IP Math 8 Homework

Week of 1/2–5/2

Mr. Noah

Directions:

1) Complete the homework assignment from last week:

- Pages 145-146: all of 1-6

even numbers 10-22

even numbers 26-30

2) Check your answers with the answer key (at the end of this document), and email me

(noah.keogh@utschool.edu.vn) with any questions that you have.

3) Email photographs of your answers to me by Thursday, February 4th. Your answers

should not be copied from the answer key – they should be written in your own way and

with your own words. In your email, please include your full Vietnamese name, your

English name if you have one, and your class number (for example, 8.2).

4) Read pages 148-150 (just try to understand as much as you can).

5) Copy the following vocabulary (you do not need to copy the explanations) into your

notebook and email me with any questions that you have:

- m: the symbol for the slope of a line

- rise: change in y on a graph

- run: change in x on a graph

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 rise change∈ y y 2− y 1
- slope = m = = =
run change∈x x 2−x 1

For any line, you can pick two points and make one point “point 1” and the other

point “point 2”. To find the slope of the line, you subtract the y-value of point 1

from the y-value of point 2 in the numerator of your slope. Then you subtract the x-

value of point 1 from the x-value of point 2 in the denominator of your slope. Then

you simplify if you need to.

For example:

Here, let’s make point A our “point 1” and point B our “point 2”. Remember that

coordinates are always written as (x, y) so the first number is your x-value and the

second number is your y-value. Here’s how we find the slope:

3−4 −1 1
m= = =
2−6 −4 4

- positive slope – as x increases, y increases and as x decreases, y decreases. Our

1 −1
example above is a positive slope because it can be written as ∨ . So x and y
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always increase or decrease together.

- negative slope – as x increases, y decreases and as x decreases, y increases

For example:

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 ( 2−6 ) −4 6−2 4
Here we see a negative slope because m= = =−2 or m= = =−2.
3−1 2 1−3 −2

It doesn’t matter which points you use as “point 1” and “point 2” – your slope will

always be -2, which means that as x increases, y decreases and as x decreases, y

increases.

- horizontal slope: there is no change in y, so y2 = y1 which means that y2 – y1 = 0. So

0
your slope is m= =0, because 0 divided by any number equals 0.
x 2−x 1

This is what a line with a horizontal slope looks like:

- vertical slope: there is no change in x, so x2 = x1 which means that x2 – x1 = 0. So your

y 2− y 1
slope is m= =undefined , because any number divided by zero is undefined
0

(undefined means that you can’t say what it is). This is what a line with a vertical

slope looks like:

- parallel lines: two or more lines that have the same slope (the same value for m).

Here is what two parallel lines look like:

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 If you solve the equation for m you will

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see that for both lines, m = .
2

6) Complete the following problems:

- Pages 152-154: odd numbers 1-29

odd numbers 33-35

7) Check your answers in the back of the book and email me with any questions that you

have.

8) Email photographs of your answers to me by Friday, February 5th

(noah.keogh@utschool.edu.vn). Your answers should not be copied from the back of

the book – they should be written in your own way and with your own words. In your

email, please include your full Vietnamese name, your English name if you have one,

and your class number (for example, 8.2).

9) Complete the following problems:

- Pages 152-154: even numbers 2-6

even numbers 10-38

- This homework is due on the first day of class (in school or online) after Tet Holiday.

Please email me with any questions that you have.

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