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SUBJECT MATHEMATICS 2015 SUBJECT MATHEMATICS 2015
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1. This test is divided into
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Instructions for the Mathematics Test
You are NOT allowed to use calculators.
This test has THREE sections with a total of 46 questions.
SECTION I has 20 questions (Nos. 1 to 20).
SECTION II has 20 questions (Nos. 21to 4O).
SECTION III has 6 questions (Nos. 4L to 46).
You have 75 rninutes for this test.
Answer ALL questions.
Read EACH question CAREFULLY before answering it.
Show ALL working in the column provided.
Marks will be given for correct steps taken.
Work carefully but do NOT spend too much time on any one question.
DO NOT BEGIN UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO SO.
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SECTION I
Each question is worth 1 rnark. Answer ALL questions.
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1. 7 469
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Answer 1.
2. Write in figures:
Two hundred and five thousand. and
seventy-three.
Answer
2.
3. State the VALUE of the underlined d.igit
in the following numeral.
753 29r
Answer
3.
4. Write the number in the box that
CORRECTLY completes the following
sentence.
1
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l-l =,0
Answer
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D. Write the following numbers in
descending order (starting with the
GREATEST in value).
5173, 5731, 5317
Answer D.
write
6.
f; as a mixed number.
Answer 6.
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t. A chocolate factory produces 250 boxes of
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chocolates in a day. Each box contains
30 chocolate bars. How many chocolate
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bars are produced in a day?
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8. Complete the following number sequence.
4, 9, 15, 22, 30, 39,
Answer 8.
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9. Write the time shown on Clock A, tn
digital notation, on Clock B.
Clock A
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Clock
Answer 9.
10. Convert 2.369 kilometres to metres.
Answer metres 10.
11. What is the length of the pencil to the
NEAREST centimetre?
Answer cm 11.
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Chad buys a bag of oranges for $9.50.
How much change should he get if he
pays with a $20.00 bill?
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L4. A laptop was advertised as shown below.
$4500
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15% VAT
Calculate the VAT to be paid.
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15. The following net is for a cube with edges
of 5 cm. Calculate the perimeter of this
net.
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5cm
Answer 15.
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16. What is the name of the solid shape that
can be made with the following net?
Answer 16.
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L7. How many lines of symmetry are there
in the following shaded shape?
Answer lines L7.
18. Tyson is facing West and makes THREE
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facing?
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Altogether, four pupils own 89 marbles.
Complete the following chart to show the
tally for Tom's marbles.
Marbles Owned
Pupil Number of Tally
Marbles
Raj 8
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Tom
Carla 4 Itl
Sita 16
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20. The following bar graph represents
some TV shows viewed by the pupils in
a Standard 3 class.
Popular TV Shows
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How many more pupils need to view
Smallville for it to be as popular as
Goodluck Charlie?
Answer 20.
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Each question is worth either 2 or B marks. Answer ALL questions.
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22. Maria has 413 stamps. Her brother has
49 stamps fewer than she has. How many
stamps do they have ALTOGETHER?
sf,amps 22.
(2 marks)
23. The following diagram shows a wall that
is to be covered with identical square
tiles. The shaded area is already titea.
Express the area of the, tiled portion as
a decimal fraction of the area of the
ENTIRE wall.
Answer
(2 rnarks)
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24. Express as a SINGLE decimal fraction
53
100
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Answer 24.
(2 marks)
25. Jerry has 40 stickers that are either red,
yellow or blue in colour. There are 24
red ones, and equal numbers of blue and
yellow.
Calculate the percentage of his sticker,s
that are yellow.
Answer %
(3 rnarks) 25.
26. Sasha used 55% ofher savings to buy a
game. She has 9135 remaining. How
much was her savings before buying the
game?
Answer g
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27. Brian and his father went fishing on the
weekend (Saturday and Sunday). They
caught 120 fishes on Saturday. Their
catch decreased by 25o/o on Sunday.
(a) Calculate the number of fishes that
they caught on Sunday?
(2 rnarks)
How many fishes did they catch
ALTOGETHER on the weekend?
(1 mark) 27.
28. (a) Mummycuts Spizzas into SIXTHS.
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Kori gets of ONE pizza.
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How many SIXTHS of pizza does
he get?
(1 mark)
@) How many SIXTHS of pizza does
mummy have remaining?
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29. The following diagram represents the floor
space of the library (A) and the computer
room (B) at Central Government School.
The diagram consists ofidentical squares.
A-Library B- Computer Room
(a) What is the MOST suitable unit for
measuring the area of the floor?
Answer
(1 mark)
(b) Each floor space has to be covered
with carpet. Which ioom has
the SMALLER floor space to be
covered?
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29. (c) Which room has the floor with the
SMALLER perimeter?
Answer
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30. The following diagram shows
a rectangular box with dimensions
6 cm x 9 cm x 18 cm and a small cube
with sides of 3 cm.
18 cm
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3cm
How many small cubes are needed
completely fiIl the rectangular box?
Answer cubes 30.
(2 marks)
31. Calculate the area of the following shape.
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Answer cm2 31.
(2 marks)
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Mrs Chin got a loan of $6000 from a
credit union. She took 3 years to repay
the loan at the simple interest rate of
|Yo per annum. Calculate the TOTAL
amount of money that Mrs Chin repaid.
33. In the following shape, ABCD, the sides
AB and BC are both equal to 130 cm, and
sides AD and CD are equal in length.
The perimeter of the shape is 660 cm.
Calculate the length of the side CD'
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34. The side of each square on the following
grid is 3 cm.
