GRADE 8 END YEAR 2024 MATHEMATICS ASSIGNMENT.

INSTRUCTIONS
PART A: ANSWER ONLINE
PART B: ANSWER IN YOUR EXERCISE BOOK.

PART A
1. Classify the following numbers as integers or not integers
a) 4.0

b) 18

c) 5.5

d) -20

e) -4.3

2. Julia bought 3¾ kg of rice. She cooked 1/5 of the rice for her visitors. She then gave each of her five visitors ¼ kg. Determine the amount of rice Julia was let with.

3. Convert the following fractions into decimals
a)  3/4 =

b) 1 ¼

c) 6 ¾

d) 2/5 =

e) 7/8 =

4. Use your four figure mathematical table to find the square root of the following numbers
a) √1.53

b) √1.856

c) √145100

e) √153

e) √ 0.01369

5. a) A coin is tossed once in the air. What is the probability of getting a head? ( Answer in decimals).

b) The age of some learners in Grade 8 was recorded as : 13,12,15,14,12,13,14,13,12,13,14,13. Find the mode of this data.

The sum of interior angles of a regular polygon is 720°. Calculate:
c) The number of sides of the polygon

d) The size of each exterior angle in degrees.

PART B
Do this in your exercise book.
1) Construct a triangle PQR in which PQ=6cm, QR=4.5cm and PR=5cm. Construct perpendicular bisectors of PQ QR and PR to meet at O. With O as the centre and using either OP or OQ or OR as radius, draw a circle that passes through the vertices P,Q,R.

Measure the radius of the circle.

2. In your graph book, draw a graph to help you solve the following simultaneous linear equation.

                 x-2y=4
                 x+y = 5