Mathematical Reasoning

Year 6_Term 1_Holiday_Week 2 Maths

Selective High School Placement Practice Test

Mathematical Reasoning

INSTRUCTIONS

Please read these instructions carefully. 

You have 40 minutes to complete 35 questions in this test.

For each question there are four possible answers. Choose the one correct answer.

You will not lose marks for incorrect answers, so you should attempt all questions.

Calculators and dictionaries are not allowed.

Please fill the details below to start the quiz.

 

 

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1. Determine the result when you add the quotient of sixty divided by three to the product of eight and the difference between seven and two, and then subtract the product of four and three.

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2. A store currently sells an item with a discounted price that is two thirds of original price. After adding a ten percent goods and services tax, the final price is $110.

What is the original price number?

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3. A motorcyclist covers a certain distance in 1 hour 45 minutes minutes at a constant speed. If his average speed were increased by five kilometers per hour, he would have completed the journey in 1 hour and 30.

What was his original speed?

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4. In a survey, 40 students took part in at least one of two activities: drama and sports. 22 students participated in drama and 28 in sports, with 14 students involved in both. If a column graph is drawn with one column for only drama and one for only sports, what is the difference between the number of students participating exclusively in sports and those exclusively in drama?

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5. In a family, the total of the ages of the father and his two children is sixty years. Five years ago, the father’s age was twice the combined ages of his two children at that time.

What is the father’s current age?

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6. Mark has 5 different pairs of shoes and 3 different hats. Laura has 4 different pairs of shoes and 4 different hats. Each person can create an outfit by choosing 1 pair of shoes and 1 hat.

Who has a larger number of possible outfits, and by how many?

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7. Four containers hold different amounts of juice:

  • Container A: 2 L 320 mL
  • Container B: 750 mL
  • Container C: 1 L 890 mL
  • Container D: 0.55 L

If these volumes are combined, what is the average volume per container? Express your answer in liters (L) and milliliters (mL).

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8. In a bag containing 84 marbles, there are three colors: blue, red, and green. The number of blue marbles is 20 less than the number of red marbles. If the probability of drawing a blue marble at random is 2/7, how many green marbles are in the bag?

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9. A rectangle has a perimeter of 100 cm, and its length is 3 times its width. The rectangle is divided into four smaller congruent rectangles (same shape and size) by drawing one line parallel to its length and one line parallel to its width.

What is the perimeter of one of the smaller rectangles?

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10. When an even number is divided by 12, what are all the possible remainders?

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11. Five different numbers are chosen from the numbers 4, 7, 9, 11, 12, and 15.
They are then added together.

Which of the following statements is correct?

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12. Emma is thinking of a quadrilateral. The quadrilateral has:

  1. No parallel sides
  2. Two sides of 6 cm and two sides of 9 cm
  3. Exactly two right angles
  4. One diagonal is longer than the other

How many lines of symmetry does Emma’s quadrilateral have?

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13. A farmer has a bag of seeds to plant in a field. The field has four sections.

  • He plants 1/3 of the seeds in the first section.
  • He plants 1/2 of the remaining seeds in the second section.
  • He plants 1/4 of the remaining seeds in the third section.
  • He has 10 seeds left, which he plants in the fourth section.

How many seeds were in the bag at the start?

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14. A bag contains discs of three colours: red, blue, and yellow. There are 4 more blue discs than red discs, and there are twice as many yellow discs as red discs. The bag contains a total of 40 discs. One disc is selected at random.

What is the probability that the disc selected is blue?

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15. At a café, three items are sold: a sandwich, a salad, and a smoothie. Their prices are marked on the menu exclusive of GST (Goods and Services Tax, which is 10%). Unfortunately, some of the prices have been torn off. However, you are given the following information (all totals below are inclusive of GST):

  • A sandwich and a smoothie cost 8.80 dollars together.
    • A salad and a smoothie cost 7.70 dollars together.
    • A sandwich, a salad, and a smoothie cost 11.55 dollars together.

What is the total cost (including GST) of a sandwich and a salad?

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16. A supermarket offers five pack sizes of almonds at the following prices:

Option Pack Size Price
A 2 kg $18.00
B 750 g $6.75
C 450 g $4.95
D 1.2 kg $11.28
E 3.2 kg $26.88

Which option gives the best deal per kilogram?

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17. Two monuments are 12 km 45 m apart. However, a map maker mistakenly records the distance between them as 45 km 12 m.

What is the difference between the actual distance and the incorrect distance (in metres)?

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18. The time in New Delhi is 5 hours and 30 minutes ahead of the time in London. The time in Vancouver is 8 hours behind the time in London.

When it is 7:15 AM in Vancouver, what time is it in New Delhi?

