NAME: TEACHER:

Macleans College

Year 9 Mathematics
2014 Examination
Answer ALL questions in the spaces provided in this booklet.
Show ALL working. All units must be given.
Round answers to 2 decimal places if required.
Calculators are permitted
Use blue or black pen only
Use pencil for graphs and diagrams
NO red pen or twink

Time: 2 hours

Sections
Topic Result
Number / 34
Algebra, Patterns & Graphs / 60
Measurement / 39
Geometry / 39
Statistics & Probability / 23
TOTAL / 195
 Number
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Matiu’s guinea pigs have a lot of babies! He decided
to sell some of the babies to a local pet shop.
QUESTION ONE (8 marks)
(a) The pet shop buys the guinea pigs for $5
each and sells them for $15 each. How
much profit will the pet shop make on 4
guineapigs?
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(b) What fraction of the pet shop’s selling
price does Matiu get? Express as a
fraction in its simplest form.
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(c) Matiu’s guinea pigs have 6 babies every 3
months. How many will Matiu be able to
sell in a year?
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(d) Matiu worked out that it costs him $4 to
feed each baby guinea pig for the time it
takes for them to grow. If he gets $5 for
them from the pet shop, what percentage
profit does he make?
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(e) Matiu has decided that he would like at
least 75% profit
(i) What is 75% as a fraction in its
simplest form?
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(ii) What is 75% of $4?
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QUESTION TWO (2 marks)
At the end of the year, Matiu has saved up $520.
His mother puts it into a separate account that
earns 4% interest per year. How much will be in
the account after one year if no more deposits are
made?
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QUESTION THREE (2 marks)
Matiu is told the weight of some of his guinea
pigs, in grams. The weights are:
12.4, 13.32, 12.08, 13.001, 13.23, 12.19
(a) Write these weights in order, from smallest
to largest.
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(b) Round 12.08 g to the nearest tenth of a
gram.
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QUESTION FOUR (8 marks)
Matiu’s guinea pigs are in four different cages.
Here is how much food is put into each cage
every day:
1 3
Cage 1: 2 cups Cage 2: cup
2 4
1 2
Cage 3: 1 cups Cage 4: cups
3 3
(a) How much food is put in Cages 1 and 3
altogether? (Answer as a mixed number.)
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(b) How much food will be put in Cage 2 in a
week? (Answer as an improper fraction.)
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(c) Give the Cage 4 quantity as a decimal value.
(Specify rounding.)
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QUESTION FOUR CONTD
(d) A sack contains 200 cups of food. How
long will it last Matiu for if he uses it for all
4 cages every day? Show all working and
explain what you are calculating.
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(e) Matiu has a scoop that can hold cup of
3 (a) Find the LCM (lowest common multiple of
food. How many scoops will he need for:
4
(c) If the fraction he saves is . Write as a
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ratio the amount spent compared to the
amount saved.
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QUESTION SIX (7 marks)
Matiu’s mother tells him she will buy him an
extra bag of guinea pig food if he passes his next
Maths test. Here are some questions he is
working on – can you solve them?
8 and 6).

(i) Cage 3? _____________ ____________________________________

(ii) Cage 1? _____________ ____________________________________

____________________________________ (b) Explain why there is only one even prime

number.
QUESTION FIVE (7 marks)
Matiu asks his mother to split his guinea pig
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money like this:
1
to spend straight away ____________________________________
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2
to use to buy guinea pig food (c) What is -4 + (-3 × -2) ?
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The rest into a savings account. ____________________________________
(a) Matiu sells 6 guinea pigs and earns $30.
(d) Fill in the missing value:
(i) How much of this money will he
22 + 6 = 43 –
spend straight away?

