1. Look at the sequence below.
2, 6, 18, ___, ___, ___, ___, 4374, . . .
What is the sixth number in the sequence?
A.
B.
C.
D.
54
162
486
1458
2. The point (3, 4) is plotted on the coordinate plane below.
What are the coordinates of the point after a 90° counterclockwise rotation about the origin
followed by a translation 5 units to the left?
A.
B.
C.
D.
(-9, 3)
(-4, 3)
(-1, -3)
(1, 3)
3. President Abraham Lincoln was 6 feet 4 inches tall. An artist wants to make a larger-thanlife statue of Lincoln using a scale of 1 inch = 2 feet. How tall will the statue be?
A.
B.
C.
D.
12 feet 8 inches
25 feet 4 inches
76 feet
152 feet
4. Joey wants to make a circle graph that displays the data in the table below.
What will be the angle measure, in whole degrees, for the section that represents Station
Wagon?
A.
B.
C.
D.
18°
54°
65°
72°
5. Ms. Smith gave a quiz last week. The results for two of her classes are shown on the boxand-whisker plots below.
Which sentence best describes the quiz results?
A.
B.
C.
D.
The medians for the two classes are the same.
Class A has a smaller range of scores in the upper quartile than Class B.
Class A performed better than Class B.
The lower extreme of Class B is greater than the lower extreme of Class
6. George has a bag of marbles. Inside the bag are 5 red marbles, 3 green marbles, and 2 blue
marbles. He draws out two marbles in a row, without replacement. What is the number of
outcomes?
A.
B.
C.
D.
10
20
90
100
7. The earth is approximately 93,000,000 miles from the sun. What is this distance written in
scientific notation?
A.
B.
C.
D.
9.3 x 106
93 x 106
93 x 107
9.3 x 107
8. Taylor was earning an income of $1,000 a week. Then his income was reduced by 10%. Two
months later, his income increases by 10%. How much is Taylor earning, in dollars, after his
income increases?
A.
B.
C.
D.
$990
$999
$1,000
$1,100
9.
Student Produced Response (SPR) Item
Douglas has a box with 49 paper clips. Of the paper clips,
15 are yellow, 9 are red, 6 are blue, 11 are orange, and 8
are green. Douglas randomly picks 2 paper clips from the
box. If the first paper clip is red, what is the probability
that the second paper clip is blue?
10.
Brief Constructed Response (BCR) Item
Justine has 6 blue shirts, 2 red shirts, and 5 green shirts in her closet. On Monday, she
randomly chooses a blue shirt. She does not put the blue shirt back in the closet.
Step A
What is the probability that Justine will randomly select a green shirt on Tuesday?
Step B
Use what you know about probability to explain how you determined the probability that
Justine will randomly select a green shirt on Tuesday. Use words, numbers, and/or
symbols in your explanation.
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MATH – GRADE 8
WINTER BREAK PACKET
o Packet is to be completed by math 8
students
o Packet is due to Math teacher by Friday,
January 4, 2013
o Packet is worth 21 homework points
towards marking period 2
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