Training of Trainers (TOT) of Grade 8 Teachers of the Enhanced Basic Education (K to 12) Program April 14-20, 2013, Teachers

Camp, Baguio City PRE-TEST in Grade 8 Mathematics Name: ___ANSWER KEY_ _ Region: ____ Division: _______ Score: _____

Directions: Read the questions carefully and write the letter of the best answer on the space provided before each number. C 1. What is the graph of linear inequalities in two variables? a. Straight line c. Half-plane b. Parabola d. Half of a parabola

C 2. Which of the following DOES NOT belong to the group? 4 a. x 1 c. 8(x 1)3 27 b. x2 0.0001y4 C 3. If mR + mM = 90 then a. R M b. R and M are right angles d. (x + 1)4 4x6 c. R and M are complementary d. R and M are supplementary

C 4. When a rational algebraic expression is subtracted from What is the other rational algebraic expression? a. b. A 5. What is the simplest form of a. b. D ? c. d. c. d.

the result is

6. Find the equation of the line with the slope -2 and passing through (5, 4). a. y = 2x + 1 c. y = 2x + 14 b. y = -2x + 1 d. y = -2x + 14 7. LOVE is a parallelogram. If SE = 6, then what is SO? a. 3 c. 12 b. 6 d. 15 8. Margie has grades 86, 68 and 79 in her first three tests in Algebra. What grade must she obtain on the fourth test to get an average of 78? a. 76 c. 78 b. 77 d. 79

C 9. A master rewarded his servant a square piece of land. They agreed that a portion of it represented by the rectangle, should be used to construct a grotto. How large is the area of the land that is available for the other uses? a. 4x2 9 b. 4x2 + x + 9 c. 4x2 8x 9 d. 4x2 + 9

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C 10. Which line in Figure 4 is the steepest? a. line b. line m c. line n d. line p

x m

p
A 11. Luisa says that the system

has no solution. Which of

the following reasons would support her statement? I. The two lines described by the equations in the system have the same slope. II. The graph of the system of equations shows parallel lines. III. The graph of the system of equations shows intersecting lines. a. I and II c. II and III b. I and III d. I, II, and III C 12. Jancent knows that AB = XY and AC = XZ. What other information does he need to prove ABC XYZ by SAS postulate? a. B Y c. A X b. C Z d. B Z A 13. Electra Company measures each cable wire as it comes off the product line. The lengths in centimeters of the first batch of ten cable wires were: 10, 15, 14, 11, 13, 10, 10, 11, 12 and 13. Find the standard deviation of these lengths. a. 1.7 c. 10.9 b. 1.8 d. 11.9 C 14. A glass jar contains 40 red, green, blue and yellow marbles. If the probability of drawing a single green marble at random is 15, what does this mean? a. There is only one green marble in the glass jar. b. There are 5 green marbles in the glass jar. c. There are 8 green marbles in the glass jar. d. There are more tahn 8 green marbles than the others. D 15. As head of the marketing department of a certain construction firm, you are tasked to create a new packaging box for the soap products. What criteria will you consider in creating the box? a. Appropriateness and the resources used. b. Resources used and uniqueness c. Appropriateness and uniqueness d. Appropriateness and capacity C 16. A restaurant owner would like to make a model which he can use as guide in writing a system of equations. He will use the system of equations in determining the number of kilograms of pork and beef that he needs to purchase daily given a certain amount of money (C), the cost (A) of a kilo of pork, the cost (B) of a kilo of beef, and the total weight of meat (D). Which of the following models should he make and follow?

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B 17. A balikbayan chose you to be one of the contractors to design an A-frame house maximizing the size of two square lots with dimensions 18 ft and 24 ft on each side. Which of the following is affected by the dimensions of the lot if the owner would like to spend the same amount of money on the roofs? I. The width of the base of the house frames II. Design of the windows III. The height of the houses IV. The roof angles a. I and IV c. II, III and IV b. III and IV d. I, II, III, and IV D 18. You are tasked to divide a blank card into three equal pieces and you do not have a ruler. Instead you will use a piece of equally lined paper and a straight edge. What is the sequence of the steps you are going to take in order to apply the theorem on parallel lines? I Mark the points where the second and third lines intersect the card. II Place a corner of the top edge of the card on the first line of the paper. III Repeat for the other side of the card and connect the marks. IV Place the corner of the bottom edge on the fourth line. a. I, II, III, IV c. I, III, IV, II b. II, III, IV, I d. II, IV, I, III

B 19.You decided to order a pizza but you have to choose the type of crust and the toppings. If there are only 6 possible combinations of ordering a pizza, from which of the following should you choose from? a. Crust (thin or deep dish) c. Crust (thin or deep dish) Topping (cheese or pepperoni) Topping (cheese, bacon, sausage or pepperoni) b. Crust (thin or deep dish) d. Crust (thin or deep dish) Topping (cheese, bacon or pepperoni Topping (cheese, bacon, sausage, pepperoni or hotdog)

C 20. Your best friend asked you to accompany him to a carnival to play games of chances. According to him, his horoscope states that he is so lucky that day and he wants to try his luck at the carnival. How will you convince him not to go to the carnival? a. I will ask him to review very well his notes on probability to prepare himself for the graded oral recitation b. I will tell him that what is written in the horoscope is does not always come true and sometimes false so he would rather not go to the carnival. c. I will give him instances where there is very little chance of winning and that is just waste of time and money. d. I will tell him that we have to finish first our project in Probability and he can go some other time.