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2.
Algebra, NAP-19144
NAPLAN 9: Algebra
The area of the shaded rectangle below is 84 cm².
Harder Equations
Teacher: Phil Ryan
Exam Equivalent Time: 71.25 minutes (based on NAPLAN allocation of
~1.25 min/mark)
Questions
1. Algebra, NAP-13230
Jeremy sold ice creams out of his ice cream truck. What is the length of the shaded rectangle?
He drew the graph below to show how the number of ice creams he sells in a week is
related to their price. cm
Which statement best describes the graph?
As the ice cream price goes up, the number sold goes down.
As the ice cream price goes up, the number sold goes up.
As the ice cream price goes down, the number sold goes down.
As the ice cream price goes down, the number sold stays the same.
3. Algebra, NAP-54357 4. Algebra, NAP-66188
Thomas throws a ball from a height of 2 metres. Olive drew this plan of her lawn.
The ball reaches a maximum height of 4 metres and hits the ground again after 4 seconds.
Which graph represents the path of Thomas' ball?
a
c
d
Which expression gives the area of Olive's lawn?
A store sells cups for $4 each and bowls for $5 each.
Alex wrote the equation to calculate the number of cups and bowls he could
buy for exactly $65.
How many cups and bowls did Alex buy for $65?
3 cups and 10 bowls
4 cups and 10 bowls
5 cups and 9 bowls
10 cups and 7 bowls

The surface area of the prism below can be calculated by multiplying the perimeter of its At a pool supply store, 20 kilograms of salt costs $6.50 and 40 kilograms of the same salt
face by its height , and adding twice the area of its face . costs $13.00.
Which graph could show the relationship between the amount of salt and its cost?
Which one of these formulas could be used for this calculation?

Billy is setting up tables for a comedy night at his club. Farmer Jim uses 5-strand wire fencing around his paddocks.
An X is placed for every available seat at a table, as shown below. His fences have 3 barbed wire strands and 2 plain wire strands, as shown in the diagram
below.
Barbed wire costs per metre. Plain wire costs per metre.
Which of these expressions gives the total cost of the wire needed for a fence of length
metres?
Which of these rules can be used to work out how many people can sit on any row of tables?

Surf Grommets charge an hourly rate for surfing lessons and add a one-off charge of $45 for
insurance.
The overall cost is represented by the formula, , where is the number
of hours of lessons.
Mark has 11 hours of lessons with Surf Grommets.
How much does he pay?
$86 $330 $375 $825

Robin was an archer and was aiming for the target below in archery game. Paddy and Miffy each bought potatoes from the local farmers' market.
Paddy bought 2 kilograms for $2.50.
Miffy bought 6 kilograms for $7.50.
Which graph best represents the cost of potatoes at the farmers' market?
In the game, Robin shoots 3 arrows at the target, with each shape worth points.
The table below shows the results of Robin's first 3 turns, each shooting 3 arrows.
In Robin's 4th turn, he hits the following 3 objects:
How many points did he score in his 4th turn?

In a hockey club, there are 123 players.
There are 21 less women than men.
How many men are in the club?
Peter thinks of a number, .
He triples the number.
What is the value of He then halves that answer and subtracts 25.
Which expression shows what Peter did?

Karen and Kim are sisters and share a bedroom.
They want their beds positioned the same distance from the centre of the room.
Which value of satisfies both of these equations?

Renee and Leisa are saving money so they can visit their grandmother on a holiday.
Renee has $100 and plans to save $30 each week.
Leisa has $200 and plans to save $10 each week.
After how many weeks will Renee and Leisa have saved the same amount?
What is the distance from the edge of each bed to the middle of the room?
weeks

16. Algebra, NAP-02687 A large telescope lens has a diameter and depth .
Alan earns $55 for making 11 deliveries.
The focal length of the lens, , is given by the rule .
Which expression shows how much he will earn for making deliveries?
When and , the value of is
In these expressions and are positive whole numbers and is a negative whole A reception area has pillars that are cm wide and the gap between pillars is cm.
number.
Which expression gives the largest positive value?

