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Educator and Tagging Information:
Learning Area:
Maths
Resource Name:
Maths
Assessment Exemplar Number:
M8.37
Item:
37
Phase:
Senior
Grade:
8
Learning Outcome(s) and Assessment Standard(s):
Learning Outcome 1: Numbers, Operations and Relationships
Assessment Standard: We know this when the learner
8.1.9 (a) Uses a range of techniques to perform calculations including: using the commutative,
associative and distributive properties with rational numbers.
8.1.11 (b) Recognises, describes and uses: the commutative, associative and distributive properties
with rational numbers (the expectation is that learners should be able to use these properties and not
necessarily to know the names of the properties).
8.2.5 Solves equations by inspection, trial and improvement or algebraic processes (additive and
multiplicative inverses), checking the solution by substitution).
Learning Space:
Assessment
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Number of questions for exemplar:
1
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Assessment Task
Questions:
Which value of x makes the equation 3x  2  x  5  50 true?
Solution
3 x  2  x  5   50
 3 x  2 x  10  50
 x  50  10
 x  40.