NAPLAN Questions

Exercise 1.16
1 Calculate each of the following:
a) 4.27×103 b) 4.27×106 c) 4.27×109

2 5.163+2.734 is closest to:

a) 3 000 b) 30 000 c) 300 000

3 Which card below has the same value as:

25
a) b) c)
33 2×42 4×32

4 Solve for b in:

a) 2b = 16 b) 2b=64 c) 3b = 81

The Earth has a diameter of 1.3×107 m.

5 What is the value of: 3×104+6×103+2×102+4×101?

6 152 is between:
a) 150 and 200 b) 200 and 250 c) 250 and 300

7 Calculate each of the following:

a) 23−22 b) 33−32 c) 23+24

8 Which is the same as 32×32

a) 3×3×3 b) 3×3×3×3 c) 3×3×3×3×3

9 The area of a square is 64 cm2. What is the length of each side?

10 The area of a cube is 64 cm3. What is the length of each side?

11 Which is the same as 24×42

a) 26 b) 28 c) 210

12 Calculate each of the following:

25 34 104
a) b) c)
23 33 102

d) ( 4 )3 e) ( 16 )3 f) ( 3 8 )3

13 35 000 000 is the same as:

a) 3.5×106 b) 3.5×107 c) 3.5×108

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Exercise 2.13
1 Calculate:
a) ˉ5 + 2 b) ˉ3 + 2 c) 4 − ˉ2
d) ˉ3 × 2 e) 4 ÷ ˉ2 f) ˉ3 × ˉ4
g) 22 − 32 h) ˉ9 ÷ ˉ3 + 2 i) 12 ÷ (ˉ4 + 2)

A B
2 Estimate the value of A and B:

−3 −2 −1 0 1 2 3

3 Given: y = 8 − 2x find the value of y when x = 1.5

4 Find the value of: x2 + 2x + 4 when x = ˉ1

Mathematics is useful in
almost every career that
one can think of.

5 Arrange the following integers in ascending order:

a) 0, ˉ3, 1, ˉ2, 2 b) 6.7, ˉ6.7, ˉ7.6, 7.6

6 What are the coordinates of: y

a) A?
b) B? A
3
c) C? B 2
d) D?
1

-3 -2 -1 00 1 2 3 x
x coordinate first,
-1
y coordinate second. D
-2
C -3

+×+=+
7 What is the value of a3 − b3 when a = 1 and b = −1?
−×−=+
8 Find the value of 5b2 when b = −2
+×−=−
9 Solve for x: 3x + 5 = ˉ1
−×+=−
10 x + y = 1
xy = −20
What are the values of x and y that satisfy both equations?

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Exercise 3.20
1 If a = 3, what is the value of 6a?
3x
2 If x = 4, what is the value of 2 x − 2 ?
3 y = 8 − 3x, what is the value of y when x = 2.25?
4 What is the value of 6x − 2x2 + 75 when x = −1?
5 B = 3h2 What is the value of B when h = 25?
6 Given that T = 6n + 7500, what is n when T = 7650? One method is to
4q substitute values for x
7 P= , what is the value of r when P = 0.2 and q = 9?
15r until both expressions
8 25 x ∆ = 30 What is the value of ∆? are the same.
9 y = 2x + 5
y = 5x − 7 What value of x satisfies both of these equations?
10 y = 4x − 2
y = 2x + 8 What value of x satisfies both of these equations?
11 A rule for a pattern is multiply by three and then add 2. The first three numbers
of this pattern are: 5, 17, 53, ... What is the fifth number in this pattern?
12 A rule for a pattern is to add two and then multiply by 3. The first three
numbers of this pattern are: 9, 33, 105, ... What is the fifth number in this
pattern?

13 What is the value of a2 + b2 when a = 2 and b = −3?

14 What is the value of 4t2 when t = −3? 15 Expand: 3(4a + 1)

3(2x −1) + 3 + ? = 8x +5 What term makes this equation true for all values of x?

Left Hand Side = 3(2x – 1) + 3 + ?

= 6x – 3 + 3 + ?
= 6x + ? Thus need 2x + 5 to be equal to 8x + 5

16 2(2x − 1) + 6 + ? = 5x + 7 What term makes this equation true

for all values of x?
17 A number is multiplied by itself and then 5 is added. The answer is 14.
What is the number?
18 Two numbers added together equal 7. The two numbers multiplied together
equal 12. What are the two numbers?
19 Two numbers added together equal −3. The two numbers multiplied together
equal −10. What are the two numbers?

