Numeracy Practice Test 1-270 Show session ID Load QuizSave Quiz Welcome to the OLNA Support Numeracy Practice Test Each question will be multiple choice There will be 4 answers to select from Select the correct answer Click next to begin! Question 49.David needs to cut a piece of aluminium into a circle for a welding job.The aluminium is in the shape of a rectangle. One side is 66 cm and the other is 44 cm.What is the radius of the largest circle David could cut? 22 cm 24 cm 32.5 cm 44 cm None Question 53.A house was for sale for \$400,000.Three weeks later it was reduced by \$40,000Rhys bought the house for 1% less than the reduced price.How much did he pay for the house? a) $352,000 b) $355,600 c) $356,400 d) $360,000 None Question 21.Cathy uses her iPad timer when she gives her class 1 minute quick quizzes.According to Cathy’s iPad timer, there is 24 seconds remaining and 36 seconds have past. What fraction of the minute is left? a) 1/4 of the minute b) 2/5 of the minute c) 3/5 of the minute d) 1/12 of the minute None Question 206.Graeme worked as a carpenter’s apprentice.His boss had asked him to saw a wood cube in half for a specific join.His boss specified that the cube was to be cut vertically and across the diagonal as per the diagram.Which of the following is the shape of the cut wood? a) A b) B c) C d) D None Question 230.Recently a young skateboarder named Gui Khury in California was the first person to be able to perform a 1080-degree trick on a halfpipe — a trick in which the skater spins three full times in the air, 1,080 degrees. Before this accomplishment, the best skateboarding trick anyone has ever done was a 900-degree trick by Tony Hawk.When Tony Hawk performed his 900-degree trick, how many turns did he go through? a) 3 turns b) 2.5 turns c) 2 turns d) 1.5 turns None Question 265. A length of timber is 2100 millimetres long. Welsey cuts the length of timber into 7 smaller pieces. They are all the same length. What is the length in centimetres of each piece of timber? a) 300 centimetres b) 30 centimetres c) 3 centimetres d) 0.3 centimetres None Question 153.Isla has 3 bags of Snakes from The Natural Confectionery Company. There are 18 snakes in each bag. She wants to divide up the snakes in 5 bags for herself and her friends.If she divides up the snakes equally per bag, how many snakes are left over? a) 3 b) 4 c) 5 d) 7 None Question 246. Carrie was buying food for her daughter’s birthday party. She noticed that chocolate bars and boxes were on sale.A bar of chocolate was \$3 and a box of chocolates was \$5. She bought the same number of bars as boxes.If she paid with a \$50 note and got \$2 in change, how many bars and boxes did she buy altogether? a) 6 b) 8 c) 9 d) 4 None Question 264. Chicken eggs are farmed for human consumption. They are collected and sorted according to their weight. This is how many eggs a particular farm collected in one day: Eggs smaller than jumbo size were sent to packing shed B. How many of the day’s eggs were sent to packing shed B? a) 4,400 b) 5,900 c) 9,600 d) 12,000 None Question 68.Mark filled up 5 buckets of water and weighed each one. He wrote the weight on each bucket.If he goes to pick up the two heaviest buckets how many kilograms would he be holding in total? a) 16.622 kg b) 16.520 kg c) 16.502 kg d) 16.232 kg None Question 46.At the bottom of a DVD cover this information is shown:The run time for the movie is approximately 172 minutes.The length of the movie is closest to:Select the statement that is true. a) 2 hours b) 2.5 hours c) 3 hours d) 3.5 hours None Question 177. A map of Perth Airport’s runway network has a scale of 1 : 50,000On the map, the length of the main runway is 7 centimetres.What is the actual length of the main runway? a) 4,000 metres b) 3,500 metres c) 3,250 metres d) 3,000 metres None Question 36.Alex is painting his living room.He needs to buy: Drop sheets and paint materials worth $48 4 tins of paint which are $85 each, and Paint rollers, $8 per roller He wants to spend no more than $440 for these materials.What is greatest number of rollers he can buy? a) 3 rollers b) 5 rollers c) 6 rollers d) 8 rollers None Question 59.Max grew pumpkins in his backyard vegetable patch.When picking his pumpkins he noticed one was much heavier than the others.When he weighed the pumpkin it weighed 5.35 kilograms. The average of all the other pumpkins was 2.5 kilograms.How much heavier was the heavy pumpkin than the other pumpkins? a) 2.85 kg b) 3.05 kg c) 3.15 kg d) 3.45 kg None Question 77.Ethan wanted to estimate the length of a block of land.He counted 71 paces.Each pace was about 65 centimetres.The length of the block is closest to: a) 