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 1. Which of these has the same value 4. Lucy placed 13 pots around a pond as
as 26 000? shown. Each pot has a diameter of 30 cm.

(A) 260 tens 30 cm

(B) 260 hundreds
(C) 260 thousands
(D) 2600 hundreds

Pond 30 cm
2. Ben started shading some numbers on this
chart by following a pattern.

21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 What is the perimeter of the pond?

31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
(A) 660 cm
41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 (B) 480 cm
(C) 450 cm
What will be the largest number Ben (D) 390 cm
shades if he continues this pattern?

(A) 46 (B) 47 5. Ali grew this sunflower plant for a

(C) 49 (D) 50 competition. It was just over 240 cm tall.

3. This map shows the paths in a park. 240

park
centimetres

??
Gate 1 Gate 2
215

path

How many different ways are there to walk

along the paths from Gate 1 to Gate 2 What was the approximate diameter of
without heading back towards Gate 1? Ali’s flower as shown by the marker?
(A) 6 (A) 24 cm
(B) 5 (B) 25 cm
(C) 4 (C) 32 cm
(D) 3 (D) 40 cm

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6. James drew a rectangle with 4 lines 8. Dani is making a design with PQ as the
inside it. line of symmetry.

How many angles in his drawing are larger

than a right angle?
Q
(A) 3
(B) 4 What is the minimum number of squares
(C) 6 that Dani still needs to shade?
(D) 7
(A) 2
(B) 3
7. Saira had $500. (C) 4
(D) 5
She spent 25% of this money on clothes
and saved the rest.
9. In this shape, the length of the rectangular
How much money did Saira save? section is equal to twice the width.

(A) $375 10 m
(B) $350
(C) $150
(D) $125
4m 4m

What is the area of the shape?

(A) 90 m2
(B) 70 m2
(C) 66 m2
(D) 56 m2

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 10. Sue took a circular piece of paper and 11. This chart shows some information about
folded it in half three times. tides in Sydney for one week in January.

Date High tides Low tides

Jan Time Height Time Height
(am) (pm)
7 6:17 1.3 m 12:22 0.4 m
8 7:14 1.4 m 1:18 0.3 m
1st fold 2nd fold 3rd fold 9 8:09 1.4 m 2:11 0.1 m
10 9:03 1.4 m 3:03 0.1 m
She then cut along this dotted line and
threw away the smaller section. 11 9:56 1.4 m 3:54 0.1 m
12 10:49 1.4 m 4:45 0.1 m
smaller section
13 11:42 1.4 m 5:36 0.1 m

This table shows the time adjustments for

Sue unfolded the remaining piece. some other coastal towns.

Which of these is the shape of the Ballina +7 minutes

remaining piece?
Coffs Harbour –7 minutes
(A) (B) Port Macquarie +19 minutes
Bateman’s Bay +3 minutes
Port Kembla –1 minute

Boats cannot be launched one hour before

or after low tide.

(C) (D) Samira wants to launch her boat at Coffs

Harbour on the afternoon of 10 January.

Between which times can she NOT launch

her boat?

(A) 1:56 pm and 3:56 pm

(B) 2:03 pm and 4:03 pm
(C) 2:10 pm and 4:10 pm
(D) 2:47 pm and 4:47 pm

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12. Jane made a pattern with some dominoes. 14. Mr Goh used this stamp to reward
good work.
She arranged them so the dots on the
top halves formed one pattern and the dots
on the bottom halves formed
another pattern.

Which of these shows a print made with

domino domino domino this stamp?
1 2 3
(A) (B)
Which is the next domino in the pattern?

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

(C) (D)

13. It is now possible to make an artificial arm

using a 3-D printer. 15. Justine had a 120 cm piece of rope with
markings every 20 cm.

She cut along one of the markings to form

two pieces.
1 2 1 2
What3 is the3 probability
5 5 that one piece was
exactly 40 cm longer than the other piece?

