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CLASS – VIII
MATHEMATICS
RATIONAL NUMBERS
Very Short Answers
1. What is the product of the additive inverse and the multiplicative
inverse of -3
2. Which property of multiplication is illustrated by
−2 5 −3 −2 5 −2 −3
x + = x + x
3 8 7 3 8 3 7
−5
3. By what rational number should be multiplied to get 20.
48
−𝑎
4. What is the additive inverse of .
𝑏
5. Multiply
−3 15 −2 −14 8 33
(a) x (b) x (c) x
5 8 7 11 −11 −32
Short Answers
1. Simplify the following:
−8 −9 −7 11 −2 −5 7 −13
(a) + (b) + (c) + (d) +
11 11 15 15 3 6 24 36
−7
2. The sum of two rational numbers is -6 and one of them is . Find the
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other number.
−1 7
3. Find two rational numbers between and
9 9
−2 1
4. Find a rational number between x and y if x = y=
3 4
5. Verify the following statements and name the property of
multiplication
−11 −5 −5 −11
a) x = x
3 7 7 3

−4 3 2 −4 3 2
b) x x = x x
5 7 11 5 7 11

−2 −4 3 −2 −4 −2 3
c) x + = x + x
5 11 7 5 11 5 7

−15 −15 −15

d) x1=1x =
7 7 7

−21 −13
e) 𝑥 =1
33 21
Represent the following rational numbers on the number line
3 −5 1 2
a) b) c) -2 d) 3
7 11 3 3
6. Write four rational numbers equal to
3 −2 8 −11
a) b) c) d)
7 5 −13 15

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 LONG ANSWERS
1. Simplify the following using suitable properties
5 −3 −3 2
a) x + x
6 10 10 3

5 8 5 2
b) x − x
12 15 12 3

5 −14 −8 −3 2 −27
c) x + x − x
7 15 15 −16 9 16

EXPONENTS AND POWERS

Very Short Answers
1. Evaluate
3 4 -3
−2 −3 −5
a) b) c) (4)-3 d)
5 7 6

2. Find he value of -1
1
a) 32 b) 3-2 c) d) 34 x 32 e) (34)5
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3. Write the given expressions in expanded form
a) 4567.324 b) 3089.321
4. Express the following numbers in their standard form
a) 95700000 b) 42789000 c) 0.456 d) 0.0000000864
5. Express the following numbers in their usual form
a) 5.04 x 10-4 b) 5.3 x 104 c) 5.146 x 105
Short Answers
1. Evaluate
2 -3 -2 -1 3
−3 1
a) b) c) 5-1 4-1
4 3

-1 -1 -1 -5 -3
2 3 −3 −3
d) x e) 
3 4 4 4

2. Find x such that

(-2)x+1 x (-2)6 = (-2)8
3. Find x so that
-3 5 x
7 7 7
x =
8 8 8

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4. Find x so that
-2 -9 2x+1
2 2 2
x =
3 3 3

5. Find x so that
-3 -5 3x
−3 −3 −3
x =
4 4 4
6. Solve for x
(a) 22x x 2x=9 = (43)6
(b) 52x 57 = 53
Long Answers
1. Simplify
a) 3-5 x 10-5 X 125 b) 3-3x 10-4X 125 c) 36x x-8
6-5 x 5-7 6-3 x 2-5 6-2 x 12 x x-3
3−5 x 2−5 x 53
d)
5−1 x 6−5

UNDERSTANDING QUADRILATERAL
Very Short Answers
1. Define
a) Open curve b) Closed curve c) Regular polygon d) Convex
polygon
2. Find the measure of each exterior angle of the following figures.
a) pentagon b) hexagon c) octagon d) decagon
3. What is the sum of two adjacent angles in a parallelogram.
4. What is the angle between the intersection of two diagonals in a
rhombus?
5. If the two adjacent angles of a parallelogram are in the ratio 2:3 then
find the largest angle.
Short Answers
1. How many sides does a regular polygon have if each of its exterior
angles measure 40?
2. How many sides does a regular polygon have if each of its interior
angles is 168?
3. The angles of a quadrilateral are in the ratio 3:7:1:9. Find the measure
of each of its angles.
4. An angle of a quadrilateral is 93. The other three angles are equal.
Find the measure of each of the equal angles.
5. Three angles of a quadrilateral are in the ratio 2:3:7. The mean of
these angles is 64. Find all four angles?

