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MG Arithmetic Section A 2016

1. The document is an entrance examination for a student containing questions 1-20 on arithmetic. 2. It instructs the student to write their name, school, and candidate number at the top and to attempt all questions in order within the 30 minute time limit. 3. The exam covers a range of arithmetic topics including addition, subtraction, fractions, decimals, percentages, word problems, and prime numbers.

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MG Arithmetic Section A 2016

1. The document is an entrance examination for a student containing questions 1-20 on arithmetic. 2. It instructs the student to write their name, school, and candidate number at the top and to attempt all questions in order within the 30 minute time limit. 3. The exam covers a range of arithmetic topics including addition, subtraction, fractions, decimals, percentages, word problems, and prime numbers.

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Surname .............................................................. Candidate number ..............................

First name ...........................................................

Current school ....................................................

Entrance Examination 2016


Arithmetic Section A

30 minutes
Do not open this booklet until told to do so
Calculators may not be used
Write your names, school and candidate number in the spaces
provided at the top of this page.

You have 30 minutes for this paper which is worth 20 marks.

Answer all the questions, attempting them in order and writing your
answers clearly. If you find that you cannot answer a question straight
away leave it blank and return to it later if you have time. Try not to
leave blank answer spaces at the end, instead make the best attempt
at an answer that you can.

If you need to change an answer cross it out neatly and write the
new answer alongside the box. You may use rough paper for

working out, this will not be marked.

Marker 1 Methods Problems Marker 1 Marker 2


Q1-10 Q11-20 TOTAL CHECK Agreed Mark
Number
Correct
Number
Wrong
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1. Work out 983 + 254 1

2. Work out 573 x 300 2

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3. Write as
20
a decimal number. 3

4. What fraction of a day is 9 hours? Write your fraction in its


4
simplest form.

5. What is the missing decimal number in this list


5
2.7, 4.3, ........., 7.5, 9.1

1
6. Work out 4 -
4
1 35 6

7. Work out 6.48 –.. 0.6, writing your answer as a decimal number. 7

8. Subtract the difference between 62 and 35 from the product


8
of 13 and 6.

9. One of the angles in a triangle is 40°. One of the remaining


two angles is three times larger than the other angle. What is °
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the largest angle in the triangle?

10. A shop reduces its prices by 20% in a sale. David bought a


coat for £40 in the sale. How much would the coat have
10 £
cost him before the sale?

Q1 - 10 Q1 - 10
For
Number Number
marker
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11. Nigel folds a square piece of paper in half to give a rectangle


which has a perimeter of 36 cm. What is the area of the
11 cm2
original square?

12. Rachel buys three identical bags of sweets and five cans of
drink, the total cost of these items came to £4.90. Rosie buys
just one bag of sweets and three cans of drink and pays £2.70.
12 p
What is the cost of a bag of sweets?

13. Tim has three apples. The mean (average) weight of the
three apples is 90 grams. When Tim eats the largest apple,
the mean weight of the remaining two apples is just 70 grams.
13 grams
What was the weight of the largest apple?

14. In the sequence of numbers which starts 2, 3, 5, 9, .........


each number is one less than two times the previous number
in the list. What is the number in the list immediately
14
before 257?

15. A plant is growing at a steady rate of 0.2 cms every day.


At midday on January 19th the plant was 6 cms high.
15
What will the date be when it reaches a height of 11 cm?

16. A bag contains coloured counters of just two colours.


There are twenty green counters numbered 1 to 20 and
thirty blue counters numbered 1 to 30. What is the probability
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of picking a counter from the bag which is a multiple of four?

17. Lathes Engineering produces ten boxes of screws every


minute. It has to produce 48,000 boxes of screws in five days.
If its machines work an equal amount of time each day, work
out the number of hours which will be needed each day to
17 hrs
produce the boxes of screws needed.

Please turn over


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18. At Frantic Junction, trains arrive at regular intervals on three


different lines. On the line from Aytown, trains arrive every
15 minutes. On the line from Beeville, they arrive every
12 minutes and from Ceeford they arrive every 8 minutes.
At 10.00am a train from each town arrives at Frantic Junction.
18
What is the next time that three trains will arrive together.

19. Irfan has six fraction cards as shown below

1 1 1 1 1 1
24 12 8 6 4 3

Write down a possible way in which he can add 19


three or more cards to get the answer 12

20. 83 is a prime number. If Nancy reverses the order of the


digits she gets 38 which is not prime. How many two digit
primes do give a different prime number when their digits
20
are reversed?

This is the end of the Examination


Use any remaining time to check your work
or try any questions you have not answered.

Q11 - 20 Q11 - 20
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Number Number
marker
Correct Wrong
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