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Mental Arithmetic 5

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SECTION 1 | Test 1 Schofield & Sims

A Answer C Answer

1 60 000 + 3000 + 70 + 8 = 63 078 1 How many thousandths must be added 927


to 9.073 to make 10? 1000
2 5×8×7= 280
1 2 Find the change from £1.50 after
3 8l 550ml – 4l = l 8.3l 1
buying 2kg of oranges at 36p per 2 kg. 6p
5
4 6 of £42 = £35
3 Imran faces SE and turns clockwise
29 1
5
5
a 38 = a 8
through 12 right angles. In which
8
direction is he now facing? W
4 34
b 65 = 5 b 5
4 A car travels 40km in 30min.
6 £7.30 + 10ps = £10 27 10ps How many kilometres will it travel
3
at this speed in 4 h? 60km
7 3650m = km m 3km 650m
5 A mango weighs 250g. How many
8 180° – (86° + 64°) = 30º
mangoes together weigh 50kg? 200
19
9 a 50 = % a 38%
6 From the diagram find what fraction
b 0.64 = % b 64% of all the employees are
3
10 5.08 = thousandths 5080 thousandths a men a 5
1
11 63 = 6 × 6 × 6 = 216 b women. b 4

c If the total number of employees


12 £4.50 ÷ 7 = pr p 64p r 2p
is 400 how many are under 18? c 60

Employees in a shop
B Answer
men women under
1 Write in words the number which is 400 18
less than 50 000.
forty-nine thousand six hundred 7 Amy spends 30% of her money on a
book and saves 60%. If she had 20p
2 Find in £s the total of 18p, 16p, 25p, 9p. £0.68 left how much had she at first? £2.00
3 Change these improper fractions
to mixed numbers.
8 A square with sides measuring 20cm
5 7
each is cut along both diagonals into
35 63
a 6 b 8 a 56 b 78 four equal triangles. What is the area
of each triangle in cm2? 100cm2
4 Find the difference between three 50ps
and the sum of twelve 5ps and six 2ps. 78p 9 A bus departs at 19:47 and arrives at its
destination 1h 16min later. Write the
5 How many times is 25g contained in 4kg? 160
time of its arrival. 21:03
6 Find the change from a €5 note after
spending €2.03. €2.97 10 The area of a rectangular path is 75m2.
It is 50cm wide. How long is it in metres? 150m
7 Which of these numbers are factors of 56?
2 3 5 7 9 11 In seven weeks Katie saves £3.15.
2 and 7 Find her mean average weekly savings. 45p
8 What percentage of 2l is 400ml? 20%
12 The measurements of the box are given.
9 Approximate Find the area of

a 29.56 to the nearest 10 a 30 a both the sides a 85cm2


b 180 370 to the nearest 1000. b 180 000 b both the ends b 60cm2

10 What fraction in its simplest form c the top and bottom. c 102cm2
is equal to
19 1 top
a 95% b 0.04? a 20 b 25
5cm

11 Find the cost of 700g at 90p per kilogram. 63p end side

12 Find the area of a square with sides


6cm 8.5cm
measuring 20cm each. 400cm2

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Mental Arithmetic 5 Answers SECTION 1 | Test 2
A Answer C Answer

1 Write 10 × 100 × 100 1 By how many pence is thirteen 10ps


less than the total of two 50ps and
a in digits a 100 000
nine 5ps? 15p
b in words. b one hundred thousand
2 Of 300 children in a school,
2 £7.60 × 20 = £152 43% were boys.
1 3 3 a What percentage were girls? a 57%
3 1= 4 + 8 + 8
b How many boys were there
4 10 – 6.32 = 3.68 in the school? b 129
5 320min = h min 5h 20min 3 Find the
4
x angle
6 of £4.50 = £3.60 28° 37°
5 marked x. 115º
7 0.175l = ml 175ml 4 A bucket holds 5l when full. Find the
quantity of water in litres and millilitres
8 25% of £7.00 = £1.75 3
when the bucket is 4 full. 3l 750ml
9 2.4m + 55cm = cm 295cm 5 Which of these fractions is
3
10 a 1% of £1 = p a 1p a the largest a 4
3
b 13% of £1 = p b 13p b the smallest? b 5
3 3 7 13
5 4 10 20
11 4050mm = m 4.05m
3kg 420g 6 The attendance at a concert was 6843.
12 6 = g 570g
a Approximate this number to the
nearest thousand. a 7000
B Answer b Find the difference between the
actual and the approximate numbers. b 157
1 Multiply the sum of 3.6 and 2.4 by 0.4. 2.4
7 Sophie’s home is 850m from school.
2 Give the date which is five months How far in kilometres does she walk in
before 1 February. 1 September a week of five days, making one return
3 Which of these angles are journey each day? 8.5km

a acute angles a 47º, 89º 8 60cm A card


60cm by
8cm

b obtuse angles? b 92º, 138º 40cm is


40cm

47° 92° 138° 89° 210° cut into


strips each
4 Three presents have a mass of 450g, 8cm wide.
800g and 230g. Find their total mass
in kilograms. 1.480kg a How many strips are cut? a 5
5 By how many millimetres is 780mm b Find the total length of the strips
greater than 0.5m? 280mm in metres. b 3m

6 How many 20ps have the same value 9 A box containing 60 marshmallows
as £9.00? 45 20ps costs £3.68. Find the cost of 15
marshmallows. 92p
7 Write the answer to MD – DCCCXC
in Roman numerals. DCX 10 Find the age in years
Dates of birth
and months of
8 How many times 0.625 is 625? 1000 Josh 1.02.2014 Josh and James on
9 Write as a percentage. James 1.10.2011 1 September 2030.

a 17p of £1.00 a 17% Josh 16yr 7mth


James 18yr 11mth
b 300g of 1kg b 30%
11 Through how many degrees does the
10 300ml cost 27p. Find the cost per litre. 90p
minute hand of a clock turn in 10 minutes? 60°
11 Approximate
12 How many centimetre cubes are
3
a 1010 to the nearest whole number a 10 needed to make this block? 42
b £13.52 to the nearest £. b £14
1cm
12 Find the area of a rectangle measuring
7m long and 1.3m wide. 9.1m2 3cm 14cm

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SECTION 1 | Test 3 Schofield & Sims

A Answer C Answer
3 7
1 Write as a decimal 100 + 10 + 1000. 100.307 1 A milkshake which cost 43p was paid for
with a £1 coin. Which three coins
3
2 44 × 8 = 38 were given as change? 50p 5p 2p

3 £2 – (35p + 63p) = £1.02 x y


2 In the number 30.632, how many times less
1
4 1 4 l – 900ml = ml 350ml is the 3 marked y than the 3 marked x? 1000

5 3.8 – 2.76 = 1.04 3 Find the product of DX and V and write it


35 7
using Roman numerals. MMDL
6 35% = 100 = 20 100 = 20
4 Four children receive these amounts
7 g × 100 = 4kg 40g of money: 55p, 66p, 45p and 50p.
Find the mean. 54p
8 7.43 a.m. to noon = h min 4h 17min
5 A paddling pool contained 75l of water.
553mm 10% of it was wasted. Find in litres and
9 7 = cm mm 7cm 9mm
millilitres the quantity which remained. 67l 500ml

10 830g × 5 = kg 4.15kg 6 A ABC is an isosceles


triangle. Find the
11 a 10% of £12.00 = a £1.20 angles at the base.
b 70% of £12.00 = b £8.40 ∠ ABC 78º
24°
2
12 3 of £1.08 = £ £0.72 ∠ ACB 78º

C B

B Answer
7 {1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 18, 36}
1 Multiply the sum of 29 and 18 by 8. 376 Two numbers are missing from this
set of factors of 36. Which are they? 4 and 12
2 Decrease £3.50 by 20%. £2.80
8 A dog’s mass increased from 40kg
3 Find the reflex to 42kg. What was the increase
angle AOB. 313º 1
A O a as a fraction a 20
47°
b as a percentage? b 5%

B 9 Which is the better buy, A or B,


and by how much?
4 How many times is 0.7m contained
in 28m? 40 A Eight 250g packs of rice at 45p per pack
B 2kg of rice at £1.60 per kilogram B by 40p
5 How many days in 26 weeks? 182
10 Find in centimetres the
6 What percentage of 1kg is 550g? 55%
length of a diameter
7 Find the time in hours and minutes 35 which is twice that of
m m the given circle. 14cm
from 09:40 to 13:25. 3h 45min
1
8 What is the cost of 2.5kg at 18p per 2 kg? 90p

9 What percentage 11 A tin of red paint costing £4.50 will


of the circle is cover 5m2.
a shaded a 30% a How many tins must be bought to
b patterned b 10% cover a wall 5m by 3m? a 3

c plain? c 60% b What is the cost? b £13.50

10 Approximate 12 48 centimetre
cubes fit
a 27.9km to the nearest kilometre a 28km exactly into
5cm

b 3.450kg to the nearest kilogram. b 3kg the bottom


of this box.
11 20 tennis balls cost £8.20. The box is
6cm
Find the cost of five. £2.05 8cm 5cm deep.

12 The area of a rectangle is 30m2. How many cm cubes are needed to


Its width is 2.5m. Find its length. 12m fill it? 240

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Mental Arithmetic 5 Answers SECTION 1 | Test 4
A Answer C Answer

1 7 × 102 = 700 1 The volume of a bucket is 1950cm3.


7
How many litres of water does it hold?
3 1
2 4 + 8 +2= 28 (1cm3 = 1ml) 1.95l

3 100 – (8 × 9) = 28 2 A car travels 360km on 40l of petrol.


How many kilometres per litre is this? 9
4 0.085l = ml 85ml
3 243 × 15 = 3645
5 5.07 × 6 = 30.42
Find a 2.43 × 15 a 36.45
6 £27 ÷ 100 = p 27p b 24.3 × 1.5 b 36.45

7 650g + 0.5kg = kg 1.15kg 4 The bill at the end of a meal came


to £20.40. 10% was added as a
1 5
8 20 = 100 = % 100 = 5% service charge. How much was added? £2.04

9 2h 37min + 1h 33min = h min 4h 10min 5 Buses run at intervals of 18min.


Find the times of the next two
10 75% of 30kg = kg g 22kg 500g buses after 09:37. 09:55 10:13

11 3+5×2= 13 6 A In the
triangle
12 a 18p = % of £1 a 18% ABC,
find ∠ ACB 50º
b 45cm = % of 1m b 45% 130° 55°
B ∠ BAC. 75º
C
B Answer 7 The mass of a 10p coin is 6.5g.
What is the mass in kilograms
1 Write as a decimal 3085 thousandths. 3.085 of £20 in 10ps? 1.3kg
2 From the total of 83p and £1.06 take 70p. £1.19
8 A line 9cm long represents the distance
3 Find the product of 0.6 and 9. 5.4 flown by an aeroplane. If the line is
drawn to a scale of 1mm to 50km,
4 Find the total number of days in the find the actual distance. 4500km
months of September, October and
November. 91 9 Follow this number trail.
What number do you reach?
5 When a number is divided by 9 the
answer is 64 r 5. What is the number? 581 start at 3 ➞ subtract 7 ➞
add 9 ➞ subtract 12 ➞ –7
6 Three peaches cost 87p. Find the cost
of two peaches. 58p 10 A rectangle measures 3m long and
70cm wide. Find its area in m2. 2.1m2
7 What fraction in its lowest terms is
4
a 800g of 1kg a 5 11 Seven lemons cost £2.80.
1 3
b 150ml of 2 l? b 10 a What fraction of £2.80 will 3
three lemons cost? a 7
8 How many times greater is 5030
than 5.03? 1000 b Find the cost of five lemons. b £2.00

9 a 20% of £8.50 a £1.70 12 Point A is at (–2, 1).


b 60% of £8.50 b £5.10 Write the coordinates
of its reflection in the y-axis
10 Approximate (the vertical axis). ( 2, 1)
a £1.095 to the nearest penny a £1.10 y
1
b 9.150l to the nearest 2 l. b 9l 3

11 0.5kg of grapes cost £1.50. Find the 2


cost of 700g. £2.10 A 1
x
12 Find the area of –3 –2 –1 0 1 2 3
the triangle. 72cm2 –1
9cm

–2
–3
16cm

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SECTION 1 | Test 5 Schofield & Sims

A Answer C Answer

1 Write in digits 1 Jamil received 12p change from £2


after buying four tins of tomatoes.
a 0.7 million a 700 000
Find the cost per tin. 47p
b 1.2 million. b 1 200 000
2 The diameter of a circle is 15.6cm.
2 19p + 27p + 63p = £ £1.09 Find its radius in millimetres. 78mm

3 12.65km = m 12 650m 3 The mean mass of three suitcases is 25kg.


7 1 1 1 If two of the cases have masses of 20kg
4 28 + 18 + 14 = 54 and 28kg respectively, find the mass
of the other case. 27kg
5 a 1% of twenty thousand = a 200
b 100% of four hundred and nine = b 409 4 Which of these fractions or percentages
are equal to 0.15?
x
6 6 = 12. Find the value of x. 72 1 3
15%
3 18
3% 3
4 10 20 100
20 , 15%
7 1.65m – 95cm = cm 70cm
5 Find the smallest sum of money which
3 12
8 25 = 100 = % 100 = 12% must be added to £2.45 to make it exactly
divisible by 9. 7p
9 350ml × 9 = l 3.15l
6 The chart shows the percentages
10 4.050kg + g = 5kg 950g of adults and children who live on a street
of 720 people.
11 35p × 100 = £35.00
a What percentage are girls? a 40%
12 970 ÷ 40 = r 24 r 10 b Find the total number of
men and women. b 180
B Answer women men boys girls
13% 12% 35% ?
1 How many thousandths are there in
five point zero eight? 5080 thousandths
7 A 12-day holiday started on Friday
26 March. On which day and date did
2 Find the mean average of 2.7, 3.6
the holiday end? Tuesday 6 April
and 1.8. 2.7
5
3 How many times is 250ml contained 8 A bath when 8 full holds 60 litres.
in 3.5l? 14 How many litres does it hold when a 12l
1 3
a 8 full b 4 full? b 72l
4 Increase $240 by 5%. $252
9 The price of a ticket is increased from £1
5 How many hours and minutes from to £1.18. What is the percentage increase? 18%
midnight to 1.45 p.m.? 13h 45min
10 The radius of the inner
6 Which of these numbers is a multiple circle is 56mm and
of 4, 6 and 9? the shaded ring is
27 42 54 63 72 16mm wide. Find in
72
centimetres the
diameter of the
7 What is the mass in kilograms of six
outer circle. 14.4cm
presents each having a mass of 230g? 1.38kg

8 25% of a sum of money is 73p. 11 The dimensions of a triangle are base


What is the whole amount? £2.92 15cm, height 12cm. Find the area of
the triangle. 90cm2
1
9 Find the cost of 50g at £2.60 per 2 kg. 26p
12 a How many cm cubes fit exactly into
10 Write the answer to the the bottom of the box? a 45
705
nearest whole number. 8
= 88 b How many of these layers are
3 required to fill the box? b 6
11 8 of a sum of money is 24p.
7
Find 8 of the sum of money. 56p

12 The perimeter of a square is 1.2m. Find


6cm

a the length of a side in cm a 30cm


b the area of the square in cm2. b 900cm2 5cm 9cm

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Mental Arithmetic 5 Answers SECTION 1 | Test 6
A Answer C Answer

1 5 × 103 = 5000 1 The population of a city increased from


3
4 million to 1.1 million. Write in digits
2 2.805l = ml 2805ml the number by which the population
increased. 350 000
3 £0.07 × 50 = £ £3.50

4 44mm + 28mm + 32mm = cm 10.4cm 2 A box of doughnuts weighs 400g.


