Upper Primary Division

Questions 1 to 10, 3 marks each

1. What does the digit 1 in 2015 represent?
(A) one (B) ten (C) one hundred (D) one thousand (E) ten thousand

2. What is the value of 10 twenty-cent coins?

(A) $1 (B) $2 (C) $5 (D) $20 (E) $50

3. What temperature does this thermometer show? ◦

C
30
(A) 25◦ (B) 38◦ (C) 27◦
25
(D) 32◦ (E) 28◦
20
15

4. Which number do you need in the box to make this number sentence
true?
19 + 45 = 20 +

(A) 34 (B) 44 (C) 46 (D) 64 (E) 84

5. Which number has the greatest value?

(A) 1.3 (B) 1.303 (C) 1.31 (D) 1.301 (E) 1.131
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6. The perimeter of a shape is the distance around the outside. Which

of these shapes has the smallest perimeter?

(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

7. The class were shown this

picture of many dinosaurs.
They were asked to work out
how many there were in half
of the picture.
• Simon wrote 6 × 10.
• Carrie wrote 5 × 12.
• Brian wrote 10×12÷2.
• Rémy wrote 10÷2×12.
Who was correct?
(A) All four were correct (B) Only Simon (C) Only Carrie
(D) Only Brian (E) Only Rémy

8. In the diagram, the numbers 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9

3
are placed in the squares so that the sum of the
numbers in the row is the same as the sum of the 7
numbers in the column.
The numbers 3 and 7 are placed as shown. What
could be the sum of the row?
(A) 14 (B) 15 (C) 12 (D) 16 (E) 13
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9. To which square should I add a counter so that

A
no two rows have the same number of counters,
and no two columns have the same number of B C
counters? D
(A) A (B) B (C) C (D) D (E) E E

10. A half is one-third of a number. What is the number?

(A) three-quarters (B) one-sixth (C) one and a third
(D) five-sixths (E) one and a half

Questions 11 to 20, 4 marks each

11. The triangle shown is folded in half three times without unfolding,
making another triangle each time.

Which figure shows what the triangle looks like when unfolded?

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

12. If L = 100 and M = 0.1, which of these is largest?

(A) L + M (B) L × M (C) L ÷ M (D) M ÷ L (E) L − M
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13. You want to combine each of the shapes (A) to (E)

shown below separately with the shaded shape on the
right to make a rectangle.
You are only allowed to turn and slide the shapes, not
flip them over. The finished pieces will not overlap and
will form a rectangle with no holes.
For which of the shapes is this not possible?

(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

14. A plumber has 12 lengths of drain pipe to load on his ute. He knows
that the pipes won’t come loose if he bundles them so that the rope
around them is as short as possible. How does he bundle them?

(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

15. The numbers 1 to 6 are placed in

the circles so that each side of the
triangle has a sum of 10. If 1 is
placed in the circle shown, which
number is in the shaded circle?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4
1
(D) 5 (E) 6
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16. Follow the instructions in this flow chart.

Is this Select
Start Subtract Multiply Yes
greater this
with 5 2 by 3
than 50? answer

No

(A) 57 (B) 63 (C) 75 (D) 81 (E) 84

17. A square piece of paper is folded along the dashed lines shown and
then the top is cut off.

The paper is then unfolded. Which shape shows the unfolded piece?

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

18. Sally, Li and Raheelah have birthdays on different

days in the week beginning Sunday 2 August. No
two birthdays are on following days and the gap
between the first and second birthday is less than
the gap between the second and third. Which day
is definitely not one of their birthdays?

(A) Monday (B) Tuesday (C) Wednesday

(D) Thursday (E) Friday
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19. A square of side length 3 cm is placed alongside a square of side 5 cm.

5 cm
3 cm

What is the area, in square centimetres, of the shaded part?

(A) 22.5 (B) 23 (C) 23.5 (D) 24 (E) 24.5

20. A cube has the letters A, C, M, T, H and S on its six faces. Here are
two views of this cube.

A
T

C AM
M

Which one of the following could be a third view of the same cube?
(A) T (B) (C) C (D) (E)
A T

C
M

M
H

H
T

T S
C

A S
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Questions 21 to 25, 5 marks each

21. A teacher gives each of three students Asha, Betty and Cheng a card
with a ‘secret’ number on it. Each looks at her own number but does
not know the other two numbers. Then the teacher gives them this
information.
All three numbers are different whole numbers and their sum is 13.
The product of the numbers is odd. Betty and Cheng now know
what the numbers are on the other two cards, but Asha does not have
enough information. What number is on Asha’s card?
(A) 9 (B) 7 (C) 5 (D) 3 (E) 1

22. In this multiplication, L, M and N are L L M

different digits. What is the value of × M
L + M + N? N M 5 M
(A) 13 (B) 15 (C) 16
(D) 17 (E) 20

