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 1. This table shows the highest and lowest 4. The picture shows a model of a walrus
recorded temperatures at four locations. from above.

Lowest Highest N
City recorded recorded
temperature temperature
(oC) (oC)
l
Canberra -10 42
Luisa is standing south-east of the model.
London -13 35
Mumbai 10 43 Which view of the model does she see?
Singapore 20 35

In which city was the greatest temperature

range recorded?

(A) Canberra (A) (8)

(8) London
(C) Mumbai
(0) Singapore

2. It is given that:
(C) (0)
• x is a positive integer
• xis even
• x < 8.

Using the information provided above,

which is a possible value for x?

(A) 6
(B) 7
(C) 8
(0) 9

3. What is the acute angle between the

minute hand and the hour hand on a clock
when the time is 2:20?
'•
(A) .so
(B) 25°
(C) 50°
(0) 60°

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5. Manling created this graph to show sales 7. Sunil drew a 4 cm square on his computer
of four flavours of yoghurt in her shop. and called it X.

Then he created another shape that had

vanilla 4 cm sides and a height of 2 cm . He called
this shape Y.
t:: banana
~ ~~~~~

.::. Sunil's two shapes are shown in the

C'l
~ mango.___ _ ~ diagram.

berry
0 5 10 15 20 25 30
Sales

Which of these sector graphs matches the Which statement about the shapes X and
data in Manling's graph? Y is true?

(A) Y and X have the same area.

(B) Y has half of the area of X.
(C) Y has a third of the area of X.
(D) Y has a quarter of the area of X.

(A) (B) 8. Adam drew a rectangle with side length

and area as shown in the diagram.

1------- 7.5 cm - - ----1

(C) (D)
3843 75 mm2

6. This expression

5y- 0.5 + 2(3 - y)

simplifies to give: What is the perimeter of this rectangle?

(A) 4.5y + 6 (A) 25.25 cm
(B) 3.5y + 6 (B) 51.25 cm
(C) 4y + 5.5 (C) 252.50 cm
(D) 3y + 5.5 (D) 783.75 cm

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 9. Kiri, Joe and Megan have just inherited 11. Luisa's father frequently drives for his
3.6 million dollars. company. He receives a daily allowance
of $32 plus $0.35 for every kilometre he
The money is to be divided amongst them drives.
in the ratio 2:3:4, with Megan getting the
largest share. On Monday he drove m kilometres and
received a total payment of d dollars.
How many million dollars will Megan
receive? Which graph shows the relationship
between m and don Monday?
(A) 0.4
(B) 0.9 d d
(C) 1.2
(D) 1.6

10. Sun ii has four number cards.

0 m 0 m
(A) (B)

d d
The sum of the four cards is -6.

Sunil removes one card so that the sum

of the remaining cards is as small as
possible. 0 0
m m
(C) (D)
Which card does he remove?

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

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12. A circle is cut into twenty equal sectors. 14. Point A is plotted at (-2, 3).

What angle would three adjoining sectors y

make at the centre?
A (-2, 3) y =x + 1
(A ) 18° •
(8) 54°
(C) 60°
(D) 120°
1 2 3 4 x
1

13. This map shows the angles between some

-2
roads in a town. Two of the large roads
head due north. -- 3
-4

The point A is reflected in the line

N

+ y = x +1

What are the coordinates of the reflected

point?

(A) (3, 0)
(8) (3, -2)
(C) (2, - 1)
NOTTO SCALE
(D) (2, -3)
What is the value of x?

(A) 20 15. Sharon has 4 solids that are all the same
(8) 70 height.
(C) 110
(D) 160 She has a cube and a square pyramid .
Each of these solids has a square face
with a side length of s cm.

Sharon also has a cone and a cylinder.

Each of these solids has a circular face
with a diameter of s cm.

Which of Sharon's solids will have the

greatest volume?

