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Read the instructions on the ANSWER SHEET and fill in your

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Rub out any mistakes completely.

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Mark only ONE answer for each question.

Mathematics Your score will be the number of correct answers.
Marks are NOT deducted for incorrect answers.

There are 40 MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS (1–40).

Use the information provided to choose the BEST answer from
the four possible options.
On your ANSWER SHEET fill in the oval that matches your answer.

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 1. Anish found a caterpillar. 4. Natalia is making cupcakes. She needs
60 g of butter to make 12 cupcakes.

0 mm 10 20 30 40 50 60 70

What is the length of this caterpillar?

(A) 30 mm
(B) 33 mm
(C) 30 cm
(D) 33 cm
What is the largest number of cupcakes
2. Yara started training at 3:15 pm. She that Natalia can make with 120 g of
trained for one hour and 45 minutes. butter?

At what time did Yara finish? (A) 10

(B) 24
(A) 4:00 pm (C) 60
(B) 4:15 pm (D) 132
(C) 5:00 pm
(D) 5:15 pm
5. Nick bought 6 packets of tennis balls.
Each packet had 5 balls in it. Nick lost
3. Joe is in box P1. 7 tennis balls.

P Q R How can he work out how many

tennis balls he has left?
1
Joe Mike (A) 6×5–7
2 (B) 7–6×5
Lin Ali Sue (C) 7×5–6
(D) 6×7–5
3
Ella

Who is in box R2?

(A) Ali (B) Ella

(C) Mike (D) Sue

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 6. The table shows how long four students 9. Tony has four parrots and five canaries in
took to run a 100 m race and a 400 m race a cage.
at a sports event.
When Tony goes to feed his birds, he
Time to Time to notices that one of them is missing.
complete complete
Name What is the chance that the missing bird is
100 m race 400 m race
(seconds) (seconds) a canary?
Anish 13.3 74.7 (A) 1 out of 2
Jess 16.9 69.5 (B) 1 out of 5
(C) 4 out of 9
Natalia 14.5 60.3
(D) 5 out of 9
Tony 19.4 83.1

Which student took less than 15 seconds 10. Yara cut out a piece of cardboard and
to complete the 100 m race and less than placed it near a line on grid paper.
70 seconds to complete the 400 m race?

(A) Anish
(B) Jess
(C) Natalia
(D) Tony

Which diagram shows Yara’s piece of

7. 8 806 – 2 739 = ?
?
cardboard reflected in the line?
(A) 6 133
(B) 6 103
(C) 6 077
(D) 6 067

8. How many minutes are there in five and

(A) (B)
a half hours?

(A) 55
(B) 300
(C) 330
(D) 550

(C) (D)

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 11. The picture shows four objects on a tray. 13. The picture shows a stack of three dice.
Each dice has the numbers 1 to 6 shown
in dots on the faces.

What is the approximate total mass of the

objects on the tray?

(A) 250 grams

(B) 250 tonnes
(C) 250 kilograms
What is the sum of all of the numbers
(D) 250 milligrams
NOT shown in the picture?

(A) 63
12. This picture shows a wheel with a star
(B) 38
on it.
(C) 25
(D) 24

14. Ms Scott has 38 microscopes. She needs

to have two sets of 28 for her science
classes.

How many more microscopes does

The wheel makes half a turn in the
Ms Scott need?
direction of the arrow and a quarter of a
turn in the opposite direction, then stops. (A) 10
(B) 18
Which picture shows the wheel after it has
(C) 20
stopped?
(D) 22

(A) (B)

(C) (D)

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 15. Square numbers are numbers that can be 17. Four angles were drawn on square dot
represented by a square pattern of dots. paper as shown below.

The first three square numbers 1, 4 and 9 Which is the largest angle?
can be represented as shown.

Which of the following is a square (A) (B)

number?

(A) 10
(B) 25 (C) (D)
(C) 27
(D) 90

18. How many of the small squares are

16. Natalia drew four shapes. needed to cover the big square?

Shape 1 Shape 2
small big
square square

(A) 7
(B) 14
(C) 25
(D) 49

Shape 3 Shape 4

Which shapes have only one line of

symmetry?

(A) Shape 3 and Shape 4

(B) Shape 2 and Shape 3
(C) Shape 1 and Shape 3
(D) Shape 1 and Shape 2

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 19. A local shop is offering one bouncy 21. Anish was trying to lose weight. At the
ball free with every five bouncy balls a beginning of summer he weighed 76.5 kg.
customer pays for. At the end of summer he weighed 69.8 kg.

Jess pays the normal price for 30 bouncy How many kilograms did Anish lose?
balls.
(A) 16.7
How many bouncy balls will she receive in (B) 13.3
total? (C) 7.3
(D) 6.7
(A) 30
(B) 31
(C) 35 22. Mel recorded the results of 80 spins of a
(D) 36 spinner.

20. Natalia made a model using cubes. She

29 29
19 19
21 21
11 11
drew the front view and the top view of the
model. Which of these spinners is most likely to
be the one Mel used?

front view top view (A) (A) (B) (B)

Which of these could be Natalia’s model?

(C) (C) (D) (D)

(A) (B)

(C) (D)

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 23. Jess wants to make a cube so that the 25. Jackie can make 2 pies in 3 minutes.
same number is written on opposite faces. Lenny can make 3 pies in 2 minutes.

Which of these could be the net of this How many pies can they make together
cube? in an hour?

