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Test Name: Math Grade 8 Baseline Assessment Test ID: 87362
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Math Grade 8 Baseline Assessment
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Test Name: Math Grade 8 Baseline Assessment Test ID: 87362
Test Directions
General Offline Instructions:
Today you will take the Acuity Assessment. Read each question carefully and decide which
answer is correct. Using your scan sheet, fill in the bubble that contains the letter for the answer
you choose.
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Section 1
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1. A popular fruit juice mixture contains 2 cups of grape juice for every 3 cups of apple juice. Three students
made fruit juice mixtures of their own. This table shows the different fruit juice mixtures that the students
made.
Fruit Juice Mixtures
Tom Sue Mary
cups of grape juice 1 3 4
cups of apple juice 2 4 6
Which student made a fruit juice mixture that was proportional to the popular fruit juice mixture?
A Mary
B Sue
C Tom
D none of the students
2.
A bubble mixture requires
tablespoon of soap with 2 cups of water. Which equation relates s, the
number of tablespoons of soap, with w, the number of cups of water?
A
B s = 8w
C s = 4w
D
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3.
A machine grinds pound of spices in second. What is the machine's rate, in pounds per second, of
grinding spices?
A
B
C
D
4.
One jug holds
it take to fill one jug with water?
gallon of water. If a faucet can release 16 gallons of water in 8 minutes, how long would
A
minute
B
minute
C
minutes
D 2 minutes
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5. Sonia read 2 pages of a book per minute. If Sonia read all the pages of the book at the same rate, which
equation shows the total number of pages, y, that Sonia read in x minutes?
A x = 2y
B y = 2x
C x = 2 + y
D y = 2 + x
6. Look at this graph.
Which line represents a proportional relationship?
A line A
B line B
C line C
D line D
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7. This graph shows the distance traveled by a toy car and the time it took.
What is the unit rate of the toy car?
A 1 meter per second
B 3 meters per second
C 4 meters per second
D 12 meters per second
8. Matt deposited $2,000.00 in the bank. If the rate of simple interest was 10%, what was the amount of
money Matt had in the bank after 5 years if he made no withdrawals?
A $1,000.00
B $3,000.00
C $100,000.00
D $300,000.00
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9. Look at this graph showing the cost for students to go to a movie.
Which situation describes point A?
A If 0 students attend, the cost will be $0.00.
B If 1 student attends, the cost will be $3.00.
C If 3 students attend, the cost will be $1.00.
D If 3 students attend, the cost will be $9.00.
10. The number of baseball games Bernie won this year was 25% less than the number of games he won last
year. If Bernie won 24 baseball games last year, how many games did he win this year?
A 6
B 12
C 18
D 24
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11. The price of a box of cereal was $2.00 at the beginning of a year. At the end of the year, the price of a box
of the same type of cereal was $3.00. What was the percent increase in the price of the box of cereal?
A 10%
B 33.33%
C 50%
D 66.66%
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12. A city cab charges a fare per mile traveled. The graph shows the fare for the number of miles traveled.
Which statement describes the point (1,5)?
A The unit rate is 5 dollars per each mile.
B The unit rate is 1 dollar per each 5 miles.
C The unit rate is 5 miles per each dollar.
D The unit rate is 1 mile per each dollar.
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Section 2
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13.
What is the decimal equivalent of ?
A 0.81
B 0.812
C 0.8125
D
14. Simplify the expression.
A –3
B –1
C 1
D 3
15. Simplify the expression.
15.75 – ( –3.85) + ( –2.54)
A 9.36
B 9.56
C 15.61
D 17.06
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16. Look at this number line.
Which expression has a negative value?
A a – b
B a + b
C a – 2
D b – 2
17.
What is the decimal equivalent of ?
A
B
C
D
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18.
Isabel first used cups of tomato puree while making a sauce. She then added cup more tomato puree.
If 5 people use an equal amount of Isabel's sauce, how many cups of tomato puree will each person use?
A
cup
B
cup
C
cups
D
cups
19. A class is collecting cans to recycle. Their goal is to collect 200 pounds of cans. The first day 3 students
each bring in 12.7 pounds of cans, and 4 students each bring in 17.3 pounds of cans. How many more
pounds of cans must be collected to reach the goal?
A 30 pounds
B 92.7 pounds
C 170 pounds
D 107.3 pounds
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20.
Joan poured liter of water into a bottle. It filled of the bottle. How many liters of water will
completely fill the bottle?
A
B
C
D
21. Sarosh receives 8% commission on the final price of the clothing he sells. A customer bought a $45.00
coat that was marked 20% off and a $95.00 suit that was marked 30% off. What would Sarosh's
commission be on that customer's purchase?
A $8.20
B $11.20
C $102.50
D $140.00
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22. Linda has $9.00 in her wallet. She buys a card for $1.17. She wants to buy some pens that cost $2.65 each.
What is the maximum number of pens she can buy?
A She can buy 3 pens and she will have money left over.
B She can buy 2 pens and she will have some money left over.
C She can buy 2 pens and she will not have any money left over.
D She can buy 3 pens and she will not have any money left over.
23. Look at this expression.
8 + 6x
Which is an equivalent expression?
A 2(4 + 6x)
B 2(4 + 3x)
C 2(6 + 4x)
D 2(8 + 3x)
24. The weight of Sean's puppy is 4 pounds more than 2 times the weight, in pounds, of Jay's puppy. If Sean's
puppy weighs 24 pounds, what is the weight, in pounds, of Jay's puppy?
A 14
B 12
C 10
D 6
25.
Sienna posted of her collection of photographs on a page of her Web site. Additionally, she posted 4
photographs on the homepage of her Web site. The total number of photographs that she posted on her
Web site was 22. How many photographs does Sienna have in her collection?
A 12
B 27
C 33
D 39
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26. A store offered a discount of 10% on a set of magnets priced at $6.40. Alicia bought 2 of these sets of
magnets from the store. How much money did Alicia pay for the 2 sets of magnets?
A $5.76
B $11.52
C $12.16
D $12.80
27. Look at this expression.
Which is an equivalent expression?
A
B
C
D
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28. Cole is packing a crate with boxes of different types of vegetables. All of the boxes are the same weight.
He wants the total weight of the crate with the boxes to be less than 26 pounds. The weight of the crate
alone is 2 pounds. The weight of each box is 3 pounds. If x represents the number of boxes that Cole can
pack in the crate, which inequality can be used to find the value of x?
A 3 + 2x > 26
B 3 + 2x < 26
C 2 + 3x < 26
D 2 + 3x > 26
29. Martina wants to earn more than $80 selling ice-cream cones from her ice-cream truck. She has already
earned $24 selling ice-cream cones. The price of each ice-cream cone is $2. If x represents the number of
ice-cream cones to be sold, which statement represents how many more ice-cream cones Martina needs to
sell to earn more than $80?
A x > 28
B x = 28
C x < 28
D x ≤ 28
30.
Monisha and Dave each sold magazine subscriptions as part of a fundraiser. Monisha raised
as much
money as Dave raised. Together they raised $213.75. What is the total amount of money that Monisha
raised?
A $53.44
B $71.25
C $106.88
D $142.50
This is the end of the test.
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