The City School

PAF Chapter

Prep Section

MATHEMATICS

Class – 6

Worksheets for Intervention Classes

 FACTORS, COMMON FACTORS, MULTIPLES,
FACTOR TREE,
INDEX NOTATIONS AND PRIME NUMBERS

Q1. List all factors of the following numbers and circle the prime factors.

(a) 6 (b) 9 (c) 7 (d) 15 (e) 24

(f) 36 (g) 35 (h) 25 (i) 42 (j) 100
(k) 66 (l) 75 (m) 28 (n) 48 (o) 120

Q2. Find the common factors of the following numbers.

(a) 6, 12 (b) 35, 42 (c) 9, 15

(d) 10, 20, 30 (e) 24, 30, 36

Q3. Find the common factors of the following numbers.

(a) 8, 12 (b) 10, 25 (c) 12, 18, 24

(d) 15, 21, 27 (e) 36, 63, 108

Q4. Find the prime factors of the following numbers. Express each number as a product of prime
numbers, using indices (index notations) when needed.

(a) 12 (b) 64 (c) 72 (d) 80 (e) 144

Q5. (a) List all the factors of 30.

(b) List the prime factors of 30.

(c) Write 30 as a product of its prime factors (Multiply out to check your answer.)

(d) Write down the first three multiples of 30.

Q6. 1, 4, 30, 45, 5, 15, 9, 1500, 3, 10

From this list choose:

(a) The multiples of 15,

(b) The factors of 15.

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Q7. Use a factor tree to find the prime factors of 240.

Write your answer:

(a) as a list of prime factors,

(b) as a product of prime factors.

Q8. Write down all the prime numbers between 20 and 40.

Q9. Which of the following numbers are prime numbers'?

37. 49, 53, 81, 87, 93, 101

Q10. Write down a list of numbers between 80 and 90. Including 80 and 90.

From your list find:

(a) two prime numbers,

(b) three multiples of 5,

(c) a factor of 348.

Q11. List all the factors of 8. Then list all the factors of 12.

Q12. List all the factors of:

(i) 15 (ii) 35 (iii) 20

Q13. List the first six multiples of 12 and of 8.

Q14. Write each of these using index notations,

a) 9 × 9 × 9 b) 6 × 6 × 6 × 6 × 6 c) 5 x 5 x 5 x 5

d) 8 × 8 × 8 × 8 × 8 × 8 e) 2× 2× 2×2× 2× 2× 2×2 ×2

Q15. Write each of these numbers in full and find its value.

a) 34 b) 25 c) 54 d) 106 e) 43

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LCM AND HCF, TEST OF DIVISIBILITY
Q1. Find the highest common factor of 8 and 12.

Q2. Find the highest common factor of 21 and 42.

Q3. Write down the highest common factor of 15, 35 and 20.

Q4. Write down the lowest common multiple of 12 and 8.

Q5. Find the lowest common multiple of 3, 5 and 12.

Q6. Find Lowest Common Multiple of each set of numbers

(a) 2, 5 (b) 3, 4 (c) 3, 5

(d) 4, 6 (e) 10, 15

Q7. Find Lowest Common Multiple & Highest Common Multiple of each set of numbers

(a) 6, 12 (b) 9, 6 (c) 14, 21

(d) 22, 33 (e) 8, 5, 10

Q8. Find Lowest Common Multiple of each set of numbers

(a) 6, 14 (b) 4, 15 (c) 2, 7, 10

(d) 3, 9, 10 (e) 3, 7, 11

Q9. Test 21603 for divisibility by 2, 3, 5 and 9. Explain your reasoning

Q10. Test 515196 for divisibility by 2, 3, 5, 6 and 9. Explain your reasoning.

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SQUARE, SQUARE ROOT, CUBE AND CUBE ROOT
Q1. Calculate how many squares of side length 1 cm there are in squares with the following side
lengths.
a) 13 cm

d) 11 cm
b) 15 cm

e) 12 cm
c) 18 cm

f) 100 cm

Q2. Work out the square roots of the following numbers. Give positive roots.

