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The Westminster School, Dubai

Summer Break Homework 2023-24


Subject: Mathematics Year: 8

1. Find the lowest common multiple (LCM) of 15 and 27.

2. Write 432 as the product of its prime factors.

3. Gerry and Alain run around a running track. To run around the track once
Gerry always takes 90 seconds. Alain always takes 105 seconds. They start together at
the same point. After how many minutes are they next together at that point?

4. Find the highest common factor (HCF) of 90 and 48.

5. From the list of numbers, write down


27 28 29 30 31 32 33

(a) a multiple of 7
(b) a cube number,
(c) a prime number.
1 4
6. Work out 4 − 3 . Give your answer as a fraction.
3 9

2 1
7. Work out 1 + 2 . Give your answer as a mixed number
5 2

1 2
8. Work out 1 × 2 . Give your answer as a mixed number
3 5

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9. Aled feeds his pet cat of a can of cat food each day. How many cans of cat food should
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Aled buy each week?

10. The ratio of boys to girls in a school is 4 : 5


There are 220 boys in the school. How many students attend the school?

11. A piece of carpet is 240cm long. Mr. Jones cuts it into three pieces in the ratio 1 : 2 : 5
Work out the length of the longest piece of carpet.

12. Shown is a rectangle. Find an expression, in terms of x, for the perimeter of the rectangle.
13. Expand and simplify 5(x + 3y) + 2(2x − y)

14. Solve the equation 3(y + 4) = 24

15. Solve 7w + 3 = 5w + 9

16. Shown is a triangle. The three angles add up to give 180°

(a) Write down an equation for this information

(b) Solve your equation to find x.

17. Amelia has been asked to write the number 0.0054 in standard form. She writes 5.4 × 10 3
Explain why Amelia is incorrect.

18. Tom has been asked to round the number on the calculator to two
significant figures. Tom says the answer is 516.16.
Can you explain Tom’s mistake?
19. In 2000 the population of the country was 4,580,000 By 2015; the population had
increased by 18%. Work out the population in 2015

20. The first 5 terms in a number sequence are 10, 7, 4, 1, −2, …

(a) Work out the nth term of the sequence.

(b) Find the 50th term of the sequence

21. The following table shows the number of books read by students in a class over a month:
a) What is the total number of students in the class?

b) What is the mean number of books read per student?

22. A survey was conducted to find out the favorite sports of students in a class. The results
are as follows:
Football: 10 students
Basketball: 5 students
Tennis: 8 students
Swimming: 7 students
a) Draw a pie chart to represent this data.

b) What percentage of students prefer football?


23. A box contains 3 red balls, 4 blue balls, and 5 green balls.

a) What is the probability of randomly picking a red ball?

b) What is the probability of not picking a green ball?

24. Irfan rolls a fair die, with sides labeled A, B, C, D, E and F. What is the probability that the
dice lands on a vowel?

25. The following data represents the number of hours spent by students on homework in a
week:

a) Draw a bar chart to represent this data.


b) Which student spent the most time on homework?

c) Which student spent less time on homework?


26. I have a big tub of jelly beans. The probability of picking each different color of jelly bean is
shown below:

If I were to pick 60 jelly beans from the tub, how many orange jelly beans would I
expect to pick?

27. Calculate the area and perimeter of a triangle with a base of 8 cm and a height of 5 cm.

28. Ruhi has a cuboidal box. Calculate the surface area and volume of a cuboid with
dimensions 4 cm by 6 cm by 8 cm

29. AB is a straight line. What are the coordinates of the midpoint of the line segment joining
(2, 3) and (8, 7)

30. The following are the heights (in cm) of a group of students: 150, 160, 155, 165, 170, 150,
160, 155. Calculate the mean, median, and mode of the heights. What is the range of the
heights?

31. The following are the ages of students in a classroom: 12, 14, 13, 15, 12, 14, 13, 12, 16, 13.
(a) Construct a stem-and-leaf plot for this data.

(b) How many students are 13 years old?

32. A ladder is leaning against a wall such that the foot of the ladder is 6 meters away from the
wall, and the ladder reaches a height of 8 meters up the wall. What is the length of the
ladder?

33. A kitchen floor is to be tiled with square tiles, each with a side length of 0.5 meters. If the
kitchen floor measures 4 meters by 3 meters, how many tiles are needed to cover the floor
completely?

34. Rimi has a parallelogram-shaped plot of land , has a base of 20 meters and a height of 15
meters. If the cost to pave the land is $25 per square meter, what is the total cost to pave
the entire plot?

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