Question 1

Melissa needs to weigh out exactly 450g of flour for cake. She takes out an empty bowl and places it
on the scales as shown below.

0
1.4 0.2
kg
1.2 0.4

1.0 0.6
0.8

She then scoops out 4 small cups of flour into the bowl and the weight changes as shown below.

0
1.4 0.2
kg
1.2 0.4

1.0 0.6
0.8

How many more small cups of flour does she need to add to the bowl?

A. 2
B. 4
C. 5
D. 9
E. 11
Question 2

Farmer Joe is packing oranges into cardboard boxes to ship to distributors.

Each box can hold up to 25 oranges each.

This season’s harvest yielded enough oranges to fill 18 boxes completely and have 7 oranges
leftover.

How many oranges did this season’s harvest yield?

A. 400
B. 407
C. 432
D. 450
E. 457

Question 3

The following diagram follows these rules:

• All the numbers must be positive whole numbers.

• None of the numbers in the squares can be identical.
• The circle is the product of all the numbers in the squares.

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Which of the following could be the missing number in the circle?

A. 120
B. 480
C. 600
D. 660
E. 720

Question 4

Rachael, Peter and Sonia are sharing two bottles of juice between them. Both bottles have the same
volume of juice.

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Rachael drinks " of the apple juice.
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Peter drinks of the orange juice.
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Sonia drinks % of both juices.

Which of these statements is/are correct?

1. Together, they finished the orange juice.

2. Sonia drank the most amount of juice.
3. There is more orange juice left than apple juice.

A. Statement 2 only.
B. Statement 3 only.
C. Statements 1 and 2 only.
D. Statements 1 and 3 only.
E. Statements 2 and 3 only.
Question 5

Which of the following calculations shows how to work out the number of days in 2 decades?

A. 20 × 52 × 7
B. 2 × 100 × 365
C. 10 × 365
D. 2 × 10 × 52 × 7
E. 2 × 10 × 365

Question 6

A radio station has created a chart to display the contents of their total airtime in a 24-hour day.

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Advertisements

Talk Show

News

Music

The total time spent on News is 4 hours.

How many hours are spent on Music?

A. 4
B. 6
C. 8
D. 10
E. 11
Question 7

The total mass of objects on the left side must be the same as the total mass of objects on the right
side for a scale to be balanced.

Every cyl has equal mass.

Every cu has equal mass.

Every co has equal mass.

If the mass of co is 0.75kg, what is the mass of cu ?

A. 0.3kg
B. 0.4kg
C. 0.45kg
D. 0.6kg
E. 0.7kg

Question 8

Mitchell owns numerous pet frogs. In order to update the feeding chart, he weighs each of the frogs
weekly. The following chart shows the current exact weights of the frogs as well as their weights a
week ago.

Name Last Weight (g) Current Weight (g)

Alan 23.45 26.1
Bridgett 50.01 51.2
Cloudy 32 34.6
Dart 21.2 24.41
Eggy 9.1 12.22

Which frog gained the most weight over the last week?

A. Alan
B. Bridgett
C. Cloudy
D. Dart
E. Eggy
Question 9

An archer is standing in a tower (T) facing the sunrise (East).

She turns clockwise until she is facing her village (V).

50°
V

North

What was the angle of her turn?

A. 40°
B. 50°
C. 140°
D. 290°
E. 320°

Question 10

Abigail is running a fast-food shop and has 2 sacks of 20kg potato chips at the start of the week.
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On Monday, she used of a sack.
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On Tuesday, she used 8kg of chips.

On Wednesday, she used one-third of the remaining chips.

On Thursday and Friday, she used the same amount of chips.

If there is half a sack of chips left at the end of Friday, how many chips did she use on Thursday?

A. 3kg
B. 4kg
C. 5kg
D. 8kg
E. 10kg
Question 11

Liesl is playing with 1cm small cubes.

Each cube is identical and looks like this from the side:

Liesl constructs a rectangular prism using 240 cubes. Below is the view of one of the faces of the
rectangular prism.

What is the surface area of the entire prism?

A. 104cm2
B. 134cm2
C. 208cm2
D. 268cm2
E. 322cm2

Question 12

Mrs Jackson has been recording the attendance of her class over the week. She wants to make a
picture graph to show the data in the following table.

Day number of
students present
Monday 24
Tuesday 18
Wednesday 27

She wants to use these pictures only in her picture graph:

whole student half student

She will not draw any other fractions of a student.

Which of these keys can she use to represent the data correctly?

Key I: stud represents 4 students.

Key II: stud represents 6 students.

Key III: stud represents 12 students.

