Sample Questions

This page contains a sample quiz for the Year 8 level of HSFOL.

Answers are available at the bottom of the page.

Year 8 Practice Quiz

Question 1

What is the next number in this sequence? 2, 3, 5, 9, 17, 33, 65, ?

Ans

Question 2

Two bricklayers working at the same speed lay 1200 bricks in 8 hours. How many bricks will 3 bricklayers lay in 6 hours if they also work at that same speed?

Ans bricks

Question 3

For every two gadgets I buy at the regular price, I can buy a third gadget for $4. I bought 9 gadgets for a total of $90. What is the regular price of a gadget?

Ans $

Question 4

How many different straight lines can be drawn through two or more dots arranged in the square of dots shown below?

Ans straight lines

Question 5

What is the smallest possible number of children in a family so that each child has at least one brother and at least one sister?

Ans children

Question 6

The speed of a marathon runner is 15 kilometres per hour. What is this speed in metres per second?

Ans m/s