First Name:_______________ Last Name:_____________

Circle your mathematics teacher’s initials:

CAN CHI DAS LIU
LIN NGN ORK SOO
STL TOW WAN

EPSOM GIRLS GRAMMAR SCHOOL

YEAR 9 MATHEMATICS
2019

TIME ALLOWED: 2 hours.

This Common Assessment Task (C.A.T) consists of
4 Achievement Standard tests.

ASSESSMENT NAME: GRADES: MARKS:

NUMBER
34
ALGEBRA
42
MEASURE
26
GEOMETRY
21

You should ALWAYS show your working in order to gain full credit for
your answers. There are some extra space for you to show your working on
page 13 & 14.
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Number h) Round your answer to part (g) to the nearest
hundredth.
You are advised to spend 35 minutes on these
questions. Show ALL working to get full marks.
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QUESTION ONE [1]
Fractions do not need to be simplified. i) Calculate −2(5 + 2) + 5(1 − 3) 2

27 __________________________________
a) Write 100 as a decimal
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[2]
[1]
j) Write 68 as a product of its prime factors
b) Write 48% as a fraction

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[1]
c) Calculate 11 + 25 ÷ 5 =

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[1]

2 3
d) 𝐂𝐂𝐂𝐂𝐂𝐂𝐂𝐂𝐂𝐂𝐂𝐂𝐂𝐂𝐂𝐂𝐂𝐂 3
−5=

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[2]
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QUESTION TWO
a) The school heater is turned on at 5 am in the
[1] morning. At this time the temperature of the
4 7
e) 𝐂𝐂𝐂𝐂𝐂𝐂𝐂𝐂𝐂𝐂𝐂𝐂𝐂𝐂𝐂𝐂𝐂𝐂 5
×8= college hall was -2°C. By 9 am the temperature
of the hall had increased by 20°C. What was the
_______________________________________ temperature of the hall at 9 am?

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[1] [1]
b) During the holidays, the caretaker only works 6
hours per day. One day in the holidays, she spent
f) List the following decimals in order from 2
smallest to largest. 5
of her day fixing the heater. How many hours
0.25, 0.31, 0.256, 0.301, 0.176, 0.204 and minutes did she spend fixing the heater?

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[1] ________________________________________
g) Add the smallest decimal and the largest
decimal. ________________________________________
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[1] ________________________________________
[2]
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c) A science teacher has 18.54kg of rocks. She f) On a Christmas tree, the red lights flash every
wants to divide this into 9 containers of equal 15 seconds and the blue lights flash every 20
weight. What weight of rocks will be in each seconds. How long will it be before both
container? colours flash at the same time?
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[1] _____________________________________
[2]
d) A plant in the science quad grows 1.25 cm per QUESTION THREE
month. How much would the plant have grown The school spent half of their annual maintenance
in 2 years?
budget on planting new trees. They spent two fifths
of what was left on general maintenance. After that,
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they spent a third of the remaining on buying new
chairs for teachers. What percentage of the original
_____________________________________
budget remains?
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[1]
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e) A highlighter set cost $16.50 and a pen set
costs $3.20 less than the set of highlighters. ________________________________________
Waimaria has saved $50. Will she be able to
buy two sets of highlighters and one set of ________________________________________
pens?
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[2]
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QUESTION FOUR d) The school wants to build a silent study room in
12% of the students at the school are international the library which will cost $110,000 to build.
students. • Every year, the school receives a total of
a) How many of the 600 students at school are $300,000 in donations from the students. For
international students? the next three years the school will save 5% of
this donation every year.
• The Ministry of Education will give the school
________________________________________
$42,000.
• All of the 600 students will participate in a
________________________________________ fundraising day, raising $20 each all of which
[1] goes towards the building project
• In addition, the LOTTO will give the school
b) Last year, the school received a total of 15% of the amount the students fundraise.
$300,000 in donations from all their 600 Will the school be able to afford to build the library
students. If every student at the school paid at the end of the next 3 years? If not, how much
their donation, how much did each student pay? more money will the school need?
Remember to show ALL working to get the full
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marks.
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[1]
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c) This year, school fees for international students
has dropped by 10%. The current fee is $18,000 ____________________________________________
per year. What was the international student fee
last year? ____________________________________________

