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2012 NAPLAN-Trials

NATIONAL ASSESSMENT
PROGRAM LITERACY AND
NUMERACY

NUMERACY
CALCULATOR ALLOWED
YEAR
9
TRIAL TEST

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2012 NAPLAN Trial Test 1
Numeracy Calculator Allowed Year 9

YEAR 9
NUMERACY 2012
CALCULATOR ALLOWED

TEST INSTRUCTIONS

1. You must do your own work.


2. Do not speak to other students during the test.
3. Raise your hand if you need to speak to the teacher.
4. Follow all directions given to you by the teacher.
5. All questions must be answered using the pencil you have been given. If you need to change
an answer, carefully erase it and write another answer.
6. You are allowed to use a calculator.
7. To confirm you have the correct booklet, print your name below.

Print your name here:

SESSION 2

0:40 Time available for students to complete


test: 40 minutes
Use 2B
Pencil only

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2012 NAPLAN Trial Test 2
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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?

$831.25 $787.50 $743.75 $726.25

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2012 NAPLAN Trial Test 3  
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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?

The cylinder above is sliced vertically right through the centre.

Which one of the following would the face exposed by the cut look like?

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2012 NAPLAN Trial Test 4
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2.00  

1.50  
Cost  ($)  

1.00  

0.50  

100   200     400  

Mass  (grams)      

The above graph shows the cost of a certain type of cereal.

How much would 500 grams of this cereal cost?

$2.50 $3.00 $3.50 $3.75

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2012 NAPLAN Trial Test 5  
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Which one of the following equals 8 ! 3a ! 7a + 2b ! b ! 12?  

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.
 

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2012 NAPLAN Trial Test 6
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a 400

1200

What is the value of the angle a?

200 400 600 800

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?

3:20 20:3 9:1 1:9

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2012 NAPLAN Trial Test 7
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10
 

If y = 3x 2 ! 4x + 1, what is the value of y when x = !2?      

21 5 3 -13

11

4 5 6 7

Ruby is making 3 digit numbers using the above cards.

How many three-digit numbers that are divisible by 5 can she make?

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2012 NAPLAN Trial Test 8  
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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?

416 m 434 m 452 m 698 m

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2012 NAPLAN Trial Test 9
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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

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The scale on a map is shown as 1 : 2000000.


The towns of Anston and Birdstown are 5.5 cm apart on the map.
How far are they apart in reality?

1100 km 110 km 11 km 1100 m

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2012 NAPLAN Trial Test 10
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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

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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

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2012 NAPLAN Trial Test 11
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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.

Charge = 80 + 120 × number of hours

If the cost of the work done is $530, how long did the plumber work?

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2012 NAPLAN Trial Test 12
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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.

What percentage of students learnt a musical instrument in semester 2?

4.5% 12.9% 22.2% 28%

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2012 NAPLAN Trial Test 13
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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?

Cost = 4 + 3 × number of pencils

Cost = 3 + 4 × number of pencils

Cost = 6 + 3 × number of pencils

Cost = 7 + 4 × number of pencils

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2012 NAPLAN Trial Test 14
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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.

What is the shortest length of pipe required?

12 km 14 km 17 km 18 km

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2012 NAPLAN Trial Test 15
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23

The following frequency table shows the results of a class in a maths test.

Score on test Number of students getting this score

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?

1.3 4.3 7.0 7.5

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2012 NAPLAN Trial Test 16
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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?

35 mins 45 mins 55 mins 65 mins

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  Right Handed   Left handed  

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

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2012 NAPLAN Trial Test 17  
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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?

Lisa is 4 months younger than Bill.

Bill is 10 months older than Bob.

Grace is 34 months older than Bob.

Bob is 14 months younger than Grace.

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2012 NAPLAN Trial Test 18
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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.

At what time was the container a quarter full of bacteria?

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2012 NAPLAN Trial Test 19
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28 Which one of the following distributions has the largest range?


     
 

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
 

       

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2012 NAPLAN Trial Test 20
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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?

1.6 km/hr 28 km/hr 37.5 km/hr 40 km/hr

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2012 NAPLAN Trial Test 21
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30

(7x + 2) cm

(12x - 1) cm

(4x + 8) cm

What is the area of the above rectangle?

cm2

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2012 NAPLAN Trial Test 22
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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?

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2x

5x + 3

9x

x + 12

What is the value of x in the above diagram?

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YEAR 9 NUMERACY PRACTICE QUESTIONS

It is recommended that teachers / parents do these four questions with students before using this
Trial Test.

P1 How many flowers in this picture?

3 4 5 6

P2
9+5=

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YEAR 9 NUMERACY PRACTICE QUESTIONS

P3 What is the length of this pencil to the nearest centimetre (cm)?

cm

P4 How many triangles and circles are shown in this diagram?

triangles and circles

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Numeracy Practice Questions Year 9

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