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Living Maths Test Book 2

Living Maths Test Book 2 contains written interim (mid book) tests and multiple choice final (end of book) tests for core books 3A, 3B, 4A and 4B. It also contains multiple choice summative tests for 3A/3B combined and 4A/4B combined.

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Living Maths Test Book 2, pages 36 - 39

LIVING MATHS 4A INTERIM TEST [Covers Exercises 1 to 33]

1. Complete the following:

(a) 2½ years = _______ months (b) 8 weeks = ______ days

2. Write in 24h time:

(a) 7:15 a.m. (b) 8:47 p.m.

3. How many hours and minutes elapse between these two times:

9:40 a.m. and 2:15 p.m.

4. Complete these problems:

(a) 3h 20 min (b) 6h ÷ 5 =

x 4

5. Over the holidays Holly works for 5 hours 20 minutes each day on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday of the first week, for 6 hours 45 minutes on Tuesday of the second week and for 8 hours 10 minutes on Friday of the second week.

(a) What is the total length of time Holly works?

(b) If she gets paid $5.70 per hour, what will she earn for this work?

6. A plane leaves Sydney at 8 a.m. Sydney time and arrives at Perth airport at 11 a.m. Perth time. If Sydney is two hours ahead of Perth, how long was the plane trip?

7. Work out the shortest distance from Adenton to Bolden in this network.

8. Write this number using digits:

Two hundred and four thousand and eight five

9. The sales on three different items are shown in this table:

(a) How many packets of chips were sold over the four weeks?

(b) Which week had the greatest sales of Fruit Drink?

(c) If Pizzas were $3.99, Chips were $1.20 and Fruit Drink was $1.85, what was the total value of sales in Week 3?

10. Write the next three numbers in these sequences:

(a) -22, -17, -11, -4, ____, ____, ____

(b) 2, 6, 18, 54, ____, ____, ____

11. Find the answer for these:

(a) [(8 + 2) x 3] ÷ 6 = (b) (15 - 3)² - 8 x 5 =

12. Complete:

103 x 27 = 100 x 27 + ______ x ______

13. Round these numbers:

(a) 6.2571 to two decimal places =

(b) $20 ÷ 3 to the nearest 5c =

14. Complete these conversions:

(a) 0.06 kL = _________ L (b) 1540 mm = _________m

(c) 4 m² = ________ cm² (d) 0.7 kg = ___________ g

(e) If 1 mile = 1.61 km and 1 km = 0.62 miles, convert:

40 miles = ________ km

15. Write the value on the scale for each point here:

A = _____ B = ______ C = ______ D = ______

16. Brooke is paid $9 per hour for working at a stock feed company.

(a) How much would she be paid for working 6½ hours?

(b) For overtime Brooke gets paid time and a half.

What rate of pay would that be?

(c) If Brooke works 30 hours normal time plus 6 hours time and a half in one week, how much would she earn?

(d) If Brooke earns $240.65 one week and her employer takes out 29% tax, how much money would Brooke get paid after tax?

17. Owen buys a car priced at $14 500 on hire purchase.

(a) If he has to pay 20% deposit, how much deposit is this?

(b) How much will he still owe after paying the deposit?

(c) If he makes payments of $310 per month for 4 years, how much will his repayments total?

(d) How much extra does he pay for the car using hire purchase?

18. On one day of the year four cities recorded the following temperatures:

(a) Which city had the lowest minimum?

(b) Which city had the lowest maximum?

(c) How much warmer was Washington's maximum than Kiev's?

(d) Which city had a 10° range in temperatures?

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