(A) cone
(8) cube
(C) cylinder
(D) square pyramid

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16. At a music festival , a band played a set of 18. Julie has a piece of wood that is a
tunes for 40 minutes at a time. Then the rectangular prism 4 cm x 4 cm x 3 cm.
band had a break of at least 10 minutes
before playing again.
~
The band began playing at 4 pm and //,,/,~c~
finished their last set of tunes at 7 pm. The

T ~~ _/
band had more than one break. All breaks
were of equal length .
3 cm /
How long were the breaks between sets?

(A) 20 minutes
1l, ' 'Y·1 J
~
(B) 30 minutes
(C) 40 minutes '" · ' 4 cm
(D) 45 minutes
"' ~
17. A father and son have the same birthday. She cuts the wood into small blocks ,
In 2001 the father was 42 and the son each 2 cm x 1 cm x 4 cm.
was 11.
How many small blocks can Julie cut
In what year will the father be exactly from the large piece of wood?
twice as old as his son?
(A ) 4
(A) 2008 (B) 6
(B) 2018 (C) 8
(C) 2021 (D) 12
(D) 2031

19. The diagram shows the hexagonal

numbers 1, 6, 15 and 28.

1
0
6
0
15
® 28

If x is the nth hexagonal number, then

.J8x+ 1 + 1
n=
4

Which of the following is not a hexagonal

number?

(A ) 91
(B) 120
(C) 154
(D) 190

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, 20. Adam has a rectangular billiard table, 22. Which statement is true?
measuring 1 m by 2.5 m.
6 7 9
(A) - < - <-
The table has a pocket at each corner. 7 9 11

Adam rolls the ball from the middle of the 6 9 7

(8) - <-<-
left edge of the table, so that it hits the 7 11 9
bottom edge, 1 m from pocket A. The ball
rebounds at the same angle that it hits, as 9 7 6
(C) - <- < -
shown in the diagram. 11 9 7

D
..) .. - c (0)
7
-<-<-
9 6
"! 9 11 7
T ----
0.5
..L I\ ...
-- -- _.....-..-er
_ r 23. Adam is setting up the school hall for a
A 1----~1 -----1 B special event.
NOTTO SCALE
He needs to arrange exactly 60 chairs. He
The ball continues to rebound in the same
can arrange them in no more than 15 rows
way until it falls into a pocket.
and with fewer than 12 chairs per row.
Into which pocket does the ball fall? Each row must have the same number of
chairs.
(A) A
(8) B In how many different ways can he
(C) C arrange the chairs in the hall?
(0) D
(A) 3
(8) 4
I
21 . The mean, mode and median for the (C) 5
following set of numbers have been (0) 6
calculated.

24 . This is a floor plan of the house Sunil is

building. He marks out the positions of
What number can be added to the set all the walls with string as shown in the
without altering the values of the mean, diagram.
mode and median?

(A) 5
I
(8) 5.5
(C) 6
(0) 6.5 NOTTO SCALE

The house is x metres wide and is two

metres longer than it is wide.

What is the correct expression for the

length of string Sunil uses?

(A) 2x + 2 (8) 6x - 6
(C) 6x + 6 (0) 4x + 4

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 25. Manling used squares with a side length 27. A square is divided into four quarters by
of one unit to make figures in a pattern as drawing the diagonals.
shown.
Each quarter is coloured using yellow
or blue paint. Adjacent quarters can be
the same colour. All quarters must be
coloured.

One colour scherne is shown below.

D
figure 1 figure 2 figure 3 figure 4

If she continues the pattern, which figure

will have a perimeter of 68 units?

(A) figure 17
(B) figure 34
(C) figure 48 Two painted squares are considered to
(D) figure 64 have the same colour scheme if one may
be obtained from the other by rotation .

26. The symbol ¢ is an operator between any In total, how many different colour
two numbers X and Y that follows this rule . schemes are possible?

X ¢ Y =X + 2(Y - 5) (A) 5
(B) 6
Jessie calculates that 5 ¢ N =-11 . (C) 8
(D) 16
What is the value of N?

(A) - 11
28. For what values of x is this inequality true?
(B) -3
(C) 3 - 5x > 3(6 - x)
(D) 8
(A) all values of x less than -9
(B) all values of x greater than 9
(C) all values of x greater than -9
(D) all values of x between -9 and 9

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29. A local pet shop keeps male and female 31 . The diameter of the small circle is 40%
mice in separate cages. of the diameter of the large circle.

