Name: ______________________ Class: _________________ Date: _________ ID: A

Math8 Final
Math Grade Exam9 Pre-Test

Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

____ 1. Which of these numbers is a perfect square: 50, 20, 25, or 15?
a. 50 b. 20 c. 25 d. 15

____ 2. What is the side length of a square with area 25 cm2 ?

a. 5 cm b. 12.5 cm c. 6.25 cm d. 20 cm

____ 3. Find 8 2 .
a. 8 b. 64 c. 16 d. 32

____ 4. Which whole number is 8 closer to?

a. 5 b. 4 c. 3 d. 2

____ 5. The area of square P is 52 cm2 .

Square Q has an area equal to one quarter the area of square P.
Find the approximate side length of square Q.
Give your answer to 1 decimal place.
a. 3.6 cm b. 5.1 cm c. 13 cm d. 1.8 cm

____ 6. Find the length of the hypotenuse. Give your answer to 1 decimal place.

a. 144.0 b. 10.4 c. 13.4 d. 36.0

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____ 7. The area, in square centimetres, of the square on each side of a triangle is given.
Which triangle is NOT a right triangle?

a. Triangle D b. Triangle C c. Triangle B d. Triangle A

____ 8. In a right triangle, the length of the hypotenuse is 18 m and the length of one of the legs is 15 m.
Find the length of the other leg. Round your answer to the nearest tenth.
a. 5.0 m b. 6.8 m c. 9.9 m d. 23.4 m

____ 9. This diagram shows 2 flag poles that are 4.5 m tall. The distance from the top of the left pole to the
base of the right pole is 7.5 m. What is the distance between the 2 flag poles?

a. 5.0 m b. 6.0 m c. 3.0 m d. 4.5 m

____ 10. Find the product (+5) × (−9). Use a number line if necessary.
a. −45 b. +45 c. +14 d. –4

____ 11. Replace with an integer to make the equation true.

× (−5) = −30
a. +6 b. −6 c. −25 d. +25

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____ 12. Find this product. (−15) × (−8)

a. −120 b. +120 c. +23 d. −23

____ 13. Find the quotient (−21) ÷ (−3). Use a number line if it helps.
a. −24 b. −7 c. −18 d. +7

____ 14. Evaluate. 9 + (−7) − (−4)

a. 6 b. –2 c. 12 d. 20

____ 15. Evaluate. (−6)[(−3) + 9]

a. 72 b. –36 c. –72 d. 27

____ 16. Evaluate. −13 + 9 ÷ (−3) + 9

a. 1 b. –1 c. 7 d. –7

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____ 17. Multiply. 2 ×
12
7 7 3 31
a. b. c. d.
24 6 4 12

4 15
____ 18. Find this product. ×
5 20
19 2 3 19
a. b. c. d.
25 3 5 100

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____ 19. Find the reciprocal of .
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−11 −2 −2 11
a. b. c. d.
2 −11 11 2

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____ 20. Write 3 as an improper fraction.
3
11 5 8 15
a. b. c. d.
3 3 3 3

1 1
____ 21. Multiply. 1 ×2
3 3
1 1 2 2
a. 3 b. 2 c. 1 d. 3
9 9 9 3

1
____ 22. Find this quotient. 8 ÷
3
2 3 1
a. 24 b. 2 c. d.
3 8 24

8
____ 23. Find this quotient. ÷4
12
1 2 8
a. 6 b. c. d.
6 3 3

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5 15
____ 24. Find this quotient. ÷
3 7
4 7 7 2
a. 3 b. c. d. 2
7 9 15 15

4 5
____ 25. Divide. ÷
5 4
16 9 8
a. 1 b. c. 1 d.
25 16 25

1 1
____ 26. Divide. 2 ÷2
3 2
14 5 2 1
a. b. 5 c. d. 1
15 6 3 14

____ 27. Which operation would you do first?

5 ÊÁÁÁ 6 7 ˆ˜˜˜ 8 5
×Á + ˜÷ −
6 ÁÁË 7 8 ˜˜¯ 7 6
a. Addition b. Subtraction c. Multiplication d. Division

____ 28. Which operation would you do first?

ÊÁ 5 7 ˆ˜ 6 5 6
ÁÁÁ − ˜˜˜ × ÷ +
ÁÁ 6 8 ˜˜ 7 6 5
Ë ¯
a. Addition b. Subtraction c. Multiplication d. Division

2 3 15
____ 29. Evaluate. + ×
3 5 4
11 3 1 1
a. 2 b. 4 c. 1 d. 2
12 4 4 12

____ 30. This is an incomplete net for a triangular prism. What shapes do you add to complete this net?

a. 3 squares c. 1 triangle and 3 squares

b. 1 triangle and 2 squares d. 3 triangles

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____ 31. Which diagram is the net for a square pyramid?