Q3. Evaluate the following:

Q4. Workout the positive square roots of the following decimals.

a) 0.25 b) 0.49 c) 0.64 d) 0.81 e) 1.44 f) 1.69

Q5. How many 1cm × 1cm × 1cm cubes would make up cubes with the following side lengths?

a) 4 cm b) 6 cm c) 10 cm d) 9cm

Q6. Workout the cube roots of the following numbers.

a) 8 b) 125 c) 27 d) 1000
Q7. Workout the following,
(a) √25 (b)√9
(c) √121 (d)√169

Q8. Write down:

(a) The square of 6 (b) The square root of 9 (c) 2 (d) √25 (e) √100 (f) 10

Q9. Evaluate the following without using calculator.

(a) (b) (c) (d)

(e) (f)

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INTEGERS
Solve the following

Q1. (a) (+6) + (-3) (b) (+4) + (-4) (c) (+9) + (-6)

Q2. (a) (-7) + (+5) (b) (-6) + (+5) (c) (-1) + (-7)

Q3. (a) (-2) + (-4) (b) (-4) + (-1) (c) (-7) + (-1)

Q4. (a) (-4) + (+4) + (-1) (b) (-3) + (-5) + (+6) (c) (+3) + (-6) + (-3)

Q5. Write each of these sets of integers in order, lowest first.

(a) (+6) (-3) (+9) (-5) (-1)

(b) (+9) (-8) (-2) (+6) (-3)

(c) (+5) (-5) (+2) (+4) (-9)

(d) (+7) (-8) (+5) (+4) (-6) (-3)

(e) (+12) (+43) (-21) (+65) (-43) (-26)

Work out the answers to the following calculations.

Q6. (a) (+5) - (+4) (b) (+6) - (+3) (c) (+6) - (+4)
(d) (+5) - (+2) (e) (+7) - (+1) (f) (+8) - (+5)

Q7. (a) (+3) - (+4) (b) (+5) - (+6) (c) (+2) - (+5)
(d) (+1) - (+6) (e) (+2) - (+3) (f) (+8) - (+9)

Q8. (a) (-3) - (+3) (b) (-4) - (+4) (c) (-2) - (+12)
(d) (-3) - (+4) (e) (-1) - (+5) (f) (-6) - (+6)

Q9. (a) (-9) - (-5) (b) (-3) - (-2) (c) (-4) - (-1)
(d) (-8) - (-7) (e) (-4) - (-4) (f) (-9) - (-7)

Q10. (a) (-3) - (-4) (b) (-2) - (-5) (c) (-2) - (-6)
(d) (-4) - (-5) (e) (-3) - (-7) (f) (-2) - (-4)

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Q11. Find the new temperature for each of the following.

(a) The temperature is -5 °C and rises by 15 °C

(b) The temperature is -8 °C and rises by 12 °C
(c) The temperature is -20 °C and rises by 10 °C
(d) The temperature is -3 °C and rises by 8 °C
(e) The temperature is 3 °C and rises by 15 °C
(f) The temperature is 3 °C and falls by 15 °C
(g) The temperature is 8 °C and falls by 12 °C
(h) The temperature is -4 °C and falls by 5 °C
(i) The temperature is -9 °C and falls by 11 °C
(j) The temperature is 5 °C below zero and falls by 16 °C

Q12. Work out the answers to the following calculations

a) (+5) + (-3) b) (+7) + (-4) c) (+10) + (-6)

d) (-8) + (-7) + (-4) e) (-7) + (-1) f) (-7) + (-5)

g) (-5) + (+4) + (-1) h) (+9) - (+4) i) (+13) - (+4)

j) (-6) - (+3) k) (-9) - (-15) l) (-8) + (-5) + (+6)

m) (+5) - (+3) n) (+4) - (+6) o) (-4) - (+14)

q) (-3) - (-12) r) (+12) – (+5) s) (+7) + (-6) + (-3)

t) (+11) – (+4) u) (-5) + (+7) v) (+6) – (+2)

w) (-8) + (-7) x) (-22) – (+12) y) (-3) – (-12)

z) (-4) – (-11)

Q13. Work out the following.

a) (+8) × (-6) b) (+6) × (-5) c) (+4) × (-7)

Q14. Work out the following.

a) (-5) × (+4) b) (-7) × (+9) c) (-7) × (+7)