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6. Three angles of a quadrilateral are in the ratio 4:5:3. The difference of
the least and the greatest of these angles is 42. Find all the four
angles of the quadrilateral.
Long Answers
1. PQRS is a parallelogram. The diagonals PR and SQ intersect at O. If
OQ = (y+9) cm, OS = 13 cm, OP = 16 cm, OR = (x+y) cm, find x and y.
S R

x+y
13

y+
16
O 9

P Q

2. The perimeter of a parallelogram is 120 cm. If one side is greater than

the other by 20 cm, find the length of the sides of the parallelogram.
3. The following figure HOPE is a parallelogram. find ‘a’ and ‘b’
H 4b+1 E

4a 16

O 25 P
4. The length of two diagonals of a rhombus are 10 cm and 24 cm. Find
the length of a side of the rhombus?

LAB ACTIVITY
Activity 1 - Opposite angles of a parallelogram are equal
Activity 2 - Opposite sides of a parallelogram are equal
Activity 3 - Each diagonal divides the parallelogram into two
congruent triangles.

LINEAR EQUATIONS IN ONE VARIABLE

Very Short Answers
1. Solve the following equations
a) 3(y-5) = 6
b) 8x = 20+3x
c) 2x - ½ = 3
d) 2x – 7 = 5x+8

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Short Answers
1. Solve the following equations
2−(3𝑥−8) 1
a) 16(3x-5) – 10(4x-8) = 40 h) =
5−(4𝑥−9) 2
𝑥 𝑥 4x−8 2
b) - = -8 i) =
2 3 ½+3x 7
3𝑥+5 1 x x x
c) = j) + + = 22
2𝑥+1 3 8 4 12
2−7𝑥 3+7𝑥
d) =
1−5𝑥 4+5𝑥
𝑥−3 𝑥−4 2𝑥−1
e) + =6-
5 7 35
f) 2(1.5x + 2.5) = 0.5x+3
𝑥−3 𝑥−4 2𝑥−1
g) + =6-
5 7 35
2. Two numbers are in the ratio 2:3. If the sum of the numbers is 175,
find the number.
3. The numerator of a fraction is 4 less than the denominator. If 1 is
3
added to both numerator and denominator it becomes . Find the
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fraction.
4. The sum of three consecutive even numbers is 252. Find the numbers.
Long Answers
1. The perimeter of a rectangle is 72 m. If length is 10 m more than the
breadth, find the length and breadth of the rectangle.
2. Sum of the digits of a 2-digit number is 9. When the digits are
interchanged, it is found that the resulting number is greater than the
original number y 27. Find the number.
3. Anita’s mother is four times as old as Anita. Twenty years later, she
will be twice as old as Anita will be then. Find the present age of
Anita.
4. The perimeter of a rectangle is 50 cm. The length is 5 cm more than its
breadth. Find the length and breadth of the rectangle.
5. Rohan spent ½ of his pocket money on lunch, ⅓ on conveyance and
gave the remaining money to his sister Sweety. If Sweety got ` 5, how
much pocket money did Rohan get? How much money did he spend
on lunch.
6. A purse has only 2-rupee and 5-rupee coins. The total value of the
coins is ` 132. If the number of 5-rupee coins is one-third the number
of 2-rupee coins, find the number of each type of coins.
7. The sum of the digits of a 2 digit number is 11. The number obtained
by adding 4 to this number is 41 less than the reversed number. Find
the original number.