a. Net A b. Net B c. Net C d. Net D

____ 32. Name the polyhedron that can be made from this net.

a. Rectangular pyramid c. Rectangular prism

b. Triangular prism d. Triangular pyramid

____ 33. How many triangular faces are there in a pentagonal pyramid?
a. 1 b. 5 c. 2 d. 3

____ 34. Find the surface area of this right rectangular prism.

a. 420 m2 b. 300 m2 c. 600 m2 d. 480 m2

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____ 35. Use the net to find the surface area of the right triangular prism.

a. 90 m2 b. 585 m2 c. 510 m2 d. 2340 m2

____ 36. A right rectangular prism measures 9 cm by 7 cm by 10 cm. What is the volume of the prism?
a. 630 cm3 b. 104 cm3 c. 223 cm3 d. 156 cm3

____ 37. Find the volume of this triangular prism.

a. 160 m3 b. 80 m3 c. 320 m3 d. 184 m3

____ 38. Find the surface area of this cylinder to the nearest square metre.

a. 905 m2 b. 704 m2 c. 653 m2 d. 452 m2

____ 39. Find the volume of this cylinder. Round your answer to the nearest tenth.

a. 747.7 m3 b. 373.8 m3 c. 2616.9 m3 d. 238 m3

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____ 40. Write 76% as a decimal.

a. 7.6 b. 0.76 c. 0.076 d. 76

____ 41. Write this fraction as a percent.

659
100
a. 659% b. 653% c. 6.59% d. 6.57%

____ 42. Find 274% of 70.

a. 39.14 b. 1918 c. 19.18 d. 191.8

____ 43. Calculate the sale price of this item before taxes.
30% off a bike for $397.95
a. $179.08 b. $119.39 c. $238.77 d. $278.57

____ 44. The sales taxes are 14%. Find the tax paid for a pair of running shoes that costs $115.
a. $16.10 b. $161.00 c. $1.22 d. $2.25

____ 45. What is the ratio of triangles to circles?

a. 6:5 b. 5:6 c. 7:5 d. 5:7

____ 46. The ratio of boys to girls in a class is 5 to 6.

What is the ratio of boys to students in the class?
a. 6 to 30 b. 6 to 11 c. 5 to 30 d. 5 to 11

____ 47. The ratios 40: and 8:7 are equivalent. Find the missing number.
a. 42 b. 35 c. 32 d. 55

____ 48. Find the value of the variable.

18:12 = 30:w
a. 28 b. 40 c. 56 d. 20

____ 49. One hundred nautical miles is about 185 km.

About how many kilometres is 120 nautical miles?
a. 65 km b. 222 km c. 185 km d. 2220 km

____ 50. At the market, 5 cans of soup cost $4.75. What is the cost of 1 can of soup?
a. 97¢ b. $1.90 c. 96¢ d. 95¢

____ 51. You pay $2.80 for 7 bagels. Find the unit cost for these bagels.
a. $0.47 per bagel c. $0.50 per bagel
b. $0.40 per bagel d. $0.20 per bagel

____ 52. Use this balance-scales model to solve for x.

a. –4 b. 9 c. 15 d. 4

____ 53. Solve this equation. 3x + 11 = 23

a. 9 b. 4 c. 11 d. −4

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____ 54. Write an equation for this situation.

Patricia has p posters. She sold 8 and has 18 left.
a. p + 18 = 8 c. p + 8 = 18
b. p − 8 = 18 d. p = 18 − 8

____ 55. Solve this equation. 4y + 8 = 36

a. 1 b. 3 c. 7 d. 24

x
____ 56. Solve this equation. = −9
−6
a. 54 b. −54 c. −15 d. –3

d
____ 57. Solve this equation. 9 + = 23
4
a. 83 b. –13 c. 56 d. 10

t
____ 58. Solve this equation. − 7 = 16
−2
a. −46 b. –25 c. 30 d. 21

____ 59. Expand. 4(x + 7)

a. 4x + 7 b. 4x + 28 c. 4+x+7 d. 28x

____ 60. Expand. −6(5 − x)

a. −30 + 6x b. −30 − 6x c. −11 − 6x d. −30 − x

____ 61. Solve this equation: −5(a + 4) = 15

a. 1 b. −7 c. 40 d. 7

____ 62. The ordered pair (5, ) is in the linear relation with equation y = −2x + 8.
Find the missing number in the ordered pair.
a. 1 b. 11 c. –2 d. –18

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____ 63. Graph the relation y = –2x + 3 for integer values of x from 0 to 4.
a. c.

b. d.