Complete EACH of the following
statements.
(a) The area of ONE square on the
grid is cm2
(1 mark)
&) The TOTAL shaded area on the
grid is cm2 34.
(2 marks)
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35. Mr Lewis needs to buy some materials.
He receives the following cost statements
from two hardware stores. A and B.
respectively.
HARDWARE STORE A
Quantity Material Unit Price
Cost
A
Bags of cement $30.00 $120.00
I Load ofsand $700.00 $700.00
50 Bricks $s.00
Total
Transportation $80.00
HA.RDWARE STORE B
Quantity Material Unit Price
Cost
4 Bags of cement $3s.00 $140.00
I Load ofsand s700.00 $700.00
50 Bricks $6.s0 $32s.00
Total $l16s.00
Transportation Free! Free! Free!
(a) Complete the bill statement for the
materials from Hardware Store A.
(1 mark)
(b) The hardware store MUST
transport the materials. Which
- hardware store offers Mr Lewis
the better purchase?
35.
(2 marks)
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In the following diagram, the dotted
line AB is a line of symmetry for the
incomplete shaded shape.
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Complete the drawing of the shape.
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37. (a) The following diagram is incomplete.
Complete the diagram to represent
the net of a triangular prism.
(1 mark)
(b) How many edges does a triangular
prism have?
Answer edges 37.
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Three triangles, P, Q and R are shown
beiow.
10 cm
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12c?Azcm
12 cm
(a) Which of triangles is
equilateral?
Answer
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(b) Which of the triangles have AT
LEAST ONE line of symmetry?
Answer
(2 rnarks) 38.
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39. The following diagram shows a flat
shaded shape, ABCD.
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(a) Circle the word from the following
list which BEST describes the
angle at C.
Acute Right-angled
Obtuse Reflex
(1 mark)
(b) On the diagram of ABCD, tick
(r/) tfre TWO sides which are
PARALLEL to each other.
(1 mark)
(c) On the diagram, draw ONE line to
divide the shape ABCD into TWO
triangles.
(1 mark)
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40. The following incomplete table shows
the number of Standard 4 pupils in
a school who qualified for the Mental
Mathematics Competition.
Mathernatics Competition
Standard 4 Number of
Pupils who
Qualified
4J I7
4K
4L 18
4M L7
4N 2l
The mean number of pupils who qualified
from Standard 4 is 1g. How manypupils
qualified from Standard 4K?
(2 marks) 40.
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Each question is worth 5 marks. Answer ALL questions.
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Suri and MaIi played a game of darts.
Each made six strikes. The following
diagram shows the number of Points
earned for striking the patterns on the
dart board.
Stripes = 10 points
Dots = 20 points
Black = 30 points
(a) Suri made two strikes on stripes,
three on dots and one on black'
What is her TOTAL score?
(2 marks)
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Mali scored 150 points by striking
each pattern AT LEAST ONCE.
Complete the following score sheet
to show how she scored 1b0 points.
Pattern Number of Score
Strikes
Stripes
Dots 1 20
Black
Total 6 150
(2 marks)
What is the LOWEST score possible
if in the six strikes, a player hits
EACH pattern at LEAST ONCE?
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42. Use the numbers given in the box below
to complete the statements which follow.
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49 24
(a) The SQUARE numbers in the box
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(b) The SQUARE ROOT of 121 is
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The TWO numbers which have
a product that is equal to the
SQUARE of L2 are
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43. Akil saved $50 at the end of each week to
buy the pair of roller skates shown below.
ROLLER SKATES
(a) How many weeks did it take him
to save $500?
Answer weeks
(1 mark)
(b) He paid in cash and received a
discount. After discount, he paid
$400. What was the percentage
discount he received?
Answer %
(2 rnarks)
(c) Akil paid the cashier the EXACT
$400 which included ONE or more
of EACH bill.
Complete the table below to find
the LEAST number of bills that
Akil gave the cashier.
Bin $100 $50 $20 $10 $5F
Number
of Bills
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Answer bills 43.
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44. The following diagram shows the number of
long mats (L) and short mats (S) arranged
around a rectangular playing field.
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The length and width, in metres, of each
type of rectangular mat are shown below.
Long mat, L Short mat, S
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Calculate:
(a) The length of the playing field
Answer
(1 mark)
(b) The width of the playing field
Answer m
(1 rnark)
(c) The area of a short mat
Answer m2
. (1 rnark)
(d) The number- of short mats that
would be needed to cover the area
of the playing field COMPLETELY
Answer short mats
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45. The following diagram shows a triangle,
PqR, and the position of its image after a
movement.
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(a) Circle the word from the following
list which BEST describes trianglE
PQR,
Right-angled Isosceles
Scalene Equilateral
(1 mark)
(b) Identify the type of movement.
Answer
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(c) Describe the movement FULLy.
Answer
(2 marks)
(d) Label the image of Point e as
e, .
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46. The following table shows the number
of chairs rented and returned to Zippy
Party Rentals for the period Monday to
Friday of a week in May.
Chair Rentals
Mon Tue Wed Thur Fri
Number 113 367 258 969 1083
of Chairs
rented
Number 46 96 62
of Chairs
returned
(a) On which day was the rental of
chairs CLOSEST to 1000?
Answer
(1 rnark)
(b) The number of chairs returned
for the week was 306. Calculate
the number of chairs returned on
Thursday if twice as many were
returned on Tuesday as returned
on Thursday.
Answer chairs
(2 marks)
(c) What is the mean number of chairs
rented over that period in May?
Answer chairs
(2 rnarks) 46.
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