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 1. 214 × = 1 284 5. Mike was facing north. Then he turned
270° in a clockwise direction.
(A) 1
(B) 2 What direction was Mike facing after
(C) 4 completing the turn?
(D) 6
(A) north
(B) south
2. Which point has the coordinates (3, 4)? (C) east
(D) west
y

6
6. Sasi divided some pies into pieces by
5 cutting each pie through its centre.
(A) 4 (B)
3 (C) She cut the first pie twice making pieces
2 as shown.
1
x
-6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1-1 1 2 3 4 5 6
-2 2 cuts
-3 4 pieces
-4 (D)
-5
-6

In the same way, she cut a second pie

8 times.
3. 15 000 How many pieces did she make from the
– 3 768 second pie?

(A) 8
(A) 11 232 (B) 10
(B) 11 238 (C) 14
(C) 11 342 (D) 16
(D) 12 768

7. Sam bought a bicycle for his son and a car

for himself. The bicycle cost $800 and the
4. 72 + 32 = ?? car cost $8 000.
(A) 20
(B) 58 How many times greater than the cost of
(C) 100 the bicycle was the cost of the car?
(D) 104
(A) 10
(B) 80
(C) 100
(D) 7 200

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8. Ann has a bag with a large number of 10. Four shapes were drawn on square dot
coloured pencils in it. The pencils come in paper.
five different colours.
Which shape has the largest perimeter?
Ann takes a handful of pencils out of the
bag without looking.

What is the smallest number of pencils

that Ann needs to take so that she is (A) (B)
certain she has two pencils that are the
same colour?

(A) 2
(B) 6 (C) (D)
(C) 7
(D) 10

9. The letters in this postal sack have a total 11. The points on the square dot paper below
mass of 3 kg. Each letter has a mass are labelled from R to Z.
of 20 g.
R S T

U V W

X Y Z
How many letters are in the sack?

(A) 15
Point X is north of Point T.
(B) 60
(C) 150 Which point is south-east of Point V?
(D) 600
(A) Point R
(B) Point S
(C) Point W
(D) Point Z

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 Samton Ifaka
Forwong
12. This is part of a train timetable: 14. The map shows four towns.

Station pm pm pm Samton Ifaka

Springtown 3.19 4.05 4.38
Forwong
Tetrahedron 3.22 4.08 ---
Mudgate 10 km
Bravo 3.26 4.12 ---
Mirrorland 3.30 4.16 4.47
Berrybrook 3.35 4.21 4.52
Rockstone 3.39 4.25 ---
Rainbow 3.48 4.34 --- Mudgate 10 km
Coffeehill 3.52 4.38 5.08
Queenswood --- --- ---
Blue Lake --- --- --- Which table matches the distances
Green Mount --- --- --- in kilometres between the towns
Valley 4.07 4.53 --- on the map?
Nine Hills --- --- ---
Compass Point --- 5.01 --- Forwong Mudgate Ifaka
All Good 4.17 5.05 5.31 Samton 40 20 10
(A) Ifaka
Square 1 4.19 5.07 --- 30 20
Hill Number --- --- --- Mudgate 40
Division 4.30 5.18 5.43
Forwong Mudgate Ifaka
Square 2 --- --- --- SamtonForwong
40 Mudgate
20 Ifaka 10
Central 4.43 5.31 5.56 (A)
Samton
Ifaka 40 30 10 20 10
(B)
Ifaka
Mudgate 30 40 20
Mudgate 30
The Simons family wants to travel from
Springtown to Central. They worked out Forwong Mudgate Ifaka
SamtonForwong
40 Mudgate
10 Ifaka 10
that if they catch the 4:05 pm train, it will (B)
Samton 30 30 10 20 10
(C) Ifaka
be a longer trip than if they catch the Ifaka
Mudgate 20 30 20
4:38 pm train. Mudgate 30

By how much will the trip be longer? Forwong Mudgate Ifaka

SamtonForwong
30 Mudgate
10 Ifaka 10
(C)
Samton
(D) Ifaka 40 20 30 20 20
(A) 8 minutes Ifaka
Mudgate 20 30 20
(B) 25 minutes Mudgate 30
(C) 1 hour 18 minutes
(D) 1 hour 26 minutes Forwong Mudgate Ifaka
(D) Samton 40 30 20
Ifaka 20 20
Mudgate 30
13. Manling has some paper clips in a box.