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 SQUARES AND SQUARE ROOTS
Very Short Answers
1. Give reasons to show that one of the numbers given below is a perfect
square
a) 2357 b) 782 c) 5413 d) 1408 e) 1530 f)
57800
g) -160000
2. State whether the square of each of the following numbers is odd or
even:
a) 723 b) 876 c) 5848 d) 7022
3. Express 64 as the sum of 8 odd numbers.
4. Express 144 as the sum of 12 odd numbers
5. Find the Pythagorean triplet whose smallest number is 18.
Short Answers
1. Find the square root of
a) 9604 b) 12321 c) 4225 d) 3481 e) 7225
f) 42.25 g) 156.25 h) 0.813604 i) 6.4009 j) 1.96
Long Answers
1. Find the least number of 6 digits which is a perfect square.
2. Find the smallest square number divisible by each of the numbers 8, 9
and 10.
3. Find the greatest number of 6 digits which is a perfect square.
4. Find the least number to be added to 306452 to make it perfect square.
5. By what least number should 7623 be divided to get a perfect square.
Find the square number and its square root.
6. An army officer arranges his soldiers in such a way that the number of
rows is the same as the number of columns. In doing so, he finds that
55 soldiers are left out. If the total number of soldiers is 6455, find the
number of soldiers in each case.
7. A number is multiplied by itself. The product is 5.0625. Find the
number.
8. 9604 plants are to be arranged in such a way that the number of plants
in each row is the same as the number of plants in each column. How
many plants are arranged in a column.
CUBES AND CUBE ROOTS
Very Short Answers
1. Which of the following is the cube of even natural number
a) 3375 b) 4913 c) 1728 d) 2197
2. Which of the following numbers are perfect cubes
a) 588 b) 900 c) 1620 d) 3375 e) 21952

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3. What is the units digit of (88)3
4. If the unit digit of the cube root of a number is 7. What is the unit
digit of the number.
3 125
5. The value of √ is
343
5 −5 7 3
a) b) c) d)
7 7 5 7
Short Answers
1. What is the smallest number by which 784 be multiplied so as the
product becomes perfect cube.
2. What is the smallest number by which 3089 must be divided so as
quotient is a perfect cube?
3. Volume of a cubic box is 9.261 m3. Find the side of the box.
4. Find the cube root of
a) 74088 b) 12167 c) 857375 d) 4096
5. Find the cube of 0.6
Long Answers
1. What is the smallest number with which 20577 must be divided so
that the quotient is a perfect cube. Also find the cube root of the
quotient thus obtained.
2. By what smallest number should we multiply 8799 so that the product
becomes a perfect cube. Find the cube root of the product.
3. Arrange 15625 oranges in a fruit basket in such a way that numbers of
layers of oranges, number of oranges in each row of each layer and
number of rows in each layer be same.

ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSIONS AND IDENTITIES

Very Short Answers
1. Classify the following polynomials as monomials, binomials,
trinomials.
a) x+y b) x3+x2+x c) 50x – 7y2 d) ap2+8q
e) 5p2+7q2+8p2 f) 2x2 + 5x2 g) 3x2 + 2x + 5x + 1
2. Find each of the following product
a) 2x2 X 5x3 b) (-3xy)X(-2x2yz)
1 4
c) xy X x2yz2 d) 3ab2c3 X 8a3bc2
2 3
3. Add
a) 8x2+2x, 7x-8x2 b) -5x2+3x+4, -4x2-4x+6
c) 6a2+7ab-4b2, -8a2-9b2-4ab, 24a2+8b2
4. Subtract
a) 19x2-15x from 18x2+6x
b) -21x2+12x-3 from -18x2-28x+4

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 c) 16x2+20x-16 from -10x2+10x-10