This has reduced the cost of an artificial (A) 1

2 1 2 2
1 (B) 1 2
arm from $40 000 to just $400. 3 3 5 3 5 3 5 5

What is the new cost as a percentage of 1 2 1 1 2 2 1 2

(C) (D)
the old cost? 3 3 5 3 5 3 5 5

(A) 0.01% (B) 0.1%

(C) 1% (D) 10%

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 16. Pam climbed 300 steps. 19. Tina is solving a puzzle.
Each step is 20 cm high.
N
A B C
E2 S2 W1

D E F
E1 SW1 W2

G H I
20 cm NE2 NE1 NW2

She must choose a starting point and then

How high did she climb? follow the directions in each square.

(A) 6 m (B) 60 m For example, in square G, ‘NE2’ means

(C) 600 m (D) 6000 m jump to the 2nd square north-east of G.

Tina must land on each square only once.

17. A = 1.1 + 2.2 + 3.3 + 4.4
On which square must Tina start?
B = 1.1 – 2.2 – 3.3 – 4.4
(A) D (B) F
What is the difference between A and B? (C) G (D) I

(A) 0 (B) 2.2

(C) 19.8 (D) 22 20. Tina is writing a number pattern.

2, 8, 14, 20, 26, 32, 38 …

18. Leanne picked up leaves in the yard.
If she continues the pattern, which of
She filled 20 buckets with leaves. these numbers should Tina write?

The average mass of the leaves in the first (A) 138 (B) 144
12 buckets was 0.4 kg. (C) 152 (D) 160

The average mass of the leaves in the

next 8 buckets was 0.5 kg. 21. Vinh is making bunches of flowers using
roses and lilies.
What was the total mass of the leaves in
the 20 buckets? She has 36 roses and 60 lilies. All of the
flowers must be used to make identical
(A) 6.4 kg bunches.
(B) 7.0 kg
(C) 8.8 kg What is the largest number of bunches she
(D) 9.0 kg can make?

(A) 6 (B) 12
(C) 18 (D) 36

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22. Smoke alarms in buildings should not be 23. Sarah is playing a game. She must use the
installed in a corner or ‘dead air space’. map and the instructions to find
the treasure.
The diagram represents the zones within
which smoke alarms should be installed. 13
North Shipwreck
They should be installed between the 12
maximum and minimum distances shown, 11
in mm. 10

9
15 00

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5 in

m
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ax

300 6 Skull Rock

min
15 00

roof 5
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5 in

m
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500 max 500 max 4

ax

300
min

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NOT TO SCALE min 3
roof
15 0

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wall 500 m
00
50 in

300
min

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m
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Smoke alarm A B C D E F G H I J K L M
ax

NOT TOKEY:
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space
roof min
wall
Smoke alarm
500 max

Pete installed
KEY: two alarms of diameter Start at the shipwreck
300
min

0
Dead
1 00air space
80 mm in the positions shown below.
NOT TO SCALE on G11.
wall roof
00 Travel 1 kilometre south.
Smoke
10 alarm
KEY:
400

Dead
NOT TOair space
SCALE
roof Turn west and travel
750 metres.
wall 00
400

0 SCALE
NOT1TO
Next, turn south and
Correct position
roof travel 500 metres.
Roof wall    
400

Wall Finally, turn east and

Correct
NOT 
TO SCALE
position 
Which option is true for the position travel 250 metres.
(A)
Rooftwo alarms? (B) (C) (D) of
these wall
   
Wall The treasure is
   
buried there.
(A) Correct
(B) position
(C) (D)
Roof    
Wall    
Where is the treasure buried?
(A) (B) (C) (D)
(A) I5
(B) H4
(C) F5
(D) E5

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 24. The school sports organiser ordered 27. Chen drew a square on a grid.
15 buses to transport 750 students to
the carnival. Then he started to draw a second square
with a side length double that of the
There were 2 supervising teachers on first square.
each bus.
Two parts of the second square are shown
Each bus had seats for 53 passengers. on the grid.

