End of Semester 1 Assessment

AY 2018-2019
Stage 7 (Grade6)

Student Name Score

Class Percentage
Teacher
VAS Grade

Subject: Cambridge Mathematics

Semester 1 November 2018
Time 60 minutes
Additional Materials:
None

READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST

Write your name, class and teacher’s name in the spaces provided at the top of this
page. Write in dark blue or black pen.
You may use a pencil for any diagrams or graphs.
Do not use staples, paper clips, highlighters, glue or correction fluid.

Answer all the questions.

If working is needed for any question it must be shown below that question.
Items such as: Calculators are NOT allowed.

At the end of the examination, fasten all your work securely together.
The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part
question. The total number of marks for this paper is 45.

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1. What is the value of 6 in this number?
234.0678
_______________ [1]

2. Estimate the readings on each of these scales

___________ g ___________ kg ___________ cm [3]

3. A plane left Cairo at 1845 and arrived in Abu Dhabi 3 hours and 45 minutes later. Abu
Dhabi is 2 hours ahead of Cairo. What time did the plane arrive? Express answer in 12-
hour clock time.

_________________ [2]

4. Miray has two measuring jugs, A and B. She pours water into the measuring jugs to the
level shown. How much water does she need to add to measuring jug B so that there is
the same amount of water in both jugs?

_____________ ml [2]

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5. Which of the numbers in the box below
468 495 882 845 227 221 289

(a) is a prime number _______________ [1]

(b) has a factor 4 _______________ [1]
(c) is a common multiple of 9 and 11 _______________ [1]
(d) has a factor of 3 and 7 _______________ [1]
(e) is a square number _______________ [1]

6. Dwayne repairs fibreglass boats. He has 4 pieces of fiberglass cloth that are 0.8 m, 1.45
m, 1.85 m and 3 m long.
(a) What is the total length of the four pieces?

____________ m [1]

Dwayne needs 10 m of fiberglass cloth altogether.

(b) How much more fiberglass cloth does he needs to buy?

_____________ m [1]

7. Work these out.

(a) 19.15 x 104 = _________________________
(b) 2378.9 ÷ 103 = _________________________
(c) 3.0789 – 0.524 = _________________________
(d) √9 + √16 - √25 = _________________________
(e) (√81)2 + (√9) 2 = _________________________
(f) (−15 + 10) + 24 - 9 = _________________________
[6]
_________________________________________________________________________
8. Some frozen food is stored at -8 oC. During a power failure, the temperature increases
by 3 degrees every minute.
(a) Complete the table below to show the temperature of the food.

Minutes passed 0 1 2 3 4
Temperature (oC) -8
[2]
(b) For how many minutes will the food have a temperature of 22 oC?

____________ minutes [1]

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9.

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10. Write these set of decimal numbers / integers / measurements in order of size, starting
with the smallest.

(a) 32.448, 32.42, 32.441, 32.4 ___________________________________ [1]

(b) 650m, 0.06km, 605m , 0.6 km ___________________________________ [2]

(c) 500 ml, 5L , 5.5ml, 0.55L ___________________________________ [2]

(d) -808, 80, -2, -12 ___________________________________ [1]

11. Daniel, Enrique and James are rounding 70.952 to one decimal place.

That rounds up to 70.9

Daniel

That rounds up to 71
Enrique

That rounds up to 71.0

James

Who is correct? Explain your answer.

_______________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________ [2]

12. Yeong was planning how to seat guests at a dinner. There were between 50 to 100
people coming. Yeong noticed that they could be seated with 8 people to a table and no
seats left empty. She also noticed that they could be seated with 12 people to a table with
no seats left empty. How many people were coming?

____________________ [2]

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13. Yeye Bonel has four buckets. The buckets hold 4700 ml, 4.8L, 3880 ml, and 4.75 L. Yeye
Bonel wants to use the bucket that holds the closest to 5 litres. Which bucket should he
use? Show your working.

4.8 L 4.75 L 3880 ml 4700 ml

_______________ [2]

14. Melai has a pet kitten. She estimates that it weighs 250 kg. Does this estimate make
sense? Give a reason for your answer.

___________________________________________

___________________________________________

___________________________________________

___________________________________________ [3]

15. Dawei is building a brick wall. He needs 65 bricks for each row of the wall. The wall must
be 42 rows high. Bricks are delivered in pallets of 500. How many pallets does Dawei
need?

______________ pallets [2]

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