December Holiday Homework: Week 2

Chapters 1–2
Non-calculator
Section A
1 Work this out.
6 × –4 = …
Answer: ________

2 Work this out.

–5 × –7 = …
Answer: ________

3 Work this out.

24 ÷ – 12 =
Answer: ________

4 Which calculation has a different answer to the other three?

a –3 × 2 b –3 + –3 c 12 – – 6 d 6 × –1
Answer: ________

5 Put the answers to these calculations in order of size, from smallest to largest.

Calculation Order (1 to 4)
10 ÷ – 2
–1 × –4
–6 ÷ –3
–2 × 5
Answer: ________

6 Which of these numbers are common factors of 60 and 90? Tick each one.
6 ____
9 ____
12 ____
15 ____
30 ____

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7 Work out the highest common factor of 36 and 48.

Answer: ________

8 Which of these numbers are common multiples of 4 and 6? Tick each one.
12 ____
20 ____
24 ____
30 ____
36 ____
9 Which of these numbers are prime factors of 42? Tick each one.
1 ____
2 ____
3 ____
6 ____
7 ____
10 Work out the lowest common multiple of 16 and 20.

Answer: ________

11 Look at this diagram.

Choose the correct word, from those below, to complete this sentence.
Angles labelled d and e are equal because they are ________ angles.
corresponding alternate opposite obtuse
Answer: ________

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12 In the diagram, a line crosses a pair of parallel lines.

Work out the size of the angle labelled b.

Answer: ________°

13 In the diagram the value of b is 48°.

Work out the size of the angle labelled h.

Answer: ________ °

14 How many prime factors does 200 have?

Circle the correct answer.
1 2 3 4 more than 4

15 All the sides of a quadrilateral are the same length.

One of the angles is 100°.
What is the name of the shape?
Circle the correct answer.
kite parallelogram rhombus trapezium square
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16 Which of these shapes could have exactly two right angles?
Circle each one.
kite parallelogram rhombus trapezium square

Answer: ________

17 In the diagram, shape S is translated onto shape M.

How many units up does shape S move?

Answer: ________ units

18 Look at this diagram again.

Shape M is translated 2 units to the left and 4 units down.

What are the new coordinates of vertex D?
Circle the correct answer.
(–3, – 4) (0, 0) (2, – 2) (– 2, 2) (6, – 2)
Answer: ________

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19 Look at this diagram again.

Now shape M is rotated 90° clockwise about vertex A.

Work out the new coordinates of vertex D.
Circle the correct answer.
(1, 3) (6, 5) (4, – 2) (2, – 4) (1, 4)
Answer: ________

20 PQR is a triangle.

The bisectors of angles Q and R are shown.

Tick any statement that must be true.
a b = d ____
b a = c ____
c b = a ____
d d = c ____
e a = d ____
Answer: ________

21 What is the difference between 25 and 52?

Answer: ________
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22 Put these numbers in order, smallest first

Number Order (1 to 5)

25
3
64

24

32

– 32 ÷ – 4

23 This is 108 written as a product of prime numbers.

108 = 22  3N
Work out the value of the number N.

Answer: ________

24 Terry has a smoke alarm and an air-conditioning unit in his room.

Each one has a flashing light.

The light on the smoke alarm flashes every minute.

The light on the air-conditioning unit flashes every 72 seconds.
At one moment they both flash together.
Work out how many minutes it will be until they flash together again.

Answer: ________ minutes

Total marks _____ /25
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Chapters 3–5
Calculator allowed
Section A
1 An ordinary six-sided dice is rolled once.
Which of these outcomes are mutually exclusive?
Tick any answers that are correct.
a Rolling a 5 and rolling a square number ____
b Rolling a number greater than 4 and rolling a square number ____
c Rolling a triangular number and rolling a number greater than 3 ____
d Rolling a prime number and rolling a 2 ____

2 Jess throws two normal six-sided dice and adds their scores.
What is the probability that that she gets a total greater than or equal to 10?
Tick the correct answer.
1
a ____
12
1
b ____
9
1
c ____
6
d 0 ____

3 Jess throws two normal six-sided dice and adds their scores.
What is the probability that she gets a total less than or equal to 15?
Tick the correct answer.
a 0 ____
12
b ____
15
5
c ____
12
d 1 ____

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4 In 2012, there were 7.7 million families with young children in the UK.
1 100 000 of them had three or more young children.
What is the probability of selecting a family with three or more young children?
Tick the correct answer.
699
a ____
700
69
b ____
70
6
c ____
7
1
d ____
7

5 Ben works in a clothes shop.

He only has to pay 55% of the cost of any clothes he buys there.
How much will this jacket cost him?

Answer: £________

6 The chances of crashing during an aeroplane flight are extremely small.

In 2012, using statistical data, it was about 1 in 1.2 million.

Tick the percentage that is closest to this.

a 0.000 000 83% ____

b 0.000 008 3% ____

c 0.000 083% ____

d 0.000 83% ____

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7 The length of each side of a rectangle measuring 23 cm by 18 cm is increased by 20%.
What is the size of the new rectangle?

Answer: ________cm by ________cm

8 The length of each side of a square measuring 10 cm by 10 cm is increased by 20%.

By what percentage is the area increased?