A. None of them.
B. Key I only.
C. Key II only.
D. Key I or Key III only.
E. Key II or Key III only.

Question 13

Jessica has the following tokens numbered from 1 to 9. She places them all into a bag.

She takes out two tokens randomly from the bag.

Which of these statements is/are correct?

1. The total cannot be 18 or greater.

2. The highest possible product is 81.
3. The smallest possible product is 2.

A. Statement 1.
B. Statement 2.
C. Statements 1 and 2 only.
D. Statements 1 and 3 only.
E. All statements.
Question 14

The diagram shows a square inside a rectangle.

The area shaded is 118cm2.

11cm

13cm
[diagram not to scale]

What is the side-length of the square?

A. 5cm
B. 6cm
C. 7cm
D. 8cm
E. 9cm
Question 15

A deep fryer is leaking at a constant rate so Patricia places a bucket underneath the fryer to catch
the oil. Before placing the bucket underneath the fryer, she weighed it on a set of digital scales.

0.3kg
6 hours after placing the bucket there, Patricia weighs the bucket again.

1.5kg
If a litre of fryer oil weighs 800grams, how much oil is leaking every hour?

A. 120mL
B. 200mL
C. 250mL
D. 300mL
E. 320mL
Question 16

Brendan is thinking of a quadrilateral which Jen is trying to guess.

Brendan gives the following hints about the quadrilateral:

1. There are two sets of parallel sides.

2. All sides are equal in length.

Based off the hints that Brendan gave, Jen narrows the quadrilateral to two possible shapes.

Which of the following questions should Jen ask to determine exactly what shape it is?

A. What is the angle sum of the shape?

B. How many vertices does the shape have?
C. Does the shape have any right angles?
D. Are the opposite angles equal?
E. Does the shape have any axis of symmetry?

Question 17

A teacher is dividing his class into three different groups of roles for the class play.
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He assigns & of the students in costume design.
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He then assigns of the remaining students in the cast.
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The remaining 12 students are assigned to tech support.

How many students are there in the class?

A. 30
B. 40
C. 45
D. 50
E. 60
Question 18

A cube has a corner sliced off as shown below.

Which of the following diagrams could show a possible net for the newly created shape?

diagram 1 diagram 2 diagram 3

A. none of them
B. diagram 1 only
C. diagram 2 only
D. diagrams 1 and 3 only
E. diagrams 2 and 3 only
Question 19

A company has three departments: Marketing, Finance, and Operations.

There are twice as many employees in Marketing as there are in Finance.

The number of employees in Operations is one-third the number of employees in Finance.

An employee from the company is selected randomly to lead a project.

What is the probability of selecting an employee from the Marketing department?

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E.
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Question 20

The following is a fact sheet given at a national park. It details the height of three different historical
trees. The height values have been torn off the fact sheet.

The average height of Alpha-2 and Nano-1a is 72m.

The average height of Nano-1a and Matt-4 is 52m.

The average height of Alpha-2, Nano-1a and Matt-4 is 63m.

What is the height of Alpha-2?

A. 68m
B. 73m
C. 79m
D. 85m
E. 88m
Question 21

Justine’s watch is always running late by the same interval of time. Consequently, when she thought
she was going to be exactly 4 minutes early for class, she was actually exactly 9 minutes late for
class.

Justine is trying to catch a train scheduled at 2:09pm. It takes exactly 14 minutes to get to the train
platform from her house. She glances at her watch, and it shows the following time.

Within how many minutes must Justine leave the house in order to make the train?

A. 3 minutes
B. 9 minutes
C. 11 minutes
D. 12 minutes
E. 14 minutes

Question 22

A stationary store’s stock has three times as many pens as pencils.

The total weight of all the pens and pencils is 0.48kg.

Pens weigh 0.08 grams each, and pencils weigh 0.06 grams each.

How many more pens than pencils does the store have in stock?

A. 800
B. 1200
C. 1600
D. 2400
E. 3200
Question 23

The X-route bus is scheduled to run once every 2 hours and 30 minutes.

The Y-route bus is scheduled to run once every 1 hour and 45 minutes.

The first X-route bus and first Y-route buses both start their routes at 6:00 am and continue until
midnight.

What is the difference between the number of times the X-line bus runs and the Y-line bus runs in a
week?

A. 14
B. 21
C. 22
D. 28
E. 29

Question 24

Jennifer and her husband, Steve both have their own individual banking accounts as well as a joint
banking account they share. The following table shows information about the banking accounts,
however, the balances have been blurred out for privacy.

