8th

grade Summer Packet

Worksheet 1:

1) Perform the given operation.
2 1 2x x 2 1
a) + = b) + = c) + =
!5 5 !5 5 x x



1 1 x x 1 1
d) + = e) + = f) + =
!2 3 !2 3 !2x 3x



1 1 1
g) 1 = h) 1 = i) =
! 3 ! x 1
1
! x

2) Express the following as a single positive exponent, or a value.
a) !22 27 25 = b) !x 2 x 7 x 5 =

( ) x 4 y 2
5
3
c) x y
2
= d) 3
=
! ! x



3) Solve for x:
( ) ( )
a) 4 x 5 = 2 x 1
!
( ) (
b) 3 5x + 8 = 14 x 3
!
)















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Worksheet 2:
1) Solve for x. Give your answer as whole number or fraction.

3x 7 2x +5 7x 4 x 11
a) = b) =
! 4 6 ! 2 5






2) Express the following as a single positive exponent, or a value.

a)!2 22 23 =
7
b) !2x 2 y 2z =


21 2 x
c) 3 5 = d) y z =
!2 2 !2 2


( ) ( )
2 z
e) 23 21 = f) 2 x 2 y =
! !



3) Solve for k

a) 2h = 4k b) 2h k = 4k



c) 2(h k) + k = 3k d) 2(h + 1) 2(k + 1) = k


4) Solve for x. Give your answer as whole number or fraction.

Eliminate the denominators before you start!

2
( ) (
1
a) 5x 11 = 2x + 9 )
(
b)
) (
2 5x 1 3 2x +1
=
)
!3 5 ! 3 5







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Worksheet 3:

1) Factor
a) !7x +14 = d) !4x 8 y =


b) !12x 120 = e) !x y xy 2 =
2

c) !x 2 3x =
f) !x 2 y + xy 2 xyz



2) Write h in terms of k

a) !3h = 6k
( )
d) 3 h k + 2k = 9k
!


b) !3h+1 = 6k
( )
e) 3 h k 4 = 9k
!

c) !2h+1 = 6k 3


3) Find the slope determined by the given two 5) Solve for x:
points
a) !4 12x = 20
( ) ( )
a) 0,3 and 4,0
! !






1 1 1
( ) ( )
b) 2,5 and 5,2
! !
b) x + =
!3 6 2





4) A car can travel 15 miles in an hour. What is 6) Solve for x:
the distance the car can travel in: 3x +1 2x 1
a) 2 hours =
! 12 6

b) 4 hours

c) 8 hours

d) 20 hours

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Worksheet 4:
1) Combine like terms: d) !k k(2(1 k)) =

a) !2h k + 3k 3h+ k =

( ) (
e) 2 5 x x 1 3x = )
( )
b) 3 5a b 3b =
!
!

(
c) 6 5 x +1 =
!
)

2) Simplify

5 3 5a 3a 5 3 5 3 5
a) = b) = c) = d) = e) 3a =
!8 8 !8 8 !a a !a 8a !a





1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
f) 2 = g) = h) = i) =
!x x

(
x 1 x 1 2
)
!x y ! x x +1





3) Write n in terms of p
a) !2n p = 6

(
!
)
b) 2 n p = 6 ( )
c) 2n n + 2p 1 = 6
!



( )
d) 2 n p +1 = 6
! ( 3
)
e) p 4n + = p
1
!4 2




4) Solve for x:
x 1 1 x 9 6 4 6
a) 4 = 16 b) 2x = c) = d) =
!2 ! 4 8 ! x 7 ! x 3x + 2






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Worksheet 5:

1) A train travels at 75 mph.
How far does it go in: e) How long would it take to travel 540 miles at
45 miles/hour?
a) 4 hours _________

b) 6 hours __________ f) How long would it take to travel the same
distance at 56 miles/hour?
How long (in hour) does it take to cover:

c) 600 miles ____________
g) If it takes Alexa 4 hours to cover the same
d) 900 miles ____________ distance, how fast is she going? Is this realistic?



2) Calculate: e) Circle the calculation that increases 400 by 7%
a) 20% of 240
!400 0.07 !400 0.7 !4001.07 !4001.7

b) 15% of 150


f) circle the calculation that decreases 200 by 3%
c) 300 increased by 10%
200 x 0.3 200 x 0.03 200 x 0.97 200 x 1.03


d) 80 decreased by 25%


3) Julie drove 600 miles from city A to city B in 8 4) Convert these numbers into scientific
hours. notation
a) 2,400,000,000
a) What is her average speed? (Distance traveled by the moon orbiting Earth in
m)


b) If she spent 3 hours less driving back from B b) 0.0045
to A, what is her average speed? (length of an adult bed bug)


c) 0.0000017
(average diameter of human hair)




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Worksheet 6:
1) 2)
Using the GCF, factor the expression: Simplify:

a) !28a 14b + 35ab = a) !x 3 x 4 x 5 = b) !x 2 x 5 x 3 =



x7 x7 x 7 x 2
b) !6x 2 y 2 9xy +15x 2 y = c) 5 = d) 4 = e) 3
=
!x !x ! x



3) Solve for x: 4) Write n in terms of p
a)
5x 10
= b)
2x 3 18
= !
( )
a) 2 p 3n = 18 5p b) !3n pn = 20+ p
! 6 24 ! 6 24








