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ICAS Mathematics Practice Questions Paper A © EAA 2 1. This is John’s birthday cake. How many candles are on his cake? (A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 8 2. In the game below, Rita can only move along the lines, one dot at a time. START FINISH What is the least number of moves Rita can make to get from START to FINISH? (A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 3. Here is a group of shapes. (A) (B) (C) (D) Which other shape could belong to this group? (A) (B) (C) (D) 4. Lim makes toy cars. Each car has 4 wheels. How many cars can he make using these wheels? (A) 6 (B) 8 (C) 12 (D) 24

ICAS Mathematics Practice Questions Paper A © EAA 3 END OF PAPER P 5. These five counters are overlapped and arranged into a row. The area covered by the five counters is 31 units. Two counters are taken away. The area covered by the remaining three counters is 19 units. What is the area of one counter ? (A) 4 units (B) 5 units (C) 6 units (D) 7 units

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ICAS Mathematics Practice Questions Paper A © EAA QUESTION KEYSOLUTION STRANDLEVEL OF DIFFICUL TY 1 CCor rectly count the candles. Ther e are   7 candles on the cak e. Number and  Arithmetic Easy 2 DMoving fr om one dot to the ne xt counts as  one move. T wo south-west and four south- east moves (or four south-east and two south- west) ar e the minimum r equired to get fr om  ‘ST ART’ to ‘FINISH’. Space and  Geometry Easy 3 BThe set consists of shapes that ar e triangles.Space and  Geometry Easy 4 ATher e are 24 wheels. Each car needs four  wheels. Divide 24 by 4 to work out the number  of cars Lim can mak e.   24 divided by 4 equals 6. Number and  Arithmetic Easy 5   DAr ea of five counters – Ar ea of three counters  = 31 − 19 =12 (Ar ea of two counters) Ar ea of thr ee counters – Ar ea of two counters  = 19 − 12 = 7 (Ar ea of one counter) Measur ement Hard Level of difficulty  refers to the e xpected level of difficulty for the question. Easy  more than 70% of candidates will choose the cor rect option Medium  about 50–70% of candidates will choose the cor rect option Medium/Har d  about 30–50% of candidates will choose the cor rect option Har d  less than 30% of candidates will choose the cor rect option