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SUBJECT MATHEMATICS SUBJECT MATHEMATICS

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WRITE THE NAME OF YOUR SCHOOL BELOW:

READ THE FOLLOWING
DIRECTIONS CAREFULLY __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

1. This test is divided into THREE

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sections.
2. Make sure you read the instructions
before you start to work on any WRITE YOUR FULL NAME BELOW:
section.
3. Write all your answers in this test
booklet. DATE OF BIRTH
4. DO NOT OPEN THIS BOOKLET
UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO Day Month Year
SO.

MALE
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 Instructions for the Mathematics Test

You are NOT allowed to use calculators.

This test has THREE sections with a total of 40 questions.

SECTION I has 20 questions (Nos. 1-20).

SECTION II has 16 questions (Nos. 21-36).

SECTION III has 4 questions (Nos. 37-40).

You have 75 minutes for this test.

Answer ALL questions.

Read EACH question CAREFULLY before answering it.

Show ALL working.

Marks will be given for correct steps taken.

Work carefully but DO NOT spend too much time on any one question.

DO NOT BEGIN UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO SO.

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 Section I

1. Write the numeral to represent three hundred and five thousand and forty-eight.

Answer: _________________________

2. State the place value of the digit 3 in the numeral 653 581.

Answer: _________________________

3. Round 6 498 to the nearest thousand.

Answer: _________________________

4. The scores in a video game are given for four players.

Players’ Scores in a Video Game

Player Score
Dev 46 978
Liz 49 687
Suri 48 679
Vidal 49 876

Who scored the highest?

Answer: _________________________

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 5. The items below are on display at Sara’s Electronics Store. What fraction of the items are
phones?

Answer: _________________________

6. One-fifth of Gail's allowance is $30. Calculate Gail's allowance.

Answer: $ _______________________

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 7. Place the numbers below in the correct positions on the number line.

1.25 1.70 0.95

8. Express the shaded area as a decimal which represents part of the whole.

Answer: _________________________

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 9. Natalie has 7 bills in her pocket with a total value of $48.

$ $ $ $ ①
⑳ ⑤ ①

$ $ $
①

Write the missing values in the 2 bills above.

2
10. Ms. Tang bought 4 sets of doughnuts. She created a package of treats using of a set.
3
How many packages did she create using all 4 sets?

Answer: _________________________ packages

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 11. Betty’s weight is 46 000 grams. What is her weight in kilograms?

Answer: _________________________ kilograms

12. Ethan started an online Mathematics class at the time shown on the clock.
The class lasted 45 minutes.

What time did the Mathematics class end?

Answer: _________________________

1
13. Convert 25 hours to minutes.

Answer: _________________________ minutes

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 14. The model below is formed by stacking 1 cm cubes. Calculate the volume of the model.

Answer: _________________________ cm3

15. The second hand shown on the clock turned two right angles.
What number did the second hand point to after the turn?

Answer: _________________________

16. Which quadrilateral below has no right angles?

Answer: _________________________

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 17. Name a solid that has five faces, one of which is a square.

Answer: ________________________________________

18. The table below shows the number of books read by five students in a reading competition.
Complete the table to show how many books Varsha read if 73 books were read altogether.

STANDARD FIVE READ-A-THON

Student Number of books read

Jesse 15
Akeel 17
Varsha
Mala 13
Amy 12

19. What is the mode for the following set of test scores?

35 46 41 39 37
47 43 42 38 41
39 41 43 43 39
43 36 38 41 45

Answer: _________________________

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 20. The bar graph shows the school items used by students.

School Items used by Students

9
8
7
6
Number 5
of
Items 4
3
2
1
0
Pencil Ruler Pen Sharpener Eraser

Types of Items

How many more pencils than pens are used?

Answer: _________________________ pencils

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 Section II

21. Alan puts three numbers in ascending order. A common fraction belonging to the eighths
family is missing. Write the missing fraction.
(2 marks)

0.65 80%

22. Mr. Sam uses 12 cups of flour to bake one batch of bread rolls. Each roll can be made
1
from cup of flour. How many bread rolls can be made in five batches?
4
(2 marks)

Answer: ________________________ bread rolls

23. When 4 times a number is added to 25, the answer is the difference between 50 and 675.
What is the number?

(2 marks)

Answer: ________________________

24. Which two square numbers sum to 100?

(2 marks)

Answer: ________________________

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 25. Shane’s Computer Store had a sale on mobile devices. What was the total discount given
if a customer purchased both items shown below?
(3 marks)

Answer: $ _________________________

26. On Monday 400 students were present at Mountain View Primary school. By lunchtime,
40% of the students fell ill and returned home. The number of girls who remained was
four times the number of boys. How many boys remained after lunch?

