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MATHEMATICS
Multiple-Choice

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Question 1

Question 5

A rectangle has a perimeter of 20 cm. The

shorter sides each measure 4 cm.

The regular hexagon is rotated anticlockwise

about its centre until the arrow points to P.

What is the length of one of the longer sides?

What angle does the hexagon turn through?

Question 2
Which number has the smallest value?

1.01
0.04
0.22
1.12
0.06

Question 3

Question 6
Sarah paid for five pens with a 5 note and was
given 80p in change.
What was the cost of each pen?

In the trapezium below, angle A is 120

Question 7
The pictogram shows the number of dinners
served at a restaurant during a four day period.
What is angle Bl

Number of dinners

Tue

Question 4
Ahmed went shopping at 10:15 and returned
home at 11:55.
How long did Ahmed's shopping trip take?
A
B
C
D
E

1 hour 55 mins
1 hour 40 mins
1 hour 45 mins
1 hour 30 mins
1 hour 35 mins
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Wed

1C

Thu

1C

Fri
= 12 dinners

How many dinners were served on Thursday?

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Question 11

Which of these number statements is true?

Saud has 6 black pens, 3 red pens, and 9 blue

pens in a box.

A
B
C
D
E

2/5=45%
3/4 = 80%
7/20 = 35%
4/25 = 12%
2/3 = 60%

Saud pulls out one pen at random.

What is the probability that it is red?

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Question "

A number sequence consists of seven consecutive odd numbers. The middle number is 43.

Nora divides the number 48 by 7 and gets a

remainder.

What are the first and last numbers in the

sequence?

What is the remainder?

Question 1.3
Question 10

A 12 cm line on a scaled map represents 6 m in

reality.

John uses the information below to purchase

some fruit at his local store.

Fruit

Price

Apples

45p each

Oranges

55p each

Peaches

35p each

What is the real distance of an 8 cm line on the

map?
Question 14
Temperatures were taken at the same time of
day over a six day period. The results are
shown in the chart below.
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Which of these would cost exactly 2.70?

30

A
B
C
D
E

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3 apples, 2 oranges, 1 peach

2 apples, 2 oranges, 2 peaches
2 apples, 3 oranges, 3 peaches
1 apple, 3 oranges, 1 peach
3 apples, 2 oranges, 4 peaches

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18

14
Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

What was the range in temperature?

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Question lo

What is the number 146 rounded to the nearest

ten?

Which of these statements is true?

Question 16
An entry fee of 6 is charged to see a performance at Rubina's local theatre.

A
B
C
D
E

1 foot is shorter than 25 cm

18 cm is shorter than 180 mm
7 m is longer than 9,000 mm
1 metre is longer than 3 feet
10,000 cm is longer than 1 km

Rubina pays 3 for a membership card which

entitles her to 10% off the entry fee.

Question

How many performances will Rubina need to

attend to save the price of the card?

The scales below indicate the weight of three

identical tins of peas.
en
03

t/5

03

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Anita is facing north-west. She can see a

building directly in front of her, and a post
box on her left.

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kg
What is the weight of five tins of peas?

Which of the five maps below is Anita on?

Key

North

Question ZU
\ \

building

-* East

West

= post box

South

Farida has 60 coins in a box. 25% are 5p coins

and 40% Ip coins. The remainder are 2p coins.
How many 2p coins are in Farida's box?

Question L1
A number is multiplied by itself and results in
an answer of 225.
What is the number?

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Question 22

Question 25

The figure 7 in the number 5.78 represents a

value of 7 tenths.

A group of children were asked if they owned

three
particular electrical accessories.

If the number 5.78 is multiplied by 100, what

value does the 7 then represent?
A
B
C
D
E

The Venn diagram shows the results.

1 hundredths
7 tens
7 hundreds
7 tenths
7 thousands

M = Mobile phone
C = Camera
D = DVD player
D

Question 2.3
The scale below indicates the weight of some
carrots. Carrots cost 80p per kilogram.

How many children did not own a mobile

phone?

Question 26
Kim created the table below to work out the cost
of buying three items for her birthday party.
What is the cost of the carrots?

Question 24
Look at the number statement below.

Two of the boxes are incomplete.

