(Note: This booklet is given only for the practice.

You need not solve all the

questions, but the more you solve, the more you get benefited.)

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 Stage 7 - Paper 1

1 The temperature in Stockholm at 06 00 is –3°C.

At 12 00 the temperature has risen by 5°C.

What is the temperature at 12 00?

°C [1]
2 Calculate.

(a) 15²
[1]
(b) 81

[1]

3 Write the missing numbers.

(a) 17.26 × 1000 = [1]

(b) 3.8 ÷ = 0.038 [1]

4 Kieran picks a bead out of a bag without looking.

He records the colour and replaces the bead.
Kieran does this 50 times.
He picks out a red bead 15 times.

Estimate the probability of picking a red bead.

[1]

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5 (a) Write as a mixed number.
4

[1]
4
(b) Write 3 as an improper fraction.
5

[1]

6 A book costs $15 in a shop.

If it is bought on the internet, it costs 80% of this amount.

How much does the book cost if it is bought on the internet?

$ [1]

7 Look at the shape drawn on the grid.

Reflect this shape in the line y = x.

y
y=x

[1]

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8 Look at the diagram.

NOT TO
SCALE

a°
33°

Work out the value of a.

° [1]

9 Calculate 34.2 ÷ 6
[1]
10 (a) ABCD is a parallelogram.

A B

110° NOT TO
SCALE
x°

D C

Calculate the value of x.

[1]

(b) Karl measures the four angles of a quadrilateral as:

130° 65° 120° 55°

Fay says he has made a mistake in measuring the angles.

Is Fay correct? Yes/No

Explain how you know.

Because

[1]
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11 The table shows the highest daily temperatures in London and in Sydney during a
week in March.

Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat Sun

London 6°C 9°C 8°C 10°C 11°C 10°C 9°C
Sydney 20°C 22°C 23°C 19°C 20°C 21°C 24°C

(a) What is the range of the temperatures in London?

°C [1]

(b) What is the median temperature in Sydney?

°C [1]

(c) Make two comments comparing the temperatures in London and Sydney
during this week.

[2]

12 Write brackets in the calculation to make it correct.

18 + 7 ÷ 3 + 2 = 5
[1]

13 A furniture manufacturer needs 12 screws when making a table.

(a) Put a ring round the formula that gives the total number of screws (y) needed to
make x tables.

y = 12 + x y = 12 ÷ x y = 12x y = 12 – x
[1]

(b) Use the formula to calculate the number of screws needed for 20 tables.

screws [1]

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14 The table shows some information about triangles A, B, C and D.

Type of Triangle
Triangle Angles Scalene Right angled Isosceles

A 90°, 30°, 60°



B 50°, 80°, 50°

C 45°, 90°, 45°

D 40°, 60°, 80°

Complete the table using ticks (
) and crosses ().

The first row has been done for you.

[2]

15 Ali has some sweets.

1 1
He gives of them to Suzi and of them to Tom.
8 4
What fraction of the sweets does Ali have left?
Show your working.

[2]

16 The table shows some information about 3D shapes.

Complete the table.

Name of Number of Number of Number of

shape faces vertices edges
Square based
5 5
pyramid

6 8 12

Triangular
5 9
prism

[2]

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17 Draw lines to join the calculations that have the same answer.
One has been done for you.

1
of 28
4
10% of 100
1
of 20
2
30% of 20
2
of 12
3
20% of 35

2
of 15
5

[2]

18 Look at the shapes A and B.

A B

5 cm NOT TO
a cm SCALE

7 cm

A is a square.
B is a rectangle.
A and B have the same perimeter.

Work out the length of a?

Show your working.

cm [2]

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19 A theatre has seats arranged in rows of 24
382 people attend a show at the theatre.

What is the smallest number of rows that is needed to seat these people?
Show your working.

rows [2]

20 Write the ratio 42 : 24 in its simplest form.

: [1]

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21 Put a ring round all the fractions that are equivalent to
5

16 12 14 28 9
30 20 25 35 15
[1]

22 Lucy buys a scarf for $7.48 and a skirt for $24.65

How much change does she get from a $50 note?

Show your working.

$ [2]

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23 Farhan asks all the students in his class how they travel to school.
He shows his results in a pie chart and on a bar chart.

14
cycle 12
10
bus 8
walk 6
4
car
2
0
walk car bus cycle

(a) Complete the bar chart. [1]

(b) How many students are there in Farhan’s class?

students [1]

24 A fruit drink is made by mixing juice and water in the ratio 2 : 9

(a) How many litres of water are mixed with 6 litres of juice?

litres [1]

(b) How many litres of juice are needed to make 44 litres of the drink?

litres [1]

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25 Look at the diagram.

C NOT TO
SCALE
110°

A D

ABD is a right-angled triangle.

ACD is an isosceles triangle with AC = CD.
Angle ACD =110°

Work out angle ABD.

° [2]

26 Look at rectangles A and B.

A B

Shade some squares in rectangle A so that the percentage of shaded squares is the
same in both rectangles.

