Indiana Academic Standards for Mathematics — Indiana
Uses expressions, equations, and functions to model relationships and analyze linear equations and systems. This Grade 8 reporting domain maps to 10 practice skills and 8 representative questions from the playable bank.
Indiana Academic Standards for Mathematics — Indiana
Indiana iLEARN is a state assessment system aligned to Indiana’s Academic Standards rather than a shared national testing framework. The public iLEARN page says the math assessment is a computer-adaptive test measuring Indiana mathematics standards, and the through-year summative measures the full set of skills expected by year end ([Indiana DOE iLEARN](https://www.in.gov/doe/students/assessment/ilearn/)).
The iLEARN public page states that each Checkpoint measures a subset of skills and the summative measures the full set of skills by the end of the school year, but the official page and accessible sources retrieved here do not publish per-domain item percentages or weightings for math ([Indiana DOE iLEARN](https://www.in.gov/doe/students/assessment/ilearn/), [Indiana DOE Formative (Interim) Assessment Grant Guidance](https://www.in.gov/doe/files/2026-2027-Formative-Interim-Assessment-Grant-Guidance.pdf)).
Indiana DOE iLEARN
Indiana DOE Formative (Interim) Assessment Grant Guidance
Simplify: (where ).
The Zero Exponent Property says that any nonzero base raised to the zero power equals one, written The stem states that , so the property applies and the expression simplifies to
Let . Which of the following approximations, written as with one significant digit, is closest to the value of ?
Substitute : . Since , .
and In the given system of equations, is a constant. If the system has no solution, what is the value of
The first equation simplifies to and the second simplifies to When so the lines have the same slope, and since does not equal the lines are parallel with different -intercepts, so the system has no solution.
How many solutions does the given system of equations have?
Rewrite in slope-intercept form: and . The slopes are the same, but the -intercepts differ, so the lines are parallel and the system has zero solutions.
Solve for .
Subtract from both sides: . Subtract from both sides: . Multiply both sides by :
. What is ?
Multiply coefficients () and add exponents: , so .
If , which expression is equal to ?
Add to both sides: . Divide both sides by : .
What is ?
, so .
The ILEARN placement starts with this test's real coverage map and finds the right difficulty.