Practice questions for ACER numeracy test:

12 calculator and 5 non-calculator questions.

1. If an American athlete runs 20km every day, however he is not used to the metric system and
would prefer his distances in the imperial system that deals with miles. If 1km = 0.6 miles, how
many miles is this athlete running every day?

2. The below table shows private-school and public-school numbers across Australian states

Private school Public schools

NSW 6000 12000
ACT 500 1200
QLD 12500 23000
SA 240 860
WA 2500 6700
TAS 65 110

(i) Which state has a ratio of private to public schools of 1:2?

(ii) In Which state or territory is the proportion of private schools to public schools the
greatest?
(iii) In which state or territory is the proportion of private schools to public schools the least?
(iv) True or false, qld has a ratio of private schools to public schools of 25:46?

3. The period of the Mongolian ruler, Genghis khan reigned from January 30 BC to August 15 AD
(including 0 AD)

The number of years Genghis ruled from is closest to how many years ?

4. A school talent performance is scheduled for Monday. The stage is outside. BOM forecasts a 35
% chance of rain on Monday.

What is the chance it will not rain on Monday?

A)14/21

B)16/25

C)13/20

D)26/72

E)1/4
Cuisine preference: 81 students were asked the following survey question (see below):

Survey about cuisine preference:

Q: Which of these cuisines do you eat on a regular

basis (you may select more than one)?

A Italian

B Mexican

C Neither

i. True or false?, the percentage of people who favourite cuisine was just Italian was 19.75% ?
ii. How many participants recorded they do not regularly eat Mexican ?
 5. Ms. Smith used a spreadsheet to record her students’ scores for 4 quizzes

The max score for each test is 10. Which of the following formula can be used to calculate the mean
score of Ezra’s quizzes?

  A B C D E F
1   Quiz 1 Quiz 2 Quiz 3 Quiz 4 Average
2 Sam 8 7 8 5 7
3 Sue 4 6 4 2 4
4 Tony 4 5 5 6 5
5 Bob 3 6 8 9 6.5
6 Shel 6 7 8 3 6
7 Damo 4 5 6 7 5.5
8 Edka 6 7 4 6 5.75
9 Ezra 3 4 5 6 4.5
10 Elke 5 6 7 5 5.75
11 Tom 4 5 3 2 3.5

A = b9 + c9 + d9 + e9/4

B = ((b9 + c9)) + d9 + e9/4

C = (b9 + c9 + d9 + e9)/3

D = (b9 + c9 + d9 + e9)/4

6. Skewed data

A teacher gives an assessment to 20 students in her class, the graph shows a plot of stuudents scores

The mean of the scores is 73.8%

60% 65% 70% 75% 80%

True or false, more than half the scores are above 70%?
7. If the start of the school day occurs at the time shown on this clock and first break is 2 hours and
20 minutes after this time, what time is first break?

8. If there are 4.18kJ in 1 Calorie and a man needs to eat 10 000kJ per day to meet his energy
requirements, how many calories would this be (provide answer to 2 decimal places)?

9. If a man is rollerblading at 12km/hour and must travel a distance of 42km, how much time in
hours will this take the man?

10. A lady in the same race, is winning the 42km race, however is rollerblading at a speed of
14km/hour, how many minutes will she finish ahead of the man?

11. A sporting team is doing a sausage sizzle at the local Bunnings and expects to sell 350 sausages
for the day. If a loaf of bread has 13 slices, what is the minimum amount of loaves of bread that
this team will need to purchase?
NO CALCULATOR for questions below
1. At a secondary school, one quarter of year 12 student applied for an apprenticeship, and one
third of year 12 students applied for tafe or uni, no year 12 students applied for both
apprenticeship, tafe and uni

What fraction of year 12ers did not apply for uni, tafe or apprenticeship ?

2. At a different secondary school, one fifth of year 12 student applied for an apprenticeship, and
one half of year 12 students applied for tafe or uni, no year 12 students applied for both
apprenticeship, tafe and uni

What fraction of year 12ers did not apply for uni, tafe or apprenticeship ?

3. At a school down the road, one tenth of year 12 student applied for an apprenticeship, and two
sevenths of year 12 students applied for tafe or uni, no year 12 students applied for both
apprenticeship, tafe and uni

What fraction of year 12ers did not apply for uni, tafe or apprenticeship ?

4. The GDP of Wakanda (home of the Black Panther) increased from 2016 to 17.
- Wakanda GDP in 2016 was 14.6 trillion
- Wakanda GDP in 2017 was 22.6 trillion

Approximately what is the percentage of Wakanda’s GDP from 2016, relative to 2017?

A) 15-20%
B) 40-45%
C) 60-65%
D) 70-75%

5. According to the African bureau of statistics, as of june 2012, the population of Lions was 24.1
thousand.
Due to poaching, this number has unfortunately dropped, with the bureau reporting as of June
2016, the population was now 8.1 thousand.

What was the population percentage decrease closest to from 2012 to 2016?

A) 55% drop
B) 66% drop
C) 70% drop
D) 80% drop
Answers

Calculator Section:

1. 12miles
2. (i) NSW (ii) Tasmania (iii) SA (iv) True
3. 45 years
4. C
5. (i) T (ii) 49
6. D
7. False
8. 11:05am
9. 2392.34 calories
10. 3.5 hours
11. 30 minutes
12. 27 loaves

Non-Calculator section:

1. 5/12
2. 3/10
3. 43/70
4. C
5. B

Working out for 5:

- Population decrease = 24.1 thousand – 8 thousand = 16 thousand

- Population decrease divided by original population = fraction of population decrease
o 16/24 = 2/3
- Convert fraction to percentage: 2/3 = 66.666%, therefore the answer must be B: 66% drop