Year 8 Summer Assessment
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Mathematics
Name __________________________ Date _____________
Teacher ________________________
Time allowed 55 minutes
The maximum mark for this paper is 50
Instructions
Use a black or blue pen
Calculator allowed
Draw diagrams in pencil
Answer all questions
You must answer the questions in the spaces provided
Do all rough work in this booklet
Cross through any work you do not want to be marked
You must keep working until the end of the 55 minutes
Information
The results of this assessment will be reported back to parents/carers.
1 Seven students take an exam.
Some of their marks are shown in the bar chart.
1 (a) Here are the marks for Nev, Oscar and Pedro.
Nev Oscar Pedro
Mark 20 35 28
Complete the bar chart.
[2 marks]
1 (b) Who had the lowest mark in the exam?
[1 mark]
Answer
2 Here is a list of numbers.
6 9 11 27 30 36 90
From the list, write down
2 (a) the multiple of 12
[1 mark]
Answer
2 (b) the two factors of 30
[2 marks]
Answer and
2 (c) the prime number
[1 mark]
Answer
2 (d) the cube number.
[1 mark]
Answer
3 What is 15% of £120?
[2 marks]
Answer £
4 (a) Share £35 in the ratio 4 : 1
[2 marks]
Answer £ :£
4 (b) Two friends share some money in the ratio 7 : 2
What fraction of the money does the first friend receive?
[1 mark]
Answer
5 There are 10 discs in a bag.
5 are red, 3 are green and the rest are blue
A counter is chosen at random.
Work out the probability that it is blue.
[2 marks]
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Answer ______________________________
6 Emily bought a car for £13 000
In the first year the value of the car decreased by 23%
What was the value of the car after this decrease?
[2 marks]
Answer £
7 Emma has 400 balloons at her party.
The balloons are pink, blue, yellow or white.
A quarter of the balloons are white.
There are twice as many pink balloons as white balloons.
The ratio of pink balloons to yellow balloons is 10 : 1
How many blue balloons are there?
[4 marks]
Answer
8 A circle fits exactly inside a square.
The radius of the circle is 5cm
Not drawn
accurately
Work out the shaded area.
Give the units of your answer.
[4 marks]
Answer
9 (a) Calculate 7.23 3 ( 0.74 )2
Write down the full answer from your calculator.
[1 mark]
Answer
9 (b) Write your answer to part (a) to 2 decimal places.
[1 mark]
Answer
10 (a) Expand 4(x + 2)
[1 mark]
Answer
10 (b) Expand x (x 6)
[1 mark]
Answer
11 (a) Factorise 10x 15
[1 mark]
Answer
11 (b) Factorise x 2 + 8x
[1 mark]
Answer
12 Adam, Ben and Chloe have saved £225 in total.
Ben has saved twice as much as Adam.
Chloe has saved £ 50 more than Ben.
Work out how much Adam has saved.
[4 marks]
Answer £
13 Expand and simplify (x + 5)(x 8)
[2 marks]
Answer
x 3x
14 (a) Simplify
4 8
[1 mark]
Answer
x 3x
14 (b) Simplify fully +
4 8
[2 marks]
Answer
15 Tyre pressure for bicycles is measured in pounds per square inch (PSI) or Bars.
Here is a conversion graph for PSI and Bars.
PSI
15 (a) Use the graph to convert 40 PSI to Bars.
[1 mark]
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Answer ______________________________ Bars
15 (b) The tyre pressure for a racing bicycle is 100 PSI.
Work out this pressure in Bars.
You must show your working.
[3 marks]
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Answer ______________________________ Bars
16 The diagram shows a right-angled triangle inside a trapezium.
Not drawn
accurately
120 100
53
x
60
Work out the size of the angle marked x.
[4 marks]
Answer degrees
17 Two bags, A and B, contain numbered counters.
A counter is chosen at random from each bag.
Here are the 8 counters in bag A.
The table gives the probabilities of the numbers on the counters in bag B.
Number on counter 6 7 8 9
Probability 0.2 0.1 0.4 0.3
Which bag has the greater probability of choosing an even number?
You must show your working.
[2 marks]
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