Grade VIII: Mathematics Week 4 - Day 1[1]

Name: Ayaan Atif Time: Sec: B

1 Fatima has a phone.

(a) The time on the phone is 17:23
Write this time using the 12-hour clock.
5:23
________
(b) Fatima starts a phone call at 18:32
The phone call finishes at 19:16
Work out the length of the phone call.

44 minutes
________

2 Here are the timetables for trains running from Dibside to Flaghaven and from Flaghaven
to Hankberg

(a) Oliver plans to take the 11:06 train from Dibside to Flaghaven next Wednesday.
Calculate how long his journey will take.

__2____hours _18_minutes

(b) To travel from Dibside to Hankberg, passengers must change trains at Flaghaven.
Yuri needs to travel from Dibside to Hankberg next Saturday.
He must be at Hankberg before 18:15
Work out the time of the latest train he can take from Dibside.

__15:06__

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Grade VIII: Mathematics Week 4 - Day 1[2]

Name: Ayaan Atif Number & Number Sense Sec: ___B____

1. (a)The square of a number is 64.

Write down the two possible values for the number.

__8___ and _____

(b) Put a ring around all the numbers that are exactly divisible by 9

3 56 72 93 146 198

__72___ and _198____

2. Work out

(a) 11.28 – 2.843

_8.437______

(b) 16.8 × 7

__117.6____

3. (a) Complete these calculations.

0.64 × _100_ = 640

6400 ÷ _100_ = 64

_0.064_ × 100 = 6.4

(b) Write down in words the value of the digit 4 in each of these numbers.
The first one has been done for you.

Number Value of digit 4

249.6 4 tens

0.487 4 _onths_____

0.0248 4 _hundredths_____

4. Write the missing numbers in these ratios.

(a) 45 : 60 = _3__ : 4

(b) 14 : _35_ = 2 : 5
Grade VIII: Mathematics Week 4 - Day 2[1]

Name: Ayaan Atif Integers Sec: ___B____

1. Work out the temperature after each of these changes.

(a) The temperature starts at 6 °C and it falls by 13 °C. _-7_ °C

(b) The temperature starts at −2 °C and it falls by 8 °C. _-10_ °C

(c) Find the sum of the first four negative integers.

= (-1) + (-2) + (-3) + (-4)

=-10 -10
_______

2. (a) Here is a list of numbers.

–7 –5 –3 2 3 6

Find the largest positive number that can be made when two numbers from this list are
(i) multiplied together, =-7*-5

=35 __35____
(ii) subtracted from each other.

=6-3
= ___3____
=3

(b) Aiko has these number cards.

–8 –4 –2 3 5

Aiko chooses two of the number cards.

She multiplies the numbers together.

(i) Find the maximum possible answer she can get.

=-8*-4

=-32
__ -32___

Aiko chooses two of the number cards.

She adds the numbers together.
 (ii) Find the smallest number she can get.

=-8-5

=-13 __-13_____

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Grade VIII: Mathematics Week 4 - Day 2[2]

Name: Ayaan Atif Percentage Sec: B

1. Draw a line to match each fraction to its equivalent percentage.

The first one has been done for you.

2. Complete these statements.

(a) 35% of 60 = _21_

(b) 25% of _80_ = 20

3. This table shows the mass of a child at different ages.

(a) From age 8 to age 9 the child’s mass increases by 12%.

Calculate the mass at age 9.
=112 ×25.3=28.33
100
 __28.33_____ kg

(b) Calculate the percentage increase in mass from age 5 to age 8.

_38.2____ %

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Grade VIII: Mathematics Week 4 - Day 3[1]

Name: Ayaan Atif Algebra Sec: __B__

1. Here is an expression.
2xy – 12 + 7y – 5x

Write down the third term of this expression.

__7y____

2. Write down the inverse of this function.

y = 2x

y = __-2x____

3. Here is a mapping.

Look at the following functions.

Tick the two functions that could represent the mapping.

4. Kendra has b birds, c cats and r rabbits.

(a) The number of birds and cats are connected by the equation c = b + 3
 Tick the true statement.

(b) Kendra has twice as many rabbits as birds.

