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 1. Which park has angles that are 4. Jim wants to join these four identical
all different? cubes together to make a new solid.

(A) (B)

park
park

(C) (D)

What type of solid can Jim make?

park (A) a pyramid
park
(B) a cube
(C) a sphere
(D) a prism

2. Dan’s welcome mat is placed on the 5. John is weighing custard powder using
identical square tiles at his front door. this scale.

welcome
0
grams
How many tiles does this mat cover? 300 100

(A) 24 (B) 28 200

(C) 32 (D) 38

What is the mass of the custard powder?

3.
(A) 3 grams
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 (B) 6 grams
(C) 30 grams
(D) 60 grams
Which shape is halfway between
and ?

(A) (B)

(C) (D)

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6. Kate’s favourite number is 2. 8. This is a picture of Jim’s tower.

Which spinner will give Kate the best

chance of landing on a 2? 1

(A) (B)
5 6
3 2 2 3
2 1 3 2
4 ? 15

5 2 1 1 16 20 11 26
2 4 4 4
The number on each block is equal to
(C) (D) the difference between the numbers on
the two blocks it rests on.
3 1 1 2
What number must ?
? be?
5 2 2 3
4 3 1 1 (A) 1
(B) 9
1 2 3 2 (C) 11
(D) 19

7. Four children collected shells on the 9. Lin circled the date her baby brother or
beach. They put their shells in piles sister was due to be born.
as shown.
It was 9 days until the due date.
Number Number of
Child of shells shells in September 2018
collected each pile
Tess 27 3
Jade 40 5
Lee 18 6
Sam 32 4

Who made the largest number of piles?

When did Lin circle the date on
(A) Tess
her calendar?
(B) Jade
(C) Lee (A) 10 September
(D) Sam (B) 14 September
(C) 23 September
(D) 2 October

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 10. Helen is solving a puzzle involving a code. 13. Sally made this castle using 4 solids.

The shapes and represent

different numbers.

Clue 1: + =6

Clue 2: + + =7

What is the value of ?

(A) 4 (B) 3
(C) 2 (D) 1
Which of these is a view of Sally’s castle
from above?
11. A plane drops 10 food parcels at equal
intervals over a distance of 3 kilometres.
(A) (B)
About how many metres is it between one
parcel and the next?
(A) (B)
(A) 3
(B) 30
(C) 300
(C) (D)
(D) 3000

12. A ferry travelled from Potter Wharf to (C) (D)

Cove Wharf.

North 14. Which of the following expressions is

Cove
X NOT equal to 276?
Wharf
(A) 100 + 50 + 50 + 25 + 25 + 25 + 1
(B) 100 + 100 + 100 – 10 – 10 – 6
(C) 100 + 100 + 50 + 20 + 6
(D) 300 – 20 – 4
Potter X
Wharf

In which direction did the ferry travel?

(A) north-west
(B) north-east
(C) south-west
(D) south-east

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15. Class 4R cleaned up after the carnival. 17. Arun is at a theme park waiting in a queue
for the Wild Jet ride.
The table shows the number of items
they recycled. Every 3 minutes, a boat with 5 people
leaves.
Recycled item Number
A boat leaves and Arun counts 26 people
Bottles ahead of him in the queue.
Cans ?? How many minutes will Arun have to wait
Paper cups 90 until his boat leaves?

Total 200 (A) 15 (B) 18

(C) 21 (D) 27
One-quarter of the items were bottles.

How many cans did the class collect? 18. Harry made this logo for an exit sign using
plane shapes.
(A) 50 (B) 55
(C) 60 (D) 110

16. Pete wants to post presents to his son for

his birthday.

He can choose from these items.

Baseball Helmet
150 grams 1450 grams Some shapes overlap.

Which shape was NOT used to make the

logo?

Glove Bat (A)

390 grams 450 grams

Which items can Pete post so that

the total mass is as close as possible
(B)
to 2000 grams?

(A) all 4 items

(B) the helmet and the bat
(C) the baseball, bat and glove (C)
(D) the helmet, baseball and glove

(D)

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 19. Anna looked at the clock as she left home 21. Sam plotted two points, K and L, on the
for her morning swimming training. number line.

K L

6 25 am 1 3

He plotted M halfway between K and L.

She finished 1 hour 40 minutes later. Then he plotted N halfway between

L and M.
What time did Anna finish?
What number is halfway between
(A) 8:05 am M and N?
(B) 7:65 am 1 3
1 3
(C) 7:05 am (A)55
1
5
1 44
3
4

(D) 6:65 am 1 1
1 1
(B)5155 2 4144
1 1
(C)1515 2 1212
20. Betty had this piece of ribbon. 5 2
1 3
(D) 1
1
5 2 4
1
3
3
3
1 1
fold line 5 4

22. Priya
1 and
1 Jim started counting from 102.
She folded it in half as shown. 5 2

Priya
1 subtracted the same number each
time while Jim’s pattern used addition.
3

Then Betty folded it in half again and cut Priya: 102, 95, , 81, 74, ….
the folded ribbon in the middle as shown.
Jim: 102, 111, , 129, 138, …

What is the difference between the

values of and ?
How many pieces of ribbon this length (A) 16 (B) 28
did Betty have? (C) 32 (D) 34
(A) 0 (B) 2
(C) 3 (D) 4
23. Min had some cards.
He gave half of the cards to Bill.
Bill gave one third of those cards to Sam.
Sam returned 2 cards to Min and kept
6 cards.
How many cards did Min have in the end?

