Year 9 Set One

Name .......................................................................... Date ...........................

Answer these questions without using a calculator or a protractor.

1
What is the value of k in this
62
diagram? 78

123

2
The time it takes a pendulum to swing out and back to where it started depends on its length.
This table shows the time in seconds for pendulums up to 25 metres long.

Length (m) 0.25 1 4 9 16 25

Time (sec) 1 2 4 6 8 10

Which graph shows this information?

Length Length

20 20

10 10

0 Time 0 Time
5 10 5 10

Time Time

20 20

10 10

0 Length 0 Length
5 10 5 10

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Which one of the following expressions is equivalent to 3(2n + 4)?
6n + 4 5n + 12 2(3n + 6) 5n + 7

4
This stem-and-leaf plot shows the numbers
Stem Leaf
of houses in the nine streets of a new
KEY
housing estate. 0 78
What is the median number of houses in 1 0 0 2 8 1 6 = a street with 16 houses
the streets in the estate? 2 235
10 11 12 15

5
Which of these has the same value as 35
------ ?
15
12
--- 12
--- 11
--- 21
---
3 5 5 3

6
Which of these is the best estimate for the angle
marked inside this hexagon?

40 140 240 340

What is the value of 35 53?

8
The perimeter of this rectangle is 90 cm. (2p 5)
What is the value of p?

14 16 29 31 (p + 2)

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Year 9 Set Two
Name .......................................................................... Date ...........................

Answer these questions without using a calculator.

1
What are the three different prime numbers that divide exactly into 2233?

, ,

2
If a, b and c represent numbers and a > b > c, which one of these statements is always true?
a>bc
c<ab
b+a>b+c
bc<ba

3
A small watering can is filled with 5 litres of water.
After watering 7 pot-plants, it is about half full.
About how many millilitres (mL) of water did each plant receive, if the amount was the same for
each?

250 350 500 700

8 cm 17 cm

This right triangular prism has five faces.

10 cm

15 cm

What is its total surface area (in cm2)?

440 520 600 640

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3k
------ = k + 6
5

What is the value of k in this equation? k=

6
At a sale, a jacket is marked down from $40 to $28.
What percentage discount is this?

12% 28% 30% 70%

7
What is the answer to 0.085 0.5?

17 1.7 0.17 0.017

130

70

In this diagram, what is the size of the largest angle in the hexagon?

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Year 9 Set Three
Name .......................................................................... Date ...........................

Use a calculator to help answer these questions.

1
If z = 8, what is the value of 4z?

48 32 4 32

2
The mens world shot put record is held by R. Barnes.
He broke U. Timmermanns record by 0.06 m in 1990.
Timmermann set his world record by throwing 0.15 m further than
A. Andreis former world record of 22.91 m in 1988.

What is Barness present world mens shot put record?

22.985 m 23.06 m 23.12 m 23.66m

3
A carton of light bulbs was dropped while being delivered.
When it was opened, it was found that 45 bulbs were broken and only 27 still worked.

What percentage of the contents of the carton was broken in the accident?

37% 45% 60% 62%

The fraction 3
--- is
5

less than 3
--- more than 2
---
6
half as much as -----
- halfway between 2 4
--- and ---
4 3 10 4 6

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The surface areas (in km2) of the Great Lakes in North America are shown on this map.

Superior
82 400

Huron
59 600
Ontario
19 500
Michigan
58 000 Erie
25 700

What is the average surface area of these lakes?

km2

6
In the formula F = (a 7)3, what is the value of F when a = 2?

125 15 75 125

7
The diameter of this compact disc is 11.8 cm.
The hole in the middle has an area of 1.54 cm2.
What is the area of the plastic in the disc?

cm2

8
The triangle and the pentagon in this diagram are both regular polygons.
AB is a straight line.

8
x
10
What is the value of x?
12
15
A B

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Year 9 Set Four
Name .......................................................................... Date ...........................

Answer these questions without using a calculator.