7
5 8 of 640 = 560 a How many boxes can be made
3
from 3.5kg? a 8
6 1 4 kg – g = 1.2kg 550g
b How many grams are left? b 300g
7 (0.25 × 4) ÷ 100 = 0.01
3 In one week Mark drove 503.6km.
8 5% of 3000 = 150
Find to the nearest kilometre his mean
24
9 a
6
= = % a 100 = 24% average daily journey. 72km
25 100
9 45
b 20 = 100 = % b 100 = 45% 4 Which of these numbers do not change
in value if the zeros are omitted?
10 0.46 + = 0.505 0.045
0.740 3.016 0570 0.364 0.740 0.364
11 3m 40cm × 7 = m 23.8m

12 £34 ÷ 8 = £4.25 5 The perimeter of a


regular pentagon is
36cm. Find in
B Answer pentagon
millimetres

1 How many fifties are there in one a the length of


hundred thousand? 2000 one side a 72mm

2 1 tonne = 1000kg. Write in tonnes b the length of one side of a regular


octagon of the same perimeter. b 45mm
a 2050kg a 2.05 tonnes
b 800kg. b 0.8 tonnes 6 In a test, Luca scored 87% of a possible
3 Write 59-sixths as mark of 200. How many marks did
59 he lose? 26
a an improper fraction a 6
5
b a mixed number. b 96 7 Nadeen’s date of birth is 20/04/14. She is
4 Find the missing numbers in 1 year 9 months younger than Emma.
the sequence. What is Emma’s date of birth? 20/07/12
3.65, 3.8, 3.95, , 4.1 4.25
8 ABC is a
5 Find in degrees the difference between A
y right-angled
the temperatures 7°C and –8°C. 15° triangle.
Find the
6 100 pencils cost £7.00. Find the cost of a 7p
exterior
a 1 pencil b 30 pencils. b £2.10 38° angles
x ∠x= 142°
A B C
B marked
7 Find
127° 53° x and y. ∠y= 128°
∠ ADC 53°
parallelogram 9 1l of water has a mass of 1kg. If a jar
∠ BCD. 127°
D C contains 5650ml of water, find the mass
1
of the water to the nearest 2 kg. 5.5kg
8 What percentage is
a £7 of £20 a 35% 10 William’s wage was increased from £120
to £132 per week. Find the increase
b 28kg of 40kg? b 70%
1
a as a fraction in its simplest form a 10
9 How many days inclusive are there
from 27 May to 9 June? 14 b as a percentage of the original wage. b 10%
10 30% of a sum of money is 27p.
11 The mass of an empty box is 870g.
a Find 10% of the money. a 9p 3
This is 10 of its total mass when filled.
b Find 100% of the money. b 90p Find its total mass when filled in kilograms. 2.9kg
11 Divide £2.00 by 7. Give the answer
12 A roll of carpet is 50cm wide. Find the
to the nearest penny. 29p
length required to cover a surface which
12 Which year is represented by MMXIX? 2019 measures 8.5m2. 17m

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SECTION 1 | Test 7 Schofield & Sims

A Answer C Answer

1 Write in digits 1.25 million. 1 250 000 1 How many thousandths must be added
to 4.206 to make 5? Write the answer
2 £1.06 + 7p + 94p = £ £2.07 as a decimal. 0.794

3 1.35kg – 900g = g 450g 2 Freya saves 8p per week for a year.


How much are her total savings? £4.16
13 9
4 4.139 = 4 + 100 + 1000 100 + 1000 3 A train journey takes 2h 35min. If a train
7
arrives at 21:05, what was the time of
3
5 28 × 5 = 11 8 its departure? 18:30

6 10 000 ÷ 8 = 1250 4 There are 50 sheets of paper in a pack.


How many packs can be made from
7 2h 15min – 50min = h min 1h 25min twenty thousand sheets? 400

7 5 A B ABCD is a square
8 10 of £1.60 = £1.12 with sides measuring
17 9cm. Find
9 0.85 = %= 20 85% = 20
a the area of the square a 81cm2
10 46cm × 30 = m 13.80m D C b the area of the
11 a 3% of £1 = p a 3p shaded parallelogram. b 81cm2
6 The price of a radio is £60. By how much
b 12% of £1 = p b 12p
is its price increased if it is paid for in
2l 250ml eight equal instalments of £9 each? £12
12 5 = ml 450ml
7 A car travelled at an average speed
1
of 90km/h for 1 2 h. What distance
B Answer did it travel? 135km

1 Multiply the difference between 1.8 8 The diagram shows how Emma’s holiday
and 2.5 by 6. 4.2 money is spent during a week in France.
What percentage is spent on
1
2 What is the mean in millilitres of 2 l, a food a 60%
1
4 l and 150ml? 300ml
b tourist attractions? b 30%
3 How many times can a length of 15cm c If the total holiday money is £125,
be cut from 4.5m? 30 how much is not spent? c £12.50
4 What percentage of a 50%

a 30 is 15 b £1 is 23p? b 23%
not spent

food tourist
attractions
5 Find the two missing numbers in
this sequence.
1 1 3 3
42 , 48 , 34 , , 38 3
1
6 2l of vinegar costs £1.20. 9 Three bananas have a mass of 400g. How
Find the cost of 200ml. 48p many bananas will give a mass of 2.4kg? 18
1
10 Nathan spent of his money on sweets
7 Write the 24-hour clock time which 1
4

is 27min later than 23:36. 00:03 and 2 of the remainder on bus fares. 3
What fraction of his money was left? 8

8 The total mass of nine equal packets 11 Find the difference between 7 + 3 × 5
is 6kg 750g. Find in grams the mass and (7 + 3) × 5. 28
of one packet. 750g
12 Find
9 5% of a sum of money is £0.65. a the area of the bottom of the box a 34cm2
What is the whole amount? £13
b the volume of the box. b 170cm3
1
10 By how many tenths is 6 5 greater
1 7 In each case give the unit of measurement.
than 5 2 ? 10

11 If 1m is divided into seven equal parts,


what is the length of each part to
5cm

the nearest centimetre? 14cm

12 The area of a rectangle is 205cm2.


Its width is 10cm. Find its length. 20.5cm 4cm 8.5cm

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Mental Arithmetic 5 Answers SECTION 1 | Test 8
A Answer C Answer

1 34 = 3 × 3 × 3 × 3 = 81 1 A bottle holds 150ml. Find in litres the


contents of 20 bottles. 3l
2 6.09 × 7 = 42.63
3 three 10ps + seven 5ps = £0.73 – p 8p 2 300 people attended a concert. 63%
were adults and the remainder children.
4 20% of 3kg 600g = g 720g
a What percentage were children? a 37%
3 7 9 9
5 10 + 10 + 10 = 1 10
b How many adults were present? b 189
9072
6 9 = 1008
3 The mean height of three children is
7 1.750l – ml = 800ml 950ml 130cm. The heights of two of the children
are 105cm and 140cm respectively.
8 x + x + x + x = 108. Find the value of x. 27
Find the height of the third child. 145cm
9 £2.08 = 2ps 104 2ps
4 Find the change from £2 and 50p after
10 285min = h min 4h 45min spending 93p, £1.17 and 28p. 12p
4
11 a 5 = % a 80%
5 1.8 × 0.7 = 1.26
3
b 10 = % b 30% Now write the answers to

12 (3 × 56p) + (2 × 56p) = £2.80 a 0.18 × 0.7 a 0.126


b 1.8 × 70 b 126
B Answer
6

1 Write as a decimal the sum of 7


tenths and 39 hundredths. 1.09
2 Write the year 2016 using
1cm

A metal bar is 1cm


Roman numerals. MMXVI
square in section
3 By how many grams is 2.345kg less 1cm and 1m long.
1
than 2 2 kg? 155g
a How many cm cubes can be cut
4 A Calculate the
B from it? a 100
reflex angle
103° AOC. 219° b Write the volume of the bar in cm3. b 100cm3
38°
O C
7 The price of 250g of butter was increased
5 What is the annual interest from 60p to 66p. Find the increase as a
on £650 at 5%? £32.50 percentage of the original price. 10%

6 A car travels 28km in 30min. 8 A plan is drawn to the scale of 1mm


Find its speed in km/h. 56km/h to 50m. What distance in kilometres
is represented by a line 10cm long? 5km
7 Write in digits the date
a 6 months later than 1 Oct. 03 a 01/04/04 9 Eight kittens of equal mass together
b 4 months before 1 Mar. 96. b 01/11/95 have a mass of 7kg 400g.

8 750ml of vegetable oil cost 72p. a Find the mass in grams of four of
Find the price per litre. 96p the kittens. a 3700g

9 A shelf measures 5m long and b What fraction of the total mass 3


20cm wide. Find its area in m2. 1m 2 is the mass of three of the kittens? b 8

10 What is the missing amount of money? £8.72 10 How many square


1.0 9 kitchen tiles with sides
3m

8 £ . floor 10cm are required


to cover the
11 Approximate kitchen floor? 1500
5m
a 199 503 to the nearest 1000 a 200 000
1 11 Five magazines cost £3.78. Find the cost
b 7kg 350g to the nearest 2 kg. b 7.5kg
of one magazine to the nearest penny. 76p
12 The base of
this triangle is 12 A skeleton model of a
double the cube with sides 6cm is
height. Find made by fastening together
the area of lengths of straws. Find
18cm the triangle. 81cm2 the total length required. 72cm

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SECTION 1 | Test 9 Schofield & Sims

A Answer C Answer

1 Write in digits, five hundred and 1 A joint of meat had a mass of 2kg 700g.
two thousand one hundred and four. 502 104 10% of its mass was lost in cooking.
Find the loss in grams. 270g
2 7.3 = 10 × 0.73
2 A shop opens from 8.30 a.m. to noon
3 £5 – (£3.66 + 54p) = p 80p
and 1.30 p.m. to 6 p.m.
1
4 3 of 2.850l = ml 950ml
a How many hours is the shop open? a 8h
1
5 9.6cm – 58mm = mm 38mm b What fraction of the day is it open? b 3

6 1% of 23.5kg = g 235g
3 A B AC and BD are the
7 1000 – (8 × 9) = 928 x diagonals of the
y rectangle and
z
8 350g + 725g + 875g = kg 1.95kg ∠ BDC is 30°.
1 7 1 5 30°
9 14 + 8 – 2 = 18
D C
10 a 5% of £36.00 = a £1.80 Find the angles marked x, y and z. ∠x 60°
1
b 22 % of £36.00 = b 90p ∠y 120°
∠z 60°
11 10 × y = 0.35. Find the value of y. 0.035
£21.56 4 25% of a sum of money is £9.76.
12 7 = £3.08 1
What is 12 2 % of this amount? £4.88

5 Place a decimal point in each of these


B Answer a 0.309
numbers so that the value of the digit
9 is 9 thousandths. b 0.079
1 Write 35 out of 50 as
7 a 309 b 79 c 2009 c 2.009
a a fraction in its simplest form a 10
1
6 Water from a full 2 l jug was poured into
b a percentage. b 70%
a bowl. When the bowl was filled there
2 By how many degrees does the were 115ml left. What was the capacity
temperature rise from –3°C to 9°C? 12°C of the bowl in cm3? 385cm3

3 x = 25 – 12 × 2 y = (25 – 12) × 2 7 An apricot costs 34p. How much is


saved per apricot by buying a pack
Find the value of a x b y c y – x. a 1 b 26 c 25
of six for £1.92? 2p
4 Find the change from a £10 note after 1
paying for three hot chocolates at 8 In one week, 4 million people watched
£2.90 each. £1.30 a football match. If 80% of the people
were female, how many were male? 50 000
3
5 By how many minutes is 24 h longer
than 1h 55min? 50min 9 A metal bar
is 20cm long
6 8.25l of juice is needed to fill 10 bottles. with a 4cm
How many millilitres of juice are in 4cm 20cm wide square
each bottle? 825ml cross-section.
1 1
Find its volume. 320cm3
7 2 = 0.5; 4 = 0.25
1 10 The approximate distance by road
Write 8 as a decimal fraction. 0.125
from London to Glasgow is 623km.
1
8 What number is 17 less than –9? –26 How long to the nearest 2 h will it
take David to make the journey if
9 What decimal fraction when multiplied his average speed is 80km/h? 8h
by 9 gives 6.3 as the answer? 0.7
11 By how much is 10% of £25 greater
10 Which of these numbers are factors of 64? than 9% of the same amount? 25p
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 2, 4, 8 12 A garden consists of
an area of grass 9m
11 Material costs £7.86 per metre.
grass by 6.5m surrounded
Find to the nearest penny the
by a path 50cm
cost of 20cm. £1.57
wide. Find
12 The perimeter of this a the length a 10m
rhombus is 15.6cm.
rhombus
Find the length of one b the breadth b 7.5m
side in millimetres. 39mm c the area of the garden. c 75m2

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Mental Arithmetic 5 Answers SECTION 1 | Test 10
A Answer C Answer

27 3 1 If £1.00 can be exchanged for €1.38,


1 2.703 = 10 + 1000 10 + 1000
how many euros are received for £50? €69
4
2 5 of 1.5kg = g 1200g
2 When a number is divided by 7
5
3 £0.76 × 30 = £22.80 the answer is 208 7 . Find the number. 1461

4 50 000 – 970 = 49 030 3 A vase holds 5.6l of water. What is the


1
volume of the vase in cm3? 5600cm3
5 2h 37min + 7h 53min = h 10 2 h
4 Which of these fractions are
6 2l 700ml × 8 = l ml 21l 600ml 1 7 3 8
a greater than 2 a 10 , 5 , 12
1 1
7 104 = 10 × 10 × 10 × 10 = 10 000 b less than
1
4? b 5, 6

3 1 7 5 1 3 1 8
8 two 50ps + three 20ps + ten 5ps = £ £2.10 8 5 10 12 6 5 3 12

9 a 27p = % of £1.00 a 27%


5 Four plants are given 5ml plant food daily.
b 35cm = % of 1m b 35% How many days will a 0.3l bottle of plant
3 5 food last? 15
10 4 8 × 7 = 30 8
6 A a What fraction of the
11 a 50% of £3.96 = a £1.98
circumference of the 1
b 75% of £9.00 = b £6.75 circle is the arc AB? a 4
90°
B
12 Write as decimal fractions. b If the angle at the
2 centre were 40°,
a 5 a 0.4 what fraction of
3
b 8 b 0.375 the circumference 1
would be its arc? b 9
c 79% c 0.79
7 On 21 December the sun rises at 08:03
B Answer and sets at 15:50. How many hours and
minutes of daylight are there on this day? 7h 47min
1 By how many is 1.4 million greater than
nine hundred thousand? 500 000 8 Megan saved €10 every week for a year.
Her dad then gave her a gift of 20% of
2 Subtract 37p from the total of 29p, 21p her savings. How much did her dad
and 4p. 17p give her? €104
3 What mass in kilograms is six times 9 A piece of ribbon 1m 36cm long is cut
4kg 300g? 25.8kg into two pieces so that one piece is three
times as long as the other. Find the length
4 By how many times is 8.3 greater
of each piece. 34cm 102cm
than 0.083? 100
10 Which of the triangles A, B and C have
5 What fraction in simplest form is equal to
4 9 the same area? A and C
a 16% b 45%? a 25 b 20
A B C
6 10 sausages cost £2.90. Find the cost of base 8cm 9cm 10cm
a one sausage a 29p height 6cm 4cm 4.8cm
b three sausages. b 87p
11 Point A is at (–2, 1). Write the
7 A line is 49mm longer than the line AB. coordinates of its reflection in
What is the length of the line in the x-axis (the horizontal axis). ( –2 , –1)
millimetres? 124mm y
A B
3
7cm 5mm
2
8 How many times is 2.5 contained in 100? 40 A 1
9 How many days inclusive from x
–3 –2 –1 0 1 2 3
19 Mar. 2006 to 5 Apr. 2006? 18 –1
10 108.9 Write the answer to the –2
6
nearest whole number. 18 –3

11 Find the cost of 1.3kg at 20p per 100g. £2.60


12 A point at (–3, –3) is translated five
12 The perimeter of a rectangle is 85cm. squares to the right and four squares up.
Its length is 28cm. Find its width. 14.5cm What are its new coordinates? ( 2, 1)

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SECTION 1 | Test 11 Schofield & Sims

A Answer C Answer

1 a 25 = 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 = a 32 1 By how many is (103 + 16) greater than


b 105 = b 100 000 (102 + 16)? 900

2 five 5ps + seven 10ps – nine 2ps = 77p 2 George’s date of birth is 27 Nov. 04.
How old will he be in years and months
3 (73 + 9) = 150 – 68 on 1 Sept. 2020? 15yr 9mth
4 10.085km = m 10 085m
y
3 Sophie received a gift of £16. She saved
5 100 = 10.64. Find the value of y. 1064 90% of the money and spent the rest.
6 6.358 = 63 tenths + thousandths 58 thousandths a What percentage did she spend? a 10%

7 550g × 6 = kg 3.3kg b How much did she save? b £14.40

8 £36.50 ÷ 10 = £ £3.65 4 Each of the equal angles


in this isosceles triangle is
9 75° + 65° + 90° + ° = 360° 130°
twice the size of the third
3
10 10 of 0.3m = cm 9cm angle. Find the size of

11 8% of £3.00 = p 24p a the third angle a 36°


x y
12 17.2 ÷ 2 = 8.6 b the equal angles
at the base. b 72°

B Answer 5 A line 10cm long is drawn to represent


a distance of 3km. To what scale is the
1 Write these improper fractions as line drawn? 1cm to 300m
mixed numbers.
a
74
b
39
a 14 5
4
b 57
4 6 How much
5 7 Potatoes
money is saved
£1.40 for a 3kg bag by buying 6kg
2 Find in litres the total of 830ml, 1
360ml and 170ml. 1.36l or 24p per 2 kg of potatoes
in bags? 8p
3 Of these numbers which is
a the largest a 3.333 7 A rectangular plot of ground measures
b the smallest? b 3.03 19.7m long and 13.4m wide. Round
each measurement to the nearest
3.03 3.33 3.3 3.333 metre and then find the approximate
area of the plot. 260m2
4 Which year is MCMXCIX? 1999
8 Which of these shapes have
5 Write as a fraction in its simplest form.
1 two axes of symmetry? B, E
a 15mm of 15cm a 10
5
b 25min of 1h b 12

