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NUMERACY
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YEAR
9
TRIAL TEST
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YEAR 9
NUMERACY 2012
CALCULATOR ALLOWED
TEST INSTRUCTIONS
SESSION 2
5 3
Which one of the following equals 1 ÷ ?
12 4
15 1 2 8
1 1 1
16 16 3 9
2
Madonna is paid $700 for a normal 40 - hour week. She is paid time and a half for any overtime
she works. How much will she be paid in a week where she does 5 hours of overtime?
Scott is making patterns using matches to build each shape. The first three shapes he made are
shown above. How many matches will he need to make the eighth shape in the pattern?
Which one of the following would the face exposed by the cut look like?
2.00
1.50
Cost
($)
1.00
0.50
Mass (grams)
b ! 4a ! 4 b ! 10a ! 4 !4 ! 10a ! b !4 ! 4a ! b
John made the above model from blocks. Which one of the following would be the view he would
see, if he looked from the top of the model as indicated by the arrow.
a 400
1200
Emily spent 20 minutes on her homework last night and Molly spent 3 hours.
What is the ratio of the time Molly spent on homework to the time Emily spent doing homework?
10
21 5 3 -13
11
4 5 6 7
How many three-digit numbers that are divisible by 5 can she make?
12
85 m
m
84
The above shows the lanes of an athletics track. The curved parts of the track are semi-circles.
Which one of the following is closest to the distance that an athlete would run on the inside lane
when he runs one complete circuit of the track?
13
12
10
8
Number of cars
1 2 3 4 5
Number of people in car
The above graph shows the number of people per car travelling along South Street during a
particular one-hour period. What was the median number of people per car?
1 2 2.4 2.5
14
15
30 + 5 ÷ 8 ! 44 " 2 3 ! 5
To evaluate the above expression without a calculator, which one of the following would you do first?
Add the 30 and the 5 Divide the 35 by the 8 Cube the 2 Subtract 23 from 44
16
Die + Coin 1H 1T 2H 2T 3H 3T 4H 4T 5H 5T 6H 6T
Frequency 88 90 79 82 83 62 78 101 91 80 86 80
Jake and Julie toss a die and a coin many times and record their results in the above table.
What was the probability from their experimental results of getting a 5 with the die and a tail with
the coin?
1 1 2 80
5 12 25 91
17
A car uses 42.6 litres of petrol to travel 626.47 km. Which one of the following is the closest to the
rate of fuel consumption in litres per 100 km for this car?
15 14.7 7 6.8
18
Mrs. Hanson calls a plumber whose charge in dollars is given by the following equation.
If the cost of the work done is $530, how long did the plumber work?
19
Which one of the following will be the 234th shape in the above pattern?
20
A particular school has 1400 students. 36% of these students learnt a musical instrument in the first
semester. In the second semester, 112 fewer students learnt a musical instrument.
21
24
22
20
18
16
14
12
Cost (cents)
10
2 4 6 8
Number of pencils
The above graph shows the cost in cents of producing pencils. Which one of the following gives
the equation for the cost of producing pencils in cents?
22
Bliss Town
5 2
Abby Wood Dagville
7
3 4
6
8 Eagle Heights
Cardale
The distances between 5 towns, Abby Wood, Bliss Town, Cardale, Dagville and Eagle Heights is
shown in the above map. The distances are in kilometres. A water pipe is to be laid connecting
each of the towns.
12 km 14 km 17 km 18 km
23
The following frequency table shows the results of a class in a maths test.
4 1
5 2
6 5
7 8
8 4
9 7
10 3
What is the mean mark for this class in this maths test?
24
Water is being taken from a tank at a constant rate. The volume of water in the tank, ten minutes
after the tap is turned on is 27000 litres. The volume of water in the same tank, twenty minutes
after the tap is first turned on, is 21000 litres.
How long will it take for the tank to empty after the tap was first turned on?
25
Girls 110 15
Boys 151 24
The above table shows the number of right handed and left handed girls and boys in a particular
year level. What is the probability that a girl selected at random will be left handed?
1 3 3 15
20 25 22 39
26
If Grace is 2 years older than Bill, Bob is 6 months older than Lisa and Bill is 4 months younger
than Lisa, then which one of the following is true?
27
When bacteria are grown in a laboratory, they double in size every 20 minutes. A scientist places a
bacterium in a container at 9:00am and finds that the container just fills with bacteria at 1:00pm.
10
5
8
4
6 3
Frequency
Frequency
4
2
2 1
0
1
2
3
4
0
5 10 15 20
15
20
12
16
9
12
Frequency
Frequency
6
8
3
4
0 3 6 9 12
0
2
4
6
8
29
30
25
20
Distance in km
15
10
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
Time in minutes
The above graph shows the journey of a cyclist, when he travels from his home to the shop and then
home again. What was his speed on the way home?
30
(7x + 2) cm
(12x - 1) cm
(4x + 8) cm
cm2
31
Jason rolls a can of baked beans from one end of his carpet to the other. If his carpet is 3 m long
and if the can has a diameter of 75 mm, how many complete revolutions will the can make?
32
2x
5x + 3
9x
x + 12
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Trial Test.
3 4 5 6
P2
9+5=
cm