1
A recycling plant notices that 60% of the rubbish it recycles is waste paper.
Of this waste paper, 75% is newspapers.
What percentage of all the rubbish that the plant recycles is newspaper?
%

2
Some powers of 7 are listed below.
72 = 49 73 = 343 74 = 2401 76 = 117649 712 = 13841287201
It follows that 13841287201 can also be expressed as

3434
1176496
343 x 2401
49 x 117649

3
A cheer squad has 10 T-shirts.
Each shirt has one of the letters of MOOLOOLABA printed on it.
A cheer squad member takes a shirt randomly from the box they are kept in.

What is the chance that the cheer squad member takes one of the shirts with an O on it?

1 in 10 1 in 5 2 in 5 4 in 5

4
You can hire Nerdlys Sound-and-Light Show for $75 per hour.
How much time would you get for $250?
3 hours and 20 minutes
3 hours and 25 minutes
3 hours and 30 minutes
3 hours and 33 minutes

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The measurements in this diagram are
d 7
all in centimetres.

The areas of the triangle, trapezium

and rectangle are all 70 cm2.
What is the value of d?

9
12
12
14
16

6
Which points would lie on the graph of y = 3x 2?
y
A
2 A and B
B A and D
x B and D
0
-2 2
C C and D

-2 D

7
The scale on a map is 1:2500000.
This means that 1 cm on the map represents a real distance of

250 m. 2.5 km. 25 km. 250 km.

8
This table shows the values of y for some different values of x when y = 4 + x 2x2.

x 3 2 1 0 1 2
y 17 ? 1 4 3 2

What is the value of y when x = 2?

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 YEAR 9 NUMERACY SET 5
Use a calculator to help answer these questions.

Name .................................................................... Date ...........................

A quadrilateral has two equal angles that are obtuse.

One of the other angles is 50.
Which of these statements is definitely true about the fourth angle?
1 It is obtuse.
It is less than 130.
It is more than 130.
It is either acute or right.

The diagram shows a 400-metre running track.

d

2 To find the radius of the semicircular ends of a track like this,

200 d
you use the formula r = -------------------

where r is the radius and d is the length of the straights as marked in the diagram.
If the straights are each 75 m long, the radius is closest to

16 m. 40 m. 152 m. 176 m.

Which of these four countries has the highest population density (in people per km2)?

Country Area (km2) Population

Costa Rica 51 100 4 016 200
Egypt 1 001 450 77 505 800
3
Greece 131 940 10 668 400
Spain 504 782 40 341 500

Costa Rica Egypt Greece Spain

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A bookshop has a sale.

A book normally costing $39.95 is priced at $23.97.
4 By what percentage has the price been reduced?

16% 40% 60% 67%

2k 2 + 3
When k = 3 and p = 1 what is the value of ------------------- ?
5 2p
5
3 5 7 13

The win : loss ratio of an AFL team after playing 15 games was 2 : 3.
The team then won four of the last seven games of the season.
6 What was the teams win : loss ratio at the end of the season?

:
What is the area of this block of land?
37 m
19 m

31 m
m2

35 m

Which one of the following composite numbers has no prime factors less than 20?
8
25781 25783 25787 25789

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 YEAR 9 NUMERACY SET 6

Answer these questions without using a calculator.

Name .................................................................... Date ...........................

A square corner measuring x cm by x cm is cut out of this rectangular sheet of paper.

1 b
Which of these statements is true for the piece of paper that remains?
Its area is ab - x2 and its perimeter is 2a +2b.
Its area is (ab - x)2 and its perimeter is 2(a+b).
Its area is ab - x2 and its perimeter is 2(a + b - x).
Its area is (ab - x)2 and its perimeter is 2a + 2b - 4x.

A straight-line graph goes through the points (0, 6) and (3,0).

Which one of these points does this line graph also go through?
2
(1, 4) (1, 5) (2, 4) (4, 2)

Which of these expressions is the same as 10 3(3z 2)?

3 21z 14 4 9z
21z 2 16 9z

The difference between two whole numbers is 13.

