Tutor Notes

Tutor Notes

Maths
Test 3
Multiple Choice & Standard Format

Read the following instructions carefully:

Do not turn over the test paper until you are told to do so.

Write your answers on the horizontal line(s) within each question or by circling the letter corresponding
to your choice as appropriate. Please use an HB pencil.

If you need to change your answer, rub out the incorrect answer and then fill in the correct answer.

You may prefer to work out your answers on the question sheet or you can use rough paper for that
purpose.

You have 50 minutes to complete the test.

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MATHS TEST PAPER 3

1. Choose the most suitable units of measurement
from the following:
cm
km
g
kg
litres
i.

A packet of sweets

____

ii.

Your weight

____

iii.

Width of a book

____

iv.

Distances e.g. London to Paris ____

v.

Amount of water in a bath

____

2. What is the ratio of vowels to consonants in the

word MATERIAL? Express in the lowest form.

6. Find the Highest Common Factor of 180 and 216.

_________

7. Michael has a rope measuring 17m in length. He

snips off three-fifths of it and gives the rest to his
sister. How long is the piece that he gives to his
sister?
_________

________

3. Alice left for work at 8:10am and reached the

office at 9:43am. How long did the journey take?
______ hour_____minutes

8. A buffet meal at the Eatwell restaurant costs 30

plus a 12% service charge. What is the total cost
of a meal?
_________

4. Two brothers weighed themselves the older

one weighed 65 kg which was 10 kg more than
his brother. Their sisters then weighed
themselves. One sister weighed 45 kg and the
other sister weighed 35 kg.
Express the combined weight of the girls as a
fraction of the boys weight in its lowest form.

9. What is 5:56pm as displayed in a 24-hour clock?

_________
10. The number of cups of tea sold each day in our
caf last week was as follows:
5. Find the fraction that is exactly midway between
1
3

and

2
3

Express your answer in the lowest form.

_________

27, 35, 90, 67, 90, 26.

What is the mode of the data?
_________

11. Which is bigger, a quarter of a metre or a five

thousandth of a kilometre?
__________________

12. The plans of an aircraft have a scale of 1:800. If

the actual wingspan of the aircraft is 20m, what
is this (in cm) on the plans? The drawing below is
not to scale.

15. Round the length of Johns driveway measuring

19.96m to the nearest tenth of a metre.
_________

16. Write sixteen million one hundred and one in

number form.
__________________

17. What is the probability of the spinner landing on

a number divisible by 3 and 4?

________

13. The location of the house marked by the point is

reflected in the Y-axis. What are the new
coordinates of the house?

_________

18. Mark got 9 spellings correct out of 15 spellings

that his teacher gave him. What is his score
expressed as a percentage?
_________
_________

14. Find the smallest digit that can replace the

question mark to make 199?078 a multiple of 3.
_________

19. There may be showers, steady rain or a

downpour today. There may or may not be high
levels of pollen in the air. The chance of lightning
is 5%. How many possibilities are there?
_________

20. Year 6 are planning to run round the edge of the

playing field on a sponsored run. The plans show
that the field is made up of a square section to
which a triangular section was later added. The
plans are drawn at a scale of 1:1000. If Laura
runs twice round the field, how far will she have
run?

24. Lynne cuts out the cross shown below from the
side of a cereal box. All the edges are the same
length. Calculate the total area of the shape.

_________
_________
25. Complete the series:
8a7 7a6____5a4 4a3 3a2

21. Add the following numbers together:

15.09

166.01

11.001
_________
26. The total bill for 13 nights at the Relax Inn is
1,183. What is the cost per night at the hotel?

22. Which of these is the same as 6.66 100?

a. 66.6 10 b. 0.666 x 100 c. 0.00666 x 10
d. 66.6 x 100 e. 6.6 100

_________

_________

27. The diagram below shows the trading done by

Martin Clock Company. What percentage of their
business is in antiques?

