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of anumber is 30, what is : of the number?
(A) 22.5 (B) 24 (Cc) 25 (D) 27 (B) 40
This diagram is called an open square of order 4, since the
three sides are all the same length and each side has four
posts spaced evenly along it. The total number of posts
which would be evenly spaced along an open square of order
10 would be
(A) 26 (B) 27 (C) 28
(D) 30 (B) 27%
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Which of the objects below is not the same as
the one on the right?
This graph shows the number of goals scored by
Ranjit’s soccer team in each of the first thirteen
matches. After the fourteenth math, the me-
dian has increased but the mode has remained
the same. Which of the following best describes
the team’s score in this last game?
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number of goals
(A) Goals = 1 (B) Goals =2 (G) Goals > 2
(D) Goals < 3 (E) Goals > 3
Forty-eight pavers, each 1m x Im in size, are used to form a path 1 metre wide
around a square garden, What is the area, in square metres, inside this path?
(A) 100 (B) 10 (©) 121 (D) 132 (B) 144
10.
Bach May a farmer plants barley seed and then in October he harvests 12 times the
weight of seed planted. From each harvest, he sells 50 tonnes and the rest he keeps as
seed for the next year’s crop. This year he has planted enough to harvest 120 tonnes.
How many tonnes did he plant last year?
(A)5 (B) 10 (C) 20 (D) 30 (B) 6013
Questions 11 to 20, 4 marks each
11. If x is an integer and « < —1, which of the following expressions has the greatest
value?
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12. The 11 boys in Tom’s cricket team have a contest to see how far they can throw a
19, 26, 31, 31, 31, 33,37, 42, 42, 48, 56
Which of the following lists the statistical measures for these results in the correct
ascending order?
(A) mean, median, mode (B) median, mean, mode (C) mode, mean, median
(D) median, mode, mean (E) mode, median, mean
13. [have 800 mL of water in jug X and 800 mL of milk in jug Y. I pour 200mL from jug
X into jug Y and stir the mixture thoroughly. I then pour 200mL of the resulting
mixture from jug Y into jug X. What is the volume of milk that is now in jug X?.
(A) 150mL (B) 160m. (C) 175m (D) 180mL (B) 200 mL.
14, The women’s world record for running 400 metres was set: in Canberra at. 47,60 sec-
onds. Which of the following is closest to the runner’s average speed, in kilometres
per hour?
(A) 22 (B) 24 (C) 26 (D) 28 (B) 30
15. Ten points Q, R, S,T, U,V, W, X, ¥ and Z are equally and consecutively spaced
on a circle, What is the size, in degrees, of the angle ZQTW?
(A) 36 (B) 54 (c) 60 (p) 72 (8) 75
16. A 3 by 5 grid of dots is set ont as shown, How many + # #
straight line segments can be drawn that join two of
these dots and pass through exaetly one other dot?
(A) 14 (B) 20 (ep 9 9 9 OY
(D) 24 (B) 3017. A hotel has rooms that can accommodate up to two people. Couples can share a
room, but otherwise men will share only with men and women only with women,
How many rooms are needed to guarantee that any group of 100 people can be
accommodated?
(A) 50 (B) 51 (c) 67 (D) 98 (6) 99
18. Two rectangular prisms are constructed. One measures 4em x Gem x xem and the
other measures 3em x Sem x yom where both x and y are integers. If they have
equal surface area, what is the smallest possible value of «+9?
(A) (B) 21 (©) 26 (D) 42 (B) 63
19. A four-digit number abed is called coo! if a is divisible by 4, the two-digit number ab
is divisible by 5, the three-digit number abe is divisible by 6 and abed is divisible by
7. How many cool numbers are there where 8 is not one of the digits?
(A)3 (B)4 (c)5 (p) 6 (E) more than 6
20. The shape shown is formed from four identical arcs, each a
quarter of the circumference of a circle of radius 5em. What
is the area of the shape, in square centimetres?
(A) 100 — 207 (B) 100 (C) 250 +25
(D) 250 (E) 100 — 250
Questions 21 to 25, 5 marks each
21. Standard six-sided dice have their dots arranged so that the opposite faces add up
to 7. If 27 standard dice are arranged in a 3 x 3 x 3 cube on a solid table what is the
maximum number of dots that can be seen from one position?
(A) 90 (B) 94 (C) 153 (D) 154 (E) 189
22. There are 10 integers in a set. Some are odd and some are even. For each possible
pair selected from the set, the sum is written down. Of these 45 numbers, exactly 20
are even. How many of the numbers in the original set are even?
(ayo (B)3 (5 (D8 (©) 1015
23. Starting with 2 of a tank of fuel, Eset out to drive the 550 km from Scone to Canberra.
At Morisset, 165km from Seone, I have 2 5 of a tank remaining. If I continue with the
same fuel consumption per kilometre and withont refuelling, what happens?
(A) I will arrive in Canberra with 3 of a tank to spare.
(B) I will arrive in Canberra with a of a tank to spare.
(C) I will run out of fuel precisely when I reach Canberra.
(D) I will run out of fuel 110km from Canberra.
(E) 1 will run out of fuel 220m from Canberra,
24. At a party, each person shakes hands with exactly three other people and no two
people shake hands with each other more than once. If fewer than fifteen handshakes
take place, what is the maximum number of people who can be at the party’
(A) 6 (B)7 (C8 (D)9 (E) 10
25. Thanom has a roll of paper consisting of a very long sheet of
thin paper tightly rolled around a cylindrical tube, forming
the shape indicated in the diagram.
Initially, the diameter of the roll is 12cm and the diameter
of the tube is 4m, After Thanom uses half of the paper,
the diameter of the remaining roll is closest: to
(A) Gem (B) 8m (C) 8.5em
(D) 9em (B) 9.5em
For questions 26 to 30, shade the answer as an integer from 0 to 999
in the space provided on the answer sheet.
Question 26 is 6 marks, question 27 is 7 marks, question 28 is 8 marks,
question 29 is 9 marks and question 30 is 10 marks.
26. In a 3x 3 grid of points, many triangles can be formed using 3 of the points as
vertices. Three such triangles are shown below. Of all these possible triangles, how
many have all three sides of different lengths?16
27. Small squares of side :rem have been removed from
the corners, sides and centre of a square of side yem
to form the gasket shown.
If. and y are prime numbers and the sum of the inside
and outside perimeters
equal to the area of the gasket, in square centimetres,
what is the smallest possible value of the area of the
gasket?
28. In the diagram on the right, each circle has three or
six neighbours. Each cirele will contain a number, and
cach of the five missing numbers is the average of its
neighbours. What is the largest of the five missing
numbers?
29. As shown in the diagram, you can create a grid
of squares 3 units high and 4 units wide using 31
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