Year 8 Maths Revision (Foundation)

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KS 3: Year 8

Revision (1F)
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1. Calculate the following

(a) 0.5 + 19.87 + 24 (h) 0.27 × 0.6


(b) 947 + 9.22 +34.7 (i) 4.87 × 12
(c) 32.8 – 7.49 (j) 0.65 × 24
(d) 320 – 157.75 (k) 3.9 × 1.2
(e) 39 × 0.8 (l) 39.8 ÷ 2
(f) 74.5 × 9 (m) 48÷ 0.4
(g) 2.84 × 12 (n) 2.75 ÷ 0.5
2. Round the following
Whole 1 decimal 2 decimal 1 significant 3 significant
number place place figure figure
23.7850
7.493
98.993
40.5298
95.90142
322.09845

3. Complete the following table


Decimal Fraction Percentage
(in simplest form)

0.05 ……..… ……..…

11
……..… 20 ……..…

……..… ……..… 8%

5
……..… 8 ……..…

4. A car can travel 8.7 kilometres on 1 litre of diesel.


How far will the car travel with 35 litres?
5. Mrs Gray buys 9 mangos for £5.76. How much does each mango cost?
6. A length of steel bar is cut into 12 equal pieces. If each piece measures 7.85cm,
what was the original length of the steel bar?
7. £70 is shared equally between 8 children. How much do they each receive?
8. Six friends go on a trip to Scotland. The total cost of their trip is £418.50.
If they share the cost equally, how much do they each pay?
9. A wooden bar is cut into two smaller lengths in the ratio 3:2.
The shorter length is 50cm long.
(a) How long is the larger length?
(b) What was the length of the original wooden bar?
10.The diagram shows a patio in the shape of a rectangle.

The patio is 4.8 m long and 3 m wide.


Mr Fletcher is going to cover the patio with paving slabs.
Each paving slab is a square of side 40 cm.
(a) Work out the number of paving slabs required to cover the patio.
The paving slabs cost £8.49 each.
(b) Work out the total cost of the paving slabs.
11. Make accurate drawings of these triangles.

12. 20 cm of copper wire has a weight of 1.2 grams.


Work out the weight of 250 cm of the copper wire.
13. Complete the following table

LCM HCF

(8 and 12)
(6 and 15)
(4 and 10)
(15 and 20)
(16 and 18)
(18 and 24)
(24 and 36)
(30 and 45)
(16 and 40)
(32 and 48)
(36 and 54)
(72 and 90)
(96 and 108)
(42 and 24)

14.Measure each angle.


15. Mrs Guff uses 480 units of electricity in April
She pays
24p per unit for the first 150 units of electricity she uses
15p per unit for the rest of the units of electricity she uses
Work out the total amount of money Mrs Guff pays.
You must show all your working.
16.Calculate
(a) 25 – 20 ÷ 5 × 3 (d) 14 + 18 ÷ 3 × 20 – 17
2
(b) 18 ÷ 3 + 4 × 12 (e) (10 + 59 –3 ) ÷ (21 – 6)
2
(c) 10 × ( 9 × 5 + 3 ) + 4 (f) 12 – 9 × 24 ÷ 2 × 6

17. Kane, Kyle and Kai share £ 450 in the ratio 2 : 4 : 3


How much money does Kai get?
18. Write down all the factors of:

(a) 18 (d) 56

(b) 24 (e) 72

(c) 32 (f) 96

19. Susan and Sarah share some sweets in the ratio 3 : 8


What fraction of the money does Susan get?
20.The cost of 6 pens is £7.80.
Work out the cost of 20 pens.
21.Evaluate
2 2
(a) 5 (e) 12
4
(b) 2 (f) x5  x3
3
(g) x  x
9 3
(c) 3
5
(d) 10
22. Write 560.592 correct to
(a) One significant figure.
(b) Three significant figure
23. 5 kg of potato cost £ 4.50
Work out the cost of 3.5 kg of potato.
24.Work out 59.6 × 4.3
25.Complete the following table

Decimal Fraction Percentage


(in simplest form)

0.05 ……..… ……..…


11
……..… 20 ……..…

……..… ……..…
8%
5
……..… 8 ……..…

1 5
26. (a) Work out 3  2
4 6
2 4
(b) Work out 2 
3 5
2 3 5
(c) Work out  
3 4 8
27.Ms Gray is going to buy 150 pencils.
Here is some information about the cost of pencils in two shops.

Ms Gray wants to buy the envelopes as cheaply as possible.


Which shop should she buy the 150 pencils from?
You must show how you get your answer.
28.Find the size of the angles marked. Give reason for each answer.
29. Mr Dunn needs to buy exercise books for all the students in Year 8.
Each of the 83 students gets three exercise books each.
There are 12 exercise books in each packet.
(a) Work out the least number of packets of books that needs Mr
Dunn to buy.
(b) A packet of exercise books costs £8.95; calculate how much Mr
Dunn needs to spend.
30. David sees the following two adverts for part-time jobs.

Which job pays the most per week? You must show all your working.
31.Solve the following
(a) 4x + 9 = 21
(b) 7 – 3x = – 11
(c) 4x + 11 = x + 20
(d) 2(3x + 5) – 4( x + 7) = 8
(e) 4(5x – 2) = 7 (2x + 1)
(f) 5x – 9 = 3x + 7
(g) 7 – 5x = 4x + 25
3x  4
(h) 2
7
32.Pedro and Tito were given a total of £36
They shared the money in the ratio 3: 7
Work out how much money Tito received.
33.Elli, Flora and Genie share 45 sweets in the ratio 2 : 3 : 4
Work out the number of sweets that each of them receives.
34. 4.5 kg of oranges and 2 kg of apples cost a total of £ 3.78
1 kg of oranges cost 50p
Work out the cost of 1 kg of apples.
Answers

1
2
3
4 304.5
5 64p
6 94.2
7 £8.75
8 69.75
9 75, 125
10 90, £764.10
11
12 15
13
14
15 £85.50
16 13, 54, 544, 134, 4,
–636
17 150
18
19 3
11
20 26
21
22 600,561
23 3.15
27 22.20 > 19.90
29 21, 187.95
30 183.60<199
31 3, 6, 3, 13, 2.5, 8, -
2, 6
32 £25.50
33 10,15,20
34 64p
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