Short Answers
1. What should be added to 16x+10xy+2y2 to obtain -4x+6xy-3y2
2. Find the value of the following for x = 2 and y = -1
a) 6x2y2 x -2xy b) 4x2y x -7xy2
3. Find the product of (3x-3) and (4x2+6x-3)
4. Find the product of
a) (a2-2ab+b2) and (a-b)
b) (x2-5x+7) and (2x+3)
c) (2x2+3x+7) and (3x2-5x-4)
5. What must be subtracted from x3+3x-9 to get 3x3+x2+3
6. If a=b=2 then find the value of (a-b)(a2+ab-b2)
Long Answers
1. Subtract the sum of 8x-5y-2z and -6x+8y-4z from the sum of 6x+2y-4z
and -2x+4y-8z.
2. Simplify
(x+2y)(1+3x+4y)-6y(x+y)
3. Simplify
x2+(3x-y)(3x+y+y2)
4. Subtract the sum of 7x2-2xy+y2 and -3xy+4x2-4y2 from -12x2+4xy
5. Find the product using identities
1 1
a) (3x+5y)2 b) (2x-5)2 c) (3x+7) (3x-7) d) (x+ )(x− )
2 2
5 4 5𝑥 5𝑥 𝑝 𝑟 𝑎 𝑏
e) ( x - y)2 f) ( + 3y)( +3y) g) ( + ) h) ( + )2
6 7 7 7 𝑞 𝑠 𝑏 𝑎
1 1 1 1
i) (x + ½)(x - ½) j) ( p2 − q)( p2 − q) k) (a2+5)(a2+5)
3 2 3 2
6. Evaluate the following using identities
a) (87)2 b) (53)2 c) (79)2 d) (98)2
e) (502)2 f) 198x202 g) (498)2 h) (92)2-(8)2
i) 15.7 x 14.3 j) 198 x 202
7. Find the volume of a rectangular field whose dimensions are as
follows
length = 5ab, breadth = 7a2, height = 3ab2
Activity
1. Verification of (a=b)2 = a2+b2+2ab
2. Verification of (a-b)2 = a2-2ab+b2
3. Verification of a2-b2 = (a+b)(a-b)
4. Verification of (x+a)(x+b) = x2+(a+b)x+ab