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Algebra QUESTION THREE
You are advised to spend 35 minutes on these Expand and simplify if possible
questions.
(a) 5(y ‒ 7) = ___________________________ [1]
QUESTION ONE
Simplify the following: (b) x(5x + 4) ‒ 3(2x - 1) =

a) 7f + 6q + 4f + 2q = _________________________________________

________________________________ [1] _____________________________________ [2]

𝑥𝑥 7
b) =
𝑥𝑥 3
________________________________ [1] QUESTION FOUR
Solve the following equations:
4𝑏𝑏
c) = (a) x + 3 = 21
14𝑏𝑏
________________________________ [1]
________________________________ [1]
d) 7d × 6d =
________________________________ [1] 𝑥𝑥
(b) =3
5
e) 4y3 × 5y8 =
________________________________ [1]
________________________________ [1]
(c) 7x + 4 = 25
f) (2𝑓𝑓 3 )4 =
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48a3 𝑏𝑏2
g) =
24ab5
[1]
(d) −5(𝑥𝑥 + 2) = 30
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[2]
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QUESTION TWO
The formula for the area of a trapezium is: _____________________________________
[2]
(e) 5𝑥𝑥 ‒ 8 = 2𝑥𝑥 + 10
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Calculate the area of a trapezium that has
h = 10 cm, a = 4cm, b = 8cm. __________________________________ [2]

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QUESTION FIVE QUESTION SEVEN
(a) The original cost of a book was $n. It is now Martha bought a jacket and a dress.
reduced by $5. Peter bought 7 of these books. The price of the jacket was $10 less than three
Write an expression for the total cost of 7 books. times the price of the dress. She spent $250.
________________________________________ Form an algebraic equation, and solve it to work
out the cost of the dress.
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(b) The perimeter of this rectangle is 34 cm. Write
and then solve an equation to find the length of _____________________________________
the rectangle.
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x-15
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x

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_______________________________________ ___________________________________ [3]

_____________________________________ [2] QUESTION EIGHT

A group of 195 students went on a field trip. They
travelled in buses and cars, using 7 vehicles.
QUESTION SIX Using algebra, find the number of cars and buses they
Teresa is making soap for sale. She pays $46 to took if each car took 5 students and each bus took 45
hire the soap making equipment. She has students.
calculated that each bar of soap uses $2 worth of (You need to start with an equation.)
ingredients.
(a) Write an algebraic expression for the total cost _____________________________________
of making the soap. Let x be the number of
soap bars. _____________________________________

__________________________________[1] _____________________________________

(b) She has $150 to make as many bars of soap _____________________________________

as possible. How many bars of soap can she
make?
(Show how this can be calculated using algebra) _____________________________________

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QUESTION NINE (c) Write an algebraic equation to show the
relationship between the number of hexagons
Below are pictures of grandpa’s tile arrangement in and tiles.
the garden.
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_____________________________________ [2]
One hexagon is formed by 6 square-tiles
(a) Complete the table below
(d) How many tiles will be needed for 10 hexagons?
Number of Number of Tiles
Hexagon (H) (T) _____________________________________
1 6
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2 11

3 (e) Use algebraic to calculate how many hexagons

can be made with 121 tiles?
4
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5
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6
[1] _____________________________________
(b) Plot this information on the grid below.
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QUESTION TEN
List the next two terms in each of the following
sequences.

(a) 100, 96, 92, 88, _______, ________ [1]

(b) 1, 4, 9, 16, ________, ________ [1]

(c) 2x+1, 4x+3, 6x+5, ________, ________ [2]

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Measurement (b) The box has the measurements:
30cm long, 12cm wide and 8cm deep.
You are advised to spend 25 minutes on these
questions. You MUST show correct metric units to
receive full marks.

QUESTION ONE
Fill in the gaps with the correct conversion.

(a) 1.55 m = ______________ cm [1]

Calculate the volume of this box.
(b) 900 g = ______________ kg [1]
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(c) 1500 m = ______________ km [1]
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(d) 2.5 litres = ______________ ml [1]
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(e) 2100 mm = ______________ m [1]
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QUESTION TWO [2]
(c) The box was wrapped in bubble wrap and
(a) Sophie received a box of her favourite snack –
delivered by the courier service.
peanut butter toasty crackers. Take a reading of the
The measurements of the box are:
weight of the box.
30cm long, 12cm wide and 8cm deep.
Give the answer to the nearest 100 gram.

