The Manchester Grammar School Entrance Examination 2013 Arithmetic Paper 2 Online Quiz

                                        1 Hour
For each question, show all your working in full, as this will be marked, and then write your answer clearly in the space provided.
You have 1 hour for this paper which is worth 80 marks.

1. Complete the following sentences with the most appropriate metric unit

(a) Andy is 183   _____  tall.

(b) Our football pitch is 80   ____   long.

(c) My birthday cake weighs 700   _____ .

(d) The area of a piece of lined writing paper is 600   _____  .

(e) My water bottle contains 1.5   _____   of water.

2. A game of counters has six rounds. In each round of the game, the players score points which are then added to their total score.
The graph below shows Claire’s total score after each round of the game.

Total score after each round














(a) How many points did Claire score in round 1?

(b) How many points did Claire score in round 4?

(c) Which was Claire’s most successful round in
which she scored most points?

Nigel also plays the game and his scores are recorded. When the points showing his total scores are connected, the graph of his total scores after each round is a single straight line.

(d) What can you say about the number of points
Nigel scored in each round?

3. A piece in a game can move in four different ways:
Lown - one space to the left and one space down
Rown – one space to the right and one space down
Lup – one space to the left and one space up
Rup – one space to the right and one space up



These moves can be combined to reach different positions on a board. For example on a
3 x 3 board, two Rowns would move the piece from the top left corner to the bottom right corner:

In parts (b) and (c) state the move which is the opposite of the given move.

(b) Lup

(c) Rown

(d) List a sequence of TWO moves which would take you from the light counter to the dark counter.

4. One of the ways to check if a number is divisible by 11 is by alternately subtracting and adding its digits as follows

Consider the digits in 121. Since 1 - 2 + 1 = 0 we can say that 121 is divisible by 11
For the number 16918, the digits combine as 1 - 6 + 9 - 1 + 8 = 11, which is a multiple of 11 so 16918 is divisible by 11
However for 147, 1 - 4 + 7 = 4, which is not in the 11 times table, so 147 is NOT divisible by 11.
Neither is 3276 as 3 - 2 + 7 - 6 = 2, which is also not a multiple of 11

By applying this process of subtracting and adding, answer the following questions

(a) Show that 62557 is divisible by 11

(b) Can 138251 be divided by 11 and give no remainder?
(Give your answer as either Yes or No)

(c) In the number 74n130 what value does the digit n
have to be, if the number is divisible by 11?

(d) In the number 83a4b9 , the digit b is three times
digit a. Find values for a and b if the number is
divisible by 11.

5. The ancient “Viva” tribe of Central America combined numbers in a particular way. Their method used the following symbol (.) and worked like this

a (.) b = 5 times a plus b ( ie 5 x a + b)

so 2 (.) 7 = 5 x 2 + 7 = 17 and 9 (.) 3 = 5 x 9 + 3 = 48

Work out what the answer would be for these Viva calculations

(a) 3 (.) 4 =

(b) 5 (.) 3 =

Work out what value the letter would have to have to give the following results in these Viva problems

(c) If m (.) 2 = 37, what number must m be?

(d) If n (.) 4 = 8 (.) n, what number must n be?

6. When a ball is dropped, the relationship between the speed (S) of the ball in m/s and the distance (d) in m it has fallen is

S² = 20 x d     where      S² = S x S

So after dropping 5m,  S² = 20 x 5 = 100 and therefore the speed would be 10m/s as 10 x 10 = 100.

(a) Find the speed when the ball has dropped 45m

(b) When the speed is 40 m/s, how far has the
ball fallen?

(c) How much further would the ball have to fall
to be travelling at twice the speed that the ball
had in part (b)?

7. In a “prod sequence”, a number in the sequence is the product of some of the previous terms. So in a “2 prod sequence” we start with 2 numbers and then each number that follows after is the product of the previous 2 numbers.

For example 1, 2, 2, 4, 8 ……..

Similarly, where we start with the three numbers 1, 2 and 3 then a “3 prod sequence” would be
                                       1, 2, 3, 6, 36, 648 ……


Fill in the missing numbers in the following sequences

(a)  2 prod sequence 2,   3,  ____ ,   ____

(b) 3 prod sequence  2,   3,   3,  ____ ,   ____

(c) 4 prod sequence  2,   3,   5,  ____ ,   210

(d) 2 prod sequence

2,  _____ ,  ______ ,  _____ ,  500

(e) 4 prod sequence

2 ,  2 ,   ______ ,  7 ,   _____ ,   3528

8. Following independence, the new country of Oldhallia is trying to design its national flag. The government decide that their flag will consist of two colours.
For example:


because international rules state that the flag may not be all one colour and the rules also state that they are only allowed to pick from a certain number of colours.

The country always chooses what colour to put in the left section first. When calculating how many possible choices that they have for their flag; the following system is adopted. So with seven possible colours the choices would be



Which gives a total number of possible flags = 7 x 6 = 42

(a) How many possible flags are there if they can
choose from 10 colours?

(b) If there are a total of 12 flags, how many
colours did they have to choose from?

(c) If the international rules were relaxed to allow flags
of all one colour as well, how many possible flags
would there be choosing from 6 colours?

If the country wants to make a flag with three colours, the rules state that they may not have two sections of the same colour next to each other.
If there were 4 choices of colour the calculation would be:

which gives a total number of possible flags = 4 x 3 x 3 = 36


(d) How many flags are there if they can choose
from 10 colours?

(e) If there are a total of 150 possible flags, how
many colours did they have to choose from?

10. Ollie the sports coach wanted to take groups of children and their parents to see a range of sporting fixtures. When he made enquiries about the tickets there were always two types of ticket available, one for adults and one for children.

(a) For football at Rovers ground an adult ticket
costs £15 and a child’s ticket costs £4.
Find the total cost for 20 adults and 12 children.

(b) For a rugby match, 30 adults and 16 children
paid £408 to see the game. A child’s ticket cost £3.
Work out the cost of one adult ticket.

(c) 50 adults and 40 children went to the velodrome
for the cycling championships. The total bill for the
tickets was £760. An adult ticket cost three times
as much as a child’s ticket. Work out the cost of
an adult ticket.

(d) At the swimming tournament a child’s ticket
cost £6 less than an adult ticket. The total cost
of the tickets for 25 adults and 30 children was
£370. Work out the cost of one child ticket.

11. When I throw a green dice and a red dice together there are 36 number outcomes. Note that green1, red2 and green2, red1 are different outcomes.
You may find it helpful to complete the grids below to help you, although completing the grids does not gain extra marks. The grids will be useful in answering the questions below.


(a) How many sums of the two numbers are factors of 24?

(b) How many of the products are even?

(c) How many of the differences are prime numbers
(remember 1 is not a prime number)

(d) For what fraction of the throws is the green score
greater than the red score?

(e) What is the probability that the sum of the two numbers
is more than six (6)?