How many spare seats were there Which dot will lie on one of the sides of the
altogether? second square?

(A) 15 (B) 30
(A)
(C) 45 (D) 75
(B)
(C) (D)
25. This is a pallet. It has a mass of
25 kilograms (kg).

28. Jackie asked students in Year 7 how many

pets they own.
Fiona places 150 tiles on the pallet.
She graphed her results.
A stack of 4 tiles has a mass of 5 kg.

What is the total mass of the pallet and

Number of students

the tiles?

(A) 775 kg (B) 212.5 kg

(C) 187.5 kg (D) 145 kg

26. Zac’s phone number has nine digits.

The sum of the digits is 49.

All of the digits are odd numbers and 0 1 2 3

one digit appears exactly three times. Number of pets

Zac wrote down the first six digits. Nine students each own three pets.

995773 How many pets do the students own

in total?
Which digit appears three times in Zac’s
phone number? (A) 14
(B) 42
(A) 3 (B) 5 (C) 50
(C) 7 (D) 9 (D) 75

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29. The houses on one side of Acacia Street
have consecutive odd numbers.
Jim lives in house number 83 and Marni
lives in house number 15.
Clive lives in the house with the number
exactly halfway between 15 and 83.
How many houses along from Marni, is
Clive’s house?
32. Carly had a rectangular piece of
cardboard, 5 cm wide, with an area of
60 cm2 on which to design a poster for a
climbing group.
Carly folded the cardboard into thirds.
Then she drew three overlapping triangles
with a shared base.

(A) 17 (B) 25
(C) 34 (D) 49

30. Adam is making a pattern of shapes.

What is the total area of the blue

shaded regions?
shape 1 shape 2 shape 3
(A) 40 cm2 (B) 30 cm2
What should be the total number of spots (C) 20 cm2 (D) 10 cm2
and crosses in shape 6?

(A) 34 (B) 32 33. Ron has these 3 shapes.

(C) 28 (D) 26

31. Kim has 280 of these small green boxes. He joins all of the shapes together, without
6 cm any overlap, to make a new shape.
3 cm Which of these could be Ron’s
18 cm
new shape?
They completely fill this large yellow box.
(A) (B)
?

126 cm
30 cm NOT TO SCALE

What is the height of the yellow box?

(C) (D)
(A) 27 cm (B) 24 cm
(C) 21 cm (D) 15 cm

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 34. Mrs Brown measured the heights of all 35. George is using this flowchart. He inputs
25 children in her class to the nearest cm. two values and follows the rules.

Matthew and Lin made different tables to Start

record these heights.

Mathew’s Table Input

=3
Height Number
(cm) of children =1

151 – 155 5
156 – 160 9
=5x –3x
161 – 165 7
166 – 170 4 = +1
= +2
Is
Lin’s Table
< 10 ?
Height Number No
(cm) of children
145 – 154 2 Yes

155 – 164 18 Output

= ?
165 – 174 5 = ?

How many children in the class have What are the output values?
a height greater than 154 cm but less
than 166 cm?

(A) 17 (B) 18 (A) 4 3

(C) 19 (D) 20 (B) 5 5
(C) 6 7
(D) 7 9

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36. Mark and Kate each think of a different

2-digit number between 10 and 60.

Kate multiplies her number by 7 and then

subtracts 42.
Mark divides his number by 8 and then
adds 42.
They both get the same answer.

What is the sum of their original numbers?

