Math Challenge Reviewer Grade 8

Name:______________________________________________________ School:______________________________________ Score:____

Directions: Solve each problem and write your answer before the number. All answers must be in its simplest
form and in proper units.
________ 1. What is the mean of 2020 consecutive positive integers starting with 200?
________ 2. Simplify : 3- 4 3  73  432  1.
1 2
________ 3. Find the slope of the line passing through points  ,1 and  ,9 .
5  3 
________ 4. What is the perimeter of quadrilateral ABCD having sides AB  5 cm, CB  4 cm, CD  0.1 dm and
AD  25 mm?
________ 5. Expand x 2  2x  5 x 2  3x  2.
________ 6. What is the value of 3xy 2  y x if x  3 and y  2?
77 3  233
________ 7. Find the value of .
77  54  232
________ 8. Factor x 5  243y 5 .
________ 9. Which of the numbers 9 100, 8 200, 7 300, 6 400 and 5 500 is the largest?
________ 10. Find the ratio of an exterior angle of a regular 40 - gon to an interior angle of a regular 18  gon.
x 3 x 1
________ 11. Find the surface area of a rectangular prism whose dimension is in. by 2 in. by
2x  1 x  7x  12
x 4
in.
x2  1
________ 12. Find the value of f x  1  f (x ) if f (x )  2  7x .
________ 13. The ratio of an angle to its supplement is 3 : 7. Find the measure of its complement.
________ 14. How many digits does 1,000,0002020 have when expanded?
p
________ 15. When 8 is added to the numerator and 5 is added to the denominato r of the fraction , the result
q
8 1
is . When 5 is subtracted to the numerator and 6 is added to the denominato r, the result is .
7 5
p
What is ?
q
________ 16. If two sides of an equilateral triangle are 7x  3  dm and 3x  5  dm, what is its perimeter?
1 1 1 1   1 1 1 1   1 1 1   1 1 1 1
________ 17. Evaluate :               
 80 85 90 95   85 90 95 100   85 90 95   80 85 90 95
1 
 .
100 
1
8 3
________ 18. Simplify x .
1
4 2
x
________ 19. Solve for x : x  2  2x  2   3x  2     2020x  2   6123630.
5  10  6 7  12  6 9  14  6  2021  2026  6 
________ 20. Evaluate .
6  11  68  13  6 10  15  6  2020  2025  6
________ 21. What is the sum of the reciprocals of all positive divisors of 2020? (e.g. For 16, we have 1, 2, 4, 8
1 1 1 1
and 16 as its factors. Their reciprocals are 1, , , and respectively. The sum of those numbers
2 4 8 16
31 465 93 511
is . For 200, it' s  , For 256, it' s .)
16 200 40 256
________ 22. If a, b, and c are positive real numbers such that a b  c   68, b(c  a )  42 and c a  b   50, what is
the value of abc ?
1 2 7y  14x  2xy
________ 23. If   7, what is ?
x y 6x  4xy  3y
________ 24. The points - 3,1 and 1, y  are 41 units apart. Find the value/s of y.
________ 25. Determine the solution set of the equation x  1  x  2  1.
________ 26. Express the product of 0.006, 0.05 and 0.0001 in scientific notation.
________ 27. Factor completely : p 4  4q 4 .
________ 28. What is the domain of the function f (x )  x  1 ?

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________ 29. If x , y and z are positive real numbers such that x  y  z  14 and    , what
x y y z x z 3
z x y
is   ?
x y y z x z
1 1 1 1
________ 30. Let a, b and c be positive numbers such that a   4, b   5 and c   6. Find abc  .
b c a abc
________ 31. Write the equation of the line in the form Ax  By  C  0 that is perpendicular to the line 3x
 5y  1 and having the same y  intercept as 2x  3y  1.
2
x  1  x  1   4  0.
________ 32. Solve :    5 
 x   x 
________ 33. Find the equation of the line in slope - intercept form that is parallel to the line 5x  4y  4  0
and passes through the intersection of 3x  2y  5  0 and 2x  3y  1  0.
________ 34. Find the area bounded by the line 4x  3y  17 and the coordinate axes.
 2a  b  c  10

________ 35. Solve for a, b, and c : 3a  2b  2c  1 .
  a  3b  c  1

________ 36. An exoplanet Kepler - 452b is 1,400 light years away from earth. What is the volume, in cubic
meters, of the planet if its radius is 1.02  104 km, assuming it is a perfect sphere?
________ 37. Find the slope of the line if its x - intercept is twice the y - intercept and passes through the point
 3 , 2 .
 
2 7
________ 38. Find the area of an equilateral triangle that has the perimeter of 30 m.
________ 39. A silversmith wants to combine two alloys, one containing 40% silver and the other 60% silver. How
many grams of each should he combine to obtain 120 grams of an alloy containing 50% silver?
________ 40. Solve for y : x  y  xy  1, x  1.
________ 41. A conference table in the shape of a rectangle with two semicircle s at the
ends, as shown in the figure, has a perimeter of 10 meters. The area of the
rectangular shape is equal to twice the sum of the two ends. What are the
dimensions of the rectangular shape?
________ 42. If 27 x  92 y and 49y  343x  2 , what is the value of 2xy ?
________ 43. For what values of x is the graph of 5x  3y  5 above the x - axis?
________ 44. The sum of three consecutive positive integers is 3/35 of the product of the same three integers.
Find the median of the three integers.
________ 45. What is the largest positive intiger x such that 316  1 is divisble by 2x ?
________ 46. What is the area of the shaded region on the right? (Each box has an area of 4
sq. unit.)
________ 47. A fair die is rolled twice. What is the probabilit y that the outcome of the second roll is greater
than or equal to the outcome of the first roll?
________ 48. What is the measure of the smaller angle between the hands of the clock at 5 : 15 p.m.?
________ 49. Let f  x  be a second degree polynomial with leading coefficient 1 such that f 1  f 2   0. What is
the remainder when f 2020 is divided by 10?
________ 50. Consider the set of positive integral divisors of 2020. Find the probabilit y that a divisor chosen at
random is a perfect square.

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