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MATHEMATICS 1
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Time: 60 minutes

Name: ____________________________________

Please read this information before the examination starts

 All questions should be attempted.

 A completely correct answer will receive no marks unless you show

all your working. Give the correct units when necessary.

 Calculators are NOT allowed

 Give your answers to 3 significant figures if necessary and not

otherwise specified within the question.

 If you have time at the end, check your answers carefully.

1. Work out:
a) 20  4 × 2 + 9 ÷ 3 (2 marks)

b)  4 + 12 (2 marks)

c) 65% of 400 (2 marks)

d) 24 as a percentage of 40 (2 marks)

e) 0.002 as a fraction in its lowest terms (2 marks)

f) 7⁄20 as a decimal (2 marks)

2. Alice buys a chocolate bar for £0.47, a packet of crisps for 55p and a drink for £1.20
How much change does she get from £5.00?

(2 marks)

3. Tim buys a packet of 6 cakes and a doughnut.

He spends £3.00 altogether and the doughnut costs 42p, find the cost of each cake.

(2 marks)

4. Sue buys 7 pens for £1.49 each. How much does she spend altogether?

(2 marks)

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5. 18 rulers cost £5.76. Find the cost of each ruler.

(2 marks)

6. In a sale, prices are reduced by 20%. Originally, a t-shirt cost £17.50.

How much does it cost in the sale?

(2 marks)

7. A full bucket of sand weighs 850 grams.

A child builds a sand castle using 65 full buckets of sand.
How much does the sand castle weigh in kilograms?

(2 marks)

8. A cuboid shaped box has a volume of 840 cm3.

Two of the sides measure 3 cm and 14 cm.
a) What is the length of the longest side of the box?

(2 marks)

b) Little cubes with sides of length 2 cm are packed into the box.
How many cubes will completely fill the box?

(2 marks)
9.
y

3
A
2

-6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 x

-1

-2

-3

-4

-5

-6

a) Rotate triangle A 180º about the point (-1, 1) and label the image B. (2 marks)

b) Reflect triangle A in the line y=4 and label the image C. (2 marks)

c) Translate triangle A 6 units left and 2 units up. Label the image D. (2 marks)

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10. The graph below predicts the mathematics mark of a student given his physics mark
and vice versa.
Use the graph to answer the following questions, showing clearly where you take
your readings.
100

90

80

70

60
Physics Mark
/100 50

40

30

20

10

0
5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
Maths Mark
/40

a) George scores 20 out of 40 marks in his maths test.

What is his predicted physics mark out of 100?

(2 marks)

b) Andrew scores 80% in his physics test.

Predict the percentage he gets in his maths test.

(2 marks)
11. A group of 7 people share 5 pizzas between them.
Give your answers as a mixed fraction
Katie eats ¾ of a pizza and Sally eats 12⁄5 pizzas.
a) How many pizzas do Katie and Sally eat altogether?

(2 marks)

b) How many pizzas remain uneaten

(2 marks)

c) The remaining 5 people equally share what remains of the pizzas.

What fraction of a pizza does each person get?

(2 marks)

12. A bouncy ball is dropped from a height of 9m.

Each time it bounces back up again it has lost 5⁄8m of height.
After how many bounces has the height dropped to 4m?

(2 marks)

13. Spot the dog eats 2⁄3kg of doggy nibbles a day.

How many kilograms of doggy nibbles does he eat in 60 days?

(2 marks)
14. Sarah’s crispy lemon cake contains flour and sugar in the ratio 5 : 3.
a) If Sarah uses 600g of flour to make a small cake then how much sugar should
she use?

(2 marks)

b) If Sarah uses 1.6kg of flour and sugar altogether to make a large cake, then how
many kilograms of flour did she use?

(2 marks)

15. If T= g l
find the value of T when l = 1440 and g = 10.

(2 marks)

16. Simplify:

a) 5y22y3+y3 (2 marks)

b) 3y2×5y6 (2 marks)

c) (2y5)3 (2 marks)

10y4
d) (2 marks)
8y9
17. Leave your answers as a fraction if necessary.
Given that a=5 and b=2 find the value of:

a) ½ ab (2 marks)

5a  b
b) (2 marks)
3

a  5b
c) (2 marks)
2a + 1  2b

d) 4a  b2 (2 marks)

18. An isosceles triangle ABC has lengths AB = BC = 5 cm. The base, AC = 6cm.
The line AC has been drawn for you.

a) Draw triangle ABC accurately using a compass.

A C
6cm (2 marks)

b) If X is the midpoint of AC then find the height, BX of the triangle.

(2 marks)
c) Two of these triangles are joined up to make a kite.
The line AC has been drawn for you. Draw the kite accurately using a compass.

A C
6cm (2 marks)

d) What is the area of the kite?

(2 marks)
19. Abbie runs 560 metres in 70 seconds at a steady pace.
What is her average speed in metres per second?

(2 marks)

20. A bus leaves Leeds at 21:15 and arrives in Wimbledon at 04:05 the next day.
How long did the journey last? Give your answer in hours and minutes.

(2 marks)

21. a) Write both 48 and 180 as a product of their prime factors.

48 = 180 = (2 marks)

b) What is the smallest number that can be divided exactly by 48 and 180?

(2 marks)

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22. The patterns below are made up of shaded and unshaded little squares.
The shaded squares make up L-shapes and the shaded and unshaded squares
together make up step-shapes.

Pattern 1

Pattern 2

Pattern 3

a) Draw pattern 4:

(2 marks)
b) Write down the next two numbers in the sequence for the unshaded squares:

1, 3, 6, 10, ___ , ___

and (2 marks)

c) Write down the next two numbers in the sequence for shaded squares:

5, 7, 9, __, __

and (2 marks)

d) How many shaded squares are there in the nth pattern?

Give your answer in terms of n.

(2 marks)

e) How many shaded squares are there in the 17th pattern?

(2 marks)

f) Is it possible for a pattern to have 202 shaded squares?

(2 marks)

g) A pattern has 301 shaded squares. What is the number of this pattern?

(2 marks)

Total: 100 marks