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Exercise 4.7
1 What is the probability of rolling a 4 on a six-sided die?

2 A jar of jelly beans contains jelly beans with the following colours: 30 black,
25 white, 25 red and 20 green.
What is the chance of picking a white jelly bean?

3 A bowl contains 25 red apples and 15 green apples. What is the chance of
choosing a green apple?

4 A bag contains 50 marbles of which 20 are red, the others are yellow. What is
the chance of picking a red marble from the bag?

5 A traffic light is amber and red for 30 seconds. The traffic light is green for 25
seconds. What is the probability that the traffic light is green?

6 There are 30 Australian stamps and 20 New Zealand stamps. What is the
probability of choosing an Australian stamp?

7 The following numbers are to be put into the stem-and-leaf plot below
45, 55, 57, 58, 59, 62, 67, 69, 70, 73, 73, 75. Which score is missing?

4 5
5 789
6 279
7 0335

8 Sienna spins the arrow 100 times. Which is the most likely table of results?
a) b)
Shape Number Shape Number
25 25
30 35
25 15
20 25

9 A coin is tossed twice. There are 4 possible outcomes. What is the probability
of getting 1 head and 1 tail in any order?

10 A coin is tossed 3 times. There are 8 possible outcomes. What is the

probability of getting 2 heads and 1 tail in any order?

11 Two dice are thrown. There are 36 possible outcomes. What is the probability
of getting two sixes?

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Exercise 6.10
1 1
1 What is exactly halfway between 1 and 2 ?
2 2
1 1
2 What is exactly halfway between 1 and 3 ?
2 2
3 1
3 What is exactly halfway between 1 and 3 ?
4 4
4 How much time between 5:30 am and 2:15 pm?
5 How much time between 6:12 am and 3:05 pm?
6 The bucket of potting mix contained three-quarters of a bucket of compost.
How much compost is needed to make 3 buckets of potting mix?

7 Find the value of:

a) 4.8 ÷ 0.4 b) 4 × (200 − 6) c) 45 − 24 ÷ 6
2
8 Write 3 as a vulgar fraction.
3
15
9 Write as a mixed numeral.
4
3
10 Write 5 as a decimal fraction.
4
3
11 Write as a percentage.
4
12 Estimate: 27 × 12 + 39 × 23

13 Estimate: 500

14 A bag has 15 red marbles and 20 blue marbles. What fraction

of the marbles are blue?
15 The pizza is cut into 12 equal slices. How many slices are left after two-thirds
of the pizza is eaten?
16 The painting contract returned $20 000. Labour and materials cost 50% and
30% of the remainder was paid in tax. How much was left?
17 Chloe completed 40% of the task on the first day and 40% of the remaining task
on the second day. What percentage of the whole task did Chloe complete on
the second day?
18 Which number has the largest value?
a) 1/5 b) 0.21 c) (0.4)2 d) 0.04

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Exercise 7.9
1 Which pair of the following shapes are congruent?
a)

A B C D

b)
A B C

2 The point P(2,5) is translated 3 units down P

and 4 units to the right. What are the new
coordinates of point P?

3 The point P(2,3) is reflected in the mirror

(the red line). What are the new P
coordinates of point P?

4 The point P(1,3) is rotated 90 clockwise

P
about O. What are the new
coordinates of point P?
O

5 SSS, SAS, AAS, and RHS are tests for congruent triangles.
What would be the test for congruent circles?

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Exercise 8.12
1 Find the mean (average) exercise time:
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
30 minutes 45 minutes 20 minutes 35 minutes 1 hour 10
minutes
2 Given the scores: 3, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 8, 10, 90
a) What is the mean, median, and mode?
b) What is the mean, median, and mode after 90 is removed?
c) Which is affected the most by removing 90, the mean, median, or mode?
3 a) Find the mean, median, and mode of the following: 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4
b) Is Mean > Median = Mode true?
4 Jack is spending five days work experience in the city. A return train ticket from
his relative's place to the city will cost $7.50 each day and a weekly ticket will
cost $25. What is Jack's daily saving if he uses a weekly ticket?
After 10 innings, the average number of runs per innings was 13.
After 15 innings the average number of runs per innings was 16.
How many runs were scored in the last 5 innings?
After 10 innings: After 15 innings:
total total
average = average =
no innings no innings

total total
13 = 16 =
10 15
total for 10 innings = 13×10 total for 15 innings = 16×15
= 130 = 240
No runs last 5 innings = 240 - 130
= 110
5 After 10 innings, the average number of runs was 16.
After 15 innings the average number of runs was 13.
How many runs were scored in the last 5 innings?

