MATHEMATICS PLACEMENT TEST Time allowed 1Hr

Calculators may NOT be used. Write your answers on the sheet provided.

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209 + 376 + 523 = 6.24 2.35 = If I give away 7 sweets and have 16 left, how many did I start with? If I divide 56 by a certain number my answer is 8. What number did I divide by? If x + 19 = 32, what is the value of x? How many minutes in 4 hours? Write 278 to the nearest 10. Find the mean (average) of 10, 8, 18, 12. 3(14 9) = = =

12. Complete the table Fraction 0.2 80 Decimal Percenta ge

13. Calculate 527 4 to the nearest whole number. 14. List the prime factors of 30
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16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25.

= If a = 6 and b = 3, find a2b How long is it between 11.20 am and 1.15 pm? Calculate the square of 0.4 Write two more terms in the sequence: 2, 3, 5, 8, 12 Simplify x6 x2 Factorise ab + bc Multiply out (x + 3)(x + 5) Write 85 : 55 in its simplest form. A circle has a diameter of 6cm, what is its area to the nearest cm? If a car travels 120 km in 3 hours, how far will it travel in 4 hrs at the same speed?

26. What is the nth term of the sequence 3, 6, 9, 12, 15? 27. If the perimeter of the shape below is 14 m, what are the values of x and y?
y

Area = 12 m2

28. a) What are the co-ordinates of the point where the lines cross? b) What is the equation of line segment Q R?
y 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 1 2 3 4 R 5 6 7 Q

29. The graph below shows the number of different coloured sweets in a packet:
10 8 6 4 2

Red

Orange

Yellow

Green

Pink

Blue

Brown

Number of sweets

Colour of sweets

a) How many sweets are there in the packet? b) Which colours have equal numbers of sweets? c) What percentage of the total are red? d) When a sweet is picked at random from the packet; what is the probability that it is yellow? e) When a sweet is picked at random from the packet; what is the probability that it is red or blue? 30. A wheel has a radius of 5cm. How many times will it turn when it travels 31.4m? 31. Three bells ring at intervals of 3 seconds, 6 seconds and 7 seconds. If they all start to ring at the same time, after how many seconds will they again ring together? 32. A cuboid of side 10 cm x 10cm x 16cm is to be filled with cubes of side 2cm. How many cubes will be needed?

33. Calculate the shaded area of the 16 squares.

8cm

34. 20062 a) 4 036 b) 42 436 c) 400 036 036 35. The diagram shows a rectangle that just touches an equilateral triangle. Work out the size of angle ao ao d) 4 024 036 e) 4 000

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36. n = 4/11 On my calculator, n is shown as 0.3636363636 a) Write n to 3 significant figures b) Write 100n to 2 decimal places 37. What is the area of this shape? a) a(c b) a b) a(c + b) c) c(a + b) d) b(a + c) e) b(c a) b

a c 38. Which of three of these nets could be used to make the hexagonal prism?

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39. If an ordinary dice was rolled 54 times. How many times would a three be expected to be scored.

40. Solve for x x2 9x + 18 = 0 41. If PQ = QR = PR = 2cm. Find the length A B. Q

B P A R