____________________________________ (e) Estimate the size of √94. Explain your

(ii) How much money will he spent on method.
guinea pig food?
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(b) Which is larger: the fraction that he spends
straight away or the fraction that goes into ____________________________________
the savings account? Show your working.
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(f) 0.64 + 0.281 – 0.3 =
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Algebra, Patterns & Graphs QUESTION THREE (3 marks)
A maths teacher gave his class these two “magic
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trick” puzzles.
QUESTION ONE (4 marks)
Magic Trick 1 Magic Trick 2
If 2x + y = z Think of a number. Think of a number
Double it. Add 6
(a) What is z when x = 3 and y = 2? Add 10 . Double the result
Halve the result Subtract 20
___________________________________ Take away your Subtract your original
original number. number
(b) If x = 0, what does that tell us about y and z? Is your answer 5? Add 8

Cassie thinks she can prove why the tricks give

(c) Give a set of values for x, y, z that would predictable answers using algebra. When the
make this equation true. It must be different tricks say “think of a number”, she calls the
to the set of values given in part (a). number n.

Magic Trick 1 Magic Trick 2

n n
2n

(d) Rewrite the formula so that it tells you how

to get y from z and x.
y = ____________________________
QUESTION TWO (2 marks)
(a) These scales are balanced (have the same
weight on each side). How heavy is a heart?
5 (Answer)
(Answer)
(a) Fill out the tables above to show what each
step of the “magic tricks” will give. The first
step for magic trick 1 has been done for you.
(b) If you picked 12 as your starting number for
trick 2, what would you end with?

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QUESTION FOUR (6 marks)

Simplify the following expressions:
A heart weighs: ________________________
(a) p × 7 = _____________________________
(b) The first two sets of scales are balanced.
Draw a set of objects on the right hand side (b) n + n + n + n = _______________________
of the scales in the box to balance them. Do
not just repeat the left hand side! (c) y × y × y × y = _______________________

(d) 2x + 3y – x + y = _____________________

(e) p × 4 × p × 3 × q = ____________________

(f) 16f 3g × 3f 2g2 = ______________________

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QUESTION FIVE (3 marks) QUESTION SEVEN (6 marks)
The Algebra Takeaways shop has a letter for Factorise (write with brackets) the following:
every food item.
(a) 4n + 12 = _____________________

(b) 5a – a2 = _____________________

(c) 24p2 – 18p = _____________________

QUESTION EIGHT (7 marks)

Solve the following equations.
(a) n – 4 = 8 (b) 2n + 3 = 17

(c) 16 – 4n = 4 (d) 5n + 4 = 3n + 10
For example, if somebody orders 2 fish and 3
scoops of chips, the order is 2f + 3c.
(a) The next order is 2p + h + c. What will the
order cost?

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QUESTION NINE (5 marks)
(b) A school orders the same things for 20
(a) A cat miaows 12 times per day and another 3
people. The order is written as
times when petted. If the cat miaowed 21
20(h + 2f) times today, how many times was it petted?
How could the order be written without the
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brackets? (Do not give the cost of the order).
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(c) What would 6(c + 2d) cost? (b) 2 years ago, Gene’s mother was 4 times his
age. Now, she is twice as old as he will be
____________________________________ in 11 years’ time. How old is Gene?
QUESTION SIX (6 marks)
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Expand the following sets of brackets.
Simplify if possible.
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(a) 4(p + q) = __________________________
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(b) 10(2n – 1) = __________________________
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(c) 6(d + 3) + 2(2d + 1)
QUESTION TEN (3 marks)
= _____________________________________
Give the next two terms in each of the following
sequences:
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(a) 7, 10, 13, 16, _______ , _______
(d) x(x + 2) – 3(4x + 6)
(b) 11, 7, 3, -1, ______ , _______
= _____________________________________

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(c) 3, 5, 9, 15, _______ , ________
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QUESTION ELEVEN (8 marks) QUESTION TWELVE (3 marks)
Give the coordinates of the points labelled
A to E

(a) Complete the table to show how many lines

are used in each figure.

Number of base Number of short line

triangles (x) segments (y)
1
2 7
3 11
4 A = ___________ B = ______________
5 C = ___________ D = ______________
(b) Describe the pattern: Every time a triangle
is added, another E = ___________
__________ line segments are added. QUESTION THIRTEEN (4 marks)
(c) Write a rule for the pattern linking x and y

y = ______________________
(d) Plot the values from the table as points on
the graph below.