23. Which of the arrows marks the position of .543

rounded off to the nearest hundredth on the
scale shown below:

_________
_________

28. Use two cards from these number cards to

complete the sum below:

32. Mrs Knitwell can knit 2 sweaters in 5 days. At

that rate, how long does she need to knit 7
sweaters?
_________

33. Convert 0.35mm into centimetres. Please

express your answer as a decimal.

(_____ - _____) x 7 + 9 = 30

__________

29. A factory produces these amounts of toys in

different batches of production. Circle those
batches that can be packed exactly in packets of
9?
a. 551

b. 648

c. 941

d. 513

e. 1089

34. The letters that make up the word FANTASTIC are

written on cards and turned face down. You draw
a card at random. What is the probability that the
letter drawn is a vowel? Express your answer in
the lowest form.
_________

35. What is c when 50 4c = 22 ?

30. Use the numbers 4, 5, 6 and 7 once each to fill in
the blanks in the calculation below :

_________

36. The sum of the ages of two friends is 22 and the

difference between their ages is 6. How old will
the older friend be 5 years from now?

= 78

_________
31. Ryan was 18 minutes late when he arrived at
school at 9:43am. When should he have got
there?
_________

37. Helen buys 20 pints of milk every week. Roughly

how many litres is this? Circle the correct answer.
20 litres 11 litres 50 litres 2.5 litres 15 litres

38. Write

77
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42. If you can divide a number by 14 with no

remainder then you can also divide that number
by 7 and by 2. True or false?

as mixed fraction.

_________
_________
39. If you start to draw a 4-sided figure by drawing 2
lines from a point making an angle of 60 then
what would the other 3 angles add up to?

_________

40. There are ducks and cows in the farmyard. Jerry

sees 48 legs in all. There are the same number of
cows and ducks. How many ducks are there?
_________

43. A number machines input output table is shown.

Complete the missing entries if the machine
functions using the same formula for every input.
INPUT OUTPUT
5

22

37

12

32

47

INPUT = _____ OUTPUT = _____

41. The bar graph below shows the ice-creams sold

by a shop on one day. Which was the third most
popular flavour?
44. Three in every five children in my school suffer
from hayfever. If 180 children have suffered from
hayfever, what is the total number of children in
my school?

Raspberry
Tropical
Chocolate
Strawberry
Vanilla
0

50

100

150

_________

______________

45. Rajans building blocks are cubes which measure

1cm along each edge. He has made the shape
shown below. What is the total volume of his
model?

48. A pet shops sales of tarantulas for the week

were as follows:
Day
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday

Sales
7
11
14
6
4

What is the median number of sales?

_________

_________
49. Please insert the correct sign (<, > or =) below :
2/3 ________ 3/5

46. The price of one kilogram of gold is 7,500. How

much would 750g of gold cost?
_________

47. Francis has a choice between buying 8 individual

yoghurts priced at 59p each or a multi-pack of 8
priced at 2.99. How much does he save when he
buys the multipack?

50. The distance between the 2 main Vorgan cities is

said to be 99 truds. Since a mile is known to be
equal to 13/8 truds, what is this distance in miles?
_________

_________

END OF MAIN TEST

Scholarship level questions on the next page
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SCHOLARSHIP LEVEL QUESTIONS

S1. I have two function machines which give me
the following results :
Machine 1

Input

Output

800

416

200

116

18

100

198

20

38

10

Machine 2

S2. We are watching a motor race. The race is 70

laps and the Ferrari is lapping in 137.8 seconds
compared to 138.3 seconds for the Mercedes.
However the Ferrari needs to stop for tyres every
20 laps whereas the Mercedes will only stop once.
A stop for tyres takes 19 seconds. Assuming they
maintain this pace throughout the race and are not
delayed in any way by having to overtake other
cars, who will win the race and by how much?

If I enter a particular number, both machines give

me the same output. What is that number?

END OF TEST
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