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37. A square cog and a regular hexagonal 39.
cog are both rotating about a common
centre, O.
H She wants to draw a spiral to fill a square
S
O ●
At each click, the hexagon rotates
60° clockwise, and the square rotates
90° anticlockwise.
Initially, the vertices H and S and centre O
lie in the same straight line as shown.
How many clicks does the hexagonal cog
make before the vertices H and S first
return together to their original position?
38. John made a large cube using 27 identical
smaller cubes. There were 54 square
faces of the smaller cubes showing on the
surface of his large cube.
40.
John removed two of the cubes to make a
new solid.
How many square faces of the smaller
cubes could John see on his new solid?
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Ella is using a drawing program on
her computer.
of side length 10 cm.
Ella programs the computer to
● start in the top left corner
move anticlockwise around the edges
of the square
● maintain a distance of 1 cm from an
existing line, as shown.
10 cm
10 cm
1cm
What is the total length of all the lines
drawn by the computer, in cm?
Raj and Jess live on the same long road.
Jess left her home and rode her bike along
the road at a constant speed of 18 km/h.
Raj left his home 10 minutes after Jess.
He drove his car in the same direction as
Jess rode.
Raj overtook Jess after driving for
40 minutes at a constant speed of 75 km/h.
How many kilometres from Jess does
Raj live?
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 ICAS MATHS 2018 PAST PAPER KEYS
Question Category Answer Descriptor
1 Number & Arithmetic B Understand place value in large numbers
2 Algebra & Patterns C Continue a pattern that increases by threes
Count the number of possible routes that can be followed in a
3 Chance & Data A
park
4 Measures & Units B Solve a problem involving the perimeter of a rectangle
Determine the length of an object given a rule with missing
5 Measures & Units D
markers
Identify and count the angles in a diagram that are greater than
6 Space & Geometry C
90 degrees
7 Number & Arithmetic A Calculate the percentage of money saved
Add the minimum number of squares to make a design with line
8 Space & Geometry C
symmetry
9 Measures & Units B Calculate the area of combined plane shapes
10 Space & Geometry D Compare 2-D shapes after folding and cutting
11 Measures & Units A Interpret a timetable with a time adjustment
Continue two simple patterns of whole numbers involving
12 Algebra & Patterns B
addition
13 Number & Arithmetic C Find one amount as a percentage of another
14 Space & Geometry B Recognise the reflected image of a stamp
Determine the probability of an event after finding all possible
15 Chance & Data D
outcomes
16 Measures & Units B Solve a problem involving the conversion of units
17 Number & Arithmetic C Determine the difference between two different totals of decimals
18 Number & Arithmetic C Solve a problem involving multiplication by a decimal
Determine the best starting point on a board game involving
19 Space & Geometry D
bearings
Identify a large number in a linear pattern that does not start at
20 Algebra & Patterns C
zero
21 Algebra & Patterns B Use factors to solve a problem
22 Space & Geometry A Read and interpret a diagram using a key
23 Measures & Units D Use a simple scale to follow the directions on a map
24 Number & Arithmetic A Solve a problem involving multiplication and subtraction
25 Measures & Units B Solve a problem involving division and mass

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 ICAS MATHS 2018 PAST PAPER KEYS
Question Category Answer Descriptor
26 Number & Arithmetic C Solve a problem involving the sum of odd numbers
27 Space & Geometry D Apply an enlargement transformation to a square on a grid
28 Chance & Data D Interpret a column graph to solve a problem
29 Number & Arithmetic A Solve a multi-step problem involving odd numbers
Find a given term in a pattern of odd numbers and triangular
30 Algebra & Patterns A
numbers
31 Measures & Units B Use volume comparison to determine the height of a prism
32 Measures & Units C Solve a problem involving the areas of triangles
33 Space & Geometry D Identify the irregular polygon formed by three given shapes
34 Chance & Data C Interpret two tables with overlapping grouped data
35 Algebra & Patterns C Use a flowchart and use substitution to find two output values
Solve a complex problem involving products, quotients and
36 Number & Arithmetic 69
sums
37 Space & Geometry 12 Rotate two plane regular shapes and compare positions
38 Space & Geometry 56 Determine the number of faces on a solid
39 Measures & Units 120 Solve a problem involving a pattern of lengths
40 Number & Arithmetic 35 Solve a simple ratio problem to determine relative positions

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