42 m b) 44 m c) 45 m d) 46 m None Question 223. Ava and her 5 friends went out for dinner.The total bill for the dinner was \$146.80.Ava was the only one to have a starter with her main meal.She paid \$16 for her starter and the rest of the bill was shared equally amongst the six of them.Which expression shows the total amount of money Ava paid for her dinner?The total amount Ava paid for her dinner is equal to: Please select your answer a) (146.80 – 16) ÷ 6 + 16 b) (146.80 + 16) ÷ 6 - 16 c) (146.80 + 16) ÷ 6 d) (146.80 – 16) ÷ 6 Question 18.At a beef farm, 90 cattle were moved out of the paddock and weighed. Cattle heavier than 660 kilograms were not returned to the paddock.How many cattle were not returned to the paddock? a) 61 b) 49 c) 25 d) 19 None Question 145.Logan went to the rugby with \$70.He bought three items and had \$22 in his pocket at the end of the game.Select the three items that Logan bought. a) A, B & C b) B, C & D c) A, C & D d) A, B & D None Question 137. Chris was laying reticulation pipe to water his garden. The length of each pipe was 2,400 mm. He had to buy 12 pipes for his system. What was the total length of all the pipes he had to buy in metres? a) 26.4 m b) 28.8 m c) 30.2 m d) 31.6 m None Question 54.Maddy is building a model Lego house. She has adapted the base of the Lego mat to suit her building.What is the area of the Lego mat that she is going to build on? a) 250 cm2 b) 300 cm2 c) 400 cm2 d) 500 cm2 None Question 106.A car is travelling at 1.5km/min on a Freeway.How fast is the car travelling in kilometres per hour? a) 80 km/h b) 87 km/h c) 90 km/h d) 102 km/h None Question 28.Darcy is the captain of the Devils cricket team.Before the game a coin is tossed to determine who is batting and who is fielding.Darcy has lost the toss in each of the last 4 games.What is the chance that he wins the next toss? a) Fifty – fifty b) Unlikey c) Likely d) Impossible None Question 132.A survey was taken on 150 people about what is their favourite sport to watch on television. The table below shows the results of that survey.Out of the 150 people surveyed, how many females watch AFL and BBL cricket as their favourite sports to watch? a) 47 b) 51 c) 56 d) 62 None Question 231.Last cricket season Brendan had a batting average of 40.This season he has increased his average by 15%What is his batting average for this season? a) 42 b) 44 c) 46 d) 50 None Question 38.A computer screen is a rectangle, 40 cm by 30 cm.What is the area of the screen in square metres (m2)? a) 12m2 b) 1.2m2 c) 0.12m2 d) 0.012m2 None Question 115.At the Perth Arena, Keanu sat in the light blue section of block 214. His friend Tim sat in the yellow section of block 204.Which of the following statements are true? a) Keanu sat in the adjacent block to Tim b) Tim is sitting near a stairway and exit c) Keanu sat right in front of the court d) Tim sat in the opposite block to Keanu Question 35.The graph below shows Sophie’s monthly budget.Sophie budgets $150 for food.How much does she budget for entertainment? a) $80 b) $100 c) $120 d) $160 None Question 48.Shane had to renovate his bathroom.He put a row of blue tiles at the bottom of the wall.Each tile was 5 centimetres in width.His wall was 5 metres in length, how many tiles did he use? a) 55 b) 80 c) 95 d) 100 None Question 224.Ezekiel was repairing a tap in his back garden.He used an adjustable spanner to tighten the garden tap onto the pipe fixing.Ezekiel placed his spanner in the position below:He rotated the spanner through a three-quarter turn clockwise.What was the position of the spanner after that rotation? a) b) c) d) None Question 218.Maia is looking to rent an apartment in Adelaide.She was researching the cost of a one-bedroom apartment and found five that she liked.The cost of rent for the week for the five apartments were:What is the median rental price of these 5 apartments? a) $310 b) $320 c) $350 d) $380 None Question 175. Grant has a water container that is 40cm high, 50cm wide and 60cm long.The surface of the water is 10 cm from the top of the container.If Grant wants to fill 2-litre water bottles for his friends to use on a hiking trip, how many bottles will he be able to fill using the water in the container? a) 45 bottles b) 43 bottles c) 38 bottles d) 35 bottles None Question 210. Bianca went to the petrol station of buy some diesel for her car.The price of diesel was 119.9 cents per litre.Bianca bought $36 worth of diesel.Roughly, how many litres of diesel did she buy? a) 10 L b) 25 L c) 30 L d) 38 L None Question 126.The Hawaii Ironman event is considered one of the most gruelling and challenging Ironman events in the world. The record for the fastest