A plumber calculates the price of a job using a service fee and an amount per hour.
This table shows some of the job prices.
If the reception area has 12 pillars on one side, the length of that side can be represented by
which expression?
How are the jobs calculated?
$60 service fee + $35 per hour

Steph shoots a basketball from a height of 2 metres above the ground. 55 students at a school need to choose a language to study between Japanese, Mandarin
and French.
The graph below shows the height of the ball above ground level against the time after
Steph releases the ball. Ten more students chose Japanese than Mandarin.
Half as many students chose French than Mandarin.
How many students chose to study Japanese?
9 11 13 28

The number of rabbits, , that live on an island is estimated by the rule.
where is the number of months rabbits have lived on the island.
How many rabbits are estimated to live on the island after 6 months.
rabbits

The daily energy requirement, (kilojoules), for a person of mass (kilograms) is
A basketball ring is 3 m above the ground. calculated using the rule .
How long is the ball at or above the height of the ring? For Elijah,
What is Elijah's mass?
kilograms
Ogi owns the most marbles among his friends. He owns The relationship between two variables and is shown in the table.
4 times the number Chris owns,
12 times the number Alison owns and
32 times the number Matt owns.
About how many times more marbles does Chris own than Matt?
Which equation best describes the relationship between and ?

A positive number is multiplied by 3, then 15 is added.
Which of the following operations give the same result?
Wendy went to the supermarket to buy milk, soup, pineapple and cereal.
Adding 15 to , then multiply by 3.
The pineapple cost half as much as the cereal.
The cost of different combinations of her items is shown below.

The season goal-scoring statistics of a netball team showed the following results.
Gemma scored 12 more goals than Kate.
Kate scored 6 more goals than Hannah.
In total, Gemma, Kate and Hannah scored 51 goals in the season.
How many goals did Hannah score? What is the cost of the milk?
$1 $1.50 $2 $2.50
A number of retired people were asked this question: Michelle creates a snack food which is a mixture of 4 different types of nuts.
"How many grandchildren do you have?" She makes 300 grams of the mixture and weighs each ingredient as follows:
40% of the mixture is almonds.
The lowest answer given was 4.
The rest of the mixture is made up of walnuts, pecans and macadamia nuts.
The highest answer given was 16.
The mass of walnuts is the same as the mass of pecans.
The total of all the answers given was 40.
The mass of walnuts is twice the mass of macadamias.
What is the largest number of retired people who could have been asked?
How many grams of pecans are in the 300 grams of nut mixture.
retirees
grams

In this inequality is a whole number.
What is the smallest positive whole number can be that makes this expression correct?
What is the smallest possible value for to make this inequality true?

David's backyard is in shape of a rectangle and has an area of 50 m².
Tim's backyard is also rectangular but with side lengths that are double those of David's
backyard.
What is the area of Tim's backyard.
² ² ² ²
The mass of a macaw is 1.44 kilograms.
Its wingspan is 1.26 metres.
The rule for the graph is
A rule that can be used to approximately predict the wingspan of a macaw from its mass is.
is the height in metres, of a person's eyes above the ground.

is the distance a person can see to the horizon. where is the wingspan in metres and is the mass in kilograms.
The graph shows that if a person's eyes are 4 metres above the ground, they can see 6 km What is the difference in centimetres between the macaw's actual wingspan and the
to the horizon. wingspan predicted by the rule?
Use this to calculate the value of

centimetres
The plan of a square area of land is drawn below. The graph below can be used to approximately convert kilograms to pounds.
A mining licence is granted over part of the land.
All measurements are given in kilometres.
x
Key
5 Mining licence land
x
Non-mining area
4
Using the graph, a mass of 6 kilograms is closest to

The area of land the mining licence covers is

In a ping pong competition with 4 players, each person plays all other players once.
In a competition with 4 players, there are 6 games.
The formula below gives the total number of games for a competition with players.
What is the value of if the total games played is 120?

Jill is driving along a road at 60 km/h.
This graph shows stopping distance for different speeds.
Find the value of
120
100
Stopping distance (m)

80
Johnno is saving to buy a go-kart.
He created a table to keep track of his savings.
60
40
20
Complete the rule for the linear relationship between the amount of money in Johnno's
savings account and the number of months of saving.
20 40 60 80 100
Speed (km/h)
Jill applies the brakes and comes to a stop.

45. Algebra, NAP-54355 If Jill is travelling at 75 km/h and brakes, how much extra distance does it take her to stop?
Nebula sells showbags at the Royal Easter show.

m
She sells two types, Star Wars and Toy Story showbags, for $10 each.
One day, she sell Star Wars showbags and Toy Story showbags.
Select all of the formulas below that Nebula could use to determine the correct amount of 47. Algebra, NAP-95710
money collected on the day, in dollars.
of Riley's savings equals of Cianna's savings.
Their total savings together is $63.