Manling finds out that she needs 10 more

paper clips to make either groups of three
or groups of four or groups of five with no
paper clips left over.

Which of the following could be the

number of paper clips she has in the box?

(A) 20
(B) 50
(C) 60
(D) 70

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15. Fadi wants to buy some pizzas for his 17. What is the missing number?
party.
1 , 11 , 13 ,, 31 ,, 15 ,, 5 ,
16 16 8
,
16 4 16
? ?
8 16 4 16

5 5 3 3
Seafood pizza - $9.50 each (A) (A) (B) (B)
4 4 4 4

5 3
(C) (C) 5 (D) (D) 3
8 8 8 8
Vegetarian pizza - $6.20 each
18. Adam has two spinners, X and Y.
Fadi bought 8 seafood pizzas and Spinner X has three equal sections.
12 vegetarian pizzas. Spinner Y has six equal sections.
How much did Fadi spend on pizzas?
1 6 5
(A) $15.04
(B) $15.70 1 4
2 3
(C)
(D)
$150.40
$163.60
2 3
Spinner X Spinner Y
16. Lin has four rods as shown.
Which statement is correct?

(A) Adam is more likely to score 3 on

Spinner Y than on Spinner X.
4 cm
(B) Adam will always score higher on
8 cm Spinner Y than on Spinner X.
(C) Adam is more likely to score
less than 3 on Spinner X than on
Spinner Y.
(D) Adam is equally likely to score an
odd number on Spinner X and on
6 cm Spinner Y.
3 cm

Lin wants to form a triangle using three

rods. The rods should not overlap.

Which three rods CANNOT be used to

form a triangle?

(A) 3 cm, 4 cm, 6 cm

(B) 3 cm, 4 cm, 8 cm
(C) 3 cm, 6 cm, 8 cm
(D) 4 cm, 6 cm, 8 cm

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 19. Lin has two dice numbered from 1 to 6. 21. There are fewer than 30 students in
One die is red and the other is green. Mr Chan’s mathematics class. On his
students’ reports Mr Chan gives a grade
Lin rolls the two dice together. One of A, B, C, D or E.
possible outcome is 6 on the red die
and 1 on the green die. This year, one third of the class
got an A, one quarter of the class got a B,
four students got a C and three students
got an E.

How many students got a D?

(A) 2
(B) 3
red green (C) 4
(D) 5
How many different outcomes are possible
when Lin rolls the two dice together?
22. The discs in this array have a number on
(A) 36 one side. Some discs have been turned
(B) 21 over.
(C) 12
(D) 6 8

20. Students in a class were asked to choose

their favourite colour from five options.
14
This graph shows the results.

8
Number of students

7
20 24
6
5
4 A disc halfway between any two other
3 discs has a number that is halfway
2
between the numbers on those discs.
1
0
For example, 14 is halfway between
blue brown green red yellow 8 and 20.
Colour
What number is on the other side of the
shaded disc?
The teacher wants to use a sector graph
to show the same results. (A) 15
(B) 16
What size angle must represent the colour (C) 17
green in the sector graph? (D) 18

(A) 3°
(B) 30°
(C) 54°
(D) 60°

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23. Joe has a rectangular block of wood with 25. Each of these boxes is labelled to show its
the measurements shown in the diagram. mass.

Which box has the largest mass?

g kg
900 mm 0 .5 k 0.25

36 cm (A) (B)
1.8 m
NOT TO SCALE

50 g 0g
Joe wants to cut the block into cubes with 2.50
side lengths of 18 cm.

How many of these cubes can Joe cut (C) (D)

from the block?

(A) 10 26. Last Monday, the price of gold for one troy
(B) 20 ounce was $1 550.
(C) 100
(D) 1000 One troy ounce is approximately
31 grams.

