Year 7 Mathematics

Common Assessment
Paper 2
Term 4, 2014
Time allowed: 45 minutes + 2 minutes reading time Student Number:______________

Directions to students:

 There are 3 sections (C, D and E).

 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 Topic Marks out of: Marks awarded:

C Angles 15

Measurement 25
D

Probability 15
E

TOTAL 55

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Section C Geometry 15 marks

Questions Answers
1 What is the size of the shaded angle?

70 °

12 ° 60 ° (A) (B) (C) (D)

A) 38
B) 48
C) 142
D) 52

2 Using the terms below, choose the best term to describe the following angles.

Revolution, obtuse angle, acute angle, reflex angle, vertically opposite angles,
corresponding angles, alternate angles, co-interior angles

a.)

b.)

c.)

d.)

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 Questions Answers
3 Which is true about an angle which measures
56° ?
A) It’s complement is 34o. (A) (B) (C) (D)
B) It is an obtuse angle.
C) It’s supplement is 134o.

D) It is a right angle.

4 What is the value of  ?

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

(A)   48
(B)   52
(C)   132
(D)   148

5 What is the value of  ?

6 z =?

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

A) 63
B) 72
C) 117
D) 144

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7 Explain why these lines cannot be parallel.

95º 95º

8 Consider this triangle and parallel lines:

Angle :________________

Giving a reason for your answer, name an
angle equal to ADC
Reason: _____________________
____________________________
____________________________
____________________________

(2 marks)
9 Use a protractor to measure Reflex angle ABC

B A

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10 Find the size of angle q .

11 The captain of a ship wants to make a large

change in direction. To do this gradually, he
turns the ship through 20o clockwise every 10
minutes. How many 20o turns are needed
before he has turned through a reflex angle?

A) 7 turns B) 9 turns C)10 turns D) 11 turns (A) (B) (C) (D)

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 Section D Measurement (25 marks)
Questions Answers
1 The most suitable unit to measure the distance of
your school from the centre of your city is:

(A) millimetres
(B) centimetres (A) (B) (C) (D )

(C) metres
(D) kilometres

2 In 2010 Anna measured her height as being 128cm.

By 2014 she had grown to a height of 1.65meters.
What was the increase in her height (in cm)?

3 Which feature is not shown on the circle below?

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

(A) A tangent.
(B) A diameter.
(C) A radius.
(D) A chord.

4 What is the perimeter of the shape shown?

Measurements are in metres.

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5 What is the perimeter of the shape shown?

6 Calculate the circumference of the circle below. Give

your answer to 2 decimal places.

9 cm

(2 marks)

7 Find the perimeter of the semi circle shown below.

Give your answers to 2 decimal places

140m
m

(2 marks)

8 Find the area of the shapes given below.

a.)
(a)

b.)
(b)

6m
m

6m

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10 The formula for Area of a parallelogram is A  b  h

What is the area of the parallelogram shown?

11 What is the area of this shape?

(2 marks)
12 A right-angled triangle has area 24 m2 and base
length 4 m. Its height is:

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13 ABCD is a square. The shaded area is 25cm2. What
is the perimeter of the square?

14. A circular athletics track has an inner

diameter of 127m. Approximately how
many laps of the track would be needed for
the 1 km walk?

127m
(A) (B) (C) (D )

(A) 2 laps. (B) 212 laps.

(C) 3 laps. (D) 312 laps.

15 How many minutes are there from 3:52 p.m. to

6:45 p.m.?

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16 Convert 0.3 hours into minutes

17 Convert 2.9 kg to grams.

18 Calculate the area of the shaded region in the

diagram

(2 marks)
19 How many tiles each measuring 10 cm × 10 cm are
needed to cover a floor 6 m × 6 m?

(A) 3600 (A) (B) (C) (D )

(B) 60 000
(C) 30 000
(D) 36

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20 A rectangular placemat has perimeter 40cm and area
96cm2. What are its length and breadth?

21 A rectangular garden 10 metres by 5 metres is

surrounded by a path 1 metre wide. What is the area
of the path?

10m
5m (A) (B) (C) (D )

(A) 11 m2
(B) 30 m2
(C) 34 m2
(D) 66 m2

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Section E Probability (15 marks)

Questions Answers
1. List the sample space for rolling a fair 6-sided
die.

2. Lisa is playing Bart in a game and needs to roll a

number greater than 4 to win. She is using a fair 6
sided die. What is the probability she will roll a
number greater than 4 and win?

3. Give an example of an event that has a

probability equal to 1.

4. Grandma has 40 lollies in her lolly jar. Twelve of

the lollies are fruit chews, ten are jelly beans, eight
are chocolates and the rest are mints.
Grandma puts her hand into the jar and picks a lolly
at random for her grand-daughter.
a.)
a.) What is the most likely lolly to be chosen?

b.) What is the probability that she chooses a mint?

b.)

c.) Which two lollies have the same probability

c.)

d.)
d.) Her grand daughter doesn’t like chocolate. What
is the probability Grandma chooses a lolly that her
grand daughter likes?

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5 During a tennis match, information on Doug’s
serve is recorded in the table shown.

Type of Fault Let Good Ace

serve
Number 25 2 50 13

What is the probability that Doug will serve an ace

on his next serve?

6. A Venn diagram has been drawn to show the

Sports played by the students in a class.

One student is chosen at random from the class.

a.) What is the probability that the student plays a.)

netball?

b.) What is the probability that the student does not b.)
play netball or cricket?

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7. The following two way table shows the ages and gender of the people at a barbeque.

Age Male Female Total

Greater 8 12 20
than 20
Less than 12 16
or equal
to 20
Total 28

a.) Complete the missing values in the table. (3 marks)

b) If a person at the barbeque is chosen at random, what is the probability that they are a
male whose age is greater than 20?

c.) If a male who was at the barbeque is chosen at random, what is the probability that he is
aged 20 or under?

END OF PAPER

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