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4.

Number, NAP-55260

MATHEMATICS Two places are 5.4 cm apart on a map.


On the map 1 cm represents 4 km.
Year 7
What is the actual distance between the two places?
Y7 Number
Multi-Step Problems
Rates, Ratios and Scale
Teacher: Artika Vinod
Exam Equivalent Time: 90 minutes (based on allocation ~1.25 min/mark) 5. Number, NAP-89379
The Park Run is a 5 kilometre fun run.
Questions Paul completes the Park Run in 40 minutes.
Iris runs at the same speed as Paul.
1. Number, NAP-49341
How long will it take her to run 3 kilometres?
Scott owns a sheep station.
He keeps 4 sheep on every acre of the property.
How many acres would he need for 12 sheep?

6. Number, NAP-37516
Dinesh is a teacher and buys pencils for his class.
He purchases the pencils in two different sized packets.
2. Number, NAP-31738
Barry travelled 120 kilometres in 2 hours.
What was his average speed in kilometres per hour?

3. Number, NAP-25819
Kate just turned 11 years old.
Patrick is 3 years older than twice Kate's age.
How old is Patrick?

Dinesh buys 10 packet A's and 4 packet B's.


He then divides all the pencils equally among his 9 students.
How many pencils does each student receive?
7. Number, NAP-36397 10. Number, NAP-59918
A number is multiplied by itself and then 9 is added. This picture shows a stone vase.
The answer is 18.
What is the number?

8. Number, NAP-31766
Davis wants to make 7 pavlovas.
Each pavlova needs 7 eggs. He has no eggs so he goes to the shop.
The shop sells eggs in cartons of 12. The picture is 2 cm high. The actual vase is 40 cm high.
How many cartons of eggs does Davis need to buy? What scale is used in the picture?

9. Number, NAP-02305
Patrick rode his scooter at a speed of 5 metres per second.
11. Number, NAP-14025
If he rode for 30 seconds, how far did he go?
A cricket kit has white, pink and red cricket balls.
2.5 m 6m 150 m 360 m
There are:
3 more white balls than pink
7 fewer pink balls than red
15 red balls

How many balls, in total, are in the kit?

12. Number, NAP-37682


A ute uses an average of 12 litres of diesel fuel for every 100 km travelled.
At this rate, how many litres would the ute use to travel 450 km?

litres
13. Number, NAP-95295 16. Number, NAP-36394
Ben is 4 years old. Muriel made a batch of cookies.
His brother Mark is exactly 19 months old.
How many months older than Mark is Ben?

14. Number, NAP-49372


Numbers such as 4, 9, 16, 25, 64, 81 and 100 are called square numbers.
Select the statement that is true about square numbers.

The square of an odd number can be an even number. Each cookie had 4 chocolate chips and 3 jelly snakes on it.
A square number multiplied by a square number is always a square number. Muriel used 39 jelly snakes in the batch of cookies.
The square of an even number can be an odd number. How many chocolate chips did she use?
The difference between two square numbers is always a square number.

15. Number, NAP-71775


The actual body length of a beetle Brad has caught is 24 mm.
17. Number, NAP-84726
A scale drawing of the beetle is shown below. Vladimir uses a 6 cm high print to make a sign.

6 cm FINS Parking
20 cm

If the actual sign is 120 cm wide, what is its height?


12 cm

What scale is used in the drawing?

1 cm represents 5 mm 18. Number, NAP-55287


1 cm represents 2 mm Johnno was standing 300 metres away from the stage at a rock concert.
2 cm represents 1 mm If the sound travelled at 330 metres per second from the stage, how many seconds did the sound take to
get to Johnno?
5 cm represents 1 mm
19. Number, NAP-06992 22. Number, NAP-84620
A tadpole is measured to be 9 mm long. A little athletics club is established in a town.
A few weeks later, the tadpole turns into a frog that is about 8 times longer than its tadpole length. In the first week, 5 girls and 6 boys joined the club.
The difference between the length of the frog and its length as a tadpole is about In the second week, another 4 boys and some more girls joined the club.
The number of girls in the club was now double the number of boys.
How many girls joined the club in the second week?

7 15 17 20
20. Number, NAP-42341
Milly is using this cupcake recipe.
23. Number, NAP-06991
Cupcake recipe Tony is making a fruit cake.
Makes 4 cupcakes
The recipe says he needs 3 cups of sultanas for every 5 cups of flour.
Ingredients If 2.5 cups of flour are used, how many cups of sultanas are needed?
1 cup flour
2 eggs
1 12 cups milk
3
cup sugar
4
24. Number, NAP-72924
20g butter
Damon buys 25 kilograms of salt for his pool for $33.75.
The salt can be purchased in 1 kilogram bags.
How many cups of sugar are needed for 20 cupcakes? How much does 9 kilograms of salt cost?