Ricardo rode to his friend’s house. He waited for

x (c) How long did he wait for his friend?
(e) If I have 43 short line segments, how many
base triangles are in the pattern?
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his friend to get ready.
Then they cycled together to school. Ricardo’s
journey is shown on the grid.
(a) How far is it from his friend’s house to
school?
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(b) How fast did he ride to his friend’s house?
________________________
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(d) How long did it take him to get to school
from home in total?
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 Measurement QUESTION TWO (9 marks)
Read the scales and give sensible units for each
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QUESTION ONE (8 marks) (a) These scales have been used to weigh a
A triangular sandwich is made with pieces of small dog.
bread that are halves of rectangular slices.

(a) What is the perimeter of one of the triangular

pieces of bread?

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(b) If you butter one triangular piece on one side The dog weighs _________________.
only (like the sandwich above), what area
have you spread butter on? (b) A student measured the width of his thumb-
tip. The width is indicated on this ruler.
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(c) The sandwich in the picture is 6 cm high.
What is the volume of the sandwich?
The thumb is ___________________ wide.
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(c) Convert these metric units.
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(d) The sandwiches are delivered to a café in this (i) 470 cm = _________________ m
box. What is the volume of the box?
(ii) 1.3 L = __________________ mL

(iii) 586 mm = _______________ cm

(iv) 532 g = _________________ kg

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(v) 48 mL = _________________ cm3
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QUESTION THREE (5 marks)
(e) How many triangular sandwiches could fit in 2
(a) In this grid, every square is a m . What is the
the box? Show your working. area of the floor plan (shaded area)?
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Area =
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QUESTION THREE CONTD QUESTION FIVE (8 marks)
(b) Here is a different floor plan. Find the area
and perimeter of this floor plan.
This can is missing
its label!
It is 18 cm high and
has a radius of 6 cm.

(a) What is the area of the missing label?

(i) Perimeter ____________________________________

_________________________________ ____________________________________

_________________________________ ____________________________________
(ii) Area (b) What is the base area of the can?

_________________________________ ____________________________________

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(c) Work out the volume of the can.
QUESTION FOUR (6 marks)
(a) Find the area of the following shape. ____________________________________
6 cm
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5 cm 7 cm
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11 cm (d) The can is laid on its side and rolled 4

complete turns. How far has it been rolled?
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(b) Find the unshaded area inside the rectangle.
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QUESTION SIX (3 marks)
_______________ (a) Convert 3.35 hours to hours and minutes.
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20cm ____________________________________
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(b) If I start running at 10:17am and it takes 193
_______________ minutes to finish the course. What time will
_______________ I finish?
(i) 12-hour time______________________
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10cm
(ii) 24-hour time______________________
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 Geometry (c) There were no invariant points in both of the
transformations in part (a) and (b). Where would
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the shape have to have been to create invariant
QUESTION ONE (4 marks)
points?
For each of the following designs
(i) Draw in all lines of symmetry
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(ii) State the order of rotational symmetry

(a) _______________________________________

(d) Translate the shaded object by vector  5 

 
 3 
Label the points A’’’ B’’’.

Rotational symmetry = ______________

(b) QUESTION THREE (5 marks)
State the size of the missing angle in each
diagram, giving geometric reasons.

(a)

Rotational symmetry = ______________

B = ________________
QUESTION TWO (7 marks)
Because _____________________________

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A B

(b) C = ________________

Because _____________________________

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(a) Reflect the shaded object in the line n.
Label the points A’, B’.

(b) Rotate the original shaded object 90o

clockwise about point P. Label the points
A’’, B’’.

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QUESTION FOUR (4 marks) QUESTION SIX (6 marks)
On the figure below: N

This is part of a map of Timaru.

