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THE UN IVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES


SYDNEY • AUSTRALIA
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1. Ann drew a picture. 3. AB. CD and EF are straight lines. AB is
parallel to CO.

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Ann rotated her picture 90° clockwise
around its centre . _____A/~
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Which of these shows Ann's picture after
the rotation? What is the size of angle x?

(A) 80°
(B) 95°
(C) 100°
(D) 280°

(A) (8)
4. Ann wants to use the digits 2, 3, 4 and 5
to form a 3-digit code number. Each digit
can only be used once.

How many different code numbers can


Ann form?

(C) (0) (A) 6


(B) 24
(C) 27
(D) 64
2. Joe has some roses. He has enough
roses to make bunches of 5, 10 or 25
roses with none left over.

What is the smallest number of roses Joe


could have?

(A) 25
(8) 40
(C) 50
(D) 100

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5. Mike walks from his home to his school. 7. Manling created this graph to show sales
of four flavours of yoghurt in her shop.
There are a number of paths he can take,
but he always walks in a direction that will
take him closer to his school. vanilla

home

5 10 15 20 25 30
Sales

Which of these sector graphs matches the


data in Manling's graph?

school

How many different paths can Mike take to


get to his school?

(A) 8
(A) (B )
(B) 6
(C ) 3
(D) 2

6. A spacesh ip enters Earth's atmosphere


with an initial speed of 1150 metres per
second.
(C) (D)
Before ii lands, the spaceship slows to a
final speed of 1.5 metres per second .

What fraction of the initial speed is the 8. Which diagram shows three-quarters of
final speed? two-fifths shaded?

3 15
(A) 2300 (B)
11 5

115 2300 (A) (B)


(C) (D) 3
15

(C)
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(D)

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9. The n'" pyramidal number can be found 11. The dot plot below shows the marks
achieved by 10 students on a quiz.
using the formula 11 (n+ 1)(211 + 1).
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0
The first pyramidal number is 1. 0

What is the 11 'h pyramidal number? 2 3 4 5

(A) 11 What is the mean of the marks achieved?


(B) 24
(C) 506 (A) 1.4
(D) 3036 (B) 3.5
(C) 4.0
(D) 5.0
10. Sunil drew a 4 cm square on his computer 1-----------------~
and called it X.
12. The picture shows a design for a dart.
Ttien he created another shape that had
4 cm sides and a height of 2 cm. He called
this shape Y.

Sunil's two shapes are shown in the


diagram.

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Which statement about the shapes X and
Y is true?
What is the value of x?
(A) Y and X have the same area.
(B) Y has half of the area of X. (A) 70
(C) Y has a third of the area of X. (B) 80
(D) Y has a quarter of the area of X. (C) 100
(D) 170
13. Sasi wants to mark the vertices of 15. Lin and Ann each have a collection of
a right-angled triangle on a field using music CDs.
three flags. She put the red flag on the
field and then she put the blue flag 20 m If Ann gives Lin 12 of her CDs, they would
south-east of the red flag . each have the same number of CDs.

If Lin gives Ann 12 of her C Ds, Ann would


have four times as many CDs as Lin.

How many music CDs does Ann have?

(A) 80
(B) 52
(C) 28
(D) 24

'where could Sasi put the third flag so that 16. Point A is plotted at (-2, 3).
lines drawn between the three flags make ,-------· ·Y __._ _ _.__ __
a right-angled triangle? I i i
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(A )
(8)
20
20
m east of the red flag
m west of the blue flag
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(D) 20 m south-west of the blue flag ~-~- -1_j-' ! I
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14. Sheets of paper come in different sizes.
I ' I I I I
The A-series has the sizes: AO, A 1.. .. A 10.
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Each size is twice the area of the next I ' :
size.
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' . :I_ __:• _ = 3...__:____ ,___ ~--

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For example, the area of an AO sheet of ' I • • I
paper is twice the area of an A 1 sheet of i--~-~-'-_.:_____ l_J___._·- -·
paper.
The point A is re flected in the line
How many sheets of AB paper are needed
to equal the area of one A 1 sheet? y =x +1

(A) 8 Whal are the coordinates of the reflected


(8 ) 16 point?
(C ) 128
(0 ) 256 (A) (3, 0)
(B) (3. -2)
(C) (2, - 1)
(D) (2. - 3)

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17. Some muffins are made using strawberries, 20. The diagram shows two regular pentagons
blackberries and raspberries, in the ratio with a common side.
of 5:3:1 .

The total mass of berries used in one


day was 1 494 kg.

What is the total mass of blackberries


and raspberries used?

(A) 166 kg
(B) 498 kg
What is the value of x?
(C) 664 kg
(D) 830 kg
(A) 72
(B) 120
18. A circle with radius 14 cm has a 90° (C) 144
sector cut out. The rest of the circle (D) 216
is then curved to form a cone and the
straight edges are taped together without
21. Which of the triangles below has angles in
overlapping.
the ratio 4:4:7?

What is the circumference of the base of


the cone, to the nearest centimetre?
(A)
(A) 66
(B) 88
(C) 154
(D) 462
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19. 15 robots can make a train in 6 days, ~
working 5 hours a day. (C) (0)
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In how many days will 25 robots, working
6 hours a day, complete the same worl<?

