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Middle Primary Division
Questions 1 to 10, 3 marks each
1. What is the value of 20 + 16?

(A) 24 (B) 26 (C) 36 (D) 9 (E) 216
2. Which of these numbers is the smallest?

(A) 655 (B) 566 (C) 565 (D) 555 (E) 556
3. In the number 83 014, the digit 3 represents

(A) three (B) thirty (C) three hundred
(D) three thousand (E) thirty thousand
4. My sister is 6 years old and I am twice her age. Adding our ages gives
(A) 14 (B) 15 (C) 18 (D) 20 (E) 21
5. Four of these shapes have one or more lines of symmetry. Which one
does not?
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
6. Two pizzas are sliced into quarters. How many slices

will there be?
(A) 2 (B) 10 (C) 6
(D) 8 (E) 16
MP 2
7. Will has a 45-minute music lesson every Tuesday afternoon after school.
If it begins at 4:30 pm, at what time does it finish?
(A) 4:45 pm (B) 4:55 pm (C) 4:75 pm (D) 5:00 pm (E) 5:15 pm
8. In our garage there are 4 bicycles, 2 tricycles

and one quad bike. How many wheels are
there altogether?
(A) 3 (B) 6 (C) 7
(D) 14 (E) 18
9. Ten chairs are equally spaced around a round table. They are num-
bered 1 to 10 in order. Which chair is opposite chair 9?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5
10. Lee’s favourite chocolates are 80c each. He has five

dollars to spend. How many of these chocolates can
he buy?
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8

11. The four digits 2, 3, 8 and 9 are placed in the +
boxes so that when both two-digit numbers
are added, the sum is as large as possible.
What is this sum?
(A) 175 (B) 67 (C) 156
(D) 179 (E) 121
MP 3
12. A circular piece of paper is folded in half twice and then a cut is made
as shown.

When the piece of paper is unfolded, what shape is the hole in the
centre?
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
13. Phoebe put her hand in her pocket and pulled out 60 cents. How
many different ways could this amount be made using 10c, 20c and
50c coins?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6
14. There are 5 red, 5 green and 5 yellow jelly beans

in a jar.
How many would you need to take out of the
jar without looking to make sure that you have
removed at least two of the same colour?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5
(D) 6 (E) 7
MP 4
15. A sailor coiled a rope on his ship’s deck,

and some paint was spilled across half
of it. What did the rope look like when
it was uncoiled?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
(E)
16. The students in Mr Day’s class were Sun hat colours

asked the colour of their sun hat. 7
The results are shown in the graph. 6
5
Mr Day chooses two colours which
4
include the hat colours of exactly half 3
of the class. 2
1
Which two colours does he choose?
0
(A) orange and black red orange black green yellow
(B) green and yellow

(C) black and yellow
(D) red and orange
(E) red and yellow
17. The sum of the seven digits in Mario’s telephone number is 34. The
first five digits are 73903. How many possibilities are there for the last
two digits?
(A) 6 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 9 (E) 10
MP 5
18. If the area of the tangram shown is 64

square centimetres, what is the area in
square centimetres of the small square?
(A) 32 (B) 24 (C) 16
(D) 8 (E) 4
19. By making just one fold on a rectangular piece of paper, which of the
following shapes is NOT possible?
(A) (B) (C)
(D) (E)
20. In this diagram there are four lines with three

circles each. Place the numbers from 1 to 7 into
the circles, so that each line adds up to 12. Which
number must go into the circle at the centre of
the diagram?
(A) 7 (B) 6 (C) 5 (D) 4 (E) 2

21. Four hockey teams play each of the other three teams once. A win
scores 3 points, a draw scores 1 point and a loss scores 0 points. Some
figures in the following table are missing. How many points did the
Hawks get?
Played Win Draw Loss Points

Eagles 3 3 9
Hawks 3
Falcons 3 0 1
Condors 3 0 2 1
(A) 1 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 10

MP 6
22. In this grid you can only move downward, going P

from point to point along the lines shown.
One route from P to Q is drawn in.
How many different routes are there from P to Q?
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 6
(D) 8 (E) 12 Q
23. I have five coloured discs in a pile as shown.

red
I take the top two discs and put them on the blue
bottom (with the red disc still on top of the green
blue disc). yellow
Then I again take the top two discs and put orange
them on the bottom.
If I do this until I have made a total of 21
moves, which disc will be on the bottom?
(A) red (B) blue (C) green (D) yellow (E) orange
24. A zoo keeper weighed some of the animals at

Melbourne Zoo. He found that the lion weighs
90 kg more than the leopard, and the tiger
weighs 50 kg less than the lion. Altogether
the three animals weigh 310 kg. How much
does the lion weigh?
(A) 180 kg (B) 150 kg (C) 140 kg (D) 130 kg (E) 100 kg
MP 7
25. Jane and Tom each have $3.85 in coins, one of each Australian coin.
They each give some coins to Angus so that Tom has exactly twice as
much money as Jane.
What is the smallest number of coins given to Angus?
10 2
cents 50 dollars
cents
20 1
5 cents
cents dollar
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 6 (E) 8
For questions 26 to 30, shade the answer as a whole number

from 0 to 999 in the space provided on the answer sheet.
Question 26 is 6 marks, question 27 is 7 marks, question 28 is
8 marks, question 29 is 9 marks and question 30 is 10 marks.
26. With some 3-digit numbers, the third digit is the sum of the first two
digits. For example, with the number 213 we can add 1 and 2 to get
3, so the third digit is the sum of the first two digits.
How many 3-digit numbers are there where the third digit is the sum
of the first two digits?
MP 8
27. In a family with two sons and two daughters, the sum of the children’s
ages is 55.
The two sons were born three years apart, and the two daughters were
born two years apart. The younger son is twice the age of the older
daughter.
How old is the youngest child?
28. From this set of six stamps, how many ways

could you choose three stamps that are con- A B
nected along their edges?
C D E F
29. A class has 2016 matchsticks. Using blobs of modelling clay to join
the matches together, they make a long row of cubes. This is how
their row starts.
They keep adding cubes to the end of the row until they don’t have
enough matches left for another cube. How many cubes will they
make?
30. Mary has four children of different ages, all under 10, and the product
of their ages is 2016. What is the sum of their ages?

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Middle Primary Division

Questions 1 to 10, 3 marks each

1. What is the value of 20 + 16?

2. Which of these numbers is the smallest?

3. In the number 83 014, the digit 3 represents

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

6. Two pizzas are sliced into quarters. How many slices

8. In our garage there are 4 bicycles, 2 tricycles

10. Lee’s favourite chocolates are 80c each. He has five

Questions 11 to 20, 4 marks each

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

14. There are 5 red, 5 green and 5 yellow jelly beans

15. A sailor coiled a rope on his ship’s deck,

16. The students in Mr Day’s class were Sun hat colours

(B) green and yellow

18. If the area of the tangram shown is 64

(A) (B) (C)

20. In this diagram there are four lines with three

Questions 21 to 25, 5 marks each

Played Win Draw Loss Points

(A) 1 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 10

22. In this grid you can only move downward, going P

23. I have five coloured discs in a pile as shown.

24. A zoo keeper weighed some of the animals at

(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 6 (E) 8

For questions 26 to 30, shade the answer as a whole number

28. From this set of six stamps, how many ways

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