| Year 8 Half Yearly 2018 | 7 TIME : 65 min Name: Result: Teacher: 170 Directions | Calculators are allowed in this exam. Full working should be shown in every question. Marks may be deducted for careless or badly arranged work. Use permanent black or blue pen only (not pencils) to write your solutions. Pencils and rulers can be used for diagrams, ‘No liquid paper/correction tape is to be used. If a correction is to be made, one line is to be ruled through the incorrect answer. © The diagrams are not to scale. Algebra and Financial Section Ratio & Rates | Statistics Graphs & | “Equations | Graphs | Mathematics M4 36,7 | 210 58 9 Multiple Choice 2 a 23 Section A 8 Section B - | 10 | Section © ‘5s Seetion D 4 114 Section E a 15,16 Section F 's Sub-Total na a7 18} 8B 123 |~ Multiple Choice ~ Which is a factor of 2p? — 8p ? (A) p-4 (B) 2p-4 © p-4 ©) p’-8 ‘The average height of two boys in a class is 1.35m. The average height of three girls from the same class is 1.25m. | What is the average height (in metres) of these 5 students from the class? (A) 1.09 (B) 1.25 (©) 1.29 @) 1.30 Peter rides his bike at a speed of 27kmvh. What is this speed in m/s? (A) 75 (B) 18.75 © 972 @) 450 | Which of the following has NO solutions? (A) Y= 16 @)1-p=-8 (© x#=-~-9 @)y-64=0 ‘Which of these lines has a gradient of —4? “A @) y Lh “4 x -l\ 4 © ©) y 4 a i 4 1 John knows that © One Australian dollar is worth 0.62 euros. © One Vistabella dollar ($V) is worth 1.44 euros, John changes 25 Australian dollars to Vistabella dollars. How many Vistabella dollars will he get? (A) 8V10.76 @®) $v22.32 © $v28.00 (@) $V58.06Beaker A has 20% more liquid that beaker B. Beaker B has 15% less liquid than beaker C. Beaker C contains 120mL of liquid. How many more millilitres are there in Beaker A than beaker C? (A) 24 (8) 6 © 204 (D) 42 | - | 8 | Which equation represents the relationship between x and y in this table? [= To ]2]4T 6 | | est es [283 eal | | | (A)y =2x+1 (B) y=2x-2 (©) y=2-2 @Oy=s41 | 9 |Ming’s salary increased this year by 4.5% to $39 419. What was his old salary, correct to the nearest | dollar? | (A) $39 415 (B) $37 722 (C) $41 193 (D) $37 645 | 10 |The frequency histogram shows the number of goals scored by a football team in each game in a /season. Goals Scored in Each Game Number of games Number of goals scored What was the mean number of goals scored per game? | 16 (B) 5 © 51 (0) 76.5 |~ Section A~ Bk4+4 Solve 7% of a number is 42. Find the number. Ata sale all prices are reduced by 24%. Find the original price, if an item sold for $595.82. Expand and simplify (+3)@-3)-@-1F Simplify 3x? -12 xt —4x+4~ Section B~ 6 | The following data shows how many students walked to school on different days: G18 Goal 5) 1te10 9914s 13 oe 4) a 9824, (@) Find the @) Mode Gi) Median = (ii) Range = | (b) Show that the mean is approximately 8.29 (©) What effect would happen to the median and the mean if the outlier was removed? During a ten minute period, Kath is exercising and Jim is resting, How much more air would Kath breathe than Jim during | 100 litres per minute | 6 litres per minute this time? while exercising while resting 8 | Simplify these ratios b) 4x2y: 2xy? ©) 15min : 3hr 20min~ Section C~ Keryn is designing a new watering system for the plants in her garden. She knows that each plant needs 1.2 littes of water per day. To minimise evaporation, Keryn designs a system to drip water into a tube that takes the water to the roots. 8) What is the number of litres of water required daily for 13 plants? b) Keryn pays 94.22 cents per kilolitre for water. Calculate the total cost of watering 13 plants for one week. ©) Keryn knows that ImL = 15 drops. Find the number of drops that one plant needs daily. 4) The watering system tums on at 8am and off at 6pm every day. How many drops per minute are required for the plants to stay healthy?ito | A company manufactures car batteries and the following graph shows the cost to produce batteries in the factory Cost $ | 0 5 0 ms 0% 0 ‘Number (N) of car batteries a) What is the total cost of manufacturing 15 batteries? 1 b) How many batteries can be produced for $1050? ©) Explain what changes occur in the cost when more than 20 batteries are produced. d) The batteries are sold for $65 each. What is the percentage profit when 45 batteries are sold?~ Section D~ A straight line is drawn through A(—4, —2) and B(2,6) Not to Scale 52.8) M42) Find: 8) The gradient b) The equation of the line ©) The distance from A to B Solve the following a) V2x-=3=3~ Section E~ 13 | Ryan purchased a high definition television for a cash price of $4850, which included GST of 10%. He paid a deposit of 15% and was required to make monthly payments for the balanced owed, using simple interest of 7% pa over 3 years. a) Calculate the deposit. b) What was the balance owing after paying the deposit? ©) Calculate the interest charged to the nearest dollar. 4) Calculate the amount (to the nearest dollar) Ryan was required to pay each month. ) What was the total amount Ryan paid for this television? f) How much was the GST (10%) included in this price of $4850? 14 If.x is 8% of y and y is 7% of w, find x in terms of w.~ Section F~ Jo invests $450 in an account earning compound interest at 2.5% p.a. what is the actual afta of the bedroom (to the nearest m2) 3 He plans to leave the money in the account for 2 years. Fill in the missing values in the table below, $461.25 When James invest $5800, he earns $1276 interest over 4 years, 2 ‘What was the annual simple rate of interest paid on James” investment? % The plan of a house is drawn to a scale of 1:250. If a bedroom measures 18mm by 15mm on the plan, 3 ~End of Exam ~