23. A scientist was testing a piece of metal which

contains copper and zinc. He found the ratio
of metals was 2 parts copper to 3 parts zinc.
Then he melted this metal and added 120 g
of copper and 40 g of zinc into it, forming a
new piece of metal which weighs 660 g.
What is the ratio of copper and zinc in the
new metal?
(A) 1 part copper to 3 parts zinc
(B) 2 parts copper to 3 parts zinc
(C) 16 parts copper to 17 parts zinc
(D) 8 parts copper to 17 parts zinc
(E) 8 parts copper to 33 parts zinc
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24. Jason had between 50 and 200 identical square cards. He tried to
arrange them in rows of 4 but had one left over. He tried rows of 5
and then rows of 6, but each time he had one card left over. Finally, he
discovered that he could arrange them to form one large solid square.
How many cards were on each side of this square?
(A) 8 (B) 9 (C) 10 (D) 11 (E) 12

25. Eve has $400 in Australian notes in her wallet, in a mixture of 5, 10,
20 and 50 dollar notes.
As a surprise, Viv opens Eve’s wallet and replaces every note with the
next larger note. So, each $5 note is replaced by a $10 note, each $10
note is replaced by a $20 note, each $20 note is replaced by a $50 note
and each $50 note is replaced by a $100 note.
Eve discovers that she now has $900. How much of this new total is
in $50 notes?
(A) $50 (B) $100 (C) $200 (D) $300 (E) $500

For questions 26 to 30, shade the answer as a whole number

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. Alex is designing a square patio, paved by

putting bricks on edge using the basketweave
pattern shown.
She has 999 bricks she can use, and designs
her patio to be as large a square as possible.
How many bricks does she use?
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27. There are many ways that you can add three different positive whole
numbers to get a total of 12. For instance, 1 + 5 + 6 = 12 is one way
but 2 + 2 + 8 = 12 is not, since 2, 2 and 8 are not all different.
If you multiply these three numbers, you get a number called the
product.
Of all the ways to do this, what is the largest possible product?

28. I have 2 watches with a 12 hour cycle. One gains 2 minutes a day and
the other loses 3 minutes a day. If I set them at the correct time, how
many days will it be before they next together tell the correct time?

29. A 3 × 2 flag is divided into six squares, as shown.

Each square is to be coloured green or blue, so
that every square shares at least one edge with
another square of the same colour.
In how many different ways can this be done?

30. The squares in a 25 × 25 grid are painted

black or white in a spiral pattern, starting
with black at the centre ∗ and spiralling
out. ∗
The diagram shows how this starts.
How many squares are painted black?
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Questions 1 to 10, 3 marks each

1. Which number is 20 more than 17?

(A) 3 (B) 27 (C) 37 (D) 217 (E) 2017

2. How many 200 g apple pies will weigh 4 kg?

(A) 2 (B) 20 (C) 50 (D) 80 (E) 200

3. Five dice were rolled, and the results were

as shown.
What fraction of the dice showed a two on
top?
3 1 2
(A) (B) (C)
4 2 3
2 3
(D) (E)
5 5

4. At the camping shop, Jane bought a rucksack for $55 and a compass
for $20.
How much change did she get from $100?
(A) $25 (B) $35 (C) $45 (D) $55 (E) $65
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5. Which of these shapes are pentagons?

1 2 3

4 5

(A) all of the shapes (B) shape 3 only (C) shapes 3 and 4
(D) shapes 1 and 3 (E) none of the shapes

6. Mitchell lives 4 km from school. Naomi lives 3 times as far from school
as Mitchell. Olivia lives 3 km closer to school than Naomi. How far
does Olivia live from school?
(A) 9 km (B) 3 km (C) 15 km (D) 13 km (E) 21 km

7. Helen is adding some numbers and gets the total 157. Then she realises
that she has written one of the numbers as 73 rather than 37. What
should the total be?
(A) 110 (B) 121 (C) 124 (D) 131 (E) 751

8. In the year 3017, the Australian Mint recycled its 3c 4c 3c

coins to make new coins.
4c

4c

Each 50c coin was cut into six triangles, six squares,
3c

?
3c

and one hexagon. The triangles were each worth

3c and the squares were each worth 4c.
4c

4c

3c
How much should the value of the hexagon be to 4c 3c
make the total still worth 50c?
(A) 3c (B) 8c (C) 18c (D) 20c (E) 43c
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9. Felicity has a combination lock for her bike like the one below. It has
the numbers 0 to 9 on each tumbler.
It clicks every time she moves the tumblers one number forward or
back, including a click as the tumbler moves between 9 and 0.
She found the lock in the position 9–0–4 shown. Her combination is
5–8–7.
8 9 3
9 0 4
0 1 5

What is the least number of clicks needed to get the lock to her com-
bination?
(A) 20 (B) 18 (C) 17 (D) 9 (E) 7

10. Which number multiplied by itself is equal to 5 times 20?

(A) 10 (B) 20 (C) 25 (D) 100 (E) 120

Questions 11 to 20, 4 marks each

11. Greg sees a clock in the mirror, where it looks
like this. What is the actual time? 21
(A) 4:10 (B) 4:50 (C) 5:10
(D) 6:50 (E) 7:10

12. In these two number sentences

+ + + = 12

+ + + = 20

what is the value of ?

