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Upper Primary Division

Questions 1 to 10, 3 marks each

1. Marlie was born in 2016. In which year will she turn 14?
(A) 2026 (B) 2028 (C) 2030 (D) 2032 (E) 2034

2. A square has area 16 cm2 . What is its perimeter in centimetres?

(A) 4 (B) 8 (C) 12 (D) 16 (E) 24

3. Evan set the temperature dial on his OFF

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oven as shown. What temperature is it C
set to? 250 100
(A) 155 ◦ C (B) 170 ◦ C
(C) 180 ◦ C (D) 220 ◦ C
(E) 230 ◦ C 200 150

4. At a theme park, one ride costs $8. How many rides can Sally buy
with her $65?
(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 8 (E) 9

5. If I choose one of these cards at random, which of the following

am I least likely to get?
(A) A four 7 5 4 J 6 6 A J 4 K 7 4
♦♠♦♣♠♣
♥♦♥♦♠ ♠
♥♦♥♦
♦ ♠ ♣ ♥ ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ ♠ ♦ ♥ ♦

(B) A seven ♦ ♥
(C) A spade
(D) A heart
♠

♥
♦ ♦♠ ♥♦♥♦
♠ ♠♦♥♦♥
♦♥♦♥
♥ ♥
♦♠♦
♣♠♣ ♣
♦ ♥ ♦ ♠ ♠ ♣ ♦ ♥ ♥ ♣ ♠ ♦
4 7 K 4 J A 6 6 J 4 5 7
(E) A diamond ♦

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6. The following decimals are to be placed in increasing order.

0.42 0.24 4.02 2.4 0.042

Which number will be in the middle position?

(A) 0.42 (B) 0.24 (C) 4.02 (D) 2.4 (E) 0.042

7. This graph shows the temperature 25

throughout the school day, but part of 20
Temp. 15
it has been hidden.
(◦ C) 10
The hottest part of the day is at 2 pm. 5
What does the missing section of the 0
9 10 11 12 1 2 3
graph look like? Time

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

8. Leila has found out three facts about the speeds of her four favourite
fast birds:

• The spur-winged goose (SWG) is slower than the white-throated

needletail (WTN).
• The peregrine falcon (PF) is the fastest bird.
• The frigate bird (FB) is faster than only one of the other birds.

Which of the following lists gives the birds from fastest to slowest?
(A) SWG, WTN, PF, FB (B) PF, SWG, FB, WTN
(C) PF, WTN, SWG, FB (D) FB, PF, WTN, SWG
(E) PF, WTN, FB, SWG

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9. The cube pictured has six different faces.

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Which of the following is not a possible
picture of this cube? × □

(A) (B) (C)

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× ⃝ ⃝
□ × ⃝
(D) (E)

×
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10. In Primeland, they use coins worth $2, $3 and $5.

Which of the following totals is not possible using exactly 3 coins?
(A) $6 (B) $8 (C) $10 (D) $12 (E) $14

Questions 11 to 20, 4 marks each

11. What fraction of this rectangle is shaded?
1 5 1
(A) (B) (C)
2 12 3
2 5
(D) (E)
5 9

12. The Balga is a grass tree found in south-western

Australia. Balgas grow between 1 and
2 centimetres taller each year.
Approximately how old is a Balga that is
4 metres tall?
(A) 10 years (B) 30 years (C) 60 years
(D) 300 years (E) 1000 years

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13. A rectangular block measures 4 × 3 × 2 in

centimetres. All of its surfaces are painted and
then it is cut into 24 cubes of side length
1 centimetre.
How many cubes have exactly one face painted?

(A) 4 (B) 8 (C) 12 (D) 18 (E) 24

14. James convinces his parents to start a new plan for paying him
pocket money. In week 1, they will give him 10 cents and every week
after that, they will double the amount they pay him.
In which week will he first receive more than $10 pocket money?
(A) 6 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 9 (E) 10

15. A shop has a special deal where you can buy two different items and
get the cheaper item at half price. Roberta bought two of these
items, and paid $16. Which two items did she buy?

