Mathex 2015 Year 9

9/1 Put a circle round the correct answer:

A square has a perimeter length of p. Which of these expressions is true about
the area of the square? b
2
1 𝑝 1
a) 2 b) 16
c) 2 d) 4p2
16𝑝 4𝑝

9/2 This year Galileo would have been four hundred and fifty-one years old. In what
year was his 21st birthday?

9/3 Robin has a 4cm by 4cm square which is cut up and remade into a rectangle with
a perimeter of 20cm. What are the dimensions of this new rectangle?

9/4 Find a set of three positive integer numbers which add to 16 and multiply to 36.

3x + 16 X 36

9/5 If 60% of a number is 42, what is 45% of the same number?

42 divided 60 = 0.7 x 100 = 70 0.45 x 700 = 31.5

9/6 A lift has a weight limit of 1500kg. If the average weight of the people in the lift is
80kg and the combined weight of all the people is 100kg over the limit, how many
people are in the lift?

9/7 Jonathan is brushing his hair in the mirror when he sees the clock behind him tell
him the time is 5 past three. What is real time? 3:05

9/8 How many different ways can 60 cents be made using current coinage?

9/9 How many squares and rectangles are in this figure.

17 rectangles and 11 squares ,..l

28 all together

9/10 One third of A is equal to one half of B. What is the minimum sum of A + B?

⅓ a = ½ b 2a = 3b a + b = ?

9/11 The digits 1,2,3,4 are used to make 4-digit numbers, such as 2143, and 1342.
Tom finds 24 different numbers. He puts them in numerical order from smallest,
to largest.

Which number is in the 5th position? 1234, 1243,1324,1342,1423.

1423 is the 5th position

9/12 Tony says he needs to draw 6 lines to make this array.

Find 2 different sized arrays which uses 7 lines. What are their
dimensions?

9/13 Eight chairs are around a table, the top chair is labelled one and the
others in a clockwise fashion around the table.
If I take away the first chair and then every third chair, what number
chair is the last to be removed? 1,4, 8
2,3,5,,6,7 5 will be removed last.

9/14 Find two prime numbers that when added together total 232 and when subtracted
the difference is 66.

9/15 Internal angle sum of a polygon is given by

Asum = 180o(n-2). Where the n is the number of sides of the polygon.

What is the angle sum of a decagon?

9/16 a ⌧ b means take the square of a and add it to a multiplied by the square of b.

Find the value of (1⌧2)⌧3

9/17 I am trying to buy an exact number of McNuggets. When McNuggets only came
in boxes of 6, 9, and 20, the largest number I could not buy was 43. Now there is
a 4-box of McNuggets. Now what is the largest number of McNuggets that I
cannot buy?

9/18 This mystic rose has 7 points.

How many lines would there be in a hundred-point mystic rose?

9/19 There are sets of 5 positive whole numbers that have a mean, median and mode
all equal to 5.

Find the set which contains the largest number.

9/20 A cubic lamington cake, with side xcm, is covered in 1cm thick icing on all sides.
Find an expression for the area of icing.
MATHEX QUIZ ANSWERS Year 9 – 2015
No units required

Number Answers Comment

1 either
2
b) or
𝑝
16
2 1585
3 2x8 Any order
4 1, 3, 12 Any order
5 31.5
6 20
7 5 to 9 or Either
8:55
8 5 Any order
9 30
10 5
11 1423
12 1x4 and 2x3 Both
13 5 or 5th chair Chair not required
14 83, 149
15 1440 Degree sign not needed

16 70
17 11
18 4950
19 1, 2, 5, 5, 12 Either
1, 1, 5, 5, 13 Any order
20 6(x+2)2 Or equivalent
MATHEX QUIZ ANSWERS Year 9 – 2013
No units required

Number Answers Comment

20 6(x+2)2 Or equivalent

19 1, 2, 5, 5, 12 Either
1, 1, 5, 5, 13 Any order
18 4950
17 11
16 70
15 1440 Degree sign not
needed
14 83, 149
13 5 or 5th chair Chair not required

12 1x4 and 2x3 Both

11 1423
10 5
9 30
8 5 Any order
7 5 to 9 or Either
8:55
6 20
5 31.5
4 1, 3, 12 Any order
3 2x8 Any order
2 1585
1 either
2
b) or
𝑝
16