Year 7 NUMERACY

Non-calculator

Test 2

INSTRUCTIONS TO STUDENTS
Use a 2B pencil to show your answers.

For the multiple-choice questions, show your answer by shading

the matching bubble. If you make a mistake, erase the shading
and shade the correct bubble.

For the other questions, write your answer in the box provided.
If you make a mistake, erase it and write the correct answer.

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1 What is the rule to continue this decimal number pattern?
4.4, 3.7, 3.0, …

subtract 0.3 subtract 0.7 add 0.3 add 0.7

2 This diagram shows the depth of the floodwaters

at midnight.

4m
Floodwater
level

What was the depth of the floodwaters? 3m

3.5 m 3.6 m 3.7 m 3.8 m

3 Which of the following expressions has the same value as 12 × 4?

10 + 2 + 4 10 × 2 + 4 10 × 4 + 8 10 × 2 + 8

4 A trapezium is cut into two parts as shown:

The shape of each part is a:

pentagon trapezium rectangle triangle

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5 Which of the following shows an obtuse angle?

6 This diagram shows 250 mL of milk in the tall narrow

glass and 250 mL of milk in the short wide glass.

Which of the following is the most likely

to hold 250 mL?

7 Heinz folded this net to make a cube.

A

B C D
Which face is opposite face F?
E

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8 A positive number is multiplied by itself and then 5 is added.
The answer is 21.
What is the number?

9 L cm

6 cm not to scale

The perimeter of the rectangle is 36 cm.

What is the value of L?

10 The ladder has rung lengths of 50, 80 and 110 cm as shown.

50 cm

80 cm

110 cm

What is the length of the next rung in the pattern?

cm

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11 Alex made these two objects by gluing cubes together.

Which object below could not be made by joining Alex’s two objects?

12 A choir contains 6 girls and 4 boys.

Their names are put into a hat and one is chosen, without looking,
to be the conductor.
What is the chance that the conductor is a girl?

y
13 Kevin is drawing a square on this grid.
5
He has drawn two corner points as shown. 4
3
He makes (3,4) the third corner.
2
Where will the fourth corner be? 1
x
0 1 2 3 4 5

(0,1) (1,0) (0,4) (1,1)

14 The labels on 24 of the 40 tins of tomatoes on a supermarket

shelf were damaged.
The fraction of the tins with damaged labels was:
1 2 3 4
2 3 5 5

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15 This rectangular card has a perimeter of 22 cm.
8 cm

not to scale

Each long side has length 8 cm.

What is the length of each short side?

cm

16 An empty cup weighs 50 g.

One cup full of flour weighs the same as 6 empty cups.

How many empty cups weigh the same as 2 cups full of flour
and 2 empty cups?
4 8 12 14

17 Theo spins the arrow 100 times.

1

4 2

3
Which table is most likely to show his results?

Sector Number Sector Number Sector Number Sector Number

of spins of spins of spins of spins
1 20 1 10 1 20 1 10
2 20 2 30 2 20 2 10
3 20 3 10 3 10 3 20
4 40 4 50 4 50 4 60

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18 1500 copies of an advertisement were printed.
One-fifth of the copies were put into letterboxes.
10% of the remaining copies were put into a recycling bin.
How many copies of the advertisement were put into the recycling bin?
30 60 120 300

19 Chris is making this pattern using identical regular hexagons.

The first three shapes are:

Shape 1

Shape 2

Shape 3

Shape 1 2 3 4
Number of hexagons 1 7 19 ?

How many hexagons does Chris need for Shape 4?

18 31 37 49

20 A 3D (three-dimensional) object has an even number of faces.

Each face is an equilateral triangle.
When the object is cut through horizontally, the cross-section is a square.
The object is a:

tetrahedron cube octahedron rectangular prism

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21 Felicia cut three corners off a cube as shown.

How many edges does the object now have?

22 This map shows the time difference between Paris and Melbourne
on the same day.

Paris
9:30am

Melbourne
5:30pm

If it is 7:30 pm on Monday in Paris, what time is it in Melbourne?

3:30 am Tuesday 3:30 am Monday 11:30 am Monday 11:30 am Tuesday

23  and  stand for numbers.

 
 and  are related by a rule.
0 10
What is the rule?
1 13
 = 3 ×  + 10
2 22
=6×+1 3 37
 = 2 ×  ×  + 11
 = 3 ×  ×  +10

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24 Jet aircraft travel between many Australian cities.
The table gives the shortest airline distances (in km)
between some of these cities:

Sydney Adelaide Melbourne Canberra Perth

Sydney 1166 706 237 3278
Adelaide 1166 655 1206 2716
Melbourne 706 655 470 3456
Canberra 237 1206 470 3741
Perth 3278 2716 3456 3741

The distance from Adelaide to Canberra is about 5 times the distance from:
Adelaide to Perth
Sydney to Canberra
Canberra to Melbourne
Melbourne to Adelaide

25 Which arrow is pointing closest to the location of 2 on the number line?

3

0 1 2
A B C D
A B C D

26 What fraction is halfway between 3 and 4 ?

7 7

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27 The temperature of the refrigerator is 3°C.
The temperature of the freezer is 18°C colder than the temperature
of the refrigerator.
What is the temperature of the freezer?

°C

28 Michaela makes the 3D (three-dimensional) object below out of

cubes joined face to face.
The side view and front view are also shown.
Top
Top
Top
Top
Top
Top

Side
Side
Side
Side
Side
Side
Front
Front Side view Front view
Front
Front
Front
Front Side view Front view
Side
Side
Side
Side
view
view
view
view Front
Front
Front
Front
view
view
view
view
Which of the following is the top view?

29 The dimensions of a large box are twice the dimensions of a small box.

not to scale

Both boxes are rectangular prisms.

The volume of the small box is 8 cm3.

What is the volume of the large box?

16 cm3 32 cm3 64 cm3 128 cm3

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30 Which set of fractions is ordered from smallest to largest?
3 , 5 , 1 , 3
4 6 3 5
3 , 3 , 5 , 1
5 4 6 3
1 , 3 , 3 , 5
3 5 4 6
5 , 1 , 3 , 3
6 3 5 4

31 Marie rolled two dice 25 times.

Each time she added the numbers
Sum of numbers Number
on the top faces. on top faces of rolls
Her results are shown in the table. 2 1
3 2
4 2
5 3
6 3
7 5
8 4
What percentage of the rolls 9 2
resulted in a sum of 7? 10 2
11 1
12 0
% Total 25

32 This clock shows 4 o’clock.

The size of the smaller angle between the minute 11 12 1
10 2
and hour hands is about:
9 3
° 8 4
7 6 5

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