[1]

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27 The table shows the attendances at four soccer matches.

Match Attendance
A 5472
B 4094
C 6149
D 4765

Harry says that if the attendance figures are rounded to the nearest 1000,
two matches have the same attendance.

Is Harry correct? Yes/No

Explain your answer.

Because

[1]

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 Stage 8 - Paper 1

1 Write the missing numbers in the boxes.

(a) 462 + = 849 [1]

(b) 713 – = 448 [1]

2 Calculate 7 – 2.4 + 0.36

[1]

3 Look at the shapes.

Tick (
) all the shapes that are congruent.

[1]

4 Work out.
(a) 4³ [1]

(b) 121 [1]

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5 Write the missing numbers in the spaces.

(a) 147 × = 1.47 [1]

(b) 32.9 ÷ = 329 [1]

6 Here is a signpost.

Paris 8km

Jane passes this signpost.

How many miles is Jane from Paris when she passes this signpost?

miles [1]

7 Rowena asks the students in her class if they are right or left-handed.
She starts to show her results in a two-way table.

Right-handed Left-handed Total

Boys 10

Girls 15

Total 7 29

Use the information given to complete Rowena’s two-way table.

[2]

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8 Tick (
) all the fractions that are equivalent.

9 3 24 21 15
28 8 64 54 40

[1]

9 Look at these triangles.

13 cm 13 cm
4 cm 13 cm

13 cm 12 cm

NOT TO
SCALE

13 cm 13 cm

13cm
5cm

5 cm 12cm

Tick (
) the triangle that has a hypotenuse of length 13 cm.

[1]

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10 Ayesha, Boris and Carla have some sweets.
Ayesha has x sweets.
Boris has twice as many sweets as Ayesha.
Carla has 3 fewer sweets than Boris.

(a) Tick (
) the expression that shows the number of sweets that Carla has.

2x +3 2 ( x −3) 3x − 2 2x − 3 3( x + 2) [1]

(b) Ayesha and Carla have the same number of sweets.

Work out the number of sweets that Ayesha has.

sweets [2]

11 Look at this drawing of a cuboid.

6cm NOT TO
SCALE
4cm
10 cm

Work out its volume.

cm³ [1]

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12 Rashid makes some patterns using black and white counters.

pattern number pattern number pattern number

1 2 3

He makes a table to show the number of counters he uses.

Pattern number 1 2 3 4 10

Number of white counters 0 2 4

Total number of counters 1 3 5

(a) Complete the table. [2]

(b) How many white counters are there in pattern number n?

[1]

(c) Write an expression for the total number of counters in the nth pattern.

[1]

13 Here are five expression cards.

p–q p+q p² 2p q² + 1

A B C D E

(a) Which two cards have the same value when p = 3 and q = – 1?

and [1]

(b) Which two cards have the same value when p = q?

and [1]

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14 Kumar measures the height of a plant.

At the start of the first week it is 36 mm.

A week later it is 63 mm.

Work out the percentage increase in the height of the plant.

% [2]

15 The midpoint of the line joining points A and B has coordinates (5,7).
A is the point (3,5).

Work out the coordinates of point B.

( , ) [2]

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16 A domino has a percentage and a fraction written on it.

1
30%
2

The dominoes are matched so that the fraction joins its equivalent percentage.

1 3
30% 50%
2 5

Four of the dominoes are joined.

1 3 1 2
30% 50% 12 %
2 5 2 3

Write in the percentage and fraction needed on the blank domino. [2]

17 Write numbers in the boxes to make the following calculations correct.

(a) 3.24 ÷ 0.4 = 3.24 × ÷4 [1]

(b) 87.9 × = 87.9 × 3 ÷ 100 [1]

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18 (a) Shade one more square so that this shape has one line of symmetry.

[1]

(b) Shade two more squares so that this shape has rotational symmetry of order 2.

[1]

19 The stem and leaf diagram shows the marks scored by some students in a
maths test.

0 2 5
1 3 6 7 8 Key 1 3 means 13
2 0 2 3 5 5 6 7 9
3 0

(a) What is the range of their scores?

[1]

(b) What is the median of their scores?

[1]

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20 Work out.

2 3
3 +1
3 5

[2]

21 Bisect the angle marked in the diagram.

Use only a ruler and a pair of compasses.

Leave your construction lines.

[2]

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22 Look at shapes A and B.

A B

Which of the shapes has the larger fraction of itself shaded?

Explain your answer.

Shape because
[2]

23 The table shows some properties of quadrilaterals.

Diagonals are Diagonals have

perpendicular equal length
Square


Rhombus
Rectangle
Trapezium

Complete the table.

Tick (
) if the property is always true.

Cross () if the property is not always true. [2]

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24 Hari has four number cards.

4 7 ? ?

(a) If the mode of the numbers is 4 and their median is 5, what are the two
missing numbers?

and [1]

(b) If the range of the numbers is 3 and their mean is 6, what are the two
missing numbers?

and [1]

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 Stage 9 - Paper 1

36 [1]
1 Write as a fraction in its simplest form.
63

2 Work out the values of a and b that make these statements correct.

(a) 0.5173 × 10a = 5173 a= [1]

(b) 365 ÷ 10b = 3.65 b= [1]

3 A 15 % service charge is added to a restaurant bill.

What is the service charge on a bill of $ 35?

