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GOZO COLLEGE HALF YEARLY EXAMINATIONS 2016

Year 6 MATHEMATICS Time: 1 hour 15 minutes

Written Paper

Name: Class:

TOTAL MARKS

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WRITTEN PAPER 1) Work out:

a) 4664 + 336 = ____

b) 9999 – 999 = ____

c) ____ x 6.7 = 67

d) 749 ÷ 7 = ____

2a) Round 167cm: i) To the nearest 10: _________cm

ii) To the nearest 100: _________cm b) Round 24.15cm: i) To the nearest tenth: _________cm ii) To the nearest whole number: _________cm

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3) Choose one of the answers below for each of the following statements: 3 ¼km 31.9km 32.5km 0.09km

a) The longest distance: ______________________ b) The distance shorter than 1km: ______________________ c) The distance equal to 3250m: ______________________ d) The distance which is closest to 32km: ______________________

4) Use the calculation below to work out the missing numbers:

a) 32.2 ÷ 7 = b) 46 x 7 =

c) 0.46 x 7 = d) 4.6 x = 36.8

4.6 x 7 = 32.2

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5) What shape am I?

a) I have 0 vertices, 3 faces and 2 edges.

I am a _______________________________.

b) I have 1 face, 0 vertices and 0 edges.

I am a _______________________________.

c) Look at the shape below:

i) What shape is this?

________________________

ii) Use the grid below to draw the net of a cube

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6) Here is a recipe to make raspberry ice cream for 8 people.

Josie makes enough raspberry ice cream for 20 people.

a) How much cream does she use?

Fred makes raspberry ice cream in the same way.

b) He uses 3½ kg of raspberries.

How much sugar does he use?

c) How many kilograms of rasberries are needed when using 2500ml of cream.

rasberry ice creamfor 8 people

1kg rasberries

250g sugar

12

litre of cream

litre

______ g

______ ml

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7) Krista is 2 years younger than Paul.

Paul is 6 years younger than Jane. Together their ages total 40 years. How old is each child?

8) This design has one large square and two identical small squares.

The design measures 36 centimetres by 28 centimetres. Calculate the length of a side of the large square.

Krista ______ years Paul ______ years Jane ______ years

______ cm

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9) Karl takes 4 books to school.

He weighed the school bag with the books inside and the weight was 3.5kg

a) The books weigh 850g, 0.62kg, 500g and 820g. Work out the total weight of the 4 books. Give your answer in kg and g.

b) Work out the weight of Karl’s empty school bag. Give your answer in kg

and g.

____ kg_____ g

____ kg_____ g

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10) There are 25 children waiting in the queue to get in the cinema. Nick says, ‘There are twice as many children in front of me as there are behind me.’ a) How many children are in front of Nick?

b) In which ordinal place is Nick waiting?

c) How many children are behind Nick?

______

______

______

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11) There are 1000 students in a school.

During the students’ council elections, they vote as follows: 1/10 of the students vote for Tom ⅖ of the students vote for Sue 200 of the students vote for John the rest of the students vote for Ann

a) How many votes does Sue get?

b) How many votes does Ann get?

c) Who wins the election? Circle the correct answer:

Tom

___________ votes

___________ votes

Tom Sue John Ann

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12) Bob needs to buy fertilizer and fencing for his vegetable garden.

His square garden is 10m wide.

a) Find the area of the garden.

Each bag of fertilizer will cover 50m2 of soil.

b) How many bags of fertilizer does he need to buy?

c) How many metres of fencing should he buy to surround his garden?

______ bags

______ m

_____ m2

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13) The graph below shows the number of ice-creams a man sells on a Sunday.

a) What is the total number of ice-creams sold on Sunday? ___________ ice-creams

b) How many more chocolate than mint ice-creams were sold? ___________ ice-creams

c) What fraction of the total number of ice-creams sold were vanilla?

d) Ice-creams cost 60c each. How much money did the man get altogether for the lemon ice-creams he sold on Sunday?

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5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

45

50

Chocolate Lemon Vanilla Mint

Ice-creams sold on Sunday

___________

€ ___________

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14) Here are two spinners A and B.

Helga spins the pointer on each spinner.

She adds her two scores together.

Read the statements below and put a (√) to show whether they are always correct, sometimes or never correct.

The first one has been done for you.

Always Sometimes Never

The total will be more than 15

√

The total will be an even number

The total will be less than 6

The score on spinner A will be less than the score shown on spinner B

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15) At a clothes shop sale there were two special offers as seen below:

2 shirts and 3 jackets for the price of € 320

1 shirt and 1 jacket for the price of € 120

a) What is the cost of 1 jacket?

b) What is the cost of 1 shirt?

€ ___________

€ ___________

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16) Of 200 travellers at an airport, 156 carried a mobile phone 72 carried a laptop 49 had both items

a) How many travellers had a mobile phone only?

b) How many travellers had nothing?

End of Paper

___________ travellers

___________ travellers

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Marking Scheme

Mental Paper Nos 1 - 20 20 x 1 mark = 20 marks

Written Paper Nos: 1 – 4 5 - 12

13 – 16

4 x 4 marks

8 x 5 marks

4 x 6 marks

2 x 6 marks

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16 marks

40 marks

24 marks

12 marks