Year 8 Maths Holiday Homework
Year 8 Maths Holiday Homework
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HOLIDAY HOMEWORK
JULY-AUGUST 2024
MATHEMATICS
YEAR 8
Time: 6 HOURS
INSTRUCTIONS
INFORMATION
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7 Factorise completely.
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[Total: 3]
8 Simplify.
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[Total: 2]
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9 Solve.
t = ................................................... [3]
[Total: 3]
n = ................................................... [3]
[Total: 3]
11 Solve.
w = ................................................... [2]
[Total: 2]
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[Total: 1]
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13 Work out .
Give your answer correct to 2 decimal places.
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[Total: 2]
(a) ,
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(b) ,
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(c) .
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[Total: 3]
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= 0.5 = 50
= .................... = 20
[Total: 3]
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Fraction Percentage
= 47%
[3]
[Total: 3]
34% 0.345
[Total: 2]
smallest
[Total: 2]
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19 Mr Zhang, his wife and three children go on a holiday from Shanghai to Auckland.
Show that the total cost of the flight for the family is $2441, correct to the nearest dollar.
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[Total: 3]
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[Total: 2]
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22 Calculate.
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[Total: 2]
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(b) 10 100
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[Total: 2]
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(a) By writing each number correct to 1 significant figure, work out an estimate for p.
You must show all your working.
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[Total: 3]
Abbots 06 50 08 25 09 20
Callet 07 12 08 47 09 42
North Moor 07 30 09 05 10 00
South Moor 07 37 09 12 10 07
Centre Point 08 00 09 35 10 30
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(b) Annisa leaves home at 8.27 am and takes 25 minutes to walk to the bus stop at Callet.
She catches the next bus to Centre Point.
Find the total time, in minutes, for her journey from leaving home to arriving at Centre Point.
[Total: 3]
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(b) Work out how long the first train should take to travel from Redtown to Southford.
Give your answer in hours and minutes.
[Total: 4]
Total
[3]
[Total: 3]
$ ................................................... [2]
[Total: 2]
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29
The diagram shows two straight lines intersecting two parallel lines.
x = ................................................... [2]
[Total: 2]
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[Total: 4]
31
Using a ruler and compasses only, construct the other two sides of the triangle.
Show all your construction arcs.
[2]
[Total: 2]
32 Victoria records the colour of each of 240 cars leaving a car park.
Some of this information is shown in the pie chart.
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[1]
[2]
[Total: 3]
(b) Find how many more adult tickets were sold than child tickets.
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[Total: 6]
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34
Shade some squares so that both shapes have the same fraction shaded. [2]
[Total: 2]
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[Total: 3]
36 Billie asks 60 students in his school what their favourite type of book is.
He has started to draw a pictogram to show his results.
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(d) Work out how many more students choose detective books than music books.
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(e) Work out the fraction of students who did not choose romance books.
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[Total: 7]
6 −2 −5 7 9 2
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[Total: 2]
38 The average temperature at the North Pole is −23 °C in January and −11 °C in March.
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(b) The average temperature in July is 28 °C higher than the average temperature in March.
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40 x is an integer and .
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PART II
1 A stone has volume 45 cm3 and mass 126 g.
Find the density of the stone, giving the units of your answer.
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[Total: 3]
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29 32 35 38
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[Total: 2]
Answer(b)......................................................................................................................................... [1]
[Total: 3]
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[Total: 3]
8 (a) Calculate the volume of a cylindrical vase with radius 14.2 cm and height 18 cm.
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[Total: 3]
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NOT TO
SCALE
5 cm
9 cm
12.5 cm
[Total: 3]
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[Total: 2]
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(b) (i) Find the coordinates of the point where this line crosses the y-axis.
[Total: 4]
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North
North
A Scale: 1 cm to 200 m
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William Toby
Town 4
Distance
2
(km)
Home 0
10 00 10 04 10 08 10 12 10 16 10 20 10 24 10 28 10 32
Time
(a) For how many minutes did Toby stop on his journey into town?
Answer(b)......................................................................................................................................... [1]
(c) Work out how long William took to cycle into town.
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Soccer 54 144°
Hockey 45
Rugby 27
Other 9
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Soccer
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[Total: 5]
19 The table shows the number of screws of different lengths in a box of 100 screws.
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Length (mm) 20 40 50 60
Number of screws 18 36 24 22
(a) 50 mm,
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(c) 70 mm.
