MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA

2017 GRADE SIX NATIONAL ASSESSMENT

MATHEMATICS - PAPER 1

June 01, 2017

30 MARKS

TIME: 50 Minutes

Answer ALL Questions

 Read the following instructions CAREFULLY.

1. This paper has 30 questions. You have 50 minutes to answer

them.
2. Each question has four possible answers: A, B, C, D.
3. Read each question carefully then choose the correct answer.
4. On the answer sheet, find the number of the question you
want to answer.
5. Shade the circle with the letter of the answer you have
chosen.

Sample Question:

The difference between 16 and 8 is:

A. 2
B. 8
C. 24
D.128

The correct answer is 8, so on your answer sheet you should

shade the circle containing the letter B.

6. If you want to change your answer, be sure to erase your old

answer completely and fill in your new choice.
7. If you cannot answer a question, leave it and go on to the
next one. You can come back to that question later.
8. Your score will be the total number of correct answers.

9. The use of calculator is NOT allowed.

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Number Theory (Items 1 – 20)
1. Which list of numbers shows all the 5. 96 written as a product of its prime
factors of 36? factors is

A. 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 12, 18 A. 2 x 3
B. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 12, 18, 36 B. 12 x 8
C. 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 12, 18, 36 C. 4 x 4 x 6
D. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 12, 18, 36, 72 D. 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 3

2. If the population of Liberta is 5 342, 6. Which of the pattern below follows the
what is 5 342 rounded to the nearest rule, “divide by 2”?
hundred?
A. 8, 6, 4, 2, …
A. 5 500
B. 9, 7, 5, 3, …
B. 5 400
C. 18, 9, 3, 1, …
C. 5 300
D. 24, 12, 6, 3, …
D. 5 000
3. A mango field has 30 rows of mango 7. What is the least common multiple
trees. Each row has 25 trees. How many (LCM) of 8 and 6?
mango trees are there in the field?
A. 2
A. 750
B. 16
B. 550
C. 24
C. 65
D. 48
D. 55
3 47
4. At Sport’s Day, of the participants 8. Which mixed number is equal to ?
10 6
won a medal. What percent of the 5
A. 7
participants won a medal? 6
6
A. 3% B. 7
5
B. 30% 5
C. 8
C. 33% 6
1 1
D. 33 % D. 8
3 6

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9. Which of the following is NOT equal to 13. Bonnie multiplies two numbers whose
5¼? product is 1. If one of the numbers is
2, what is the other number?
A. 5.25
21 2
B. A.
4 1

2 1
C. 5 B.
8 2

D. 5.14 C. 0
D. 1

10. There are 40 students on a bus. Of 14. Ms. Brown asked her students to
these students, 24 are girls. What 2 1
simplify the expression + . What
fraction of the students are girls? 3 4
Simplify the fraction to its lowest is the correct answer?
term. 2
A.
2 7
A. 3
3
3 B.
B. 7
5
3
4 C.
C. 12
5
11
7 D.
D. 12
10

11. A number is doubled then 5 is 15. Jerry wanted to read 40 books this
subtracted to give a result of 49. What year. So far, he has read 30 books.
is the number? What percent of the total number of
books has Jerry read?
A. 27
A. 60%
B. 59
B. 70%
C. 88
C. 75%
D. 93
D. 80%
12. 3.07 x 10 = 30.7. What is 3.07 x 100? 16. The list of all composite numbers
between 30 and 40 is
A. 0.0307
B. 3.0700 A. 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39
C. 30.70 B. 32, 34, 35, 36, 38
C. 32, 33, 34, 35, 36
D. 307
D. 32, 34, 36, 38

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17. Which of the following shows the 19. Pat has a ribbon that measures 0.75
number 7 038 written in expanded metre in length. He cuts 0.125 metre
form? off the ribbon and gives it to a friend.
How much ribbon is left?
A. 7 + 0 + 3 + 8
A. 0.2 metre
B. 70 + 30 + 8
B. 0.5 metre
C. 7 000 + 30 + 8
C. 0.625 metre
D. 7 000 + 300 + 80
D. 0.635 metre

18. 20% of the members of a football 20. Mr. Spencer used 60% of the gas in
team suffered from the flu and were his car’s tank while driving over the
unable to play. If there are 25 weekend. Which number represents
members on the team, how many how much of the gas he used?
were fit to play?
A. 0.6
A. 25 1
B.
B. 20 6

C. 18 C. 0.06
1
D. 15 D.
60

Measurement (Items 21 – 25)

21. 22. The grocery bill for Ms. Richards was
$257.50. After she gives the cashier
one $100 note, three $50 notes and
a $20 note, she should receive a
change of

A. $12.50
B. $11.50
The flashdrive shown above is about
__________ long. C. $7.50
D. $2.50
A. 4 metres
B. 4 millimetres
C. 4 kilometres
D. 4 centimetres

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23. A headphone which cost $150.00 is 24. Three mangoes are sold for
marked “10% OFF”. What is the new $5.00. What is the cost of 2 dozen
price of the headphone? mangoes?

A. $10.00 A. $120.00
B. $15.00 B. $40.00
C. $135.00 C. $30.00
D. $140.00 D. $20.00

25. The distance from Willikies to St. John’s is about 12 kilometres. What is that
distance in metres?

A. 12 metres
B. 120 metres
C. 1 200 metres
D. 12 000 metres
Geometry (Items 26 – 30)
26. George’s mathematics teacher drew 28. Which of the following shapes has
this triangle below. Which exactly one pair of parallel sides
statement about the triangle and two right angles?
is true?
A.

A. It has three acute angles.

B.
B. It has two right angles.
C. It has two acute angles and a
right angle.
D. It has two acute angles and an C.
obtuse angle.
27. A snare drum is an example of a
A. cylinder
B. cone D.
C. cuboid
D. cube

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29. Troy created a map for his friends. 30. A circle has diameter NQ as shown
Each point on the map shows a below.
different location.

church
P

N K
shop school

home

If the radius KP is 3 inches, what is

the length of diameter NQ?

A. 3 inches
What coordinates represent Troy’s
home? B. 4 inches
C. 6 inches
A. (5, 3)
D. 9 inches
B. (3, 5)
C. (8, 5)
D. (6, 8)

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