Numeracy Practice Test 1-290 (Extra time) Show session ID Load QuizSave Quiz Welcome to the OLNA Support Numeracy Practice Test (Extra Time) Each question will be multiple choice There will be 4 answers to select from Select the correct answer Click next to begin! Question 161. This bathroom scale shows Jeremy’s weight in kilograms. Which of these values is the closest to the weight shown on the scales? a) 60 kg b) 65 kg c) 69 kg d) 70 kg None Question 185. A survey of 100 people was taken at a bakery. Those 100 people were asked to give a response to the following question: “Do you like chocolate muffins?” 60% of the people surveyed said “yes” 1⁄5 of the people surveyed said “no” The rest of the people surveyed said “sometimes” How many people surveyed said “no” to the question? a) 60 b) 30 c) 25 d) 20 None Question 203.Lottie works at a recycling collection factory.She is paid \$238 for every 1000 plastic bottles sorted.She also received a bonus of \$821 if she sorts over 10,000 plastic bottles in the week.If Lottie sorted 18,000 plastic bottles in a week, which is the best estimate of the amount she earned? a) 800 + (200 x 10) b) 800 + (300 x 10) c) 800 + (200 x 20) d) 800 + (300 x 20) None Question 1. Fred used this tray to make muffins.If he filled the tray 3 times, how many muffins would Fred make? a) 42 b) 28 c) 36 d) 45 None Question 44. Daisy uses her measuring cups quite frequently when cooking. Their sizes are 1⁄2 cup, 1⁄4 cup, 1⁄3 cup, and 1⁄8 cup. What size is Daisy’s largest cup? a) 1⁄2 cup b) 1⁄4 cup c) 1⁄3 cup d) 1⁄8 cup None Question 232. At a children’s party, a game of pass the parcel was played with a toy as the final prize. 12 children played the game and all 12 children could be picked multiple times. 8 rounds were played and 8 children got minor prizes. 4 children hadn’t won a prize yet. What chance do each of the four children have of winning the final prize? a) 1 in 2 b) 1 in 4 c) 1 in 6 d) 1 in 12 None Question 199. Peter owns a self-storage facility in an industrial area. He is creating new units that have floor dimensions of 3 m by 3 m. The total floor space available for storage units is 540 m2 What is the largest number of units he can create? a) 60 b) 54 c) 36 d) 27 None Question 234. Ed drives a special delivery service from Perth to Bunbury once a week. The average time for his one-way drive from Perth to Bunbury is 1 hour and 50 minutes. His average speed is 90 km per hour. Which expression gives the distance, in kilometres, of Ed’s delivery run? a) 90 + (0.50 x 90) b) 90 + (0.83 x 90) c) 90 + 0.50 d) 90 + 0.83 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 92. A plane flight left from Melbourne to Perth. The time of departure in Melbourne was 10:00 and the flight arrived in Perth at 14:00. Melbourne time is 2 hours ahead of Perth time. If the distance flown was 2,720 kilometres, what was the approximate average flying speed of the plane? a) 398 km/h b) 453 km/h c) 512 km/h d) 576 km/h 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 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 197. Wyatt and Anton are playing a game of Battleship, a grid guessing game. Anton has set up his ships in the format below. Wyatt has the first turn and calls out the first grid location of (E, 5) which is a miss. On Wyatt’s second turn he calls out the next grid location of (C, 7). What ship does he hit? a) Carrier b) Battleship c) Submarine d) Patrol Boat None Question 67 b.At the end of the trading day a newsagency has a number of notes in the till. They are:b) $43.75 was collected in coins; in total how much was collected altogether (notes + coins)? Please select your answer a) $475.75 b) $476.75 c) $477.75 d) $478.75 Question 2. The table below shows the attendance for the Perth Wildcats at Perth Arena from 2013 to 2016. The West Australian Newspaper reported the attendance rounded to the nearest thousand. In 2015, what attendance did the West Australian Newspaper report? a) 161 000 b) 154 000 c) 150 000 d) 155 000 None 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 226. A father and his young son were watching a West Coast Eagles and Fremantle derby at Optus Stadium. The son asked his father what the green and red zones on the screen meant. The father explained that the green zone represented a goal worth 6 points and the red zone represented a behind worth 1 point. At the end of the game the winning team kick 9 goals and 8 behinds. How many points did the winning team kick, as their final score? a) 80 b) 62 c) 55 d) 48 None Question 20. Laura’s computer has a 720-gigabyte (GB) hard drive The hard drive is 80% full. How much space is left on the hard drive of Laura’s computer? a) 70 GB b) 72 GB c) 144 GB d) 288 GB 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 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 254.Across different cricket leagues, the weight of cricket balls varies according to who is using them. The different types of balls are: Men’s cricket ball = 156g Women’s cricket ball = 140g Junior’s cricket ball = 133g Indoor cricket ball = 114g Chris plays with the second heaviest ball. Which league is Chris playing in? a) Women’s league b) Indoor league c) Junior league d) Men’s league None Question 262. The table below details the different number of phones sold over a week in an electronics store. What percentage of the phones sold were Samsung phones? a) 75% b) 50% c) 33% d) 25% None Question 119. During the summer time in Australia, NSW switches to Daylight Savings Time. This means that Sydney would be 3 hours ahead of Perth. What is the time in Perth, if it is 15:45 in Sydney? a) 11:45 b) 18:45 c) 17:45 d) 12:45 None Question 102. Charlie had 