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INDIAN SCHOOL MUSCAT

MIDDLE SECTION
SAMPLE PAPER
ANNUAL EXAMINATION 2024 – 25
SUBJECT – MATHEMATICS
CLASS 8 Time Allotted: 2 ½ hrs.
Max. Marks: 80
General Instructions.
1. All the questions are compulsory.
2. This Question Paper has 5 Sections A, B, C, D and E.
3. Section A has 20 MCQs carrying 1 mark each
4. Section B has 5 questions carrying 02 marks each.
5. Section C has 6 questions carrying 03 marks each.
6. Section D has 4 questions carrying 05 marks each.
7. Section E has 3 case based integrated units of assessment (04 marks each) with sub- parts of the
values of 1, 1 and 2 marks each respectively.
8. Draw neat figures wherever required.

SECTION ‘A’ ( Q.NO ‘1’ TO ‘20’ )

Q.NO Marks
Section - A consists of Multiple-Choice type questions of 1 mark each.

1 Number of non-perfect square numbers in between 24132 and 24142 is ______ 1

a) 4828 b) 4288 c) 4826 d) 4862
2 √80 1
The value of ( − √0.0144)is _____ a) 0.388 b) 3.88 c) 38.8 d) 0.0388
√5

3 The least number to be multiplied with 53 × 3 × 23 to make it a perfect square is ____ 1

a) 24 b) 42 c) 30 d) 40

4 −3 −4 −5 5 −5 −3 3 5 1
The reciprocal of [( 5 ) ÷ ( 3 ) ] is ______ a) b) c) 5 d) 3
3 5

5 Scientific notation for 0.000009825 × 10-3 is _________ 1

a) 9.825 × 10-3 b) 9.825 × 10-9 c) 9.825 × 103 d) 9.825 × 109
6 Volume of cylinder whose base area (16a2 + 12ab +9b2) and height (4a – 3b) is ____ 1
a) 4𝑎3 − 3𝑏 3 b) 64𝑎3 + 27𝑏 3 c) 64𝑎3 − 27𝑏 3 d) 4𝑎3 + 3𝑏 3

7 The kind of algebraic expression to be subtracted from 3x3 – 5x – 10 to get 4x2 – 7x3 – 1
3 is ____
a) Monomial b) Binomial c) Trinomial d) None of these

8 3 10 14
Volume of a cuboid with dimensions (2 𝑥 7 𝑦 5 ) (21 𝑥 5 𝑦 6 𝑧 4 ) , ( 5 𝑥 6 𝑦 3 𝑧 6 ) is ________

a) 2𝑥18 𝑦 14 b) 2𝑥18 𝑦14 𝑧11 c) 2𝑥18 𝑦14 𝑧10 d) 2𝑥18 𝑦 10 𝑧10

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9 The quotient of (8m2 – 50) and (2m – 5) is ___ 1
a) 4m + 5 b) 2m + 5 c) 4m + 10 d) 2m + 10
10 The HCF of 60 𝑎5 𝑏 4 , 25𝑎7 𝑏 3 𝑎𝑛𝑑 40 𝑎10 𝑏 5 is _____ 1
a) 5 𝑎5 𝑏 4 b) 5 𝑎5 𝑏 3 c) 5 𝑎7 𝑏 4 d) 5 𝑎5 𝑏 3

11 LSA of a cuboid whose base perimeter 40cm and height 5cm is ______sq.cm 1
a) 200 b) 400 c) 80 d) 300

12 The perimeter of a rhombus with area 24 sq.cm and one of the diagonals 8 cm is _cm. 1
a) 20 b) 30 c) 40 d) 50

13 Height of a trapezium with area 100 sq.cm and sum of the parallel sides 25cm is ___ 1
a) 8 b) 10 c) 12 d) 14
14 An item was sold at Rs4500 at discount of 10%. The M.P of the item is _____ 1

a) Rs6000 b) Rs5000 c) Rs3500 d) Rs5500

15 In factory women are 40% of all the workers and rest of them are men. If the number of 1
men exceeds that of women by 400, then the total number of workers in the factory is
a) 3000 b) 4000 c) 2000 d) 5000

16 The percentage of the ratio 7: 25 is _______ 1

a) 25 b) 28 c) 35 d)55

17 Study the adjacent pie chart. A survey was conducted for 1

450 people on food items preferred by them. The
difference between the number of people preferring salad
and sprouts is ____ a) 8 b) 12 c) 10 d) 9

18 From the given line graph, time taken by 1

the car to cover 110km is _______

a) 4hrs 30 minutes b) 5hrs 30minutes

c) 6hrs 30 minutes d) 3hrs 30minutes

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 19 ASSERTION: Probability of getting at least one head when two coins tossed 1
simultaneously is (2/4).
REASON: Probability of sure event is always 1
a) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true, and Reason (R) is the correct
explanation of the Assertion (A).
b) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true, but Reason (R) is not a correct
explanation of Assertion (A).
c) Assertion (A) is true, but Reason (R) is false.

d) Assertion (A) is false, but Reason (R) is true

20 ASSERTION: The solution of the equation 3x – 5 = 10 is 5 1
REASON: Linear equation in one variable will have uncountable solutions.
a) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true, and Reason (R) is the correct
explanation of the Assertion (A).
b) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true, but Reason (R) is not a correct
explanation of Assertion (A).
c) Assertion (A) is true, but Reason (R) is false.

d) Assertion (A) is false, but Reason (R) is true

SECTION ‘B’ – ( Q.NO ‘21’ TO ‘25’ )

Q.NO Marks
Section - B consists of Very Short Answer (VSA) type questions of 2 marks each.