24. At the local school there are 500 students. What was the approximate price of
Every student plays rugby or basketball or one kilogram of gold last Monday?
both.
(A) $50 000
(B) $48 050
(C) $5 000
(D) $4 805
rugby both basketball

62% play rugby and 46% play basketball.

What is the number of students who play

both sports?

(A) 16
(B) 40
(C) 54
(D) 80

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 27. Which of these is a net of a cylinder? 28. Which of the following shaded regions
has a different area from the other shaded
regions?

(A)
(A) (B) (C) (D)

29. ABCD is a rectangle.

EF and CF are straight lines intersecting

AB at G and H respectively.

∠HCB = 40° and ∠AGE = 75°

E
D C
(B)

A G H B

F
NOT TO SCALE

(C) What is the size of ∠EFC?

(A) 35°
(B) 55°
(C) 65°
(D) 75°

(D)

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30. I think of a number, add 6 to it and then 33. Ann is given this equation.
divide by 2. My answer is 47.

How can you find the number I thought of?

(A) divide 6 by 2 then add 47

(B) subtract 3 from 47 then double Ann knows that is a positive whole
(C) subtract 6 from 47 then double number and is a 2-digit positive whole
(D) double 47 then subtract 3 number.

How many combinations of numbers

31. A number is called abundant if the sum of
for and are possible to solve the
its factors, not including the number itself,
equation?
is greater than the number.
(A) 3
For example, the sum of the factors of the
(B) 4
number 12 (not including the number 12
(C) 5
itself) is 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 6 = 16. This sum
(D) 6
is greater than 12 so the number 12 is an
abundant number.

How many abundant numbers are there 34. Lin’s journey from City X to City Y took
between 15 and 25? 23 hours and 15 minutes.

(A) 11 City Y is 14 hours behind City X.

(B) 4
She left City X at 7:55 am on 12 June,
(C) 3
City X time.
(D) 0
What was the date and time in City Y
when Lin arrived?
32. A rubbish bin can hold 1 m3 of rubbish.
(A) 12 June at 5:10 pm
1 cm3 = 1 mL (B) 12 June at 9:10 pm
(C) 13 June at 7:10 am
What is the capacity of the rubbish bin,
(D) 13 June at 5:10 pm
in litres?

(A) 10
(B) 100
(C) 1 000
(D) 10 000

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 QUESTIONS 36 TO 40 ARE FREE RESPONSE.
35. Sasi used some wire to make shapes. Write your answer in the boxes provided on
She made two shapes, as shown. the ANSWER SHEET and fill in the ovals that
match your answer.
2 cm

1 cm 36. A tetromino is a shape made of 4 squares

of equal size. Each of the squares must
2.5 cm
have a common side with at least one
other square.

This is a tetromino.
1 cm

2 cm

Shape X

2 cm
This is NOT
a tetromino.
3 cm

Two tetrominoes are the same if one is a

0.5 cm 0.5 cm reflection and/or rotation of the other.

How many different tetrominoes can be

drawn?
1.5 cm

Shape Y
37. Lin has a rectangular piece of paper
measuring 320 mm by 240 mm.
Sasi used exactly 302 cm of wire.
She folds the paper in half seven times
How many of each shape did she make?
making a smaller rectangle each time.

Shape X Shape Y What is the area of the smallest rectangle,

in mm2?
(A) 10 11
(B) 10 12
(C) 11 10
(D) 12 10

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38. The diagram below shows the 1st, 2nd, 3rd 40. Lin started walking from Point X. She
and 4th triangular numbers. stopped when she first reached the
sundial.

KEY
Sundial
X
n(n + 1)
The formula can be used to
2
find the nth triangular number.

For example the 5th triangular number is At all times, Lin kept her left hand on the
wall to her left and turned only when she
5(5 + 1) 5×6 reached a corner.
= = 15
2 2
What was the total size of the angle
How many of the triangular numbers that through which Lin turned to reach the
are less than 2 000 are odd? sundial?

39. A line of symmetry divides a 2D shape

into two mirror images. For example, a
rectangle has two lines of symmetry.

A plane of symmetry divides a 3D shape

into two mirror images.

How many planes of symmetry does a

cube have?

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