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1.On the number line shown, the marks are equally spaced. What number does the arrow point to?[3]
Text description of the figure
A number line with equally spaced tick marks. The leftmost tick is labelled 0 and the rightmost is labelled 60, with five unlabelled ticks evenly spaced between them. An arrow points to the fourth tick from the left.
A4
B24
C30
D40
E50
2.Today is Tuesday. What day of the week will it be in 100 days?[3]
AMonday
BTuesday
CWednesday
DThursday
EFriday
3.In the number 4073, what is the value of the digit 7?[3]
A3
B7
C70
D700
E4000
4.What is 1 + 2 + 3 + ... + 20?[3]
A190
B200
C210
D220
E420
5.Three quarters of a class of 28 travelled by bus. How many did not travel by bus?[3]
A4
B7
C12
D21
E24
6.What is the remainder when 7 to the power 100 is divided by 5?[3]
A1
B2
C3
D4
E0
7.The mean of five numbers is 12. One of the numbers is removed and the mean of the remaining four is 11. What number was removed?[4]
A1
B11
C12
D16
E23
8.24 pencils and 36 erasers are shared into identical gift bags, using every item. What is the largest number of bags possible?[4]
A4
B6
C12
D18
E72
9.Which of these numbers can be divided exactly by both 4 and 9?[4]
A96
B117
C132
D144
E153
10.What is the units digit of 7 multiplied by itself 2026 times, that is 7 to the power 2026?[5]
Ait cannot be found without a calculator
B1
C3
D7
E9
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Answer key — Math Kangaroo practice
Each wrong choice carries the thinking that produces it. When a student picks C, this is what they were doing.
1.C — 30KA-0006Number lines and betweenness
AI counted the tick marks and gave the position number instead of reading the value on the scale.
BI worked out that each gap is worth 10 but then counted only as far as the tick before the arrow.
DI counted the tick marks rather than the gaps between them, so every gap came out one step too small.
EI counted the gaps from the right-hand end instead of from zero.
2.D — ThursdayKA-0021Remainders and modular cycles
AI found the remainder 2 but counted the two days starting from today rather than starting from tomorrow.
BI divided 100 by 7 and used the quotient of 14, treating the leftover days as if there were none.
CI remembered there was a remainder but used a remainder of 1 instead of working it out.
EI counted 100 divided by 7 as 14 remainder 3 instead of remainder 2.
3.C — 70KA-0055Place value and digit positions
AI gave the last digit of the number instead of looking at the 7 at all.
BI gave the digit itself rather than what it is worth in the position it sits in.
DI counted the positions from the left, so I read the 7 as being in the hundreds place.
EI gave the value of the largest digit instead of the value of the 7.
4.C — 210KA-0057Clever regrouping (pair to round numbers)
AI paired the numbers from the outside in but left the 20 out of every pair, so I added only up to 19.
BI estimated the total as a round number instead of working it out.
DI used eleven pairs of 20 instead of ten pairs of 21.
EI multiplied 20 by 21 and forgot that pairing counts every number twice.
5.B — 7KA-0064Fractions of a quantity
AI divided 28 by 7 instead of taking a quarter of it.
CI found three quarters of 16 by mistake, mixing up the class size.
DI found how many did travel by bus and gave that instead of how many did not.
EI subtracted the 4 quarters as if they were 4 students.
6.A — 1KA-0169Remainders and modular cycles
BI reduced 7 to 2 correctly but then used a remainder of 1 when dividing 100 by 4.
CI read the cycle backwards and landed on the entry before the right one.
DI used 100 divided by 4 giving 25 and read off the 25th entry as if the cycle had length 25.
EI assumed a power that large must be divisible by 5.
7.D — 16KA-0033Means, and working backwards from a mean
AI subtracted the two means from each other and gave the difference as the removed number.
BI assumed the removed number must be the new mean, since the mean dropped to 11.
CI assumed removing a number equal to the old mean is what changes the mean.
EI added the two totals instead of subtracting one from the other.
8.C — 12KA-0062Factors, multiples, LCM and GCD by listing
AI found a number that divides both but not the largest one, stopping at the first that worked.
BI used the difference between 36 and 24 divided by 2 rather than a common factor.
DI used a factor of 36 without checking that it also divides 24.
EI found the least common multiple instead of the greatest common divisor.