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5
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13. In this sum, each of the letters X, Y and Z

X X
represents a different digit. Which digit does
the letter X represent? + X Y
(A) 1 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 7 (E) 9
Y X Z

14. A maths student made the following pattern:

1 1 1
2 2 2 2
3 4 4 4 3
4 7 8 8 7 4
5 11 15 16 15 11 5

The numbers down the sides of the pattern increase by 1 and each of
the other numbers is found by adding the two numbers above it.
What will be the sum of all the numbers on the next line in this
pattern?
(A) 128 (B) 138 (C) 148 (D) 158 (E) 168

15. The school bought 18 boxes of primary school paint for $900. Each
box had a number of bottles, each worth $2.50. How many bottles
were in each box?
(A) 15 (B) 20 (C) 45 (D) 50 (E) 125

16. One year in June, there were four Wednesdays and five Tuesdays. On
which day was the first of June?
(A) Monday (B) Tuesday (C) Thursday (D) Friday (E) Saturday

17. What percentage of this shape is shaded?

(A) 40% (B) 48% (C) 50%

(D) 52% (E) 66%
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18. At 10 am the school flagpole cast a shadow 6 m long.

Next to the flagpole, the 0.5 m tap cast a shadow of
0.3 m.
How tall is the flagpole in metres?
(A) 3 (B) 5 (C) 8
?
(D) 10 (E) 12

0.5 m
6m
0.3 m

19. This shape can be folded up to make a

cube.
Which cube could it make?

(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

20. The area of the large rectangle is 300 square metres.

It is made up of four identical smaller rectangles.
What is the width of one of the small rectangles in
metres?
(A) 2 (B) 5 (C) 8 (D) 10 (E) 12
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Questions 21 to 25, 5 marks each

21. Which one of the patterns below would be created with these folds
and cuts?

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

22. The whole numbers from 1 to 7 are

7
to be placed in the seven circles in
the diagram. In each of the three
triangles drawn, the sum of the three
numbers is the same. X
Two of the numbers are given.
What is X + Y ?
(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7
Y 4
(D) 8 (E) 9

23. A square ABCD with a side of 6 cm is joined A B

with a smaller square EF GC with a side of E F
4 cm as shown. 6
4
What is the area of the shaded shape BDF E?
(A) 12 cm2 (B) 14 cm 2 (C) 16 cm2 D C G

(D) 18 cm 2 (E) 24 cm 2
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24. In this year of 2017, my family is in its prime: I am 7, my brother

is 5, my mother is 29 and my father is 31. All of our ages are prime
numbers.
What is my father’s age the next year that my family is in its prime,
when all of our ages are again prime?
(A) 37 (B) 41 (C) 43 (D) 47 (E) 61

25. A triangular prism is to be cut into two

pieces with a single straight cut. What is
the smallest possible total for the combined
number of faces of the two pieces?
(A) 6 (B) 8 (C) 9
(D) 10 (E) 11

For questions 26 to 30, shade the answer as a whole number

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. Two rectangles overlap to create three 15

regions, each of equal area. The orig-
inal rectangles are 6 cm by 15 cm and
10 cm by 9 cm as shown. The sides of 6
the smaller shaded rectangle are each
9
a whole number of centimetres.
What is the perimeter of the smaller
shaded rectangle, in centimetres?
10
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27. Jonathan made a tower with rectan-

gular cards 2 cm long and 1 cm wide,
where each row has one more card
than the row above it.
The perimeter of a tower with 3 levels
is 18 cm, as shown.
What will be the perimeter of a tower
with 10 levels, in centimetres?

28. All of the digits from 0 to 9 are used to form two 5-digit numbers.
What is the smallest possible difference between these two numbers?

29. A jigsaw piece is formed from a square with a combination of ‘tabs’

and ‘slots’ on at least two of its sides.
Pieces are either corner, edge or interior, as shown.

corner piece edge piece interior piece

(two straight sides at right angles) (one straight side) (no straight sides)

We treat two shapes as the same if one is a rotation of the other,

without turning it over. How many different shapes are possible?

30. A 3×3 grid has a pattern of black and white squares.

A pattern is called balanced if each 2 × 2 subgrid
contains exactly two squares of each colour, as seen
in the first example. balanced
The pattern in the second example is unbalanced be-
cause the bottom-right 2 × 2 subgrid contains three
white squares.
Counting rotations and reflections as different, how unbalanced
many balanced 3 × 3 patterns are there?