Numeracy Practice Test 1-270 (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 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 95. Taxi company A charges \$1.40 per kilometre while Taxi company B charges \$1.55 per kilometre.How much do you save by using Taxi company A, if you travel 20 kilometres? a) $1.50 b) $3 c) $4.50 d) $5 None Question 202.Isabella bought a watch for \$4,000.Three years later she had sold it for \$4,800.What percentage profit did she make? a) 8% b) 12% c) 16% d) 20% None Question 181. It costs $2.10 to send a 50 g letter from Australia to New Zealand. Select the stamps that would be found on the envelope. a) A, B & D b) B, C & D c) A, C & D d) A, B & C None Question 31.Peter works as a window cleaner.To calculate the price of a cleaning job he must charge for several areas of his work: $20 per hour for his labour The cost of materials used GST, which is 10% of the total A job takes Peter 4 hours and he uses $10 worth of materials.How much should he charge for the job? a) $78 b) $86 c) $92 d) $99 None Question 214. Regina has a part time job at a newsagency. Her pay rate depends on the day and time she works. Her pay is shown in the table below: Last week, Regina worked from 3 pm to 9 pm on Thursday and 9 am to 1 pm on Sunday. What was Regina’s total pay for last week? a) $146 b) $134 c) $128 d) $112 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 109. Joseph is looking for a holiday home to rent for 7 nights. He finds one that: Charges $150 per night Has a cleaning fee of $120 Wifi for $8 per night A repayable bond of $300 if there is no damage to the home. What is the total cost of his holiday rental if there is no damage to the home? a) $1,182 b) $1,226 c) $1,410 d) $1,526 None Question 50. When Lola was in Bali she needed to exchange Australian (AUS) dollars to Indonesian Rupiahs (Rp). The exchange rate is: If Lola wants at least 1 million rupiahs for her holiday expenses, how many Australian dollars should she exchange? a) $10 b) $100 c) $500 d) $1000 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 94. A rectangular prism is cut in half and forms two cubes. The original prism had 6 faces and 12 edges. How many faces do the two cubes have combined? a) 2 b) 6 c) 12 d) 14 None Question 90. Noah wants to save for a new motorbike. He spends 75% of his wage and is left with $300 to save per week for the motorbike. What is Noah’s wage per week? a) $600 b) $800 c) $1,000 d) $1,200 None Question 66. This graph shows the average daily power usage of a family home over 2 years. Approximately, which season had the largest difference in power usage between the two years? a) Summer b) Autumn c) Winter d) Spring None Question 120. Layla cooks a lamb roast in the oven for 2 1⁄2 hours and then leaves it in the oven for another 1⁄4 of an hour to cool slightly. What is the total number of hours that the lamb roast was in the oven? a) 2.5 hours b) 3 hours c) 2.75 hours d) 3.25 hours None Question 204. Common microwave ovens heat food at frequencies near 2.45 GHz (Gigahertz). 1 Gigahertz represents 1 billion cycles per second. 1 Hertz represents 1 cycle per second. What is 2.45 Gigahertz when converted into Hertz? a) 245,000,000,000 Hertz b) 24,500,000,000 Hertz c) 2,450,000,000 Hertz d) 245,000,000 Hertz 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 16. Tim wanted to record a movie on TV. He set his DVD recorder to start recording at 9:45pm and finish at 11:20pm The movie started at 9:45pm and finished 2 hours and 5 minutes later. How many minutes of the movie were not recorded? a) 55 minutes b) 43 minutes c) 30 minutes d) 10 minutes None Question 7. The length of a piece of timber is 2.4 metres. Jordan cuts it to a length of 2,150 millimetres. What length did Jordan remove? a) 20.3 mm b) 242.65 mm c) 250 mm d) 300 mm None Question 212. Eli was living and working in Auckland, New Zealand. He had family all over the globe; from Perth to Johannesburg to New York. One evening Eli wanted to call his cousin in New York. It was 8:15 pm in Auckland. He didn’t call, as he realised, that the time in New York was 2:15 am. Eli called his cousin the next day at 11 am Auckland time. What was the time in New York when he called his cousin? a) 5 am b) 5 pm c) 7 am d) 7 pm None Question 33. Joseph needs to buy ice-cream for a children’s party. He can make 12 ice-creams from 2 litres. He needs to make 60 ice-creams for the party. How many litres does he need to buy? a) 3 Litres b) 5 Litres c) 8 Litres d) 10 Litres None Question 200. This picture is from a car fuel gauge. This gauge shows how much petrol is left in the petrol tank. The tank can hold 60 litres of petrol when full. Estimate how much fuel is left in the petrol tank. a) 60 L b) 45 L c) 30 L d) 15 L None Question 116. The