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19. Liam, Mia, and Noah have some stickers. Liam has 6 times as many stickers as Mia, and Noah has 2 times as many stickers as Mia. If Liam has 24 more stickers than Noah, what is the missing number in the sentence
“Liam has ____ times as many stickers as Noah”?

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20. An arrow is initially facing south west. It makes 76 quarter-turns clockwise, then 55 quarter-turns anti-clockwise, and finally 89 quarter-turns clockwise.

In which direction is the robot now facing?

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21. A father’s age is a two‐digit number. When the digits of his age are reversed, the new number is 36 greater than his actual age. In addition, the product of the two digits of his age is 12.

What is the ones digit of his age?

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22. Marcus and Jordan play a game using a spinner divided into four equal sections labeled 1, 2, 3, and 4. They play 12 rounds. In the game, Marcus’s final spins (after any re‐spins to avoid ties) are: two 1s, four 2s, three 3s, and three 4s. Meanwhile, Jordan’s final spins are: three 1s, three 2s, four 3s, and two 4s. In each round the higher number wins and no round ends in a tie.

What is the maximum amount of rounds which Marcus could have won?

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23. A drag race event sold a total of 600 tickets in one week, all on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. On Tuesday, it sold two‐thirds as many tickets as on Monday. On Wednesday, it sold half as many tickets as on Tuesday. On Thursday, it sold 150 tickets.

How many tickets were sold on Monday?

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24. Which of these numbers is closest to the value of

(1/3 + 2/5 + 3/7) divided by (1/2 – 1/8)?

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25. Five friends live in houses along a long straight road in the following order: Alex, Bella, Chris, Diana, Ethan.

It is known that Alex’s house is 350 meters from Chris’s and 950 meters from Ethan’s. Bella’s house is located between Alex’s and Chris’s, and she lives 1.5 times as far from Alex as she does from Chris. In addition, Bella and Diana are exactly the same distance from Chris’s house.

How far does Diana live from Ethan’s house?

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26. Arnold is thinking of a whole number. If he multiplies his number by 7 and then subtracts 2, the result is less than 100. Also, if he multiplies his number by 5 and then adds 8, the result is greater than 60. There is more than one number Arnold could be thinking of.

What is the sum of all of the numbers he could be thinking of?

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27. A container of flour is used in a bakery. When the container is 3/4 full, the flour and container together weigh 350 grams. When the container is 1/4 full, they weigh 190 grams.

What is the total weight of the container and flour when the container is 5/8 full?

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28. A ferry runs between two islands, Eastport and Westhaven, on the following schedule:

Eastport to Westhaven:
Depart 06:45 → Arrive 07:30
Depart 09:10 → Arrive 09:55
Depart 13:25 → Arrive 14:10
Depart 17:40 → Arrive 18:25

Westhaven to Eastport:
Depart 07:50 → Arrive 08:35
Depart 10:20 → Arrive 11:05
Depart 15:15 → Arrive 16:00
Depart 18:50 → Arrive 19:35

Emma takes the third ferry from Eastport to Westhaven and returns on the next available ferry.
How long does she spend in Westhaven before returning?

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29. In triangle ABC, ∠A is 50° and ∠B is 60°.

What is the size of ∠C?

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30. Alice has some marbles. She can share them equally among:

Her best friend
Her two best friends
Her three best friends
Her four best friends
Her five best friends

Whichever way of sharing she chooses, there will be no marbles left over.

What is the smallest number of marbles Alice could have?

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31. A large square has an area of 900 square centimetres. A smaller square is created by reducing each side to one-third of the original length.

After that, a second smaller square is created by reducing each side of the first smaller square to one-half of its length.

What is the area of the second smaller square?

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32. A freight train is moving at 108 km/h and overtakes a bus traveling at 72 km/h in 24 seconds.

How much more has the faster train moved compared to the slower bus during that time?

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33. In a restaurant, the same amount of vegetables must be chopped each day. On Monday, Ramiro works alone and starts chopping at 8:45 am, finishing at 9:30 am. On Tuesday, Naomi works alone and starts at 8:30 am, finishing at 9:00 am. On Wednesday, they work together starting at 8:40 am, and both work at the same rate as on their individual days.

At what time do they finish chopping the vegetables on Wednesday?

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34.

The blue line graph illustrates the population growth of ants in a new habitat over 12 days, while the red line graph depicts the population growth of maggots over the same period.

Which species experienced a greater percentage increase between day 1 and day 9, and by how much percentage did it exceed the other?

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35. A car, a motorcycle, and a bicycle are racing on a circular track that is 2 kilometers long. The car travels at 80 km/h, the motorcycle at 72 km/h, and the bicycle at 48 km/h. They all start at the same time from the same starting point.

After how many minutes will they all be back at the starting point together?

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