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40 QUESTIONS
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STUDENT’S NAME:

Read the instructions on the ANSWER SHEET and fill in your

NAME, SCHOOL and OTHER INFORMATION.
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Rub out any mistakes completely.

You MUST record your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.

Mark only ONE answer for each question.

Your score will be the number of correct answers.
Marks are NOT deducted for incorrect answers.

There are 40 MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS (1–40).

Use the information provided to choose the BEST answer from
the four possible options.
On your ANSWER SHEET fill in the oval that matches
Please see back cover for a List
your answer.
of the year levels that should
sit this paper You may use a ruler and spare paper.
You are NOT allowed to use a calculator.
 1. What is the missing number? 4. Which runner is wearing the biggest
number?
2× ? + 4 = 10

(A) 3
(B) 5 181 179 220
(C) 6
209
(D) 8
= 1 cm2
2. The graph shows how many students
picked Sport, Music or Drama as an
activity.
(A) (B) (C) (D)
Sport
Music
5. Ian made this design out of tiles.
Drama
KEY: 2 students

How many students picked Music?

(A) 7
(B) 9
(C) 10
(D) 14

3. Mike has these five cards.

Each of the tiles has an area of 1 cm2.

5 3 1 4 2 = 1 cm2

5 3 1 4 2
5 1 2
He turns two of the cards over. What is the area of the design?

(A) 18 cm2

5 1 2 (B)
(C)
(D)
24 cm2
25 cm2
30 cm2

What is the sum of the two cards Mike

turned over?

(A) 3
(B) 4
(C) 7
(D) 8

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6. Which handprint covers the biggest area? 8. The picture shows two flags.

(A) (B) Which shape is on both flags?

(A) (B) (C) (D)

(A) (B) (C) (D)

9. 6×9= ?
(C) (D)
(A) 15
(B) 45
(C) 48
7. Joe is in box P1. (D) 54

P Q R
10. Which of these shows the largest angle?
1
Joe Mike
2
Lin Ali Sue
3
Ella
(A) (B)
Who is in box R2?

(A) Ali (B) Ella

(C) Mike (D) Sue

(C) (D)

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 11. What time is shown on this clock? 13. Nick bought 6 packets of tennis balls.
Each packet had 5 balls in it. Nick lost
7 tennis balls.

How can he work out how many

tennis balls he has left?

(A) 6×5–7
(B) 7–6×5
(C) 7×5–6
(D) 6×7–5

14. A museum recorded the age and country

of its visitors on one day.

Age group
(A) 2:54
(B) 3:11 Under 15–25 Over
(C) 3:56 15 25
(D) 11:15 UK 2 5 1

USA 3 4 3
Country

12. This special anchor for large ships has

Japan 1 3 4
5 arms. On each arm are 7 teeth.
Germany 4 2 2

How many visitors over 14 were from the

USA?
teeth
(A) 3
(B) 4
arm (C) 7
(D) 10

How many teeth are on the anchor’s

15. Eight apples fit into a small box. Twice as
arms?
many fit into a large box.
(A) 12
Reena has 3 of the small boxes and 2 of
(B) 21
the large boxes.
(C) 30
(D) 35 What is the total number of apples that
can fit into Reena’s boxes?

(A) 64 (B) 56

(C) 40 (D) 28

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16. The boat is sailing to the lighthouse. 18. When the last piece is put into this puzzle
it shows 3 triangles.
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In what direction is the boat sailing? Which piece is missing from the puzzle?

(A) east
(B) south
(C) north-east
(D) south-west (A) (B)
(A) (B)

17. Here is a pattern with counters.

(C) (D)
2
5 (C) (D)
9 14

How many counters will be in the next

shape of the pattern? 19. Charlie made some chocolate chip
cookies. Charlie used 20 chocolate chips
(A) 19 for every 100 grams of cookie mixture.
(B) 20
(C) 21 How many chocolate chips did Charlie use
(D) 22 for 760 grams of cookie mixture?

(A) 5
(B) 38
(C) 120
(D) 152

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 20. The picture shows the area around 22. Hannah has a sliding tile puzzle.
Wendy’s swimming pool.
She slides one tile at a time either up,
plant pot fence down, left or right into an empty black
square to finish the puzzle.

3 1 2

pool 5 1 3 4
4 2 5

start finish

What is the least number of slides Hannah

can make to go from start to finish?
She plans to have 5 pots along each side (A) 5
of the pool including a pot at every corner. (B) 7
(C) 8
How many pots would Wendy need? (D) 10
(A) 15 (B) 20
23. Which set of gears can move as shown
(C) 25 (D) 30
by the arrows?