Party
item

Price
per item

Number
required

Total
price

Hats
Balloons
Plates

30p
20p
lOp

2.40

20

2.00
7.60

Total

43 x 326 = 14,018
How many balloons did Kim buy?
What does 43 x 652 equal?

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Question 27

A number TV is squared. The result is then

multiplied by 10 to give an answer of 490.
What was the number TV?

Which one of the shapes above has an odd number of edges?

Question 32
The lengths of time spent by five visitors to
Greenacre House are shown in the table below.

Question 2o
Claudine splits her collection of 63 counters into
three piles. She puts 1/7 in one pile and 4/7 in a
second pile.
How many counters has Claudine got in the
third pile?

Visitor number

Entry time

Exit time

10:00
11:15
12:45.
14:30
15:00

10:50
12:00
13:35
15:30
15:55

2
3
4
5

What was the mean time spent at the house?

Question 2:7
The temperature inside Saud's house is 21C.
Outside the house it is - 6C.
What is the difference between the two
temperatures?

Question 33
Look at the 2-D shape below.

Question 3U
The number pattern below has a term missing in
the middle of the sequence.
? 5 6%
What is the missing term?

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Which letter shows a reflex angle?

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Question 34

Question 3 7

The table below shows the number of badges in

each of 12 boxes.
Number of boxes

Number of badges per box

2
4
3
2
1

4
6
5
2
3

Area r

Area c

The shape below has been made from the shapes

above, using a circle cut in two where necessary.
What is the area of the shape below?

What is the mode of the number of badges in a

box?

Question 35
AH has a full 2 litre bottle of lemonade. He
pours 310 millilitres (m/) into each of 5 glasses.
How much lemonade is left in the bottle?

2c + 3r
4c + r
3c + r
3(c + r)
4c + 3r

Question 3o
Question 3o

The three numbers in each row when multiplied

together equal 48.

Carol adds two numbers and gets an answer of

26. The first number is an odd number between
12 and 18.

The three numbers in each column add up to the

numbers shown below the grid.

A
B
C
D
E

The second number is greater than 13.

The second number is an even number.
The second number is greater than 26.
The second number is an odd number.
The second number is less than 9.

48

Which of the statements below is true?

48

12

48
Y

22 12

What number should replace the question mark?

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Question 41

What is the name of the 3-D shape that can be

formed from the net below?

Connor wants to express 3.5 km in centimetres.

What answer should Connor get?
A
B
C
D
E

A
B
C
D
E

Triangular prism
Hexagonal prism
Cube
Square-based pyramid
Cuboid

Question 40
A square is to be drawn on the grid below.
Points R and S are two corners of the square.

35,000 cm
350,000 cm
3,500,000 cm
3,500 cm
350 cm

Question 42
A plumber charges 35 for a callout plus 22
for each hour of work.
Which expression could the plumber use to
charge a customer for h hours work?
35/z + 22
22/z
35/z - 22
22/z + 35
22/z + 57

Question 43
The pie chart shows the colours preferred by a
group of children.
The number of children who chose green as
their favourite colour was 2 more than the number that chose red.

Which of these points are the other two corners

of the square?
A
B
C
D
E

(3, 1) and (3,-2)

(-5, 3) and (-5, 3)
(2, 3) and (2, -2)
(-3, 2) and (3, 0)
(4, 3) and (4, -2)
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Question 44

Question 47

Zoe draws the regular hexagon below on paper

and cuts the shape out.

Two walls in a room are to be painted.

They each measure 6 m by 4 m.

She then folds it along one of its lines of symmetry to create two identical quadrilaterals.

A 1 litre tin of paint covers a wall area of 7 m2.

How many tins of paint are required?

Which of these quadrilaterals has Zoe created?

Question 4o

A
B
C
D
E

200 identical square wooden blocks were laid

end to end in a straight line.

Rhombus
Kite
Trapezium
Rectangle
Square

The width of each block measured 45 mm.

How long was the line of blocks in metres?

Question 45
What is the mean value of the four expressions
below?

n +2

n+\l

n + 2l

Question 49
Consider the regular pentagon shown below.

Question 46
Look at the number sequence below.
5

10

15...

What is the size of angle A?

Which expression could be used to find the nth

number in the sequence?
A
B
C
D
E

5 + 5(-l)
1 +5/i

Question 50
Two fair coins are tossed at the same time.
What is the probability of them both landing head
up?

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