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

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the four possible options.
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of the year levels that should
sit this paper You may use a ruler and spare paper.
You are NOT allowed to use a calculator.
 4. This page was cut from a calendar.
1. 79 + 52 + 88 = ?
(A) 209
(B) 219
(C) 2019
(D) 2119

2. Which location on the map is south-west

of Rosetown?

(A) What month could this page show?

(B) (A) January

(B) February
(C) March
Rosetown (D) April

(D) 5. Jemma can walk 80 metres in 1 minute.

N (C)
How far can she walk in 5 minutes?

(A) 16 metres
(B) 85 metres
(C) 320 metres
3. How many of these shapes have at least (D) 400 metres
one right angle?

(A) 2
(B) 3
(C) 4
(D) 5

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6. A piece has been cut from this picture. 7. The table shows the different ways
students travel to school.

Ferry Bus Train Car

6 12 4 8

Which section of the pie graph represents

the number of students who catch the
train?

(B)

(A)
Which piece will complete the picture?
(C)

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

8. This spider has 9 egg sacks.

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

There are 98 eggs in each egg sack.

How many eggs are there altogether?

(A) 107
(B) 153
(C) 812
(D) 882

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 9. Jeremy put some apples and pears on 12. Which spinner has the least chance of
a set of scales. landing on ?

(A) (B)

Which picture could replace the square?

(A) (B)

(C) (D)

13. Sunil had this hollow shape.

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

(C) (D)

10. Which of these blocks has the least mass? He took it apart and lost two pieces.

Which pieces were left?

1 kg 0.5 kg 250 g 300 g
(A)
(A) (B) (C) (D) (A)

11. 2, 9, , 23, 30, ? , 44, 51, 58 (B)

(B)
Which two numbers are missing from the
number pattern?
(C)
(A) 16 and 36 (C)
(B) 16 and 37
(C) 17 and 36
(D) 17 and 37 (D)
(D)

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14. Which of these patterns has exactly five 17. How many of the small squares are
lines of symmetry? needed to cover the big square?

(A) (B)
small big
square square

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

18. Vincent and Sofia have the same birthday.

(C) (D) On their birthday this year Sofia’s age is
three times Vincent’s age in years. Both
Vincent and Sofia are less than 10 years
15. Which pair of symbols makes the number old and Sophia’s age is an odd number.
sentence correct?
Which of these could be Vincent’s age?
– = 48 ÷ 6
(A) 2 years
(A) = 5, =3 (B) 3 years
(B) = 8, =4 (C) 5 years
(C) = 17, =9 (D) 7 years
(D) = 50, =2

16. How many minutes are there in five and

a half hours?

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

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 19. Four children used a see-saw to compare 21. This graph shows how the rainfall and
how heavy they were. temperature vary throughout the year in
Wallamoo.
John Temperature is shown as a line graph and
rainfall is shown as a column graph.
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What is the order of the children from

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20. In a theatre, Indra is sitting in the 9th row
from the front. This row is also the 15th row Which statement is true about the weather
from the back. in Wallamoo?

How many rows of seats are there in this (A) As the temperature decreases, the
theatre? rainfall increases.
(B) As the temperature increases, the
(A) 6 rainfall increases.
(B) 23 (C) This graph shows no relationship
(C) 24 between rainfall and temperature.
(D) 25 (D) The rainfall is mostly lower than the
temperature.

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22. Mabel wants to tile this space in her 24. Ali has a card with different designs on its
garden. front and back.

front back

front back

Ali folds the top corner into the centre

of the front and does the same with the
bottom corner.
Which of these tiles can she use to cover
this space with no cutting, overlapping or What front
does the front of the front
card look like
gaps? after Ali folds it?
(A) (B) (C) (D) front front
(A) (B)

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

(A) (B)
23. Which two pictures are one-third shaded?
front front
(C) (D)

W X Y Z (C) (D)

(A) W and Y
(B) W and Z 25. Ivan has 6 pieces of string. Each piece of
(C) X and Y string is 25 cm. He ties the strings together
(D) X and Z to make one string that is 90 cm long. He
uses the same amount of string for each
knot.

