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4. The midpoints of the sides of a square are joined as shown. A
part of the original square is shaded as shown. What fraction
of the original square is shaded?
1 1 2 1 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
4 6 3 3 5
5. In a queue in the school canteen, Sarah was behind Tim and Carl
was between Sarah and Tim. Sarah was in front of Brett who was in front of
George. Who was fourth in line?
(A) Sarah (B) Tim (C) Carl (D) Brett (E) George
6. When five numbers are added the total is 2010. One of the numbers is
changed from 235 to 532. What is the total of the five numbers now?
(A) 1723 (B) 2542 (C) 2360 (D) 1896 (E) 2307
7. Eight blocks are glued together as shown.
(A) 477 (B) 495 (C) 1009 (D) 468 (E) 555
9. My father won $1000 in a lottery. He put one-fifth in the bank, spent one-
quarter of what was left on me and gave the rest to my mother. How much did
my mother receive?
(A) $400 (B) $888 (C) $450 (D) $550 (E) $600
10. Starting at A and walking around the figure back to A, how far do I walk?
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(A) 52 m (B) 48 m (C) 54 m (D)
50 m (E) 56 m
11.This is Liam’s timetable for a normal school day
How many minutes of class time does Liam have every day?
(A) 300 (B) 250 (C) 500 (D) 270 (E) 240
12. The average of two numbers is 11. One of the numbers is 6 more than the
other. Which is the larger number?
(A) 6 (B) 8 (C) 11 (D) 14 (E) 17
13. What fraction of the rectangle is shaded?
1 5 1 2 3
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
3 12 2 7 8
14. In a group of 55 students, exactly 39 are enrolled in mathematics and exactly
35 are enrolled in science. How many students are enrolled in both mathematics
and science?
(A) 20 (B) 16 (C) 19 (D) 4 (E) 55
15. Jeremy decides to measure area in hexagonal units (instead of squares) using
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the hexagonal unit as shown.
The total area of the grass is 108 square metres. What is the area, in square metres,
of the pathway?
(A) 216 (B) 54 (C) 181 (D) 207 (E) 200
19. A shop has a sale and sells hats for $12 each in the morning, taking $720. After
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lunch, the price is dropped to $9 each and the shop sells twice as many. What
was the total amount taken on the day?
(A) $1800 (B) $900 (C) $1260 (D) $1440 (E) $2880
20. The areas, in square centimetres, of three rectangles are given.
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The average number of cars per family is 1 . How many families have exactly two
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cars?
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 4
25. Five rectangles, each 12 cm long and of equal width, are placed together to
form a single rectangle, still 12 cm long but 5 times as wide. The new rectangle
has a perimeter twice as great as each of the original rectangles. What is the
perimeter, in centimetres, of the new rectangle?
(A) 48 (B) 60 (C) 64 (D) 72 (E) 84
26. Consider this statement:
THIS IS ONE GREAT MATHS CHALLENGE
Every minute, the first letter of each word is moved to the other end of the
word. In how many minutes will the original sentence appear back again?
27. Below is an example of a triangle drawn on a 6 by 5 grid with one vertex A on
the bottom left-hand corner and the other two vertices on the top and right-hand
boundaries.
What is the largest number of squares that can be cut by the sides of such a triangle?
28. The product of three consecutive whole numbers is 12 144. What is their sum?
29. When a number has the digit 2 put at both ends, its value increases by 2785.
What is the original number?
30. I have 4 black and 4 white cubes of equal size. In how many different ways can
they be put together to form a 2 × 2 × 2 cube? (Two cubes are not considered
different if they can be rotated to look the same.)
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