SECTION A

Each correct answer in this section is worth 2 marks.

1. What is the product of 20 and 5 ?
(A) 5 (B) 15 (C) 25 (D) 100

2. 14.7 ÷ 7 =
(A) 2 (B) 2.01 (C) 2.1 (D) 21
NEWCASTLE PERMANENT 3. How many diagonals does a pentagon have?
PRIMARY SCHOOL MATHEMATICS COMPETITION
Wednesday 18 August 2021 (A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5

4. 2016 − 197 =
Time allowed: 45 minutes.
Instructions: (A) 1819 (B) 1821 (C) 1829 (D) 1919
1. When asked by your teacher, open this booklet and check that there
are 35 questions. 5. One ball is picked out of a bag which holds 7 blue balls and 3 red
balls. What is the probability that the selected ball is red?
2. Calculators, electronic devices, rulers, geometrical instruments, or
other aids are NOT permitted. (A) (B) (C) (D)

3. NO working is to be shown on your answer sheet. Working paper 6. The perimeter of an equilateral triangle with sides 0.8 m long is:
will be supplied by your teacher if required.
(A) 120 cm (B) 1.6 m
4. All answers MUST be recorded in PENCIL on your answer (C) 2400 mm (D) 4.8 m
sheet (a B pencil or darker). Questions 1 to 33 are multiple choice.
7. One ice-cream costs $4.50. How much for 7 ice-creams ?
For questions 34 and 35 colour in the ovals to represent your
answer, as explained on the answer sheet. (A) $32.50 (B) $31.50 (C) $29.05 (D) $28.00

5. When your teacher gives the signal, begin working on the 8. Which one of these is most likely to have a mass of 70 grams ?
problems. You have 45 minutes working time.
(A) a matchstick (B) a bucket of water
6. Marks will NOT be deducted for incorrect answers. (C) a year 6 student (D) an apple

7. Make sure that you complete the sections on the answer sheet 9. A tin of peaches is an example of which 3-dimensional shape?
for your name, gender, division, school name and five-digit
Mathematics Competition Code. (A) cylinder (B) cone
(C) sphere (D) square pyramid
10. How many $15 concert tickets could you buy with $100 ? SECTION B
Each correct answer in this section is worth 3 marks.
(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 8

11. 16. 30% of $21.00 is:

(A) $2.10 (B) $6.30 (C) $7.00 (D) $63.00

17. is equivalent to:

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

18. What is the average of $560, $640, $610, $790 ?

(A) $610 (B) $650 (C) $675 (D) $680

19. A piece of timber is 5.4 metres long. It is cut into 3 pieces, one of
length 2.65 metres and another of length 1.7 metres.
What is the area in square units of the triangle shown in the diagram? What is the length, in metres, of the third piece ?
(A) 1.05 (B) 1.15 (C) 1.5 (D) 2.05
(A) 28 (B) 26 (C) 17.5 (D) 14

12. 15 − 3 × (10 − 6) = 20. The Fibonacci number pattern is 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, …. and so on. To

get the next number you add together the two previous numbers.
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 11 (D) 48 What is the first 3-digit Fibonacci number?
13. A football game started at 11.20 am. The game finished at 12.10 (A) 100 (B) 134 (C) 144 (D) 233
pm. There was a 10-minute break at half-time. How many minutes
long was each half of the game? 21. Study the pattern shown below:
(A) 50 (B) 40 (C) 25 (D) 20 1 =1
14. What is the lowest common multiple of 6 and 9 ? 1+3 =4
1+3+5 =9
(A) 54 (B) 18 (C) 15 (D) 3 1+3+5+7 = 16

15. Which one of the following division questions has a remainder of 0? What is the sum of the first 200 odd numbers?
(A) 261 ÷ 11 (B) 261 ÷ 10 (A) 400 (B) 4 000 (C) 40 000 (D) 400 000
(C) 261 ÷ 9 (D) 261 ÷ 7
22. − 5 + 12 −□+6=−2 27. A triangle has one angle of 60. We know that one of the other
angles is 4 times the size of the third angle. The triangle is:

The value of □ is: (A) obtuse angled (B) equilateral

(C) isosceles (D) right angled
(A) − 20 (B) − 15 (C) 11 (D) 15
28. On a number line, which number is exactly half-way between
23. The teacher explained that 3 + 5 + 2, 2 + 3 + 5 and 5 + 3 + 2 all
give the same answer. She said, “If the question is only about and 1 ?
adding you can do it in any order you like”.
One student said, “That is also true if the question only contains (A) (B) 1
1
(C) 1
1
(D) 1
multiplication”. 8 4
Another said, “That is also true if it only contains subtraction”.
A third student said, “That is also true if it only contains division”. 29. How many factors does 100 have?
How many of the students were correct? (A) 10 (B) 9 (C) 6 (D) 5
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3
30. Samantha walks at a speed of 4 km/h while Josh rides his bike at 15
24. 13 is a prime number. When its digits are reversed to give 31, we km/h.
obtain a different prime number. Samantha tells Josh that she is going to walk from the start to the
How many pairs of 2-digit prime numbers have this property? finish of a 10 km cycleway.
Josh replies that he will ride back and forth along the cycleway as
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 many times as necessary until they meet at the finish.
They start at the same time.
25. After spending 0.6 of her money, Melissa has $20 left. After Samantha reaches the finish, for how many minutes will she
How much has she spent? have to wait for Josh to join her at the finish?

(A) $8 (B) $12 (C) $30 (D) $50 (A) 0 (B) 10 (C) 30 (D) 50

SECTION C 31. The number 59 has the following properties:

Each correct answer in this section is worth 4 marks.  when divided by 2 the remainder is 1.
 when divided by 3 the remainder is 2.
26. How many multiples of 35 are there between 6 900 and 7 100 ?  when divided by 4 the remainder is 3.
 when divided by 5 the remainder is 4.
(A) 6 (B) 5 (C) 4 (D) 3 The next number with the same properties is:
(A) between 61 and 80 (B) between 81 and 100
(C) between 101 and 120 (D) between 121 and 140
32. A farmer needs to transfer 45 000 litres of water from an old tank Questions 34 and 35 are not multiple choice.
into a new tank. On the Answer Sheet colour in the ovals to represent your answer.
The farmer uses a pump which transfers 150 litres per minute.
The pumping starts at 6pm. 34. A garden (shown in darker shading) has the shape of two rectangles
It costs $3.50 per hour to run the pump until 8pm. joined as shown in the diagram, which is not drawn to scale. The
After 8pm the cost is $1.20 per hour. diagram also shows the lengths, in metres, of some of the sides of the
How much will it cost to transfer the water into the new tank? garden. A path (shown in light shading) surrounds the garden. The
path is 1 metre wide.
(A) $4.70 (B) $6.00 (C) $10.60 (D) $17.50

33. The diagram shows 3 squares (which are all the same size), one
isosceles triangle containing an angle of 42⁰, and 1 equilateral
triangle.
They meet at a common vertex with two of the squares overlapping.
How many degrees are there in the shaded angle?

What is the area of the path, (in square metres)?

35. In a certain type of number pattern you have a starting number and an
‘add-on number’.
For example, if the starting number was 20 and the add-on number
was 10, then the pattern would be 20, 30, 40, 50, and so on.
Note that the starting number in this question is not 20 and the add-on
number is not 10.
The teacher says: “I am thinking of an add-on number pattern. I will
give you 2 clues about it and then ask a question.”
(A) 42 (B) 45 (C) 60 (D) 66
Clue 1: the first number in the pattern is 50
Clue 2: the sum of the first 5 numbers in the pattern is 272
Question: What is the sum of the first 6 numbers in the pattern?

THERE ARE NO MORE QUESTIONS.