6 This frequency column graph was constructed

from 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4. Where is the mistake
in the frequency column graph?
7 Consider the faulty frequency column graph:
a) find the mean, median, and mode.
b) compare this with the original data set: 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4. What has
happened to the mean, the median, and the mode?
8 Given the scores: 6, 6, 6, 7, 7, 7, 50. Which central measure is affected the
most by removing 50: the mean, median, or mode?

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Exercise 9.12
1 The diameter of a circular table top is 1.7 metres. What is the circumference to
the nearest metre?
2 The circumference of a wheel is 2.3 metres. What is the radius of the wheel to
the nearest centimetre?
3 The area, A, of a circle is given by the formula A = πr2, where r is the radius.
When r = 4.6 cm, what is the area of the circle?
4 The area, A, of a circle is given by the formula A = πr2, where r is the radius.
When A = 90 cm2, what is the radius to the nearest centimetre?
5 The volume, V, of a cylinder is given by the formula: V = πr2h, where r is
the radius of the base of the cone and h is the height of the cone. What is the
volume of a cylinder with base radius of 5 cm and height of 7 cm?

The quarter circle shown has a radius of 40 cm.

a) What is the curved distance?
b) What is the perimeter?
40cm
Cquartercircle = πD÷4
= π×80÷ 4
= 62.83 cm

Perimeter = 40 + 40 + 62.83
= 142.83 cm

6 The quarter circle shown has a radius of 60 cm.

60cm
a) What is the curved distance?
b) What is the perimeter?

7 The tape was placed around the horse, exactly behind the front legs as required.
What is the weight of the horse?

8 The diameter of Jupiter is approximately 3 times the diameter of Neptune and

12 times the diameter of Venus. How many times larger is the diameter of
Neptune than the diameter of Venus?
9 The diameter of Jupiter is approximately 12 times the diameter of Venus and 21
times the diameter of Mars. How many times larger is the diameter of Venus
than the diameter of Mars?

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Exercise 11.12

1 William worked for 6 hours and was paid $22 per hour. How much did William
earn?
2 Isabella bought a box of 100 stamps for $65. What is the cost of 1 stamp?
3 The ratio of cattle to sheep is 1 : 4. If there are 20 sheep, how many cattle?
4 There is 45 kg of mortar. The ratio of cement to sand in the mortar mix is 1 to
4. How many kg of cement is in the mortar?
5 Cooper needs to travel by bus for 21 days in June. A daily ticket will cost him
$5.80 and a monthly ticket will cost him $109.20. What is his average daily
saving if Cooper buys a monthly ticket?
6 A bike priced at $220 was discounted by 20%.
What is the discounted price? Marbles Number
7 In 2010 there were 120 Year 12 Students. Red 4
48 of them were offered a place at a University. Orange 2
What percentage of students weren’t Green 3
offered a University place? Blue 8
8 What percentage of the marbles are white? White ?
TOTAL 20

Mixed fraction Vulgar fraction

9 Change 3 23 to a vulgar fraction. 2 23 8
3
111
10 Change 5 to a mixed fraction.
11 A cake has 3 blue candles and 9 white candles. What fraction of the candles are
blue?
12 A shortcut for adding GST (10%) is to multiply by 1.1. What would be the
shortcut for adding 20%? Use the shortcut to increase $4 by 20%
13 On Wednesday Chloe completed 70% of the project. On Thursday she
completed 50% of the remainder of the project. What percentage of the whole
project did she complete on Thursday (Assume 100 at the start of the project)?
14 The paddock grew 800 pumpkins. One-quarter of them were unsuitable for
market. 20% of the marketable pumpkins were exported. How many pumpkins
were exported?
15 If 1 Australian dollar buys 0.90 US dollars, how many US dollars could be
bought with 20 Australian dollars using this exchange rate?
16 The car uses 5 L of petrol per 100 km. How far would the car travel on $30 of
petrol at $1.50 per litre?
17 The distance from A to B is four times the distance from B to C. The distance
from A to C is 150 metres. What is the distance from A to B?

