Year 7 NUMERACY

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Test 3

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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yy y y
1 Ari drew a shaded triangle on a grid (shown right). y
66 6 6
55 5 5 On another grid, he drew a triangle in which 6
5
44 4 4 he halved the distances from the axes, the 4
33 3 3
22 2 2
height and base length. 3
2
11 1 1
Which of the grids below shows the second 1
2 2123 3triangle
xx x x
0 0 01 1
0 1 234 4345 5456 65Ari
6 6 drew?
0 1 2 3 4 5 6
x

yy y y yy y y yy y y yy y y
y y
66 6 6 66 6 6 66 6 6 66 6 6
55 5 5 55 5 5 55 5 5 6 55 5 5 6
44 4 4 44 4 4 44 4 4 5 44 4 4 5
33 3 3 33 3 3 33 3 3 4 33 3 3 4
22 2 2 22 2 2 22 2 2 3 22 2 2 3
11 1 1 11 1 1 11 1 1 2 11 1 1 2
xx x x 0 xx x x0 1 x
2 2123 3234 4345 5456 656 6x x x0 0 1 1
1 x
0 0 01 1
0 12 2123 3234 4345 5456 656 6 0 01 1
0 12 2123 3234 4345 5456 656 6 0 01 1
0 1 2 2123 3234 4345 5456 656 6x x x
0 0 1
0 1 2 3 4 5 6
x 0 1 2 3 4

2 If • = 5,
=4
and • +=++
which number does  equal?
2 3 4 5

3 The first cats appeared on Earth 34 million years ago.

People first appeared on Earth 2.5 million years ago.
How long after the first cats appeared did people first appear?

2.5 million years 31.5 million years 34 million years 36.5 million years

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4 Marco drives at an average of 50 km per hour.

How
y
many kilometres does he travel in 5 hours?
y
6 10 6 25 100 250
5 5
4 4
3 3
2 2
1 1

4 5 6
x
5 Two
0 1 places
2 3 4are
5 3.7
6 cm
x apart on a map.
0 1 2 3 4 5 6
x
On the map, 1 cm represents 4 km.
What is the actual distance between the two places?

1.08 km 7.7 km 14.8 km 37 km

6 The population of Mycity is 211 513.

What is the population correct to the nearest 100 people?
200 000 210 000 211 500 211 510

7 The arrow points to a position on the number line.

What number is at this position?

–3 –2 –1 0 1 2 3

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8 Jonah thinks of a number.
He then adds 5.
The answer is 27.
What was the number Jonah started with?

9 Which shape has the smallest area?

60 not to scale

100

150 160
100
50 180
20

10 A softdrink bottle holds 1.75 L.

How many millilitres are in the bottle when it is full?

17.5 mL 175 mL 1075 mL 1750 mL

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11 Four sporting teams are flying to the Tiwi Islands for a competition.

Sport Number of people Total mass

in a team 1 for team (kg)
Soccer 11 1000
AFL Football 18 1700
Rugby 15 1680
Basketball 5 490

Any team with an average mass per person of more than 110 kg will have
to send their luggage by boat.
Which team will have to send their luggage by boat?

Soccer AFL Football Rugby Basketball

12 What number will make this number sentence true?

3.47 + 2.43 = + 2.2

13 What is the size of angle ABC?

B C

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14 Hannah ran from home to the shop Home
Home N N
around the square block as shown
1 km1 km
by the arrowed lines.
The northerly direction is labelled N. 1 km1 km
To get straight home she must run
in the direction: 1 km1 km

Shop
Shop

north south north-east north-west

15 The students in a class collected $14.40 for a charity.

Each member of the class contributed 60 cents.
How can the number of students in the class be calculated?

14.40 ÷ 60 14.40 × 0.6 14.40 ÷ 0.6 14.40 × 60

16 63 ×  = 14
What is the value of ?
9 9 7 2
2 7 9 9

17 Sam bought 1 kg of mince from the butcher.

He used 0.65 kg of the mince for hamburgers and 0.3 kg for spaghetti sauce.
How much mince did Sam have left?

0.9 kg 0.5 kg 0.15 kg 0.05 kg

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18 A mobile phone is marked at $500. SALE
20% OFF!
The shop has offered a 20% discount in their sale. $500

How much is the discount?

1 2
4 3
5 6
7 8 9
0

$10 $100 $400 $410

19 Each of the 20 students in a class was asked to name what they liked to read.
They chose from novels, comics and magazines.

Type Novels Comics Magazines

Number of students 6 10 4

From the table, what fraction of the students liked to read comics?

1 3 1 3
5 10 2 5

20 The clock on the wall shows the time.

Which of the following could not be the time?

Five past 3 3:05 5:03 15:05

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21 The clock on the stove showed the time 13:44 when
Andre put in the cake.
The cake will take 36 minutes to cook.

What time will the stove clock show

when the cake is cooked?

22 This calculation gives the cost in dollars for Jana to fill the tank of her car:
(62 – 25) × 1.10
How much does it cost her to fill her car?

23 A strip from a patchwork quilt is made up of 12 squares.

Each square has side length 9.8 cm.
How long is the strip? Give your answer in centimetres.

9.8 cm

0.817 cm 1.176 m 1.224 cm 117.6 cm

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24 How many dots are there on the 5th triangle in the sequence?

10 15 21 28

25 The mean (average) of 4 numbers is 28.

One more number is added and the mean becomes 30.
The number added was:

28 30 38 58

26 A rectangular prism is made up of 96 cubes.

Which of these could not be the dimensions of the prism?

8×4×3 9×6×2 12 × 1 × 81 6×3×2

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27 A rule to calculate the total cost ($) of buying a length (metres)
of material is:
Total cost = (length × cost per metre of the material) + cost of cutting
Use this rule to complete the table.

Length (m) Cost per metre Cost of cutting Total cost

($) 1 ($) of material

4 $7.50 $2.50

28 A rectangle is divided into 2 parts by a straight line as shown.

The angles are then labelled.
b˚ c˚ d˚ e˚

Which statement is not true

about the sum of the angles?
a˚ h˚ g˚ f˚

c + d + g + h = 360 a + b = 180 a + b + c + h = 360 b + c + d + e = 180

29 An old family recipe has the weight of ingredients measured in ounces (oz).

The recipe includes:

12 oz espresso coffee
1 oz cocoa powder
4 oz white sugar
1 gram (g) = 0.03527 ounces (oz)

The total weight of these ingredients in grams is closest to:

15 g 17 g 340 g 482 g

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30 The area of a square paddock is 600 000 m2.

Area = 600 000 m2

What is the length of each side, to the nearest metre?

31 There were four times as many passengers as crew on a ship.

There were 2000 people altogether on the ship.
How many passengers were there?

32 I am a quadrilateral with both pairs of opposite sides

parallel and equal.
My diagonals intersect at right angles. What am I?

square rhombus parallelogram trapezium

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