LIDETA SUB CITY ADMINISTRATION EDUCATION OFFICE

GRADE 8 MATHEMATICS MODEL EXAMINATIONS

2016E.C/ 2024G.C
NUMBER OF QUESTIONS: 40 TIME ALLOWED: - 1 HOURS

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I. Choose the correct answer from the given alternatives.

1. The ratio of the sides of two similar triangles is 3:2, the area of the smaller triangle is
12cm2.then what is the area of larger triangle?

A.18cm2 B. 36cm2 C. 45cm2 D. 27cm2

2. What is the solution set of 3x-6 < 11 in the domain of natural number?

A. {1,2,3,4,5} B.{1,2,3,4,5,6} C.{1,2,3,4,5,6,7} D. {7,8,9,…}

3. A 10 meter ladder lean against the wall and the base of the ladder is 6 meter away. How
high above the ground is the top of the ladder?

A. 7m B.8m C.9m D.11m

4. Which of the following line or segment cannot be drawn through an interior point of a
circle?

A. secant line B. Tangent line C. diameter D. chord

5. Two years ago the sum of ages of a man and his son was 42 years .Now a man is 14 years
older than his son. Then that is the present age of his son?

A.14 B. 16 C.18 D.30

6. If (6.53)2= 42.64, then what is the value of (65.3)2 ?

A. 426.4 B.42,640 C. 4,264 D. 426,400

7. Solomon has a garden in shape of a square. If he enlarges its side by 2 meters, the area of
the new garden increased by 52 m2.. What was the length of garden?

A. 12 m B. 14 m C. 16 m D. 24 m
3
8. What is the value of √343 ?

A.5 B.6 C.7 D.8

9, which of the following number is not a perfect cube?

8 27 36
A. 125 B. C . -8 D.
64 49
 10. Which of the following equation of the line that represent horizontal line?

A. x-y=1 B. X=-3 C. Y=4 D. X-2Y=4

11. Which pair of linear inequalities are equivalent?

10
A. -2x+4>0 and x>2 B. x-3>7 and 2x-3>12 C.3x-4 < 6 and x< 3 D.2x-4 <2 and x>3

12. In a class there are 48 students. The number of boys is four more than the number of
girls. How many girls are in the class?

A. 26 B.24 C. 22 D.20

13. Which of the following is equal to √144

9
?

A.3 B.4 C.5 D. 12

14. Which of the following statement is not true?

A. if x= -3 then x2= -9 B. if x=0.36 the√𝑥=0.6

C. if √𝑥=0.4 then x=0.16 D. if √𝑥=2 then x2= 16

15. The 1.6 meters tall man make 10meters long shadow , at that time tree makes
25meters long shadow. How tall is tree?

A.4m B.5m C. 6m D. 5.5m

16. In figure below m(< 𝐴𝐷𝐶) = 900 AD = 9cm, DB = 2cm and,CCD is altitude to the
hypotenuse AB what is the value of AC?

A. 2 √11 cm C. 3√11 cm

B. √11cm D. 3√2 cm
A 9cm 2cm B
D
17. Let ΔABC be an isosceles right angle triangle with its leg AC and BC. If its hypotenuse

AB =6√2 cm, then what is the length of AC?

A.12cm B. 6cm C. 12√3𝑐𝑚 D. 6√3cm

1 1
18. If we divide 2 3 by 3 , then result will be___________
7 8
A.7 B. 3 C. 8 D. 3

19.If ΔABC ∼ ΔDEF and AC=10 cm, BC=8cm and EF=4cm, then what is the length of DF?

A. 6cm B. 5cm C. 8 cm D. 10 cm

20. Which of the following plane figure are necessarily similar to each other?

A) Two scalene triangles. B) Two rectangles.

C) Two parallelogram. D) Two squares.

AB BC AC
21. Given ΔABC and ΔDEF if DE = EF=DF then which of the following theorem shows that

Δ ABC ~ Δ DEF?

A) AA similarity theorem B) SSS similarity theorem

C) SAS similarity theorem D) ASA similarity theorem

22. A triangle ABC with extension on D on BC. If m (<BAC) = 620 and m (<ABC) =560 what is the
degree measure of exterior angle of a triangle?

A .25O B.500 C.1100 D. 1180 A

B C D

23. Which of the following triple numbers could be the sides of a right angle triangle?

A. 3cm,5cm,7cm B.5cm,12cm,14cm C. 7cm, 11cm,13cm D. 9cm,12cm,15cm

24. In figure below m(< 𝐴𝐷𝐶) = 900 AC = 6cm, AD = 4cm and, CD is altitude to the hypotenuse
AB, what is the value of BD?

A. 5cm B. 7cm C. 8cm D. 9cm

6cm

A 4cm X B
D

25. What is the value of |−7 + 6| - |8 − 4| + |−5 + 8| ?

A.-6 B. -1 C. 1 D. 0

26.If 7 + 2 |𝑋 + 5 | = 11 then which of the following numbers are the values of x?

A. -7 and -3 B. -9 and -1 C. -6 and -4 D. -8 and -2

𝟒 𝟏𝟓
27. What is the value of (- 𝟓) x (- )?
𝟖

𝟑 𝟑 𝟏𝟐 𝟒
A. 𝟐 B.− 𝟐 C. 𝟖
D. 𝟑

−3 6
28. What is the result of ( 7 ) ÷ ( 5 ) ?

−14 −5 −18 −35

A. 𝐵. 14 C. D.
5 35 18

29. In the X Y coordinate plane which one of the following point is in third quadrant?

A. ( −𝟓, −𝟐 ) B. (𝟒 , 𝟑) C. (−𝟒, 𝟕) D. (𝟐, −𝟓)

30. Which of the following order pair represent the point located one unit to the right of y-
axis and two units above the x-axis on the coordinate plane?

A. (1,2) B. (1,-2) C.(-1,2) D.(-1,-2

2
31. What is the value of (− 5)3
−6 −4 8 −8
A. B. 125 C. 125 D. 125
25

32.Let chords AC and BD intersect at point p in circle O. If m (arc AB) = 700 and m (arc
DC)=1000, then what is m(<APB) ?
A. 900 B. 850 C. 800 D. 1100

7 9
33. + =______ ?
3 4

55 45 55 14
A. B. 12 C. D. 55
12 7

34. The region bounded by a chord and an arc of a circle is called_______ of a circle.

A. Sector B. secant C. segment D. diameter

35. Which one of the following in equalities is true?

A. 100 < (9.2)2 < 121 C. 16< (4.3)2 < 25

B. 64 < (7.5)2 < 81 D. 25 < (6.2)2 < 36

−5 1
36.What rational number should be subtracted from 3 to obtain ?
2
−13 −2
A. C.
6 3
13 −1
B. D.
6 6

37. Which of the following set contain all the other set?

A. Integers C. whole numbers

B. Natural numbers D. Rational numbers
38. The set rational numbers is not closed under: ________

A. Addition C. multiplication
B. Subtraction D. Division
39. Which of the following numbers arranged in increasing order?

−3 2 3 5 −3 3 2 5
A. , , , . C. 2 , , ,
2 3 4 6 4 3 6

2 5 3 −3 −3 2 5 3
B. 3 , . , D. , , ,
6 4 2 2 3 6 4
40. The region bounded by two radii and their intercepted arc of a circle is called_______ of a
circle.

A. Sector B. secant C. segment D. Diameter