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Q15. Copy and complete this multiplication grid.

x -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3

3 -3 +6

1 +2

0 0 0

-1 -3

-2

-3

Q16. Work out the following.

a) (+4) x (+2) b) (-3) x (+1) c) (+3) x-(-4) d) (-2) x (-5 )

e) (-5) x (-1) f) (-3) x (-3)

Q17. Calculate the following.

a) (+18) + (+6) b) (-18) + (-6) c) (18) + (+6)

d) (-18) + (-6) e) (-24) + (-6) f) (-25) + (+5)
Q18. Copy and complete the following, writing in the missing numbers to make the calculations
correct.
a)______ x (+5) = (+25) b)______ x (-3) = (-21) c)______ x (-5) = (-20)
d) (+6) x ______ = (-42) e) (-7) x_____ = (-28) f) (-8) x _____= (+32)

Q19. The table gives pairs of numbers x and y which add together to make 8.
x + y = 8.
Copy and complete this table.
x 5 4 3 2 1 0 -1 -2 -3 -4 -5
y

Q20. If p + q = —3, copy and complete this table.

p 5 4 3 2 1 0 -1 -2 -3 -4 -5
q

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FRACTIONS
Q1. Calculate the following, simplifying and writing your answers as mixed numbers if
necessary:

Q2. Simplify

Q3. How many sweets would be in a bag of 28 sweets after 1 of them had been eaten?
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Q4. One third of a class of 45 students has gone away on a field trip. How many students have
gone on the trip?

Q5. Calculate the following, simplifying your answers and changing to mixed numbers as
necessary.

Q6. Place these fractions in order of size, starting with the smallest:

Q7. Work out the following. Simplify your answers where possible.

Q8. Work out the following. Simplify your answers where possible.

Q9. Write down whether each of the following statements is true or false

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Q10. In a tennis match player A managed to get of her first serves in.
25

Player B managed to gets 2 of her first serves in. Which player got a higher proportion of her
5

first serves in?

Q11. Two schools hold their school plays on the same evening. At one school, 7 of the
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audience are children. At the other, of the audience are children. Which school
has the highest proportion of children in the audience?

Q12. A tropical fruit juice states on the label that it is made up of the following fractions of fruit:
1 1 3 7 15
orange mango passion fruit pineapple grape
4 8 16 32 64

Write down the fruits in ascending order of their proportion in the juice.

DECIMALS
Q1. (a) Convert each of the following fractions to decimals.

(i)
1 3 7
(ii) (iii)
20 15 28
(iv)
3 1 17
(v) (vii)
14 24 99

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(b) Put the fractions in part (a) in order of size, largest first.

Q2. Convert each of the following decimals to fractions in its simplest form.

(a) 0.3 (b) 0.12 (c) 0.625 (d) 0.37 (e) 0.2125

Q3. Write each of the following sets of decimals in order of size, smallest first.

a) 0.7 , 0.5

b) 0.27 , 0.100

c) 0.625 , 0.8 , 0.73

d) 0.33, 0.303, 0.403

e) 0.101, 0.01 , 0.10

f) 0.32 , 0.43 , 0.403

Q4. Rewrite each sum vertically and then carry out each operation:

(a) 0.86 + 0.49

(b) 0.315 + 0.286

(c) 0.402 + 0.57

(d) 68.49 + 27.835

(e) 8.3 + 12.43 + 9.675

(f) 2.043 + 0.69 + 7

(g) 1.2 + 20 + 0.84

(h) 37.52 + 15.8 + 6.43 + 2.09

(i) 58.01 + 29.7 + 7.92 + 5.49

(j) 23.5 + 11.35 + 47.5

(k) 0.67 – 0.49

(l) 20 – 6.83

(m) 75 – 59.17

(n) 18 – 15.073

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(o) 6.4 – 3.514

(p) 37.4 – 8.55

(q) 10.03 – 5.38

(r) 9.7 – 6.3

(s) 10 – 7.7 + 0.84

Q5. Write the answers to the following:

(a) 0.57 × 7

(b) 0.011 × 8

(c) 0.15 × 9

(d) 6.008 × 9

(e) 8.47 × 7

(f) 1.9 × 23

(g) 3.06 × 82

(h) 5.053 × 24

(i) 9.62 × 31

(j) 2.97 x 19

(k) 1.76 x 46

(l) 1.028 x 126

(m) 5.423 x 370

Q6. Write the answers to the following:

(a) 0.3 × 10

(b) 0.008 × 100

(c) 4.82 × 1000

(d) 6.83 ×10 000

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Q7. Calculate the following giving your answer as a decimal (non-recurring/terminating or
recurring decimal)

(a) 5÷4

(b) 26 ÷ 8

(c) 14.9 ÷ 9

(d) 2.77 ÷ 6

Q8. Find the cost of 6.5 meter of cloth at $.19.50 per meter

Q9. Akram purchased 17.5kg of sugar. He wants to put it in bags. If one bag contains 3.5kg of
sugar, find the number of bags required for this purpose

Q10. The product of two decimal numbers is 4.7736. If one of them is 2.16, find the other

Q11. The price of a book is $.6.25 and that of a pen is $ 12.75, then find

a. What is the total of a book and a pen

b. How much more does the pen cost than the book

c. What is the cost of 12 books?

d. What is the cost of 20 pens?

ROUNDING OFF
Q1. Round the following numbers

(i) to the nearest thousand, (ii) to the nearest hundred and (iii) to the nearest ten.

(a) 38273 (b) 21793 (c) 15476 (d)58437

Q2. 107638 people attended a football match in Madrid.

(a) This was reported in the programme as 100000 attendance.

(b) The club estimate was 110000 in the crowd.

(c) A closer estimate in a newspaper was 108000.

All of those estimates are acceptable. However, they are to different degrees of accuracy.

Write down the degree of accuracy for each one.

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Q3. Round the following numbers to the nearest thousand.
(a) 58437 (b) 9288 (c) 68400 (d) 72985

Q4. Round the following numbers to the nearest hundred.

(a) 483 (b) 1692 (c) 93 (d) 12763

Q5. Round the following numbers to the nearest ten.

(a) 63 (b) 846 (c) 5839 (d) 8

Q6. Round the following numbers (i) to the nearest whole number and (ii) to one decimal place.

(a) 6.37 (b) 4.13 (c) 0.85 (d) 8.672

(e) 1.093 (f) 0.063

Q7. Round the following numbers (i) to the nearest whole number and (ii) to two decimal place.

(a) 4.383 (b) 5.719 (c) 5.803 (d) 1.477

(e) 3.999 (f) 6.273

Q8. Round the following numbers (i) to the nearest whole number and (ii) to three decimal place.

(a) 0.5682 (b) 3.4765 (c) 8.8467 (d) 3.6543

(e) 3.4567

Q9. Round each of these numbers to the degree of accuracy shown in brackets.
a) 4865 (nearest ten)

b) 7843 (nearest hundred)

c) 18695 (nearest thousand)

d) 14295 (nearest hundred)

e) 684 (nearest ten)

f) 7346 (nearest hundred)

g) 89920 (nearest thousand)

i) 34780 (nearest thousand)

j) 45627 (nearest thousand)

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Q10. A survey showed that 14627 cars went through a village on one Saturday.

a) Round this number

(i) to the nearest ten

(ii) to the nearest hundred and (iii) to the nearest thousand.

b) Which number might be used by a local newspaper campaigning for safe crossing to be built
in the village?

Q11. A village hall holds 567 people.

a) Round this number to the nearest hundred.

b) What would you say is its safe capacity to the nearest hundred?

Q12. The rock band muse played in front of 106648 people in China.

Round this number to the nearest thousand.

Q13. From London to Boston is 4827 km.

Round this distance to the nearest 100 km.

Q14. A company made a profit $687250.

Round this amount to the nearest $10000.

Q15. Round each of the followings (i) to the nearest whole number, (ii) to one decimal place and
(iii) to two decimal places.

(a) 8.757 (b) 7.492 (c) 18.685 (d) 0.1238 (e) 4.856

(f) 9.470 (g) 12.3852 (h) 9.2563 (i) 14.7777 (j) 0.6666

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Q16. The table shows the capacities of some of the largest sports stadiums in the world.

round the number for the capacity of each stadium to the nearest thousand.