(A) 3
(B) 4
(C) 10
(D) 12

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22. P and Q are positive integers. 24. The diagram shows an easy way to work
out the sum of the odd numbers
P=8Q 1 +3+5+7+9+11.

Pis divisible by 6.

What is the smallest possible value for Q?

(A) 24
(8) 12
(C) 3
(D) 2
What is the sum of 1 + 3 + 5 + ... + 99?
23. Lin removed two equal circles from a piece
(A) 2401
of rectangular cardboard as shown in the
(8) 2500
diagram.
(C) 5000
(D) 9801

25. The mean , mode and median for the


following set of numbers have been
calculated .

What fraction of the rectangular area did 2, 2,3,5,5,6,6,6, 7, 7, 8, 9


Lin remove, in terms of n?
What number can be added to the set
1 without altering the values of the mean,
(A) - 7t
8 mode and median?

1 (A) 5
(8) -n (8) 5.5
4
(C) 6
1 (D) 6.5
(C) - n
2

(D) n 26. If /11 and 11 are two different positive


integers, then (m x n)" is

(A) odd if only /11 or n is even.


(8) odd if /11 is odd and n is even.
(C) even if both m and n are odd.
(D) even if both /11 and n are even.

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27. A rectangle 24 cm by 10 cm is inscribed in 29. The variables x and y satisfy the equation
a circle as shown.

If y is doubled, what operation needs to be


performed on x to keep the equation true?

(A) multiply by 2

(B) multiply by 4

1
(C) multiply by 2

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(D) multiply by
4
What is the area of the circle, in cm 2 ?

'(A) 2for 30. For what values of x is this inequality true?


(B) 169n
(C) 289n -5x > 3(6-x)
(D) 676n
(A) all values of x less than -9
(B) all values of x greater than 9
28. A storm on a planet left an even layer of (C) all values of x greater than -9
dust over the whole surface. (D) all values of x between -9 and 9

A robot collected samples of this dust and


found that, on average, there was 7 grams 31. Mathematical termites eat through a piece
per square kilometre. of wood so that the wood remaining at the

The radius of the planet, r, is 1137 km. end of each day is 1._ of what was there
4
at the beginning of the day.
The area of the surface of the planet can
be calculated using the formula
Starting with a complete piece of wood,
S= 4m.:.> what fraction have the termites eaten after
three days?
Which of the following is nearest to the
1
number of kilograms of dust left by the (A)
storm on the planet's surface? 4

(A) 200 3
(B) 100000 (8)
4
(C) 20000000
(D) 100000000 27
(C)
64

37
(0)
64

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32. Fadi has a cube of wood with a volume 34. Sasi has two identical square prisms and
of 27 000 cm 3. He drilled a horizontal a table of height '1.
cylindrical hole all the way through the
cube as shown. She arranged them as shown.

In Figure 1, 1· is 64 cm .
In Figure 2, s is 56 cm.

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Figure 1 Figure 2
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What is the volume of the hole Fadi drilled,


What is h?
to the nearest cm 3?
(A) 60 cm
(A) 942
(8) 64 cm
(8) 2356
(C ) 72 cm
(C) 7200
(D) 120 cm
(D) 9425

35. A fly lands at random on one of the


33. Joe drove from his home to work at an
squares shown.
average speed of s 1 km/h. He drove the
same distance from work back to his home
at an average speed of s2 km/h.

Which formula gives the average speed


for the whole journey, in km/h?

S J + S1
(A)
2
After the fly land s, it must walk to an
adjacent square, either horizontally or
.1'1 x s, vertically.
(B)
2(sJ + s1 )
What is the probability that the fly ends up
on the square marked 'X'?
2(sJ+s 2 )
(C) 2 11
s, x s2 (A) (8) -
5 30

2(s J ><s1 )
(0)
SJ+ S 1
(C)
3
(D) -4
10 15

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lit\l}~~~~~~l'l~~~~~~~H~~ 38. Joe has a choice of two trucks to bring
1P1 the sand needed in the construction of a
building: Truck A and Truck B.

The tray on each truck is a rectangular


36. In mathematics 11 factorial (11!) is defined prism. The dimensions of the trays of the
as the product of all positive integers from two trucks are shown in metres.
1 to a certain number 11.

Truck A Truck B
For example 4! =4 x 3 x 2 x 1 =24 Length 4 5
The value of 22! is a very large number. Width 2.5 2.8
He!ght 0.5 0.5
How many zeros are there at the end of
this large number? On each trip the tray is filled exactly to the
top.

37. Single-digit numbers are written on the It takes 14 trips for Truck A to bring the
faces of two cubes to create some unusual sa nd to the site.
dice.
How many fewer trips will it take Truck B
On each die, there are a certain number to bring the same amount of sand to the
of sixes and some other numbers. site?

Each die has the same number of sixes.

How many sixes are there on each die 39. A line of symmetry divides a 20 shape
if the probability of rolling a double six into two mirror images. Similarly, a plane
. 1? of symme try divides a 30 shape into two
IS - .
4 mirror images.

Sasi has this solid. All the faces of the


solid are identical equilateral triangles.

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How many planes of symmetry does


Sasi's solid have?

10
40. A mersenne number is a number that can
be written in the form 2" - 1 where n is a
positive integer.

A mersenne prime is a mersenne number


that is also a prime number.

The first mersenne prime is 3.

What is the fourth mersenne prime?

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