21. This graph shows the amount of rainfall, to

the nearest millimetre (mm), in four towns
on a particular day.

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(A) (B)
Rainfall (mm)

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Town (C) (D)

What is the difference, in millimetres,

between the highest and lowest amounts
of rainfall shown on this graph?

(A) 6 (B) 7

(C) 8 (D) 9

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24. The chart shows Jack’s height on his 26. A machine packs 4422 toy cars into
birthdays for three years. 11 boxes. It puts an equal number of cars
into each box.

How many toy cars go into one box?

130 cm
(A) 42 (B) 402
age 5 years
120 cm (C) 2211 (D) 4020

110 cm 27. The numbers in the shapes follow a rule.

age 4 years

100 cm 2 4 2 4 3 5
120 48
age 3 years 3 5 2 3 1 3
90 cm
What is the missing number in the last
shape?
How many centimetres did Jack gain in
height during the fourth year of his life? (A) 9
(B) 15
(A) 13
(C) 24
(B) 14
(D) 45
(C) 16
(D) 18
28. The pictures show the wheel of a toy ship.
The wheel was turned from the position in
25. Jim has these number cards.
picture 1 to that in picture 2.

He can arrange them to make a sum.

This sum makes a total of 68.

picture 1 picture 2

What is the highest sum Jim can make How many degrees was the wheel turned?
with his cards?
(A) 15° (B) 30°
(A) 86
(B) 95 (C) 45° (D) 60°
(C) 437
(D) 545

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 29. Ashlee sleeps from 10 pm until 6 am every 32. Which net would make a cube where
night of the week. no two faces of the same colour meet
to form an edge?
How many minutes does Ashlee sleep
in a week?

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(A) 3360 (B) 1680

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(C) 480 (D) 56

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(A) (B)
30. Jackie can make 2 pies in 3 minutes.
Lenny can make 3 pies in 2 minutes.

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How many pies can they make together

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in an hour?

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(A) 50

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(B) 100
(C) 130 (C) (D)
(D) 150

33. The picture shows a stack of three dice.

31. Mel recorded the results of 80 spins of a Each dice has the numbers 1 to 6 shown
spinner. in dots on the faces.

29 29
19 19
21 21
11 11

Which of these spinners is most likely to

be the one Mel used?

What is the sum of all of the numbers

NOT shown in the picture?
(A) (A) (B) (B)
(A) 63
(B) 38
(C) 25
(D) 24

(C) (C) (D) (D)

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34. In a carton there are 12 packets of chicken 36. David’s clock is not working properly.
legs. Each packet has 10 legs in it. The hour changes every 40 minutes
instead of every 60 minutes.
A cafeteria served 3 legs per meal.
They used 8 cartons of chicken legs. David’s Clock Correct time

How many meals of chicken legs were 12:39 am

David’s Clock Correct time
served?
1 minute later
12:39 am
(A)
(B)
32
40 12:40 am
1 minute later
(C) 320
(D) 360 12:40
David’s clock was correct at 12:00 am. am
It now shows this time:

35. In a school of 600 students, 320 study

Korean, 270 study Thai and 110 study
German.
What is the correct time?
There are 150 students who study only
two languages: 60 students study Korean (A) 2:15 am
and Thai, 50 students study Thai and (B) 2:55 am
German, and 40 students study German (C) 3:45 am
and Korean. (D) 4:35 am

At most how many students study all three

languages? 37. A group of friends shared 108 chocolates
equally. The number of chocolates each
(A) 20 friend got was three more than the number
(B) 50 of friends.
(C) 100
(D) 110 How many chocolates did each friend get?

(A) 6
(B) 9
(C) 12
(D) 18

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 38. A square can be cut into four pieces that 40. This pattern was made by laying out
are the same shape. copies of a smaller pattern.

Which of these shapes CANNOT be made

using the four pieces of the square?

What is the smaller pattern?

(A) (B)
(A) (B)
(A) (B)

(A) (C) (B) (D)

(C) (D)
(C) (D)

39. Ian has some jars of ginger. The jars come

in three sizes. (C) (D)

175 g
200 g 225 g

Ian has at least one of each size of jar and

all his jars are full.
Altogether he has 1.15 kilograms of ginger
in the jars.

How many jars does he have?

(A) 4
(B) 5
(C) 6
(D) 7

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