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1. If it takes Paul 4 hours to cycle 3 miles, how long will it take him to cycle 12 miles?

2. Mrs Slater bought 192 Pokemon cards for the gift bags for her daughter’s
birthday party . They come in envelopes of 16. How many envelopes of Pokemon
cards did Mrs Slater buy?

3. How many 10p coins can I get for £1.60?

A) 10 coins B) 16 coins C) 66 coins D) 106 coins E) 160 coins

4. Find the mean of the following sets of numbers:

A) 6, 10, 3, 1
B) 9, 7, 2, 11, 6
C) 12, 2, 4, 6, 9, 3

5. Multiply each of the numbers below by 1000

A) 76.2
B) 0.154
C) 5.21

6. Buses leave London to Birmingham every 9 minutes. Buses leave London to

Liverpool every 12 minutes. A bus to Birmingham and a bus to Liverpool Bridge
both leave London at 10 am. At what time will a bus to Birmingham and a bus
to Liverpool Bridge next leave London at the same time?

A) 11.12am B) 10.27am C) 11.48am D) 10.36am

7. The supermarket has 480 boxes of Easter Eggs. 57 are given away as prizes in a
special Easter competition. 182 are sold and cost £5.20 each. How many Easter
Eggs remain?

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8. What would be the approximate cost of 14 books at £6.98 each

(to the nearest £)?

9. Harry’s mum is 5 times as old as Harry was 3 years ago.

If Harry’s mum is 40, how old is Harry?

10. What is the value of the 6 in this number? 6420

A) 6 thousands B) 6 hundreds C) 6 tens D) 6 ones

11. Sophie goes to the shop near her school every weekday for eight weeks during
the term time. Every time she buys a chocolate bar which costs £0.80 each time
she goes. How much does she pay in total?

12. Hannah divided a number by 4 rather than multiplying it. Her answer was 36.
What was the number?

13. What is this number in figures: seven thousand, two hundred and eight.

A) 7280 B) 7028 C) 728 D) 72008 E) 7208

14. Arrange the fractions in order of size, putting the largest first.
5/8, 3/4, 9/16, 7/8

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15. Some children made this Venn diagram of what colours they prefer

G B
6 3 21 G = green
5 B = blue
11 4
Y = yellow
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1. __________ children like green
2. ___________ children like blue
Y 3. ___________ children like yellow.

16. The number of children who like both green and blue is:
17. How many children don’t like blue?
18. How many children altogether were counted in the diagram?

19. At the zoo there are 12 monkeys and 18 parrots.

Write the ratio of monkeys:parrots in its simplest form.

20. prof
12 t-shirts were bought for £4.75 each and sold for £5.99. What was the total profit?

21. Change these 24-hour times into 12-hour times using a.m. or p.m.
- 17:21
- 04:17
- 20:01

22. John measured the height of his car. It was 1.745 m tall. What is 1.745 m rounded
to the nearest 10 cm?

A) 1.7m B) 1.50m C) 2m D) 1.74m E) 1.75m

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23. The average temperature in June is 21 ºC. The average temperature in October
is a third of the average temperature in June. The average temperature in
September is twice the average temperature in October. What is the average
temperature in September?

24. Sharan has 3 pieces of ribbon to wrap a present. One piece is 140 mm long,
another piece is 25 cm long and the last piece is 0.32 m long.
What is the total length of wool, in centimetres, that Shania has?

25. The diagram below shows the plan of Lucas’s office.

What is the area of the office?

3m

10m

5m

9m

26. What is the sum of the factors of 30?

A) 45 B) 72 C) 56 D) 69 E) 59

27. John, Sanjay and Mya are going on holiday. John’s suitcase weighs 12.2 kg,
Sanjay’s weighs 13.8 kg and Mya’s weighs 10.5 kg. What is the range of the
weights of their suitcases?

28. Ella has 25 cards. 5 of Ella’s cards are Kings. Poppy takes a card at random from
Ella. What is the probability that Poppy takes a King?

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A) 3/5 B) 5/20 C) 1/4 D) 1/5 E) 4/3
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29. What percentage of this shape is shaded?

30. Alexa is building a treehouse. She uses 27 pieces of wood which weigh 3g each.
What is the total weight, in grams, of the wood used to make the treehouse?

31. Hannah is 5 feet 7 inches high. Which is closest to her height in metres?

A) 1.7m B) 1.8m C) 1.2m D) 1.5m E) 2m

32. How should the time 3.37 in the afternoon be written?

A) 12.47 B) 16.47 C) 15.47 D) 18.47 E) 14.47

33. What does 6³ equal?

A) 18 B) 6×6×6 C) 6×3 D) 63 E) 36

34. The table shows the amount of sugar in different kinds of desserts.
What is the mean of the amount of sugar?

Dessert Amount of sugar

Slice of cake 7g
Ice lolly 15g
Strawberry yogurt 3g
Donut 9g
Chocolate bar 11g
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35. Find the unknown angle in the figure below.