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 COMPARING QUANTITIES
Very Short Answers
1. Find 15% of ` 1200
2. If 43% of a number ‘a’ is 86, find ‘a’
3. If Sita has Rs.600 left after paying 40% of her money; how much did
she have in the beginning?
4. Find the gain or loss percent when
a) C.P = Rs.8800, overhead charges = Rs.400, S.P = Rs.10304
5. Find C.P when S.P = Rs.285, Gain % = 14
6. Find Discount % when M.P = Rs.1600 and S.P =Rs.1180
SHORT ANSWERS
1. A garden has 3000 trees, 15% of these are orange trees; 19% of these are
lemon and rest are mango trees. Find the number of mango trees.
2. Mohini spends 30% of her salary on house rent, 25% on the education
of her children and 40% on food items. Find her salary if she saves
Rs.1470 per month.
3. If C.P of an article is Rs.9400 and gain is 12½%. Find the S.P of an
article.
4. A ceiling fan is marked at Rs.1540. During off season a discount is
given and it is sold for Rs.1470. Find the discount percent allowed.
5. Neena bought a pen for Rs.23.75 after getting 5% discount on it. What
is its list price?
6. Ankit bought some groceries for Rs.900 and paid 6% sales tax on it.
How much did he pay to the shopkeeper?
7. A shopkeeper charged Rs.1242 for a fan which includes 8% VAT on it.
Find the original price (without VAT) of the fan.
8. Find the compound interest on Rs.8500 for 2 years at 8% per annum.
9. Find the compound interest when Principal = Rs.50000, Rate = 10% p.a.
and time = 2½ years. Find the amount payable at the end of 2½ years.
10. Find the compound interest on Rs.15,000 at 12% per annum for 1 year
interest being compounded half yearly.
Long Answers
1. Meenu bought pairs of shirts for Rs.725 each. She sold one of them at a
gain of 8% and the other at a loss of 4%. Find her gain or loss percent
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2. Vipin sold two tape-records for Rs.3780 each. On selling one tape
recorder, he had a gain of 5% and on selling the other one, he had a
loss of 10%. Find his gain or loss percent in the whole transaction.
3. Find the time period for which Rs.12000 amount to Rs.17569.20 at the
rate of 20% per annum compounded half yearly.
4. The population of a town 2 years ago was 64000. Due to migration to
cities, it decreases every year at the rate of 2½% per annum. Find its
present population.
5. Simple Interest on a sum of money for 3 years at 6¼% per annum is
Rs.2400. What will be the compound interest on that sum at the same
rate for the same period.
MENSURATION
Very Short Answers
1. Find the area of a rhombus whose diagonals are 18 cm and 12 cm.
2. The total surface area of a cube is 96 cm2. Find its volume.
3. The area of a rhombus is 96 sq cm. If one of its diagonals is 16 m, find
the length of the other diagonal.
4. The length of the diagonal of a quadrilateral is 40 cm and the
perpendicular drawn on it from the opposite vertices are 12 cm and 7.5
cm. Find the area of the quadrilateral.
5. Find the volume (in cubic metres) of a cuboid measuring 35 cm x 30 cm
x 24 cm.
Short Answers
1. Two parallel sides of a trapezium are of lengths 27 cm and 19 cm
respectively and distance between them is 14 cm. Find the area of a
trapezium.
2. The area of a rhombus is 50 cm2 and one of its diagonals is 15 cm. Find
the other diagonal.
3. The area of trapezium is 353 cm2 and distance between its parallel
sides is 16 cm. If one of the parallel sides is of length 25 cm, find the
length of the other.
4. The volume of a rectangular tank is 182 m3. If its length and breadth
be 8 m and 6.5 m respectively. Find its depth.
5. The circumference of the base of right circular cylinder is 140 cm. If the
height of the cylinder is 4 m find its volume.
6. A cylindrical pillar is 1.6 m in diameter and 6.3 m in height. Find the
cost of white washing the curved surface of the pillar at the rate of
Rs.12 per m2.
Long Answers
1. Find the volume, the total surface area and lateral surface area of a
cuboid which is 8 m long, 6 m broad and 3.5 m high.

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2. How many bricks will be required for a wall which is 8 m long, 6 m
high and 22.5 cm thick, if each brick measures 25 cm x 11.25 cm x 6 cm.
3. Find the volume of a cube whose total surface area is 486 cm2.
4. A roller is 210 cm long having the diameter as 35 cm. It takes 600
complete revolutions to level a playground. Find the area of the
playground.
5. How much area of metal sheet is required to make an open cylindrical
tank of radius 4.3 m and height 12 m.
Activity: To verify that the curved surface area of cylinder = 2πrh.
Activity: To find the formula to calculate the area of a trapezium.

DIRECT AND INVERSE PROPORTIONS

Very Short Answers
1. Observe the table given below and check if x and y vary in direct
proportion.
a)
x 2 3 4 5 6

y 4 6 8 10 12

b)

x 1.5 2.5 3.5 4.5 5.5

y 4.5 7.5 10.5 14.5 17.5

2. If x and y are directly proportional, find the values of x1, y2, and x4.

x x1 5 12 x4

y 24 y2 72 96

3. If 8 note books cost Rs 60 then find the cost of 6 note books.

4. Which of the following is an example of inverse variations?
a) The number of books you buy and their total cost.
b) The part of the tank filled and the no. of pipes
c) The number of men constructing a road and the time taken to finish it.
d) The number of litres of petrol consumed and the distance covered.
Short Answers
1. I can drive to Agra in 4 hours at 60 km per hour. How long will I take
if I reduce my speed to 40 km per hour.