25. Number, NAP-61068


21. Number, NAP-66982
Maria has 500 avocados to pack into boxes.
A soft drink factory can make 950 cans of lemonade and 600 cans of ginger ale per hour.
Each box has room for 3 layers of avocados with 27 avocados in each layer.
The factory runs non-stop and each can weighs 300 grams.
Maria packs as many full boxes as possible.
How many kilograms of soft drink does the factory produce in 1 full day?
How many avocados are left over?

7 12 14 17
26. Number, NAP-65890 30. Number, NAP-25881
Kurt, Shane and Harry collect guitars and own 70 guitars between them. A christmas pudding recipe uses 3 cups of sugar for every 4 cups of sultanas.
Kurt owns half as many as Shane. Select the correct combination of sugar and sultanas for this recipe.
Harry owns four times as many as Kurt.
cup of sugar, cup of sultanas
How many guitars does Kurt own?
cup of sugar, cups of sultanas
cups of sugar, cups of sultanas
cups of sugar, cups of sultanas

27. Number, NAP-01076


31. Number, NAP-89410
Guy has a work truck that is 6 meters long.
His son Sam has a toy truck that is 5 cm long. Constance used 300 grams of sugar to make 12 brownies.

How many times as long as Sam's toy truck is Guy's truck? How many grams of sugar will she need to make 18 brownies?

28. Number, NAP-77519 32. Number, NAP-89411


Year 7 students at a school collected aluminium cans to recycle. A television broadcasting tower is 800 metres high.
There were 50 students in Year 7. A model of the tower is built with a scale of 1 : 4000.
Each student collected 30 kilograms of aluminium cans. What is the height of the model?
Every 1000 kilograms of aluminium cans is worth $800.

In total, how much are the cans collected by all of Year 7 worth?

33. Number, NAP-48085


A solar panel grid on a school roof produces an average of 8.6 kWh of energy per day.
How much energy will the grid produce for the school on average over 7 days?
29. Number, NAP-72926
Riley lives 3 km from the park. kWh

He jogs at a constant speed of 10 km per hour.


How many minutes does it take for Riley to get to the park?
34. Number, NAP-01042 36. Number, NAP-25884
In a racing car season, the top three finishers in each race are awarded points. A piece of wood is leaning against five stacks of bricks.

1st 2nd 3rd

8 points 5 points 3 points

Vangio was awarded a total of 25 points.


What is the greatest number of races in which Vangio could have been in the top three?

5 6 7 8

35. Number, NAP-08278 There are 37 bricks in total.


How many bricks are in the tallest stack?
The diameter of an American 10¢ piece is about 1 cm.

37. Number, NAP-59975

About how much would a 2 km line of 10¢ pieces be worth? Jet has 22 sherbet sticks that he shares with 3 other friends.
He gave Rory 3 fewer than Patrick.
He gave Billy one more stick than Rory.
Jet ended up having three times more sticks as Rory.
How many sherbet sticks did Jet have in the end?

38. Number, NAP-72953


Petrol costs 158.5 cents per litre.
How much does 12 litres of petrol cost?

$
39. Number, NAP-07023 42. Number, NAP-24564
The season goal-scoring statistics of a netball team showed the following results. Ruby thinks of a number that follows the rules below.
Gemma scored 12 more goals than Kate. the number is odd
Kate scored 6 more goals than Hannah. the number is lies between 4300 and 5100
In total, Gemma, Kate and Hannah scored 51 goals in the season. the number's digits add up to 12
How many goals did Hannah score?
Select all of the possible numbers that Ruby could be thinking of.

40. Number, NAP-65919 43. Number, NAP-65894


Five people had sticks of different lengths.
This picture shows the length of three shot put throws at a school athletics carnival.
Each person measured a 30 metre interval by counting how many stick lengths it took.
Shot put 2 lands exactly halfway between shot put 1 and shot put 3.
The results were put into the table below.
NOT TO
SCALE shot put 1 shot put 2 shot put 3

Throw
line
5.1 m
6.9 m

What is the distance between the throw line and shot put 2?

Which person had a stick that was 60 centimetres long?

