LEVEL 6 ANSWER
TESTS BOOKLET
MATHEMATICS TEST
LEVEL 6 TESTS
Ma
Paper 1 calculator not allowed
First name
Middle name
Last name
Date of birth Day Month Year
Please circle one Boy Girl
Year group
School
YOU MAY NEED REMEMBER
Pens, pencils and a rubber. You have 30 minutes to complete this test paper.
A ruler. You may not use a calculator for any question in this test paper.
A pair of compasses. Try to answer all the questions.
A protractor or angle measurer. Write all your answers and working on the test paper do not
use any rough paper. Marks may be awarded for working.
Tracing paper.
Check your work carefully.
A mirror.
Ask your teacher if you are not sure what to do.
Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency 2011
Lisa Nik Kemi
You might need to use this formula.
Trapezium
b
1
Area = (a + b)h height (h)
2
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Instructions
You may not use a calculator to answer any questions in this test paper.
Work as quickly and as carefully as you can.
You have 30 minutes for this test paper.
If you cannot do one of the questions, go on to the next one.
You can come back to it later, if you have time.
If you finish before the end, go back and check your work.
Follow the instructions for each question carefully.
This shows where you need to put the answer.
If you need to do working out, you can use any space on a page.
Some questions have an answer box like this:
Show
your
working
For these questions you may get a mark for showing your working.
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1 Here is information about pupils in a class.
The total number of pupils is 30
26 of the pupils do not wear glasses.
A quarter of the pupils who do wear glasses are boys.
There are 2 more boys than girls.
Use the information to fill in the missing numbers in the table below.
Number who do Number who do not
Total
wear glasses wear glasses
Number
of boys
Number
of girls
Total 30
(2 marks)
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2 The shaded shape is a square.
y
A B Not drawn
accurately
( 7, 3 ) ( 17, 3 )
0 x
What are the coordinates of A and B?
A( , ) B( , ) (2 marks)
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3
There are 25 children in the lunch queue, including Nik.
Nik says,
There are twice as many children in front of me as there are behind me.
How many children are in front of Nik?
Show
your
working
children
(2 marks)
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4 These patterns are drawn on square grids.
Pattern A Pattern B
In pattern A, the ratio of black squares to grey squares is 1 : 2
What is the ratio of black squares to grey squares in pattern B?
1:
(1 mark)
Now look at this new pattern.
What percentage of the new pattern is black?
%
(1 mark)
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5 Here are three equations.
a + b + c = 30
a + b = 24
a + b + c = 14
What are the values of a, b and c?
a= b= c=
(2 marks)
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6 The diagrams show a rectangle divided into different parts.
On each, shade the area represented by the expression.
The first one is done for you.
ac
c
a b
ad + bd
c
a b (1 mark)
b (c + d)
c
a b (1 mark)
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7 Here are three scatter diagrams, labelled A, B and C.
Scatter diagram A
Number of
hours spent
watching TV
each day
Number of
televisions
Scatter diagram B
Number of
hours spent
watching TV
each day
Number of
computers
Scatter diagram C
Number of
hours spent
watching TV
each day
Number of
mobile phones
The questions are on the next page.
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Kemi writes:
Scatter diagram A shows that the more televisions a person has in
their home the more hours they spend watching television.
Now complete the sentences below.
Scatter diagram B shows that
(1 mark)
Scatter diagram C shows that
(1 mark)
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8 The diagram shows a pentagon.
a
Not drawn
150 150
accurately
Each side of the pentagon is the same length.
Is the shape a regular pentagon?
Circle Yes or No.
Yes / No
Explain your answer.
(1 mark)
Work out the size of angle a
Show
your
working
a=
(2 marks)
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9 The diagram shows four straight lines, A, B, C and D.
y A B C D
8
0
-1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 x
-1
D C B A
Which line has the equation y = x?
Circle A, B, C or D.
A / B / C / D
Which line has the equation x = 4?
Circle A, B, C or D.
A / B / C / D (1 mark)
Draw a horizontal straight line through the point (4, 4) and
write its equation.
(1 mark)
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10 Here is a triangle.
Two of its sides are 4cm and two of its angles are 45
Join dots to make a different triangle.
Make only one of its sides 4cm and only one of its angles 45
(1 mark)
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11 Write the missing numbers.
= 0.1
160 (1 mark)
160
= 0.2
(1 mark)
12 Here are four numbers.
Their mean is 4 and their range is 0
4 4 4 4
Write four numbers that have a mean of 4 and a range of 4
(1 mark)
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13 A dragon lived in a cave.
The dragon doubled in size every day.
After 20 days the dragon filled the cave.
After how many days did the dragon half-fill the cave?
After days
(1 mark)
14 I am thinking of a number that is not zero.
I multiply my number by 5
Tick () the statement below that is true.
The answer must be positive.
The answer must be negative.
The answer could be positive or negative.
Explain how you know.
(1 mark)
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