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2. A school hostel has enough food for 800 students for 80 days. After 5
days 50 students left the hostel. How much longer the food will last.
3. 12 persons can dig 324 cubic metres earth in a day. How many persons
will be required to dig 270 cubic metres earth?
4. An aeroplane flies 4235 km in 5 hours 30 minutes. How long will it
take to fly a distance of 2310 km?
5. Four pipes can fill a tank in 70 minutes. How long will it take to fill the
tank if 7 pipes are used?
Long Answers
1. A consignment of fodder feeds 1260 cattle for 50 days.
a) How long the fodder will feed if 315 more cattle are added.
b) How many cattle should go if it is to last for 75 days?
2. A car travels 59.5 km in 3.5 litres of petrol.
a) How many litres of petrol will be required to travel 357 km.
b) How many km will it travel in 2.5 litres of petrol?
FACTORISATION
Very Short Answers
1. Find the greatest common factor of 6a and 12b.
2. find the greatest common factor of 3x2, -9xy, 12xy2
3. Factorise each of the following
a) 4x+20 b) 6x2+3
4. Factorise 6ab – 9abc + 3a
5. Factorise 15x4y3 – 20x3y
Short Answers
1. Factorise
a) 4x2+2x3 b) a2-ab-ca+bc c) px-qy-qx+py d) 1-100x2
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e) y2- f) (2x-3y)2−4y2 g) x2+4x+4 h) x2+12x+36
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i) 4x2+9y2-12xy j) x2+5x+6 k) m2+13m+42 l) y2-7y+12
m) y2-4y-21 n) x2+11x+28 o) 18x2-32y2 p) x4-y4
q) 25(2x-y)2-16(x-y)2
2. Divide the polynomial by the monomial
a) 14a2− 16ab by 2a b) 36x3+18x2−54x by 18x
c) 6(x4y3z2− x3y4z2 + x2y2z3) by 2xyz d) 7a4b− 56a3b2 by 7ab
3. Divide
a)x2+16x-36 by x-2 b) x2+14x−32 by x−2
c) 6(4x−8y)  3(x−2y) d) 12x2(49x2−64y2)  6x(7x+8y)
e) 39a(8a+14b) 13(4a+7b) f) 9a2−30ab+25b2 by 3a−5b
g) 128a2b2 by 98c2d2 h) 25x2y2− 81p2q2
i) 4−a2 by 2−a

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 INTRODUCTION TO GRAPHS
Very Short Answers
1. Which of the following points lie on x-axis.
a) 0, 3 b) (3, 0) c) 5, 1) d) (4, 3)
2. Which of the following points lie on the y-axis
a) (2, 3) b) (0, 8) c) (8, 0) d) (1, 2)
3. Which of the following points represents the origin
a) (3, 2) b) (8, 0) c) (0, 7) d) (0, 0)
Short Answers
1. Plot the following points on a graph paper
a) A(4, 3) b) B(3, 4) c) C(2, 5) d) D(3, 2) e) E(5, 0) f) F(0,
4)
Long Answers
1. A scooterist calculated his average cost of running his scoter, which is
given in the following table

Distance (travelled in km) 10 20 30 50

Cost (in `) 15 25 35 55

Draw the graph (distance, cost) and from the graph answer the
following questions
a) What will be the cost if he drives 40 km?
b) What will be the cost if he drives 53 km?
c) If he spends ` 44, how far has he travelled?
2. The following table gives the sum of the angles of a polygon in right
angles and the number of sides of the polygon. Plot the points and
from the graph answer the questions that follow:
Number of sides (n) 3 4 6 10

Sum of the angles in 2 4 8 16

right angles (r)

a) What is the sum of the angles of a polygon of 5 sides

b) What is the sum of the angles of a polygon of 12 sides
c) How many sides has a polygon whose angles added upto 12 right
angles
d) How many sides has a polygon whose angles add upto 1260.
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