Write this information as an equation involving b and r.

___r=2b___________

Grade VIII: Mathematics Week 4 - Day 3[2]

Name: Ayaan Atif Algebra Sec: __B__

1. (a) Solve the equation 5x – 3 = 52

x = __11__
(b) Solve the equation 6n + 3 = 2n + 31

n = __7____

2. Simplify

(a) 3a × a
__3a^2 __

(b) 7 – 5a + 2 + 3a

__9-2a____
3, Here is a function x → x + 6
The inverse of this function is x → x – 6

Write down the inverse of the function

4x
4. A carpet costs $15 per square metre.
The total delivery charge is $21
Peter buys n square metres of carpet.

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Grade VIII: Mathematics Week 4 - Day 4[1]

Name: Ayaan Atif Sequences Sec: B

1. Natasha is making a pattern using match sticks.

The first three patterns are shown.

Complete the table.

14 17

2. Find the first 4 terms of these sequences.

(a) The position-to-term rule is multiply by 2 then add 3

____5____ ____13_____ ___29_____ ___61_____

(b) The third term is 17, the term-to-term rule is add 5

___7___ ___12__ ___17___ ___22___

3. Here are the first three diagrams in a sequence.

 (a) Draw the next diagram in this sequence on the grid.

(b) Explain why the number of circles in Diagram 5 will be 25

In pattern 4, the number of circles were 4 each on 4 levels and in pattern five, there would be 5 circles
each on five levels so five multiplied by 5 is 25.

(c) Find an expression for the number of crosses in Diagram n.

___3n+2______

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Grade VIII: Mathematics Week 4 - Day 4[2]

Name: Ayaan Atif Shapes & Measurement Sec: B

1. Draw a line to match each description to one shape.

The first one has been done for you.

2. The diagram shows the net of a cuboid.

 12

32 24 4.89

3.46

The areas of some of its faces are shown.

The side lengths of the cuboid are all whole numbers.
Complete the diagram to show the missing side lengths of the cuboid and the areas of the other
faces.

3. (a) Draw a ring around the largest measurement in the list.

4200 cm3 54000 cm3 45 litres 52000 ml

4. A circular fish pond has an area of 20 m2

Calculate the radius of the fish pond.

_2.5___ m
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Grade VIII: Mathematics Week 4 - Day 5[1]

Name: Ayaan Atif Probability Sec: ___B____

1. A teacher keeps a record of how many times Mike arrives late to school.
The results are shown in the tally chart.

Use the results to estimate the probability that Mike arrives late to school.
Draw a ring around your answer.

2. Angelique has some building blocks.

The blocks are red or green or yellow or blue.
(a) There are 4 times as many blue blocks as there are green blocks.
Angelique picks a block at random.
 Complete the table to show the probability of picking each colour.

0.15 0.6

(b) Angelique picks two blocks at random.

Complete the sample space diagram showing all the possible outcomes for the
colours of her two blocks.

GR GG GY GB

YR YG YB

BG BY BB

3. Anastasia has four coins A, B, C and D.

One of these coins is a fair coin and the other three are biased coins.
She throws each coin 200 times and records the number of times she gets a head.

Tick ( ) the coin that is most likely to be the fair coin.

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Grade VIII: Mathematics Week 4 - Day 5[2]

Name: Ayaan Atif Probability Sec: __B__

1. Two fair four-sided dice numbered 1 to 4 are rolled and the scores are multiplied together.

1 1 1
(a) Complete the sample space diagram to show
2 2 2 2
all the outcomes. 3 3 3 3
(b) What is the probability of obtaining an 4 4 4 4

even outcome? ___0.4______

2. A bag contains black, grey and spotty beads.

A bead is picked at random from this bag without looking.

(a) Write down the probability of not picking a black bead.

___0.55___
(b) Write down the probability that the bead is black or spotty.

___0.77______

3. The diagram shows a fair six-sided spinner.

Each section is numbered.
The numbers on four of the sections are shown.

Ahmed spins the spinner twice and the scores are added.
The sample space diagram shows some of the total scores.

Calculate the probability that the total score is 10 or more. 8 10

10 13
13
11 14

13 16

12

___________

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