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UPPER primary Division Competition Paper

australian School Years 5, 6 and primary 7*
time allowed: 60 minutes
*some states only

Inst ruc tion s a nd I nf or m ati on

GENERAL
1. Do not open the booklet until told to do so by your teacher.
2. You may use any teaching aids normally available in your classroom, such as MAB blocks,
counters, currency, calculators, play money etc. You are allowed to work on scrap paper
and teachers may explain the meaning of words in the paper.
3. Diagrams are NOT drawn to scale. They are intended only as aids.
4. There are 25 multiple-choice questions, each with 5 possible answers given and 5 questions
that require a whole number answer between 0 and 999. The questions generally get harder as
you work through the paper. There is no penalty for an incorrect response.
5. This is a competition not a test; do not expect to answer all questions. You are only competing
against your own year in your own State or Region so different years doing the same paper are
not compared.
6. Read the instructions on the answer sheet carefully. Ensure your name, school name and school
year are entered. It is your responsibility to correctly code your answer sheet.
7. When your teacher gives the signal, begin working on the problems.

THE ANSWER SHEET

1. Use only lead pencil.
2. Record your answers on the reverse of the answer Ssheet (not on the question paper) by FULLY
colouring the circle matching your answer.
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if they are in the wrong places, so please be careful not to doodle or write anything extra on
the answer sheet. If you want to change an answer or remove any marks, use a plastic eraser
and be sure to remove all marks and smudges.

INTEGRITY OF THE COMPETITION

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 Upper Primary Division

Questions 1 to 10, 3 marks each

1. Which of the following numbers has the same value as

152 hundredths?
(A) 1520 (B) 152 (C) 15.2 (D) 1.52 (E) 0.152

2. The value of 1 + 10 + 10 × 10 + 10 × 10 × 10 is
(A) 1010 (B) 10 111 (C) 1111 (D) 1110 (E) 11 111

3. Mike buys a can of 5 tennis balls for $2.50. How much would three
balls cost?
(A) 90c (B) $1.50 (C) $1.80 (D) $2.40 (E) $3

4. Auckland’s time zone is two hours ahead of Melbourne’s. What time

is it in Auckland when it is 2 am in Melbourne?
(A) 4 am (B) midnight (C) 6 pm (D) 6 am (E) 8 am

5. How many rectangles of any size are in this diagram?

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6. School shirts are on sale for 25% off the usual price. Bethany buys a
shirt on sale for $6.00. How much did she save?
(A) $4.50 (B) $2.00 (C) $1.50 (D) $3.00 (E) $4.00
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(D) If you multiply an odd and an even number you always get an
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10. A notice in an elevator states that 13 persons or 1000 kg is the maxi-

mum load. Which of the following is the closest to the average body
mass that the manufacturer used for one person?
(A) 13 kg (B) 50 kg (C) 80 kg (D) 100 kg (E) 130 kg

Questions 11 to 20, 4 marks each

11. On weekends, Fred earns money by washing cars and mowing lawns.
He receives $5 for a mow and $9 for a car wash. Last weekend he
earned $56. Which of the following explanations is possible?
(A) 5 mows and 3 car washes (B) 6 mows and 3 car washes
(C) 2 mows and 5 car washes (D) 5 mows and 4 car washes
(E) 4 mows and 4 car washes

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Directly to the east you see a house ( ), directly to the north you
see a person ( ) and directly west you can see a tree ( ). Which
square are you standing in?

(A) D4 (B) F2 (C) J6 (D) G10 (E) J10

15. Jim is running a two-lap race. He passes a marker on the first lap
which is exactly a third of the way round the lap. What fraction of
the race will be completed when he passes the same marker again?
1 1 2 3 5
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
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16. Bill is 2 years older than his brother Graham, who in turn is 3 years
older than their twin sisters Sally and Jill. If the combined total of
their ages is 40, how old is Graham?

(A) 8 (B) 9 (C) 10 (D) 11 (E) 13

17. Sam draws a rectangle with sides of length 56 cm and 98 cm. Jan
divides Sam’s rectangle into squares by drawing lines joining opposite
sides. What is the smallest number of lines that Jan must draw?

(A) 9 (B) 10 (C) 11 (D) 13 (E) 15

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18. The areas of three faces of a rectangular prism are 12 square cen-
timetres, 15 square centimetres and 20 square centimetres. What is
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19. Tony has an 8 cm by 12 cm paper rectangle. He folds it in half three

times, each time making a smaller rectangle. What is the smallest
possible perimeter of the rectangle after the third fold?
(A) 24 cm (B) 16 cm (C) 14 cm (D) 12 cm (E) 10 cm

20. The numbers on the six faces of this cube are consecutive even num-
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If the sums of the numbers on each of the three pairs of opposite

faces are equal, find the sum of all six numbers on this cube.
(A) 196 (B) 188 (C) 210 (D) 186 (E) 198

Questions 21 to 25, 5 marks each

21. In the following addition, some of the digits are missing.
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The sum of the missing digits is

(A) 23 (B) 21 (C) 20 (D) 18 (E) 15
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(A) 19 (B) 20 (C) 21 (D) 22 (E) 23

23. A set of 4-digit numbers are formed using four cards numbered 2, 3,
5 and 6, with each number formed containing every digit. How many
numbers in this set will be divisible by 8?
(A) 4 (B) 6 (C) 8 (D) 10 (E) 12

24. Mary has 62 square blue tiles and a number of square red tiles. All
tiles are the same size. She makes a rectangle with red tiles inside
and blue tiles on the perimeter. What is the largest number of red
tiles she could have used?
(A) 62 (B) 182 (C) 210 (D) 224 (E) 240

25. Carly is writing a fantasy novel which includes inventing a new lan-
guage. She decides to base her alphabet on letters formed from three
straight lines joining four dots arranged in a square where each line
joins two dots. Each letter goes through all four dots and can be
drawn without removing the pencil from the paper, (you may retrace
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For questions 26 to 30, shade the answer as a whole number

from 0 to 999 in the space provided on the answer sheet.
Question 26 is 6 marks, question 27 is 7 marks, question 28 is 8
marks, question 29 is 9 marks and question 30 is 10 marks.

26. What is the smallest number which is divisible by 7 and 6 and has
two odd digits?

27. Which 2-digit number is equal to the sum of its first digit plus the
square of its second digit?

28. Andrew thinks of 4 consecutive numbers. The sum of the first three
numbers is 100 more than the fourth number. What is the sum of
these four consecutive numbers?

29. Paul is one year older than his wife and they have two children whose
ages are also one year apart. Paul notices that on his birthday in
2011, the product of his age and his wife’s age plus the sum of his
children’s ages is 2011.
What would have been the result if he had done this calculation
thirteen years before?

30. Joe the handyman was employed to fix house numbers onto the doors
of 80 new houses in a row. He screwed digits on their front doors,
numbering them from 1 to 80. Then he noticed that there were houses
already numbered 1 to 64 in the street, so he had to replace all the
numbers with new ones, 65 to 144. If he re-used as many digits as
possible (where he could use an upside down 6 as a 9 and vice versa),
how many new digits must he have supplied?
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