Receipt #: School: __________________________

SAMOA COLLEGE

YEAR 9 MATHEMATICS
ENTRANCE EXAM
2018
QUESTION AND ANSWER BOOKLET
TIME ALLOWED: 2 HOURS
TOTAL MARKS: 100
This Examination is divided into six COMPULSORY sections.

Time
Strand Out of Marks
(minutes)
Strand 1: NUMBERS & OPERATIONS 24 20
Strand 2: PATTERNS & ALGEBRA 21 18
Strand 3: SPACE & GEOMETRY 22 18
Strand 4: MEASUREMENT 22 18
Strand 5: DATA ANALYSIS 14 12
Strand 6: WORKING MATHEMATICALLY 17 14
TOTAL 120 100

 Write your receipt number and current school clearly in the spaces provided on the
top of this page

 Answer ALL questions in the spaces provided in this Booklet

 Check that this booklet contains pages 1 to 8
 DO NOT TURN THIS PAGE UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD
NOTE * Calculators are NOT permitted.
* No BORROWING of any math instruments is allowed

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STRAND 1: NUMBERS & OPERATIONS WEIGHTING 20
Instruction: Show all calculations clearly.

1. Evaluate (Give an answer)

i) 15 – 3 x 4 ii) ¯13 + 8 - ¯7 1 mark

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iii) 34 iv) 64 1 mark

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2. Give two equivalent fractions for _______ & _______ 1 mark
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3. State the Lowest Common Multiple and Highest Common Factor of 12 & 15
2 marks

4. Round the following to the number indicated in the brackets 1 mark

i) 2367 (nearest 10) ii) 2.643 (2 decimal places)

5. Decrease $200 by 9% 2 marks

6. Lisa had 4.5m of ribbon. She needed to cut it into 0.5m pieces. How many pieces of
ribbon will she have now? 1 mark

1 3 1
7. A farmer uses of his land for cattle, for sheep and for crops and the remaining
3 8 6
23 hectares for forestry. Find the total area of the farmer’s land. 4 marks

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8. Anthony buys his lunch for school. A packet of taro chips costs $2.70, a sandwich
costs $1.80 and a bottle of spring water costs $2.40. As he is leaving the shop, he
decides to buy his mother a suafa’i for $2.00. How much did he spend and how much
change did he return to his mother if he took $10.00? 2 marks

9. Use the given Venn Diagram to find the probability of the compliment of A, P(A’)
2 marks
A B

12 3 4

10. At the start of the year, Mina’s parents buy her school stationery at a cost of
$800. The shop asks for a deposit of 30% and $200 every month for the next three
months for the remaining balance. How much is the deposit and how much extra will
Mina’s parents pay using this payment plan? 3 marks

STRAND 2: PATTERNS & ALGEBRA WEIGHTING 18

Instruction: Show all calculations clearly.

1. Seven times the sum of a number and 2 can be written as: 1 mark
(Circle the correct answer)
A) 7y  2 B) y  27 C) 7 y2 D) 7( y  2)

2. Simplify 2 marks
i) 8y + y2 + 3y + 4y2 ii) 10m2 x 2m3

12 x 3
iii) iv) (2a)0
4x

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3. Expand i) 2(a + 3) ii) -2y(3y2 – 3) 2 marks

4. Factorize i) 4pqr + 12pr – 8p ii) s2 + s3 2 marks

5. Solve the following equations 3 marks

i) -8x = 16 ii) 7x – 8 = 4x + 16

6. If 5 is subtracted from twice Elena’s age the result is 11. Write an equation for the
given information and use it to work out Elena’s age. (Let Elena’s age be ‘x’) 3 marks

7. The diagram shows rectangular tables. Six people can sit at one table. When two
tables are placed together end to end, a total of 10 people can be seated.

i) Complete the table to show the number of people which can be seated up to
four tables 1 mark
Table (t) 1 2 3 4
# of People (P)

ii) Write down a formula for the number of people that can be seated at ‘n’ tables
placed end to end. 1 mark

iii) How many people would there be if there were 25 tables at a function and how
many tables if there were 66 people at a function? 3 marks

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STRAND 3: SPACE & GEOMETRY WEIGHTING 18
Instruction: Show all calculations clearly.