5) Solve the following inequalities and graph the
solutions on a number line.
(
a) 11 3x 2 2x 5

) ( )
b) 3 x 3 5x > 3x 6










6) Evaluate the following: 7) Translate into absolute value notation:
a) 5 = b) 5 =
a) The distance between 5 and 11





b) The distance between x and 3
c) 511 = d) 115 =





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Worksheet 7:

1) Ben drives the first 100 miles of his trip at 50 2) Carl walked to a friends house for 20 minutes
mph. Due to overheating, the next 150 miles he and biked home for 40 minutes. The distance
drove slower at 30 miles an hour. What is his between his house and his friends is 5 miles.
average speed? What is his average speed?








3) Calculate the slope that goes through: 4) Plot the points on the graph and calculate the
a) (2, 1) and (5, -5) slope.

a) (-3, 7) and (5, 3)


b) (-3, 1) and (1, 3)


b) (-7, 0) and (-1, 8)


What does negative slope mean?



5) Calculate the slope that goes through: 6) Plot the points on the graph and calculate the
slope.
a) (-5, 1) and (-1, 3)
a) (-1, 5) and (4, 0)





b) (2, -3) and (-3, 5) b) (0, -4) and (-5,0)








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Worksheet 8:
1) Find the slope that goes through: 2) Find the slope of the line given by:

a) (5, 7) and (9, 4) 1
a) y = x 8
2



b) (3, -9) and (5, -5) b) 4x 3 y = 12






3) Find the x- and y-intercept, and then sketch the
graph:
a) 3x y = 6 b) 5x + 8 y = 40
x-intercept: ( ____ , ______ )
x-intercept: (______ , ______)
y-intercept: ( ____ , ______ ) y-intercept: ( ______ , ______)












b) Find the slope of the line b) Find the slope of the line

4) Write an equation of line in slope intercept c) Convert the line equations into standard form
form that: ax + by = c , where a, b, and c are INTEGERS

Equation A)
Equation A) goes through (4, 3) and slope of -2


Equation B)

1 d) Convert the line equations to slope-intercept
Equation B) goes through (-1, 5) and slope of
3 form y = mx + b.
Equation A)



Equation B)
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Worksheet 9:
1) Sketch on the same axes: 2) Sketch on the same axes:
a) y = x b) y = x 1 a) y = x b) y = x +1














How would you describe the shift in graph (b) in How would you describe the shift in graph (b) in
respect to the parent graph y = x ? respect to the parent graph y = x ?




3) Flash Jr. could dash 5 miles in 2 seconds.

a) How many miles could he dash in:

x-axis y-axis

Time (second) Distance (miles)
2 5

4

6

10

15


b) Plot the line in the space provided

c) What is the slope of the line?

d) What is the rate of Flash Jr.?


e) Look back to (c) and (d). What can you
conclude from two questions?

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Worksheet 10:
1) Convert 4x 2 y = 12 to slope-intercept form,
then find the slope and y-intercept:
b)5x + 8y = 40
a) 4x 2y = 12





Slope: y-intercept: Slope: y-intercept:

2) a) First, sketch y = x on both axes.


Fill in the table from the given equation, then plot the graph in the axis provided
b) y = x 1 c) y = x +1
!
x y x y
3 3
2 2
1 1
0 0
-1 -1
-2 -2
-3 -3

d) Comparing both graphs, how would you describe graph (b) and graph (c) as compare to the parent
graph ( y = x )? (Hint: use the word shift)





3) Solve for x 4) Solve for x
2x 3 = 15 2 x 3 = 15











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Worksheet 11:
1) Solve for the system of equations algebraically.
2x 3 y = 12 x + 4 y = 24

a) 4x + y = 10
2x y = 12
b)










2) There are 30 goats and chickens in the farm. 3) Graph
Farmer Billy counted there are 96 legs.
a) Assigning a variable for each animal, write an y = x 2 +1
equation on the number of goats and chicken.




b) Write an equation for the number of legs.
Hint: a chicken has 2 legs, so if the number of
chicken is c, the number of chicken legs is 2c



c) Solve the systems of equations algebraically.




4) Graph and shade hade the solution of system 5) Graph and shade hade the solution of system of
of inequality x + y > 3
3x + 4 y 12
inequality x < 10

2x 5 y 10 y 0












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Worksheet 12:

1) Factor
4a 4 81 2x2 4x 16
24x + 48xy

5x2 11x + 6 3x2 +21x +36 6x2 + 15x + 36

6a 13a + 6
2 1 2 x 2 4 x 21
x 25
4

2) Use the zero product property to solve the following equations:
3x 2 = 48 x2 4x2 - 36 = 0
=9
4

x 2 - 2x - 15 = 0 x 2 - 5x - 24 = 0 (x 2)(x + ) = 0