(3 marks)

Answer: _________________________ boys

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 27. Andrew was asked to solve the problem below.

5 0 2 1
– 3 9 8 6

He estimated a difference of 2 000 in working out the problem.

Explain why Andrew's estimate may not be reasonable and clearly show your estimate.
(3 marks)

Answer:
________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

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28. Marlon sells a set of 3 mangoes for $5.00. He wants to buy a television which costs
$3 725.00 but only has $775.00 in his savings. How many mangoes must he sell to earn
the rest of the money he needs?

(3 marks)

Answer: _________________________ mangoes

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 29. A football game started at 4:10 p.m. and ended at 6:00 p.m. There was a 15 minute break
after the first half of the game. How much time was spent on actual play?
(2 marks)

Answer: _______________ hours _______________ minutes

30. Josh parked 147 centimetres away from the fire hydrant. How much further should Josh
move if he must park 2 metres away from the fire hydrant?

(2 marks)

Answer: _________________________ metres

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 31. The measure 2 m 50 cm is put into the number machine below.
Three numbers , and are missing.
Write the missing numbers.

2 m 50 cm

Add 3 m cm

6 m 25 cm

Multiply by

18 m 75 cm

Subtract 17 m 95 cm

cm

(3 marks)

Answer: = _________________________

Answer: = _________________________

Answer: = _________________________

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 32. Kareem has 48 m of wire to construct fences around two square plots of land. The area
of the first square plot is four times the area of the second square plot.

1st Plot 2nd Plot

1m 1m
1m 1m

Shade the areas on the grids above to represent Kareem’s two square plots.

(3 marks)

33. Complete the symmetrical shape on the grid below using the line of symmetry shown.
.
(2 marks)

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 34. Triangle ABC is a right angled isosceles triangle whose angle B is equal to its angle C.
Complete the drawing on the grid below to represent triangle ABC.
(2 marks)

35. The pictograph uses a scale factor to represent the number of cans collected by 5 teams.
Altogether, the teams collected 120 cans.

Number of cans collected

Team 1

Team 2

Team 3

Team 4

Team 5

How many more cans did Team 1 collect than Team 4?

(2 marks)

Answer: _________________________ cans

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 36. J's Auto sold 5 different types of vehicles. The table below shows the number of vehicles
sold by J's Auto during May.

Vehicles Sold in May

Type of Vehicle Number Sold

Sedan 30

SUV 20

Truck 10

Wagon 25

Sports Car 5

The owner of J's Auto wanted the mean number of vehicles sold in May to be greater.
How may Sports Cars should he have sold in May to increase the mean number of
vehicles sold to 20?

(3 marks)

Answer: _________________________ Sports Cars

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 Section III

37. The sum of every five numbers in the number pattern below forms a new number pattern.

3, 9, 15, 21, 27, …

Write the first three numbers in the new pattern and describe the pattern.

(4 marks)

Answer:

______________________________________________________________________

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______________________________________________________________________

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 38. The average mass of the four solids A, B, C, and D shown below is 1.5 kilograms.

A B C D

The average mass of solids A and B is 1.6 kilograms. The mass of solid C is three
times the mass of solid D. What is the mass of solid C and solid D, in terms of grams?

(4 marks)

Answer:

______________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________

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 39. On the grid paper below draw the quadrilateral with one pair of parallel sides,
one line of symmetry and the straight line that joins the points A and B as its base.

Complete the drawing using the straight line that joins the points A and B as a line
of symmetry and describe the completed plane shape in terms of its angles, sides
and lines of symmetry.

(4 marks)

Answer:

______________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________

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 40. Five students ran 60 m sprint races at Sea View Primary School. The times students
took to complete the sprint races are shown in the table below.

Times taken to complete 60 metres Sprint Races

Time in Seconds
Student
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th
Average
Sprint Sprint Sprint Sprint Sprint

Troy 10.4 10.3 10.2 10.1 10.0 10.2

Andy 15.0 12.9 12.5 10.5 9.1 12.0
Jessie 9.4 9.6 9.8 10.0 10.2 9.8
Stacy 9.6 11.2 9.4 11.0 9.3 10.1
Chris 9.5 10.1 10.3 10.5 10.6 10.2

Based on the information given in the table above, state three reasons why an average
is not a good measure to select a student to represent the school in a 60 m sprint race
and select a student to represent the school giving your reason.

(4 marks)

Answer:

______________________________________________________________________

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______________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________

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 END OF TEST

IF YOU FINISH BEFORE TIME IS CALLED, YOU MAY CHECK YOUR WORK
BEFORE HANDING IN YOUR PAPER

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