1. Write the correct name for each of these angles 2 marks

900
________________ ________________
0
270
x0
________________ 1800 ________________

2. Find the lettered angles

i) 1mark ii) 1 mark
240
a
690 440
b0

iii) c 1220 3 marks

d
400

3. i) What is the name of the large regular polygon that has been tessellated in this
pattern? 1 mark

______________________

ii) Here is a close up view of the large regular polygon

Find the size of angles x and y 3 marks

x
y

iii) When referring to polygons what does it mean by the word regular? 1 mark

_____________________________________________________________

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4. i) Reflect square ABCD in Line a and then Line b labelling the final image
A’B’C’D’ 2 marks

A B

D C

Line a Line b
x
ii) In translation,   means shift x to the right(+)/left(-) and y
 y
upwards(+)/downwards(-). Using the given concept, translate square ABCD
4 
using vector   and label image EFGH 2 marks
  4

5. Luana drives 3km north and then 6km due west from home to work. Using a scale of
1cm = 1km, draw a scale drawing to calculate the shortest distance Luana can take.
2 marks

Home

STRAND 4: MEASUREMENT WEIGHTING 18

Instruction: Show all calculations clearly.

1. Fill in the gaps with the correct conversions 2 marks

350ml ________L 580mm ________cm

2500kg ________tonnes 1.25kg ________grams

2. A hectare is 10,000m2 which can be formed from a rectangular area measuring 100m
by 100m. Which of the following gives an area of 1 hectare? 1 mark

A) 250 x 400 B) 50 x 20 C) 80 x 125 D) 80 x 120

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3. Milani goes to sleep at 2230 hrs and wakes up at 0555 hrs. How many hours and
minutes of sleep does Milani get each night? 2 marks

4. Give the formula for the area of each of the following shapes 2 marks

Rectangle A = _____________ Triangle A = _____________

Circle A =______________ Trapezium A=______________

5. Give the limits of accuracy for 4.5cm 2 marks

6. i) A dice has a volume of 8cm3. How many dice will fit in a box measuring 8cm
x 8cm x 3cm? 3 marks

ii) What is the surface area of the dice? ( Surface area = 6s2 ) 3 marks

7. When it is 5pm in New Zealand it is: 3 marks

 3 pm in Sydney
 6pm (the previous day) in Samoa
The only part of New Zealand that has a different time zone is the Chatham Islands.
The time in the Chatham Islands is 45 minutes ahead of New Zealand. For example,
when it is 8:30am in New Zealand, it is 9:15am in the Chatham Islands.
The time in New Zealand is 10am on Tuesday. Write down the times and days for:

Sydney _________________
Samoa _________________
Chatham Islands _________________

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STRAND 5: DATA ANALYSIS WEIGHTING 12
Instruction: Show all calculations clearly.

1. The following data gives the number of favorite movies for thirteen Year 9 students at
Samoa College
3 2 5 0 7 5 6 5 8 9 3 10 6
i) Arrange the following information from the smallest to the largest 1 mark

ii) Give the mode and median for the data 1 mark

iii) Calculate the average number of movies students enjoy (Leave answer in
mixed fractional form) 2 marks

2. This pictograph shows the number of wins different colleges achieved in a sports
tournament
State the wins for each of the following 3 marks
Foleni College i) Foua College

Foua College

Reupena College ii) Tavita College

Tavita College

Qiao College iii) Altogether (all 5 colleges)

Key: = 2wins

3. Write Discrete (D) or Continuous (C) for the following 2 marks

Heights of Year 10 students ___ Number of books in a school bag ___
Number of mangoes on a mango tree ___ Race times on sports day ___

4. 60% of a class are girls. What is the probability of boys and how many boys and girls
are there in a class of 35 students? 3 marks

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 STRAND 6: WORKING MATHEMATICALLY WEIGHTING 14
Instruction: Show all calculations clearly.

1. Fill in the missing digits, given that 3. Share $120 among 3 people in the
ratio 1:2:3 3 marks
no digit is repeated 2 marks
2 4
+ 1
9 0
4. Luana completes 5 maths problems
2. Which two weights need to be
in 10 minutes. How many
swapped to balance the scales?
problems will she complete in
2 marks
an hour? 2 marks
5 7
kg kg
3 4 9
kg kg kg

5. Give an equation/number sentence

that would give a solution of -4.
1 mark

6. The five neighboring houses on a street are painted five different colours: yellow,
purple, blue, red and green.
 The blue house is not in the middle N
 The distance from the blue house to the red house is the
W E
same as the distance from the blue house to the green house
 The red house is the first neighbor to the west of the yellow S
house
What is the order of the houses? 2 marks

7. $1000 was shared equally among 10 people who then shared it equally again among
another 10 people (including themselves) who then shared it equally again among
another 10 people (including themselves). How much did each person receive?
2 marks