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Creative Woodwork
Return of the King

1 2 3 4
The Two Towers

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Maths Puzzles

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Palaeontology

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The Hobbit

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Magazines Gift cards Books Birthday cards Wrapping paper
$6 each $12 each $10 each $4 each $8 each

(A) A birthday card and a magazine

(B) A gift card and a birthday card
(C) A book and a roll of wrapping paper
(D) A gift card and a roll of wrapping paper
(E) A magazine and a roll of wrapping paper

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16. Chester has 5 identical tiles, each

measuring 10 cm by 30 cm. He wants
30 cm
to tile the area shown with these tiles.
In how many different ways can he do
this? 50 cm

(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) 10

17. This graph shows the percentages 40%

of different eye colours of the 30%
students in Year 6.
20%
In Year 6, 48 students have brown
eyes. 10%
What is the total number of 0%
students in Year 6? Brown Blue Green Black

(A) 96 (B) 100 (C) 120 (D) 132 (E) 144

18. The number 15 is divisible by its unit digit, that is, 15 ÷ 5 = 3.

How many whole numbers between 20 and 50 have this property?
(A) 12 (B) 14 (C) 16 (D) 18 (E) 20

19. I meant to add two numbers together and then subtract a third
number.
Unfortunately I got my plus and minus symbols the wrong way
round. But I was lucky! The answer still came out to be correct.
Which statement must be true?
(A) The first number equals the sum of the other two.
(B) The third number is the difference between the other two.
(C) The first and second numbers are equal.
(D) The second and third numbers are equal.
(E) The third number is zero.

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20. A square piece of paper is folded along the dotted lines, as shown in
the diagrams. The bottom-right corner is then cut off, as shown by
the shading in the third diagram.


When the paper is unfolded, which of the following is the result?

(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

Questions 21 to 25, 5 marks each

21. To prepare a garden bed for growing ginger, Xiao makes a special
mix of ginger soil. She first mixes 2 buckets of manure with
4 buckets of compost. Then she mixes 1 bucket of this mixture with
3 buckets of sand to make ginger soil.
How much compost is in each bucket of ginger soil?
1 1 2
(A) of a bucket (B) of a bucket (C) of a bucket
6 8 9
1 1
(D) of a bucket (E) of a bucket
10 12

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22. Troy makes a list of 6 numbers by writing down a starting number

then writing the next 5 counting numbers, going up in steps of 1.
When he adds them, the total is less than 100.
He increases each number by 1, and the new total is greater than 100.
What is this new total?
(A) 101 (B) 102 (C) 103 (D) 104 (E) 105

23. The area of this rectangle is 56 square A B

centimetres. The midpoints of BC and
DC are joined to A and to each other,
to form the shaded triangle shown.
What is the area of this triangle in
square centimetres? D C

(A) 14 (B) 21 (C) 24 (D) 25 (E) 28

24. A deck of playing cards originally contained 52 cards. Vicki loses

some of these. When she deals the cards she has left equally between
four people, she has three cards left over. When she deals them
equally between six people, she has one card left over. Which of the
following could be the number of cards Vicki lost?
(A) 2 (B) 10 (C) 11 (D) 17 (E) 21

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25. Kiko and 5 of her friends are Kiko Jason

seated around a restaurant table.
Each person introduces themself, Joanne Bessie
telling everyone how many of the
people at the table they’ve Michael Cameron
previously met. Naturally, Kiko
has met all 5.
Coincidentally, the other 5 have all met the same number as each
other.
Which of the following is not a possibility for this number that all 5
of Kiko’s friends have met?
(A) 1 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5
(E) All of (A) to (D) are possible.

For questions 26 to 30, shade the answer as a whole number

from 0 to 999 in the space provided on the answer sheet.
Questions 26–30 are worth 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 marks, respectively.

26. The numbers 1 to 6 are arranged to form two 3-digit numbers that
are then added together. What is the difference between the largest
and smallest sums that can be obtained?

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27. Jane has four doting grandparents who each separately tell her that
they will help her with her savings plans.

• Granny Ava says, ‘Whatever you have when you come to me,
I will add $10.’
• Granny Beth says, ‘Whatever you have when you come to me,
I will double it.’
• Grampa Charles says, ‘Whatever you have when you come to
me, I will halve your savings but then add $50.’
• Grampa Dave says, ‘Whatever you have when you come to me,
I will double it and add $5.’

Jane has saved $10 by herself. She plans to visit each grandparent
once, in the order that maximises the amount she has at the end. In
dollars, what is this maximum amount?

28. Skip counting by 5, I write a list of 300 numbers that starts 5, 10, 15
and ends 1490, 1495, 1500.
How many times do I write the digit ‘0’ ?

29. Starting with the number 2024, a second number is calculated by

squaring each digit and adding these squares together:
22 + 02 + 22 + 42 = 24. The third number is then calculated by
adding the squares of the digits of the second number. This
continues until the 2024th number. What is the 2024th number?

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30. To cross a river, there are 12 stepping stones in a line, equally spaced
50 centimetres apart.

I would like to start at the first and finish at the last, and step on
each stepping stone exactly once. I can take both 50 centimetre and
1 metre steps, both forwards and backwards.
How many ways are there for me to cross the river?

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