$ [1]

4 A bag contains some coloured beads.

It contains only red, green, yellow and blue beads.
The probability of picking each colour bead at random is shown in the table.

Colour Red Green Yellow Blue

Probability 0.2 0.1 0.4 ?

[1]
What is the probability of picking a blue bead?

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5 Look at the expression cards.

A B C D E
1
m² ÷ m m² – m m× 2m – m m0
m

(a) Which expressions are always equal to m?

[1]
(b) Which expressions are always equal to 1?

[1]

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7 Expand and simplify the brackets.

(x + 4)(x – 7)

[2]

8 Look at the cubes.

NOT TO
SCALE
1m

1cm

How many centimetre cubes will fit inside a metre cube?

[1]

9 Here are six number cards.

–8 –4 –3 5 6 10

Use the cards to make these statements correct. Each card should only be used once.

+ =

– =

[2]

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10 Match the expression for the nth term to the correct sequence.

One has been done for you.

n+1 2 6 10 14 ...

4n – 2 2 3 4 5 ...

2n – 3 4 7 10 13 ...

3n + 1 –1 1 3 5 ...
[2]

11 Triangles A and B are drawn on the grid.

y

10

5
A

–10 –5 0 5 10 x

B
–5

–10

Describe fully the single transformation that maps A on to B.

[2]

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12 Solve the simultaneous equations.

2x – y = 11

x + y = 10

Show your working.

x=

y= [2]

13 Look at this calculation.

37 × 291 = 10 767

Work out

(a) 3.7 × 2.91

[1]

(b) 107.67 ÷ 0.37

[1]

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14 Gamal says
“The square root of 70 is between 8 and 9”.

Explain why Gamal is correct.

[1]

15 Here are some number cards.

0.01 0.1 1 10 100

Use four of these cards to make these statements correct.

You may use each card only once.

24 × = 24 ÷

24 ÷ = 24 ×

[2]

16 Construct a regular hexagon with sides 4 cm.

Use only a ruler and a pair of compasses.
Leave your construction lines.

[2]

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17 100 students take a mathematics test.
The marks are out of 50
Kris makes a frequency table to show their marks.

Marks Frequency
0 – 20 4
20 – 25 14
25 – 40 65
40 – 50 17
Total 100

Make two criticisms of the table.

[2]

18 (a) Here is the equation for a straight line:

y + 3x = 2
Express y in terms of x.

y= [1]

(b) Here are the equations of five straight lines.

A B C D

y = 3x + 2 y + 3x = 2 3x – y = 2 y = 2x + 3

Which two lines are parallel? and [1]

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19 The diagram shows a map of an island.
The scale of the map is 1 cm = 10 km.
A and B are towns.

N N

A B

(a) How many km is town A from town B? km [1]

(b) Some treasure is buried on the island.

It is on a bearing of 065° from A and it is 40 km from B.

By accurate drawing show the position of the treasure on the map.

Mark the position with an X. [2]

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20 John measures his blood pressure and his pulse rate on twelve days.
The scatter graph shows the readings for nine of these days.

Blood pressure (mm / Hg)

150

140

130

120

110

100
Pulse rate
0 70 75 80 85 90 95 100

The readings for the other three days are shown in the table.

1 2 3
Pulse rate 74 89 82
Blood pressure
110 135 107
(mm / Hg)

(a) Plot the other three points on the scatter graph.

[1]

(b) Make two statements about the correlation between pulse rate and blood
pressure.

[2]

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21 Here is a square and a circle.

12 cm 8 cm NOT TO
SCALE

Each side of the square is 12 cm.

The circle has a radius of 8 cm.

Which has the greater perimeter?

Show your working.

[2]

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22 A scientist is testing a new fertiliser.
She grows some plants in two plots, A and B.
Plot A has the new fertiliser.
Plot B has no fertiliser.
The scientist measures the heights of the plants after a month of growth.
The back to back stem and leaf diagram shows her results.

Plot A Plot B

4 0 1 1 7
9 7 6 4 4 1 5 1 2 2 3 3 3 4 6 8
5 5 5 3 2 6 0 0 3 4 5 5 6 7 9
9 7 7 6 6 4 2 1 7 0 1 2 2 3 7 8
9 8 5 3 2 2 0 8 0 1 1 4 6
7 7 4 1 1 0 9

Key: 1 5 means 51 cm Key: 5 1 means 51 cm

(a) Work out the median height of the plants grown in plot A.

cm [1]

(b) Compare the plants grown in plots A and B.

Make two comparisons.

[2]

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23 A rectangle has width 6 cm and area 60 cm².
It is cut into a triangle (A) and a trapezium (B).

x cm

A
B 6 cm NOT TO
SCALE

The ratio of the area of A to the area of B is 1 : 4

Work out the length x.

x= cm [3]

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