GRADE 8

Part I For question 1 – 12, each correct answer is worth 4 points, 1 point for a
blank answer, and 0 point for each incorrect answer.
2 20  2 18
1. What is the value of ?
219  2 18
A. 43 B. 236
C. 2 D. 218
E. 53

2. Which one of the following polynomials is equal to (x + 20)(x + 18)?

A. x2 + 38x + 360 B. x2 – 38x + 360
C. x2 + 38x – 360 D. – x2 + 38x – 360
E. x2 – 38x – 360

3. Let r be a rational number satisfying the equation (r + 18 )2 = 418 + 40 18 .

Which one of the followings is correct ?
A. 250 < r < 300 B. 300 < r < 350
C. 350 < r < 400 D. 350 < r < 450
E. 450 < r < 500

4. Given that ABC is a triangle, AB = AC. Point D is on AB and BA = 3BD. Point E is on AC

and CA = 3CE. What is the condition that triangle EBC and triangle DCB are congruent?
Note : The triangle congruence conditions are SSS, ASA, AAS, SAS, and HL. The “S” stands for “side”
and “A” stands for “angle.” HL ≅ is only used with right triangles. The “H” stands for “hypotenuse”
and the “L” stands for leg.
A. HL B. ASA
C. SSS D. SAS
E. AAS
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 5. Given that ABC and AEF are right triangles, AE : AB = 1 : 2, and EF : BC = 1 : 2.
What percent of the area of ABC is the area of AEF?
A. 10 A
B. 25
C. 30
D. 40 E F
E. 50
B C

6. ABCD is a square and O is the intersection point of diagonals AC and BD. Triangle
PQR has base QR of 20 centimeters long. The ratio of the area of ABCD to PQR is 8 : 5. The area of triangle
AOB is 256 square centimeters. How long is the height drawn from point P of triangle PQR?
A. 16 B. 32
C. 64 D. 128
E. 256

7. Jack and Jill bring eggs to sell at a market. Everyday Jack and Jill sell the same number of eggs
but different prices.
Jack sells eggs at price 2 eggs for 5 baht, and earns a baht each day.
Jill sells eggs at price 3 eggs for 7 baht, and earns b baht each day.
One day Jack asks Jill to sell his eggs. Jill sells her eggs together with Jack’s eggs at price 5 eggs
for 12 baht, and earns c baht.
Let x, y, z be positive integers where a : b : c = x : y : z.
What is the possible minimum value of x + y + z ?
A. 217 B. 214
C. 215 D. 221
E. 229

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 8. A perfect square is a number that can be expressed as the product of two equal integers. That is
if N is a perfect square, there exists an integer n where N = n2.
Given that N is a perfect square.
Which one of the following digits cannot be in the units place of N?
A. 1 B. 2
C. 4 D. 6
E. 9

9. Given that the product of positive integers from 1 to 10 is 3628800.

Suppose that n is the possible smallest integer that 3628800
n is an integer.
What is the value of n?
A. 1 B. 3
C. 5 D. 7
E. 9

10. There are male adults, female adults, girls, and boys who participate in a marathon running.
There are 32% of male adults, 38% of female adults and 20% of boys.
Suppose there are 960 men in this marathon running. Which one of the following statement is true?
A. There are 340 boys in this marathon running.
B. 12 % of all participants is girls.
C. 50% of all participants is female.
D. There are 240 girls in this marathon running.
E. None of these.

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 11. Suppose that today is 5th August 2018.
How many days from today will be the 9th February 2019?
A. 185 B. 186
C. 187 D. 188
E. 189

The following information is needed to answer question 12 to 14.

At the 2018 FIFA world cup tournaments, the 32 teams were drawn into 8 groups A, B, C, D, E,
F, G, and H of 4 teams. In the first round any two teams played together only one match. Each match the
winner got 3 points, no point for the loser. If a match ended in a tie, each team got 1 point. After the first
round ended, the first two teams with highest points in each groups would enter to the second round.
12. In the first round, the match results of group E consisting of nation teams of Costa Rica,
Serbia, Switzerland, and Brazil were as follows:
Costa Rica VS Serbia Costa Rica lost 0 – 1
Brazil VS Switzerland game in a tie 1 – 1
Brazil VS Costa Rica Brazil won 2 – 0
Serbia VS Switzerland Serbia lost 1 – 2
Serbia VS Brazil Serbia lost 0 – 2
Switzerland VS Costa Rica game in a tie 2 – 2
After the first round ended, what was the total points of group E?
A. 13 B. 14
C. 15 D. 16
E. 17

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Part II For question 13 – 24, each correct answer is worth 6 points, 1.5 point
for a blank answer, and 0 point for each incorrect answer.
13. In the first round, the match of Belgium and Tunisia in group G was that Belgium was the lead
against Tunisia 2 – 1 at the end of first half period of game. In the second half period of game both teams
shot 4 more goals in total.
Which one of the followings is impossible at the end of game?
A. Belgium won with 3 goals in difference.
B. Belgium won with 2 goals in difference.
C. Belgium won with 1 goal in difference.
D. Tunisia won with 3 goals in difference.
E. Tunisia won with 1 goal in difference.