A B C D E
6 Find the difference between
0.394 and 0.4. 0.006

7 Which of these numbers are multiples 9 There were three candidates A, B and C
of both 5 and 8? in an election. Of the total possible votes
1 1 1
A polled 4 , B polled 6 and C polled 3 .
16 25 40 64 90 120 40, 120
a Which candidate won the election? a C
3 1
8 8 of a sum of money is 45p. Find 2 of b What fraction of the electors did 1
the sum of money. 60p not vote? b 4

9 Find to the nearest centimetre one


1
seventh of 6 4 m. 89cm 10 x = 8 × 4 + 4 y = 8 × (4 + 4)
Find the value of a x a 36
10 What sum of money is 200% of £170? £340
b y b 64
11 Find the cost of 2.5kg at 74p per 500g. £3.70
c y – x. c 28
12 A B The perimeter
of this 11 The price of a pen was increased from
parallelogram parallelogram 30p to 36p. Find the increase as a
is 72cm. percentage of the original price. 20%
D C
25cm 12 Find in millimetres the diameter of a
Find the length of the sides AD and BC. 11cm circle that has the radius 7.7cm. 154mm

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Mental Arithmetic 5 Answers SECTION 1 | Test 12
A Answer C Answer

1 1.4 million + 0.3 million = 1.7 million 1 By how many is (3 × 103) less than
five thousand? 2000
2 1000 × = 300 0.3
2 The mass of a 5p coin is 3.25g. What is
3 a 5% of £30 = a £1.50
the value of the 5ps in a bag if their mass
b 40% of £50 = b £20 is 0.325kg? £5
1
4 2.050l – ml = 1 2 l 550ml 3 Of 240 children in a school, 180 bring
a packed lunch. Find the percentage
5 2+5×5–7= 20
of children who have school lunches. 25%
6 6×9×5×4= 1080
4 Find to the nearest kilometre the distance
4.56m
7 8 = cm 57cm by road from Alton to Bigby. 8km
13
m
a 0.65 = %= a 65% = 2.6k

1.4k
8 20 20
3 3.9km

m
3 Bigby
b 0.12 = %= b 12% = 25
Alton
9 7h – 3h 28min = h min 3h 32min
5 The mean temperature over four
10 1.34 + = 1.876 0.536 consecutive days was 17°C. For three of
the days the temperatures were 16°, 14°
11 9.072 × 7 = 63.504 and 18° respectively. What was the
temperature on the fourth day? 20°C
12 £5.00 ÷ 6 = pr p 83p r 2p
6 Find the value of 7 – 3 × 2 + 10. 11
B Answer
7 In this chart two of the prices,
x 36p
2 5 1 marked x and y, are missing.
1 Take the sum of 3 and 6 from 2. 2
What are they? y 72p
2 How many times is 600g contained
mass 100g 150g 200g 300g 400g
in 4.8kg? 8
price 18p 27p x 54p y
3 £ Find the missing
4.7 4 sum of money. £2.84
– . 8 Maisie saves £7.50 in five months.
1.9 0 If she continues to save at the same rate,
how much will she have saved in

4 How many days inclusive from 23 Nov. a 7 months a £10.50


to 9 Dec? 17 b 1 year? b £18
5 Find the reflex angle to an angle of 63°. 297°
9 a What kind
6 To the total of 850ml and 950ml of triangle is
12cm

add 1.6l. Give the answer in litres. 3.4l added to the


rectangle to
8cm

7 What percentage of make the


shape? a right-angled
a £400 is £20 a 5% 15cm
b Find the area
b 1 tonne is 250kg? b 25% of the shape. b 150cm2
8 Write the year 1066 using
Roman numerals. MLXVI 10 The diameter of
each circle is
9 40% of a sum of money is 60p. 15.8cm. What
Find the whole amount. £1.50 is the distance
in millimetres
10 Which of these decimal fractions between the
1
equals 8 ? two centres? 79mm
0.8 0.15 0.25 0.125 0.125 11 Yan scored 19 out of 20 in a test.
What is his score as a percentage? 95%
11 Divide £10.00 by 3. Give the answer
to the nearest penny. £3.33
12 A hollow cube has sides measuring 20cm.
12 A piece of paper is 210mm by 30cm. If the cube is half filled with water, what is
Find its area in cm2. 630cm2 the mass of the water in kilograms? 4kg

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PROGRESS TEST 1 Schofield & Sims
£1 £1
Write the numbers 1 to 20 down the side of a piece of paper.
Write alongside these numbers the answers only to the following questions.
10p 10p 2p£1 2p
Work as quickly as you can. Time allowed – 10 minutes.
£1
1 Write in words the number which is equal to (5 × 103) + (7 × 10) + 2. five thousand and seventy-two
5p 5p
2
10p 2p
How many times is 1083 greater than 1.083?
£1 10p 2p 1000
1p 3 How many 20p
1p 5ps are given in exchange
£1
20pfor the coins shown below? £1£1 29 5ps
5p 5p
50p
1p 50p 10p 10p
20p 10p 10p 2p
2p 2p
2p 1p 20p
5p
5p 5p5p
4
50p
8.15l – 800ml. Write the answer in litres.
50p 7.35l

5
x
9 = 7. Find the value of x.
1p
1p 20p 20p
1p1p 20p 20p 63

6 x By how many degrees is the angle marked x

y
50p 50p
50p 50p
in the parallelogram less than the angle marked y? 68°
56°

7 The price of a game was increased from £20 to £25.


What is the increase as a percentage of the original price? 25%

8 A line 8cm long represents a distance of 320m. The scale to which the line is drawn is 1mm to m. 4m

3
9 Write as a mixed number the difference between 3 and 0.25. 24

10 x = 10 × 8 – 5 y = 10 × (8 – 5) Find the value of a x b y c x – y. a 75, b 30, c 45

11 Hollie had £4.20. The diagram shows how she used it.
sweets book savings How much money did she put into the savings bank? £1.40
bank

12 The number of people living in a small town was 19 097. In five years the population decreased by 10%.
Find the decrease to the nearest whole number. 1910

13 The area of a triangle is 32.2cm2. Its height is 7cm. Find the length of the base. 9.2cm

14
depart arrive This timetable gives the times of two trains from London to Darlington.
Which train is quickest and by how many minutes? B by 45min
A 10:20 13:55
B 11:25 14:15

15 A pack of eight cartons of juice costs £3.75. Find to the nearest penny the cost of one carton. 47p

16 Two of the angles in a quadrilateral are 89°, another angle is 91°.

a What is the size of the fourth angle? 91°


b Which three of these shapes could the quadrilateral be?

parallelogram rhombus rectangle trapezium parallelogram, trapezium, rhombus

17 The perimeter of a rectangular hall is 36m. The width measures one third of the length. Find the length of the hall. 13.5m
5
18 6 of a sum of money is £10.40. What is the whole amount? £12.48

19 A car travels at a speed of 45km/h for 1h. How far did it travel in 20min? 15km

20 Write in centimetres the diameter of a circle with a radius of 128mm. 25.6cm

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Mental Arithmetic 5 Answers PROGRESS TEST 1 | Results Chart
You will work through Progress Test 1 at four different times – once at the end of Section 1, then again after you have
completed each of Section 2 Test 4, Test 8 and Test 11.
When you first complete the test:
a colour the first column to show the number of answers correct out of 20
b enter the date.
Each time you take the test, enter the result and the date in the marked columns.

1st 2nd 3rd 4th


20

19

18

17

16

15

14

13

12
number of answers correct

11

10

0
date

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SECTION 2 | Test 1 Schofield & Sims

A Answer C Answer

1 U Write in words 1 Six 30cm candles are placed end to end.


the number shown How many millimetres short of 2m is their
on the abacus. total length? 200mm
two hundred and thirty-five
2 In which century did each of these
thousand and four hundred years fall? Write the answers in digits.
a 1676 a 17th
2 Add 1.0, 0.1 and 0.001. 1.101
b 1918 b 20th
3 3375mm = m 3.375m
3 Find
4 × 10 = 498 700 49 870 a the reflex
Z
1 1 1 Y 109° angle Y a 251°
5 2 × 2 = 4
285° b the acute
6 8kg – 6.075kg = kg 1.925kg angle Z. b 75°

7 6×5×9= 270 4 36758 Write this number and use


a decimal point to make
1 the value of the number
8 2 4 min = s 135s
3 a between 360 and 370 a 367.58
9 5 of £45 = £ £27
b between 30 and 40. b 36.758
3 1 5
10 12 + 6 = 12
5 Which number when divided by 6
1
11 33 – 23 = 19 has 3 as the answer? 2

12 Find 15% of £2.00. 30p


6 Which of these numbers have 2, 3
and 4 as factors?
12 17 18 24 27 31 36 12, 24, 36
B Answer

1 1m costs £1.50. Find the cost of 10cm. 15p


7 Harry walks at an average speed of
6km/h. How many hours will he take 1
3
2 Write
12
in its simplest form. 4
to walk 15km? 22h
16

3 To the difference between £5.00 and 8 A plan is drawn to a scale of 1mm to 1


£2.55 add six 2ps. £2.57 10cm. Write the scale as a fraction. 100

4 A square has a perimeter of 320mm. 9 There are 24 small


Find its area in cm2. 64cm 2 squares in the diagram.
Find as a fraction in
5 How many times can 0.25 be taken its simplest form
from 1? 4 the part which is
2
a shaded a 3
6 5 miles ≈ 8km. About how many
1
kilometres is 45 miles? 72km b unshaded b 8
5
7 When a watering can is 4 full it holds
3 c patterned c 24

900ml. How much does it hold in litres


10 Round each amount to the nearest £
when it is full? 1.2l
and then find the approximate total.
8 What percentage of £6 is £1.50? 25% £5.75 £3.25 £2.99 £12
9 Find the volume in m of a room 5m long, 3

4m wide and 2.5m high. 50m3 11 A Find the area of


a the triangle ABC a 56cm2
8cm

10 What fraction in its simplest form


1
is equal to 12.5%? 8 C B b a triangle having
14cm the same base but
11 How many times heavier is 7.5kg half the height
than 75g? 100 of ABC b 28cm2

12 Write these fractions in order of size, 12 346 × 18 = 6228


the largest first. Find a 346 × 0.18 a 62.28
2 3 7 5 5 3 2 7
3 4 12 6 6 4 3 12 b 34.6 × 1.8. b 62.28

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Mental Arithmetic 5 Answers SECTION 2 | Test 2
A Answer C Answer

1 4 × y = 96 Find the value of y. 24 1 Find the time taken in hours and minutes
for a journey of 300km at an average
2 £3.78 + £2.55 = £6.33
speed of 40km/h. 7h 30min
3 35min × 5 = h min 2h 55min
2 Mr Khan was given a 10% reduction on
4 £ + £2.37 = £6.00 £3.63 a car costing €3000. How much did he
pay for the car? €2700
5 1 tonne (t) = 1000kg
3080kg = t kg 3t 80kg 3 Six jugs each holding 850ml were filled
3 1 1
6 28 – 14 = 18 from a cask containing 10l. Write in litres
4804 the quantity remaining. 4.9l
7 4.804 = 1000 1000
1 4 Estimate which of these angles is
8 a 6 of 156 = a 26
1 a 87° b 135° a y b x
b 12 of 156 = b 13
c 278° d 45°. c z d w
9 a 20p of £2.00 = % a 10%
b 20p of £4.00 = % b 5%
10 43 + 42 = 80 w x y
11 5057m + m = 5.750km 693m z
£3.50
12 10 ×3= £1.05
5 In a group of 32 children, 24 could swim.
What percentage of the children could
B Answer not swim? 25%
1 Write in digits, seven hundred thousand 6 Find in millimetres
seven hundred. 700 700
a the total of the lengths AB and AC a 82mm
2 Increase the sum of 54p and
18p by £1.08. £1.80 b the difference in length between
AB and AC. b 28mm
3 By how many millimetres is 2620mm
less than 3m? 380mm mm
10 20 30 40 50 60

4 One ruler cost 18p.


Find the cost of a 10 a £1.80 A B C
b 30. b £5.40
7 1 mile ≈ 1.6km. About how many
5 Write the next two numbers in kilometres is 20 miles? 32km
this sequence.
50, 5, 0.5, , 0.05 0.005
8 On parents’ evening, 4 out of every 5
parents who attended came by car.
6 How many times is 300g contained 100 parents attended.
in 9kg? 30
3
a How many came by car? a 80
7 Write 5 as a decimal fraction. 0.6 1
b What fraction did not? b 5
8 Increase a £1.00 by 13% a £1.13
9 Find the length of the
b £1.00 by 9%. b £1.09
rectangle in metres. 5m
9 Find the mean of these numbers.
1.5m

area 7.5m2
16 14 17 13 15
10 A rectangle is 4.5m long and 0.5m wide. 10 Louise works from 6.45 a.m. to 10.15 a.m.
Find a the perimeter a 10m and from 3.15 p.m. to 6.45 p.m.
How many hours is that each day? 7h
b the area. b 2.25m2
11 The volume of the
Write the unit of measurement in each case.
cuboid is 150m3.
11 Find the difference between 2.75 million Find its height
and 300 000. 2 450 000 in metres. 7.5m
12 a For the
5m
rectangle, 4m
b
find ∠ a ∠a 29° 12 A car travelled 50 106km in three years.
c ∠b ∠b 122° Find to the nearest 1000km the mean
29° and ∠ c. ∠c 61° distance travelled per year. 17 000km

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SECTION 2 | Test 3 Schofield & Sims

A Answer C Answer

1 £0.07 + £7.00 + £0.70 = £7.77 1 The price of a 32p packet of sweets is


increased by 25%. What is the new price? 40p
2 (7 × 103) + (5 × 102) + (3 × 101) = 7530
2 Find the total cost
3 p × 10 = £1.60 = 16p Funfair for two adults and
admission: £4.20 two children. £12.60
4 5+7×3–2= 24 children: half price

5 1.36 ÷ 8 = 0.17 3 The length of a garage is 5m. The overall


length of a car is 4445mm. By how many
6 (4 × 96) + (6 × 96) = 960 millimetres is the garage longer than
the car? 555mm
7 360° – (145° + 55°) = 160°
3
4 Claire is employed for 36 hours from
8 3l 250ml – 4 l = l 2.5l Monday to Friday (inclusive). Find in
hours and minutes the mean time
9 3.593 + 0.407 = 4.0 she works each day. 7h 12min

10 80% of 400 = 320 5 From a gift of £10, Ahmed received


2 1 5 £3.70. His three friends shared the
11 3 + 6 = 6 remainder equally. How much did
each friend receive? £2.10
12 Subtract 12 from 7. –5
6 A packet of weed-killer will treat 100m2
of lawn. How many packets are needed
B Answer
to treat a square lawn with 20m sides? 4
1 What number is one more than 99 999? 100 000
7 Two of the
°
triangle x 96° 42°
2 By how many seconds is 70s less angles in
1
than 1 4 min? 5s triangle y 60° 60° ° each of the x 42°
triangles x, y
triangle z 90° 57° ° 60°
3 700ml cost £0.91. Find the cost per litre. £1.30 and z are given. y
Find the third angle for each triangle. z 33°
4 The length of a rectangle is 15cm
and its perimeter is 46cm. Find
8 A map is drawn to a scale of 1cm to 1km.
a the width a 8cm Find the distance in kilometres represented
by a line 42mm long. 4.2km
b the area. b 120cm2
1
5 Write 1mm of 2m as a fraction. 2000 9 F = {16, 4, , 1, 64, 2, }
F = the set of factors of 64.
6 Divide the total of £1.17 and £0.28 by 5. £0.29 Find the missing factors. 8 32

7 4 × y = 4y.
1
10 Which triangle, A or B, has the
Find the value of y when 4y = 14. 32 greater area and by how many cm2? A by 3cm2

8 Approximate
6cm

6cm

a 9493g to the nearest kilogram a 9kg


b 305 426 to the nearest 10 000. b 310 000 A B

9cm 8cm
9 Write as a decimal the sum of 5,
3 84
10 and 100 . 6.14
11 1l of water has the same volume as
10 What percentage is 6cm of 2m? 3% 1000cm3. What are the volumes in cm3 of
a 200ml a 200cm3
11 Write the next two numbers
in this sequence. b 1.7l? b 1700cm3
1 1 3 2 1 3 7
10 , 5 , 10 , 5 , 2 , , 5 10
12 A map is drawn to a scale of 1cm to 1km.
12 Write 125ml to 1l as Express this scale
1 1
a a fraction in its simplest form a 8 a as a fraction a 100 000

b a decimal fraction. b 0.125 b as a ratio. b 1:100 000

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Mental Arithmetic 5 Answers SECTION 2 | Test 4
A Answer C Answer