John Caroline Paul Simon Ken

41. Number, NAP-49406


The mass of a 20-cent coin is about 10.7 grams.
The mass of a 10-cent coin is about 5.35 grams.
Mike has 278.2 grams of 20-cent coins.
Mal has 230.05 grams of 10-cent coins.
How much more are Mike's coins worth than Mal's coins?

cents
44. Number, NAP-96449 48. Number, NAP-02360
Ten nails have a mass of 22 grams. Ms Bone has more than 15 students in her class.
When she divides the class into groups of 5, there are 3 students left over.
When she divides the class into groups of 3, there are 2 students left over.
What is the least number of students that could be in Ms Bone's class?

49. Number, NAP-67041


Genghis and Kublai are shooting arrows at a target.
How many nails would have a mass of 550 grams?
Genghis shoots an arrow every 3 seconds.
Kublai shoots an arrow every 8 seconds.
They shoot their first arrow together at 10:00 am.
How many more times will they shoot arrows at exactly the same time in the next 3 minutes?
45. Number, NAP-72928
Kate buys a new computer.
The disk in its hard drive makes 120 full turns every second.
How many minutes will it take for the disk to make 324 000 full turns? 50. Number, NAP-02367
A school has 360 students.
minutes
The ratio of boys to girls is 4 to 6.
How many boys attend the school?
46. Number, NAP-78845
Patrick uses 25 litres of water every minute when he has a shower.
Kate uses 150 litres of water when she has a bath.

How many less litres of water does Patrick use in a minute shower than Kate's bath?

litres

47. Geometry, NAP-36458


Elloise is taking a ride on a ferris wheel.
It takes her 5 minutes to complete a full lap.
What angle does the Ferris wheel turn through in 75 seconds?

°
51. Number, NAP-71835 53. Number, NAP-89414
This is the label from a can of beans. These are four number cards.

Use each number card once to make this number sentence true.

54. Number, NAP-83500


What is the mass of one serve of these beans? Nona makes maple syrup on her farm.
The mass of 400 millilitres of her maple syrup is 600 grams.
grams
How many litres is 2.4 kilogram of Nona's maple syrup?

litres
52. Number, NAP-14057
An orchard has the following trees:
5 lemon trees 55. Number, NAP-54065
3 less apple trees than pear trees The graph below can be used to calculate the width of any photograph from its height.
3 times as many pear trees as lemon trees
2 nectarine trees and one plum tree
the number of pear trees is a quarter of the number of avocado trees.

How many trees are growing in the orchard?

Using the graph, a photo with a height of 5 centimetres should be approximately what width?
56. Number, NAP-77585 60. Number, NAP-61129
Which two odd numbers, greater than 1, have a product of 91? At the start of a week, Miley had 2.59 GB of storage on her mobile phone.
During the week she downloaded 60 songs which each took up 6.5 MB of storage.
and
Miley also downloaded a TV show.
At the end of the week, she had 850 MB of storage left.

57. Number, NAP-55349


Gary used 4 litres of paint to paint a wall.
The wall was a rectangle 2 metres high and 3 metres wide.
How many gigabytes of storage did the TV show use?
How many litres of paint would he need to paint a rectangular wall which is 3 metres high and 5 metres
wide? Give your answer as a decimal, to two decimal places.

litres GB

58. Number, NAP-14085 61. Number, NAP-61265


A laundromat can wash 12 loads of laundry in one hour at full capacity. Jordan has 4 times as many blue pencils as black pencils.
A standard load of laundry weighs 7 kilograms. Altogether he has 90 pencils.
Here is some information about two different washing machines. How many blue pencils does he have?

Working at full capacity, how many litres of water would the laundromat expect to save in one hour by
using the front loader instead of the top loader?

litres

59. Number, NAP-36483


Jack is at school and his age this year is a prime number and a factor of 65.
In two years' time, Jack's age will again be a prime number.
What is Jack's age this year?
62. Number, NAP-72931 65. Number, NAP-02390
Natalie is building a brick wall 9 metres high. Kurt is travelling from Newcastle to Sydney. The journey is 165 kilometres.
The height of a column of 15 bricks is 1.8 metres as shown. His car uses 8.35 litres of fuel per 100 kilometres.
How much fuel will Kurt need to make the journey?
Round your answer to the nearest litre.

litres

66. Number, NAP-24565


Bert and Ernie are standing in a line, waiting to go into their classroom.
There are:
9 people between Bert and Ernie.
14 people in front of Bert including Ernie.
How many bricks will Natalie need for a wall 9 metres high? 20 people behind Ernie including Bert.