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Exercise 13.9
1 Find the mean (average) travelling time:
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
20 mins 25 minutes 20 minutes 15 minutes 1 hour
10 minutes

2 Given the scores: 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 6, 50

a) What is the mean, median, and mode?
b) What is the mean, median, and mode after 50 is removed?
c) Which is affected the most by removing 50, the mean, median, or mode?
3 a) Find the mean, median, and mode of the following: 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 4
b) Is Mean > Median = Mode true?
4 Sienna is spending five days with her sister in the city. What is Sienna's daily
saving if she uses a weekly ticket instead of a daily return ticket?

Return 1Week
$7.20 $22.00

5 Mia scored 16, 13, 8, 18 and 17 points in the first 5 games of the season. Mia
then scored 12 points in the sixth game. After including the sixth game, what
has happened to the:
a) mean? b) median? c) range?
Attack the question:
• Skim the question to get an overview.
• Reread carefully, underline key words and numbers.

6 Given the numbers: 1 3 3 4 5 6 8 find the

a) mean b) mode c) median d) range
7 Given the numbers: 21 23 23 24 25 26 28, find the
a) mean b) mode c) median d) range

3
2
1

$500k $600k $700k $800k

8 The graph shows a real estate agent's home sales for April.
a) Find the mean and the median.
b) The $800 000 sale fell through. Find the new mean and median.

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Exercise 16.11
1 What is the missing number? 4 × ? + 12 = 72
2 What is the next number in the following pattern?

×5−2 3, 8, 13, ?
3 How many matches in the 12th shape?
1 2 3

4 Write a linear model of the following plumber's fee:

Hours (h) 1 2 3 4
Fee ($F) 90 140 190 240
y
5 Write the linear model represented 5
by this graph. 4
3
2
1
x
-3 -2 -1 1 2 3
-1
-2
-3

6 Solve each of the following:

a) When a number is doubled and then 15 is added the answer is 23.
b) When a number is tripled and 9 subtracted, the answer is 24.
c) A number is squared and then added to 11 to give the answer 20.
What is the number?

7 What are the coordinates of B (AB = 5, BC = 4, CA = 3)?

y B

C A(4,3)

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Exercise 17.12
1 The total area of the blue rectangles
in the middle is 24 m2. What is the
total area of the rust rectangles?

2 Which of the following has the largest area?

a) b) c)

5m 5.3 m
7.2 m

6m 4.3 m
5.3 m
3 Either make or draw a diagram of what each of the following nets will make.
a) b) c)

4 A photocopier is used to enlarge a 4 cm by 5 cm photo. The photocopy is twice

as long and twice as wide. How many times larger is the area of the photocopy
compared to the area of the original photo?
5 Find the volume of a cone with radius 5 cm and height 7 cm.
πr 2 h
The volume of a cone is: V =
3

6 The area of a rectangle is 96 cm2 and the width is 8 cm.

What is the length of the rectangle?

7 What is the ratio of the area of the inner

blue square to the area of the larger rust square?

8 What is the area of the floor plan? 9 What is the area of the trapezium?

3a
4a 10
a
a
a 10 10 5

3a

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Exercise 18.9
1 What is the probability of rolling a 5 on a six-sided die?

2
O F O is the set of odd numbers less than 15.
F is the set of multiples of 5 less than 15.
What is the largest number that
belongs to O and F.

3 A jar of jelly beans contains 3 black, 2 white, and 4 green jelly beans.
What is the chance of picking a black jelly bean?

4 A traffic light is amber and red for 30 seconds and green for 25 seconds.
What is the chance that the traffic light is green?
Second Coin
5 A coin is tossed twice. There are 4 possible H T
outcomes. What is the probability of getting First H H,H H,T
1 head and 1 tail in any order? Coin T T,H T,T

Second Die
1 2 3 4 5 6
1 (1,1) (1,2) (1,3) (1,4) (1,5) (1,6)
6 Two dice are thrown.
2 (2,1) (2,2) (2,3) (2,4) (2,5) (2,6)
What is the probability of
3 (3,1) (3,2) (3,3) (3,4) (3,5) (3,6)
First Die

getting two sixes?

4 (4,1) (4,2) (4,3) (4,4) (4,5) (4,6)
5 (5,1) (5,2) (5,3) (5,4) (5,5) (5,6)
6 (6,1) (6,2) (6,3) (6,4) (6,5) (6,6)

7 When the class of 27 students went to PE,

18 students wore a hat and 15 students wore Hat Gym
gym shoes. How many students wore
a hat and gym shoes?

8 A survey of the class produced the following table.

What is the probability that a classmate with black hair has blue eyes?
Eye Colour
Brown Blue Other
Hair Black 7 4 3
Colour Blond 2 3 3
Other 2 3 1

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