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[Total: 4]
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20
C
NOT TO
6 cm SCALE
O B
5 cm
The diagram shows a shape made from a quarter-circle, OAB, and a right-angled triangle OBC.
The radius of the circle is 5 cm and OC = 6 cm.
[Total: 3]
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21
NOT TO
SCALE
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25 Simplify.
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26 Simplify.
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[Total: 2]
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Write down a pair of simultaneous equations and solve them to find the cost of one tomato plant and the cost
of one pepper plant.
You must show all your working.
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28 Find
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(c) ,
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£ ................................................... [2]
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30 A tourist changes $500 to euros (€) when the exchange rate is €1 = $1.0697 .
€ ................................................... [2]
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= 0.5 = 50
= .................... = 20
[Total: 3]
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32
204 mm NOT TO
SCALE
72 mm
180 mm
[Total: 5]
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[Total: 2]
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34 Six donkeys are each given two 5 ml spoons of medicine three times each day.
Calculate the number of whole days a 2 litre bottle of medicine will last.
[Total: 3]
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PART III
1 Find a multiple of 3 between 70 and 80.
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3 27 28 29 30 31 32 33
(a) a multiple of 7,
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[Total: 2]
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7 The table shows the temperature at Lexford Station at 10 00 each day for a week.
Temperature
−3 4 −1 0 −5 2 1
(°C)
(a) Write down the day which had the coldest temperature.
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(b) Work out the difference in the temperature between Monday and Tuesday.
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[Total: 3]
8 Write 32 cm as a fraction of 2 m.
Give your answer in its simplest form.
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[Total: 2]
9 Write down
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(c) a decimal number that is larger than 0.0467 but smaller than 0.0468 .
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[Total: 3]
10 The table gives some information about the numbers of visitors at a leisure centre one day.
(b) Work out how many more child visitors than adult visitors there are.
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[Total: 7]
Fraction Percentage
= 47%
[3]
[Total: 3]
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0.38 30%
[Total: 2]
(a) ,
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(b) ,
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(c) .
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[Total: 3]
14 Calculate.
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[Total: 2]
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19 Simplify .
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[Total: 2]
x = ................................................... [2]
[Total: 2]
n = ................................................... [3]
[Total: 3]
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[Total: 1]
3.5 kg = ......................................... g
[Total: 2]
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[Total: 2]
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[Total: 2]
Calculate
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[Total: 4]
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North
North
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[Total: 1]
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w = ................................................... [3]
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[2]
[Total: 2]
Find the probability that Jane does not win the game.
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[Total: 1]
(a) Draw an arrow (↓) on the scale to show the probability that this counter is red.
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[Total: 2]
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Work out the fraction of ice creams he sells on Friday that are vanilla.
Give your answer in its simplest form.
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[Total: 2]
33 One day, Mahika records the number of teachers and students who cycle to school.
Tally Frequency
Teachers ////
(b) Work out the percentage of people who cycle that are students.
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[Total: 3]
34 Miguel records the length of time of each telephone call he receives, correct to the nearest minute.
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7 15 6 28 8 21 17 19 20 12
11 19 12 3 20 23 14 9 4 18
0−5
6 − 10
11 − 15
16 − 20
21 − 25
26 − 30
[2]
[3]
(c) Use the bar chart to write down the modal group.
[Total: 6]
35 These are the number of texts sent one day by each of 10 students.
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18 13 15 8 9 17 12 8 6 14
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[Total: 3]
36 Olga counts the number of letters in each of the last 50 words in the book she is reading.
She has only counted the letters in 43 words so far.
Her results for these 43 words are shown in the table below.
The last seven words in the book that Olga needs to add to the table are
(a) Complete the tally and frequency columns in the table. [2]
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[Total: 4]
37 Zachary asks the 30 students in his class which is their favourite sport.
The table shows the results.
7 12 6 5
Netball
Football
Hockey
Tennis
[2]
[Total: 2]
38 The stem-and-leaf diagram shows the number of hours that each of 16 students studied last week.
1 2 5 6 8
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0 1 1 7
2
9
3 2 3 4 5
4 4 5 7
Find
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[Total: 3]
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Find the number of minutes between the time Sara arrives at school and the time school starts.
[Total: 2]
40 A closed box in the shape of a cuboid has length 5 cm, width 4 cm and height 2 cm.
[Total: 2]