____ 64. Which relations have graphs that are lines going up to the right?
i) y = −5x + 3
ii) y = 5x + 3
iii) y = −5x − 3
iv) y = 5x − 3
a. ii and iv b. i and iii c. ii d. i, ii, and iv

____ 65. This graph shows the number of customers buying from a store in September and October.

Is the graph misleading? If it is misleading, explain why.

a. Yes, the bars do not touch.
b. No, the graph is not misleading.
c. Yes, the intervals on the vertical axis between 200 and 207 are not even.
d. Yes, the graph exaggerates the difference in the number of customers between
September and October.

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____ 66. A clothing manufacturer offers 2 different styles of jeans, relaxed fit and regular fit, in 5 different
colours. How many combinations of a style and a colour are possible?
a. 4 b. 8 c. 7 d. 10

____ 67. A coin is tossed and a regular 6-sided die labelled 1 to 6 is rolled.
What is the probability of tossing a head and rolling a 5?
1 1 2 1
a. b. c. d.
12 4 3 6

____ 68. A red die, a blue die, and a green die are rolled. Each is a regular 6-sided die labelled 1 to 6.
What is the probability of rolling an even number on each die?
1 1 1 1
a. b. c. d.
6 216 2 8

____ 69. This object is made using 4 linking cubes. Draw the right side view of the object.

a. b. c. d.

____ 70. Draw the side view of this object.

a. b. c. d.

____ 71. This object is built using 4 linking cubes.

The object is rotated vertically 90° clockwise about the axis shown.
Draw the right side view of the object after the rotation.

a. b. c. d.

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____ 72. This object is built using 7 linking cubes.

The object is rotated vertically 90° clockwise about the axis shown.

Which view is the front view of the object after the rotation?

a. View K b. View L c. View M d. View N

____ 73. These are views of an object built using linking cubes. Sketch the object.

a. c.

b. d.

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____ 74. These are views of an object built using linking cubes. Sketch the object.

a. c.

b. d.

____ 75. These are views of an object built using linking cubes.
The letters refer to the colours of the cubes.
R = red, B = blue, G = green, Y = yellow, and P = purple
Sketch the object and label the colours.

a. c.

b. d.

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____ 76. Triangle B is a translation image of Triangle A. Describe the translation.

a. 5 units right and 3 units down c. 3 units right and 5 units down
b. 5 units left and 3 units up d. 3 units left and 5 units up

____ 77. Triangle B is the image of Triangle A after a reflection in a vertical line through the point (6, 0).
Which diagram shows the correct position of Triangle B?
a. c.

b. d.

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____ 78. Triangle SOQ is a transformation image of Triangle KOV. Describe the transformation.

a. 90° clockwise rotation about O

b. Reflection in the line PT
c. 180° rotation about O
d. Translation 4 units right and 2 units down

____ 79. Which shape does not tessellate?

a. Shape A b. Shape B c. Shape C d. Shape D

____ 80. This L-shape below is used to create the design on its right.

Identify the transformations used.

a. Translations only
b. Reflections only
c. Rotations only
d. None of these

Short Answer

81. Order from least to greatest: 5 2 , 4 2 , 289 , 19

82. What is a factor?

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83. This logo is made up of 4 congruent right triangles. Find the perimeter of the logo.

84. Write the next 2 terms in this pattern. Then write a pattern rule.
+2, –6, +18, –54, ....

85. The water level in a pool dropped 80 mm each hour. The total drop in water level was 480 mm.
How long did it take for the water level to change?

2 4
86. Find of .
3 7

3 20
87. Find this product. ×
8 21

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88. Evaluate.
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89. Write the mixed number and the improper fraction represented by this picture.

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90. Write the reciprocal of 2 .
4

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91. Write as a mixed number.
4

7 1 3
92. Evaluate. 2 ×1 ÷3
10 4 8

93. Sketch a net for each object.

a) a closed cylinder
b) an open cylinder

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94. The surface area of a cube is 216 cm2 .

a) What is the surface area of one face of the cube?
b) What is the length of one edge of the cube?

95. The 2 ends of a right triangular prism are equilateral triangles. Each has an area of 27 cm2 .
The total surface area of the prism is 390 cm2 . Calculate the area of each rectangular face.

96. If each of the length, width, and height of a rectangular prism is doubled, what happens to the
volume?

97. Calculate the volume of this triangular prism.

98. A circle has radius 18 cm. Find the circumference to the nearest centimetre.

99. There are 26 concrete cylindrical pillars in a stadium.

Each column has diameter 3.4 m and height 12 m.
Calculate the total volume of concrete in the pillars, to the nearest cubic metre. Use π = 3.14.

