Name: _______________________________________________

Teacher: _______________________________________________

PRACTICE TEST
Year 9 Maths Progress Test 6

Time: 60 minutes

Total marks available: 100

Total marks achieved: ______

Percentage: ______

This is a CALCULATOR paper

You MUST still show ALL working out

St Edmund Campion School

72𝑧𝑧 − 18𝑦𝑦 2 𝑧𝑧

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(2 marks)
Q2. What is the LCM of 48 and 32?

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Q3. If a = 9, b = -5 and c = 6 find

a) 5𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎 2
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b) 9 − 2𝑏𝑏
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Q4. Solve the following:

𝑥𝑥+4
a) =7
14

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 b) 4𝑥𝑥 − 17 = 3(2𝑥𝑥 + 5)

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Q5. Find the length of the missing side.

10𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐

7.5𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐
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(2 marks)

Q6. In a bag there are blue sweets, red sweets and yellow sweets.
The ratio of blue sweets to red sweets is 5:2.
The ratio of red sweets to yellow sweets is 9:3.
Write down the ratio of blue sweets to red sweets to yellow sweets.

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(2 marks)
Q7. The scale of a diagram is 1:700. Work out what 6m in real life would be on the diagram.
Give your answer in centimetres.

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(2 marks)

Q8. A brand of shampoo is available in two different bottles.

500 ml for £6.50

300 ml for £3.50

Work out which bottle offers the best value for money. You must show your working.

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(2 marks)
Q9. Adam and Bob share some money in the ratio 10:3. Bob gets £14 more than Adam.
How much money was there to begin with?

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(3 marks)

Q10. Here is a list of ingredients for making 10 Flapjacks. Ingredients for 10 Flapjacks
Work out the amount of each ingredient needed to make
160 g rolled oats
15 Flapjacks.
120 g butter
60 ml golden syrup
72 g light brown sugar

..................... g rolled oats

..................... g butter

..................... ml golden syrup

..................... g light brown sugar

(2 marks)

Q11. Factorise the following: 𝑥𝑥 2 − 10𝑥𝑥 + 21

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(2 marks)
Q12. Solve 6𝑥𝑥 2 − 13𝑥𝑥 − 6 = 0

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(2 marks)

Q13. Make b the subject.

3
𝑎𝑎 = √2𝑏𝑏

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(2 marks)

Q14. Simplify fully (5𝑚𝑚𝑎𝑎 −10 )3

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(2 marks)
Q15. Ella invests £10,000 for 2 years in an account paying compound interest.
In the first year, the rate of interest is 5%.
In the second year, the rate of interest is 2.5%.
Work out the value of Ella’s investment at the end of 2 years.

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(3 marks)

Q16. A car travels for 2 hours and 12 minutes at a speed of 72mph.

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(3 marks)
Q17. Decrease £180 by 45%

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(2 marks)
Q18. 𝑑𝑑 is inversely proportional to 𝑐𝑐
When 𝑐𝑐 = 280, 𝑑𝑑 = 25.
Find the value of 𝑑𝑑 when 𝑐𝑐 = 350.

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(3 marks)

Q19. Using algebra, write the recurring decimal 0.671̇ as a fraction.

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(3 marks)
Q20. It takes 12 painters 8 days to complete a job.
Work out how many days it would take 4 painters to complete the same job.

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(2 marks)

Q21. 200 students chose one language to study. Each student chose one language from
French or Spanish or German.
Of the 200 students, 120 are boys and the rest of the students are girls.
70 chose Spanish.
70 of the 104 students who chose French are boys.
8 girls chose German.
Work out how many boys chose Spanish.

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(3 marks)
Q22. There are 20 women and 30 men at a gym.
The mean height of all 50 people is 167 cm.
The mean height of the 30 men is 182cm.
Work out the mean height of the 20 women.

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(3 marks)

Q23. Peter has to solve 6𝑥𝑥 2 + 19𝑥𝑥 + 15 = 0. Here is his working:

6𝑥𝑥 2 + 19𝑥𝑥 + 15 = 0

(2𝑥𝑥 + 3)(3𝑥𝑥 + 5) = 0

𝑥𝑥 = −3 𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜 𝑥𝑥 = −5

Peter is incorrect. Explain what is wrong with Peter’s working.

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(1 mark)
Q24. Tom and Adam have a total of 300 stamps.
The ratio of the number of Tom’s stamps to the number of Adam’s stamps is 3 : 7
Tom buys some stamps from Adam. The ratio of the number of Tom’s stamps to the number
of Adam’s stamps is now 7 : 8
How many stamps does Tom buy from Adam? You must show all your working.

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(4 marks)

Q25. In a bag there are only red counters, blue counters and white counters.

number of red counters : number of blue counters : number of white counters = 5 : 8 : 2

A counter is taken at random from the bag. Complete the table to show the probabilities of
the counter being red, blue or white.

(2 marks)
Q26. Here is a rectangle. The length of the rectangle is 10
cm longer than the width of the rectangle.

4 of these rectangles are used to make the 8-sided shape below. The perimeter of the 8-
sided shape is 108 cm. Work out the area of the 8-sided shape.

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(4 marks)

Q27. Work out 8.2 × 102 ÷ 5 × 106

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(2 marks)
Q28.
The table gives information about the times taken, in seconds, by 18 students to run a race.
(a) Work out an estimate for the mean time. Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

(3 marks)
(b) Explain why your answer to part (a) is an estimate

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(1 mark)
Q29. Emily buys a pack of 16 bottles of water. The pack costs £5.76.
Emily sells all 16 bottles of water for 50p each.
Work out Emily’s percentage profit. Give your answer correct to 1 decimal place.

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(3 marks)
Q30. Find the angle 𝑥𝑥. Give a reason for each stage of your working.

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(3 marks)

Q31. Here are the first 5 terms of a quadratic sequence.

4 7 12 19 28

Find an expression, in terms of n, for the nth term of this sequence.

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(3 marks)
Q32. Olly drove 56km from Liverpool to Manchester.
He then drove 61 km from Manchester to Sheffield.
Olly’s average speed from Liverpool to Manchester was 70km.
Olly took 75 minutes to drive from Manchester to Sheffield.
Work out Olly’s average speed for his total drive from Liverpool to Sheffield.

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(3 marks)
Q33. (a) Draw the inequality −5 ≤ 𝑥𝑥 < 1

(2 marks)
(b) Solve the inequality 4 ≤ 5𝑥𝑥 − 3 < 18

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(2 marks)

Q34. Write the below expression as one fraction in its simplest form.

2𝑥𝑥 + 9 𝑥𝑥+ 2
+
6 5

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(3 marks)
Q35. Enlarge the shaded triangle by scale factor 2, centre (3,0)

(2 marks)

Q36. Find the total surface area of the triangular prism shown on the diagram.

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(3 marks)
Q37.

= {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13}

𝐴𝐴 = {𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝 𝑛𝑛𝑛𝑛𝑛𝑛𝑛𝑛𝑛𝑛𝑛𝑛𝑛𝑛}

𝐵𝐵 = {𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓 𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜 60}

Complete the Venn diagram for this information.

(3 marks)
Q38. Fill in the table of values for 𝑦𝑦 = 𝑥𝑥 2 + 1 and draw the graph on the axes provided.

𝑥𝑥 -2 -1 0 1 2 3

𝑦𝑦 5 1 2 10

(2 marks)

TOTAL MARKS: 100 MARKS