How much string does he use in one knot?

(A) 10 cm
(B) 12 cm
(C) 15 cm
(D) 18 cm

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 26. Lin has 11 buttons. She arranges them to 28.
make a square and has 2 buttons left over.

When this car moves forward 1 metre,

each of its wheels completes half a turn.
Ahmed has more buttons than Lin. He
About how many full turns would each
arranges his buttons to make the biggest
wheel complete if the car travelled
square he can. He has 10 buttons left over.
10 kilometres?
What is the smallest number of buttons
(A) 20 000
Ahmed could have?
(B) 5 000
(A) 16 (C) 2 000
(B) 26 (D) 500
(C) 36
(D) 46
29. How many numbers between 1 and 99
contain the digit 3 at least once?
27. This figure is made of small cubes. All
(A) 10
surfaces of this figure are painted blue.
(B) 18
(C) 19
(D) 20

30. A baby crawled 4 metres in 10 seconds.

At what speed did the baby crawl?

(A) 4 centimetres per second

(B) 25 centimetres per second
(C) 40 centimetres per second
How many faces on the small cubes have (D) 100 centimetres per second
been painted blue?

(A) 30
(B) 32
(C) 38
(D) 40

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31. What is the difference between 33.3 and 33. Mavis made this object by sticking six
3.33? cubes together.

(A) 29.97
(B) 30.97
(C) 30.00
(D) 30.03 fro t
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fro t
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32. Holly has this block of cheese in the shape nt
of a cube.

Which picture shows the view of the object

from the left?

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

34. (A) (B)

Mandy is making (C)
a necklace. (D)has
She
10 cm three types of beads: blue spheres,
orange cubes and green cylinders. She
She wants to cut the cheese into smaller makes her necklace by repeating this
cubes each with a side length of 1 cm. pattern.

What is the smallest number of cuts she

needs to make? 12 mm 11 mm 12 mm

(A) 18
(B) 20
(C) 27
12 mm 11 mm 11 mm
(D) 30

How many blue spheres will she need

to make a necklace 345 mm long?

(A) 5
(B) 10
(C) 15
(D) 20

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 35. Sam has a grid of 9 squares. He wants 37. Josh is playing a game that has three
to shade two squares on his grid so that types of cards.
it has exactly one line of symmetry.
star triangle spiral
The picture shows three ways he can do
this.

star triangle spira

star triangle spiral l

The triangle card is worth three times as

many points as the star card. The spiral
card is worth three times as many points
In total, how many different ways can Sam star triangle spira l
asngl
tria thee triangle card.
triangle
shade two squares on his grid so that it star
has exactly one line of symmetry? These six cards are worth a total of
90 points.
(A) 8
(B) 12 triangle triangle
triangle triangle star
(C) 16 star
(D) 20 star star spiral

36. This shape was made from 7 rectangles triangle triangle star
each with an area of 128 mm2.
star star spira
star star spiral l

star
What is the area of the shape? star spiral

(A) 672 mm2

How many points is one spiral card worth?
(B) 704 mm2
(C) 768 mm2 (A) 5
(D) 896 mm2 (B) 15
(C) 30
(D) 45

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38. Students may play football, basketball or 40. Nina and Walid played a game. To score
both sports at lunch time. points they had to throw hoops around
the sticks.
The table shows the activities of 24
students at lunch time last Thursday. Throwing a hoop around stick Y scores
more points than throwing a hoop around
Activities stick X.

stick X stick Y
football 13

basketball 12

neither sport 3

How many students played both football

and basketball? Nina scored 14 points by throwing 3 hoops
around stick X and 1 hoop around stick Y.
(A) 1 Walid scored 16 points by throwing 2 hoops
(B) 4 around each stick.
(C) 11
(D) 25 How many points are scored for throwing
a hoop around stick Y?

39. A section of the park near the canal was (A) 3

damaged in a storm. (B) 4
(C) 5
For safety, a square area was fenced on (D) 6
three sides. Fence posts were used every
2 metres.

park

canal

How many fence posts were used?

(A) 89
(B) 90
(C) 91
(D) 94

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