Upper

Upper Primary
Primary2009
2009
Questions
Questions 11 to
to 10,
10, 33 marks
marks each
each

1. For the number below, what number will be obtained if I double the ten-thousands
digit and halve the hundreds digit?

2 4 4 2 4
(A) 28 824 (B) 44 224 (C) 44 824 (D) 14 824 (E) 28 224

2. When Sam doubled a number and then added 7, it became 33. What was the
original number?

(A) 8 (B) 13 (C) 16 (D) 24 (E) 26

3. Which of the following is closest to 1000 seconds?

(A) 1 hour (B) 1 day (C) 45 minutes

(D) 30 minutes (E) 15 minutes

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5. What is the angle, in degrees, between the hands of

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7. The cost for every 15 minutes in a car parking meter is 20c. Jake put a $1 coin
and two 20c coins into the meter at 1:15 pm. At what time did the parking meter
expire?
(A) 2:30 pm (B) 3:00 pm (C) 2:45 pm
(D) 3:05 pm (E) 3:15 pm

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9. Five cars were travelling at different speeds. From the following speeds, which car
was travelling the fastest?
(A) 1 km per minute (B) 30 km in 20 minutes (C) 50 km/h
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10. Some of the squares in the diagram below have been shaded.

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20, 44 marks
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12. Ali has a bag containing 100 jelly beans. In his bag there are equal numbers of
red, blue, green, yellow and brown jelly beans. If Ali closes his eyes and takes jelly
beans out of the bag one by one, what is the smallest number he needs to take out
to ensure he will have five of the same colour?
(A) 5 (B) 9 (C) 20 (D) 21 (E) 25

13. I have $34.20 in $2, $1, 50c, 20c and 10c coins and have an equal number of each
coin. That number is
(A) 7 (B) 8 (C) 9 (D) 10 (E) 11
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16. The ages of the three children in the Jones family add up to 14. If their ages are
multiplied together, the result is 70. What is the age of the eldest child?
(A) 5 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 10 (E) 14

17. We form a rectangle using 24 square tiles, each 1 cm by 1 cm. Which of the following,
in centimetres, could not be the perimeter?
(A) 20 (B) 22 (C) 28 (D) 36 (E) 50

18. Each of three coloured caps covers one of three objects. The red cap is somewhere
to the left of the white cap. The coin is somewhere to the left of the bean. The
green cap is somewhere to the right of the shell. The bean is somewhere to the right
of the green cap. Which of the following statements is correct?
(A) The bean is under the red cap.
(B) The bean is under the green cap.
(C) The shell is under the red cap.
(D) The coin is under the white cap.
(E) The shell is under the white cap.
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19. In an Australian netball competition, these teams are tipped to win Round 1 by
three experts:
Expert A: NSW, Queensland, WA, Tasmania
Expert B: SA, Victoria, Queensland, WA
Expert C: NSW, ACT, WA, Victoria
No one tipped the Northern Territory to win.
Which team did Victoria play?
(A) NSW (B) Tasmania (C) Queensland
(D) WA (E) Northern Territory

20. Marcello says to Aiden, ‘If you give me one of your pencils, I’ll have twice as many
pencils as you.’
Aiden answers, ‘But if you give me one of yours, we’ll have the same number of
pencils each.’
How many pencils does Aiden have?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

Questions 21 to
Questions 21 to 25,
25, 5
5 marks each
each
21. A basketball team has won 30 games out of 40 played. How many of the remaining
30 games must it win to have an 80% win record for the season?
(A) 10 (B) 15 (C) 25 (D) 26 (E) 30

22. A horse trainer has some carrots for the horses. He gives each horse 4 carrots and
has 2 carrots left over. If he wants to give each horse 6 carrots, he needs another
22 carrots. How many horses are there in his stables?
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 11 (E) 12

23. I bought a map of Australia, unfolded it and marked 8 places I wanted to visit.

I then refolded the map and placed it back on the table as it was. In what order
are my marks stacked from top to bottom?
(A) RTYQKAWP (B) YKRAWTPQ (C) RTQYKAWP
(D) YKTPRAWQ (E) YKWARTPQ
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24. The picture below shows a triangular prism whose faces are all either triangles or
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25. Thomas and Susie each have a number of dogs, cats and fish. They each have nine
pets. Thomas has three more fish than Susie but one less dog. Susie has twice as
many cats as Thomas but she has the same number of fish as Thomas has dogs.
How many fish does Thomas have?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6

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27. A tank is full. When 440 litres of water are added to the tank, it is then full.
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28. In a television quiz show, Rachel wins 250 points for a correct answer but loses 150
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points. How many questions did she get correct?