Answer: ________%

9 Imelda wants to buy a pair of blue shoes that cost £85.

She finds an online store that promises a 59% reduction on
the price.
Tick the calculation that allows her to find the cost of the
shoes.
a 85  0.59 ____
b 85  0.41 ____
c 85 ÷ 0.59 ____
d 85 ÷ 0.41 ____

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10 Imelda changes her mind and goes for a red pair.
She notices that a shop in town has these shoes for
£85 and offers her the same 59% reduction in price.
How much does she pay?

Answer: £________

11 Last year when she was measured, Anita was 1.57 m tall.
This year she is 1.52 m tall.
Work out the percentage decrease in her height.
Give your answer to the nearest one per cent.

Answer: ________%

12 Look at this number sequence.

200, 195, 188, 179, …
Tick the numbers that are in the sequence.
a 155 ____
b 123 ____
c 104 ____
d 99 ____

13 Tick the first term, a, and the difference, d, of this sequence.

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101, 97, 93, 89, …
a = 101 ____
a = 105 ____
d = –4 ____
d=4 ____

14 The nth term of a sequence is given by 20 + 3n.

What is the first term?

Answer: ________

15 The nth term of a sequence is given by 20 + 3n.

What is the 100th term?

Answer: ________

16 This is the beginning of a sequence.

2, 7, 12, 17, …
Work out the nth term.

Answer: ________

17 The first term, a, of a sequence is 9 and the difference, d, is 1.5.

Tick any statement that must be true.
a The odd-numbered terms are always a multiple of 3. ____
b The nth term is 9 + 1.5n. ____
c The total of the first four terms is 45. ____
d The 11th term is 45. ____

18 Mia draws a quadrilateral in which all four angles form a sequence with a common
difference.

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The smallest angle is 57° and the largest is 123°.
Work out the sizes of the other two angles.

Answer: ________ ° and ________ °

19 This is the start of a variation on the Fibonacci sequence.

1, 1, 1, 3, 5, 9, …
Each term after the first three is the sum of the previous three terms.
Work out the 10th term.

Answer: ________

Chapters 3–5
Calculator allowed
Section B
1 Jack throws two normal six-sided dice.
a He finds the difference between the numbers.
What is the probability that the difference is zero?

Answer: ________

Jack changes his mind.

He multiplies the number on the yellow dice by a prime number and then adds on the
number on the red dice.
1
The probability that the total is 36 is .
36
b What prime number did Jack use?

Answer: ________

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2 This is the start of a Fibonacci sequence.
2, 5, 7, 12, …
Each term after the first two is the sum of the previous two terms.
a What is the first square number in this sequence?

Answer: ________

b Jill chooses one of the first eight terms at random.

What is the probability she chooses a prime number?

Answer: ________

Chapters 6–8
Non-calculator
Section A
1 Work out the area of this triangle.

Answer: ________cm2

2 What is the perpendicular height of a triangle with a base of 7 m and an area of 28 m2?

Answer: ________m

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3 Work out the area of this compound shape.

Answer: ________cm2

4 Work out the area of this parallelogram.

Answer: ________cm2

5 Work out the area of this trapezium.

Answer: ________mm2

6 What is the height of a trapezium with parallel sides of length 6 cm and 8 cm

and an area of 140 cm2?

Answer: ________cm

7 Tick the correct surface area of this cuboid.

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36 cm2 ____
44 cm2 ____
88 cm2 ____
96 cm2 ____

8 Here is an incomplete table for the equation y = 3x – 1.

x –2 –1 0 1 2 3

y = 3x – 1 ◆ –1 5

What value should replace ◆?

Answer: ________

9 Which equation represents a straight line with a gradient of 3

passing through the y-axis at (0, 4)?
Tick the correct one.
a y = 4x + 3 ____
b y = 3x + 0 ____
c y = 3x + 4 ____
d y = 4x + 0 ____

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10 What is the equation of this graph?
Tick the correct answer.
a y = 3x + 1 ____
b y = 2x + 1 ____
c y = 3x ____
d y = 3x + 7 ____
11 What is the equation of this graph?
Tick the correct one.

2
a y= x + 1 ____
3

3
b y= x + 2 ____
2
c y = 6x + 6 ____

2
d y= x + 2 ____
3
12 Which graph shows a straight-sided bath being filled with water at a constant rate?
Circle the correct answer.

a b c d
13 Work out 0.045 ÷ 103.

Answer: ________

14 Round 8 574 693 to the nearest ten thousand.

Circle the correct answer.
9 000 000 8 600 000 8 570 000 8 575 000 8 574 700

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15 Round 0.075 784 to two significant figures.

Answer: ________

16 Write 4.5  105 as an ordinary number.

Answer: ________

17 When the Earth and Saturn are closest together they are 746 million miles apart.
What is that number in standard form?
Circle the correct answer.
746  106 7.46  106 746  108 7.46  108

18 What is (7  104)  (4  109) in standard form?

Tick the correct answer.
1.1  1014 ____
2.8  1036 ____
28  1013 ____
2.8  104 ____

19 Put these numbers in order, smallest first.

Number Order (1 to 5)

40 million

6.3  106

987 654

20 0002

(3  104)  (2  102)

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Chapters 6–8
Non-calculator
Section B
1 a This travel graph shows one of Bradley’s cycle rides.

Write the correct stage number next to each stage description.

Stage description Order (1 to 5)

Stopped for an hour

Rested from 11:00 to 11:30

Travelled at a steady 5 km/h

Travelled steadily for 20 km

Travelled at a steady 15 km/h

b Calculate Bradley’s average speed from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm.

Answer: ________ km/h

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