 Label an acute angle with an A (a) You turn right from Elizabeth St onto Le
 Label an obtuse angle with a B Cren St. You then take the second turn to the
 Label two angles that would add to 180 right. Where are you now?
degrees as C and D
 Label two angles that have to be the same ____________________________________
size as each other E and F
(b) Name a street that runs NW to SE
QUESTION FIVE (3 marks)
Calculate the size of the angle marked “A”. ____________________________________
(a)
(c) You are staying at Sefton Homestay Bed and
Breakfast. You head West on Sefton St, take
the first turn left, turn left again at the next
intersection, turn right at the next intersection
A = ___________________ and finally left at the next intersection.
Where do you end up?
(b)
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X
(d) Write a set of directions for how someone
41̊ could get to Seaview Terrace from the
Elizabeth Court Guest House.
X
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X = ___________________
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(c)
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The acute angle is________________

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QUESTION SEVEN (6 marks) QUESTION EIGHT (2 marks)
N
2cm
2cm
4cm
2cm
a) Name the 3D shape formed from this net.

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b) How many faces are there?

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c) How many vertices are there?
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d) How many edges are there?
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e) Use the measurements above to accurately
draw the net of the shape.
a) Measure the bearing of Otorohanga from
Rotorua.
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b) Measure the bearing of Thames from Kaitaia.
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QUESTION NINE (2 marks)

Top Front Side

(right)

Above is the plan view of a shape. Use these

views to make an isometric drawing of the shape.

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Statistics & Probability
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QUESTION ONE (6 marks)
Hemi’s maths teacher brought packets of mini
biscuits for the whole class! Before they could
eat them, they had to count the number of
biscuits in the pack. Here is a dot plot of the
results.
(a) How many people are there in the class?
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(b) What was the mode number of biscuits in a
packet?
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(c) Describe one feature of the distribution of the
data.
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(d) Find the median.
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(e) Calculate the mean
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QUESTION TWO (5 marks)
Hemi’s class carry out an experiment. They bake
chocolate chip biscuits using the same recipe,
except for changing the amount of sugar they put
in each time. They then choose 10 random
students to give the biscuits a rating from 1-10 for
taste. This graph shows the average taste rating
plotted against the sugar content.
(a) Describe the relationship between the amount
of sugar in the biscuit and the taste rating.
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(b) Nobody in the class made a batch of biscuits
with 210g of sugar in it. Predict what rating
biscuits from a batch with that much sugar
would have had.
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(c) Suggest a way that students at the school could
be randomly chosen.
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(d) What amount of sugar should the class
recommend to someone who wanted to use this
recipe and make the biscuits taste as nice as
possible?
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QUESTION THREE (4 marks) (a) What type of junk food was the most popular
with those surveyed?
A cup contains 1 red button, 4 green buttons and
5 purple buttons. A button is chosen from the
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cup and its coloured is recorded.
What is the probability that the button: (b) If 50 students were surveyed, how many of
(a) will be green, them said that chocolate was their favourite
junk food?
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(b) will be red or purple,
(c) If the graph is drawn correctly, what angle
_______________________________________ should the Chippies section have?
(c) will not be red. ______________________________________
_______________________________________ (d) Based on the pie chart, what is the probability
of a student’s favourite junk food being:
Liz carried out a probability experiment. She (i) Lollies.
used the cup containing the buttons as described
above. She selected 2 buttons each time and put _______________________________________
them back. Liz did this 50 times and got the
following results. (ii) Hot chips or Bagel crisps.
Outcome Frequency
2 buttons same colour 16
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2 buttons different 34 QUESTION FIVE (3 marks)
colours A coin and die are thrown at the same time.
Complete the table of possible outcomes.
(d) Using Liz’s experimental data, calculate the
probability that the 2 buttons will be the same Coin Head (H) Tail (T)
Die
colour. 1

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QUESTION FOUR (5 marks)
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Following the biscuit sales, Hemi’s teacher got
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the class to carry out a survey to see what type of
“junk foods” the students at the school actually 6
liked best. Here are the results of the survey:

(a) What is the probability of getting a head and

an odd number?

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(b) What is the probability of getting an even
number with head or tail?

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