Account Interest Rate Balance

Jennifer 1.2%
Steve 1.1%
Joint 2.1%

The net balance of an individual is calculated by summating all the account balances that they have
ownership or joint ownership of.

The joint account has twice as much money in it compared to Steve’s individual account.

Jennifer’s net balance is $65,000.

Steve’s net balance is $57,000.

What is the total balance of all three accounts?

A. $76,000
B. $84,000
C. $89,000
D. $92,000
E. $103,000
Question 25

Emma runs and organises a book club meeting for older people to allow them to practice literary
skills, engage in social activity and enjoy reading as a hobby.

She runs a group book reading every 2 weeks.

She holds a group discussions every 3 weeks.

She also runs scheduled author Q&A sessions every 4 weeks.

She holds all three events together on the first week of the year.

How many times in a year will she have exactly two events scheduled together, assuming there are
52 weeks in a year?

A. 10
B. 12
C. 13
D. 17
E. 18

Question 26

Martin is playing with toy trains identical to the one below. Each train carriage comes with two
connectors 1.5cm long in length on either end which can overlap perfectly with the adjacent
carriages to make a longer train. This leaves a 1.5cm gap between each train carriage.

1.5cm 1.5cm

?cm

The length of a train is calculated from the front of the first carriage’s connector to the end of the
last carriage’s connector.

Martin joins 4 carriages together and finds total length of the train to be 51.5cm.

What is the length of one entire train carriage?

A. 10.5cm
B. 11cm
C. 11.5cm
D. 12.5cm
E. 14cm
Question 27

Alaina is shading in a square grid shown below.

She wants to shade extra squares to make a pattern with exactly four lines of symmetry.

What is the smallest number of extra squares she needs to shade?

A. 3
B. 4
C. 5
D. 6
E. 7

Question 28

Emma owns a flower shop.

She makes a large flower arrangement consisting of either red or yellow.

She uses 200 flowers altogether.

Which of these statements cannot be correct?

1. Emma used eighty more red flowers than yellow flowers.

2. Emma used three times as many yellow flowers as red flowers.
3. Emma used twice the number of red flowers as yellow flowers.

A. Statement 1 only.
B. Statement 2 only.
C. Statement 3 only.
D. Statements 1 and 2 only.
E. Statements 2 and 3 only.
Question 29

Barry has a piece of 10 by 10 square grid paper. He traces the following hexagon onto the piece of
paper. He wants to cut out the same hexagon out as many times as possible from the piece of paper.

What is the maximum number of hexagons he can cut from the grid paper?

A. 9
B. 10
C. 12
D. 14
E. 15

Question 30

Alice and Benjamin are playing a game where they exchange cards. They both start by holding an
equal number of cards in their hands. Each round, both players will take a turn.

On each player’s turn they roll a regular 6-sided die and the number rolled is the amount of cards
that must be given to the other player.

Alice takes the first turn.

After three rounds, Alice has a total of 35 cards.

What is the maximum number of cards that they could have each started with?

A. 45
B. 50
C. 53
D. 59
E. 71
Question 31

A taxi-driver is driving in the city where all the roads are straight and point either North-East or
North-West. At each intersection, he can either turn right, turn left, go forward or take a u-turn.

He begins travelling in a South-West direction.

His GPS tells him to take the following turns at each intersection.

After taking all those turns, which direction is the driver now facing?

A. North-East
B. North-West
C. South-East
D. South-West
E. South
Question 32

The following shape has 8-axis of symmetry and has a perimeter of 64cm.

Maria arranges two of the same shape together to form a new shape shaded below.

What is the perimeter of the new shape formed?

A. 16cm
B. 20cm
C. 24cm
D. 32cm
E. 36cm
Question 33

Daniel writes down the number 23. He then reverses the two digits and subtracts 7. He finds that
this makes a positive number that is a multiple of 5.

How many two-digit numbers (including 23) also follow this pattern?

A. 9
B. 10
C. 12
D. 18
E. 20

Question 34

Harrison constructs a large solid cube from smaller unit cubes:

He then paints the entirety of exactly three sides of the larger cube with blue paint.

Upon deconstructing the cube into smaller unit cubes, what are the possible amounts of smaller
cubes which have exactly two sides painted blue?

A. 10, 12
B. 10, 13
C. 6, 9
D. 13, 16
E. 9, 12
Question 35

The following spinners have equal odds of landing on any of the four numbers on the spinner.

9 2 5 3
4
4 6 7 8

Andrea spins each spinner once and must use both numbers she lands on to form a two-digit
number by using the numbers as digits.

What are the chances that she spins two numbers that can form a number that is divisible by 3?
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