year

NUMERACY
 NON-calculator
9
2015

SESSION 2
Use 2B or HB

40 min Time available for students to

complete test: 40 minutes
pencil only

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 YEAR 9 NUMERACY (non-calculator)
N15N261
This table shows a pattern. The top and bottom numbers are connected by a rule.
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Top number 1 2 3 4 …… ?
Bottom number 3 6 9 12 …… 27

What is the top number when the bottom number is 27?

5 9 15 19

N15N048 – 7
Luca had a $10 voucher to spend on games for his smartphone.
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He bought three games at $1.99 each.
Which expression shows how much he has left to spend?
$10 – $1.99
$10 – (3 × $1.99)
$10 – $1.99 + $1.99 + $1.99
3 × ($10 – $1.99)

N15N187 – 7
This spinner is spun twice.
 3
The two numbers that the arrow lands on are added.

1 5

4 2

3 6

Which of these totals is most likely to occur?

7 10 11 12

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N15N160 - 7
Some tiles are missing from this pattern of tiles.
 4

When complete the pattern has two lines of symmetry.

Which of these could be the missing part of the pattern?

N15N080
This graph shows the history of the men’s high jump world record.
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2.50

2.45

2.40
Height (m)
2.35

2.30

2.25
1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995
Year
By about how many centimetres did the world record increase
between 1970 and 1985?
9 11 15 17

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N15N049 – 7
Brad was trying to draw a net of a rectangular prism.
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B

A C D

He drew one face of the prism incorrectly.

Which face did he draw incorrectly?
A B C D

N15N280

 7 5 × 23 =  ?
30 40 115 1000

N15N266 - 7

 8 = 6

× = + + +

What is the value of ?

0 1 2 3 4

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N15N076
Ann was drawing a rectangular prism on an isometric grid.
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P
R

Q S

U
T

Which pair of points should she join with a line?

P and R P and S Q and U Q and T

N15N088

 10

What is the best estimate for the capacity of this mug?

0.30 litres 3.0 litres 90 millilitres 900 millilitres

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 YEAR 9 NUMERACY (non-calculator)
N15N102

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Distance

Time
Which of the following stories best fits the graph above?
Melanie drove north-east, did some shopping and drove back home.
Melanie walked uphill, had a rest and ran downhill.
Melanie ran to the park, rested for a while and then walked home.
Melanie walked to the beach, had a swim and then ran back home.

N15N085
P
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S Q

R
Which of these properties makes PQRS a trapezium?
Line PS is perpendicular to line PQ.
Line QR is parallel to line SR.
Line PR is perpendicular to line SQ.
Line PQ is parallel to line SR.

N15N084
Which expression is equal to 5x – 2 + 3x + 6?
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12x 8x + 4 8x – 8 3x + 9

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N15N282
Ben and Lee were playing a game.
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They both started with zero points.
Ben’s final score was 240 points. Lee’s final score was – 60.
How many more points did Ben have than Lee?
– 300 – 180 180 300

N15N165 - 7
Sanjeet put two identical posters on his wall as shown.
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middle of the wall
1.5 m 1.5 m

ANNUAL SCHOOL
FUN RUN
d ANNUAL SCHOOL
FUN RUN

MARCH 2015 MARCH 2015

0.75 m 0.75 m

7m

What is the distance d from the edge of each poster to the middle of the wall?
1.25 m 1.5 m 2.25 m 2 m 4.75 m

N15N167 – 7
Stuart made a phone call that lasted 59 minutes.
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The cost per minute for the phone call was $0.89.
Stuart estimated that the total cost of the phone call was about $54.
Stuart’s estimate was
less than the actual cost.
equal to the actual cost.
more than the actual cost.

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 YEAR 9 NUMERACY (non-calculator)
N15N075
Which of these is the closest to 0?
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1.001 0.01 – 0.1 – 0.001

N15N279
Rani draws and labels 3 points, as shown below.
 18

She wants to add another point so that all 4 points can be joined
to make a parallelogram.
Which of these is a possible coordinate for the 4th point?
(–1, 1) (1, 4) (1, –1) (4, 1)

N15N270
Nick works in a factory packing chocolates into boxes.
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He packs one box at a time.
Each box contains 5 milk chocolates, 3 dark chocolates and 2 white chocolates.
Every hour Nick packs a total of 300 chocolates.
How many dark chocolates does he pack every hour?

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N15N168 - 7
A standard six-sided dice is rolled once.
 20
What is the probability that the number on the top face is a factor of 6?
1 1 1 2
   
6 3 2 3

N15N212
23 × 52 × 34
 21 Simplify:
  3 × 33 × 5 × 22  
4 1
10   1  
3 3

N15N093
Sandra is using a computer program to draw shapes.
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The picture shows three commands and the resulting shapes.

ellipse (3, 4, 0) ellipse (3, 4, 45) ellipse (2, 5, 90)

Which shape would be drawn by this command: ellipse (1, 4, 60) ?

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 YEAR 9 NUMERACY (non-calculator)
N14N269
It takes 5 hours for 4 people to deliver leaflets to 1000 homes.
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At the same rate, how many hours should it take for 5 people to deliver leaflets
to 1500 homes?

 hours
N15N205
Tilly made a number pattern using this rule:
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next number = previous number ×  – 
 
( and are whole numbers )

Her number pattern is:

2, 1, –1, –5, –13, …
What is the next number in Tilly’s pattern?
–29 –26 –25 –21

N15N203
In a group of Year 9 students, the ratio of boys to girls is 9 : 7.
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There are 4 more boys than girls in this group.
How many students are in this group altogether?
16 18 20 32

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 YEAR 9 NUMERACY (non-calculator)
N15N277
x = 3
 26    
2 11
What is the value of x?

3 6 5 6
22 22 11 11

N15N141
A regular hexagon has a perimeter of 12 cm. It is then cut in half.
 27

What is the perimeter of each half of the hexagon?

5 cm 6 cm 8 cm 9 cm 10 cm

N15N215
Lina drew a line with equation y = 3 – x on a grid.
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She then drew another line on the same grid with this equation y = x – 1.
What are the coordinates of the intersection point of these two lines?
(–1, 2) (1, 2) (2, –1) (2, 1)

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 YEAR 9 NUMERACY (non-calculator)
N12NRP111
A square pool for small children has sides which are 3 metres long.
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One cubic metre can hold 1000 litres of water.

3 metres

How many litres of water will fill the pool to a depth of 50 centimetres?

 litres
N13NJ8043
The area of a rectangle is 60 mm2.
 30
The side lengths are doubled to make a new rectangle.
What is the area of the new rectangle?
30 mm2 120 mm2 240 mm2 360 mm2

N15N225
Holly created a shape using various regular polygons.
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She began by using a triangle with a side length of 1 cm.
She then added regular polygons, each with one more side than the previous one.

She continued this way until a 10-sided polygon is added to her shape.
What will the perimeter of her whole shape be?

 cm

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 YEAR 9 NUMERACY (non-calculator)
N13N8P025

 32 Kumi is 3 the height of Zac.

4

Sue is 2 the height of Zac.

3
Kumi is 15 centimetres taller than Sue.
How tall is Zac in centimetres?

 centimetres

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