year

NUMERACY
 calculator ALLOWED
9
2015

SESSION 1
Use 2B or HB

40 min Time available for students to

complete test: 40 minutes
pencil only

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 YEAR 9 NUMERACY (calculator allowed)
N15N059 – 9CA
Brian made this 3D object using 48 small cubes.
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Which of these has a volume half that of Brian’s object?

N15N194
Which of these can be measured in litres?
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area mass volume length

N15N161 – Y9r02
This is Donna’s left shoe.
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Donna’s right shoe is a mirror image of her left shoe.

Which of these is Donna’s right shoe?

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 YEAR 9 NUMERACY (calculator allowed)
N15N086
y = 2x2 – 8
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What is the value of y when x = 2.2?
– 6.32 0.8 1.68 11.36

N15N083
The speed of sound at sea level is 340 metres per second.
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What is the speed of sound in metres per minute?
34 000 20 400 5.7 3.4

N15N284
63.4 + 28.24
 6 What is the value of rounded to one decimal place?
  9.2 × 1.6  
6.2 15.9 24.5 68.3

N15N263
A cardboard box is in the shape of a cube.
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It is filled with identical small cubes of the size shown.

Which of these is the closest estimate for the number of cubes that would fill the box?
25 40 200 800

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 YEAR 9 NUMERACY (calculator allowed)
N15N278
One billion is one thousand million.
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Which of the following is 70 billion?
7 × 1013 7 × 1010 7 × 107 7 × 104

N15N058 – 7CA
There are 12 apples and 7 pears in a bowl.
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About what percentage of the fruit in the bowl is pears?
7% 37% 58% 63%

N15N260 – 7
Which one of these has the same value as 20 ? 2 
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40 2 ÷ 4 2×2×5×2×5 4 × 52 2 × 10 × 10

N15N199 – 7
A concert starts at 10:28 am and runs for 124 minutes.
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What time does it finish?
11:52 am 11:52 pm 12:32 am 12:32 pm

N15N177 - Y7
The diagram shows an isosceles triangle.
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A

77°

B
C
What is the size of the angle ABC ?
38.5° 45° 51.5° 60°

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 YEAR 9 NUMERACY (calculator allowed)
N15N268
The petrol gauge in Lyn’s car showed that she had used half of the petrol in the tank.
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She then spent $42 filling up her tank at a cost of $1.35 per litre.
Approximately how much petrol can Lyn’s petrol tank hold when it is full?
31 litres 57 litres 62 litres 84 litres

N15N259
Teagan and Caleb collected money for charity over a month.
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If Caleb had collected $10 more, he would have collected exactly
twice as much as Teagan.
Which row of the table shows how much money they could have collected?

Teagan Caleb

$15 $30

$20 $50

$25 $40

$30 $80

N15N039 - 7

 15 Continent Number of cars produced

Africa 636 519

Asia/Oceania 45 800 878

Europe 19 726 405

North America 21 136 313

South America 4 288 654

How many more cars were produced in North and South America
than in Europe and Africa?

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 YEAR 9 NUMERACY (calculator allowed)
N15N198
Mia drew a shape. It had only one pair of parallel sides and only
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one internal reflex angle.
Which of these could be Mia’s shape?

N15N176 – 7
Simon is facing west. He turns 135° clockwise.
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Simon then turns anticlockwise until he faces east.
By how many degrees did Simon turn anticlockwise?
45° 180° 225° 315°

N15N283
The equation 2y + 1 = x is rearranged to have y as the subject.
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Which of these correctly gives y as the subject?
x–1 x+1
y= y= y = 2x – 1 y = 2x + 1
2 2

N15N099
Which of the following has the same value as 13–13 ?
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1 1
–13–13 13 x (–13)
–1313 1313

N15N091
The rule for calculating the price to deliver a parcel of mass m kg is
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price ($) = 7 + 3.5m.
What is the mass, in kg, of a parcel with a delivery price of $70?
13 18 22 27 252

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 YEAR 9 NUMERACY (calculator allowed)
N15N185 – 7
David drew this diagram of a frog’s skeleton.
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width of head

length of body
The actual length of the frog’s body is 100 millimetres.
What is the actual width of the frog’s head?

 millimetres
N15N209
This sand timer contains 595 g of sand.
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It takes half an hour for all of the sand to flow through the timer.
Each millilitre of sand weighs 1.6 g.

How many millilitres of sand flow through the timer per minute?
12.4 19.8 31.7 743.8

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 YEAR 9 NUMERACY (calculator allowed)
N15N184 – 7
Sarah was collecting money for charity.
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By Sunday night she had collected 55% of her target amount.
On Monday she collected another $70, which meant she had now collected
75% of her target amount.
What was Sarah’s target amount?

$
 

N15N105
Kim uses sticks to make a pattern of squares.
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Number of
1 3 6 10 15
squares

Number of
4 10 18 28 40
sticks

When a shape consists of 28 squares, how many sticks will the shape have?

N15N108
The total length of all edges of a cube is 156 cm.
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What is the volume of the cube?

 cm
3

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 YEAR 9 NUMERACY (calculator allowed)
N15N094
Which statement is always true?
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The opposite angles of a kite are equal in size.
The opposite sides of a trapezium are equal in length.
The diagonals of a parallelogram are equal in length.
The angles formed by the intersection of the diagonals of a rhombus
are equal in size.

N15N211
A new power drill was on sale with 15% discount.
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As a regular customer, Peter received a further 10% on the already discounted price.
What was the overall percentage discount Peter received?
1.5% 12.5% 16.5% 23.5% 25%

N15N269
The edges of Greg’s swimming pool form a 10 m × 4 m rectangle.
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He tiled around the edges of his pool using one row of 400 mm × 400 mm tiles.
Greg put one star tile at each corner of the pool as shown.

10 m

4m not to scale

He used an equal number of black and white tiles to finish off the edges.
The table shows the price of each kind of tile.

Tile

Price $15 $10 $7

What was the total cost of the tiles he used?

$
 

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 YEAR 9 NUMERACY (calculator allowed)
N15N206
y
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15

0 7.5 x

Which of these equations represents the line in the graph?

y = 15 – 2x y = 15 + 7.5x y = 15 – 7.5x y = 15 + 2x

N15N190 – 7
In the diagram AB is a straight line.
 30
A

x° B

What is the size of the angle marked x° ?

 degrees

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 YEAR 9 NUMERACY (calculator allowed)
N15N222
The product of three different whole numbers is 60.
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What is the largest possible sum of the three numbers?

N15N104
This shape was formed by removing a sector from a circle of radius 9 cm.
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1
The area of the sector was of the area of the circle.
6
What is the perimeter of the shape, to the nearest centimetre?

 cm

STOP – end of test

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