St Aloysius’ College, Year 8 Mathematics Yearly Examination 2019

STUDENT NAME:

TEACHER NAME:
KCH SRO MCR KAU ABE IMO

St Aloysius’ College
Yearly Examination
2019

YEAR 8 MATHEMATICS
General Instructions
Total marks - 55
 Reading time - 5 minutes
 Working time - 60 minutes Section A – Multiple Choice
 Write using black pen 20 marks
 Calculators may be used Attempt Questions 1-20
 Working out is required for Section C
Fill in correct answer on the separate Multiple
Choice Answer Sheet

Section B – Short Answers

20 marks

Attempt Questions 1-20

Section C –Extended Response

15 marks

Attempt Questions 1-4

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Section A
Allow about 20 minutes for this section 20 marks

Use the multiple-choice answer sheet for questions 1-20

1. What is 20% of $800?

(A) $80 (B) $120 (C) $160 (D) $960

2. −6 x + 4 − x =

(A) 5x + 4 (B) −7 x + 4 (C) −7 x − 4 (D) −5 x + 4

3. What is the area of the circle correct to nearest square metre?

(A) 126 m 2

(B) 1257 m 2

(C) 2513 m 2

(D) 5027 m 2

4. What is the mode of 16, 35, 19, 12, 10, 8 and 19?

(A) 7 (B) 16 (C) 17 (D) 19

5.

The angles marked on the pair of parallel lines are:

(A) Alternate (B) Corresponding
(C) Co-interior (D) Complementary

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6. What is the equation of the line?

(A) y = x−2
(B) y = 2− x
(C) y = −2 x
(D) y = x+2

7. The ratio of red, white and blue counters is 5 : 3 : 2.

What fraction of the counters are white?

3 1 3 1
(A) (B) (C) (D)
7 3 10 4

8. Which of these points will not lie on the line y = 3 − 2 x

(A) (0,3) (B) (1,1) (C) (−1,5) (D) (2, −2)

9. The marks in a test were: 10, 26, 27, 27, 27, 27, 28, 28, 29, 30, 30.

Which of these will stay the same when a mark of 10 is left out?

(A) Mode (B) Median (C) Mean (D) Range

10. What is the solution to the equation 2a + 5 = 17 ?

(A) a = 3 (B) a = 4 (C) a = 5 (D) a = 6

11. Which of the following are complementary angles?

(A) 5˚, 195˚ (B) 15˚, 85˚ (C) 26˚, 64˚ (D) 71˚, 108˚

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12. What is the smaller share if $36 000 is divided in the ratio 4 : 5?

(A) $4000 (B) $9000 (C) $16 000 (D) $20 000

13. Which of these is the same rate as 60 L in 4 hours?

(A) 15L/h (B) 56L/h (C) 64L/h (D) 240L/h

14. If two sides of a right-angled triangle are 6 cm and 8 cm, then the hypotenuse is:
(A) 9 cm (B) 10 cm (C) 12 cm (D) 14 cm

15. What is the value of x in the frequency table?

Number of Frequency
Cats
3 3
4 5
5 7
6 x
Total 20

(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 8 (D) 9

16. Solve the inequality 2 x + 4  10

(A) x  3 (B) x  3 (C) x = 3 (D) x  3

17. What is the volume of the triangular prism?

(A) 360 m 3

(B) 408 m 3

(C) 720 m 3

(D) 765 m 3

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18. What is the value of y?

(A) 45  (B) 55 (C) 85  (D) 95 

19. ABCDE is regular pentagon and DE is perpendicular to DF

Which of these is the size of CDF ?

(A) 5 (B) 18  (C) 25  (D) 108 

20. OPQR is a rhombus

What are the coordinates of Q?

(A) (a, b + c) (B) (a + c, b) (C) ( a, b) (D) (a + c, b + c)

END OF SECTION A

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Section B STUDENT NAME:

TEACHER NAME:
KCH SRO MCR KAU ABE IMO

St Aloysius’ College
Yearly Examination
2019

YEAR 8 MATHEMATICS
Allow about 20 minutes for this section 20 marks

Question Answer
1. Is the following data discrete or continuous?

“The number of points scored by each team in a soccer

competition in one round.”

2. Given y = mx + b
Find m when y = 20 , x = 4 and b = 8

3. Fully simplify 48:80

4. Simplify 6 y  4 y2

5. How many axes of symmetry does the following

regular polygon have?

6. Simplify 4( x + 2) + 3

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7. In the first six weeks of Michael’s holiday,

the ratio of wet days to fine days was 2 to 5.
How many days were wet?

8. What is the value of x?

9.
What is the rule for the values in this table?

x 0 1 2 3 4
y –5 –2 1 4 7

10. A shop owner has the word APPLES painted on

the outside of his window.

What does he see from the inside of the window?

11. Find the new co-ordinates of the point A if it is

translated 3 units left and 2 units down.
y

5
4
A
3
2
1
0 x
1 2 3 4 5 6

12. Solve the following equation.

d
2d = −3
2

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13. In a Mathematics test Dave got 85%.

How many marks did he get out 80?

14. A tree grows to a height of 11.25 m over a period of

4.5 years.
What is the average annual growth rate in metres per
year?

15. Find the area of the sector below.

(Answer to the nearest cm 2 )

16. Between 3 pm and 3:15 pm, on a motorway with

heavy traffic, Alex travels at a speed of 45 km/hr.

Between 3:15 pm and 3:45 pm, Alex travels at a speed

of 60 km/hr.

What was Alex’s average speed between 3:00 pm and

3:45 pm?

17. Find the perimeter of the triangle below.

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18. A shop recorded the sizes of men's shirts sold over a

weekend. The results are shown in the dot plot.

What is the median shirt size?

19. This rectangular prism has a capacity of 36 000 litres.

Hm

2m
6m

What is the height (H) of the prism?

20. Each of the 5 identical cups contains an amount of

liquid (mL).
The cups are arranged from left to right with
increasing amounts of liquid.

Cup 1 Cup 2 Cup 3 Cup 4 Cup 5

The following data is given about the contents of the

cups.
Mode: 6 mL
Mean: 12 mL
Median: 9 mL
Range: 15 mL

What is the capacity (mL) of cup 4?

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Section C STUDENT NAME:

TEACHER NAME:
KCH SRO MCR KAU ABE IMO

St Aloysius’ College
Yearly Examination
2019

YEAR 8 MATHEMATICS
Allow about 20 minutes for this section 15 marks

1. All of Year 8 students were asked their favourite colour. 4 marks

The results are shown in the sector chart below.

(i) Is this survey a sample or census?

(ii) What type of data is collected?

(iii) What percentage of year 8 choose yellow as their favourite colour?

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2. ABCD is a parallelogram. 4 marks

(i) Write an equation involving p, giving a geometric reason.

(ii) Solve the equation to evaluate p.

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3. Evaluate ∠CDE, giving reasons for each step. 4 marks

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4. In the diagram below PQTS is a parallelogram. 3 marks

Lines PT and SQ intersect at R.
RS = RQ and PQ || ST.
Show this information on the diagram and prove that PR = TR

END OF EXAMINATION

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