The table shows the number of mice in the

shop.

Male Female Total

Long-tailed 8 7 15

Short-tailed 4 3 7

Total 12 10 22

Luisa buys a breeding pair of long-tailed What percentage of the area of the large
mice. circle is the area of the small circle?

Then her friend Noor picks a mouse at (A) 60% (B) 40%
random from the cage of female mice. (C) 25% (D) 16%

What is the probability that Noor picks a

long-tailed mouse? 32. In the following figure , PQRS is a
trapezium and RQXY is a parallelogram.
3 7 The lengths of PS and PQ are given in cm.
(A) (B)
4 10
p 4 s
2 (D)
3
(C)
3 ~R..;___ _ _Y
10 5
,,
O"-----..../X
30. The subject of the formula below is x. NOTTO SCALE

k+1 The table shows some different

x = 2k + 1 possibilities for the lengths of the sides SR
and QX.
Which of the following shows this formula
rearranged to make k the subject? For which measurements do the figures
PQRS and RQXY have equal areas?
(A)
x +1
k = 2k + 1 Side SR (cm) Side QX(cm)
2x + 1 (A) 2 7
(B) k=
.x +1 (B) 2 8
(C) k = x -1 (C) 3 7
2x-1 (D) 3 8
(D) k = 1- x
2x-1

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 An emirp is a special type of prime 35. The difference of the squares of two
number. When the digits of the number consecutive integers can be found in the
are reversed , a different prime number is following way:
made.
(x+ 1) 2 - x 2
An example of an emirp is 13. When the
digits of 13 are reversed the result is 31 , = x 2 + 2x + 1- x
2

which is also a prime number. = 2x+ l

=x+(x+ l)
Which of the following is not an emirp?

(A) 37 This is equal to the sum of two

(B) 79 consecutive integers.
(C) 193
(D) 311 The difference between the square of an
integer and the square of 2 more than that
integer can be found in a similar way.
34. Nancy is investigating the number
subtraction pattern shown. This difference is equal to the sum of two

0 7 7 0 (A) consecutive integers.

-7 0 7 0
0 (B) consecutive odd integers.
0 7 -7 -7 7 0 (C) consecutive even integers.
(D ) integers with a difference of three.
0 -7 14 0 -14 7 0
0 7 -21 14 14 -21 7 0
0 -7 28 -35 0 35 -28 7 0
0 7 -35 63 -35 -35 63 -35 7 0
0 -7 ? ? ? ? ? ? 7 0 Im
The last line of the pattern is incomplete.
! What number should go in the place
marked ?

(A) 35
(B) 28
(C) - 63
(D) - 98

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·auESTIONS 36 TO 40 ARE FREE RESPONSE.
Write your answer in the boxes provided on 38. Single-digit numbers are written on the
the ANSWER SHEET and fill in the ovals that faces of two cubes to create some unusual
match your answer. dice.

On each die, there are a certain number

36. Point P and point Q are plotted in a plane. of sixes and some other numbers.

y Each die has the same number of sixes.

·~
How many sixes are there on each die
if the probability of rolling a double six
6 .IS -1 ?.
4
5
Q 39. A student was given the problem
4

3 • •%of$• • • = $400
p
Unfortunately the problem was so blurred
2
that the two-digit number before the
percentage sign and the three-digit dollar
1
amount could not be read .

0 4 5 6
.. x
~

How many possible combinations of

1 2 3
percentage values and dollar amounts
could solve this problem?
A third point R , with integer coordinates, is
to be plotted so that PQR is an isosceles
triangle.
40. A cylinder is enclosed in a sphere, as
shown below.
How many different locations are possible
for point R?

37. A student uses trial and error to find all

solutions to the equation

y 3 =129 -x2
x and y can only be integers.

Using the formula V = ~ nr3 , the volume

How many solutions are there for this
equation?
of the sphere is 972n cm 3 .

The ratio of the diameter of the cylinder to

its height is 1:5.

What is the volume of the cylinder, to the

nearest cm 3 ?

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