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36. Harry works at an ice cream shop. He is paid £5.50 an hour plus 5% of the cost
of each ice cream he sells. On Sunday, Harry worked for 5 hours and sold £175
worth of ice cream. How much money did Harry earn?

37. A vase holds 3 litres of water.

250 ml of water is drained from the vase every minute.
How many minutes will it take for the bucket to be empty?

38. Six bread rolls cost £3.60 and two coffees cost £2.80. What is the total cost of
one bread roll and one coffee?

39. Write 32 millilitres in litres.

40. Write 456 centimetres in kilometres.

41. Write 137 grams in kilograms.

42. Write 6.589 kilometres in metres.

43. Write 0.08 litres in centilitres.

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44. Work out the size of the angle marked n.

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45. Sarika has a bag of lollipops. 3 are red, 4 are orange and 2 are green. She picks a
lollipop at random. What is the probability that she picks one that is not orange?

A) 4/9 B) 5/10 C) 5/9 D) 1/5 E) 3/9

46. This bar chart shows the rain in London during each month.
Which month does it rain the most?

A) March B) December C) January D) July E) October

47. Change the order of the figures 5074 to make the biggest number possible.

A) 7504 B) 5740 C) 7540 D) 5470 E) 7450

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48. The sheep is at (6 , 2). The tractor is at ( , )

A) (5 , 6) B) (1 , 6) C) (7 , 1) D) (3 , 3) E) (1 , 7)

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7
6
5
4
3
2
1

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

49. The time in Miami is 5 hours behind the time in London. In London it is 9am.
What time is it in Miami?
A) 13:00 B) 04:00 C) 06:00 D) 3pm E) 6 pm

50. Molly was 1.53 metres tall. She grew 3 centimetres more.
How tall was she then in metres?

A) 1.56m B) 15 m C) 1.65m D) 1.506m E) 1.305m

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51. The bottle holds 1.5 litres of water. The cup is filled from the bottle.
How much water will be left in the bottle?

A) 0.7 l B) 0.5l C) 800ml D) 0.35l

1800

1600

1400

1200

1000

800 800

600 600

400 400

200 200

100 100

52. Share 480 into 4 equal parts.

A) 120 B) 60 C) 130 D) 40 E) 70

53. Liam has six 20 pence pieces, two 50 pence pieces, four ten pence pieces
and ten 5 pence pieces in his pocket. How much money does he have in total?

54. Nya saved £2.50 a week. How many weeks did it take her to save £30?

A) 6 weeks B) 8 weeks C) 9 weeks D) 10 weeks E) 12 weeks

55. Three pieces of string are cut from a piece 2 metres long. Each piece is 60 cm
long. How long is the piece left over?

A) 10 cm B) 20 cm C) 40 cm D) 800 cm E) 870 cm

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56. Refer to the following shop price list for this question:

Banana smoothie 95p

Chocolate bar 65p
Pear 50p
Apple crumble £1.15
Cheesy pasta £4.30

John’s mum wants to buy four lunches for her kids – each with some cheesy
pasta, a banana smoothie and a pear. How much will she have to pay in total?

57. The diameter of a circle is 40 cm.

How far is the centre from the circumference (in cm)?

A) 20 cm B) 10 cm C) 15 cm D) 5 cm E) 12 cm

58. 36 ÷ (3 + 6) =

A) 15 B) 4 C) 13 D) 4 E) 3

59. 444 children each voted for their favourite superhero.

Ghost
Spider

Captain
Spiderman America

Hulk

This pie chart shows the results. How many children voted for Captain America?

A) 26 B) 45 C) 37 D) 74 E) 54

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60. Paul took 8 hours to travel 480 miles.

What was his average speed, in miles per hour?

A) 40 mph B) 60 mph C) 70 mph D) 80 mph E) 90 mph

61. What percentage of £10 is £10p?

A) 1% B) 5% C) 10% D) 20% E) 50%

62. A box contains 2 green crayons, 3 yellow crayons and 4 blue crayons. If John picks
a crayon at random, what is the probability that he will pick out a yellow one?
Choose the appropriate answer.

A) 2/7 B) 1/3 C) 1/5 D) 1/4 E) 2/5

63. What is the next number in this sequence? 25, 15, 5, -5, -15

A) 25 B) -25 C) -20 D) -30

64. Emma needs to use a total of 1.5 kg of flour for her recipe. Which two of the
weights below should she choose to make up the weight to the correct amount?
Circle the two appropriate letters.