1 (4 × 92) = 324 1 A jug holds 750ml. How many ml does


2
it hold when it is 3 full? 500ml
2 0.9 – 0.09 = 0.81
2 The interior angles of triangles
3 15p × 4 = £ £0.60 A, B and C are given. Name each
of these triangles by its sides.
4 3694 ÷ 5 = r 738 r 4
triangle A 60° 60° 60° A equilaterial
5 a 0.12 = % a 12%
triangle B 80° 80° 20° B isosceles
b 0.125 = % b 12.5%
triangle C 30° 60° 90° C scalene
6 2l – ml = 1.260l 740ml
1
7 8 of 360° = 45° 3 Car parking costs $4.00 per hour. How
much does it cost to park for 3h 15min? $13.00
8 1m 90mm = m 1.090m
4 Round each of these numbers to the
9 three 50ps + 5ps = £3.00 – £1.25 5 5ps nearest whole number and then find the
approximate total.
10 11.33 a.m. to 1.27 p.m. = h min 1h 54min
5.109 6.5 4.49 2.73 19
11 0.3 × 0.5 = 0.15
1 2 1
12 Find a 2 of 3 a 3 5 The diagram shows
7 1 how the children voted
b 8 of 4. b 32 football
cycling
for their favourite sport.
What percentage of the
et
ck children voted for
B Answer cr i ming
swim
a swimming a 25%
1 How much is left when £1.67 is
subtracted from £2.45? £0.78 b cycling? b 12.5%

2 Write as a decimal fraction. 6 If 200 children voted, how many more


1 voted for football than for cricket? 75
a 4 a 0.25
1 7 A a What fraction of
b 8 b 0.125
the circumference
3 Write the volume in cm3 of a bucket of the circle is the 1
which holds 2.250l. 2250cm3 120° arc AB? a 3
B
b If the angle at the
4 Find the difference between 100%
centre were 240°,
of £5.00 and 1% of £5.00. £4.95
what fraction of
5 What number is one thousand less the circumference 2
than 800 000? 799 000 would be its arc? b 3

6 10 lollies cost £4.50. Find the cost of 8 Eight lengths each measuring 2m 40cm
are cut from a 20m roll. What length
a one a 45p
in cm remains? 80cm
b seven. b £3.15
9 Find the product of one-half and
7 How many times can 300ml be taken two-thirds and write the fraction 1
from 6l? 20 in its simplest form. 3

8 Which two consecutive numbers have 10 In a freestyle swimming competition, Kai


a product of 72? 8 9 swam 200m in 1min 54.3s. How many
seconds less than 2min was his time? 5.7s
9 How many days inclusive from
14 December to 17 January? 35 11 The diagram shows the distances
10 Divide £5.00 by 9 to the nearest penny. 56p between four friends’ homes. How many
metres is it from Sita’s to Ellie’s? 510m
11 A B ABCD is a
115° y 2.5km
parallelogram.
Find in degrees
ed 0.75km 1.24km ua
x ∠x ∠x 115° Ahm Sita Ellie Josh
D C
and ∠ y. ∠y 65°
12 The population of a town of 0.5 million
12 20% of a sum of money is 85p. fell by 50 000. What was the percentage
What is the whole amount? £4.25 fall in population? 10%

21
SECTION 2 | Test 5 Schofield & Sims

A Answer C Answer

1 36mm + 24mm + 54mm = cm 11.4cm 1 20p is saved each week. How long will
it take to save £2.60? 13wk
2 5l – (480ml × 5) = l 2.6l
2 Find in metres the
3
14 m perimeter of
3 g × 100 = 6.5kg 65g
this square. 7m
4 1 mile ≈ 1.6km 3 Which of these fractions is equal to
1 1 1 1
miles ≈ 48km 30 miles a 12 2 % b 33 3 %? a 8 b 3

1 1 1 1 1
5 2.750l ÷ 2 = 1.375l 2 8 4 3 6

4 Find the difference between 30 × 4p


6 60% of £2 = £ £1.20
and 30 times 6p. 60p
7 0.97 × 3 = 2.91 5 WXYZ is a trapezium. Find in degrees
W X a ∠ XYZ a 63°
8 3h 50min × 6 = h min 23h 0min 117° 117°
b ∠ YZW. b 63°
1 1 1
9 2 × 4 = 8
Z Y
10 93 – 9 = 720
6 Of the 300 people at a theme park,
99% went on the rollercoaster.
11 £30 ÷ 20 = £1.50
How many people was that? 297
12 £0.50 × 54 = £27.00 7 Tom was allowed an average of 50p
per day spending money for four days.
Find how much he had to spend
B Answer on the fourth day. 30p
day 1st 2nd 3rd 4th
1 Write in words the number
40 400. forty thousand four hundred spent 70p 40p 60p

2 Which of these is 8 From Aberdeen to Leicester by road


a a square number a 36 is approximately 700km. Find to the
nearest hour the time taken by a truck
b a prime number? b 37 if its average speed is 60km/h. 12h
34 35 36 37 38 39 9 This scale is taken from a map.
Find the distance in kilometres represented
3 Divide £28 in the ratio 4:3. £16 £12 by a line on the map measuring 3.5cm. 17.5km
mm
4 Six toffees cost 90p. Find the cost
of five toffees. 75p km 5 10 15 20 25 30

5 Approximate 10 An equilateral triangle has a perimeter


of 240mm. Find in centimetres
a 0.830km to the nearest 100m a 800m
1 a the length of one side a 8cm
b 4.080l to the nearest 2 l. b 4l
b the length of one side of a regular
6 a How many 8cm lengths can be cut hexagon of the same perimeter. b 4cm
from a 5m length? a 62 11 From this calendar find
b How many centimetres are left over? b 4cm a the number of Fridays in the month a 4
1 1
7 What fraction of 10 is 14 ? 8 b the date of the third Sunday in
the month. b 20th
8 Write as a decimal fraction.
March
1
a 19% b 12 2 % a 0.19 b 0.125
Mon 7 14 21 28
9 298 seconds = min s 4min 58s Tues 1 8 15 22 29

10 6 + x + 0.029 = 6.03. Find x. 0.001 Wed 2 9 16 23 30


Thurs 3 10 17 24 31
11 What number must be added to 0.37
to make 4.57? 4.2
12 Use the formula
8cm

bh
12 Find the missing 5 . 3 7 0 kg A = 2 to find
mass in grams. – . kg 880g the area of the
4 . 4 9 0 kg triangle. 62.4cm2
15.6cm

22
Mental Arithmetic 5 Answers SECTION 2 | Test 6
A Answer C Answer

1 470 – 383 = 87 1 A television licence costs £150 per year.


How much is this per month? £12.50
2 250g × 20 = kg 5kg
2 B ABC is a
3 765 ÷ 25 = r 30 r 15 7c right-angled
m

m
triangle.

5c
3
4
5
28 +
3
= 38 Find its area. 17.5cm2
4
A C
5 1 ÷ 0.2 = 5
2
3 By how much is the product of 3 and 2
2
6 4m – mm = 3.180m 820mm 3 less than the sum of 3 and 3? 13
1 7
4 A 2 2 l container is 10 full. What decimal
7 30 × 1.6 = 48
fraction of 1l is required to fill it? 0.75l
8 From 7.19 a.m. to 8.15 a.m. = min 56min 5 A plan is drawn to the scale of 1mm to 1
50cm. What fraction represents the scale? 500
9 175ml × 4 = 1l – ml 300ml
6
Broton Cant Witton From this bus
10 36 – 9 ÷ 3 = 33 timetable find
19:17 21:14 23:56 the time
11 a 8.5% of £100 a £8.50 taken from
1 a Broton to Cant a 1h 57min
b 12 2 % of £10 b £1.25
b Cant to Witton b 2h 42min
12 £2.63 × 4 = £10.52
c Broton to Witton. c 4h 39min

B Answer 7 A new pane of


glass is to be
1 Add together the largest and the smallest fitted into this
of these numbers. square window.

0.099 0.9 0.909 0.09 a In how many


0.999 different ways
will it fit
2 What percentage is
without the
a 9 of 18 a 50% glass being
turned over? a 4
b 18 of 9? b 200%
b How many lines of symmetry
3 Write in digits the number which is has a square? b 4
ten thousand more than a million. 1 010 000
8 Find the missing numerators x, y and z x 9
4 £2.57 plus £1.36 minus 24p = £ £3.69 in this set of equivalent fractions. y 15
3 6 x 12 y z
{5, 10 , 15 , 20 , 25 , 30 }
5 Write 20 thirds as z 18
20 9 The triangle
a an improper fraction a 3
2
x is equilateral.
b a mixed fraction. b 63 Find in degrees
∠x 120°
the measurement
6 Find the area of a parallelogram with a of ∠ x and ∠ y. ∠y 120°
base measuring 17cm and height of 5cm. 85cm2 y
1
7 Find 9 of 70. Write the answer to the 10 Write the value of each:
nearest whole number. 8
a 16 – 10 ÷ 2 + 1 = a 12
1
8 50g cost 65p. Find the cost of 4 kg. £3.25 b (16 – 10) ÷ (2 + 1) = b 2
9 How many 650g packets can be made c (16 – 10) ÷ 2 + 1 = c 4
from 65kg? 100 1
11 The price of 2 kg of carrots was increased
10 Write as a decimal fraction. from 30p to 36p. Find the increase as a
9 3 3
percentage of the original price. 20%
a 50 b 20 c 25 a 0.18 b 0.15 c 0.12
12 Round the sum of money to the nearest
11 Find the difference in grams between £ and then find an approximate answer.
1% of 19kg and 1% of 20kg. 10g
a £19.87 × 19 a £380
12 Increase £2.00 by 16%. £2.32 b £126.24 ÷ 9 b £14

23
SECTION 2 | Test 7 Schofield & Sims

A Answer C Answer

1 5.384 + 4.16 = 9.544 1 A book costs £2.40. In a sale it is to be


sold at 75% of this price. How much will
2 4km – 272m = km 3.728km it be sold for? £1.80

3 £30 × 27 = £810 2 The total mass


of the three
£5.18 c parcels is 7kg.
4 6 = pr p 86p r 2p
Find in
5 1.5 million = thousands 1500 thousands 2.5kg kilograms the
3.425kg
mass of
6 (6 × 105) + (1 × 104) + parcel C. 1.075kg
(7 × 102) + (4 × 1) = 610 704 3 Ali earns $5.50 per hour. What is his
wage for a 30-hour week? $165
7 0.75l = cm3 750cm3
4 The scale reading
8 3 × (5 + 1) – 10 ÷ 2 = 13 0 shows the mass
2 of 20 tomatoes.
1 1 1 kg
9 3 × 3 = 9 Find the average
mass of one
3
10 Find 8 of £36. £13.50 tomato. 45g
1
48mm + 72mm
11 4 = cm 3cm
5 Find the change from £10 after spending
12 a 25% of 1.28l = ml a 320ml £3.60, £2.50 and 99p. £2.91
b 75% of 1.28kg = g b 960g 6 A The right-angled
triangle is an
isosceles triangle.
B Answer
Find in degrees
1 Divide 45kg in the ratio 7:8. 21kg 24kg B a ∠ CAB a 45°
C b ∠ BCA. b 45°
2 Find the product of 10 and 0.002. 0.02
7 A packet of peas has a mass of 375g.
3 One article costs 21p. Find in kilograms the mass of six packets. 2.25kg
Find the cost of a 10 a £2.10
8 10cm The shaded part
b 50. b £10.50 is cut from this
rectangular card.
8cm

4 1 mile ≈ 1.6km. About how many miles Find the area of


is 64km? 40 miles the part that
15cm is cut off. 20cm2
5 a Increase £2.56 by 100%. a £5.12
b Decrease £2.40 by 50%. b £1.20 9 Write the next two numbers
in this sequence.
6 By how many grams is twice 2.175kg 24, 17, 10, 3, , –4 –11
less than 5kg? 650g
10 A measurement of 38mm on a plan
1
7 How many seconds in a 3 min a 20s represents a distance of 38m. What
would a 3cm line on the plan represent? 30m
b 0.25min? b 15s
11 The graph
8 £5.60 is shared equally among eight 8 shows the
children. Find one share. 70p
degrees °C

6 temperature
4 for five days.
9 Change to percentages. a 0.13 a 13% Find the
2 mean daily
b 0.35 b 35%
0 temperature. 6°C
1 2 3 4 5
10 The area of a square card is 1m2. days
Find in centimetres the length of one side. 100cm
12 Which two of these fractions
11 0.75 of a quantity has a mass of 3.36kg. together equal
1 3
Find the mass of 0.5 of the quantity. 2.24kg a
1
b
3
a
2 4? 5 and 10

1 3 1 2 3 1 2 1
12 Find the sum of (4 × 0.7) and (0.7 × 6). 7 4 8 5 3 10 12 b 3 and 12

24
Mental Arithmetic 5 Answers SECTION 2 | Test 8
A Answer C Answer

1 79 + 87 + = 300 134 1 5% of a 4m roll of ribbon was used.


How many centimetres was that? 20cm
2 106 = 10 × 10 × 10 × 10 × 10 × 10 = 1 000 000
1
2 By how much is the product of 2 and 5
3 3h 20min – 1h 55min = h min 1h 25min 1 1 1
4 less than the sum of 2 and 4 ? 8

4 6l 515ml = ml 6515ml
3 Four hamsters together have a
mass of 200g. How many hamsters
5 £10.10 × 10 = £101.00 1
together have a mass of 2 2 kg? 50
6 0.75m + 350mm + 400mm = m 1.5m
4 Find the nearest whole number.
7 9.18 + hundredths = 10 82 hundredths a
51
a 13
4

8 36 × 6p = £ £2.16 b 97 ÷ 8 b 12
c 156.6 ÷ 6 c 26
9 6% of 1kg = g 60g

10 103 – 87 = 913 5 A E B ABCD is a square.


63° x E is the midpoint
y of the side AB.
11 7kg ÷ 8 = g 875g ∠x 63°
Find in degrees
2 z the size of each ∠y 54°
12 y ÷ 5 = 5. Find the value of y. 2
of the angles
D C x, y and z. ∠z 27°
B Answer

1 Write in digits the number one hundred


6 £3.52 was received in change from £10
and eleven thousand and one. 111 001 after buying six plants. Find the average
cost of a plant. £1.08
2 How much less than 1 tonne is 860kg? 140kg
7 A car travels 200km in 2h 30min.
3 How many £s are equal in value Find its average speed in km/h. 80km/h
to 10 000p? £100
8 The circumference
4 Which three consecutive numbers when of this circle is 22cm
added together equal 21? 6 7 8 and the radius is
3.5cm. Find the
5 Find a 1% of £75.00 a 75p perimeter of the
b 11% of £75.00. b £8.25 semicircle. 18cm

6 20 cost £8. Find the cost of 15. £6


1
9 Find the cost of 2.25kg at £10 per 2 kg. £45
7 Write 300ml of 0.5l as
3
a a fraction in its simplest form a 5 10 How many cubes with sides measuring
10cm each fit into a cube with sides
b a percentage. b 60%
of 1m? 1000
8 When y = 2, 6y = w – 8.
Find the value of w. 20 11 This is part of the dial of a
stopwatch which measures
10
9 How many 400g packs can be filled to one-tenth of a second.
from 10kg? 25 a Write in seconds the
3 Y reading at Y a Y 10.9s
10 Write as a decimal. a a 0.75 11
4
7 at Z. Z 12.3s
b 8 b 0.875
12
b Write in seconds the
11 Write the numbers between 0 and 40 of
difference between the
which both 3 and 4 are factors. 12, 24, 36 Z readings at Y and Z. b 1.4s
12 The length of a rectangle is twice its width.
The perimeter is 54cm. Find 12 In 4 weeks Jessica travelled 530km,
470km, 640km and 360km.
a the length a 18cm
What was the average distance
b the width. b 9cm she travelled per week? 500km

25
SECTION 2 | Test 9 Schofield & Sims

A Answer C Answer

1 700 000 + + 2000 + 50 = 712 050 10 000 1 A B ABCD is a


100° quadrilateral.
2 8.5 – 7.05 = 1.45 Find ∠ ABC. 69°
3
3 2 4 × 100 = 275 93°
D 98°
4 98° + 134° + ° = 360° 128° C

5 £ × 4 = £15.24 £3.81 2 How many 40cm lengths can be cut


from a 10m roll of tape? 25
6 3.079 + thousandths = 4 921 thousandths
3 Using a scale of 1mm to 0.5m, what
7 (£1.08 × 10) + (£0.07 × 6) = £11.22 length of line would represent 3m? 6mm
78
8 x = 3. Find the value of x. 26 4 Y Z The correct Y 18min fast
time is
9 34.86 = 10 × 3.486 00 23 23 44 12.05 a.m. Z 21min slow

