Year 7 NUMERACY

Non-calculator

Test 4

INSTRUCTIONS TO STUDENTS
Use a 2B pencil to show your answers.

For the multiple-choice questions, show your answer by shading

the matching bubble. If you make a mistake, erase the shading
and shade the correct bubble.

For the other questions, write your answer in the box provided.
If you make a mistake, erase it and write the correct answer.

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1 What is the rule to continue this fraction number pattern?

1 , 1 , 1 ,…
2 3 6

subtract 1 subtract 1 add 1 add 1

6 6

2 The thermometer shows the temperature at 9 am.

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
°C

What was the temperature at 9 am?

20°C 22°C 23°C 24°C

3 Which of these expressions has the same value as 24 ÷ 8?

6 + 9 – 12 3×4–8 3×4–6 12 ÷ 4 + 1

4 The top of a tetrahedron is cut off as shown.

The shape of the base of the cut-off piece is a:

triangle square rectangle hexagon

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5 This angle is:

a right angle an acute angle an obtuse angle a reflex angle

6 Which of the lines labelled A, B, C and D on the diagram

A
is the longest?
B

A B C D
C

7 The figure on the right is a square-based prism.

Which of the following nets can be used to make this figure?

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8 Mary thought of a number.
She added 5, then multiplied by 2.
The answer was 24.
What was the number Mary thought of?

9 A rectangular piece of material, shown below, measures 12 cm long.

The material is cut in half to form 2 triangles.
The area of each triangle is 18 cm².

12 cm

not to scale

What is the length of the shorter side of each triangle?

1.5 cm 3 cm 4.5 cm 6 cm

10 The Dinks yachts in the Wizza series are built in different

lengths (in m).
Complete the pattern below to find the length of the next
yacht in the Wizza series.
14 m 21 m 28 m ?

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11 Ruth has stacked some small cubes as shown.
Which of the following can be added to form
a solid rectangular prism?

12 There are 4 pink, 12 blue and 8 yellow highlighter pens in a box.

Without looking, Mairi takes one highlighter pen.
What is the chance that the highlighter pen taken is not yellow?
1 1 1 2
6 3 2 3

y
13 Janet joined the dots to make a straight line.
5

What are the coordinates of the point where 4

3
the line meets the x axis?
2

(0,2) (2,0) (2,1) (3,0) 1

x
0 1 2 3 4 5

14 Dean asks 20 people which one sport they like best.

8 like football and 7 like tennis.

The other people do not like any sport.
What fraction of the 20 people do not like any sport?

1 1 1 1
5 4 3 2

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15 This right-angled triangle has a perimeter of 30 cm.
The sides shown have lengths 5 cm and 12 cm.
What is the length of the third side?
12 cm

not to scale
cm

5 cm

16 An empty cup weighs 50 g.

3 cups full of water weigh 900 g altogether.

How much do 1 full cup and 1 empty cup weigh altogether?

300 g 350 g 400 g 650 g

Number of books read

17 The pie chart shows the numbers of books of particular
types read by a group of Year 7 students.
Science

100 students are selected at random from the group

Fiction
and asked what type of book they read. Adventure

Which table is most likely to show the results?

Type Number Type Number Type Number Type Number

Science 33 Science 35 Science 48 Science 17
Adventure 33 Adventure 17 Adventure 35 Adventure 35
Fiction 39 Fiction 48 Fiction 17 Fiction 48

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18 25% of the 20 people swimming in a pool were wearing sunglasses.
20% of those wearing sunglasses were boys.
How many boys were wearing sunglasses?

1 5 10 15

19 A sum can be written as a multiplication to get the answer.

Sum = Multiplication = Answer

2+2 2×2 4
1 1 1

3+3 3×3 9
2 2 2

4+4 4×4 16
3 3 3

5+5 5×5 25
4 4 4

Use the pattern to find the sum that is equal to 49 .

6

6+7 6+6 7+7 7+7

6 5 6 4

20 A 3D (three-dimensional) object has an odd number of faces.

Four faces are equilateral triangles.

One face is a square.
The object is a:

tetrahedron cone pyramid rectangular prism

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21 Mark cut one point off a tetrahedron as shown.

How many edges does the object now have?

22 The time in India is 4 hours and 30 minutes behind the

time in Brisbane.
This means that when it is 5 pm in Brisbane it is 12:30 pm in India.
It is 12 noon in Brisbane.
What time is it in India?

4:30 am 7:30 am 4:30 pm 8:00 pm

23 The cost of a piece of material depends on its length.

 stands for cost ($) and  

 stands for length (m). 1 $7.50
The table shows the cost of 2 $15.00
different lengths. 3 $22.50

What rule can be used to find the cost, , of  metres of the material?

 = 7.5 × 
 = 7.5 + 
 = 22.5
 = 15 × 

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24 The table shows the selling price of petrol in different towns.
The selling price of petrol depends on the original cost, taxes,
transport costs and profit:
Selling price = original cost + taxes + transport costs + profit

Adelon Byron Campbell Dimbla

Original cost 43.6 43.6 43.6 43.6
Taxes 42.4 42.4 42.4 42.4
Transport costs 3.2 5.2 9.8 4.4
Profit 19.2 31.2 58.8 26.4
Selling price 108.4 122.4 154.6 116.8

Which town pays the highest total of original cost, taxes and transport costs?
Adelon Byron Campbell Dimbla

25 The square on the right has an area of 1 cm2.

What is the area of this part of the square?

3 cm2 5 cm2 1 1 cm2 1 5 cm2

8 8 4 8

2
26 What mixed number is halfway between 1 and 1 3 ?
5 5

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27 Mirka did an experiment on cooling water.
Her saucepan of water was at a temperature of 80°C at 10 am.
She put it in the refrigerator and found that the temperature of the
water was 84°C colder when she took it out at 2 pm.

What was the temperature of the water at 2 pm?

°C

TopTop TopTop

28 Lila made the 3D (three-dimensional) object Top

shown, out of cubes joined face to face.

Which of the following is the top view of her object?

29

How many 1 cm cubes will fit in a cube of side length 5 cm?

5 25 75 125

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30 Which of these fractions is the smallest?

1 1 1 1
3 4 5 6

31 Kirk spun the spinner 40 times.

4 1

3 2

The results were as follows:

1 2 4 3 1 1 2 1
2 4 3 4 2 2 4 1
3 4 3 2 4 3 3 2
2 4 4 2 2 4 2 1
4 4 2 3 3 1 3 4

What percentage of the spins resulted in a 2?

32 What is the angle between NW and SE on a compass?

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