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Year 7 Mathematics
Common Assessment
Paper 1
Term 4, 2015
Time allowed: 45 minutes + 2 minutes reading time

Directions to students:

There are 3 parts to complete.

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.)
Calculators are allowed

SECTION A: Measurement

Part Topic Marks out of: Marks awarded:

Length and Area 30

I

Time 10
II

Volume 10
III

50
TOTAL

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Part I Measurement (30 marks)

Questions Answers
1 Convert 6.5m to cm.

2 This ruler shows centimetres with millimetre

divisions. Read the scale to measure the marked
length, and give your answer in millimetres.

3 Find the perimeter of this rectangle.

4 What is the perimeter of this shape?

5 What is the name of the outer edge of a circle?

A) Perimeter (A) (B) (C) (D)

B) Diameter
C) Circumference
D) Sector
6 Write to 2 decimal places.

7 A regular pentagon has a perimeter of 120 m.

How long is each side?

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8 Arrange the masses 1.52t, 1.5kg and 15 200g

arranged in order from smallest to largest

9 Calculate the area of the triangle

10 Subtract 240m from 1.6km.

11 A square has an area of 25cm2. What is its

perimeter?

12 Calculate the circumference of the circle with

radius 4cm. Give your answer to 2 decimal
places.

13 Find the perimeter of the semi circle shown

below. Give your answers to 2 decimal place

140m
m

(2 marks)
14 A square has sides which are 0.9 m long. Its
area in square centimetres is:

A) 0.81 cm2 (A) (B) (C) (D)

B) 81 cm2
C) 810 cm2
D) 8 100 cm2

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15 A triangular playground covered in bark (shaded

region) is surrounded by grass in the backyard of a) What is the area of the playground?
a house in Roseville

b) What is the area of the grassed section?

c) The backyard grass needs fertilizing. If

fertiliser costs $3000 per square metre, how
much will it cost to fertilise the grassed
area?

16 On the grid, draw a triangle that has an area of

24 units2.

17 Given that the formula for the area of a

parallelogram is A bh , find the area of the
parallelogram below.

(A) (B) (C) (D)

(A) 1 600 cm2

(B) 2 400 cm2

(C) 3 200 cm2

(D) 4 800 cm2

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18 A triangle has area 18 m2 and base length 6 m.

Its height is:

19 Find the shaded area.

20 A trapezium has the dimensions shown.

What is its area?

(2 marks)
21 A circular pond in a park has a diameter of 18
metres. Jo runs around it 8 times.
How far does she run? (Answer correct to the
nearest metre.)

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22 A running track has the dimensions shown. The

track is made up of 2 semi circles and 2 straight
runs. What is the distance travelled in making
one lap of the track on the inside rail? Give your
answer to the nearest metre.

(2 marks)
23 A gift box has dimensions 30cm by 22cm by
15cm. If a ribbon is wrapped around this box as
shown using 25cm for a bow, what is the total
length of ribbon needed.

(2 marks)
24 Figure is a square. Inside this square
three smaller squares are drawn with the side
lengths as labeled. The area of the shaded L-
shaped region is

(A) (B) (C) (D)

(A) 3 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 15

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Part II Time (10 marks)

Questions Answers
1. How many minutes are in

2 2
h = __________min
3

3 Write the time of 5:45 pm in 24 hour time.

4 How many days in Spring?

A) 89 days
B) 90 days
C) 91 days (A) (B) (C) (D)
D) 100 days

5 A trip to work takes 45 minutes. What time must

I leave home to get to work at 8:30am?

6 Ms Selig trains the Roseville football team and

she sends them for 20 sprints in each training
session. If each sprint lasts for 20 seconds, how
many minutes and seconds do they spend
sprinting?

(2 marks)

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7 A T20 cricket match starts at 7:20pm and

finishes at 10:10 pm. What is the duration of the
match?

8 Heidi made a journey from Sydney to New

York. This is the breakdown of her journey:

Sydney to Honolulu 10 hours 38 minutes

Stopover in Honolulu 1 hour 35 minutes
Honolulu to New York 9 hours 2 minutes.

What was Heidis total journey time?

9 London is 10 hours behind Sydney. What time is

it in London when it is 6:00pm in Sydney?

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Part III Volume (10 marks)

Questions Answers
1 Which is a reasonable estimate for the amount
of soft drink in this normal sized can?
(A) 37 ml
(B) 375 ml
(C) 1375 ml
(D) 3750 ml

2 How many 250ml cups could be filled from a 2L

bottle of water?

3 What is the volume of a cube with sides

measuring 3 cm?

4 How many 1cm3 cubes are needed to build the

figure below?

5 A swimming pool holds 60 000L of water.

During a hot spell, 1800 L evaporated. How
many litres of water remained in the pool?

6 Pesila makes enough juice to fill a container

which has a volume of 2 500 cm3.
How many litres of juice is this?

(A) 2.5 L
(B) 25 L
(C) 250 L
(D) 2 500 L

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7 A rectangular tank is 1.5 m long, 1.2 m wide and

70 cm deep. What is the volume?

(2 marks)
8 A fish tank has the dimensions shown. When it
is partially filled with 45 000 cm3 of water, the
depth of water is d cm. What is the value of d?

(2 marks)

END OF PAPER

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