YEAR 7 FRACTIONS TEST 2017 NAME: ______________________

Level 6.0 5. What is a third of $15?

5 2
1. Using the number line, add to .
10 10
What is your answer?

1 mark
0 1
Level 6.5

6. Complete by filling in the gaps.

1 mark
5 3 15
2. On the number line below, write where = =
8 4 12
2
and would go.
4

0 1 2 marks

1 mark 17 1
1 1 7. (Circle the correct response) =
3. (Circle the correct response) + = 20 4
5 5 2
(a) 5
4
(a) 20 16
(b) 20
2
(b) 10 (c) 1
2 3
(c) (d)
5 5
9
1 (e)
(d) 10
25
1 mark
8
(e) 8. (Circle the correct responses) Circle the
20
equivalent fractions:
1 mark 1 4 3 2 12
3 10 10 6 5 30
4. (Circle the correct response) written in 1 mark
6
simplest form is:
9. Write the value the arrow points to on the
1
(a) 9 number line as both a mixed number and
4
an improper fraction.
(b) 10

1
(c) 2 0 1 2
4
(d) 6

6
(e) 3

1 mark 2 marks
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2 15. Maggie and Samuel made a cabinet

10. 7 can also be written as
3
9 together. Maggie spent 2 hours and Samuel
(a) 3 spent 4 hours to make it. If they sell the
21 cabinet for $180, how should they split the
(b) 3
money?
13
(c) 3
17
(d) 3
23
(e) 3

1 mark

11. Express 20 :32 in the simplest form.

1 mark 2 marks
12. Find the largest of the three fractions 16. Find the reciprocal of the following.
below by first expressing each as an 3
equivalent fraction with the same (a)
7
denominators. (show working)

5 24 2
, , (b) 3
1
9 27 3 6

2 marks
2 1
17. 5 6 =
3 marks 1
(a)
10
Level 7.0 3
(b) 11
13. Solve: (show working) 19
(c)
4 2 30
+ 1
5 3 (d) 15
2
(e)
56

2 marks 1 mark
14. Solve: (show working)
4 1 18. 75 of 28

7 4

2 marks
2 marks
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19. Solve, using cancelling: (show working) (b) What fraction is left? Solve it using an
5 3 equation.

6 15

1+2 marks
2 marks
Level 7.5
20. Michelle can run one lap of her local oval in
1 2 2
of an hour. 22. The product of 4 and 3 is:
12 5 11
(a) How many minutes is this? (a) 14
2
(b) 45
32
(c) 7 55
4
(d) 12
16
4
(e) 12 55

1 mark
23. Solve: (show working)
(b) Assuming she runs at the same pace, 6 2
how many laps will she complete in
10 5
1
1 hours? (show working)
4

2 marks

24. I shared 2 blocks of chocolate with two

1+2 marks friends by giving of all the chocolate to


21. I cut a cake in half, then only take away a one of them and of
all the chocolate to

third of one of the halves. the other. What fraction remains for me?
(show working)

(a) Draw a labelled diagram to show how

much cake I have left.

2 marks
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25. I have a 5m log of wood that I want to split 10 49 72 150

27. Calculate =
36 5 35 120

into pieces that are of a meter. (show
(Remember to use order of operations!) (show
working)
working)
(a) How many pieces will I split the log
into?

(b) I decide instead to split my logs into

2
pieces that are of a meter. What
3
fraction of a piece do I have leftover?

`1+2 marks

Level 8.0

2 3 3
26. Calculate (3 + 1 ) =
5 4 4

(Remember to use order of operations!) (show

working)

(3 marks)

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Marks

Level 6.0 6.5 7.0 7.5 8.0 Mark %

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