MAST Grade 8 Systems of Equations. Practice it free.

Students solve systems of equations algebraically or from verbal descriptions and estimate solutions from graphs. This Grade 8 reporting domain maps to 2 practice skills and 8 representative questions from the playable bank.

Grade 8Testlet 82 mapped skills
What the test measures

Systems of Equations skills

  1. Solve a system of equations algebraically or from a verbal description.

  2. Estimate the solution of a system of equations from a graph.

  3. Standards: 8.EE.8, 8.EE.8.a, 8.EE.8.b, 8.EE.8.c

Standards basis

Montana PK-12 Mathematics Content Standards / Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSS-M)-aligned Montana standards — Montana

How the MAST reports it

Montana’s MAST is a state-specific through-year assessment built by New Meridian and aligned to Montana’s academic content standards, not a Smarter Balanced-style claims/targets framework. The math blueprints organize content into grade-level strands/testlets that map directly to CCSS-M-derived Montana standards.

Blueprint & weighting

The blueprint publishes a through-year design of 12 strands/testlets per grade, with 1 strand per testlet, 2 reporting attributes per strand, and 9–13 items per testlet. It also specifies approximate item-type and DOK distributions, but does not publish percentage weighting by domain in the captured blueprint text.

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Practice playeasy

Which of the following systems of linear equations has no solution?

Both equations have slope 22 but different yy-intercepts (33 and 1-1), so the lines are parallel and the system has no solution.

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{x+y=53xy=3\begin{cases} x + y = 5 \\ 3x - y = 3 \end{cases}

How many solutions does the given system of equations have?

Rewrite in slope-intercept form: y=x+5y = -x + 5 and y=3x3y = 3x - 3. The slopes 1-1 and 33 are different, so the lines intersect at exactly one point.

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Which system of linear equations has no solution?

Both equations have slope 3-3 but different yy-intercepts (22 and 55), so the lines are parallel and the system has no solution.

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{2x+y=7xy=2\begin{cases} 2x + y = 7 \\ x - y = 2 \end{cases}

How many solutions does the given system of equations have?

Rewrite in slope-intercept form: y=2x+7y = -2x + 7 and y=x2y = x - 2. The slopes 2-2 and 11 are different, so the lines intersect at exactly one point.

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Which of the following systems has no solution?

Both equations have slope 44 but different yy-intercepts (1-1 and 33), so the lines are parallel and the system has no solution.

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{5x3y=42x+y=7\begin{cases} 5x - 3y = 4 \\ 2x + y = 7 \end{cases}

How many solutions does the given system of equations have?

Rewrite in slope-intercept form: y=53x43y = \dfrac{5}{3}x - \dfrac{4}{3} and y=2x+7y = -2x + 7. The slopes 53\dfrac{5}{3} and 2-2 are different, so the lines intersect at exactly one point.

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Which system below has no solution?

Both equations have slope 1-1 but different yy-intercepts (66 and 2-2), so the lines are parallel and the system has no solution.

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{5x10y=15x2y=4\begin{cases} 5x - 10y = 15 \\ x - 2y = 4 \end{cases}

How many solutions does the given system of equations have?

Rewrite in slope-intercept form: y=12x32y = \dfrac{1}{2}x - \dfrac{3}{2} and y=12x2y = \dfrac{1}{2}x - 2. The slopes are the same, but the yy-intercepts differ, so the lines are parallel and the system has zero solutions.

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