Stadium Sport Capacity

Rungrado May Day Stadium – Pyongyang, North Korea Association Football 150000
Salt Lake Stadium – Kolkata India Association Football 119750
Michigan Stadium – Ann, Arbor, USA Association Football 109901
Estadio Azteca – Mexico city, Mexico Association Football 100607
Melbourne Cricket Ground – Melbourne, Australia Cricket, Association Football 100018
Azadi Stadium- Tehran, Iran Association Football 100126
Camp Nou – Barcelona, Spain Association Football 98787
FNB Stadium - Johannesburg, South Africa Association Football 94700
Gelora Bung Karno Stadium – Jakarta, Indonesia Association Football 88306
Bukit Jalil National Stadium – Kuala lumpur, Malaysia Association Football 87411
Estadio do Maracana – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Association Football 82238

Q17) A bridge can safely carry a weight of 11.75 tonnes.

Round this weight sensibly to a whole number of tonnes.

Q18) A pilot needs to know the height of a mountain the aircraft is to fly over.

The mountain is 6.35km high. Round this height appropriately:

a) to a whole number of kilometers

b) to one decimal place.

Q19) An aqualung will work safely to a depth of 67.3 meters. What rounded figure would you
use as the safe working depth?

Q20) A stadium has 76 890 seats.

What would you say was its maximum capacity:

a) to a whole thousand

b) to a whole hundred?

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Q21) A bridge is to be built over a river 2315 m wide.

Write down a sensible estimate of its length, to a whole 100 m

Q22) Round to the stated accuracy.

1. 239 to the nearest ten.

2. 520.65 to the nearest ten

3. 7381.3 to the nearest hundred.

4. 649 to the nearest hundred.

5. 3985.6 to the nearest ten.

6. 7959 to the nearest hundred

7. 1234 to the nearest thousand.

8. 56.1358 to 1 decimal place.

9. 56.1358 to 2 decimal places.

10. 56.1358 to 3 decimal places.

11. 3.098 to 1 decimal place.

12. 3.098 to 2 decimal places:

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NUMBER SEQUENCE
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Q1. 4,5,6,7 for the given sequence shown. Find the 50 term

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Q2. 7, 8,9,10 for the given sequence shown. Find the 50 term

Q3. -6, -3, 0, 3, 6, 9, ... ,

Find: (a) the next two terms

Q4. 16, 25, 36, 49…

Find: (a) the next two terms

Q5. 3, 6, 11, 18, 27, 38,

Find: (a) the next two terms

Q6.

Shape 1 2 3 4 5 6
Number

Number of 3 4 5 6 7
sides
Number of 0 2 5 9
diagonals

(a) Copy the diagram above and fill in the blank spaces
th
(b) How many sides would there be in the 50 shape?

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Q7)

These diagrams show the first three patterns in a sequence of growing tile patterns.

a) Draw the next two diagrams in the sequence.

b) Copy and complete this table

Number of white 1 2 3 4 5
tiles
Number of red tiles

c) Describe the pattern linking the number of white files and the number of red tiles.

d) Use your rule in part c) to predict the number of red tiles in a pattern with 100 white files.

Q8)

a) Draw the next two diagrams in the sequence.

b) Copy and complete this table.

Number of white 1 2 3 4 5
tiles
Number of green
tiles

c) Describe the pattern linking the number of white tiles and the number of green tiles.

d) Use your rule in part c) to predict the number of green tiles in a pattern with 100 white tiles.

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Q9)

a) Draw the next two diagrams in the sequence.

b) Copy and complete this table

Number of white 1 2 3 4 5
tiles
Number of orange
tiles

Q10)

a) Draw the next two diagrams in the sequence.

b) Copy and complete this table

Number of white 1 2 3 4 5
tiles
Number of blue
tiles

Q11)

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a) Draw the next two diagrams in the sequence.

b) Copy and complete this table

Number of white 1 2 3 4 5
tiles
Number of yellow
tiles

SYMMETRY

State the number of lines of symmetry (if any) for each of the shapes shown below.

1. 2.

Regular pentagon

3. 4.

5. 6.

1. 8.

9.

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