New Jersey ASK Practice Test

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1 Name Class Date Section Questions through are Short Constructed Response questions. Record your responses as directed by your teacher.. What is the result when you multiply the numbers below?. What is the value of?. Jake and Uma are wrapping packages. Jake wraps packages for every Uma wraps. The table below models the situation. Jake 9 8 Uma If the pattern continues, how many packages will Uma wrap when Jake wraps 8? Show all your work.. What number can be placed in the box to make the equation true?. Javier is preparing for a race in Cape May. He runs minutes on Monday. He increases the time he spends running by the same number of minutes each day until Friday. On Friday, he runs for minutes. The equation below can be used to determine the number of additional minutes m Javier runs each day. m How many additional minutes does Javier run each day?. What is the value of the following expression? 8 7. What is the seventh number in this pattern?,,, 9,, The box in which a refrigerator is shipped is inches wide, inches long, and 7 inches high. What is the volume of this box? Grade 8

2 9. The chance that it will rain on each of the next two days is out of. Jalesa wants to determine the probability that it will rain on exactly one of the next two days. She conducts a simulation by generating random numbers with a calculator. She lets the digits and represent a day with rain and the digits,,,, 7, 8, 9, and represent a day with no rain. Her results from simulating two-day periods are shown below Based on the simulation, what is the experimental probability that it will rain on exactly one of the next two days?. Jonna worked hours Monday, hours Tuesday, and hours Friday. How many hours did she work? STOP Grade 8

3 Name Class Date Section. What are the solutions of x? Questions through are Multiple-Choice questions. Read each question and choose the best answer. Then mark your answer on a separate sheet of paper or as directed by your teacher. D. x 9 x 9 x 7 x 7. Which of the following is equivalent to.?.%.% D.. Angelo built a model of the pyramid of Menkaure, one of the Giza pyramids in Egypt. It has a square base like the one shown. The model has a base that is centimeters on each side. The height is.88 centimeters. Which is the BEST estimate of the volume, in cubic centimeters, of Angelo s model of Menkaure s Pyramid? cm 8 cm cm D. 7 cm 8. What must the length of side x be in order for this triangle to be a right triangle? 9 ft feet feet 9 feet D. feet. Jill's lawnmower uses about gallons of gasoline in three hours. About how much gasoline is used in hours? D. ft. Which of the following is an irrational number? x 9 D. Grade 8

4 7. If the trapezoid below is dilated by a factor of, what is the perimeter of the new trapezoid? cm. cm 9. centimeters. centimeters centimeters D. 9 centimeters 8. Rick earns $ per week plus a % commission on his weekly sales. If s represents Rick s total sales for one week, which expression shows his earnings for the week? s 7. cm s.s D..s. cm 9. A sign is to be made with an area of 8 square feet. If the sign is square, what is the length of a side? Less than ft Between ft and ft Between ft and ft D. More than ft. The Venn diagram below shows the number of students who take Biology, Chemistry, and Art class. How many students did not take Art class? Biology D.. Mrs. Cabrillo is designing a ring. She can choose the cut of stone in ways, the setting of the stone in ways, and the metal in ways. In how many ways can Mrs. Cabrillo design her ring? D. 8. Solve for x D. Number of Students Art 8 7 (7 ) x Chemistry Grade 8

5 Name Class Date Questions through are Extended Constructed Response questions. Record your responses as directed by your teacher.. Julia and Sumiko are playing a game by spinning the spinners shown below.. A traffic light on a busy north-south street is programmed according to this pattern: green for minutes followed by red for minutes. Mr. Gomez goes through this intersection on his way to and from work every day. Last week, he kept a record of the number of times the light was green (G) as he approached the intersection and the number of times he had to stop because the light was red (R). His record is shown below. G G R G G G G G G G Part A What is the theoretical probability that the light will be green each time Mr. Gomez approaches the intersection? Part B Does the number of times Mr. Gomez got a green light match what you would expect for the way the light is programmed? Explain your reasoning. Part A Make a table showing the sample space for spinning the two spinners. Part B Each time the sum of the two numbers spun is even, Julia gets a point, and each time the sum of the two numbers spun is odd, Sumiko gets a point. Is this game fair? Explain how you found your answer. STOP Grade 8

6 Section 7. What is the measure of DEF? Questions through are Multiple-Choice questions. Read each question and choose the best answer. Then mark your answer on a separate sheet of paper or as directed by your teacher. B C D. Which list of baseball batting averages is in order from least to greatest?.,.,.7,.7.7,.7,.,..,.,.7,.7 D..,.,.7,.7. Pablo constructed the figure below. Any hidden cubes in the figure are used to support visible cubes. If each cube is cubic centimeter, what is the volume of Pablo s figure? 9 cm cm cm D. cm A 8 7 D A television has a diagonal length of 7 inches. What is the length of the diagonal of the television in centimeters? ( inches centimeters). centimeters.8 centimeters 7. centimeters D. centimeters 9. When dividing by, the quotient is which of the following? less than between and between and E D. greater than F Grade 8

7 Name Class Date. What is the relationship between x and y in the graph? y. A standard number cube has faces, labeled,,,,, and. If the number cube is rolled one time, what is the probability of getting a number greater than? O x D. y x y x y x D. y x. Which of these is the most reasonable estimate of the capacity of a ketchup bottle? cups gallons liters D. grams. This year, the advertising budget of the park committee is % more than it was last year. If the advertising budget is $ more this year, how many dollars was the budget last year? Show your work. Explain in detail how you found your answer. $ $ $ D. $8. Which of the following is NOT equivalent to.?.7 D. Question is an Extended Constructed Response question. Record your response as directed by your teacher.. Leah drew a polygon with four congruent sides, two angles, and two angles. What is the most specific name for the polygon Leah drew? Explain in detail how you found your answer.. STOP Grade 8