How much has Cianna saved?
Freya buys 2 of the same chocolate bars from the shop.
where is a positive whole number.
She breaks the first chocolate bar into 3 identical pieces.
What is the highest possible value for ?
She then breaks the second chocolate bar into 6 identical pieces.
One of the larger pieces of chocolate weighs 12 grams more than one of the smaller pieces.
What is the mass of one whole chocolate bar?
grams
?
The weight ( kilograms) and age ( years) of a turtle are related by the following inequality: What term makes this equation true for all values of ?
w < 8a ‒ 13 for values of a between 1 and 10

Which pair of values satisfy this inequality?
Mark had a small orchard on his farm.
of his trees were lemon trees and were orange trees.
Mark has more orange trees than lemon trees.

How many trees does Mark have?
Ralph is the age of Murray.

Peter is the age of Murray.
The cost in dollars to make Star Wars toy figures is .
Ralph is years older than Peter. How many Star Wars toy figures can be made for a cost of $25 000.
How old is Murray in years?
toy figures
years
, , and are towns that lie on a straight train track as shown below. The surface area of a brick is given by the rule:
total surface area = 2 × [(width × height) + (width × length) + (height × length)]
The brick shown has a total surface area of 982 square centimetres.
The distance between and is half the distance from to .

The distance from to is one-sixth the distance from to .
The distance from to is 15 km.
What is the distance between and ?
kilometres
56. Algebra, NAP-19232 What is the width of the brick?
Ian was cooking a defrosted chicken in his oven and checking its temperature every 7 centimetres
minutes.
The first temperature taken was .
The second temperature was . Copyright © 2016-2019 M2 Mathematics Pty Ltd (SmarterMaths.com.au)
The third measurement showed that the temperature had increased one and a half times the
previous increase.
What was the third temperature?
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100
Stopping distance (m)

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20
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Speed (km/h)


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2.

Which statement best describes the graph?

Which expression gives the area of Olive's lawn?

3 cups and 10 bowls

4 cups and 10 bowls

5 cups and 9 bowls

10 cups and 7 bowls

Which one of these formulas could be used for this calculation?

10. Algebra, NAP-96771

$86 $330 $375 $825

In Robin's 4th turn, he hits the following 3 objects:

How many points did he score in his 4th turn?

13. Algebra, NAP-08600

15. Algebra, NAP-36779

Which value of satisfies both of these equations?

19. Algebra, NAP-30866

20. Algebra, NAP-91025

22. Algebra, NAP-79169

How are the jobs calculated?

$60 service fee + $35 per hour

$60 service fee + $70 per hour

$58 service fee + $72 per hour

$58 service fee + $36 per hour

How many students chose to study Japanese?

26. Algebra, NAP-38070

where is the number of months rabbits have lived on the island.

27. Algebra, NAP-61591

Which equation best describes the relationship between and ?

29. Algebra, NAP-19203

Adding 5 to , then multiply by 3.

30. Algebra, NAP-89770

34. Algebra, NAP-96834

35. Algebra, NAP-19231

The rule for the graph is

is the height in metres, of a person's eyes above the ground.

Use this to calculate the value of

Using the graph, a mass of 6 kilograms is closest to

42. Algebra, NAP-38097

What is the value of if the total games played is 120?

Stopping distance (m)

Jill applies the brakes and comes to a stop.

Nebula sells showbags at the Royal Easter show.

of Riley's savings equals of Cianna's savings.

Their total savings together is $63.

w < 8a ‒ 13 for values of a between 1 and 10

53. Algebra, NAP-85139

of his trees were lemon trees and were orange trees.

Mark has more orange trees than lemon trees.

50. Algebra, NAP-66275

Ralph is the age of Murray.

The distance between and is half the distance from to .

56. Algebra, NAP-19232 What is the width of the brick?

10. Algebra, NAP-96771

13. Algebra, NAP-08600

11. Algebra, NAP-36783

14. Algebra, NAP-38066

15. Algebra, NAP-36779

16. Algebra, NAP-02687

18. Algebra, NAP-79170

22. Algebra, NAP-79169

19. Algebra, NAP-30866

23. Algebra, NAP-02746

20. Algebra, NAP-91025

24. Algebra, NAP-61587