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100. Write as a decimal and as a percent.
240

101. What percent of 200 is 69?

102. You have 4 red cubes, 5 blue cubes, and 7 green cubes.
Which sets of cubes could you use to show the ratio 7:9?

103. Write 2 ratios equivalent to the ratio 5:2.

104. Miguel made 5 of 12 free shots in his basketball game.

Nadia made 8 of 11 free shots in her basketball game.
Who played better? Explain.

105. What is the mass needed to balance these scales?

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106. A white square represents +1, a black square represents –1, and a black rectangle represents –x.
Find the value of x.

107. Solve this equation. −6p + 9 = −33

108. Solve this equation: 5(y − 6) = 10

109. Make a table of values for the relation y = x − 4 for x = –4, –3, –2, –1, 0.

110. This table of values is for the linear relation with equation y = b − x, where b is a constant.
Find the value of b.

111. Two regular 6-sided dice, each labelled 1 to 6, are rolled.

What is the probability of rolling 2 even numbers?

112. A yellow die, a purple die, and a green die are rolled. Each is a regular 8-sided die labelled 1 to 8.
What is the probability of rolling a 4 on the yellow die, a 2 on the purple die, and a 7 on the green
die?

113. There are 3 decks of standard playing cards. Each of 3 students picks a card at random from a deck.
What is the probability of each student picking a face card (Jack, Queen, King)?

114. This object is made using linking cubes. Sketch the right side, front, and top views of the object.

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115. This object is built using 8 linking cubes.

The object is rotated vertically 90° away from you about the horizontal axis shown.
Draw the top, front, and side views of the rotated object.

116. These are the views of an object built using linking cubes.
Use these views to build the object.

117. Use this diagram to identify each transformation.

a) Triangle R is the image of Triangle V.

b) Triangle R is the image of Triangle P.

118. Create a design by applying each transformation to the original shape.

a) Reflection in Line m
b) 180° rotation about point O
c) Reflection in Line l

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119. Jodi wants to tile her bedroom floor with octagons. This pattern shows part of the floor.

Does Jodi need another shape to cover the floor with no gaps? If so, what is it?

120. Draw the 4th tile in this tessellation.

Problem

121. A square and a rectangle have the same area.

The rectangle has length 9 cm and height 16 cm.
Find the area and perimeter of the square.

122. The length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is 10 cm.

Give 3 possible lengths of the legs of the triangle.

123. In this diagram, PT = RT . Find the measure of ST. Show your work.
Give your answer to 1 decimal place.

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124. Sarah says triangle ABC is a right triangle.

Is she correct? Justify your answer.

125. Find the length of BC to the nearest tenth. Show your work.

126. Explain how you could predict the sign of the product (−8)(+9)(+7)(−4) without actually multiplying.

127. Find all the integers that divide −22 exactly. Show your work.

128. In a darts game, Jamie and Corinne each threw 10 darts.

Jamie had three (+6) scores, four (+7) scores, and three (−8) scores.
Corinne had five (+6) scores, two (+7) scores, and three (−8) scores.
a) What were the final scores for Jamie and Corinne? Show your work.
b) If the winner was the one with the greater score, who won?

4 1 7
129. Multiply 4 ×6 × . Show your work.
5 4 20

130. Evaluate. Show your steps.

1 5
5 ÷1
4 7

131. Which object has the greater surface area?

• A cylinder with radius 3 cm and length 8 cm
• A cube of edge length 6 cm
Explain.

132. An immunization program claims that 99.75% of those vaccinated are safe from a virus.
If 564 000 children were vaccinated, about how many are still at risk? Show your work.

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133. A bag contains 234 red cubes and green cubes in the ratio of 6 red to 7 green.
How many of each colour are there in the bag? Explain your strategy.

134. In 3 stores, the same detergent is on special. Which store offers the best buy? Explain.
A: 6 bottles for $12.48
B: 7 bottles for $14.42
C: 5 bottles for $10.35

135. Use this balance-scales model to solve for x. Show your work.

136. a) Graph both relations on the same coordinate axes.

i) y = 8 − x
ii) y = x + 2
b) Find the ordered pair on the graph that are in both relations.

137. Victor has 20 songs on a CD. The songs are: 4 by group A, 6 by group B, 3 by group C, and 7 by
group D. He selects a setting that randomly chooses songs to play.
Find the probability of each event.
a) The first 3 songs played are by group A.
b) The first song played is by group B, and the next 2 songs are by group D.
c) The first 3 songs played are not by group A.
Show your work.

138. Draw the image of Shape A after a reflection in the diagonal Line m.

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139. In this tessellation, Triangle Q is the image of Triangle P.

Describe possible combinations of transformations you can use to transform Triangle P to Triangle
Q.

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