PSSA Grade 8 Expressions and Equations. Practice it free.

Measures linear expressions, linear equations, systems, and exponents in algebraic contexts. This Grade 8 reporting domain maps to 10 practice skills and 8 representative questions from the playable bank.

Grade 8M.8.210 mapped skills
What the test measures

Expressions and Equations skills

  1. Work with radicals and integer exponents

  2. Understand the connections between proportional relationships, lines, and linear equations

  3. Analyze and solve linear equations and pairs of simultaneous linear equations

  4. Use properties of exponents to generate equivalent numerical expressions

  5. Solve linear equations in one variable with rational number coefficients, including equations with variables on both sides

Standards basis

Pennsylvania Academic Standards for Mathematics / Pennsylvania Assessment Anchors and Eligible Content — Pennsylvania

How the PSSA reports it

PSSA is Pennsylvania’s own standards-based, criterion-referenced assessment. Its math reporting structure is built on the Pennsylvania Academic Standards/Assessment Anchors and Eligible Content rather than a separate multi-state framework, and it closely mirrors CCSS-style grade-level domains.

Blueprint & weighting

The official PSSA page lists the Mathematics Test Design and grade-level item/scoring samplers, but the accessible source excerpt did not expose a usable per-domain percentage blueprint; no reliable item-weight table was recoverable from the available primary page text.

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Practice playeasy

Simplify: y6y3y^{6} \cdot y^{3}.

The Product of Powers Property says that powers with the same base are multiplied by adding the exponents, written ymyn=ym+n.y^{m} \cdot y^{n} = y^{m+n}\textsf{.} Both factors have base yy, so y6y3=y6+3=y9.y^{6} \cdot y^{3} = y^{6+3} = y^{9}\textsf{.}

Practice playhard

Let f(t)=6e2tf(t) = 6e^{2t}. Which of the following approximations, written as a×10na \times 10^n with one significant digit, is closest to the value of f(5)f(5)?

Substitute t=5t = 5: f(5)=6e10f(5) = 6e^{10}. Since e1022,026e^{10} \approx 22{,}026, f(5)6(22,026)=132,1561×105f(5) \approx 6(22{,}026) = 132{,}156 \approx 1 \times 10^{5}.

Practice playeasy

93,000,000=c×10793{,}000{,}000 = c \times 10^7. What is cc?

9.3×107=93,000,0009.3 \times 10^7 = 93{,}000{,}000, so c=9.3c = 9.3.

Practice playeasy

Solve for the positive value of xx: x2=121x^2 = 121.

x=121=11x = \sqrt{121} = 11 because 11×11=12111 \times 11 = 121.

Practice playmedium

Find xx if 2x+9=5x62x + 9 = 5x - 6.

Subtract 2x2x from both sides: 9=3x69 = 3x - 6. Add 66 to both sides: 15=3x15 = 3x. Divide by 33: x=5.x = 5\textsf{.}

Practice playmedium

What is 7.2×1051.2×102\dfrac{7.2 \times 10^{-5}}{1.2 \times 10^{-2}}?

Divide coefficients and subtract exponents: 7.2÷1.2=67.2 \div 1.2 = 6 and 5(2)=3-5-(-2)=-3. So the quotient is 6×103.6 \times 10^{-3}\textsf{.}

Practice playmedium

If 6y=3x+96y = -3x + 9, which expression is equal to xx?

Subtract 99 from both sides: 6y9=3x6y - 9 = -3x. Divide both sides by 3-3: x=6y93=2y+3x = \dfrac{6y - 9}{-3} = -2y + 3.

Practice playeasy

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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