The Manchester Grammar School 11 Plus Papers Arithmetic A 2018
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You have 30 minutes for this paper which is worth 20 marks.
Each question is worth 1 mark.
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.

1. Work out 374 + 528

2. Work out 44.8 ÷ 0.7

3. What is the missing number in the following sequence

     2.3,   3.4,   4.7,   6.2, ....., 9.8

4. Subtract 1¾ from 3³/8

5. Work out  2.35 × 3000

6. What is 40% of 650 grams?

7. Express 0.85 as a fraction in its simplest form

8. Add together  6.37, 10.04 and 203

9. Which of these numbers when multiplied by itself gives an
     answer which ends in a 4?

      26      44      58        73

10. What is the least number which can be added to 278 to make
a number which is exactly divisible by 13?

11. Petrol costs £1.12 per litre. If there are 4.5 litres in a gallon,
what would the cost of a gallon of petrol be?

12. A rectangle has an area of 70cm2 and a perimeter of
38cm. What is the length of the shortest side of the
rectangle?

13.  If  ³/7  of a number is 18, what is 5/6 of the same number?

14. Amna takes a test with 50 questions. Four marks are given
for each correct answer but one mark is taken off for each
question she gets wrong. If Amna scores 168 in the test and
doesn’t attempt 3 questions at all, how many questions did
she answer correctly? (There is no penalty for not attempting
a question in this test that Amna takes)

15. Five friends raise £400 for their favourite charity.
Alan collects £74 and Bilal raises £86. Chloe collects twice
as much as David who raises three times as much as Emily.
How much did Chloe collect?

16. If one cake and two biscuits provide 450 calories and two
cakes and three biscuits provide 800 calories, how many
calories are provided by one biscuit?

17. In a bag of money to take to the bank I have only 5p, 10p
and 20p coins. I have twice as many 20p coins as 10p coins
and half as many 5p coins as 10p coins. If the bag contains
£15.75, how many 20p coins are there?

18. In how many different ways can the letters M, A, T, H be
placed in a line if the T is always first and the A is never last.

19.  How many numbers between 300 and 500 contain at least
one 4 in their digits?

20. If the rules about what order to do arithmetic operations
do not apply for this last question on the paper then
2 + 4 x 3 could be 2 + 12 = 14 or 6 x 3 = 18.

Of the five different answers that there could be for the following
question
                   14 – 3 x 4 – 2 =

depending on the order you use for the operations, which
answer would be in the middle if the answers were
placed in descending order (from largest to smallest)?