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 1. Mike grouped all the students in his class 3. The table shows the final scores of four
by their hair colour. The graph shows the teams in a competition.
number of students in each group.
Team Points
Students’ Hair Colour
Blue 547
12
Red 348
Number of students

10
Green 469
8 Yellow 320
6
How many more points were scored by
4
the team that came first than the team that
2 came third?
0
black blond brown red (A) 227
Hair colour (B) 201
(C) 199
How many students are in Mike’s class? (D) 78

(A) 4
(B) 10 4. These containers have water in them.
(C) 22
(D) 23 Which container has the largest volume of
water?

2. Joe wants to measure the time it takes to 100 mL

travel to the city by train. 500 mL

Which of these units should Joe use? (A) (B)

(A) hours
200 mL
(B) kilometres
(C) kilometres per hour 300 mL
(D) hours per kilometre

(C) (D)

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5. Sasi bought some fruit. 7. 72 + 32 = ??

(A) 20
(B) 58
(C) 100
174 grams 522 grams (D) 104

8. There are 40 children in the Happyville

School choir. Six of the children are from
Mr Ling’s class.

386 grams What percentage of the choir is NOT from

Mr Ling’s class?
What is the total mass of Sasi’s fruit, in (A) 6%
kilograms? (B) 15%
(C) 34%
(A) 1.082
(D) 85%
(B) 1.82
(C) 10.82
(D) 1082
9. Here are four shapes.

6. Ann counted the number of people who

visited a park over the past week. She
showed this data in a graph.
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Day

Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
0 10 20 30 How many of these shapes are squares?
Number of visitors
(A) 0
Ann noticed that half of the total number (B) 1
of visitors came over two days. (C) 2
(D) 3
Which two days were these?

(A) Monday and Thursday

(B) Friday and Saturday
(C) Friday and Sunday
(D) Saturday and Sunday

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 10. Four shapes were drawn on square dot 12. Jason arranged three blocks on a square.
paper. He drew a view from the front and a view
from the left side.
Which shape has the largest perimeter?
front left side
front left side
Which picture shows how Jason arranged
(A) (B) the blocks?

left left
sid nt sid nt
e fro e fro
left t left t
sid
e rf on (A) sid
e rf on (B)
(C) (D)
(A) (B)

left left
sid nt sid nt
11. Chris bought 5 identical packets of e fro e fro
left left
sid nt sid nt
biscuits. She opened one packet and ate e fro (C) e fro (D)
3 biscuits. She then had 82 biscuits left. (C) (D)
Which expression shows how to work out
the number of biscuits in a complete
13. Mike drew a black line on this grid from
packet?
(1, 3) to (5, 3).
(A) (82 + 3) ÷ 5 6
(B) (82 – 3) ÷ 5
(C) 82 + 3 ÷ 5 5
(D) 82 – 3 ÷ 5
4

0 1 2 3 4 5 6

Which of the following pairs of points

when joined makes a line which has
the same length as Mike’s line?

(A) (1, 2) to (4, 2)

(B) (1, 4) to (4, 1)
(C) (2, 0) to (6, 4)
(D) (3, 2) to (3, 6)

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14. This picture shows one quarter of a 15. Ann has seedlings like the one shown.
design.

The design has only two lines of

symmetry.

Which of these could be the other She wants to plant the seedlings in 4 rows
three quarters of the design? with the same number of seedlings in each
row. Ann will have 3 seedlings left over.

How many seedlings could Ann have?

(A) (B)
(A) 12
(B) 13
(C) 16
(D) 19
(A) (B)

16. Which of these is the net of a cone with

no base?
(C) (D)

(C) (D)

(A) (B)

(C) (D)

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 17. The points on the square dot paper below 19. Fadi wants to buy some pizzas for his
are labelled from R to Z. party.

R S T

Seafood pizza - $9.50 each

U V W

X Y Z Vegetarian pizza - $6.20 each

Fadi bought 8 seafood pizzas and

12 vegetarian pizzas.
Point X is north of Point T.
How much did Fadi spend on pizzas?
Which point is south-east of Point V?
(A) $15.04
(A) Point R
(B) $15.70
(B) Point S
(C) $150.40
(C) Point W
(D) $163.60
(D) Point Z

20. Bianca has a square piece of paper.

18. What number is missing from this chart?
She folds it in half, then in half again
? to make a 4 cm × 4 cm square.

What was the perimeter of her original

Multiply by 40 piece of paper?

(A) 64 cm
Multiply by 0.1 (B) 32 cm
(C) 16 cm
(D) 8 cm
Add 2

30

(A) 7
(B) 30
(C) 122
(D) 128

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21. Ann used a book to measure the area of 23. Cindy and Rand recorded the amount of
her desk. exercise they did in one week.

Here is a picture of Ann’s book. Cindy exercised for 14 hours and

12 minutes and Rand exercised for
12 hours and 41 minutes.