5 tests this week. His results are in the table below. What percentage did Charlie score in his S + E test? a) 36% b) 64% c) 68% d) 71% None Question 237.Charlotte was listening to the Queen Greatest Hits Disc One whilst on the train.She was approximately 20 minutes away from her destination and she was wondering if she could get through the first 5 songs on disc one.What is the total playing time for the first 5 songs? a) 19 minutes and 33 seconds b) 18 minutes and 17 seconds c) 18 minutes and 51 seconds d) 17 minutes and 48 seconds 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 29. Jenna wants to fertilise her backyard lawn. The lawn is a rectangle shape, 5 m by 8 m. The instructions on the fertiliser bag are: How many handfuls of fertiliser will Jenna need? a) 12 handfuls b) 16 handfuls c) 22 handfuls d) 30 handfuls None Question 69. You have 4 Masters Choc milk containers. Each has 600 mL of Choc milk in them. You are sharing the Choc milk with 5 friends. You have five 450 mL glasses to share the milk with. How much milk would you have left over after filling those 5 glasses? a) 50 mL b) 100 mL c) 150 mL d) 200 mL None Question 93.A bobcat driver has to estimate the volume, V, of sand in a pile for removal.The pile forms a cone shape, 4 metres across the base and 1.5 metres high.Using the formula in the box, which of these answers is the best estimate of the volume of the sand pile? a) 35 m3 b) 21 m3 c) 13 m3 d) 6 m3 None Question 158. A cricket sight screen is used so a batsman can see the cricket ball clearly as it comes out of a bowler’s hand. Sight screens are rectangular in size, mostly 4 m by 5 m and are placed at the edge of the oval behind the bowler’s run up. What is the area of the 4 m by 5 m sight screen in square centimetres (cm2)? a) 200,000 cm2 b) 185,000 cm2 c) 160,000 cm2 d) 144,000 cm2 None Question 60. Luke was checking how much space he had on his computer before he tried to install a computer game on his hard drive. This is what he found: Movies: 325 GB Apps: 90 GB Audio: 75 GB Photo’s: 10 GB Free space ?? GB The size of Luke’s hard drive is 1 TB (terabyte). As a percentage, how much free space was available on Luke’s hard drive? a) 40% b) 45% c) 50% d) 55% None Question 247. Stephen plays for a professional sporting club. He can be remunerated (paid) in several different ways: A weekly wage of $2,000 A game payment of $1,000 A bonus payment of $20,000 if he is the highest scoring player in his team at the end of the year. If Stephen worked for 52 weeks of the year, played 14 games and was also the highest scoring player at the end of the season, how much did he earn? a) $112,000 b) $118,000 c) $127,000 d) $138,000 None Question 15.A petrol station is selling unleaded petrol at $1.96 per litre.Sam arrives and fills his Four Wheel Drive car with 100 litres of unleaded petrol.Sam has a fuel discount voucher for 4 c per litre.How much does Sam pay for his tank of fuel? a) $190.60 b) $191.40 c) $192.00 d) $196.40 None Question 70. A runner is starting to train for a long distance event. The runner runs a 5.6 km course 4 times a week and also runs on the weekend. The total distance for the week is 35 km. What is the distance run on the weekend? a) 14.3 km b) 12.6 km c) 10.9 km d) 8.9 km None Question 22. Sam paid $72 for 1.2 kilograms of fish. How much did the fish cost per 100 grams. a) $6.60 per 100g b) $6.00 per 100g c) $0.66 per 100g d) $0.60 per 100g None Question 253. Phoenix bought some bulk boxes of Kleenex tissues for her business. If she bought 6 bulk boxes, how many small tissues boxes did she get? a) 24 b) 48 c) 66 d) 72 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 162. Josh’s results in a javelin throwing contest are shown below. Ordered from the shortest throw at the top of the list to the longest throw at the bottom, what is the correct order of his throws? A B C D None Question 43.Lola wants to go on holiday to Bali.She saves 25% of her wage to pay for the holiday and is left with $1,500 for other expenses.What is Lola’s wage? a) $1,600 b) $1,850 c) $2,000 d) $2,250 None Question 98. David is on a construction job. He charges $60 per half hour or part thereof. On Wednesday he was on the job for 5 ½ hours, on Thursday he returned for 3 ½ hours, and he finished the job on Friday with 50 minutes of work. How much did he charge for the job? a) $780 b) $920 c) $1,060 d) $1,200 None Question 144. A triangular pyramid has three edges on its base and three edges reaching to the apex of the pyramid. This gives a total of 6 edges for a triangular pyramid. A square pyramid has four edges on its base and four edges reaching to the apex of the pyramid. This give a total of 8 edges for a square pyramid. How many edges would a hexagonal pyramid have? a) 5 edges b) 9 edges c) 12 edges d) 14 edges None Question 201. Jensen is installing laminate flooring in his dining room. He needs to purchase an extra 10% of the flooring to allow for wastage when it is being installed. His dining room area is 16 m2. What is the total amount of flooring Jensen needs to order? a) 1.6 m2 b) 14.4 m2 c) 17.6 m2 d) 20.8 m2 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 285. A tap is leaking water at a rate of 5 millilitres per minute. To the nearest litre, how much water has leaked from the tap in 24 hours? a) 7 Litres b) 6 Litres c) 9 Litres d) 8 Litres None Question 288. A bank offers a simple interest rate of 1.5% per year on a term deposit. If you deposit \$8,000 into that term deposit for 2 years, how much total interest will you earn? a) $240 b) $280 c) $310 d) $340 None You’ve already answered some of the questions! Would you like to continue with quiz or restart it from beginning?