(A) 50
1 (B) 100
2 1 2 (C) 130
(D) 150
3 3 1
1 2 2 26. Yara was standing at point X, as shown
3 3 below. She walked 20 metres east.
Then she walked 20 metres north. From
(A) (B) there Yara walked a further 20 metres
south-east.

2 3 2 What was the final point that Yara reached

at the end of her walk?
1 3 1
N
1 2 2
3 3 1
(C) (D)

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

24. Natalia had a sticker book with 31 pages.

On the 1st page she put one sticker. X

On the 2nd page she put two stickers.

She continued this pattern to the 31st page.

10 m

...

...

1st page 2nd page 31st page

How many stickers did Natalia put in her

book altogether?

(A) 196
(B) 306
(C) 496
(D) 961

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 27. Jess arranged some shapes into a 29. Jess makes a scoop of ice-cream that has
repeating pattern. a volume of 85 mL.

Here are the first 12 shapes in the pattern.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

1 2will3 be4 the5 466th shape

What 7 8 in9 this
10 11 12
pattern?
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
(A)
1 2 3 4
(B) 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
What is the largest number of scoops of
this size that Jess could make from a 2 L
(C) tub of ice-cream?

(D) (A) 2
(B) 23
(C) 24
28. Tony walked in a straight line from point A (D) 42
to point Z.

The distance from A to Z is 2400 m. 30. Yara needs to complete this number
sentence.

17
17 16
(16 2
2)==99
A Z
2400 m 17
17
17
17 16
16
16
16 2
22
2==
=99
9
Which
17 operation
17
17
17 16 signs
16
16
16 22=
22==9
==9should
99
9 Yara use to
NOT TO SCALE make it a correct number sentence?
(A) + and ×
Tony stopped twice before reaching Z. (A)
(A)
(A) +
++ and
and
and ××
(A)
(A) +
(B) and
and
+ and
and
and × × :
First he stopped after 5000 cm at point B. (A)
(A)
(A)
(A) ++
++ and
and ××
× ×
Then after a further one km, he stopped at (B)
(B)
(B)
(B)
(B) ++
++ and
and
and
and
–
and :: ::
point C.
(B)
(B)
(B)
(B)
(C)
++
++ and and
and
and
and :: :: ×
(C)
(C)
(C)
(C)
(C) ––
––
(D) and
and
and
– and
and
and ×
× ×
× :
(C)
(C)
(C)
(C) ––
–– and
and
and
and ×
×× ×
How far did Tony walk from point C to
(D)
(D)
(D) ––
– and
and : ::
point Z, in km? (D) –
(D)
(D)
(D)
(D)
(D) ––
––
and
and
and ::: ::
and
and
and
and
(A) 0.90
(B) 1.35
(C) 2.25
(D) 22.50

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 31. Students may play football, basketball or 33. The train from Canberra to Sydney leaves
both sports at lunch time. at 11:50 am and arrives at 3:05 pm. The
bus from Canberra to Sydney leaves at
The table shows the activities of 24 11:49 am and arrives at 4:08 pm.
students at lunch time last Thursday.
Which of these statements is true?
Activities
(A) The travelling time for the train is
football 13 3 h 55 min.
(B) The travelling time for the bus is
basketball 12 5 h 41 min.
(C) The train arrives in Sydney
neither sport 63 minutes before the bus.
3
(D) The travelling time for the bus
is four minutes longer than the
How many students played both football travelling time for the train.
and basketball?

(A) 1 34. Yara wants to put a fence around this

(B) 4 garden.
(C) 11
(D) 25 12 m

10 m
32. Jess thought of a 2-digit number. The
product of the digits of the number is 10 m 32 m
equal to double the sum of the digits of the
number.

Which of the following could be the

number Jess thought of?
NOT TO SCALE
(A) 11
(B) 22 Which expression shows how many
(C) 36 metres of fencing she needs?
(D) 42
(A) (10 × 10) + (32 × 12)
(B) (10 × 4) + (32 + 12) × 2
(C) (32 + 12) × 2 + (10 × 2)
(D) (32 + 12) × 2 + (10 × 3)

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 35. Tony cut a square into two pieces. 37. Tony’s bike moves forward two metres
every time its wheels complete one full
This is one of the pieces. turn.

Tony was riding his bike in a race. When

he had finished three-quarters of the race,
his wheels had made 6000 full turns.

What was the total length of the race,

in metres?
Which of these is the other piece? (A) 4 000
(B) 8 000
(C) 12 000
(D) 16 000

38. In a school merit award system, a student

with 3 bronze awards receives a silver
(A) (B) award. A student with 3 silver awards
receives a gold award. A student with
3 gold awards receives a medallion.

Tony has one silver award and one bronze

award.

How many more bronze awards does Tony

(C) (D)
need to receive a medallion?

(A) 5
36. What is the missing number in this number (B) 15
pattern? (C) 23
(D) 27
6, 8, 12, ?
? , 36, 68

(A) 28
(B) 22
(C) 20
(D) 18

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 39. A school is having a burger day.

Each student gets a bread roll with meat.

Each student can choose 0, 1, 2, 3 or
4 extras.

Extras
Lettuce
Tomato
Onion
Sauce

How many different choices of burgers are

possible?

(A) 5
(B) 6
(C) 15
(D) 16

40. Anish has four different kinds of cubes.

Cube Mass Height

yellow 60 g 5 cm

blue 130 g 10 cm

red 250 g 20 cm

green 450 g 40 cm

Anish makes four stacks of cubes by

placing one cube on top of another. Each
stack is 120 cm high and made of only one
colour.

What is the colour of the stack with the

greatest mass?

(A) yellow
(B) blue
(C) red
(D) green

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