For how much longer did Cindy exercise

than Rand?
21 cm
(A) 1 hour and 11 minutes
(B) 1 hour and 31 minutes
(C) 2 hours and 31 minutes
(D) 2 hours and 53 minutes
14.8 cm
24. Based on the map below, the tree house is
She found that the area of her desk is
5 kilometres from the top of the mountain.
12 times greater than the area of her book.
top of the mountain
Which of the following gives the area of
Ann’s desk, in cm2?

(A) 14.8 + 21 + 12 tree house

(B) 14.8 × 21 × 12
(C) (14.8 + 21) × 12
(D) 2 × (14.8 + 21) × 12
zoo
22. What is the missing number?
How far is the zoo from the top of the
1 , 11 , 13 , 31 , 15 , 5 mountain, in kilometres?
, , , , ?, ?
16 16 8 168 16 4 164 16
(A) 14.5
(B) 12.5
5 5 3 3 (C) 11
(A) (A) (B) (B) (D) 5
4 4 4 4

25. 4 × 9 – 6 × 3 +12
6=× ?
? =3
5 3
(C) (C) 5 (D) (D) 3 (A) 24
8 8 8 8
(B) 42
(C) 96
(D) 108

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 26. How many numbers between 1 and 99 29. Last Monday, the price of gold for one troy
contain the digit 3 at least once? ounce was $1 550.

(A) 10 One troy ounce is approximately

(B) 18 31 grams.
(C) 19
(D) 20 What was the approximate price of
one kilogram of gold last Monday?

27. Lin has two dice numbered from 1 to 6. (A) $50 000
One die is red and the other is green. (B) $48 050
(C) $5 000
Lin rolls the two dice together. One (D) $4 805
possible outcome is 6 on the red die
and 1 on the green die.
30. On this dart board, a player can only score
2, 6 or 9 points for a throw.

2
6
9

red green

How many different outcomes are possible

when Lin rolls the two dice together? What is the smallest number of throws
needed to get a total score of exactly
(A) 36 82 points?
(B) 21
(C) 12 (A) 13
(D) 6 (B) 12
(C) 11
(D) 10
28. How many multiples of 21 are there
between 200 and 400?

(A) 9
(B) 10
(C) 11
(D) 12

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31. Ann has four number cards. 33. Sasi has 5 white boxes and 2 black boxes.

Each white box contains 2 red marbles

2 and 8 green marbles.

5 6 Each black box contains 1 red marble

and 10 green marbles.
4 Without looking, Sasi takes a marble from
one of the boxes.

She arranges the cards into this number Which one of these is Sasi most likely to
sentence to give the largest possible take?
result.
(A) a red marble from a white box
(B) a red marble from a black box
+ × – = result (C) a green marble from a white box
(D) a green marble from a black box

Which of these is the result?

34. Joe travelled from Smithtown to Lecton
(A) 32 without stopping. He left Smithtown at
(B) 42 9:00 am and arrived in Lecton at 11:15 am.
(C) 48 Joe passed through several towns on the
(D) 52 way. The diagram shows the distances
between them.
32. Which card should be removed so the

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remaining cards make a pattern?

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(A) (B) (C) (D)
42 km

30 km

55 km

23 km

This table shows the time at which Joe

passed through each town.

Town passed Time

Lithfield 9:40 am
Hillvale 10:05 am
Cloverdale 10:55 am

Between which two towns did Joe travel

at the highest average speed?

(A) Smithtown and Lithfield

(B) Lithfield and Hillvale
(C) Hillvale and Cloverdale
(D) Cloverdale and Lecton

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 35. Mike wants to rotate the yellow triangle 37. This grid is taken from an alien planet.
around a point so that it exactly covers the On this planet, the unit used to measure
blue triangle. area is called zetrad.

Around which point on the square grid

must Mike rotate the yellow triangle?

red

(A)
yellow

(B)
blue blu
(C) e

(D)

The blue shape has an area of 1 zetrad.

QUESTIONS 36 TO 40 ARE FREE RESPONSE. What is the area of the red shape, in
Write your answer in the boxes provided on zetrads?
the ANSWER SHEET and fill in the ovals that
match your answer.
38. Fadi, Mike and Joe all shot arrows at the
target shown in the diagram.
36. Lin sells flowers.
pink
Lin made some bunches of flowers. Each
bunch had 3 roses and 4 daisies.

She used 168 flowers altogether. red

How many roses did Lin use?

Fadi shot 4 arrows into the red section

and 2 arrows into the pink section. His
score was 240.

Mike shot 3 arrows into the red section

and 1 arrow into the pink section. His
score was 170.

Joe shot 1 arrow into the red section

and 2 arrows into the pink section.

What was Joe’s score?

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39. A tetromino is a shape made of 4 squares 40. Joe bought a 1 kilogram block of cheese
of equal size. Each of the squares must that was 12 cm × 10 cm × 8 cm.
have a common side with at least one
other square.

This is a tetromino.

This is NOT
a tetromino. When he needed to use it, he found mould
on each face of the block. To remove the
mould, Joe cut a 1 cm thick slice from
Two tetrominoes are the same if one is a each face.
reflection and/or rotation of the other.
What was the mass of the remaining block
How many different tetrominoes can be of cheese, in grams?
drawn?

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