(A) 20 (B) 26
(C) 38 (D) 50

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24. Pamela is in a race. 26. Kevin cut this triangle along its axis
of symmetry.
There are four cones at A, B, C and D.

Pamela starts next to the cone at A,

follows the arrows on the diagram and
finishes near the cone at D.

Around which cone does Pamela make the He flipped, slid or turned one of the
greatest change in direction? pieces to fit next to the other piece.

(B) Which of these could be Kevin’s

4 new shape?
(C)
(A) (B)

3 5

start 1 finish

(A) 2 (D) (C) (D)

25. Ms Clark asked 36 students to choose

between ball games and computer games.

She started to put her results in a table.

27. The number in each square is equal to the
sum of the numbers in the circles joined to
Preferred game the square.
Computer Ball

Boys 9

Girls 21 19 11

19
16

How many girls preferred ball games? What is the sum of the numbers in
the circles?
(A) 8
(B) 10 (A) 17
(C) 11 (B) 23
(D) 13 (C) 24
(D) 46

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 28. Mr Tin’s class is selling cordial at a fair. 30. Which of these nets can be used to make
a cube where adjoining faces do NOT
have the same number on them?

Cordial 2 3
(A)
1
(B)

50c 1 3
2
3 2
1
per cup 1 3 2

(C) (D)
3 3 1
They have 7 jugs full of cordial. 2 1 2
Each jug of cordial can fill 4 bottles. 3 1 1 3
Each bottle of cordial can fill 8 cups. 2 2
How much money will they collect if they
sell all of the cordial?

(A) $44 31. Consecutive numbers, such as 6, 7 and 8,

(B) $88 follow one after the other.
(C) $112
(D) $224 Five consecutive EVEN numbers have
a sum of 200.

What is the largest of these five numbers?

29. The Hui family caught the train from
Craven to Anders. This is the train (A) 48
timetable they followed. (B) 44
(C) 42
Train timetable (D) 40
Town Date Time
Depart Craven 19 April 8:00 am
Arrive Bendigo 20 April 10:00 am 32. Millie bought 15 jars for her homemade
Depart Bendigo 20 April 11:00 pm jam. The shop charged $8 for the
Arrive Anders 21 April 5:00 pm first 4 jars and a lower fixed price for
each jar after that.
How long was the train trip, not including
the stop at Bendigo? Number
5 6 8 15
of jars
(A) 20 hours
(B) 32 hours Cost $9.50 $11 $14 ??
(C) 44 hours
(D) 57 hours
How much did Millie pay for 15 jars?

(A) $24.50
(B) $25
(C) $28.50
(D) $29

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33. Ravi used a balance to compare the 34. Jon is solving a puzzle. He can join any
masses of some objects. His results are circle to the one next to it by using a
shown below. horizontal or a vertical line.

12 1 13 8

11 13 9 12

5 7 11 14

Jon joined 4 circles in this way. He then

added the numbers inside the 4 circles
together.

What is the largest sum Jon could make?

(A) 45
(B) 47
Which of the following must be true? (C) 48
(A)
(D) 50

(A)

(B) 35. The local council allocated this piece of

land for a netball park.

(B) 100 metres

(C)

(C)
Netball park 100 metres
(D)

(D)

The required area for each netball court,

including the space around it, is
35 metres by 20 metres.

What is the largest number of netball

courts that will fit in the park?

(A) 10 (B) 12
(C) 14 (D) 15

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 36. Raj is making a 3-D shape from this net. 37. Sue followed the instructions in this chart.

11 5

16 6

22 10

He cut off 4 identical triangles, then folded

the net along the dotted lines.
11 5

KEY
sum

difference

halve

She chose another two numbers

Which of these could be Raj’s 3-D shape? and followed the instructions. Some
results are missing.
(A) (B)

24
(C) (D)

18

What value must ?

? be?

(A) 9
(B) 12
(C) 15
(D) 21

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38. Ben collected data on the vehicles at a 40. Sam folded a rectangular piece of paper in
used car lot and graphed his results. quarters to make this birthday card.

12 Fold line Fold

lines
11
10 Happy
Birthday
9
from
8 Sam
7
Number

Inside Front
6
5 He unfolded the card.
4
Fuel Type
3 Which one of these is Sam’s
2 diesel unfolded card?
1 petrol

Birthday
Happy

Sam
from
car truck SUV
Vehicle type (A)

Which statement about the vehicles in the

car lot is NOT true?

(A) He collected data on 40 vehicles.

Birthday
Happy

Sam
from
(B) One-fifth of the cars use diesel.
(C) One-third of the SUVs use diesel. (B)
(D) Two-fifths of the vehicles use diesel. Birthday
Happy

Sam
from

39. Paul had a square piece of paper.

Birthday

Birthday
Happy

Happy

He cut out a rectangle from the paper that

Sam
from

Sam
from

was 4 centimetres by 9 centimetres.

(C)
The area of the left over paper was
108 square centimetres.

What was the length of the sides of Paul’s

original square?
Birthday
Happy

Sam
from

(A) 9 centimetres
(B) 11 centimetres (D)
Birthday
Happy

(C) 12 centimetres
Sam
from

(D) 13 centimetres

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