4 1 2
10 5 × 2 = 5 How many minutes fast or slow is
each of the 24-hour clocks?
11 1160g × 5 = kg 5.8kg
5 600 sheets of paper are used from
12 From 06.12.12 to 18.01.13 inclusive five packs each holding 480 sheets.
= days 44d How many sheets are left? 1800

6 The diagram is a
B Answer plan of a field.
Find the area of
1 Write 10 532 thousandths as a decimal. 10.532 200m the field in m2. 30 000m2

2 How much less than 10 tonnes is


9t 470kg? 530kg 300m
x 11
3 55 miles ≈ km 88km 7 P = {7, x, y, 17, z, 23}
y 13
P = the set of prime numbers between
4 Find in °C the difference between 6 and 24. Find the value of x, y and z. z 19
a 6°C and –3°C a 9°C
8 There are 65l of diesel in a tractor tank.
b –5°C and 4°C. b 9°C If the fuel is used at the rate of 15l per
hour, for how many hours and minutes
5 Divide 117 by 8. Write the answer 5 can the tractor be used? 4h 20min
as a mixed number. 14 8
9 The area of the two given rectangles is
6 Find the total of (4 × 16 × 0) and 24cm2. Find the length and breadth of
(4 × 16 × 1). 64 two other rectangles X and Y each of
which has an area of 24cm2 and whose
7 How much is 5% of £250? £12.50 sides are whole centimetres. X 6cm 4cm

8 The area of a rectangle is 1m2. length 24cm 12cm Y 8cm 3cm


The breadth is 50cm. Find the breadth 1cm 2cm
length in metres. 2m

9 10 plums cost £2.70. Find the cost 10 A roll of material 2.5m long is cut into
of three. 81p three equal pieces. Find to the nearest
centimetre the length of one piece. 83cm
10 Write 12kg of 80kg
3 11 The cylinder holds 2l.
a as a fraction in its simplest form a 20
a How many millilitres of
b as a percentage. b 15%
water are there in
the cylinder? a 1200ml
11 How many kilometres and metres are
equal to 0.75 of 6km? 4km 500m b How many more millilitres
are required to fill it? b 800ml
12 Find in kilograms the mean mass.
12 Find the change from £10 after spending
2.1kg 0.75kg 2.25kg 4.9kg 2.5kg £2.46, £3.77 and £1.54. £2.23

26
Mental Arithmetic 5 Answers SECTION 2 | Test 10
A Answer C Answer
5
1 miles ≈ 56km 35 miles 1 Ryan spent £1.40 which was 6 of
his money. How much had he at first? £1.68
2 100 × = 59 0.59
2 A family of four drink 2.5l milk every day.
£48
3 100 = p 48p What is the average amount in millilitres
for each person? 625ml
5 3 3 3
4 28 + 10 + 18 = 4 10
3 Meena’s salary is £795.63 a month.
5 9kg = 7.355kg + kg 1.645kg Round this amount to the nearest
£10 and then find her approximate
6 0.04 + 0.7 + 0.009 = thousandths 749 thousandths annual salary. £9600

7 £0.09 × 12 = £1.08 4 Mary was born in May 1883 and died in June
1967. How old was she when she died? 84
8 a 7% of £13.00 = a 91p
5 The circumference of
b 19% of £8.00 = b £1.52 the circle measures
31.4cm. Its radius
9 557ml × 6 = l 3.342l is 5cm. Find the
perimeter of the
1kg 350g × 2
10 10 = g 270g semicircle. 25.7cm

11 £5.00 – (£2.46 + £1.59) = p 95p 6 A meal at a restaurant cost £40.00.


3 2 2 A customer paid a tip of 8%.
12 5 × 3 = 5 How much was the tip? £3.20

7 Sweets cost 6p for 10. How many


B Answer
sweets can be bought for £1.14? 190
1 30 cookies cost £2.40.
8
W X Y Two of the
Find the cost of one. 8p
angles in each
78° 60° 40° of the triangles
x y
71° 90° W, X and Y W 51°
2 53.057 How many times smaller is the
5 marked y than the 5 marked x? 1000 are given.
51°
Find the third X 49°
3 From the sum of £4.65 and £3.35 angle in each
triangle. Y 50°
subtract £5.50. £2.50

4 Find the difference in centimetres 9 The chart shows the distances travelled
between 153mm and 6.6cm. 8.7cm by a motorist in 3 hours. Find his average
speed in kilometres per hour. 90km/h
5 Approximate 09:00–10:00 10:00–11:00 11:00–12:00
a 15cm 7mm to the nearest 0.5cm a 15.5cm 85km 110km 75km
b 9kg 75g to the nearest 0.5kg. b 9kg
2 10 The scale of a map is 1:10 000.
6 Find the product of 1 3 and 30. 50
What distance in metres is
represented on the map by a 10m
7 In how many years will the interest
on £100 at 6% amount to £12? 2 a 1mm b 3.5cm? b 350m

8 Find the difference between (17 × 10) 11 10cm The shape is


and (1.7 × 10). 153 divided into a
5cm

rectangle and
21
9 Write 50 as a decimal fraction. 0.42 a triangle. Find
15cm the area of
10 The area of a carpet is 58.5m2.
a the triangle a 12.5cm2
The length is 9m. Find the width. 6.5m
b the whole shape. b 62.5cm2
11 20l of lemonade is poured in equal
amounts into 50 bottles. How many 12 The volume
millilitres are there in each bottle? 400ml of the cuboid
area
is 175cm3.
12 An aircraft travels 180km in 15min. Find its length. 7cm
Find its speed in kilometres per hour. 720km/h 25cm2

27
SECTION 2 | Test 11 Schofield & Sims

A Answer C Answer

1 three 50ps and thirteen 10ps = £ £2.80 1 Write as a fraction in its lowest terms.
1 1
a 2p of 10p b 5p of £1 a 5 b 20
2 5l ÷ 4 = ml 1250ml
2 Calculate angle
3 4h 27min + 2h 35min = 7h 2min 45°
x and angle y. ∠x 88°
y
x ∠y 135°
4 6% of 500ml = 30ml
92°

5 3.75m – 2800mm = mm 950mm


3 Find the total mass of 50 packets
6 1.12 ÷ 8 = 0.14
each having a mass of 3.56kg. 178kg
3 5
7 14 – 58 = 88 4 Alice pays £9.00 per week for meals
4 3 4 at work. The price of a meal is to be
8 9 × 5 = 15 increased by 5%. How much will
she pay then? £9.45
9 10 – 2 × 5 + 9 ÷ 3 = 3
5 This is a reading of the
10 Write as decimal fractions. 09998.7 number of kilometres
3 travelled by a car.
a 23% b 15 a 0.23 b 0.2
How many kilometres short of
10 000km has the car travelled? 1.3km
11 0.25 million + 6700 = 256 700
6 Share £55 in the ratio of 2:3. £22 £33
12 £ ÷ 7 = £2.67 £18.69
7 Which of the triangles X, Y or Z has

B Answer a three lines of symmetry a Z


b one line of symmetry b X
1 Subtract half of £4.36 from £5. £2.82
c no line of symmetry? c Y
2 Find in litres the total of 375ml,
0.325l and 0.25l. 0.950l
Y
X Z
7
3 Find in millimetres 10 of 8cm. 56mm scalene
isosceles equilateral
4
4 Multiply 50 by 1 5 . 90

8 10 bananas cost £1.40. Find the cost


5 What distance is travelled in 40min
of 25. £3.50
walking at an average speed of 6km/h? 4km
9 20mm Find the area
6 Write as a percentage.
of this shape
10mm

a 30p of £2 a 15% in mm2. 500mm2


20mm

b 30p of £4 b 7.5%

7 1m of felt costs £6. Find the cost


of 90cm. £5.40 30mm

8 How many thousandths have the same 10 For which of the examples below is
value as 16 hundredths? 160 thousandths
a 100 the best approximation a 10 × 9.9
9 Write 5cm of 10m as a fraction in its b 10 the best approximation? b 10 × 0.99
1
simplest form. 200
0.9 × 10 10 × 0.99 1.9 × 10 10 × 0.09 10 × 9.9
10 Find the difference between 100 times
£0.36 and 1000 times £0.36. £324 11 Jack delivers newspapers on each of
six days. The deliveries take 55min
11 a Write as a decimal to the nearest each day. He is paid 80p per hour.
37
tenth 9 100 . a 9.4 How much does he earn each week? £4.40

b Write to the first decimal place 8.64. b 8.6 12 Liz travelled to Blackpool in 2 2 h
1

at an average speed of 64km/h.


12 miles ≈ 32km 20 miles How far did she travel? 160km

28
Mental Arithmetic 5 Answers SECTION 2 | Test 12
A Answer C Answer

1 2 × 34 × 5 = 340 1 Write each of the following to the


nearest whole unit.
2 £3.73 + £1.17 + 90p = £ £5.80
1
a 8.502kg a 9kg
3 2
3 8 × 3 = 4
b 6.92l b 7l
4 855g + g = 1.25kg 395g
2 How many jars of jam costing 80p each
5 a 86p = % of £1 a 86% can be bought for £4.80? 6
b 50p = % of £5 b 10%
3 Which of these decimals is equal to
232
6 8 = x. Find the value of x. 29 a 25%
1
b 2 2 %? a 0.25 b 0.025
7 3.5l – (750ml × 4) = ml 500ml 2.5 0.025 0.25 25.0
8 7.5 Find the value
20 y of y. 150 4 Write the value of each.
a 24 + 6 ÷ 3 – 1 a 25
9 200 × 0.018 = 3.6
b (24 + 6) ÷ (3 – 1) b 15
10 100 miles ≈ km 160km
c (24 + 6) ÷ 3 – 1 c 9
11 £10 – (£2.27 × 3) = £3.19
5 Find the area
12 (6 × 0.5) – (7 × 0.25) = 1.25 19cm of the shape. 136cm2

8cm
B Answer 15cm

6 Write in kilometres per hour a speed


1 Write 77 ÷ 8 as of 9km in 10min. 54km/h
77
a an improper fraction a 8
5 7 A discount of £8 was given when paying
b a mixed number. b 98
a bill of £64. Write the discount as
1
2 A magazine is 1.8mm thick. What would a a simple fraction in its lowest terms a 8
be the height of a pile of 1
b a percentage. b 12 2 %
a five magazines a 9mm
b 15 magazines? b 27mm 8 The mass of £1 worth of 1p coins is 356g.
What is the mass of 25 of the coins? 89g
3 How many days inclusive from
19 October to 6 November? 19 9 The line AB has been drawn to the scale
1cm to 5km. Find the distance
4 How many thousands in a quarter
represented by the line. 27km
of a million? 250 Th
10 20 30 40 50 60
mm
5 How many grapes costing 2p each can
be bought for £5.90? 295
A B
6 One can contains 1.25l and another
950ml. Find the average contents 10 B AB is a part of the
in litres. 1.1l circumference of a circle
2.8cm in diameter.
7 Write as a decimal. D
Find in millimetres the
O
a 850g of 1kg a 0.85 length of the line OD. 14mm
A centre
b 730g of 1kg b 0.73
11 The population of a town in 1950 was
8 The height of a triangle is 20cm and 1.0 million. By the year 2000 there was
the area is 160cm2. Find the length a 10% increase. Write in millions the
of the base. 16cm population in the year 2000. 1.1 million

9 Divide the total of £3.87 and £4.33 by 4. £2.05 12 This is the net
5cm

9 7 of a box. When
10 Write as a decimal. a 20 b 25 a 0.45 b 0.28 the box is made,
10cm

11 Find the distance covered in 20min what will be


at an average speed of 15km/h. 5km a the surface
5cm 10cm area a 250cm2
5cm

12 8% of a sum of money is 24p.


Find the whole amount. £3.00 5cm b the volume? b 250cm3

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PROGRESS TEST 2 Schofield & Sims

Write the numbers 1 to 20 down the side of a piece of paper.


Write alongside these numbers the answers only to the following questions.
Work as quickly as you can. Time allowed – 10 minutes.
3720
1 8 = 465

2 By how many centimetres is the


perimeter of the rhombus greater

6cm
than the perimeter of the rectangle? 2cm

8cm 9cm

3 Add 145 000 to 1.7 million. Answer in digits. 1 845 000

4 How many 125mm lengths can be cut from 2.5m? 20

5 30 – 5 × 4 + 7 = 17

6 How many days inclusive from 20 April to 2 June? 44 days

7 Tariq travels from A to B in 1h. If he travels at the same average speed,


how many minutes will it take him to travel from B to C? 50min
A B C

120km 100km

8 Write the larger amount when £144 is divided in the ratio 3:5. £90

9 Find in degrees the


x
measurement of ∠ x. 90°
130° 140°

10 In a sale, a table costing €625 was reduced by 20%. Find how much it was reduced by. €125

11 Isobel received £674.20 for four weeks’ work. Find to the nearest £ the average weekly wage. £169

12 10 doughnuts cost £5.65. Find the cost of eight. £4.52

13 Three eggs in a box of 150 eggs were broken. What percentage of the eggs was broken? 2%

14 The mass of a tin of chickpeas is 439g. Find to the nearest kilogram the total mass of 20 tins. 9kg

15 A B The figure ABCD is a parallelogram.


The triangle AED is an equilateral triangle.
By how many degrees is ∠ C greater than ∠ B? 60°

D E C

16 A map is drawn to a scale of 1:250. What distance in metres does a line 100mm long represent? 25m

17 7kg of sugar are used in 6 weeks. Write in kilograms correct to the first decimal place
the average amount used each week. 1.2kg
1
18 Find the cost of 2kg 100g at 45p per 2 kg. £1.89
40 18
19 The marks scored in two tests were 50 and 20 . Find as a percentage the average score. 85%

20 A By how many cm2 is the area of the triangle


ABC greater than a triangle on the same
base but half the height? 24cm2
8cm

C B
12cm

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Mental Arithmetic 5 Answers PROGRESS TEST 2 | Results Chart
You will work through Progress Test 2 at four different times – once at the end of Section 2, then again after you have
completed each of Section 3 Test 4, Test 8 and Test 12.
When you first complete the test:
a colour the first column to show the number of answers correct out of 20
b enter the date.
Each time you take the test, enter the result and the date in the marked columns.

1st 2nd 3rd 4th


20

19

18

17

16

15

14

13

12
number of answers correct

11

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date

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SECTION 3 | Test 1 Schofield & Sims

A Answer C Answer

1 435g + 370g + 265g = kg 1.07kg 1 Subtract £1.60 from the total of twelve
20ps, five 10ps and seven 5ps. £1.65
2 7% of 6m = cm 42cm
2 When a number is divided by 8 the
3
3 5.3 – 0.19 = 5.11 answer is 4 . What is the number? 6

4 4x = 28. Find the value of x. 7 3 Which digit other than 1 is a factor


of all these numbers?
5 Write in digits 0.65 million. 650 000
15 12 18 51 21 3
6 1.55 × 8 = 12.4
4 175 r 5 What number
7 1.3km – 750m = m 550m 6 x does x represent? 1055

8 £4.57 × 6 = £27.42 2 2
5 Divide the fraction 3 by 3. 9

9 376min = h min 6h 16min

10 103 – 102 = 900


23 6 How many years are between MDCCXCV
11 Write as a decimal 5 + 1000 . 5.023
and MDCCC? Give your answer in digits. 5
12 £3.60 ÷ 20 = p 18p
7 Find in mm2 the area of
a the parallelogram a 600mm2
B Answer b the shaded triangle. b 300mm2

1 Find in metres the total of 6m, 90cm,


7cm and 8mm. 6.978m
20mm

2 Increase £50 by 4%. £52

30mm
3 What is the area of the largest triangle
that can be cut from a square with sides
8 Daniel has £20 to spend in seven days.
measuring 8cm each? 32cm2
How much is this per day to the
nearest 10p? £2.90
4 How many days inclusive from 2 July
to 5 September? 66d
9 C B a Name the
angle which
5 Find the change from £5 after spending Y
60° is vertically
36p and £1.58. £3.06
opposite to
A D ∠ CYA. a ∠ BYD
6 Write to the nearest 1p.
b Write its measurement in degrees. b 60°
a £0.345 a 35p
c Write the measurement in
b £1.014 b £1.01
degrees of ∠ CYB. c 120°
7 Write these numbers, putting in a
a 4.63 10 For how many hours and minutes is
decimal point so that the value of
the 3 in each is equal to 3 hundredths. b 0.536 the office open each day? 6h 55min

a 463 b 536 c 1003 c 10.03 office opens 8.50 a.m.


closes for lunch 12.15 p.m. to 1.45 p.m.
1
8 Write 3 as a decimal fraction correct
office closes 5.15 p.m.
to two decimal places. 0.33

9 How many grams in 65% of 1kg? 650g 11 Dinner for eight people cost £120.00.
How much will dinner cost for 10 people
10 20 peppers cost £6.60. Find the cost of 8. £2.64 at the same rate? £150