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Questions
Questions 11 to
to 10,
10, 33 marks
marks each
each

1. What is one thousand and twenty-seven in numerals?

(A) 100 027 (B) 10 027 (C) 1027 (D) 127 (E) 27

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3. Lee is 14 years old. Liz is 10 years old. Dad’s age is twice the sum of their ages.
How old is Dad?
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fourth in line?
(A) Sarah (B) Tim (C) Carl (D) Brett (E) George
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6. When five numbers are added the total is 2010. One of the numbers is changed
from 235 to 532. What is the total of the five numbers now?
(A) 1723 (B) 2542 (C) 2360 (D) 1896 (E) 2307

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How many faces of these blocks are glued together?

(A) 7 (B) 8 (C) 10 (D) 12 (E) 18

8. What is the difference between the largest and smallest 3-digit numbers that can
be made from the following 1-digit cards, if each card is to be used once only in
each number?
2 7 5
(A) 477 (B) 495 (C) 1009 (D) 468 (E) 555

9. My father won $1000 in a lottery. He put one-fifth in the bank, spent one-quarter
of what was left on me and gave the rest to my mother. How much did my mother
receive?
(A) $400 (B) $888 (C) $450 (D) $550 (E) $600

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Questions
Questions 11 to
11 to 20,20, 4 marks
4 marks each
each

11. This is Liam’s timetable for a normal school day.

Time Activity
9:00 am − 9:10 am Morning assembly
9:10 am − 11:00 am Class time
11:00 am − 11:30 am Recess
11:30 am − 1:00 pm Class time
1:00 pm − 1:50 pm Lunchtime
1:50 pm − 3:00 pm Class time
3:00 pm Home time

How many minutes of class time does Liam have every day?
(A) 300 (B) 250 (C) 500 (D) 270 (E) 240

12. The average of two numbers is 11. One of the numbers is 6 more than the other.
Which is the larger number?
(A) 6 (B) 8 (C) 11 (D) 14 (E) 17

13. What fraction of the rectangle is shaded?

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14. In a group of 55 students, exactly 39 are enrolled in mathematics and exactly 35

are enrolled in science. How many students are enrolled in both mathematics and
science?
(A) 20 (B) 16 (C) 19 (D) 4 (E) 55
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15. Jeremy decides to measure area in hexagonal units (instead of squares) using the
hexagonal unit as shown.
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(D) 86 by 36 (E) 75 by 50

17. Place the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, one in each circle in the diagram so that no
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18. Below is a diagram of a garden. Some of the garden is grass and some is a pathway
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(A) 216 (B) 54 (C) 181 (D) 207 (E) 200

19. A shop has a sale and sells hats for $12 each in the morning, taking $720. After
lunch, the price is dropped to $9 each and the shop sells twice as many. What was
the total amount taken on the day?

(A) $1800 (B) $900 (C) $1260 (D) $1440 (E) $2880

20. The areas, in square centimetres, of three rectangles are given.

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Questions 21 to
Questions 21 to 25,
25, 5
5 marks each
each
21. Mike thinks of a two-digit number. Karen reverses the digits and when the two
numbers are added the total is 132. How many different numbers could Mike have
thought of?

(A) 4 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 10 (E) 12

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22. Two bolts and two screws weigh as much as one bolt and ten nails. One bolt weighs
as much as one screw and one nail. How many nails weigh as much as one bolt?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 7

23. My birthday is 18 November. Four of my friends’ birthdays are

1 November, 12 November, 21 November and 1 December. The five of us decide to
hold a birthday party on the date closest to all the birthdays. (This means that
the sum of the days from the chosen date to each birthday is as small as possible.)
Which date should this be?
(A) 12 November (B) 19 November (C) 15 November
(D) 18 November (E) 17 November

24. Annie is recording the number of cars in the family of each child in her class in a
column graph. She has not drawn the column for the number of families that have
exactly two cars.
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25. Five rectangles, each 12 cm long and of equal width, are placed together to form
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perimeter twice as great as each of the original rectangles. What is the perimeter,
in centimetres, of the new rectangle?
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Question
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26. Consider this statement:

THIS IS ONE GREAT MATHS CHALLENGE
Every minute, the first letter of each word is moved to the other end of the word.
In how many minutes will the original sentence appear back again?

27. Below is an example of a triangle drawn on a 6 by 5 grid with one vertex A on

the bottom left-hand corner and the other two vertices on the top and right-hand
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28. The product of three consecutive whole numbers is 12 144. What is their sum?

29. When a number has the digit 2 put at both ends, its value increases by 2785. What
is the original number?

30. I have 4 black and 4 white cubes of equal size. In how many different ways can they
be put together to form a 2 × 2 × 2 cube? (Two cubes are not considered different
if they can be rotated to look the same.)