North London Collegiate 11 Plus Group 2 Maths 2012 Online Quiz

Time allowed: 1 hour 15 minutes

Instructions:
• Please write in pencil.
• Please try all the questions.
If you cannot answer a question, go on to the next one.
• Do your rough working in the space near each question.
Do not rub out your working as you may get marks for it.
• Calculators and rulers are NOT allowed.

1. Work out  2567  + 824

2. Work out    8709  -  637

3. Work out    578 × 4

4. Work out  1548 ÷ 6

5. Write in figures the number three hundred thousand and thirty.

6. Write the next two numbers in each sequence: 

(a) 98,     92,     86,     80,    ———— ,    ————

(b) 1,    2,    4,     7,    11,    ———— ,    ————

7. A number is multiplied by 100 to give 2030
    What is the number?

8. Work out  2/3 of 81

9. Circle the two numbers from the list below which have a total of 0.15

0.6    0.1    0.09    0.5    0.14    0.06

10. Write these decimals in order of size, starting with the smallest:

  2.3     2.23     2.303      2.203

11. Fill in the boxes below.

(a)  45 +  ————  =  600

(b)  360 ÷ 10 = 3.6 ×  ————

(c) 24 ÷ (  ———— - 8  )  =  6

12.  A pineapple costs £2.47  
James has a £10 note.
He buys as many pineapples as he can with his £10 note.








(a) How many pineapples does James buy?

(b) How much change should James receive from his £10 note?

13. On Christmas Eve, the temperature in Cold City was -12°C.
At the same time, the temperature in Tropical Town was 20°C.



(a) Howmany degrees hotterwas it in Tropical Town than in Cold City?

By Christmas Day, the temperature in Cold City had risen by 5°C.

(b) What was the temperature in Cold City on Christmas Day?

14. (a) The number machine below changes numbers according to the rule

                      subtract 3 and then multiply by 2

(i) There is one number where the output is the same as the input.
What is the number?

(b) A different number machine produces the input and output table below.



What is the rule for this number machine?

15. Caley starts with a number, doubles it and then subtracts 7
The result is 31
What number did Caley start with?

16. Becky is 10½  years old. Her brother is exactly 1 year and 8 months younger than Becky.
How old is her brother?

Answer:  ————  years  ————   months

17. The start and finish times of a film are shown on this notice. 
For how long did the film last?

Answer:  ————   hours  ————

18. Jasper is making fairy cakes. 
A recipe to make 24 fairy cakes requires the following
ingredients:


(a) How much flour is needed to make 12 fairy cakes?

Jasper decides to make 36 fairy cakes.

(b) Work out the amount of each ingredient which Jasper needs.



The chocolate icing for 24 cakes uses 60 grams of cocoa powder.
Jasper decides to put chocolate icing on only half of his 36 fairy cakes.

(c) How much cocoa powder does he use?

19. At the end of 2011, there were 1234 members of Feel Fit Gym.
During the year, 167 members had joined the gym and 38 had left.
How many members were there at the start of 2011?

20. Here are 4 number cards: 

The cards can be put together to form the number 2954

(a) Put all 4 cards together to make
(i) the largest possible odd number

(ii) the smallest possible multiple of 5

(b) Putting only 2 of the cards together, what is the largest possible square number?

(c) Arrange the number cards to give the largest possible answer to the subtraction
below.

————   ————    -    ————   ————

21.  What mass is shown on the scale below?

22. In each part below, circle the most sensible unit to measure

(a) the mass of a man 

   grams      tonnes        kilograms

(b) the volume of water in a bath

millilitres      litres        inches

23. Kate originally had 1 litre of water in a jug.  
She poured out some water and the diagram
shows how much water is left in the jug.
How much water has Kate poured out from the jug?

24. Below are some shapes drawn on a centimetre-squared grid.



(a) What is the perimeter of shape E?

(b) (i) Which 2 shapes will fit together to form a square?

(ii) What is the area of the square formed?

(c) Which 2 shapes will fit together to form a rectangle?

25. Point A is plotted on the coordinate grid below.



Point B has coordinates (7, 8)

Point M is exactly halfway between points A and B.

(a) What are the coordinates of point M?

(b) Write down the coordinates of any other point which is exactly the same distance
from point A as it is from point B.

26. Kate asked some people to tell her their favourite character in the Wizard of Oz.
Here is a pie chart showing her results:



(a) What percentage of the people she asked liked Toto best?

(b) What fraction of the people she asked liked the Tin Man best?

24 people said that they liked Dorothy best.
(c) How many more people liked Dorothy than the Scarecrow?

27. Robert has 70 identical cube bricks.
He uses some of his bricks to make this cuboid:


From his remaining bricks, he uses some to make the largest cube that he can.
How many bricks does he use to make the cube?

28. Vanessa is practising for her violin exam.
Here is a table showing the number of minutes which she spent
practising her violin on 5 days last week.



(a) Work out her total practice time for these 5 days.

(b) Work out her mean (average) practice time for these 5 days.

Vanessa also practised on Saturday.
Her mean practice time for all 6 days was 15 minutes.

(c) Work out for how many minutes Vanessa practised on Saturday.

29. In a race, the 4 fastest people were David, Chris, Al and Sam.
Use the following information to work out the order in which they finished:
• David was faster than Al.
• Chris was faster than Sam.
• Al finished 2 places after Chris.
• Sam was not in 3rd place.

Answer:  1st place      ————

                2nd place    ————

              3rd place        ————
 
            4th place        ————

30. When Helen hangs out her washing on the line, she
always uses 3 pegs for a shirt and 2 pegs for a jumper.



(a) On Monday, Helen hangs 8 shirts and 4 jumpers on the washing line.
How many pegs does she use?

(b) On Wednesday, Helen hangs 5 shirts and some jumpers on the line.
She uses 21 pegs altogether.

How many jumpers does Helen hang on the line?

(c) On Friday, Helen uses 65 pegs.

She hangs an equal number of shirts and jumpers on the line.
How many shirts does she hang on the washing line on Friday?

31. The time in New York is 5 hours behind the time in London.
The time in Addis Ababa is 2 hours ahead of the time in London.



(a) When it is 16.42 in London, what time is it in New York?

(b) When it is 12.37 in New York, what time is it in Addis Ababa?

(c) An aeroplane leaves Addis Ababa at 19.00 on Tuesday and travels to New York.
The whole journey takes 14 hours.
At what time and on which day does it arrive in New York?

32. In the calculations below, each symbol represents a different number.
Work out the value of each symbol.

33. A photograph, which measures 12 centimetres by 15 centimetres,
is mounted on a piece of red card so that there is a border of
3 centimetres all the way round the photograph.
What area of red card is showing?

34. Suki writes a list of all the whole numbers from 1 to 19 inclusive.
She realises that, since the numbers from 10 to 19 have 2 digits each, she has written
down 29 digits in total.
Suki continues her list until she has written down all of the whole numbers from
1 to 99 inclusive.

(a) How many digits has she written down in total?

(b) How many times has she written down the digit 9?

(c) If she adds up all of the digits which she has written down, what is the total?

35. On planet Dichotomy, there are two tribes, Honestians and Liarists.
Honestians always tell the truth.
Liarists always lie.



The first 2 people you meet are called Paul and Simon.
Paul says, “We are both liarists.”
Work out which tribe each person belongs to.


Answer:   Paul is a      ————

                Simon is a    ————