11 Find the total in litres of (650ml × 4) 12 A 4cm line on a plan represents a


and 0.4l. 3l distance of 10m.
a What does 1cm represent? a 2.5m
12 A car travels 15km in 10min. Find its
1
speed in kilometres per hour. 90km/h b Write the scale as a fraction. b 250

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Mental Arithmetic 5 Answers SECTION 3 | Test 2
A Answer C Answer
2
1 3 × 120 = 80 1 A full truck has a mass of 4180kg.
The mass of the truck when empty is
2 (156 + 64) – = 123 97 3200kg. Find, in kilograms, the mass
of the truck’s load. 980kg
3 3.014 × 100 = 301.4
2 Write the distance between X and Y
£48
4 5 =£ £9.60 a in millimetres a 48mm
b in centimetres b 4.8cm
5 6.5% of £8.00 = p 52p
c in metres. c 0.048m
6 860m + 312m + 140m = km 1.312km
10 20 30 40 50 60 70
mm
7 Find the cost of 2.5m at £1.40 per metre. £3.50
3
X Y
3
8 5 ÷2= 10 1
3 How many 4l
glasses can be filled from
1
9 350kg × 6 = tonnes 2.1t a 3 2 l carton? 14

4 An aeroplane travels at a speed of


10 2min 43s + 5min 38s = 8min 21s
1800km/h. How far will it travel in
11 x + 1.15 = 2.2. Find the value of x. 1.05 a 1min a 30km
b 1s? b 500m
12 £2.50 × 36 = £90.00
5 A stack of 1p coins is 3cm high. Each coin
is 1.5mm thick. What is the total value of
B Answer the coins? 20p

1 Find the difference between 6 What volume of concrete in m3 is


96 – 24 ÷ 6 and (96 – 24) ÷ 6. 80 needed to cover the base to a depth
of 10cm? 1m3
2 Write 3.454kg to the nearest 100g. 3.5kg

3 The average of 8 numbers is 25.


2m

base of shed
Find the sum of the numbers. 200

4 What percentage is 5m
a 15p of £3 a 5%
7 By how much is 5% of £250 greater
b 40p of £2? b 20% than 4% of £250? £2.50
5 How many times greater is 30.7 than 3.07? 10 8 Emily’s watch loses 2min each day.
25 5 How many seconds is this per hour? 5s
6 Write 30 in its lowest terms. 6

9 Find the cost per


7 One doughnut costs 11p. Find the cost of Stationery
crayon to the
100 crayons £2.55
a 100 a £11.00 nearest penny
1000 crayons £20.20
when buying
b 500. b £55.00
a 100 crayons a 3p
8 How many centimetres more than 2m
is the perimeter of a regular hexagon b 1000 crayons. b 2p
with sides measuring 35cm each? 10cm 10 Wooden planks 10cm wide are used to
9 1000 × 100 × 10. Write the answer cover a floor 4m long and 3.5m wide.
in words. one million Find the total length of the strips. 140m

10 Which of these numbers are


11 A model aeroplane is made to a scale of
square numbers? 1:50. If the span of the wings of the model
is 30cm, what is the actual length in
7 35 1 64 121 50 1, 64, 121 metres of the span of the aircraft’s wings? 15m

11 How many pieces of tape each 12.5cm 12 B By how many


long can be cut from 2m of tape? 16 m
metres is the
1.

7k distance from
1.
6k
m

12 A square has an area of 0.16m . Find 2


A to C via B
A C less than the
a the length of one side in metres a 0.4m 2.3km distance from
b the perimeter in centimetres. b 160cm C to B via A? 700m

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SECTION 3 | Test 3 Schofield & Sims

A Answer C Answer

1 32 + 29 + 58 + 70 = 189 1
cm
Find in cm3
20 the volume
2 92 – 12 = 80 of the 3D
shape. 1800cm3
3 £1.67 × 9 = £15.03 area
90cm2
£6.88
4 8 = p 86p
2 How many fairy cakes costing 8p each
5 (0.1 + 0.15) × 4 = 1 can be bought for £30? 375

6 37 hours ÷ 5 = h min 7h 24min 3 O is the centre of the


circle. ∠ OAB is 56°.
2 2 O
7 3 ÷5= 15
Find a ∠ OBA a 56°
5 b ∠ AOB. b 68°
8 8 of 2400 = 1500
A B
1
9 2km × 0.25 = m 500m 4 What is 2% of a £2000 b £500? a £10 b £2.50
5 y Point A is at
10 99% of 1kg = g 990g (–3, –2).
3
2
Write the
11 50mm × 20 = m 1m coordinates
1
x
of its
12 £5 – (£1.37 + £2.45) = £1.18 –3 –2 –1 0 1 2 3 reflection
–1
x
in the
A –2
x-axis. ( –3 , 2)
–3
B Answer
6 Find to the nearest penny the cost of
1 Write the number which is halfway
one kiwi when a 7p
between 1.5 and 2.0. 1.75
a 10 cost 73p b 10 cost £1.15. b 12p
2 Reduce £30 by 6%. £28.20 7 A point at (–1, –1) is translated two squares
5 77 to the left and one square up. What are
3 Write 89 as an improper fraction. 9
its new coordinates? ( –3 , 0)
4 What percentage of a sum of money 8 The circumference of a
remains after 12.5% has been spent? 87.5% circle is 3.14 times the
diameter. Find the
5 How many tens are there in one 5c length of the
hundred thousand? 10 000 m
circumference
of this circle. 31.4cm
6 Arrange these digits to make the largest
possible even number. 9 The cooking time for a chicken is given
as 20min per 500g plus a further 20min.
1 0 8 6 5 86 510
a How long does it take to cook a
2kg chicken? a 1h 40min
7 Approximate
b The chicken must be cooked by 1.15 p.m.
a £16.28 to the nearest 10p a £16.30
At what time must it go in the oven? b 11.35 a.m.
b 14.75 to one decimal place. b 14.8 10 A 5l bottle of washing liquid cost £1.00.
If 250ml are used each day, what is the
8 Find in metres the perimeter of
cost per day? 5p
a regular pentagon with sides
measuring 840mm each. 4.2m 11 A television costs £1500. How many
2
months does it take to pay for it at £75
9 Write as a decimal correct to two
3 per month? 20mth
decimal places. 0.67
12 10 The graph shows
the time taken by
Time in minutes

10 How many pence have the same value 8


as £1000? 100 000p Hina to walk 1km.
6
4
11 a How many times can 20 be subtracted a How many
from 495 without going below 0? a 24 2 minutes does
0 it take to
b What is the remainder? b 15 0 0.5 1
Distance in km walk 1km? a 9min
12 The base of a triangle is 1m and its b Estimate to the nearest 100m
height is 50cm. Find its area in cm2. 2500cm2 the distance walked in 5min. b 600m

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Mental Arithmetic 5 Answers SECTION 3 | Test 4
A Answer C Answer

1 (37p + 28p) – (13p + 42p) = 10p 1 4m How many


square tiles
2 7×£ = £10.36 £1.48 with sides
measuring

3m
3 3.5 – = 0.05 3.45 20cm each
1 1 3 3 are needed
4 28 + 14 + 18 = 44 to cover
1
the floor? 300
5 3 2 years = months 42mth
2 When it is noon in London it is 07:00
6 10% of 1.5l = ml 150ml on the same day in New York. What is
3 3 the time in New York when it is 14:40
7 5 ÷4= 20 in London? 09:40

8 £24.00 ÷ 100 = p 24p 3 Find in degrees


the size of

°
25
9 800kg × = 5.6t 7 a° ∠ a ∠ b and ∠ c. ∠a 51°
c° 104°
10 45cm – (55mm × 6) = cm 12cm b° ∠b 76°
847 ∠c 104°
11 90 = r 9r 37
4 A sum of money was divided between
12 £1.25 × 24 = £30
Riaz and Markus in the ratio of 3:2.
Riaz received the larger share.
Write the amount each received
B Answer 3 2
a as a fraction a Riaz 5 Markus 5

1 Find the number which is 95% greater b as a percentage. b Riaz 60% Markus 40%
than 100. 195
1
5 Three 5ml spoonfuls of medicine are
2 How many sixths remain when 3 is 1 to be taken daily for two weeks.
1
subtracted from 2 ? 6 How many millilitres are required? 210ml
xy 6 25 ice creams cost £2.40.
3 8.379 Write as a decimal the difference
in value between the digit a Find the cost of 100. a £9.60
marked x and the digit marked y. 0.061
b Find to the nearest penny
4 From the sum of £28.50 and £13.75 the cost of one. b 10p
deduct £10.25. £32.00
7 What is the highest common factor of
5 0.6 × 4 = 2.4 16, 32 and 56? 8

Now find 8 Multiply 15p by a 5 a 75p

a 0.6 × 0.4 a 0.24 b 50 b £7.50

b 0.6 × 0.04. b 0.024 c 500. c £75.00

6 The area of a triangle is 36cm2. Its height 9 a What fraction of the


is 6cm. Find the length of the base. 12cm circumference of the 1
circle is the arc AB? a 6
7 Find the total length in metres of 144
strips each 0.25m long. 36m b If the circumference
60° measures 56.4cm,
8 Six sandwiches cost £15. Find the cost of a £5.00 B find the length
A of the arc AB. b 9.4cm
a two b five. b £12.50
10 A map is drawn to a scale of 1mm
9 Find the product of 18, 5 and 4. 360
to 1m. What length of line in millimetres
10 Write 750ml of 3l as represents a distance of 0.3km? 300mm
1
a a fraction in its simplest form a 4 11 Dad increased Mia’s savings by 10%
b a percentage. b 25% when he gave her £2.50. How much
had she already saved? £25.00
11 Multiply 1h 25min by 5. 7h 5min
12 By how much is it cheaper to buy a pack
12 Increase £1.76 by 10%. Give the answer of four drinks at £1.64 than it is to buy
to the nearest penny. £1.94 four individual drinks costing 45p each? 16p

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SECTION 3 | Test 5 Schofield & Sims

A Answer C Answer

1 £0.175 × 2 = p 35p 1 One litre costs £4.20. Find the cost


of 1.75l. £7.35
2 5% of £44 = £2.20
2 a How many centuries does
the timeline represent? a 40
3 4.056kg + g = 4.75kg 694g
b How many years are represented
on the timeline from X to Y? b 1800
4 9 × 104 = 90 000
X Y

5 £50.04 ÷ 3 = £16.68
2000 0 2000
7 2 BCE CE CE
6 (8 of 56) + (3 of 30) = 69
3 A hundred 10ps were placed edge to
7 £0.34 × 50 = £ £17.00 edge in a straight line. The diameter of
a 10p coin is 24.5mm. Find the length
17 68 of the line in metres. 2.45m
8 25 = 100 = % 100 = 68%
4 Write 30cm of 1m as
9 3m ÷ 6 = mm 500mm 3
a a fraction in its simplest form a 10

10 250ml × 16 = l 4l b a percentage. b 30%

7 7
5 The volume of a cube is 1000cm3. Find
11 10 ÷3= 30
a the length of one edge a 10cm
12 500 – (5 × 8 × 7) = 220 b the total surface area in cm2. b 600cm2

6 Follow this number chain. What number


do you reach? Start at –10 ➞ add 6 ➞
B Answer subtract 4 ➞ add 9 ➞ subtract 5 ➞ stop. –4

1 By how many is 100 000 less than 7 The shape is a


1 million? Write the answer in digits. 900 000 regular hexagon.
a How many degrees
2 Find the product of 30 and
2
35 . 102 are there in each
angle at the centre? a 60°
3 Find the difference between 1min 43.5s b How many degrees are there
and 1min 47.4s. 3.9s in each angle at the centre
of a regular octagon? b 45°

4 How many 0.3m lengths can be cut 8 Round each quantity to the nearest whole
from 7.5m? 25 unit and then find the approximate answer.

3 a 9.018l × 24 = a 216l
5 By how many hundredths is 4 more
than 0.7? 5 hundredths b 6.72m × 18 = b 126m

9 Walking at a speed of 6km/h,


6 Share $35 in the ratio 5:2. $25 $10 how long will it take to walk from
3
a Sten to Coty a 4h
7 The area of a parallelogram is 12.64m2.
1
The base is 8m long. Find the height b Tinley to Coty? b 24 h
in metres. 1.58m (or 2h 15min)
1.75k
7.25km m Coty
8 Multiply £40 by 19. £760
Sten 4.5km
Tinley
1
9 What percentage of 4m is 50cm? 12 2 %
10 The area of a circle is 78.5cm2.
Find the area of the semicircle. 39.25cm2
10 Find the total contents in litres of eight
bottles each containing 355ml. 2.84l 11 What speed in kilometres per hour is the
1
same as 26 2 km in 15min? 106km/h
3
11 4 of a sum of money is £1.50.
Find the whole amount. £2.00 12 Find the
Ibrahim 11 years 6 months
average
Alfie 12 years 4 months age of the
12 Write in its simplest form the answer
8 1
Leah 10 years 2 months children. 11yr 4mth
to 10 divided by 4. 5

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Mental Arithmetic 5 Answers SECTION 3 | Test 6
A Answer C Answer

1 24 + 17 + 46 = 87 1 Which of the measurements is nearest


1
to 2 m?
2 725g × 8 = kg 5.8kg
475mm 43cm 0.575m 0.6m 475mm
3 77p × 7 = £ £5.39
9 1 2 Henry missed the 08:44 train by 7min.
4 12 ÷3= 4
How long did he have to wait for the
5 5% of 1.2kg = g 60g next train at 10:17? 1h 26min

6 0.054m = cm 5.4cm 3 By how many metres is 820m less than


1.25km? 430m
7 £10.00 – (£3.79 + £2.81) = £3.40
4 The lines AB
8 75ml × 1000 = l 75l
54° B
and CD are
9 8 × £y = £10.16. Find the value in £s of y. £1.27 parallel. Find

A D in degrees
10 0.01 × 0.1 = 0.001 ∠ x and ∠ y. ∠ x 126°
C y°
11 2.8 8 25.92 ∠y 54°
9 .
5 The estimated population of Mexico City
12 4 tonnes cost £10. Find the cost of 3t. £7.50 is 18 850 000. Write the population
a in millions as a decimal a 18.85 million
B Answer b to the nearest 100 000. b 18 900 000

1 Write as a percentage 8.5p from £1. 8.5% 6 56 × 27 = 1512. Find a 28 × 27 a 756

2 What do you multiply 0.5 by to give 6.0? 12 b 27 15.12 b 0.56


1 1
3 Add sixty thousand to a quarter of a million. 310 000 7 π is approximately 3 7 . Write 3 7 as
22
a an improper fraction a 7
4 Which of the following are prime numbers?
b a decimal correct to two places. b 3.14
17 27 37 47 57 17, 37, 47
2
8 By how much is the product of 3 and 2
5 Which of the following numbers are 2
6 less than the sum of 3 and 6? 23
composite (not prime) numbers?
51 52 53 54 9 One adult ticket and three half-price
51, 52, 54
tickets cost £10. Find the cost of one
adult ticket. £4.00
6 Diagonals are drawn in a square with sides
of 6cm to create four triangles. Find the
10 The perimeter of the rhombus is 80mm.
area of one of these triangles. 9cm2
What is the area in mm2 of the
7 Express as a ratio shaded triangle? 100mm2

a 60p to £1.80 a 1:3


10mm

b 1mm to 4.5m. b 1:4500

8 One jam tart costs 12p. Find the cost


of 200. £24.00 11 The scale of a plan is 1:250. What is the
actual length in metres represented by a
9 How many 750ml bottles can be filled line on the plan which measures 40mm? 10m
from 3l? 4
12 These are the results of a cycling test.
10 Write 875g of 1kg as Write each school’s number of passes
a a decimal fraction a 0.875 as a percentage of the number of children.
7 Barsby 92%
b a fraction in its simplest form. b 8

Clinton 82.5%
11 Express 50 ÷ 9
5 St. Peter’s 90%
a as a mixed number a 59
b as a decimal correct to two places. b 5.56 school Barsby Clinton St. Peter’s
number of children 100 200 300
12 How much greater is the total of £2.45
and £3.55 than £18 divided by 4? £1.50 number of passes 92 165 270

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SECTION 3 | Test 7 Schofield & Sims

A Answer C Answer

1 (8 × 7 × 0) + (8 + 7 + 0) = 15 1 A hundred 2ps weigh 0.712kg. Find the


mass in grams of £1 worth of 2ps. 356g
1
2 × 2 =6 12
2 These are the number of sweets found by
Find the cost of 125g at £1.24 per
1
31p four children in a treasure hunt. What is
3 2 kg.
the mean number of sweets found?
4 £7.04 ÷ 8 = p 88p 20 17 0 11 12
5 0.7 million + 0.5 million. Answer in digits. 1 200 000 3 x = 3.5 – 0.5 × 7 y = (3.5 – 0.5) × 7

