Year 8 End of Year Assessment

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Time: 1 hour
Marks: 50 marks

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1. Round each of the following numbers to 3 significant figures.

a. 365 023 (1 mark)

b. 0.01517 (1 mark)

c. 499 903 (1 mark)

2a. Find 14% of 50.  (2 marks)

b. Find 28% of 45.  (3 marks)

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3. Solve the following equations.

a. 2a + 3 = 7 (2 marks)

b. 9 – 2x = 2x + 5 (2 marks)

c. 4(3m – 2) – 3(m – 7) = 31 (3 marks)

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4. Find the value of angle BDC below. Give reasons for each stage of your  (4 marks)
working.

B
53°
A

D
C

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5. A group of 30 students are asked their favourite subject. Their responses are recorded in
the table below.

Favourite Subject Frequency

Maths 7
English 7
Science 11
Geography 3
Other 2

a. Use the table to draw an accurate pie chart showing the results.  (3 marks)

b. A second group are asked the same question; their results are shown below. Imogen
says that more people in the second group chose English as their favourite subject
than in the first group.

Other
Geography
Maths

Science

English

Do you agree with Imogen? Justify your answer. (1 mark)

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6. In the space below, construct an isosceles triangle with sides 5cm, 3cm and  (2 marks)
3cm. You must clearly show all of your construction arcs.


7. Find the next two terms in each of the following sequences.

a. 3, 6, 12, 24 (1 mark)

b. 25, 21, 17, 13 (1 mark)

c. 1, 3, 6, 10, 15 (1 mark)

d. 1, 1, 2, 3, 5  (1 mark)

8. It takes 4 builders 5 hours to build 1 standard-sized wall. Assuming all the  (3 marks)
builders work at the same rate, how many builders are needed to build 3
standard-sized walls in 2 hours?

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9. The data below shows the length of students’ hand span and their height. Both
measurements are given in centimetres.

Hand Span (cm) Height (cm)

11.2 145
15.3 143
16.1 183
15.4 178
11.5 143
12 151
13.3 157
14.9 166

a. Construct a scatter graph showing this data.  (3 marks)

190

180

170
Height (cm)

160

150

140
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
Hand Span (cm)

b. One of the points is an outlier; state the coordinates of this point. (1 mark)

( , )

c. Describe the correlation of the scatter graph. (1 mark)

d. Ahmed has a hand span of 16cm. Estimate his height. (2 marks)

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8.72 + 289
10a. Estimate the value of 3.171
.  (4 marks)

b. Is your answer to part a. an overestimate or an underestimate? Justify your  (1 mark)

answer.

11a. Find the surface area of the prism below. You must show all your working.  (4 marks)

5cm

3cm

10cm

4cm

cm2

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b. The triangular prism from part a is placed on a trapezoidal prism of height  (4 marks)
7cm to make the solid below. Find the volume of the solid. You must show
all your working.

5cm

3cm

4cm

10cm

6cm

cm3

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