A) 425g B) 850g C) 650g D) 400g E) 300g

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65. This half term Aaron has taken 7 maths tests. Here are his results out of 10:
7, 4, 8, 3, 5, 3, 7
What was his median score?

66. 74. 342 ÷ 6 =

A) 42 B) 56 C) 57 D) 58 E) 69

67. Look at the following image:

Select the correct answer:

A) Angle X is 180 degrees

B) Angle X is between 90 and 180 degrees
C) Angle X is more than 180 degrees
D) Angle X is a right angle
E) Angle X is less than 90 degrees

68. There were 24 cherries in a bag. I took out 1/ 3 of the cherries.

How many cherries did I take out?

A) 16 B) 17 C) 9 D) 8 E) 18

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69. This table shows how long Martin watched TV each day last week.

Day Time taken

Monday 15 minutes

Tuesday 30 minutes

Wednesday 60 minutes

Thursday 20 minutes

Friday 10 minutes

What was the average time he watched, in minutes?

A) 11 mins B) 15 mins C) 17 mins D) 25 mins E) 27 mins

70. Which of these is the smallest?

A) 0.0701 B) 0.07 C) 0.071 D) 0.07001 E) 0.0777

71. One of the angles in an isosceles triangle is 80 degrees . Which of these is a

possible other angle in the triangle:

A) 100 degrees B) 80 degrees C) 150 degrees D) 20 degrees E) 75 degrees

72. Emma buys a rubber and a pencil for £3.10. The rubber costs 50p more than the
pencil. How much is the rubber?

A) £1.30 B) £1.60 C) 90p D) 80p

73. What is 50% of 80?

A) 16 B) 20 C) 25 D) 8 E) 40
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74. 3.9 × 10 =

A) 39.9 B) 39 C) 0.039 D) 390 E) 0.39

75. In which year was the population twice as much as it was in 1800?

A) 1820 B) 1860 C) 1880 D) 1900 E) 1920

76. A football match finished at 7.55 pm. It lasted for three-quarters of an hour.
At what time did it start?

A) 7.15 pm B) 7.10 pm C) 6.05 pm D) 6.25 pm

77. 4, 9, 25
The three numbers above are alike in some ways.
Select ONE of the following to say one way in which they are alike.

A) They are all odd numbers.

B) They are all two-figure numbers.
C) They are all prime numbers.
D) They are all square numbers.
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78. What fraction of an hour is 24 minutes?

Write your answer in its lowest possible terms.

79. Tony the vet has two legs and each of the dogs that visit him at the clinic have
four legs. In the picture below the total number of legs is 6. Fill in the table below
for the number of legs if Tony the vet is always present, but the number of dogs
in his clinic increases.

Number of dogs 1 2 3 10 100

Number of legs 6 14

If you wanted to make a formula that links the number of dogs D, with the
number of legs L, how would the formula look: L=....... C+.............

80. This diagram shows the distance between different towns. Kristina drove her
car at 60 miles per hour for 1 hour and 20 minutes. What was her route?

A) EFDAB B) BECFD C) ECDAB D) DFCEB

B 14 E

6 8
24
10 C
A 6

30
20

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81. Daniels’s temperature is usually 36.5°C. When she was ill it rose 3°C.
What was her temperature when she was ill?

A) 38.8°C B) 46.5°C C) 37.5°C D) 37.2°C E) 39.5°C

82. What is the volume of this block?

A) 96cm2 B) 48cm2 C) 18cm2 D) 16cm2

4cm

6cm
4cm

83. 4.06 + 0.042 = ?

A) 4.012 B) 4.12 C) 4.642 D) 4.102 E) 5.002

84. A packet of sweets costs x pence. I bought 7 packets. Which expression shows
how much change I will get from £10?

A) 10 – 7x B) 1000 – 7x C) 7x – 10 D) 1000 – 70x E) 7x – 1000

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85. The coordinates of the 4 vertices of a quadrilateral are:

(a–2 , b) (a , b) (a–2 , b+2) (a , b+2) What shape is this?

A) kite B) parallelogram C) square D) rectangle E) trapezium

86. Which two of the following numbers is a factor of 4, 6 and 8?

Circle the appropriate answers.

A) 80 B) 64 C) 60 D) 48 E) 24

87. A cake costs c pence and a drink costs d pence.

Write down an expression for the cost of 2 cakes and 2 drinks.

88. Annie is a window cleaner. She uses the following formula to calculate
the amount to charge her customers:

Charge = £20 + 4n
Where n is the number of windows a house has.
If a house has 7 windows, how much would Annie charge?

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