national assessment program year
7
literacy and numeracy
NUMERACY
calculator ALLOWED 2011
SESSION 1
Use 2B or HB
0:40 Time available for students to
complete test: 40 minutes
pencil only
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PRACTICE QUESTIONS
P1 50, 100, 150, 200, 250, ? Shade one
bubble.
Which number comes next in this sequence?
251 260 300 350
Dave had $5.75. Write your answer
P2
He spent $1 and then spent 75 cents. in the box.
How much money does he have left?
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Which of these dance positions has one line of symmetry? Shade one
1 bubble.
The diagram shows the number of nuclear power stations
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in four countries.
France
Japan
Russia Key
Germany = 20 nuclear power stations
Which country has about 50 nuclear power stations?
France Japan Russia Germany
Ann saves $15 each month.
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How many months will it take Ann to save a total of $300?
4 months 8 months 20 months 25 months
Rose walked 5185 steps and Liv walked 3147 steps in a day.
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How many more steps did Rose walk than Liv?
8332 2048 2042 2038
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Emma has $1.25 in coins. Shade one
5 bubble.
What is the least number of coins she can have?
2 3 4 5
What number makes this number sentence correct?
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1.6 × ? = 4.48
2.8 2.88 6.08 7.168
Peter bought some packs of plastic forks and spoons for a party.
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20 Plastic Forks 15 Plastic Spoons
$1.50 per pack $1.25 per pack
This is how he worked out the cost:
(6 × $1.50) + (4 × $1.25) = $14
How many packs of plastic spoons did Peter buy?
4 5 6 9
Which of these drawings is a net of a pyramid?
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Which angle is closest in size to 140° ? Shade one
9 bubble.
Trudie measured her footprint.
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She then measured her shoe print.
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
cm cm
How much longer is her shoe than her foot?
0.08 cm 0.8 mm 8 mm 8 cm
Emily made a triangle using wire.
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It had a perimeter of 20 cm.
Which of these could be the side lengths of her triangle?
6 cm, 6 cm, 8 cm
5 cm, 5 cm, 10 cm
4 cm, 4 cm, 12 cm
3 cm, 3 cm, 14 cm
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Miriam owns a restaurant. Shade one
12 bubble.
She sets up rows of tables and chairs as shown.
4 6 8
Which of these rules can be used to work out how many chairs
will be needed on any row of tables?
number of tables × 4
number of tables ÷ 2 – 2
number of tables × 2 + 2
number of tables × 2 – 2
This is a map of where Jane and Kate live.
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A B C D E F G
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0 300 m
Jane is on the corner of Main St and Johnson St (map reference A4).
She walks 850 metres along Main St to Kate’s house.
What is the map reference of Kate’s house?
D3 E3 F1 G2
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Which of these numbers is a prime number? Shade one
14 bubble.
9 29 39 49
15 Internet use in Australia
Year 2003 2004 2005 2006
Number of people (millions) 12.21 13.27 13.60 14.28
Between 2003 and 2006, internet use in Australia increased by about
0.5 million people.
1 million people.
2 million people.
2.5 million people.
16 and represent different numbers.
+ = 25 – =5
What is equal to?
5 10 15 20
Alex thinks of a regular 2D shape.
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It has only 3 pairs of parallel sides.
The shape could be
a parallelogram.
a triangle.
an octagon.
a hexagon.
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The table shows the distances of four past marathons. Shade one
18 bubble.
Which marathon had the longest distance?
Year of Distance
marathon (km)
1906 41.86
1912 40.2
1920 42.75
1924 42.195
Dustin collects football cards.
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He sells some of his cards. The prices are listed here.
$3, $5, $5, $8, $8, $10, $10, $10, $40
What is their mean (average) price?
$8 $9 $10 $11
John is three years younger than Mary.
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Which statement is correct?
Mary’s age + John’s age = 3
Mary’s age = John’s age + 3
John’s age – Mary’s age = 3
John’s age = Mary’s age + 3
Beth was given 6 minutes to complete a puzzle.
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When she finished, there were 250 seconds left on the timer.
How long did Beth take to complete the puzzle?
1 minute 50 seconds
2 minutes 50 seconds
3 minutes 50 seconds
4 minutes 50 seconds
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This picture shows a position used in the sport of fencing. Shade one
22 bubble.
g h
Which list shows the three angles f, g, h in increasing order of size?
h, g, f h, f, g g, f, h f, g, h
This table shows the percentage of $1 million prize money Write your answer
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awarded as first, second and third prizes. in the box.
Percentage of $1 million
First prize 50%
Second prize 30%
Third prize 20%
2000 people equally shared third prize.
How much did each third-prize winner get?
The school librarian made this table of the number of books
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borrowed on one day.
Number of books borrowed per student 1 2 3 4 5
Number of students 20 16 8 6 3
What was the total number of books borrowed that day?
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Tam cuts letters from squares of metal. Shade one
25 bubble.
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Which of these letters uses exactly of the metal square?
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A dance school teaches Hip Hop and Salsa. Write your answer
26 in the box.
One-quarter of all the students learn Salsa.
The rest of the students learn Hip Hop. No students learn both.
Hip Hop only Salsa only
Boys 95 24
Girls ? 26
How many girls learn Hip Hop?
Donna painted one rectangular wall of her bedroom. 2m
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The diagram shows the wall and window.
The window was not painted. 1.8 m window
3m
What area did Donna paint?
square metres 4.7 m
On this map the town of Berg is 90 km from Skorb.
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The town of Nunton is not shown North
on the map. Mimble
It is due north of Gimb and due west
of Mimble.
What is the distance from Gimb to Nunton?
Berg Skorb
km
Gimb
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Kyle draws a quadrilateral with a perimeter of 30 centimetres. Write your answer
29 in the box.
What is the maximum possible area of Kyle’s shape?
square centimetres
The table shows the height of a burning candle at different times.
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Time (minutes) 0 5 10 15 20 25 30
Height (cm) 15 14.25 13.5 12.75 12 11.25 10.5
The candle burns until its height is 3 cm.
How many minutes does it take the candle to burn to a height of 3 cm?
minutes
The lights in Ali’s office are on for 40 hours per week,
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every week of the year.
Ali replaces a light globe after 8000 hours of use.
After how long, to the nearest year, will Ali need to replace the light globe?
years
A plane was flying due north. It made these three course changes:
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1. 15° right turn
2. 50° left turn
3. a final right turn until it was heading due east.
How many degrees did it turn the third time?
degrees
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