SYDNEY

BOYS
HIGH
SCHOOL

YEAR 8 YEARLY
2019 ASSESSMENT
TASK

Mathematics
General Instructions: Time Allowed: 90 minutes

 All questions may be attempted.

 Marks may be deducted for careless or badly arranged work.
 Show ALL relevant mathematical reasoning and/or calculations.
 If you wish to rewrite an answer, draw a line through your faulty answer
and rewrite your answer on the back page of this booklet.
 Show the number and part of the answer being rewritten.
 Leave your answers in the simplest exact form, unless otherwise stated.
 NESA approved calculators may be used.
 Clearly indicate your class by placing a cross X next to your class.
 Whiteout/liquid paper may not be used.

Examiner: AYW

Name: _________________________________

Class Teacher Question Marks

8MaA Mr R. Wang 1 /19
8Ma1 Ms Ward 2 /15
8MaP Ms Kilmore and Mr James 3 /15
8MaL Mr R. Wang and Mr Gurjar 4 /15
8MaU Ms H. Chan 5 /15
8MaS Ms Ward 6 /14
Total /93
Question 1 (19 marks)

(a) Find 15% of $200. 1

(b) Round 24 correct to 1 decimal place. 1

(c) Evaluate 2  ( 4) 1

(d) Calculate the perimeter of the figure below.

All measurements are in centimetres. 1

(e) Simplify 5 j  3k  2 j  k 1

(f) Simplify 7m 0  (7m)0 1

(g) Factorise 2 x 2 y  4 xy completely. 1

(h) Solve 2 x  1  3 1

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(i) Find the median from the following set of numbers.

2, 4, 1, 7, 5 1

3
(j) In a class with boys and girls, there are of the class who are boys.
5

(i) What is the fraction of the girls in the class? 1

(ii) What is the ratio of girls to boys in the class? 1

(k) Evaluate 20 2  212 1

8m
(l) Find the value of if m = 5 and n   2 . 1
n

(m) Give one reason why the graph below is misleading? 1

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 THE FOLLOWING 5 QUESTIONS ARE MULTIPLE CHOICE
Please circle the correct response. Each question is worth 1 mark

(n) What is the value of x?

(A) 43 (B) 47 (C) 53 (D) 57

(o) My train left Wollongong at 06:15 and arrived in Central at 08:48 later
that morning. How many minutes did the journey take?

(A) 143 (B) 153 (C) 163 (D) 167

(p) Suppose 3a = 4 and 9b = 7. Then 18(a + b) is equal to:

(A) 14 (B) 24 (C) 34 (D) 38

(q) Two numbers P and Q are such that P is 40% greater than Q.
The ratio of P and Q is:

(A) 40:1 (B) 5:3 (C) 7:5 (D) 5:7

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(r) The formula bar displays what was entered in cell F2.

Why did the error message #NAME? appear in cell F2?

(A) There should be parentheses around B2:E2.

(B) The equals sign should be deleted from the formula.

(C) There should be a plus sign in the formula instead of a colon.

(D) You can only use the COUNT function to count down a column

End of Question 1

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Question 2 (15 marks)

(a) What is the smaller share if $128 is divided in the ratio 5 : 3? 1

(b) A town’s population decreases by 8% in one year. If the

population was 42500, what is the new population. 1

(c) (i) Plot these points on the number plane provided. Join the points
to make a quadrilateral.
P (-3, 2), Q(5, 2), R(2, -2) and S(-6, -2) 1

(ii) Find the area of the quadrilateral. 1

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(d) Solve x 2  49 1

(e)

Answer the following questions using the figure above.

(i) What kind of quadrilateral is ABCD? 1

(ii) Is BD an axis of symmetry? 1

(iii) Is BAD congruent to DCB ? Give reasons. 2

(f) Expand and simplify each expression.

(i) 4( x  2)  5 x 1

(ii) 3(2  x )  ( x  7) 1

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(g)

Find the value of the pronumeral above. Give brief reasons. 2

(h)

The triangle shown above has an area of 54 m2. Its vertical height is 9m.
What is the length of its base RQ? 1

(i) What is the opposite of 3 (mod 7)? 1

End of Question 2
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Question 3 (15 marks)
(a) Fully factorise the following.