6 £4.05 × 10 = £40.50 Find the value of a x a 0


b y b 21
7 3650mm + mm = 5m 1350mm
c y – x. c 21
8 30% of £5 = £1.50
4 Noah and Poppy shared their money in
£2.40 the ratio of 4:3. Noah’s share was £12,
9 6 + 60p = £ £1.00
which was the larger amount.
How much was Poppy’s share? £9
10 (480m + 530m) × 2 = km 2.02km
14 7 5 A bottle of water holds 450ml. Find in
11 16 ÷5= 40 litres the contents of 50 bottles. 22.5l

12 (600ml × 5) ÷ 2 = l 1.5l 6 ∠ a is twice the size


of ∠ b. ∠ c is
three times ∠a 120°
a b
B Answer the size of ∠ b.
c ∠b 60°
Find in degrees
2 ∠ a, ∠ b and ∠ c. ∠c 180°
1 How much less than 50 is 7 of 28? 42
7 Toby was born on 1 Oct. 04. How
2 Add twenty to thirty-nine thousand nine old will he be in years and months
hundred and eighty. Answer in digits. 40 000 on 1 Feb. 2020? 15yr 4mth

3 Find the whole amount when 8 Find the cost to the nearest penny of one
20% is 50p. £2.50 balloon when 50 balloons cost £3.80. 8p
9 How many lines of symmetry has
4 (6 × 104) + 1 = 60 001
a a regular pentagon a 5
5 1000 pencils cost £95. Find the cost of b a regular octagon? b 8
a 10 a 95p
b 40. b £3.80

6 Find the difference in millilitres between


0.75 of 800ml and 0.7 of 1l. 100ml
1
7 Write as a decimal. a 50 a 0.02
10 3m of silk is divided into nine equal pieces.
1
b 25 b 0.04 Write to the nearest centimetre the length
of one piece. 33cm
8 A length of 3.75m is cut into
six equal parts. Find the length in
11 Find the change from
£2.75 a £10 note after
millimetres of each part. 625mm £1.63 paying this bill. £1.37
£4.25
9 Express as a ratio
a 800ml to 4l a 1:5
12 a What fraction of
b 600g to 6kg. b 1:10 the area of the
1 circle is the 1
10 Write 6 correct to two decimal places. 0.17 A shaded sector? a 8
45°
11 Subtract the sum of 780mm and 52cm
from 2m. 700mm B
b If the circumference of the circle
12 The area of a rectangle is 450cm2. measures 471mm, find to the
The length is 30cm. Find the width nearest millimetre the length
in centimetres. 15cm of the arc AB. b 59mm

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Mental Arithmetic 5 Answers SECTION 3 | Test 8
A Answer C Answer

1 2 tonnes – 850kg = t 1.15t 1 23:57 These are five consecutive


23:58 readings at one minute
2 Round 4 546 000 to the nearest intervals on a 24-hour
23:59
hundred thousand. 4 500 000 digital clock. Write the next
a a 00:00
1 11 5 two readings on the clock.
3 2 + = 12 12 b b 00:01

4 68p + 27p + £1.16 = £ £2.11 2 The mass of three-quarters of a cake is


1
4 2 kg. What is the mass of half of
5 275mm × 6 = m 1.65m the cake? 3kg

6 44p × 9 = £ £3.96 3 A room is 5m long and 4m wide. It has a


volume of 60m3. How high is the room? 3m
7 1kg costs 70p. Find the cost of 600g. 42p 1
4 4 million people visited an art gallery in
8 12 × 5 × 20 = 1200 one week. This number increased by
1% the following week. What was
9
1
33 3 % of £51 = £17.00 the increased number of visitors? 252 500

5 After saving a regular amount each


10 £13.00 – £ = £8.36 £4.64
month for one year Sita had a total
of £18. How much had she saved after a £4.50
11 5.0 × 0.5 = 2.5
£4.02
a 3 months b 10 months? b £15.00
12 7 = pr p 57p r 3p
6 Syed was absent from school 20 times
out of a possible attendance of 400.
B Answer Write as a percentage the number of
times he was a 5%
1 How many hundredths more than a absent b present.
1 b 95%
4 is 0.31? 6 hundredths
7 The distance
2 How many litres and millilitres in Broughton Carnley from Broughton
3
8 of 10l? 3l 750ml depart arrive to Carnley is
15:48 16:28 90km. Find the
3 3 × 3 = 32 = 9 √9 = 3 average speed
of the train in
Find √25. 5
kilometres
4 40 waffles cost £22. Find the cost of per hour. 135km/h
eight waffles. £4.40
8 The attendances at four music festivals
5 Find the sum of the prime numbers were 29 758, 25 495, 24 086 and 19 810.
between 60 and 70. 128 Round each number to the nearest
thousand and find the approximate
6 How much is 150% of £3.50? £5.25 total attendance. 99 000

7 How many times is 125ml contained in 9 Five melons of equal value cost £5.40.
Find the value of three of the melons. £3.24
a 0.5l b 2.75l? a 4 b 22
10 What is the distance from
8 4 5 8 3 Use the example to find Ash to Rost a 2400m
– 2 6 9 4
a 2694 + 1889 a 4583 a in metres b in kilometres?
1 8 8 9 b 2.4km
b 4583 – 1889. b 2694
nty
Co 2.85km h st
9 The perimeter of a rectangle is 54cm. As Ro
The breadth is half the length. 5250m
Find a the length a 18cm
11 Find the circumference
b the breadth. b 9cm of the circle to the
m
m

nearest centimetre.
10

10 What number when multiplied by 6 has (C = 2πr; π = 3.14). 6cm


a product of 39.6? 6.6

11 Write the coordinates of the point (3, 5)


when reflected in the y-axis. ( –3 , 5)
12 1cm on a map represents an actual
12 How many centimetres less than 8m is distance of 600m. What is the scale
the total of twenty 36cm lengths? 80cm of the map? 1:60 000

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SECTION 3 | Test 9 Schofield & Sims

A Answer C Answer

1 2300 + 970 + 1700 = 4970 1 The approximate population of a city


is 1.2 million. The actual population is
7 1
2 8 ÷7= 8 1 207 806. Find the difference. 7806

2 Two parcels together have a mass of


3 70% of 360° = 252°
18.5kg. One of them is 4kg heavier than
the other. Find the mass of each parcel. 7.25kg 11.25kg
4 (15 × 8) ÷ 6 = 20
3 Which of these shapes will have a
5 379m + 221m = km 0.6km circular face when cut horizontally, and
a rectangular face when cut vertically? cylinder
£2.50 × 12
6 6 =£ £5.00

1
7 a 2l + xml = 615ml. Find x. a 115ml
1
b 2l – 368ml = yml. Find y. b 132ml sphere cone cylinder

8 a 0.3 × 0.2 = a 0.06 4 In a class of 30 children 12 were absent.


Write the number absent as
b 0.06 ÷ 0.2 = b 0.3 2
a a fraction in its simplest form a 5
1 5 9
9 4 + 16 = 16 b a ratio of absent to total. b 2:5

10 2.475m ÷ 9 = mm 275mm 5 A bagel costs 35p. How many can be


bought for £7.00? 20
11 Subtract 17 from 9. –8 6 VWYZ is a
V W
rhombus. WXY
12 24.8 × 1.6 = 39.68 is an isosceles
248 × 16 = 3968 triangle. Find
68° a ∠ WYZ a 112°
Z Y X
b ∠ VWY b 68°
B Answer
c ∠ ZVW. c 112°
1 How many quarters are there in 36? 144 7 Tom has 95p and Sophie has 73p.
How much must Tom give to Sophie
2 Write as a fraction in its simplest form. so that each has the same amount? 11p
4 45 28 1 9 7
a 1000 b 1000 c 1000 a 250 b 200 c 250
8 If 1 July falls on a Thursday how many
Saturdays will there be in that month? 5
3 1kg costs £4.00. Find the cost of 700g. £2.80
9 One child in every four in a school of
4 Find the product of 20 and 0.005. 0.1 200 walks to school.
a What percentage do not walk
5 How many centimetres remain when to school? a 75%
268cm are taken from 3.4m? 72cm
b How many walk to school? b 50
6 Write to the nearest second decimal place. 10 Write the coordinates of the point
a 53.176 a 53.18 (3, 5) when reflected in the x-axis. ( 3, –5)

b 24.694 b 24.69 11 The area of the


circle is 321cm2.
7 Find the mean of 1.1, 2.3 and 0.8. 1.4 Find the area
240° of the shaded
8 Share 3kg in the ratio 1:4. 0.6kg 2.4kg sector. 107cm2

9 Which year is MDCXXXII? 1632


12 The graph
50
shows the
10 Find the area in cm2 of a square of
Distance in km

40 speed of a
side 11cm. 121cm2 30 car. Use the
20 graph to find
11 Which two numbers have a sum of 20 the time
10
and a product of 36? 2 18 taken by
0
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 the car to
12 Deduct (£1.15 × 3) from (£18 ÷ 5). 15p Time in minutes travel 40km. 30min

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Mental Arithmetic 5 Answers SECTION 3 | Test 10
A Answer C Answer
1
1 £1.20 × 3 2 = £4.20 1 A cask holds 20.75l of water. The mass
of the cask when empty is 850g. Find the
2.64 + 3.36
2 2 = 3 mass of the cask when it is full. 21.6kg
2 A is the centre
3 2.25l – (250ml × 6) = ml 750ml of the circle.
20 1
4 24 ÷ 25 = 30 A a Name the triangle
ABC by its sides. a isosceles
110°
5 1200km – (320km + 280km + 335km) = 265km C B b Calculate the
angle at B. b 35°
1
6 a 8 = % a 12.5%
3 Six pairs of socks cost £8.37. Find to
3
b 8 = % b 37.5% the nearest penny the cost of one pair
of socks. £1.40
7 9.8 ÷ 4 = 2.45
4 There are 4.545l of shampoo in a plastic
container. The shampoo lasts for nine
8 £5.00 – £ = £2.82 £2.18
weeks. How many millilitres are used
2 on average per week? 505ml
9 £6 × 5 = £2.40
5 There was
10 9x = 33 + 48. Find the value of x. 9 87p change
from £3 after
11 Find the cost of 30cm at £1.80 per metre. 54p buying the
820ml 820ml 820ml multipack.
1
12 7 of 4kg 60g = g 580g Find the cost
of each
bottle. 71p
B Answer
6 Find in litres the volume of
3 7
1 Add 4 of 28 to 8 of 56. 70 a one multipack a 2.46l

2 (4 × 103) + (2 × 102) = 4200 b eight multipacks. b 19.68l


7 A map is drawn to a scale of 1cm to 1km.
3 Increase £3.00 by 7%. £3.21 How many metres are represented on a
3
map by a line 14mm long? 1400m
4 Write 8 as a decimal fraction. 0.375
8 Find
5 Find the total mass in kilograms of a the area
these amounts of water. 6.195kg of the
2.7l 95ml 3.4l triangular
6cm

end of
the prism a 12cm2
6 One pear costs 17p. Find the cost of a £1.70 8cm
4cm b the volume
a 10 b 1000. b £170 of the prism. b 96cm3

7 A rhombus has an area of 20cm2. Its 9 A car averaged 8km to a litre of petrol
base is 5cm. Find its height in millimetres. 40mm on a four-hour journey of 312km.
a How many litres were used on
8 Approximate 4 635 000 to the journey? a 39l
a the nearest 1 000 000 a 5 000 000 b What was the average speed? b 78km/h
b the nearest 100 000. b 4 600 000 10 The price of a pair of shoes costing £25
increased by £1.25. Write the increase
9 Write the year 1916 using as a percentage. 5%
Roman numerals. MCMXVI
11 Write the proportion
10 Find the difference in hundredths of shaded squares
between 100 × 0.016 and 100 × 0.017. 10 hundredths a as a fraction in 3
its simplest form a 10
11 Express 43 ÷ 5 as
b as a decimal. b 0.3
3
a a mixed number a 85
12 Matthew arrived at a hotel on 29 October
b a decimal. b 8.6 and left on 3 November. The charge
for the room was £10.50 per night.
12 Multiply £1.50 by 52. £78.00 What was the total cost of the room? £52.50

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SECTION 3 | Test 11 Schofield & Sims

A Answer C Answer

1 2.999 + 0.1 = 3.099 1 3.468 × 6 Write the answer


40 1 a to three decimal places a 20.808
2 45 ÷8= 9
b to two decimal places b 20.81
3 6.25% of £4.00 = p 25p c to one decimal place. c 20.8

4 £3.24 = × 2p 162 2 The contents of four boxes of sweets


were 51, 46, 49 and 54.
5 86.6 × 200 = 17 320 Find the mean contents. 50

3 This is a plan of
6 5.2l – 480ml = l 4.72l
a field. Write its
area in m2. 35 000m2

200m
7 5x = 28.2. Find the value of x. 5.64

8 11 730 ÷ 25 = 469 r 469 r 5


350m
9 £2.78 + £2.78 + £2.78 +
£2.78 + £2.78 = £13.90 4 A crate of 240 eggs was delivered to a
school kitchen. 12 of the eggs were
3
10 4kg × = 1500g 8 broken. What percentage were a 5%
a broken b not broken? b 95%
11 40cm cost 50p. Find the cost per metre. £1.25
5 F = {1, 2, 3, 6, , , , 78} 13 26 39
12 Subtract 6 from –3. –9 F = the set of factors of 78.
Find the missing factors.

B Answer 6 Find each missing mass.

mass of onions 450g 1.75kg zkg x 185g


1 a £1.32 × 4 = a £5.28
mass of box xg 750g 150kg y 2.5kg
b £1.32 × 16 = b £21.12 total mass 635g ykg 1.1t z 950kg
5 1 7
2 What must be added to 28 to make 42 ? 18 7 A camera costs £85.50. It can be paid for
in nine equal instalments. Find the cost of
3 Find 8.5% of £10. 85p each payment. £9.50

4 The perimeter of a rectangle is 30m. 8 This is a regular


The width is 6.5m. Find its length. 8.5m pentagon. Find ∠a 72°
a b in degrees the
∠b 54°
5 Divide £162 in the ratio 5:4. £90 £72 measurement of
c ∠ a, ∠ b, ∠ c. ∠c 72°
6 1000 bags of crisps cost £154.00.
Find the cost of one bag of crisps to 9
1g = 1000mg A selection pack
the nearest penny. 15p contains 120
chocolates.
7 How much less than 20 is the product Each chocolate has a mass of 500mg.
of 1.7 and 9? 4.7 a Write the mass of each chocolate 1
1
in grams. a 0.5g or 2g
8 How many thousandths in 4 of 0.02? 5 thousandths
b Find in grams the total mass of
the chocolates. b 60g
9 Find the difference in millimetres
between 0.7m and 369mm. 331mm 4cm
10 For the shaded
shape find
10 Write 150ml of 750ml as
a the area a 12cm2
4cm

1
a a fraction in its simplest form a 5
b the perimeter. b 20cm
2cm

b a percentage. b 20%
2cm
11 Round these amounts to the nearest £1
and then find the approximate answer. 11 A wall 3m high and 4m wide is to be
covered in wallpaper 50cm wide. What
£16.70 + £12.95 + £9.28 £39 length in metres of the paper is required? 24m

12 If 5 miles is about 8km, about how many 12 Find the cost per kilogram of 1.5kg of
kilometres is 17.5 miles? 28km ice cream costing £3.18. £2.12 per kg

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Mental Arithmetic 5 Answers SECTION 3 | Test 12
A Answer C Answer

1 (268 + 232) – 350 = 150 1 Find the cost per kilogram of


a shampoo costing £1.09 for 500g a £2.18
2 2 640 000 = million 2.64 million
b conditioner costing £1.26 for 600g. b £2.10
3 50p – (17p + 16p + 9p) = 8p 2 A 50p coin has a mass of 13.5g.
What is the mass of £10 worth of 50ps? 270g
4 3.5m – 175cm = cm 175cm
3 Write the length of a line 100 times
x 2
5 21 = 3. Find the value of x. 14 the length of the line AB
a in millimetres a 5500mm
6 Find the cost of 750ml at £4.80 per litre. £3.60
b in centimetres b 550cm
7 16 r4 Find the c in metres. c 5.5m
8 y value of y. 132
10 20 30 40 50 60 70
mm

8 4 × 18 × 50 = 3600
A B
6 1
9 8 ÷ 12 = 16 4 On a plan of a house the living room
measures 44mm long and 40mm wide.
10 (12% of £5) + (8% of £5) = £1.00 The scale of the plan is 1cm to 1m. Find
in m2 the area of the living room. 17.6m2
1
11 74 l ÷ = 725ml 10
5 Which of the dotted lines are
12 $0.14 × 15 = $2.10 lines of symmetry? BF HD
A B C

B Answer H D

1 Find in centimetres the perimeter of an G F E


equilateral triangle with sides measuring
96mm each. 28.8cm 6 Ellie ran 800m in 1min 52s. What was
her average time per 100m? 14s
2 Write the 24-hour clock time which is
7 On a five-day holiday George walked
1h 24min after 22:57. 00:21
14.75km, 13.76km, 12.29km, 10.15km
and 9.32km. Round each distance to the
3 How many times is 800g contained
nearest kilometre and find the approximate
in 3.2kg? 4
mean distance walked daily. 12km
4 Divide £85 by 6 8 The circumference of
the circle is 420mm.
a to the nearest 10p a £14.20
Find the length
b to the nearest penny. b £14.17 Y 36° 60° Z of the arcs of
a sector Y a 42mm
5 The total of two amounts is £12 and
their difference is £3.60. Find the b sector Z. b 70mm
two amounts. £7.80 £4.20
9 Lemonade can be made of water and
lemon juice in the ratio 4:1. How many
6 Find the difference in thousands
litres of water are mixed with half a 50l
between (1 × 105) and (9 × 104). 10 000
cask of lemon juice? 100l
1
7 Write 32 % as a decimal. 0.035 10 Find the mean daily temperature. 1°C
Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri
8 Multiply £2.54 by 1.5. £3.81
5°C 3°C 0°C –1°C –2°C
9 Write the year 1349 using
Roman numerals. MCCCXLIX 11 The point (3, 5) is translated two
squares to the left and four squares
10 Increase £15 by 4%. £15.60 down. The new point is then reflected
in the y-axis. What are the coordinates
1
11 Write the scale 1cm to 2km as a fraction. 200 000
of the reflected point? ( –1 , 1)

12 These are the results of three tests. a 72%


12 The diameter of a circle is 6cm.
Write each as a percentage. b 75%
Its circumference is 3.14 times greater. 18 30 10 1
What is the perimeter of the semicircle? 15.42cm a 25 b 40 c 30 c 33 3 %

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CHECK-UP TEST | Number Schofield & Sims

A 12 – 7 = 5 53 ÷ 7 = 7r 4 B Write these numbers in digits.