8 Section Questions through are Multiple-Choice questions. Read each question and choose the best answer. Then mark your answer on a separate sheet of paper or as directed by your teacher. 8. A man surveyed a house lot. The lot dimensions were.8 ft by.7 ft. Which of the following is closest to the area of the lot? ft. ft. ft D.. ft. Ms. Sheridan has $. She needs a pair of sewing scissors that costs $ and some fabric that costs $7 per yard. Which number line shows the number of yards of fabric Ms. Sheridan can afford to buy? D The eighth-grade class at East Junior High is electing class officers. A poll is to be taken to see who the leading candidates are. A questionnaire is handed out during school to people. Which would be the BEST sample to determine the leading candidate? people from the entire school eighth-grade teachers eighth-grade students entering the cafeteria D. seventh-grade students 9. At a manufacturing company, 8% of the employees work on the assembly line. If there are 7 assembly-line workers, how many workers are there in the entire company? 7 78 D. 9. A metal sculptor has meters of steel cable. How many pieces will there be if the cable is cut into 8-centimeter lengths? 9 D.. The U.S. federal budget receipts for the year are estimated to total $,9,9,,. Which of the following represents this figure in scientific notation? ,9 D..99 Grade 8

9 Name Class Date. The equation y.7x represents the cost y for x tickets on a bus. Which table represents this equation?. This table shows the amount of newspaper recycled during several years by one town on the New Jersey coast. x y.7... Amount of Recycled Newspapers Year Tons D.. A game show has a game called strikes. Five numbered discs and strike discs are placed in a bag for the contestant to draw. If the discs are not replaced after drawing, what is the probability of the first draws resulting in numbered discs? D.. A prism has a volume of cm. What is the volume of a pyramid with the same base width and height as the prism? x y.7 x y.7 x y cm. cm 8 cm D. cm Which type of graph would be most useful for comparing this data? scatter plot box-and-whisker plot circle graph D. bar graph Question is an Extended Constructed Response question. Record your response as directed by your teacher.. A report stated that a New Jersey town s education department used % of the town s budget. The town s total budget was $,8,. Part A Estimate the amount of money the education department spent. Explain how you determined your estimate. Part B What is % of $,8,? How does the actual amount the education department spent compare to your estimate? Explain. STOP Grade 8

10 Section Questions 7 through are Multiple-Choice questions. Read each question and choose the best answer. Then mark your answer on a separate sheet of paper or as directed by your teacher. 7. Triangle ABC is drawn on a coordinate plane. Point A is located at (, ). If triangle ABC is an isosceles right triangle, and point B is located at (, ), which ordered pair gives a possible location for point C? (Hint: Use the grid below for reference.) (, ) (, ) (, ) D. (, 8) y x 8. Tom designed a logo for a community center newsletter. The center enlarged cm his drawing three times to make a stencil for some T-shirts. Which are the correct measures for angle Y and side z in the stencil for the T-shirt? Newsletter z Y, z centimeters Y, z 9 centimeters Y, z centimeters D. Y, z 9 centimeters 9. Roger read the weekly flyer for the local department store and found that a notebook costs $., a pen costs $.7, and a calculator costs $8.. He rounded the prices to the nearest dollar and decided to bring $. to the store to buy all three items. What was the error he made in his estimation? He didn t need to buy all three items. He rounded up to the nearest dollar, and he didn t bring enough money. He rounded down to the nearest dollar, and he didn t bring enough money. D. $. was too much money for all three items. T-shirt Y Grade 8

11 Name Class Date. The graph shows the percentage of students using computers at school in Percentage and in 99. PERCENTAGE OF STUDENTS USING COMPUTERS AT SCHOOL.7 Pre-kindergarten and Kindergarten Which group of students showed the biggest increase from 989 to 99 in the use of computers at school? Pre-kindergarten and Kindergarten Grades 8 Grades 9 D. College. 8.9 Grades Grades 9. For short distances on land, an alligator can run on its toes at a speed of miles per hour. How many feet per second is this? feet per second 88 feet per second 7 feet per second D., feet per second 9.. College. Use a scale factor of to dilate triangle AB 8 What are the coordinates of the vertices of the image of the triangle? (, ), (7, ), (8, ) (, ), (, ), (, ) 7 (, ), (, ), (, ) D. (, ), (, ), (, ). Which equation best estimates the line of best fit for the following data? y y A (, ) y x 9 y x 7 y x 8 D. y x B (7, ) C (8, ) x 8 x Grade 8

12 . A gas station makes $8 profit from customers and $8 profit from Profit ($) 8 customers. Which rule can be used to find the profit p earned from c customers? p c p c p c D. p.c. Which of the following describes how triangle ABC was transformed to create triangle A B C? B A Profit per Customer Number of customers shift right units shift left units shift right 7 units C D. shift left 7 units y B A C x. A number cube and a spinner are used in a game. The spinner has an equal chance of landing on any one of colors: red, blue, green, yellow, orange. The number cube has numbers through on its faces. What is the probability of rolling a and spinning the color red? D. Question 7 is an Extended Constructed Response question. Record your response as directed by your teacher. 7. Kirk is planning a hiking trip to Voorhees State Park. He has the choice of a blue shirt, a red shirt, or a green shirt; a pair of tan shorts or a pair of olive green shorts; and a pair of low-cut boots or ankle-cut boots. Construct a tree diagram that shows the possible outfit combinations of one shirt, one pair of shorts, and one pair of boots. STOP Grade 8