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The document is a Year 8 Summer Assessment paper for Mathematics, allowing 55 minutes for completion and a maximum score of 50 marks. It includes various mathematical problems such as calculating percentages, ratios, and probabilities, as well as tasks involving algebra and geometry. Students are instructed to answer all questions in the provided spaces and to use a calculator where permitted.

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Exam Paper

The document is a Year 8 Summer Assessment paper for Mathematics, allowing 55 minutes for completion and a maximum score of 50 marks. It includes various mathematical problems such as calculating percentages, ratios, and probabilities, as well as tasks involving algebra and geometry. Students are instructed to answer all questions in the provided spaces and to use a calculator where permitted.

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Year 8 Summer Assessment

Calculator
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]

_______________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

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]

___________________________________________________________________

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]

___________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________

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]

_______________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

Answer _________________________________________

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