In total, how many people are in the line?

63. Number, NAP-65920


Adam is laying tiles in the pattern shown below.
67. Number, NAP-55350
He uses three white tiles for every four gray tiles as shown.
Cassie has a money box with only 50 cent and 20 cent coins in it.
The total mass of the coins in her money box is 91.8 grams.
Cassie knows that:
the mass of a 50 cent coin is 10.7 grams.
the mass of a 20 cent coin is 7 grams
He uses a total of 133 tiles.
What is the smallest mass of exactly $1.20.
How many gray tiles does he use?

grams

What is the total value of the coins in Cassie's money box?

64. Number, NAP-02391 $

Maria has a square photo with an area of 16 cm².


She enlarges the photo to have an area of 64 cm².
The enlargement multiplied the side lengths of the original photo by a factor of
68. Number, NAP-61130 70. Number, NAP-71837
A chemist sells 3 different sizes of cough mixture. Helga uses the two conversion graphs below.

Canadian dollars Canadian dollars to


to British pounds Australian dollars
British pounds Australian dollars

100 200

80 160

60 120
Ralph buys 0.7 litres of the cough mixture that includes at least one bottle of each size. 40 80
Select all of the combinations Ralph could have purchased. 20 40

0 0
0 50 100 150 200 250 0 50 100 150 200 250
Canadian dollars Canadian dollars

How many Australian dollars are equal in value to 50 British pounds

Australian dollars

71. Number, NAP-08308


John's old tractor used 8.3 litres of fuel per 100km.
His new tractor uses 5.9 litres of fuel per 100 km.
69. Number, NAP-78870
John pays $1.35 per litre and drives 20,000 km each year.
One litre of softdrink contains 90 grams of sugar.
How much money will John save on fuel each year with his new tractor?
How many millilitres of softdrink contain 4.5 grams of sugar?
$
millilitres

72. Number, NAP-36484


Charlie is buying sweets for a party.
He buys twice as many candy canes as chocolate bars, and six times as many candy canes as sherbert
sticks.
He has 24 more chocolate bars than sherbert sticks.
How many sherbert sticks does Charlie have?

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Worked Solutions 7. Number, NAP-36397

1. Number, NAP-49341

8. Number, NAP-31766
2. Number, NAP-31738

3. Number, NAP-25819

9. Number, NAP-02305
4. Number, NAP-55260

5. Number, NAP-89379 10. Number, NAP-59918

11. Number, NAP-14025


6. Number, NAP-37516
12. Number, NAP-37682 16. Number, NAP-36394

13. Number, NAP-95295

17. Number, NAP-84726

14. Number, NAP-49372

18. Number, NAP-55287

19. Number, NAP-06992

15. Number, NAP-71775


20. Number, NAP-42341 23. Number, NAP-06991

21. Number, NAP-66982

24. Number, NAP-72924

22. Number, NAP-84620


25. Number, NAP-61068
26. Number, NAP-65890 29. Number, NAP-72926

30. Number, NAP-25881

31. Number, NAP-89410

27. Number, NAP-01076

32. Number, NAP-89411

28. Number, NAP-77519

33. Number, NAP-48085


34. Number, NAP-01042 39. Number, NAP-07023

35. Number, NAP-08278

¢
¢

36. Number, NAP-25884

37. Number, NAP-59975 40. Number, NAP-65919

38. Number, NAP-72953


41. Number, NAP-49406 45. Number, NAP-72928

46. Number, NAP-78845

42. Number, NAP-24564

47. Geometry, NAP-36458


43. Number, NAP-65894

48. Number, NAP-02360


44. Number, NAP-96449
49. Number, NAP-67041 54. Number, NAP-83500

50. Number, NAP-02367

55. Number, NAP-54065

51. Number, NAP-71835 56. Number, NAP-77585

52. Number, NAP-14057

53. Number, NAP-89414


57. Number, NAP-55349 60. Number, NAP-61129

61. Number, NAP-61265

58. Number, NAP-14085

62. Number, NAP-72931

59. Number, NAP-36483

IMPORTANT: The factors 65 × 1 also


work for this question but do not fit
with the school age requirement.
63. Number, NAP-65920 67. Number, NAP-55350

64. Number, NAP-02391

65. Number, NAP-02390

66. Number, NAP-24565


68. Number, NAP-61130 71. Number, NAP-08308

72. Number, NAP-36484

69. Number, NAP-78870

70. Number, NAP-71837

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