King Edward's School Paper 1

IndependentBoys

14 questions
3 sections

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Questions

Section A
Questions 1–7
1. 1
  What number is $1000$ more than $56821$ ?
  
  $55821$
  
  $58621$
  
  $67821$
  
  $57921$
  
  $57821$
  
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2. 2
  What number is $0.02$ more than $16.99$ ?
  
  $17.09$
  
  $18.01$
  
  $16.97$
  
  $17.01$
  
  $17.019$
  
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3. 3
  What is the smallest number that you can make using the digits $4, 3, 9$ and $1$ ? Use each digit only once.
  
  $9413$
  
  $1349$
  
  $4319$
  
  $1439$
  
  $1934$
  
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4. 4
  $8888 + 666 + 44 + 2$
  
  $9602$
  
  $9600$
  
  $9700$
  
  $960$
  
  $96020$
  
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5. 5
  $54321 - 12345$
  
  $41967$
  
  $42976$
  
  $41976$
  
  $41966$
  
  $41956$
  
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6. 6
  I start counting at $19$ and go up to $89$ . I take one second to say each number. How long do I take altogether?
  
  $70 \rtqMathsUnit{seconds}$
  
  $71 \rtqMathsUnit{seconds}$
  
  $72 \rtqMathsUnit{seconds}$
  
  $73 \rtqMathsUnit{seconds}$
  
  $74 \rtqMathsUnit{seconds}$
  
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7. 7
  What number must be added to $79$ to give the result $2100$ ?
  
  $1931$
  
  $2021$
  
  $2121$
  
  $1310$
  
  $1121$
  
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Section B
Questions 1–3
1. 1
  An oak tree was planted in the year in which Lord Owlynose was born. He died in $1940$ , aged $80$ . How old was the oak tree in $2011$ ?
  
  $150$
  
  $151$
  
  $152$
  
  $153$
  
  $155$
  
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2. 2
  Here are three numbers and two operations on five cards.
  
  $\rtqMathsSizeTen{\rtqMathsBoxedValue{3}} \rtqMathsSpaceQuarterEm \rtqMathsSizeTen{\rtqMathsBoxedValue{7}} \rtqMathsSpaceQuarterEm \rtqMathsSizeTen{\rtqMathsBoxedValue{24}} \rtqMathsSpaceQuarterEm \rtqMathsSizeTen{\rtqMathsBoxedValue{+}} \rtqMathsSpaceQuarterEm \rtqMathsSizeTen{\rtqMathsBoxedValue{\div}}$
  
  Which of these gives the answer $15$ ?
  
  $24 \div 7 + 3$
  
  $3 + 7 \div 24$
  
  $7 + 3 \div 24$
  
  $3 \div 7 + 24$
  
  $24 \div 3 + 7$
  
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3. 3
  I want to cut out a circle radius $6 \rtqMathsUnit{cm}$ from a square piece of card. What is the area of the smallest square I can use?
  
  $144 \rtqMathsUnit{cm}^2$
  
  $48 \rtqMathsUnit{cm}^2$
  
  $36 \rtqMathsUnit{cm}^2$
  
  $9 \rtqMathsUnit{cm}^2$
  
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Section C

Questions 1–4

1
The figure shows two identical overlapping triangles. Four-ninths of each triangle is shaded. What fraction of the whole figure is shaded?
Two upright congruent triangles overlap. Their central triangular intersection is shaded grey.
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A crossnumber is like a crossword, but with digits in place of letters. One digit goes in each small square and there are no zeros. Complete this crossnumber.

Across clues
$1.$	Square number
$4.$	A multiple of $16$

Down clues
$2.$	$2 \times 1\text{ across}$
$3.$	A cube

shaded	$\rtqMathsCellLabelNumber{1}$ $\rtqMathsEmptyValueOneDigitWide$	$\rtqMathsCellLabelNumber{2}$ $\rtqMathsEmptyValueOneDigitWide$
$\rtqMathsCellLabelNumber{3}$ $\rtqMathsEmptyValueOneDigitWide$	shaded
$\rtqMathsCellLabelNumber{4}$ $\rtqMathsEmptyValueOneDigitWide$		shaded

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3
Which of the dice below can be made from this net?
Four squares form a row with values 2, 1, 5 and 6. A four-pip square is attached above the one-pip square, and a three-pip square is attached below it. The visible faces show top 6, front 5 and right 1. No option letter is included in the image. The visible faces show top 1, front 4 and right 6. No option letter is included in the image. The visible faces show top 2, front 1 and right 3. No option letter is included in the image. The visible faces show top 6, front 4 and right 5. No option letter is included in the image.
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4
Woody organised a quiz night in the toy room. He asked $25$ questions.

For each correct answer you gained $4$ points.

For each incorrect answer you lost $2$ points.

For each question you did not attempt you scored $0$ points.

Rex answered all but one of the questions and got a score of $66$ points.

How many correct answers did he have?
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