MathsOnline Year 9 Numeracy Practice Test 1

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CALCULATOR ALLOWED Q6 This is a square pyramid.

Q1 Marian tosses a fair coin 50 times.

Which of these results is most likely? Which diagram is the
net of a square pyramid?
45 tails 15 heads 26 tails 37 heads

Q2 Tony asked his class

their favourite type Sci-fi Comedy
of movie and used
the data to draw Drama
this graph. Action
Q7 Which arrow is pointing to the approximate
Rom-com position of 212 on a number line?

What was the favourite type of movie for

0 10 0 20
about a quarter of the class?
Comedy Rom-com

Drama Action 40 50 400 500

Q3 The ratio of boys to girls in a soccer club is 4:3.

There are 84 boys in the club. 86.3 + 35.8
Q8 Find the value of to 1 decimal place.
8.2  0.9
How many girls are in the club?
21 36 48 63 90.2 16.5 13.4 91.2

Q4 Alyssa earns $17.95 per hour. This week she

worked for 16.25 hours. She used the money Q9 Here is a map of Lone Tree Island.
she earned this week to buy movie tickets 10
for herself and her friends. Each movie ticket Pirate
9 Point
cost $21.50. 8
Sandy
7
Bay
What is the maximum number of movie tickets 6
Lone Tree
Alyssa could have bought? 5 Point
Vista Island
4
3
2
1
Q5 The population of Bolivia in 2017 was 11 215 674.
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
How many people is this to the nearest million?
Which of these points is on Lone Tree Island?
10 million 12 million
11 million 13 million (9, 5 12 ) (12, 1 12 ) (11 12 , 4 ) (13 12 , 1 )

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Q10 The opening hours of a general store are shown. Q17 Jaya and Jordan are competing in a car rally.
Jaya finishes the rally in 2 hours and 15 minutes
How many hours each week OPENING HOURS
Jordan took 20% longer than Jaya.
is the general store open? Mon-Thu 7 am-7 pm
26 60 How long did Jordan take to finish the rally?
Fri 7 am-9 pm
62 74 27 minutes 162 minutes
155 minutes 148 minutes
Q11 The top speed of a Red Kangaroo is 1200 metres
per minute.
Q18 3x  x 2  2 x  4 x 2  9 can be simplified to
What is this in metres per second?
12 20 120 200 6x  9 5x 2  x  9

5x  5x 2  9 5x 2  x  9
Q12 ABCDE is a regular pentagon. C

What is the size of Q19 Ray asked his music class whether they played
angle ABC ? B D guitar, drums, both instruments or neither.
His results are displayed in the Venn diagram.
72° 108°
122° 140° A E
Guitar Drums
Q13 How long will it take for Rod to walk 6 km
at a speed of 4 kilometres per hour? 12 4 6

40 min 2 hours
6
1 hour 30 min 1 hour 20 min
The probability that a student selected at
Q14 Joanne bought a pair of jeans on sale at random plays neither instrument is about
20% off the marked price. If the marked
6% 14% 19% 21%
price was $95, how much did Joanne pay?

Q20 Which shampoo has the lowest price per millilitre?

Q15 Laura takes 80 steps to walk across her local park.

Laura's steps are 70 centimetres long. FULL CLEAN

SHINY LUX HAIR AS
Her sister Kara's steps are 80 centimetres long.
500 mL 750 mL 250 mL 1 litre
How many steps does Kara take to walk across
the park? $8.90 $10.95 $4.95 $18.10
45 56 70 80

Q16 This pattern is made Q21 In space, light travels about 9 460 000 000 000 km
using toothpicks. per year. The distance is known as a light year.
The star Altair is 16.3 light years from Earth.
Which rule could be used to find the number of
The distance from earth to Altair is closest to
toothpicks in the pattern?
14 11
1.54 × 10 km 5.8 × 10 km
5 × no. of hexagons 5 × no. of hexagons +1
15 12
6 × no. of hexagons 6 × no. of hexagons – 2 1.54 × 10 km 5.8 × 10 km

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Q22 On Emilie's farm there are:
12 cows
15 less chickens than sheep
5 times at many sheep as cows
5 pigs and 5 alpacas
3 times as many sheep as goats
How many animals are on the farm?
Q28 Mithali plays for her school cricket team.
The team score for each of the 11 games
of the regular season are listed below.
307 321 205 226 240 189 240 346 281 239 224
The team scored 335 in the Grand Final.
When this is added to the list, which increases?
mean mode median range

Q23 The sum of the interior angles

of a hexagon can be found 1 1 12
by dividing it into triangles
Q29 Fill in the blank.  
5 35
from one vertex.

What is the sum of the interior Q30 This pond has a 3 m diameter and a 90 cm depth.
angles of this hexagon?

90 cm
Q24 Katrina’s normal rate of pay is $8.90 per hour.
In one week she works 11 hours at the normal rate,
and then 3 hours at double her normal rate.
3m
One cubic metre has a capacity of 1000 litres.
What was her total pay
for the week? The capacity of the pond in litres is about
640 litres 25 400 litres
Q25 A running track is made up of 2 parallel sides 6400 litres 254 000 litres
and 2 semi-circles as shown.

About what distance 80 m Q31 A medical container has three times as many
does Paige cover small capsules as large capsules.
running 16 laps? 48 m
Each small capsule has a mass of 120 milligrams.
4 km 7 km Each large capsule has a mass of 300 milligrams.
5 km 31.5 km The total mass of all the small and large capsules
in the container is 26.4 grams.
Q26 Nick put $2000 into a simple interest account
for one year. He did not add any money to the How many large capsules are there?
account or take any money out. At the end of
the year he had $2060 in the account.
Q32 What is the total surface area
What was the annual of this square based prism?
%
percentage interest rate?
32 m2 64 m2 8m
Q27 3 x  7  14 and x is a positive whole number.
72 m2 108 m2
What is the largest possible value for x?
2m
2m

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