Star Wars Films were not made in numerical (or episode) order. There was a 21 year difference in release dates between Episode IV: A New Hope and Episode I: The Phantom Menace. How many years have passed between Episode VI: Return of the Jedi and Episode I: The Phantom Menace? a) 20 years b) 18 years c) 16 years d) 15 years None Question 208. This die-cast model car is made to a scale of 1:50 If the diameter of the model car wheel is 1.25cm, what is the diameter of the full-sized car wheel? a) 6.25 cm b) 62.5 cm c) 625 cm d) 6,250 cm None Question 27. The frame around a rectangular painting is 10cm wide. The outside dimensions of the frame are as shown in the image below. What are the inside dimensions of the frame? a) 210 cm by 170 cm b) 210 cm by 180 cm c) 220 cm by 180 cm d) 230 cm by 190 cm None Question 270. Lamai was holidaying in Australia and she wished to send pictures and videos of her holiday back to family in Thailand. She decided to use one of the pre-paid mobile phone plans from a mobile company in Australia. Lamai was charged \$0.50 per standard international MMS (pictures) and \$0.75 for Standard international video MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service). If she sent 60 picture MMS and 70 video MMS, which expression would show the total cost in messages sent? a) (60 x 0.75) + (70 x 0.50) b) (60 + 70) x (0.50 + 0.75) c) (60 x 0.55) + (70 x 0.70) d) (60 x 0.50) + (70 x 0.75) 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 142. Georgie wanted to buy some new shoes. The shoes cost $60 a pair. When she went to pay for the shoes, the sales assistant said there was special deal for buying shoes. She could buy one pair of shoes and get ¼ off the price of the second pair of shoes. How much did Georgie pay for the two pairs of shoes? a) $105 b) $95 c) $60 d) $35 e) $15 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 160. Jack bought a new iPhone. It has a 128 gigabyte (GB) hard drive. He notices that 5% of the storage space is already used for the iPhone operating system. How much space is left on his new iPhone? a) 98.9 GB b) 105.6 GB c) 114.2 GB d) 121.6 GB None Question 240. Chiara is a local artist who was asked to paint a dog on a wall in a public space.Before she starts painting, she needs to figure out the size of the wall so she can get the proportions of her painting correct.The brick wall is 18 bricks high and 24 bricks long. Each brick is 20 centimetres high and 30 centimetres long.What is the height of the wall that Chiara is going to paint on? a) 260 cm b) 320 cm c) 360 cm d) 400 cm None Question 139.What are the correct expressions to show how much pizza Stan has? a) 2.6 b) 260% c) 23⁄5 d)14⁄5 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 39. Connor used Google maps to get directions to a friend’s house. The mobile device he was using showed the trip distance as 3000 metres. On the screen the trip distance measured 100 millimetres (0.1 metres). What was the scale of the map on Connor’s mobile device? a) 1 : 30 b) 1 : 300 c) 1 : 3,000 d) 1 : 30,000 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 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 169. Sam bought a 20 kg bag of chicken feed. He has used 3.5 kg and now has 16.5 kg left. If he takes out 700 grams, how much is left in the bag? a) 0.7 kg b) 7.7 kg c) 13.6 kg d) 15.8 kg 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 148.Ethan went to the local community fair. Whilst he was there he bought a wooden hand-made toy for \$14 and a painting for \$27.How much in total did Ethan spend? a) $32 b) $36 c) $41 d) $43 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 222. A delivery van has been parked in a loading zone for 38 minutesHow many minutes of parking time has the van got left? a) 102 minutes b) 32 minutes c) 28 minutes d) 22 minutes None Question 141 a.Bianca’s recipe for 10 banana muffins is:400g flour500g sugar2 eggs300g of banana20g baking sodaa) If Bianca wants to make 16 muffins, how much sugar does she need to use? Please select your answer a) 640g b) 700g c) 780g d) 800g Question 252. Jenny used this map when she visited Sydney. Her hotel was next door to the Sydney Hospital. Which one of the attractions listed was closest to her hotel? a) 360 view from Sydney Tower b) Hyde Park c) Captain James Cook’s Statue d) Captain Arthur Phillip Monument 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 172. The nutrition information on a flavoured milk carton is shown below: One serving size of the milk contains 19 g of protein. What amount of protein does 1000 mL of milk contain? a) 30.50 grams b) 31.66 grams c) 32.33 grams d) 34.66 grams None You’ve already answered some of the questions! Would you like to continue with quiz or restart it from beginning?
