Chithambara:

Mathematics
Challenge2018
Year 8
CWN : கணிதப்ப ோட்டி

Time: 45 Minutes
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Instructions Q6
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✓ Use pencil. Q9
✓ Fill in the boxes at the bottom of this page with Q10
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your name, centre number and candidate Q12
number. Q13
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✓ Answer the questions in the spaces provided – Q15
there may be more space than you needed. Q16
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✓ Calculators must not be used. Q18
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✓ Answer all questions. Q20
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STUDENT NAME: …………………………………………………….

CANDIDATE NUMBER: ……………………………………………..

EXAM CENTRE: ……………………………………………………….

Q1)
Simplify as far as possible:

a) 5√2 - 3√2

b) √180 - √20

(2marks)
Q2)
In a sale, the normal price is reduced by 20%. Suba bought a saddle for £220.
Calculate the normal price of a saddle.

(2marks)
Q3)
One night Murali spent 1/6 of his money on dinner and then 1/5 of the remaining money on
dessert. Then he had just enough left to buy four £20 tickets for the hockey game. How
much money did Murali have at the start of the night?

(2marks)
Q4)
Kathir has the same number of 20p and 50p coins. The total value of the coins is £17.50. How
many of each coin does he have?

(2marks)

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Q5)
The diagram shows a square ABCD. Find the coordinates of C.

A (2,3)

D
B (5,-1)

(2marks)
Q6)
Eight friends take a maths test. The marks for seven of them are shown below:
58, 61 , 86, 71, 42, 59 , 74
The mean mark for all eight friend is 68.
What position did the 8th friend comes in the test?

(2marks)
Q7)
Some chocolates are shared between Geetha and Theepa in the ratio of 3:7. Geetha gets 12
chocolates less than Theepa. Theepa eats two-thirds of her share.
How many chocolates does Theepa now have?

(2marks)
Q8)
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The area of this square is 8 m2. Find the value of x.

2(x+2)

(2marks)

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Q9)
A dog chasing a rabbit, which has a head start of 45m, jumps 3m every time the rabbit jumps
2m. In how many leaps does the dog overtake the rabbit?

(2marks)
Q10)
A car journey of 380 km takes 4 hours. Part of this journey is on a motorway at an average
speed of 110 km per hour. The remainder of the journey is on country roads at an average
speed of 70 km per hour.

Find how many kilometres of the journey are spent on the motorway.

(2marks)
Q11)
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A plant is 42 cm tall. Each week, its height increases by 5 of its value at the start of the week.
How tall is the plant after 2 weeks?

(2marks)
Q12)
A piece of string 231 cm long is to be cut into two pieces. Find the lengths of the two pieces if
one of the piece is 20 times the length of the other.

(2marks)
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Q13)
A bike has a top speed of 150km/h. How long will it take to travel 2000km?

(2marks)
Q14)
Find the sum of the numbers from 1 to 201 inclusive.

(2marks)
Q15)
Ragu invests £120 in a Building Society offering 10% per year compound interest. How much
will Ragu have in his account after 2 years?

(2marks)
Q16)
UK households produce 31million tonnes of general waste per year, half of which could be
recycled. How many tonnes could be recycled? Give your answer in standard form.

(2marks)
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Q17)
Express 0.14̇ as a fraction in its simplest form.

(2marks)
Q18)
The probabilty of Joe eating an apple or an orange or a peach is equal. Joe eats one of these
fruits on each Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
Find the probaility that Joe will eat 3 peaches in one week.

(2marks)
Q19)
ABCDE is part of a regular polygon with 15 sides . Calculate angle BDC.
C
D
B

E
A

(2marks)
Q20)
For the sequnce 4,10, 18, 28, 40,……..
Find: a) the nth term

b) 20th term
(2marks)
Q21)
A park has an area of 3km2. A map has a scale of 1:50000. What is the area of the park on the
map?
2km

1.5km

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Q22)
A person runs a 102m race in a measured time of 10.3s. If the track length is accurate to the
nearest metre and the time is accurate to the nearest 0.1s, find the upper bound of the
person’s average speed in m/s .

(2marks)
Q23)
125 children go swimming, cycling or to the cinema. 22 girls swim. There are 70 girls in total.
25 boys cycle. There are 42 children who go to the cinema, of which 12 are boys.
If one child is chosen at random, what is the probability that this child cycles?

(2marks)

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Q24)
When a ball is dropped, it bounces up to a height that is 75% of the height from which it was
dropped. It then bounces again to a height that is 75% of the previous height and so on.
How many bounces does it make before it bounces up to less than 25% of the original height
from which it was dropped?

(2marks)
Q25)
Cylinder A has a radius of 2cm and height of 10cm. Cylinder B has a radius of 5cm.
If both cylinders have the same volume, calculate the height ‘h’ of cylinder B.

2cm
5cm

10cm
A B h cm

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1. b) 2√2 c) 4√5

2. £275

3. £120

4. 25

5. (1,-4)

6. 1st

7. 7 cholates

8. X=-3.5

9. 46

10. 275km

11. 14.58cm

12. 11cm, 220cm

13. 13hrs 20 mins

14. 20301

15. £145.20

16. 1.5 x 107 tonnes

17. 13/90

18. 1/27

19. 120

20. a) n2 + 3n

b)460

21. 12cm2

22. 10m/s

23. 43/125

24. 5

25. H=1.6cm