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Math 8 LG 4 Practice Quiz #3



Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
 

 1. 

Which of these numbers is not a perfect square: 121, 2, 100, or 4?
a.
121
b.
2
c.
100
d.
4
 

 2. 

What is the area of a square with side length 10 units?
a.
200 square units
c.
20 square units
b.
40 square units
d.
100 square units
 

 3. 

Find the square of 11.
a.
121
b.
22
c.
44
d.
242
 

 4. 

Find the number whose square root is 36.
a.
6
b.
24
c.
1296
d.
144
 

 5. 

Find mc005-1.jpg.
a.
25
b.
5
c.
625
d.
156.25
 

 6. 

Which whole number is mc006-1.jpg closer to?
a.
5
b.
4
c.
3
d.
2
 

 7. 

Simplify mc007-1.jpg to the nearest whole number.
a.
7
b.
8
c.
5
d.
13
 

 8. 

Estimate mc008-1.jpg to 1 decimal place.
a.
mc008-2.jpg
b.
mc008-3.jpg
c.
mc008-4.jpg
d.
mc008-5.jpg
 

 9. 

The area of square P is 52 cm2.
Square Q has an area equal to one quarter the area of square P.
Find the approximate side length of square Q.
Give your answer to 1 decimal place.
a.
3.6 cm
b.
5.1 cm
c.
13 cm
d.
1.8 cm
 

 10. 

Find the area of the indicated square.
mc010-1.jpg
a.
50 square units
c.
400 square units
b.
30 square units
d.
7.1 square units
 

 11. 

Find the area of the indicated square.
mc011-1.jpg
a.
20 square units 
c.
3.7 square units 
b.
66 square units 
d.
14 square units 
 

 12. 

Find the length of the hypotenuse.
mc012-1.jpg
a.
9 m
b.
10 m
c.
11 m
d.
12 m
 

 13. 

Find the length of the leg labelled l. Give your answer to 1 decimal place.
mc013-1.jpg
a.
256.0
b.
16.5
c.
16.0
d.
15.5
 

 14. 

Find the length of the diagonal, d, in the rectangle. Give your answer to the nearest centimetre.
mc014-1.jpg
a.
320 cm
b.
18 cm
c.
24 cm
d.
14 cm
 

 15. 

The areas, in square centimetres, of the smaller squares on the sides of a right triangle are given. Determine the area of the largest square.
mc015-1.jpg
a.
61 cm2  
b.
22 cm2
c.
11 cm2
d.
330 cm2
 

Short Answer
 

 16. 

Which 2 consecutive square numbers is 126 between?
 

 17. 

A square book cover has area 25 square units.
Find the perimeter of the book cover.
 

 18. 

Find 82.
 

 19. 

Which perfect squares have square roots between 6 and 10?
 

 20. 

What is a factor?
 

 21. 

The side length of a square is sa021-1.jpg m. Find its area.
 

 22. 

Copy the line segment on grid paper.
Draw a square on the line segment.
Find the area of the square and the length of the line segment.
sa022-1.jpg
 

 23. 

The side length of a square is sa023-1.jpg cm. Find its area.
 

 24. 

Square A has area 10 cm2.
Square B has area double that of square A.
What is the side length of square B? Give your answer to the nearest centimetre.
 

 25. 

A square patio covers one-quarter of the area of a garden. The garden is 36 m by 36 m.
What are the dimensions of the patio?
 

 26. 

Use what you know about the Pythagorean Theorem.
Find the length of the line segment.
sa026-1.jpg
 

 27. 

Which has the longer diagonal, the rectangle or the square?
sa027-1.jpg
 

 28. 

Find the area of each square.
sa028-1.jpg
 

 29. 

The diagonal of a TV screen is 71 cm. The screen is 63 cm wide.
What is the height of the screen? Give your answer to 1 decimal place.
 

 30. 

Name the points that are sa030-1.jpg units from the origin.
sa030-2.jpg
 

Problem
 

 31. 

A square gymnasium floor has area 169 m2.
Find the perimeter of the gymnasium floor.
 

 32. 

Find the square root of 900. Use a table, list, or diagram to support your answer.
 

 33. 

a)      Estimate each square root to 2 decimal places.
      pr033-1.jpg, pr033-2.jpg, pr033-3.jpg, pr033-4.jpg, pr033-5.jpg
b)      Look at your results in part a. What patterns do you see?
 

 34. 

The length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is pr034-1.jpg cm.
Give 3 possible lengths of the legs of the triangle.
 

 35. 

The 2 diagonals of rhombus PQRS measure 10 cm and 14 cm. The diagonals intersect at T.
Find the side length of the rhombus. Justify your answer.
pr035-1.jpg
 

 36. 

Sarah says triangle ABC is a right triangle.
Is she correct? Justify your answer.
pr036-1.jpg
 

 37. 

A triangle has side lengths pr037-1.jpg cm, pr037-2.jpg cm, and pr037-3.jpg cm.
Is this triangle a right triangle?
Do these side lengths form a Pythagorean triple? Explain.
 

 38. 

Which sets of numbers are Pythagorean triples? Show how you know.
a)      5, 12, 13
b)      26, 36, 45
c)      24, 70, 84
d)      57, 176, 185
 

 39. 

A rectangular carpet measures 7.2 m by 5.5 m.
Calculate the length of the diagonal. Give your answer to the nearest tenth.
 

 40. 

PQRS is a trapezoid with pr040-1.jpg. Find the length of RS. Give the length to the nearest millimetre. Show your work.
pr040-2.jpg
 



 
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