
x= [4]
16. The semicircle shown has diameter 8cm. Find the area and perimeter
of the semicircle, leaving your answer in terms of π.
Area [3]
Perimeter [3]
17. Find the following statistics for the five numbers below.
4, 7, 9, 10, 10
(a) mean [1]
(b) median [1]
(c) mode [1]
(d) range [1]
(e) The four numbers 1, 2, 3 and 10 have a mean of 4 but no single value
for the mode. Find all possible groups of four positive whole numbers
which have a mean of 4 but do not have a single value for the mode.
[4]
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The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys’ School

13+ Entrance Examination 2015

Full Name ...........................................................

Exam Number ......................................

Please follow these instructions

 You are not allowed to use a calculator in this examination

DO NOT OPEN THIS BOOKLET UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO SO.

(a) 2  83 [1]

(b) 23  (7)  12 [1]

(c) 30  (10  5)  2 [1]

(d) 0.2  0.4 [1]

2. Simplify the following expressions fully

3. Draw the reflection of shape X in the line l. [2]

(a) 1, 3, 5, , 9, 11, [2]

(b) 1, 3, , 10, 15, 21, [2]

(c) , 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, [2]

(d) , 7, 15, 31, 63, 127, [2]

(c) Find his average speed for the total cycle.

Decorator Litres of White Litres of Red

(a) Find the area of the wall in m2.

(b) Find the area of the wall in cm2.

(b) ABCDE is a regular pentagon and ABF is an equilateral triangle.

(a) Find the value of 5  6 .

(b) Find the value of (5  6)  2 .

(a) mean [1]

(b) median [1]

(c) mode [1]

(d) range [1]

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