REVISION QUESTION BANK 3

Subject: Mathematics Grade: VIII

Playing with Numbers

1) Which of the following numbers are divisible by 5 or by 10
(i) 87035 (ii) 75060 (iii) 9865 (iv ) 463 (v) 6405 (vi) 10730
2) Which of the following is divisible by 2, 4 or 8
(i) 67894 (ii) 5673244 (iii) 9685048 (iv) 6533142 (v) 75379
3) Which of the following numbers are divisible by 3 or 9
(i) 45639 (ii) 301248 (iii) 567081 (iv) 345903 (v) 345046
4) Which of the following numbers are divisible by 11:
(i) 10835 (ii) 28248 (iii) 380237 (iv) 504670
5) Which of the following numbers are divisible by 6
(i) 15414 (ii) 213888 (iii) 469876 (iv) 337926
6) In each of the following replace * by a digit so that the number formed is
divisible by 9
(i) 21*5 (ii) 31*5 (iii) 49*2207 (iv) 5938*623
7) In each of the following replace * by a digit so that the number formed is
divisible by 3
(i) 24* (ii) 197*541 (iii) 709*94
8) In each of the following replace * by a digit so that the number formed is
divisible by 11
(i) 64*2456 (ii) 86*6194
9) Construct a 4  4 magic square using number 0 to 15. What is the magic sum?
10) Find the value of A, B and C for each of the following:
(i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
12 A A 6 A A B A B
+2A7 5 B 8  3 A 7
A60 B 6 1 CA B 6 7 B

Percentage and its Applications

11) Find the value of :

2 1
(i) 27% of `50 (ii) 10 % of 15 m (iii) 6 % of 25 kg (iv) 0.8% of 390
3 4

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On decreasing a number by 18%, it becomes 697. Find the

12)
number. Ans. 850

13) In a school 38% of the students are girls. If the number of boys is 1023, find
the total strength of the school.
14) A candidate who gets 36% marks in the examination fails by 24 marks but
another candidate, who gets 43% marks, gets 18 more marks than the
minimum pass marks. Find the maximum marks and the percentage of pass
marks.
15) The price of bananas is ` 30 a dozen. Aditya can buy 12 dozen bananas with
the amount of money he has. If the price of bananas is increased by ` 10 a
dozen, how many dozen bananas can Aditya buy?
16) Arvind sold his watch at 10% loss. If he had sold it for `54 more, he would
have made 8% profit. Find the selling price of the watch.
17) 27
The selling price of a table is times its cost price. Find the loss or the profit
25
as percent.
18) A shopkeeper purchased a sewing machine for ` 1200. He sells it at discount
of 10% and still makes a profit of 8%. Find (i) the selling price (ii) the
marked price
19) By selling a jacket for ` 576, a shopkeeper had a loss of 4%. What should be
his selling price if he wants a gain of 12%?
20) The price of sugar goes up by 25%. By how much percent must a housewife
reduce the consumption so that the expenditure does not increase?
21) A shopkeeper marks his goods at such a price that would give him a profit of
10% after allowing a discount of 12%. If an article is marked at `2250, find
its: (i) selling price (ii) cost price
22) Rajan bought an air cooler for `3300 including a VAT of 10%. Find the price
of the air cooler before the VAT was added.
23) Gaurav bought a shirt for `1296 including VAT. If the original price of the
shirt is `1200, find the rate of the VAT.

Simple and Compound Interest

24) Find the simple interest on ` 5000 at 9% per annum for 146 days. Also find
the amount.
25) What sum will amount to `5525 at 10% per annum simple interest in 3 years?
26) The compound interest on a sum of ` 5000 deposited in a bank for a period
of 2 years is ` 832. Find the rate of interest.
27) A certain sum amounts to `72900 in 2 years at 8 % per annum compound interest
compounded annually. Find the sum.

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28) In what time will `1000 amount to `1331 at 10% per annum,
compounded annually?
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29) Find the compound interest on `15625 for 1 years at 8% per annum when
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compounded half-yearly.
30) Find the amount on ` 15625 in 9 months at the rate of 16% per annum, when the
interest is compounded quarterly.
31) The difference between the compound interest and the simple
interest on a certain principal for 2 years at the rate of 4% per
annum is ` 150. Find the principal.
32) In a certain experiment the count of bacteria was increasing at the rate of 2.5% per
hour. Initially, the count was 512000. Find the bacteria at the end of 2 hours.
33) Three years ago, the population of a town was 50000. If the annual increase during
three successive years be at the rate of 5%, 4% and 3% respectively. What is the
present population?

Construction of Quadrilaterals
34) Construct a quadrilateral PQRS given that PQ = 3.5 cm, QR = 3.1 cm, RS = 4 cm,
SP = 4.3 cm and PR = 5.5 cm
35) Construct a quadrilateral DIET in which DI = 3.5 cm, IE = 4.2 cm, ET = 4.1 cm, DT
= 5 cm and 75
36) Construct a quadrilateral ABCD in which AB = 3.4 cm, BC = 4.6 cm, CD = 4 cm,
AC = 5cm and BD = 6 cm.
37) Construct a quadrilateral PQRS given that PQ = 3 cm, QR = 3.5 cm, RS = 4.5 cm,
Q = 75 and R = 105
38) Construct a quadrilateral ABCD in which AB = 3.8 cm, AD = 4.4 cm, A = 60,
B = 110 and D = 100
39) Construct a quadrilateral PQRS given that PQ = QR = 5 cm, Q = 120, R = 60
and S = 50 [HOTS]
40) Construct a rectangle whose sides are 4.5 cm and 3.8 cm
41) Construct a rectangle TPQN in which TP = 5 cm and PN = 6.8 cm.
42) Construct a square whose side is 3.8 cm
43) Construct a square whose diagonal is 6.2 cm
44) Construct a rhombus ABCD given that AB = 4.5 cm and a diagonal is 7 cm.
45) Construct a rhombus ABCD whose diagonals AC and BD are 7cm and 5 cm
respectively.

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Statistics

46) Thirty students were tested to find their pulse rate. The following figures were
obtained for the number of beats per minute. Using class intervals 50 – 55, 55 – 60
etc, prepare a frequency table.
47) A group of students are asked how many minutes they had spent the previous
evening on doing the homework. Their response is given below:
25, 35, 65, 75, 45, 30, 25, 35, 60, 85, 75, 45, 35, 30, 90, 5, 50, 10, 40, 65, 90, 80, 50,
45, 35, 15, 20, 45, 75, 75, 75, 95, 5
Choose your own class intervals and prepare a frequency table.
48) The table given below shows the sale of some fruits in one day by a local market.
Fruit Papaya Pears Mangoes Oranges Apples
Sale (in kg) 16 8 24 40 52
Represent the data by a bar graph
49) The distance thrown by competitors in a discus throw event are given below:
Distance (in m) 25 – 30 30 – 35 35 – 40 40 – 45 45 – 50 50 - 55
Frequency 5 8 17 10 9 5
Draw a histogram to represent the above data.
50) Pooja spends different hours of a working day as follows:

Home
Activity School Play Sleep other
Assignments
No. of hours 5 8 17 10 9
Draw a pie chart to represent the above data

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