SUBJECT: MATHS

CLASS: VIII
Date: Maximum Marks: 80
Day: Duration: 3 hrs

General Instructions:
1. Attempt all the questions.
2. Do not write anything on the question paper.
3. All the answers must be correctly numbered as in the question paper and written in the
answer sheet provided to you.
4. Attempt all questions in one section before going on to the next section.
5. Read each question carefully and follow the instructions.
6. Revise all your answers carefully after you finish the test.

Section – A (30 marks)

1. One-third of a group of people are men. If the number of women is 200 more than the
men, find the total number of people. (2 marks)
1 1
2. The cost of 2  metres of cloth is ₹75 .  The cost of cloth per metre is (1 mark)
3 4
a) 33.25 b) 32.25
c) 32.5 d) 35.25
3. Solve for the value of x .
7
5 x−2 ( 2 x −7 )=2 ( 4 x −1 )+ (2 marks)
2
4. A barber gives 20% discount. What would the sale price of each of these be? (2 marks)

a) Trimming marked at ₹120

b) Lazer cut marked at ₹250

5. Solve the following linear equations: (2 marks)

m−1 m−2
a) m− =1−
2 3
4 x 18 3 x
b) x +8− = −
3 5 2
6. A ladder 10 m long rests against a vertical wall. If the foot of the ladder is 6 m away from
the wall and the ladder just reaches the top of the wall, how high is the wall? (1 mark)
 a) 8m b) 6m
c) 10m d) 4m
7. 5929 students are sitting in an auditorium in such a manner that there are as many
students in a row as there are rows in an auditorium. How many rows are there in the
auditorium? (2 marks)
8. The greatest number of two digits which is a perfect square is (1 mark)
a) 64 b) 99
c) 81 d) 90
9. A General arranges his soldiers in rows to form a perfect square. He finds that in doing
so, 60 soldiers are left out. If the total number of soldiers is 8160, the number of soldiers
in each row is (1 mark)
a) 90 b) 64
c) 81 d) 121
10. Find the length of a side of a square playground whose area is equal to the area of a
rectangular field of dimensions 72 m and 338 m. (2 marks)
11. A copper wire of length 44 cm is to be bent into a square and a circle. Which will have a
larger area? (2 marks)
12. What will happen to the volume of a cube, if its edge is
a) halved (1 mark)
b) tripled (1 mark)
13. Define pythagorean triplet. Find the pythogorean triplet whose smallest member is 12.
(2 marks)
14. Evaluate ¿. (2 marks)
15. In the given figure, ABCD is a parallelogram. Find x. (2 marks)

16. Find the square roots of the decimal number 1056.25. (2marks)

17. There are 24% of boys in a school. If the number of girls is 456, find the total number of
students in the school. (2marks)

Section – B (20×1=20 marks)

Multiple Choice Questions.
1. Find the area of a rhombus whose diagonals are of lengths 10cm and 8.2cm.
a) 14 cm2 b) 41cm2
c) 82cm2 d) 56 cm2
2. The capacity of a cuboidal water tank is 140 kl and its length and breadth are 7 m and
5m respectively. Its depth is
a) 4m b) 5m
c) 8m d) 9m
3. A quantity whose numerical value is not fixed is called a
a) constant b) monomial
c) binomial d) variable
4. If Aniket spends 30% on toys and 20% of the remainder on books from a sum of ₹2750,
then the amount left with him is
a) ₹2340 b) ₹1540
c) ₹1925 d) ₹385
5. Which of the following is not true for rational numbers?
a) subtraction is not associative b) addition is associative
c) subtraction is commutative d) addition is commutative
6. If all the angles of a quadrilateral are less than 180°, then the quadrilateral is a
a) convex quadrilateral b) concave quadrilateral
c) parallelogram d) none of these

7. Read the pattern and find the missing term.

72 =49
2
67 =4489
2
667 =444889
2
6667 =44448889
2
66667 =4444488889
2
666667 =?
a) 44444888889 b) 444444888899
c) 444444888889 d) 4444448888889

8. What is the volume of rectangular box with length 2ax ,breadth 3by and height 5cz ?
a) 25abcxyz b) 30abcxyz
c) 6acyxz d) 65abcxyz

9. Find the number of sides of a regular polygon whose exterior angle has a measure of
120°.
a) 3 b) 12
 c) 8 d) 5

10. If the area of rhombus is 320 cm 2 and one of the diagonals is 80 cm then find the other
diagonal.
a) 60 cm b) 8 cm
c) 30 cm d) 80 cm

Fill in the blanks.

1. The additive identity of rational numbers is _______
2. The sum of first n odd numbers is _______
1
3. Area of kite = ×( _______of its diagonals.)
2
4. The number of times a wheel of a vehicle of radius 56 cm rotates; to cover a distance of
4.4 km is _______
5. The product of 5x and 4x2 is _______
6. Four-fifth of a number exceeds three-fourth of the number by 4. This is represented by
the equation _______.
28
7. The standard form of is________.
−105
8. _____ is the sum of p ( p−q ) ,q ( q−r )∧r ( r− p ) .
9. We find area of a polygon by dividing it into______ and _________.
10. Different items carry _____ at different rates.

Section – C (10×3=30 marks)

1. Solve the following linear equations:

3
a) 8x = 20 + 3x b) x +  = 2x
2

2. Find the number of sides of a regular polygon who’s each exterior angle has a measure
of 45°.

3. In the given figure ABCD, find the value of x.

4. Find the values of x and y in the following parallelogram.

5. Multiply x2 + 2y by x3 – 2xy + y3 and find the value of the product for x = 1 and y = –1.

6. How many bricks each 25 cm by 15 cm by 8 cm, are required for a wall 32 m long, 3 m
high and 40 cm thick?

7. Which of the following triplets are Pythagorean?

a) (14, 48, 50) b) (18, 79, 82)

8. Using the prime factorisation method, find if 1296 is a perfect square.

9. The ratio of two sides of a parallelogram is 4:3. If its perimeter is 56cm, find the length
of its sides.

10. Two candidates Raman and Rajan contested an election. Raman gets 46% of the valid
votes and is defeated by 1600 votes. Find the total number of valid votes cast in the
election.