When the two numbers are multiplied together, the result is 30.
4
What are these two numbers? and

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A treadmill shows the distance walked by a user and the number of minutes it has taken to
cover that distance.

5 02.50 km 24.00
The walking speed (in km/hr) of the user is closest to

5 6 7 10

The odd numbers between 10 and 30 are written on cards, one number to a card.
A card is drawn at random from this set.
What is the probability that the card shows a prime number?
6 3 3 7 7
--- ------ ------ ------
5 10 10 20

A school has a total of 1500 students in Years 1 to 12.

Three-fifths of the students are in the primary section in Years 1 to 7.
8% of the primary school students are left-handed.
7 The number of left-handed students in the primary section is

56 72 90 120

The population of Vietnam is approximately 4 times the population of Australia.

The population of Brazil is approximately 8 times the population of Australia.
The population of Australia is approximately 5 times the population of New Zealand.
8 About how many times larger than the population of New Zealand is the population of
Vietnam?

times.

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 YEAR 9 NUMERACY SET 7

Answer these questions you can use a calculator when you need to.

Name .................................................................... Date ...........................

The number of people waiting at the checkouts in a supermarket is counted once every hour.
The results on Saturday were 4, 2, 11, 16, 14, 11, 5, 12, 6, 9.
Which of these statements is correct?
1 The mean is 9 and the median is 10.
The median is 9 and the mode is 11.
The median is 11 and the mean is 9.
The mode is 11 and the median is 14.

At the start of 2009 the world price of sugar was 14 cents per pound.
(A pound is a unit of weight there are 2.2 pounds in a kilogram.)
The world price of sugar rose by 60% during 2009.
2 Which calculation gives the world price of sugar per kilogram at the end of 2009?

14 0.6 2.2 14 1.6 2.2 14 0.6 2.2 + 14 (14 0.6 +14) 2.2

5 2--- is very close to the cube root of a whole number.

3
3
What is this number?

An octahedral die has its faces numbered from 1 to 8.

What is the probability of rolling a number less than 6 with this die?
4 1 1 5 3
--- --- --- ---
8 6 8 4

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The value of a variable, k, is tripled and the result is then squared.

Which one of these expressions is correct?
5 2 2
3k 3k 3k 9k

The rim of a round mug with a radius of 4 cm has a blue stripe painted around it.
What is the length of the blue stripe (to the nearest centimetre)?
6
cm

The number of particles in the universe was estimated by one scientist to be 3456.
Which of these numbers is equal to 3456?
(3450)6
7
3450 + 346
3056 456
256 1756

If x, y and z are positive numbers and x < y < z, which one of these statements is always true?
x--- y-- y-- --y-
8 < < x+y<z y<xz
y z z x

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 YEAR 9 NUMERACY Calculator allowed SET 8

Name .................................................................... Date ...........................

1
Preferred movie type
Movie type number of students
Drama 120
Science fiction 30
Comedy 60
Action 90

What fraction of these students preferred Action movies?

1--- 3- 1--- 9-
----- -----
3 10 5 20

2 A bakery sells one loaf of bread and four bread rolls for $5.00.
A loaf of bread and one bread roll cost $3.80.
How much does one roll cost?

3 Sam was facing north.

He made a 135 turn clockwise.
Which direction is he facing now?
north-east
north-west
south-east
south-west

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 YEAR 9 NUMERACY Calculator allowed SET 8

4 25 cm

p = 3.14
10 cm

What is the area of this shape?

307 cm2 228.5 cm2 564 cm2 328.5 cm2

5 A pool filter processes 5400 litres of water in half an hour.

Calculate how many litres of water the filter processes in 12 seconds.

litres

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 YEAR 9 NUMERACY Calculator allowed SET 8

6 This graph shows the number of flights that were on time for 6 months.

On-Time Performance of an airline

100%

90%
90%
87% 87%
83% 84%
80% 81%

70%

60%

May 10 Jun 10 Jul 10 Aug 10 Sep 10 Oct 10

There were 10500 flights in September 2010.

