KSA Grade 8 The Number System. Practice it free.

Know that there are numbers that are not rational, and approximate them by rational numbers. This Grade 8 reporting domain maps to 6 practice skills and 8 representative questions from the playable bank.

Grade 8NS6 mapped skills
What the test measures

The Number System skills

  1. Know that numbers that are not rational are called irrational

  2. Approximate irrational numbers by rational numbers

  3. Work with radicals and integer exponents

  4. Use scientific notation to estimate very large and very small quantities

  5. Perform operations with numbers expressed in scientific notation

Standards basis

Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS) for Mathematics — Kentucky

How the KSA reports it

Kentucky KSA is a state summative assessment built on Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS) rather than a separate national framework. For mathematics, the assessed content closely follows Common Core–style grade-band domains in grades 3-8 and uses Kentucky high-school conceptual categories in grade 10.

Blueprint & weighting

KSA uses the Independent / state-specific framework (by grade domains structure).

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8 free questions · 0/0 correct

Practice playeasy

What is 1,0003\sqrt[3]{1{,}000}?

10×10×10=1,00010 \times 10 \times 10 = 1{,}000, so 1,0003=10\sqrt[3]{1{,}000} = 10.

Practice playeasy

Simplify: y0y^0 (where y0y \neq 0).

The Zero Exponent Property says that any nonzero base raised to the zero power equals one, written y0=1.y^{0} = 1\textsf{.} The stem states that y0y \neq 0, so the property applies and the expression simplifies to 1.1\textsf{.}

Practice playmedium

Let f(t)=4e2t+50f(t) = 4e^{2t} + 50. Which of the following approximations, written as a×10na \times 10^n with one significant digit, is closest to the value of f(4)f(4)?

Substitute t=4t = 4: f(4)=4e8+50f(4) = 4e^{8} + 50. Since e82,981e^{8} \approx 2{,}981, f(4)4(2,981)+50=11,9741×104f(4) \approx 4(2{,}981) + 50 = 11{,}974 \approx 1 \times 10^{4}.

Practice playeasy

Which is closest to 3\sqrt{3}?

31.732\sqrt{3} \approx 1.732.

Practice playeasy

(2×103)(3×104)=6×10n(2 \times 10^3)(3 \times 10^4) = 6 \times 10^n. What is nn?

Multiply coefficients (23=62 \cdot 3 = 6) and add exponents: 3+4=73 + 4 = 7, so n=7n = 7.

Practice playmedium

Simplify (2.5×106)(4×103)(2.5 \times 10^{6})(4 \times 10^{-3}).

Multiply coefficients and add exponents: 2.54=102.5 \cdot 4 = 10 and 6+(3)=36+(-3)=3, giving 10×10310 \times 10^{3}. Rewrite as 1×101×103=1×104.1 \times 10^{1} \times 10^{3}=1 \times 10^{4}\textsf{.}

Practice playeasy

What is 64\sqrt{64}?

8×8=648 \times 8 = 64, so 64=8\sqrt{64} = 8.

Practice playeasy

(34)235=3k.\dfrac{(3^{4})^{2}}{3^{5}} = 3^{k}\textsf{.} What is k?k\textsf{?}

The Power of a Power Property says that a power raised to another power is simplified by multiplying the exponents, written (xm)n=xmn.(x^{m})^{n} = x^{m \cdot n}\textsf{.} So (34)2=342=38.(3^{4})^{2} = 3^{4 \cdot 2} = 3^{8}\textsf{.} The Quotient of Powers Property then subtracts the exponents, written xmxn=xmn.\dfrac{x^{m}}{x^{n}} = x^{m-n}\textsf{.} So 3835=385=33\dfrac{3^{8}}{3^{5}} = 3^{8-5} = 3^{3} and k=3.k = 3\textsf{.}

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