Year 8 Maths Name:

Angles and area

1. The diagram shows a plan of Luke’s new lawn.

The lawn is a circle with radius 3m.
Work out the area of the lawn.

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Answer _____________________________ m2
2 marks

2. Inside the rectangle below is a shaded rhombus.

The vertices of the rhombus are the midpoints of the sides of the rectangle.

Not drawn accurately

What is the area of the shaded rhombus?

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Answer _____________________________
3 marks

3. A window is made with two pieces of glass.

One piece is a square, the other is a semicircle.
The area of the square is 1m2.

What is the area of the semicircle?

Give your answer in cm2 to the nearest whole number.

Not drawn accurately

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Answer _____________________________ cm2

3 marks

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4. The diagram shows two circles and a square, ABCD.

A and B are the centres of the circles.
The radius of each circle is 5 cm.

Not drawn accurately

Calculate the area of the shaded part of the square.

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Answer _____________________________
3 marks

5. The diagram shows a square and a circle.

The circle touches the edges of the square.

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What percentage of the diagram is shaded?

Show your working.

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Answer _____________________________%
3 marks

6. This door wedge is the shape of a prism.

(a) The shaded face of the door wedge is a trapezium.

Calculate the area of the shaded face.

Show your working.

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Answer _____________________________ cm2

2 marks

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(b) Calculate the volume of the door wedge.

Show your working.

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Answer _____________________________ cm3

1 mark

7. Each shape in this question has an area of 10cm2.

(a) Calculate the height of the parallelogram.

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area = 10cm2 height = __________ cm

1 mark

(b) Calculate the length of the base of the triangle.

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area = 10 cm2 base = __________ cm

1 mark

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(c) What might be the values of h, a and b in this trapezium?

(a is greater than b)

area = 10 cm2 h = ________ cm a = ________ cm b = ________ cm

1 mark

What else might the values of h, a and b be?

area = 10 cm2 h = ________ cm a = ________ cm b = ________ cm

1 mark

8. The diagram shows a square and an equilateral triangle.

Not drawn accurately

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Calculate the sizes of angles x, y and z

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x = ____________________
1 mark

y = ____________________
1 mark

z = ____________________
1 mark

9. (a) Work out the size of an exterior angle of a regular octagon.

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Answer _______________________ degrees

2 marks

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(b) The diagram shows part of a regular polygon.

Work out the number of sides of this regular polygon.

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Answer _____________________________
3 marks

10. In the USA, the Susan B. Anthony dollar coin is circular.

Inside the circle is a regular hendecagon, which has
11 sides.
Work out the exact size of the interior angle of a regular hendecagon.

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Answer _______________________ degrees

3 marks

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Feedback Form Instructions

When you have answered as many questions as you can, complete the form on the last page
to help you reflect on your work.

How to fill in the form

1 Put your confidence score in Column C. This is not about the number of marks you achieved
but how sure you felt while you were answering the question.

Confidence Definition

0 I didn’t answer this one

1 I guessed the answer

2 I needed help with the answer

3 I understood the question but wasn’t sure about my answer

4 I was fairly confident I would get most of the marks

5 I was sure my answer was correct and I would get full marks

2 Use the mark scheme to check your answers.

Put the mark you think you achieved in Column Mark.

3 Write an overall comment about how you felt each question went.
 If you got help, make a note in the comment box specifying the source: internet,
friend, book, parent or tutor.

4 Complete ‘I can…’ and ‘I need to…’ sentences.

 ‘I can…’ sentences might include the questions you found easiest to answer, got the
most marks for or felt the most confident about.
 ‘I need to…’ sentences might include areas you need to revise, questions you want to
ask your teacher or the next topic or skill you want to work on.

5 Return the form to your teacher.

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Self-assessment
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Teacher review
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