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Year 7 Mathematics Common Test

Term 1, 2015
Time allowed: 50 minutes + 2 minutes reading time

Directions to students:

There are 2 sections.

Answer all questions on the question paper.
All answers worth one mark unless indicated.
Questions worth more than one mark should show working. (Marks are awarded
for working.)
NO calculators to be used.
Diagrams in the geometry section are not drawn to scale

Section Topic Marks out of: Marks awarded:

A Number Skills(allow 30
35
minutes for this section)
B Angles (allow 20 minutes
25
for this section)
TOTAL 60

Areas I was pleased with. Area/s that require further

revision

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Section A: Number skills (35 marks)

Questions Answers
1. Write the number for four hundred and fifty
thousand and ten.

2. What is the sum of 5 and 7?

3. What is the product of 5 and 7?

4. Write the numeral for

2 1000 3 100 2 1

5. 526 +97 =

6. 1283 8

1216 4

20 300

9. Which of these values of ? makes this

Circle the correct answer: A, B, C or D
number sentence true?
3 ? 21

A. 5 A B C D
B. 6
C. 7
D. 8

10. Write the following numbers in order from

smallest to largest:

47 513, 45 731, 45 317, 47 314,

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11. In Mathtown, the population was

215 684. What is this population rounded
to the nearest thousand?

12. Write 3 3 3 3 3 in index form

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13. Evaluate: 2

14. Which is equal to 10 6 ?

2 2

Circle the correct answer: A, B, C or D

2
A. 4
2
B. 5 A B C D
2
C. 7
2
D. 8

15. 80 2 5

4 (7 4) 9 3 2
16. =
A. 12
B. 13 A B C D
C. 16
D. 20

17. (15 3) (25 4)

18. Increase the square of 4 by 3

19. Evaluate 64

20. Which number is prime?

A. 51
B. 53 A B C D
C. 55
D. 57

21. Express 34 as the sum of two prime

numbers

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22. Use a factor tree to write 120 as a product

of its prime factors.

(2 marks)
23 (a) List all the factors of 40 (a)

(b) List all the factors of 24 (b)

(c) What is the highest common factor? (c)

(3 marks)
24.Kevin is putting up some tents for Year 7
students.
Each tent needs 8 pegs. He has 100 pegs. What
is the maximum number of tents he can put up
with 100 pegs?

(2 marks)
25.There were 22 people at a party.
The cost was $24 per person, plus $40 extra for
the cake.
Which of these shows how to calculate the
total cost of the party in dollars?
A B C D
A. (40 24) 22
B. (22 24) 40
C. 22 24 40
D. 22 40 24

26. A tennis tournament has 64 players. Two

people play each other. If only the winner of
each match continues in the competition, how
many matches must be played to obtain the
winner of the tournament?

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(2 marks)

27. Students are lined up in order.

Every third student is female.

Every eighth student is studying physics.

There are 100 students in the queue.

(2 marks)
How many female physics students are

there?

28. Find the smallest four digit number such

that
the number of tens plus the number of
hundreds equals the number of
thousands and
the number of ones is half the number
of tens and
the number of ones is one more than
the number of hundreds.

(2
marks)

End of Section 1

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Section B Angles (25 marks)

Questions Answers
1. 1 Use your protractor to measure the size of
each angle.
(a) (a)

(b) (b)

(2 marks)
2. Mark CED with a

3. What is the size of the angle drawn?

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4. Write down the complement of 50.

5. An angle of 270 is

A. acute
B. obtuse A B C D
C. reflex
D. right

6. Find the value of a

7. Find the value of b

8. Find the value of c

9. Find the value of d

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10.

m and n are alternate angles. True or False?

11. From the diagram below, name an angle that is

(a)
(a) corresponding to p

(b) alternate to q (b)

(c) cointerior to z (c)

(3 marks)
12. Which statement is true for the following
diagram?
A. aand b are complementary angles
B. a and d are vertically opposite
angles
C. b and d are
revolutionary angles A B C D
D. a and b are

supplementary angles

13. Find the value of x

14. Explain
120 what is meant by

(a) 2 lines being perpendicular. (a)

(b) points being collinear (b)

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( 2 marks)
15. Which statement is true?

A. p 74 and q 74
o o

B p 74 and q 106
o o

C p 106 and q 74
o o

D p 106 and q 106

o o

A B C D

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16. Three equal angles form a complete revolution.

What is the size of each angle?

17.

What is the size of APC ?

.
18. If the minute hand on a clock rotates through
270, how many minutes have passed?

19.

Are the lines AB and CD parallel? Give a reason for

your answer.

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20.

21.

A B C D

In the diagram, how are m and n always related?

A. m n 90
o

B. m n 180
o

C. m n 360
o

D. m n

END OF PAPER

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