(i) 16 p  24 p 2 1

(ii) h 2  my  hy  hm 1

(iii) 9x 2  y 2 1

(b) Find the length of the radius of a circle whose circumference is 14cm.
Leave your answer correct to 3 significant figures. 2

(c) “The government should build better facilities for rugby league because
8 out of 10 people surveyed at a recent Dragons vs Sharks game said
the rugby league is the most important thing in their lives.”
Comment briefly on the RELIABILITY of the statistics used. 1

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(d) (i) Copy and complete the frequency table below. 2

Class Class Frequency f×c.c

Centre (c.c) (f)
26  30 8
31  35 10
36  40 4
41  45 5
46  50 8

(ii) What is the modal class? 1

(iii) What is the median class? 1

(iii) Find the mean of the data above, correct to 1 decimal place. 2

(e) Using only pencil, ruler and compasses, construct the bisector for
the obtuse DEF . 3

End of Question 3
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Question 4 (15 marks)

(a) (i) Complete the addition table below for modulus 6. 2

+ 0 1 2 3 4 5
0
1
2
3
4
5

(ii) Complete the multiplication table below for modulus 6. 2

× 0 1 2 3 4 5
0
1
2
3
4
5

Use the tables in (i) and (ii), or otherwise, to answer (iii), (iv), (v) and (vi).

(iii) 3 ÷ 5 (mod 6) 1

(iv) 2 – 4 (mod 6) 1

3 
4
4
(v) (mod6) 1

(vi) Solve x 2  1 (mod 6) 1

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(b) A van is travelling at 72km/h. What is its speed in m/s? 1

(c)

(i) Find the length of AC. 1

(ii) Hence or otherwise, find the shaded area.

Leave your answer correct to 2 decimal places. 2

(d) If a SBHS cap has a 10% GST of $2.83 included in its selling price, find its
selling price. 1

(e) Solve (2 x  1) 2  196 2

End of Question 4
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Question 5 (15 marks)
(a) Solve 2  x  5 2

(b)

In the diagram above, point E lies on the interval AB, and triangles
AED and BEC are isosceles. Also, DEC is twice the size of ADE.
What is the size of EBC ? (No reasons are required.) 2

(c) Anthony uses a photocopier to reduce drawings. His drawing is 16cm

high but must reduced to 9cm to fit into the space he left in his project.
What percentage setting must he choose on the photocopier to achieve
the required reduction? Round your answer to the nearest whole number. 1

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(d) Match the graphs with its correct equations given, by writing down the correct
equation in the box provided. 2

Equations:

y   x2

y  x2

y  1  x2

y  x2  4

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(e) Jessie worked out mathematically that 215 is smaller than 310 without
calculating the values of the two numbers. Explain how she was able
mathematically justify the result. 2

(f) Fifty students from SBHS aged from 12 to 17 years were invited to take
part in a swimming carnival. The number of 13-year olds was 2 more
than the number of 12 year olds. The number of 14 year olds was 3 times
the number of 12 year olds. The number of 15 year olds was twice the
number of 14 year olds. There were equal numbers of 13 year olds and
17 year olds and there were twice as many 16 year olds as 17 year olds.

Find the number of students that were invited from each age group. 3

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(g) A research company surveyed people to find out types of television
programs watched during the week. The results are listed in the table
below.
Comedy Drama News Movies Sport
12 6 9 15 18

Using the rectangle below, create a divided bar graph to represent the
proportion of each type of show. 2

(g) The mean of six different numbers is 20. One number is removed. The
new mean is less than 20. What can be deduced about the number
being removed? 1

End of Question 5
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Question 6 (14 marks)

(a) Find the volume of the solid below, correct to nearest mm3. 2

(b) Find the area of the triangle below. 2

(c) A digital watch shows the time 4:56. How many minutes will pass until
the watch next shows a time in which all of the digits are consecutive
and are in increasing order? 2

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(d)

In the diagram above, each of the three identical circles touch the other two.
The circumference of each circle is 36 units. What is the perimeter of the
shaded region? 2

(e) What is the units digits (last digit) of 7 2019 ? 2

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(f) Andy leaves school at the same time every day. If he cycles at 20 km/h, he
arrives home at 4:30 in the afternoon. If he cycles at 10 km/h, he arrives
home at 5:15 in the afternoon. At what speed, in km/h, must he cycle to
arrive home at 5:00 in the afternoon? 2

(g) The numbers 123 456 789 and 999 999 999 are multiplied. How many
of the digits in the final result are 9’s? 2

End of Exam

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