time completing the event was set in 2011 at 8 hours 3 minutes and 56 seconds.If the world record for finishing the race is at 3:03:56 pm, what is starting time of the race? a) 7:00 am b) 7:13 am c) 7:15 am d) 7:30 am None Question 219.Armani made a batch of home-made jam to sell at her local markets. She used a round cylindrical jar to sell the jam in.The dimensions of the jar were:Diameter = 5 cmHeight = 7 cmWhich expression would give Armani the closest amount of Jam she needs to fill the Jar? a) (π x 52 x 7) cm3 b) (π x 72 x 5) cm3 c) (π x 2.52 x 7) cm3 d) (π x 102 x 5) cm3 None Question 152. Gabriel went to the shop to buy some chewing gum. In one packet there were 14 sticks of gum. He bought 3 packets.How many sticks of gum did he have in total? a) 32 b) 36 c) 40 d) 42 None Question 87.You can buy soft drink from a shop in different ways. One 2 litre bottle will cost you $3.00 Two smaller 1.25 litre bottles for a total for $5 A box of twenty 350 millilitre cans for $16 When comparing the cost per litre, what is the correct order from the lowest to highest cost per litre? a) Two smaller bottles, one 2 litre bottle, a box of cans. b) A box of cans, one 2 litre bottle, two smaller bottles. c) One 2 litre bottle, two smaller bottles, a box of cans. d) Two smaller bottles, a box of cans, one 2 litre bottle. None Question 227.Chris owns a farm just South of Perth. He was on the Bureau of Meteorology website looking to gather some information on the likelihood of getting above the median rainfall on his farm.What is the chance that Chris will get above the median rainfall for his farm? a) Moderately likely b) Likely c) Unlikely d) Not at all likely None Question 24.Hannah has a part time job with a regular pay rate of $20 per hour.On Sundays her pay rate is 1.5 times the regular pay rate.Last week, she worked: 7 hours on Tuesday 5 hours on Wednesday and 3 hours on Sunday For her work last week, Hannah’s total pay should be? a) $300 b) $330 c) $350 d) $390 None Question 146.Thomas was looking at Perth City on google maps.He measured the straight-line distance between the WACA ground and Perth Arena to be approximately 3 centimetres.Thomas looked up the real straight line distance between WACA ground and Perth Arena. It is approximately 3 kilometres.What is the scale ratio of the google map that Thomas was looking at? a) 1 : 100 b) 1 : 1,000 c) 1 : 10,000 d) 1 : 100,000 None Question 103.Charlie had 5 tests this week. His results are in the table below.Which subject did he perform the best in? a) English b) Math c) Science d) S + E e) Information Technology None Question 228. During the Corona virus pandemic, the public transport capacity in cities around Australia were affected.Each was working at a lower capacity than in normal times.Which figure shows the greatest reduction in public transport capacity? a) Brisbane: 3/4 capacity b) Melbourne: 68% capacity c) Sydney: 70% capacity d) Adelaide: 2/3 capacity None Question 45.An electronics store has a sale on during the month of September.The sale started on the 9th and finished on the 27th. How many days were the electronic items on sale for? a) 17 days b) 19 days c) 21 days d) 22 days None Question 195. Mercy was looking at the Australian Bureau of Statistics website and noticed that almost 500,000 people regularly took the train to work. Out of the total population that uses some type of transport to work, this equals 5% of the Australian population traveling to a workplace.What is 5% expressed as a fraction? a) 5⁄10 b) 1⁄5 c) 5⁄100 d) 1⁄50 None Question 216.Fletcher is painting the exterior walls of his house.The paint comes in small (1 L), medium (4 L) and large (10 L) tins.A hardware warehouse is offering a “buy 2 medium tins and get 1 small tin free” special deal.Fletcher needs a minimum of 9 litres of paint.Which of the following will give him the lowest cost? a) One large tin b) 1 Special deal c) 3 Medium tins d) 2 small tins and 2 medium tins None Question 238.Western Australia is the largest iron ore supplier in the world, producing 39% of the global iron ore supply in 2018.An increased demand for iron ore across the world is projected to continue throughout this century.Table sourced from the WA government department of Jobs, Tourism, Science and Innovation.In the above table we can see iron ore demand from Asian countries. Approximately how many Megatonnes did China demand in 2011? a) 1200 Mt b) 1050 Mt c) 1000 Mt d) 900 Mt None You’ve already answered some of the questions! Would you like to continue with quiz or restart it from beginning? Submit a CommentYour email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *Comment * Name Email Website Δ