8 cm

What is the minimum area of bubble wrap needed to

cover the whole box?

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(d) The dimensions of a single pack are 12cm long,
5cm wide and 2cm deep. ________________________________________

________________________________________

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[3]
(f) The perimeter of the label is 33cm.
What is the length of the sloping side?

Single Diagram is NOT

to scale
How many single packs can fit in a different box
which measures 15cm long, 12cm wide and 4cm
deep?

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[2]
[2]
(e) At the back of the snack box, it has a label with QUESTION THREE
the following shape:
The table below shows the courier’s pick-up and
Diagram is NOT delivery time from different post offices. Pick-ups
to scale and deliveries are done at the same time.

Source: https://www.transum.org/
(a) A parcel is picked up (or delivered) at 1443
hours. Write this time in 12-hour clock format.
Calculate the area above.
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[1]

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(b) Looking at the table above, how long is it QUESTION FOUR
between the first pick-up time from International
The pool’s deep end is 170cm and the shallow end
and the last delivery time from Tong Thai?
is 70cm. The pool is 15m long and 10m wide.
The water tank has a rectangular base, length 8m,
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width 15m.
If water was emptied from pool into a waste water
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tank, how deep would the water reach?
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________________________________________ Pool

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[2]
(c) Sophie dropped off a parcel at Chitlom Square
at 12.30pm, she wanted the parcel to be delivered to
Ekkamai just before 3pm. Waste water
Tank

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Use 24-hr format to describe when the parcel will ________________________________________

be picked up from Chitlom and delivered to
Ekkamai. ________________________________________

________________________________________ ________________________________________

________________________________________ ________________________________________

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[2]
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Geometry QUESTION TWO
You are advised to spend 25 minutes on these Find the size of the marked angles in each of the
questions. following diagrams. Give a geometric reason for
each answer.
QUESTION ONE
(a) Diagram is NOT
(a) Draw any possible lines of symmetry on the
to scale
Mitsubishi logo.

Angle 𝒙𝒙 = _______________
[1]
[1]
Reason: _________________________________

(b) What is the order of rotational symmetry of

________________________________________
the Suzuki car logo?
________________________________________

________________________________________
[1]

(b)

Diagram is NOT
to scale

Order of rotational symmetry = ___________

[1]

(c) Give three different measurements of an obtuse

angle.
Angle 𝒙𝒙 = _______________
___________________________________ [1] [1]
Reason: _________________________________
(d) ∠AOE = _____________ o [1]
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QUESTION THREE QUESTION FOUR
Find the sizes of the marked angles in the following Bunnings sells trellis for landscaping. A section of
diagrams. Give geometric reason(s) for each the trellis is shown below.
Diagram is
answer. NOT to scale
H I
Diagram is NOT
to scale
A
AD is parallel to EG Diagram is
B
BE is parallel to CF NOT to
C BF is parallel to CG.
D

E
∆BCF, ∆BEF, ∆CFG are isosceles triangles.
F BE = BF = CF = CG
G

J K
Calculate the size of angle BFG.

Give geometric reasons for each step to get full

Angle ∠ICD = _____________ [1] marks.

Reason: _________________________________ ________________________________________

________________________________________ ________________________________________

________________________________________ ________________________________________

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[1]
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Angle ∠CDE = _____________ [1]
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Reason: _________________________________
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QUESTION FIVE QUESTION SIX
The figure shows three reflex angles. The diagram shows the position of three buildings
Using geometric reasoning to prove that in a town.
∠ X + ∠ Y + ∠ Z = 9000 Diagram is NOT
(Name any angles if required). to scale

Y
X

• The bearing of the Hospital from the Art

gallery is 0720.
• The Cinema is due east of the Hospital.
• The distance from the Hospital to the Art
gallery is equal to the distance from the
Z Hospital to the Cinema.
Work out the bearing of the Cinema from the Art
gallery.
You must include geometric reasons to gain full
________________________________________ marks.

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 What else did you learn from this subject that was not asked here?
Answer this question ONLY IF you have completed the entire paper.

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