9+ 4= 13 (6 × 8) + 5 = 53 forty thousand and nine 40 009
3× 6= 18 70 ÷ 8 = 8r 6 eighty-one thousand two hundred and five 81 205
63 ÷ 9 = 7 (4 × 9) + 7 = 43 two hundred and ten thousand four hundred 210 400
6+ 9= 15 52 ÷ 6 = 8r 4 five hundred and six thousand and seventy 506 070
7× 8= 56 (7 × 0) + 3 = 3 700 000 + 1000 + 90 + 5 701 095
11 – 7 = 4 4÷9 = 0r 4 (4 × 10 000) + (8 × 100) + 9 40 809
24 ÷ 3 = 8 (8 × 1) + 6 = 14 1 million 1 000 000
3
5+ 8= 13 61 ÷ 7 = 8r 5 14 million 1 750 000
0÷ 7= 0 (9 × 4) + 5 = 41 2.6 million 2 600 000
8× 6= 48 77 × 10 = 770 (6 × 10 ) + (3 × 10 ) + (0 × 10)
3 2
6300
64 ÷ 8 = 8 135 ÷ 10 = 13 r 5 (9 × 10 ) + (7 × 10 ) + (1 × 10 ) + (3 × 10)
4 3 2
97 130
9× 3= 27 35 × 20 = 700 Write the answers to these as decimals.
13 – 7 = 6 204 ÷ 20 = 10 r 4 206 tenths 20.6
7+ 8= 15 96 × 30 = 2880 1509 thousandths 1.509
15 – 9 = 6 156 ÷ 40 = 3 r 36 eighteen hundredths 0.18
5 3
0× 8= 0 108 × 60 = 6480 17 + 10 + 1000 17.503
6 7
4+ 6= 10 302 ÷ 60 = 5r 2 10 + 100 + 1000 10.067
27 8
40 ÷ 8 = 5 88 × 70 = 6160 100 + 1000 0.278
57
16 – 7 = 9 463 ÷ 90 = 5 r 13 60 + 1000 60.057

C Write in digits the number which is D 3.46 + 5.04 = 8.5 30.08 × 10 = 300.8
forty less than ten thousand 9960 5.16 + 3.8 = 8.96 2.017 × 100 = 201.7
zero point six two more than ten 10.62 1.99 + 2.01 = 4.00 0.063 × 1000 = 63
five hundred less than fifty-five thousand 54 500 0.76 + 0.493 = 1.253 3 × 7.8 = 23.4
two point seven less than two hundred. 197.3
2.83 + 7.178 = 10.008 0.09 × 6 = 0.54
Write in words the value of the digit underlined. 3.92 – 1.9 = 2.02 6.075 × 8 = 48.6
37 908 seven thousand 6.1 – 0.7 = 5.4 10.3 ÷ 10 = 1.03
1 604 326 six hundred thousand
10.0 – 9.348 = 0.652 3.7 ÷ 100 = 0.037
9.084 eight hundredths
7.2 – 0.09 = 7.11 46 ÷ 1000 = 0.046
20.502 two thousandths
8.63 – 3.58 = 5.05 18.36 ÷ 6 = 3.06
7.9 = 79 tenths 20.6 = 206 tenths
5.825 – 0.06 = 5.765 2.43 ÷ 9 = 0.27
0.75 = 75 hundredths 3.09 = 309 hundredths
Find the value of x. 14.091 ÷ 7 = 2.013
0.018 = 18 thousandths 10.06 = 10 060 thousandths
x + 19 = 54 35 Find the value of x.
5.9 = 5900 thousandths 0.003 = 3 thousandths
3.2 + x = 10 6.8 10 × x = 3.65 0.365
Write these numbers, omitting the zeros which do not alter the value
of the number. 52 – x = 18 34 x × x = 36 6

17.09 17.09 8.070 8.07 x – 4.05 = 3.6 7.65 7x = 108.5 15.5


x
020.60 20.6 30.020 30.02 2.3 + x = 20 17.7 5 = 12.8 64
72
002730 2730 106.00 106 x = 17.2 – 5.5 11.7 x =9 8

E Approximate to the nearest: F Work out these divisions


hundred thousand 1.37 million 1.4 million a to 2 decimal places then
b approximate the answer to the nearest first decimal place.
thousand 79 464 79 000
39 ÷ 8 = a 4.88 b 4.9
hundred 23 086 23 100 5.5 ÷ 3 = a 1.83 b 1.8
1
whole number a 16 3 16 b 29.52 30 14.6 ÷ 7 = a 2.09 b 2.1
first decimal place 10.38 10.4 Work out these divisions
5.94 5.9 a to 3 decimal places then
b write the answer correct to 2 decimal places.
second decimal place. 0.025 0.03 58 ÷ 6 = a 9.667 b 9.67
13.004 13.00 34.26 ÷ 9 = a 3.807 b 3.81

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Mental Arithmetic 5 Answers CHECK-UP TEST | Measurement
A Find the total of each row of coins. B Find a the total cost of the items bought and b the change
50p 20p 10p 5p 2p 1p Total money cost of items total cost change
given bought
2 3 4 6 £1.02
50p 9p, 8p, 18p 35p 15p
2 5 9 13 £3.03
7 5 8 £1.81 four 10ps 5 at 7p each 35p 5p

17 8 12 £2.22 £1 23p, 18p, 40p 81p 19p

1 3 6 10 £1.90 £1 and 50p 3 at 38p each £1.14 36p

5 4 7 12 £4.60 £2 10 at 18p each £1.80 20p

11 23 £5.73 £5 note £2.75, £1.28 £4.03 97p

C £0.39 = 5ps + seven 2ps 5 10 items cost £1.20 39p + 57p + 41p = £1.37
£0.85 = 50p + 5ps 7 1 costs 12p 7 cost 84p £1.06 + £3.70 + £0.28 = £5.04
£1.70 = two 10ps + 50ps 3
100 items cost £2.30 £1.36 – 87p = 49p
£2.80 = eight 5ps + 20ps 12
10 cost 23p 30 cost 69p £4.00 – £1.68 = £2.32
£4.25 = seven 50ps + 5ps 15
How many items each costing 20 items cost £3.60 €6.03 – €1.89 = €4.14
2p for 98p 49 5 cost 90p 1 costs 18p 19p × 7 = £1.33
3p for £1.74 58 £2.08 × 9 = £18.72
8 items cost £1.44
5p for £2.05 41
3 cost 54p 7 cost £1.26 £5.78 × 6 = £34.68
50p for £18.50 37
5 items cost 85p £3.04 ÷ 8 = 38p
20p for £25.20 126
5 for 6p for £1.62 135 1 costs 17p 9 cost £1.53 £27 ÷ 4 = £6.75
7 for 10p for £3.30? 231 40 cost £6.80 100 cost £17.00 $43.45 ÷ 5 = $8.69

D 55cm = 0.55m 20.7cm = 207mm Find the cost of:


309mm= 30.9cm 3.45m = 345cm 100g at 70p per kg 7p
5040mm = 5.04m 10.6m = 10 600mm 400g at 45p per kg 18p
1
1095cm = 10.95m 0.085km = 85m 250g at £1.10 per 2 kg 55p
1
300m = 0.3km 7.5km = 7500m 3.5kg at 18p per 2 kg £1.26
1
2805m = 2.805km 4.285km = 4285m 450g at 70p per 2 kg 63p
5000m = 5km 0.065kg = 65g 75cm at £3.00 per m £2.25
90g = 0.09kg 8.11kg = 8110g 10cm at £2.90 per m 29p
875g = 0.875kg 5.4l = 5400ml 20cm at £4.20 per m 84p
1
3500g = 3.5kg 0.75l = 750ml 1.25l at 36p per 2l 90p
120ml = 0.12l 4.5l = 4500cm³ 900ml at 60p per l 54p
650ml = 650cm³ 2.008l = 2008cm ³
6.5m at £4.50 per m .
2 2
£29.25

E Fill in the missing times. How many hours and minutes between How many days inclusive
12-hour 24-hour 8.45 a.m. and 11.20 a.m. 2h 35min from 28 March to 7 April 11
clock time clock time from 13 May to 4 June 23
10.35 p.m. 22:35 10.25 a.m. and 1.05 p.m. 2h 40min
from 15 July to 3 August 20
4.10 a.m. 04:10 9.38 p.m. and 2.10 a.m. 4h 32min from 24 September
to 8 November 46
12.05 a.m. 00:05 11:50 and 13:15 1h 25min
from 19 October
11.55 p.m. 23:55 06:19 and 10:20? 4h 1min to 10 December? 53

Approximate to the nearest:


F Approximate to the nearest:
centimetre 0.837m 84cm
£1 a £12.09 £12.00 b £3.52 £4.00
metre 305.6cm 3m
10p a £2.37 £2.40 b £10.06 £10.10
kilogram 9kg 550g 10kg
litre 6.325l 6l
Write the answer to the nearest penny. 1
2 kilogram 7.750kg 8kg
1
a 3 of £7.00 £2.33 b £3.10 ÷ 7 44p hour 2h 29min 2h
1 1 1 1
c 8 of £17.25 £2.16 d 4 of £3.95 99p 2 hour 4h 21min. 42h

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CHECK-UP TEST | Number and geometry Schofield & Sims

A Change to decimal fractions. When necessary work to the nearest second place.
4 1 2 7 5
a 5 0.8 b 6 0.17 c 3 0.67 d 8 0.88 e 7 0.71
1 1 5 1 1 1 2
B 3 + 2 = 6 2 – 6 = 3 3 × 12 = 8 Express as mixed numbers.
1 1 5 1 137 7
4 + 6 = 12
3
4 –
2
3 = 12 10 ×
2
15 = 14 10 1310
5 3 3 5 5
8 + 4 = 18 3 – 1 12 =
7
1 12
7
110 × 20 = 34 93 ÷ 8 11 8
3 1 4 3 7
10 + 1 2 = 15 1
24 – 18 =
7
8 40 ×
3
8 = 15 124 ÷ 9 13 9

C Write each fraction in its simplest form as a percentage.


12 28 45 24 30
a 20 60% b 40 70% c 100 45% d 32 75% e 50 60%
Write each of these scales as a fraction.
1 1 1
a 1mm to 20cm 200 b 1cm to 5m 500 c 1cm to 1km 100 000

D Fill in the table. Express the ratios as the amount given to the total amount, in their simplest form. The first example is done for you.
fraction percentage ratio fraction percentage ratio
(simplest form) (%) (simplest form) (%)
4 1
40p of 50p 5
80% 4:5 50cm of 2m 4 25% 1:4
3 1
300g of 0.5kg 5 60% 3:5 750g of 1.5kg 2 50% 1:2
7 5
700ml of 1l 10 70% 7:10 250 of 400 8 62.5% 5:8
1 7
5p of £1 20 5% 1:20 35p of £5 100 7% 7:100

E 8 cost £10. What fraction of £10 do F Find the value of Find the whole when
3 7 3
3 cost 7 cost?
8 8 10 of £1.60 48p 0.25 is £3.50 £14
3
5 cost £7. What fraction of £7 do 0.75 of 600 450 4 is 57cm 76cm
2 8 1
2 cost 5 8 cost? 5 60% of 2 kg 300g 10% is 850g 8.5kg
10 cost £3.50. What fraction of £3.50 do 0.9 of 2l 1.8l 0.6 is 42p 70p
5
9 3 50% of 3m 70cm 1m 85cm 8 is 2.5kg 4kg
9 cost 10 15 cost? 2 3
100 of 1kg 30g 30% is 1.8l 6l
Share each quantity in the given ratio.
£30, ratio 3:2 £18 £12 0.95 of 10 000 9500 0.375 is 300 800
7
1.75kg, ratio 4:1 1.4kg 350g 17% of £3.00 51p 10 is 91p £1.30
5
2m, ratio 5:3 125cm 75cm 9 of 1.8kg. 1kg 5% is 200g. 4kg

G Estimate which of the angles marked a – h is: a right angle b an acute angle of 80° f
an obtuse angle of 130° a a reflex angle of 300° e a reflex angle of 240° g
g
b f

a c d h
e

H Find the angle marked x and/or y in each shape.


∠x 105° ∠x 35° ∠x 75° ∠x 115° ∠x 40°
∠y 43° ∠y 55° ∠y 65° ∠y 40°
50°
y x x y
y
100°
x x y
35° 115°
75° x 32° 120° 115°

Fill in the table for regular polygons. What fraction of the circumference is the arc xy
in circle A, circle B?
name of number angle
regular polygon of sides at centre
A B
hexagon 6 60°
36° y
octagon 8 45° 120° 1
x A 3
pentagon 5 72° y x 1
B 10

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Mental Arithmetic 5 Answers CHECK-UP TEST | Geometry
A Each of the shapes A to G is a quadrilateral.

A B C D E F G

Give the letter of the shape which is a a rhombus E b a rectangle A


c a trapezium C d a square D e a parallelogram. G
Write the name of the shape (or shapes) which has:
four equal sides square, rhombus
four right angles square, rectangle
opposite sides equal and parallel square, rectangle, rhombus, parallelogram
one pair only of parallel sides trapezium
diagonals which are equal square, rectangle
diagonals which bisect each other at right angles square, rhombus
Write the letter of the shape or shapes which have:
a no axis of symmetry B, C, F, G
b two axes of symmetry A, E
c four axes of symmetry D

B Fill in the missing measurements. In each case give the unit of measurement.
A A bh
Rectangles A = lb b= l l= b Triangles A = 2 b = 2 Ah h = 2 Ab
length breadth perimeter area base height area

7cm 5.5cm 25cm 38.5cm2 35mm 12mm 210mm2

16cm 6cm 44cm 96cm2 27cm 18cm 243cm2

10cm 8cm 36cm 80cm2 9cm 6cm 27cm2

9cm 3.5cm 25cm 31.5cm2 11cm 3cm 16.5cm2

25m 20m 90m 500m2 1.6m 9m 7.2m2

A A
Rhombuses and parallelograms A = bh b = h h= b
9cm

base 7.5cm 6cm 16cm 1.5m 40cm


5.7cm

height 9.0cm 5.7cm 7cm 3m 15mm

area 67.5cm2 34.2cm2 112cm2 4.5m2 60cm2


7.5cm 6cm

V V V
Circles C = πd or 2πr: π = 3.14 Cubes and cuboids V = lbh l = bh h= bl b= hl

radius (r) 1cm 3cm 10cm length breadth height volume

diameter (d) 2cm 6cm 20cm 8cm 5cm 9cm 360cm3

circumference (c) 6.28cm 18.84cm 62.8cm 20cm 20cm 20cm 8000cm3

8m 3.5m 2m 56m3

6.4cm 10cm 5cm 320cm3

10cm 9.3cm 2cm 186cm3


Find the volume of each of these prisms.
5cm

end end
area area 4
37.5c 2 8cm2
m m m
6cm 20c 12c
6cm

225cm3 960cm3 180cm3

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