How many flights in September were not on time?

flights

7 Which whole numbers between 2 and 40 can be divided by 4 with a remainder of 2,

and can also be divided by 5 with a remainder of 1?

What is the size of the angle at x? 91

87 79

x
77
87
93
103

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 YEAR 9 NUMERACY Non Calculator SET 9

Name .................................................................... Date ...........................

1 Which of these expressions is the same as

2x + y + 5x + y ?

7x2 + 2y 7x2 + y2 7x + 2y 7xy

2 Conversion graph
Celsius to Fahrenheit
180

160

140

120
Degrees Fahrenheit

100

80

60

40

20

0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45
Degrees Celsius

Use this graph to estimate which of the following temperatures is closest to what
50 degrees Celsius would be in degrees Fahrenheit.

10 113 120 130

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 YEAR 9 NUMERACY Non Calculator SET 9

3 Which of these is correct?

10 < 9
9 > 3
0 < 5
2 > 0

4 A leaflet deliverer walks all day putting leaflets into letterboxes.

5
She delivers --- of the leaflets by lunchtime and then the last 48 by the end of the day.
8
How many leaflets does she deliver?

64 80 96 128

A semi-circular fan is divided into 12 equal sections.

What is the size of the angle at x?

7.5 12 15 30

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 YEAR 9 NUMERACY Non Calculator SET 9

6
A B

C D

Which one of these is the net of a triangular prism?

A B C D

7 164 million can be expressed as

5
164 10
8
16.4 10
7
1.64 10
9
0.164 10

8 A cricket batsman has played three innings and his batting average is 91 runs. If two of his
scores are 85 runs and 93 runs, what is his third score?

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 YEAR 9 NUMERACY Calculator allowed SET 10

Name .................................................................... Date ...........................

1 What is 60% of 60?

10 1 30 36

2 Equator

Darwin

140E
A Darwin based Navy patrol boat receives a message that a yacht is in distress.
Darwins position is 12S and 130E.
Which one of these is closest to the yachts position?
2 N, 124 W
4 S, 135 E
4 S, 126 E
12 S, 130 E

3 If you double Emilys age, subtract three and divide the result by five, the answer is five.
How old is Emily?

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 YEAR 9 NUMERACY Calculator allowed SET 10
4 4x + 1 = y
Which table is represented by this equation?

x 3 2 1 0
y 13 9 4 1
x 3 2 1 0
y 11 7 3 1
x 13 9 4 1
y 3 2 1 0
x 3 2 1 0
y 11 9 4 1

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Flights Out: Perth to Auckland Fri 11 Mar 11

From To Flight
05:45 Perth 13:00 Sydney QF574
14:45 Sydney 19:50 Auckland QF113
Duration: 9h 05m

This webpage shows the timetable for a flight from Perth to Auckland with a stop in Sydney.
The times shown on the timetable are the local times for arrivals and departures.
The total travelling time including the stopover is shown on the webpage.
According to this timetable, what is the time difference between Perth and Auckland?.

hours

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6 A school zone has a speed limit of 40 km/hr from 3 pm to 4 pm.
A speed camera measured the speeds of some cars as they passed the school at 3:15pm.
The results are recorded in this stem and leaf graph.

Speeds of cars passing a school at 3:15 pm

2 6 7 8
3 0 2 5 8 8 9
4 0 0 3 8 9 9
5 5 6 9
6 0 Key: 4 | 7 means 47

How many cars were exceeding the speed limit?

cars

7 A childcare centre has a ratio of 5 babies to 1 teacher.

When a new law is introduced, they must change to a ratio of 4 babies to 1 teacher.
How many extra teachers will be needed by a childcare centre that cares for 60 babies?

2 3 12 15

8 6 metres

Which of the following equations

should be used to find the
8 metres

surface area of this cylinder?

2
6 2+268
2
8 2+286
2
3 2+238
62+268