14. After the first round of the 2018 FIFA world cup tournaments ended, the total points of 4
teams in each groups were shown in the following table..
Group Total points of 4 teams
A 18
B 15
C 16
D 17
E 16
F 18
G 18
H 17
How many matches in total of all groups were games in a tie?
A. 8 B. 9
C. 10 D. 7
E. 6

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15. Which one of the followings is the simplest form of 3a  6  8 b 164 b ?
2 a  4 a 2 b

A. 2a + 2b B. 2a + 14 b
C. a + b D. 23 a + 2b
E. 23 a + 14 b

2018 2018 2017 2017

16. Let x be a negative real number. The expression x + x is equal to
A. x B. 2x
C. 2x2 D. x2
E. None of these

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17. Which one of the followings is the simplest form of (xx 24)(( xx  3)
 3) ?
A. xx 
3
6 B. x – 2
2
C. xx  D. x2
2 x3
E. x + 2

18. ABCD is a square.

Let R be the length of radius of the circle circumscribed quadrilateral ABCD and
let r be the length of radius of the circle inscribed quadrilateral ABCD.
Which one of the following statements is true?
A. 0.5r  R  r B. r  R  1.5r
C. 1.5r  R  2r D. 2r  R  2.5r
E. the information is not sufficient.

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 19. Given that ABC is a isosceles triangle, AB = AC, and  BAC = 20. D is the midpoint of
BC and E is the midpoint of AD. Consider the following statements.
(1)  EBC =  ECB = 60 (2)  ABC =  ACB = 80
(3)  EAB =  EAC = 10 (4)  AEB =  AEC = 150
How many statements above are true?
A. 0 B. 1
C. 2 D. 3
E. 4

20. Which one of the following statements cannot conclude that triangle ABC and ABCare
congruent?
A. AB  AB, ABC  ABC, BC  BC
B. BAC   BAC, ABC  ABC, BC  BC
C. AB  AB, AC  AC, BC  BC
D. BAC   BAC, AB  AB, BC  BC
E. Every statement A. – D. can conclude that triangles ABC and ABCare congruent.

21. If the fraction 17 is written as repeating decimal, What is the least number of digits after
decimal point whose sum equals 2018?
A. 336 B. 337
C. 444 D. 449
E. 450

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 22. There are three fruit shops namely A, B, and C. Suppose that 25% of the number of all fruits
in shop A is equal to 40% of the number of all fruits in shop B and the number of all fruits in shop C is
20% more than the number of all fruits in shop B.
What is the ratio of the number of all fruits in shop A to the number of all fruits in shop C?
A. 4 : 3 B. 3 : 4
C. 5 : 8 D. 8 : 5
E. 25 : 48

23. The factorial of a non-negative integer n, denoted by n!, is the product of all
positive integers less than or equal to n and 0! is defined as 1.
For example, 1! = 1, 2! = 2, 3! = 6, 4! = 24, . . .
Consider the following sequence of 18 numbers.
20!+2, 20!+3, 20!+4, 20!+5, . . . , 20!+19
How many prime numbers are in this sequence?
A. 3 B. 6
C. 9 D. 18
E. None of these.

24. Consider the following sequence 1, 3, 4, 7, 11, . . . . It is found that the number in the third
term and the terms so on are equal to the sum of two previous consecutive terms.
What is the remainder if the number in the 50th term is divided by 4?
A. 3 B. 2
C. 1 D. 0
E. The information is not sufficient.

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PART III For questions 25 – 29, each correct answer is worth 7 points and 0
point for each incorrect or blank answer.
In the case that an answer is not integral, students have to put the most
nearest integral answer. Students have to answer the last five digits in the case
that the answer from calculating is more than 5 digits.
25. Given a polynomial P(x) as follows:
P(x) = (25x2 + 30x + 9)2 – 2(25x2 + 9)(5x + 3)2 + (25x2 + 9)2.
 
Find the value of P  16 .

26. ABCD is a square having side 1 unit long. E is a point on BC and F is a point on CD that
FAE = 45. Rotate the right triangle ADE counterclockwise about vertex A to make AD being on AB.
Determine the perimeter of EFC.

27. Let d1, d2, d3, . . . , dn be an increasing sequence of different integers each of which is a factor
of 2500.
How many rational numbers are in the sequence d 1 , d 2 , d 3 ,, d n ?

28. Let x and y be integers greater than 1. Given that 25x y, 61 are simplest fractions and
25  61 is an integer. How many possible order pairs (x, y) are there in total?
x y

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 29. A man takes 3 hours for a walk from his house to his farm and from his fram to his house.
He walks daily on a route as flat and hilly. The route from his house is flat and then hilly to his farm. In
evening, he walks back to his house on the same route. The distance of flat route is two times of hilly route
and walking speed of the man along the route constantly as shown in the following table.

Type of routes Walking speed (kilometers per hour)

flat 4
hilly up 3
hilly down 6
Determine the total distance in kilometers that the man walks to his farm and back to his house
in a day.

Bonus Question (Student may or may not give the answer)

A correct answer is worth 20 points. An incorrect answer is lost 7 points and 0
point for blank answer.
In the case that an answer is not integral, students have to put the most
nearest integral answer. Students have to answer the last five digits in the case
that the answer from calculating is more than 5 digits.

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30. Given the 6x6 grid below

1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30
31 32 33 34 35 36

A rectangle in the grid is called a good rectangle if the sum of all numbers in the square units
divisible by 3. For example:

1 2
and

3
9
15
are good rectangles. How many good rectangles can be found in the grid?