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Who is the current Prime Minister of Australia
Anothony Albanese
At sunrise the temperature is 5 degrees.
At midday the temperature is 25 degrees.
Which one of these calculations can be used to work out how many degrees warmer it is at midday than at sunrise?
a) 25 - 5
b) 25/5
c) 5 - 25
d) 5 + 25
a) 25 - 5
Douglas starts walking due East.
He makes a quarter turn right and keeps walking.
Then, he makes a quarter turn right again and stops.
What direction is Douglas now facing?
a) North
b) South
c) East
d) West
d) West
A rectangular garden bed is 6 meters long by 3 meters wide.
The garden is filled with soil to the height of 50 centimetres.
How many cubic meters of soil are used to fill the garden bed?
9 square meters
A family washes 9 loads of laundry each week.
A typical load of laundry weighs 6 kilograms.
Here is some information about two different washing machines.
washing machine | Amount of water (L) per kg of laundry
Top loader | 11. 5
Front loader | 5.25
How many liters of water would the family expect to save in a week by using the front loader instead of the top loader?
337.5 L
Anne downloads a film.
It should take 12 minutes to download the film completely.
Anne loses her internet connection when 2/3 of the film has downloaded.
How many more minutes are needed to complete the download?
a) 1/3 of a minute
b) 4 minutes
c) 8 minutes
d) 11.33 minutes
b) 4 minutes
In Devonport, there are 30604 people.
Each day, the average person uses 173 liters of water.
Which of these gives the best estimate for the total number of liters of water used in Devonport each day?
a) 30 000 x 200
b) 30 000 x 100
c) 30 000 / 200
d) 30 000 / 100
a) 30 000 x 200
Time makes 10 fruit cakes to sell on a cake stall.
Each cake uses 1/4 kg of fruit.
After he makes each cake, he counts how much fruit he uses in total.
1/4, 1/2, 3/4, 1, 5/4, 6/4, ...
What is the last number he will count?
a) 3
b) 2 and 3/4
c) 2 and 1/2
d) 2 and a 1/4
c) 2 and 1/2
Alice eats a sandwich and a bag of chips at lunch.
- The sandwich contains 2/5 of Alice's recommended daily salt intake.
- The bag of chips contains 1/4 of her recommended daily salt intake.
In total, what percentage of her recommended daily salt intake does Alice eat at lunch?
65%
What year was the Sydney Olympics
2000
Jo buys a value box containing 6 packs of sultanas.
She pays with a $5 note.
She gets 20 cents change.
How much does each packet of sultanas cost?
80 cents or $0.80
What symbol is the save button on word
Floppy disc
Finish the lyric:
Guess you didn't mean what you ........
you wrote in that song about me
A wheel has a diameter of 30 cm.
Which of these is the closest distance the wheel will travel after 2 complete rotations?
a) 60 cm
b) 94 cm
c) 188 cm
d) 377cm
e) 1414 cm
c) 188 cm
A large can contains 450 grams of soup and costs $1.85.
A small can contains 330 grams of the same soup and costs $1.45.
How many cents cheaper, per 100 grams, is it to buy a larger can of soup rather than a small can of soup?
Give your answer to one decimal place.
2.8 cents
Paul is buying headphones.
Some of the headphones are on sale.
Select the headphones that will be the cheapest.
a) $13, not on sale
b) $25, sale: take 50% off
c) $15, sale: take 10% off
d) $16, sale: take 25% off
d) $16, sale: take 25% off
The table below shows the cost of hiring a bicycle for different numbers of hours
number of hours 1 2 3 4 5 6
cost in dollars 40 50 60 70 80 90
Select the answer that shows how to calculate the cost of hiring a bicycle.
a) $10 for every hour plus an extra $30
b) $10 for every hour plus an extra $40
c) number of hours plus $10
d) number of hours multiplied by $40
a) $10 for every hour plus an extra $30
A school set up a new sport club.
In the first week, 8 girls and 7 boys went to the club.
In the second week, another 2 girls and some more boys joined the club.
The number of boys in the club was now double the number of girls.
How many boys joined the club in the second week?
13 boys
A pizza restaurant has a delivery service.
To estimate the time that the delivery should take, the manager uses the formula t = 6 + 2d.
where t is the time in minutes and d is the delivery distance in kilometers.
Select ALL the statements which are true.
a) A 3km delivery should take 29 minutes
b) Every extra kilometer travelled adds an extra 2 minutes onto the delivery time.
c) Every extra kilometer doubles the total delivery time
d) All deliveries take at least 6 minutes.
b) Every extra kilometer travelled adds an extra 2 minutes onto the delivery time.
d) All deliveries take at least 6 minutes.
A the entrance to the harbour there are two lights.
A red light flashes every 5 seconds.
A green light flashes every 7 seconds.
The red light and the green light both flash together at 7 am.
How many more times will the lights both flash at the same time in the next 3 minutes?
5 times
A copier prints 1200 leaflets.
1/3 of the leaflets are on yellow paper and the rest are on blue paper.
There are smudges on 5% of the blue leaflets.
How many blue leaflets have smudges?
40 blue leaflets
This stem and leaf plot shows the number of children who played at the park each day for the last 2 weeks.
Children at the park
0 | 6
1 | 7 8 9
2 | 1 3
3 | 5 5 9
4 | 8 9
5 | 2 3 6
On how many days were there at least 40 children in the park?
5 days
A 50 -cent coin is composed of copper and nickel in the ratio of 3:1.
A 50-cent coin weighs 15.55 grams.
How many grams of copper are in the 50-cent coin?
Answer to 2 decimal places.
11. 66 grams
What percentage of nuts do squirrels lose they have hidden.
80%
Suki makes a regular hexagon from six identical triangular tiles.
Each tile has an area of 3.9 cm2.
Suki then adds more tiles to make the hexagon with double the side length of the hexagon.
What will be the area of this larger hexagon?
a) 7.8 cm2
b) 23.4 cm2
c) 46.8 cm2
d) 93.6 cm2
d) 93.6 cm2