Year 8 Term 2 Mock Examination. Time: 1 ½ Hrs.

Marks: 100
Give your answers in 3 significant figure where necessary. Use π= 3.14

1. Find:
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a) 𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜 $96 (1 mark)
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b) 𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜 46𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐 (1 mark)
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c) 𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜 36𝑘𝑘𝑘𝑘. (1 mark)
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2. Express:
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a) 𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎 𝑎𝑎 𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝 (1 mark)
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b) 0.425 𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎 𝑎𝑎 𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝 (1 mark)
c) 22% as a fraction in its lowest terms. (1 mark)

3. Find:
a) If the cost of an insurance policy is increased by 55%, what
percentage is the new cost of the original cost? (1 mark)
b) Increase$560 by 35% (1 mark)
c) Decrease $650 by 24%. (1 mark)

4. Calculate
1 4
a) 3 ÷ = (1 mark)
5 7
1 1
b) 3 × 2 = (1 mark)
2 2
1 3
c) 8 ÷ 7 = (1 mark)
8 7

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5.
a) Divide $4005 among three persons so that their shares are in the
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ratio 4:5:6. How much does each person get? �1 𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚�
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b) If the map ratio of a map is 1:100000 and the distance between two
places on the map is 8cm, find the actual distance between the two
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places. �1 𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚�
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6. Talulah and Hannah went out for a meal. The bill came to $43.68.
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Talulah paid of it and Hannah paid the remainder.
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a) What fraction did Hannah pay? �1 𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚�
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b) How much did Talulah pay? �1 𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚�
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7.
a) Simplify the ratio 2kg:1.6kg (2 marks)
b) A piece of wood, 3.15m long, is cot into two pieces whose lengths
are in the ratio 8:7. What is the difference in their length? (2 marks)

8. Find one interior angle of the following polygons.

a) A regular pentagon
b) A regular hexagon
c) A regular nonagon? ( 6 marks)

9.
a) Find the size of each exterior angle of a regular polygon with 15 sides.
What is the size of each interior angle? (2 marks)
b) How many sides has a regular polygon if each exterior angle is 12°.
(2 marks)

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10. Find the area of each in 𝑐𝑐𝑚𝑚2 . 𝐴𝐴𝐴𝐴𝐴𝐴 𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚 𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎 𝑔𝑔𝑔𝑔𝑔𝑔𝑔𝑔𝑔𝑔 𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖 𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐
a) (3 marks)
4
2
5
3
5 5

b) (3 marks)

12 5
8 8

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11. Find the area and perimeter of the figure below given that the
diameter of the circle is 10cm (4 marks)

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12. On a piece of paper, draw 𝑥𝑥 𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎 𝑦𝑦 𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎 and scale each axis from -5 to
+5. Use 1cm as 1 unit in both axes. Plot A (-3,1), B (3,1), C (1,-4) ,
D (-5,-4) and draw the parallelogram ABCD. Find the area of the
parallelogram in 𝑐𝑐𝑚𝑚2. (4 marks)

13. Find the diameter of a circle which has a circumference 76cm and then
find the area of the circle? (3 marks)

14. For the given shape the square of sides 8.4cm and a circle of diameter
8.4cm.
a) The perimeter and (3 marks)
b) The area of the shaded region (3 marks)

8.4cm

8.4cm

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15. Solve the following simultaneous equations:
a) 𝑥𝑥 + 𝑦𝑦 = 5
3𝑥𝑥 + 𝑦𝑦 = 9 (2 𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚)

b) 5𝑎𝑎 − 𝑏𝑏 = 27

5𝑎𝑎 + 3𝑏𝑏 = 19 (2 𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚)

16. The sum of two numbers, 𝑥𝑥 𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎 𝑦𝑦 is 22 and their difference is 4.

If the larger number is 𝑥𝑥, form a pair of simultaneous equations in
𝑥𝑥 𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎 𝑦𝑦 and solve them. What are the two numbers? (4 marks)

17. The area of a square is 50𝑐𝑐𝑚𝑚 2 . If the length of one of its side is 𝑥𝑥𝑥𝑥𝑥𝑥,
Form an equation in 𝑥𝑥 and solve it. What is the perimeter of the
square? (2 marks)

18. Solve this simultaneous equations: (3 marks)

𝑥𝑥 𝑦𝑦 1
+ =4
3 4 2
3𝑥𝑥 − 𝑦𝑦 = 8

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19. The sizes of the three angles of a triangle are 105°,𝑥𝑥°𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎° where
𝑥𝑥 𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖 𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙 𝑡𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎 𝑦𝑦. 𝑇𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑒 𝑑𝑑𝑑𝑑𝑑𝑑𝑑𝑑𝑑𝑑𝑑𝑑𝑑𝑑𝑑𝑑𝑑𝑑𝑑𝑑 𝑏𝑏𝑏𝑏𝑏𝑏𝑏𝑏𝑏𝑏𝑏𝑏𝑏𝑏 𝑥𝑥 𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎 𝑦𝑦 𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖 12. Write
down two equations relating 𝑥𝑥𝑥𝑥𝑥𝑥𝑥𝑥 𝑦𝑦, ℎ𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒 𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓 𝑥𝑥 𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎 𝑦𝑦. (3 marks)

20. Solve the following equations: (3 marks)

3𝑥𝑥 𝑥𝑥
a) − = 14
4 6
b) 10𝑥𝑥 − 3(𝑥𝑥 + 7) = 0

21. Simplify (4𝑥𝑥 )2 + 160 + ∛(64𝑥𝑥 3)2 (3 marks)

22.

30cm
40cm
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The rectangular tank above is full. If it contains 54 liters of water, find
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the height of the tank. (3 marks)

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23. The length of cube X is twice the length of cube Y. If the volume of the
cube X is 2744𝑐𝑐𝑚𝑚3 . Find the total surface area of cube Y. (3 marks)

24. Find the following: (3 marks)

3 1
a) ÷ =
4 2
1 5
b) 4 ÷ 2 =
7 12
2 5 5 1
c) × � − �+ =
5 6 12 2

25. Factorize: (4 marks)

a)𝑥𝑥 2 − 6𝑥𝑥 + 8 =
b)𝑥𝑥 2 − 10𝑥𝑥 + 25 =
c)𝑥𝑥 2 − 2𝑥𝑥 − 15 =
d)18 + 9𝑥𝑥 + 𝑥𝑥 2 =

𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃
26. a) Make 𝑇𝑇 𝑡𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑒 𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜 𝑡𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑒 𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓 𝐼𝐼 = . (2 marks)
100
𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹 𝑇𝑇𝑇𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒 𝐼𝐼 = 28, 𝑃𝑃 = 350 𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎 𝑅𝑅 = 4.
b) Make 𝑠𝑠 the subject of the formula 𝑣𝑣 2 = 𝑢𝑢2 + 2𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎 (2 marks)

27. ABCD is a parallelogram. Find the perimeter of the parallelogram

(2 marks)
A 2x+y B

x+2 3y-1

D 3x-y C

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28. The perimeter of a triangle is 172 mm. The shortest side is 50mm
shorter than each of the other two sides, which are equal. If the length
of the shortest side is x mm and the length of each of the longer sides is
y mm, form two equations in x and y and solve simultaneously to find
the lengths of the three sides. (4 marks)