21 Evaluate: 2
5 −1 14 −1 8 −6 7 −5 1 −2 1 −1
a) 5−1 − (7 ) × (25) + ((9)10000 )0 b) ((7) × (8) ) + ( (3) − (5) )

22 a) Find the perimeter of rectangle with length (4x2 – 7x + 5) and breadth (-9x2 + 5x – 1) 2
b) Simplify: 3x – 5x(2x – 5) – 12x2 + 7x

23 The adjacent line graph shows the marks obtained out of 10 by Vedika in two different 2
tests. Study the graph and answer the
following questions.
a) What information is represented by the
axes?
b) In which subject did she score the
highest in Test I?
c) In which subject did she score the least
in Test II?
d) In which subject did she score the same marks in both the Tests?
e) How much did she score in English in Test II?

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 f) In which test was the performance better?
g) In which subject and which test did she score full marks?
24 From a well shuffled deck of 52 playing cards, a card is selected random. Find the 2
probability getting (i) a red jack (ii) a face card (iii) non ace (iv) a black card

25 Solve: 5 (x – 5) – 7 (x – 3) = 2 ( x – 3 ) 2

SECTION ‘C’ – ( Q.NO ‘26’ TO ‘31’ )

Q.NO Marks
Section - C consists of Short Answer (SA) type questions of 3 marks each.

26 a) Find the number of digits in the square root of 15129. 3

b) One of the members in a Pythagorean triplet is 26, find other two members.
c) Find the least number to be added to 12535 to make it a perfect square.
27 4 2𝑥−1 5 −3 16 2 3
a) Solve the exponential equation (5) × (4) = (25) using laws of exponents.

And find the value of ( 3x – 5 )

b) Express 9.352653 × 10−8 in normal form.
28 a) Divide 14a7b6c7 – 24a8b5c3 + 28a9b4c6 by ( -3a2b4) 3
b) Factorize: m2x – n2x + m2y – n2y

29 Simplify and find value of the expression: 3

( 4m – 5n ) ( 5m + 3n ) – 2m ( m – 2n ) – 20m2 + 12mn for m = 1 and n = -2
30 2𝑥−3 5−4𝑥 −3𝑥+1 2−𝑥 3
Solve : − = +
8 4 16 2

31 a) Find the number of cylindrical bottles with radius 7cm and height 10cm can be 3
placed in a cuboidal box dimensions 44cm × 28cm × 20cm
b) Lateral surface area of cube is 2500cm2 , find its volume.

SECTION ‘D’ – ( Q.NO ‘32’ TO ‘35’ )

Q.NO Marks
Section - D consists of Long Answer (LA) type questions of 5 marks each.

32 a) Find the perimeter of rectangle with the area 9a2 – 1, length 3a + 1 5

b) Factorize: (d2 – 3d – 40)

33 a) An item was bought at Rs4000 excluding tax. If tax is 12%, then find the price of 5
item after tax.
b) A TV was bought at a price of Rs 80,000. The value of the TV was depreciated by
5% ever year. Find the value of the TV after 3 years

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 34 Draw a pie chart for the given data: 5

Month July Aug Sep Oct Nov

No. of watches sold 1000 1500 2000 2500 2000

35 The below data shows the quantity of petrol and its cost. 5
Draw linear graph for the data.

Quantity of petrol 10 15 20 25 30

Cost 500 750 1000 1250 1500

SECTION ‘E’( Q.NO ‘36’ TO ‘38’ )

Q.NO Marks
Section – E consists of three Case Study Based questions of 4 marks each.
36 There are 7563 students in a school. Department of PE wants them to stand in rows 4
and columns such that the number of rows is equal to the number of columns.

a) Can PE team arrange 7563 students in perfect square format? Justify your
answer.

b) If they cannot arrange in perfect square format how many students, they need to
remove from total to make number of students in each row is equal to no. of
rows.

c) Find the number of students in each row.

37 Arhaan purchased a TV for Rs46000, the sales tax charged on it is 15%. Amutha 4
bought a refrigerator which was marked at 54000 at a discount of 10%.

a) How much total discount Amutha got on purchasing the refrigerator.

b) What was the cost price of the refrigerator for Amutha?

c) What was the price of TV before tax added?

38 A contractor decided to take contract to level the road by a road roller with diameter 4
98cm, length 140cm in 1500 revolutions.

a) What are measures of radius and height of roller?

b) Find the area of the road leveled by road roller in one revolution.

c) What is the area of road in sq.m

END OF SAMPLE QUESTION PAPER.

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INDIAN SCHOOL MUSCAT – MIDDLE SECTION – DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

CLASS 8 – MATHEMATICS – PORTION & BLUEPRINT - ANNUAL EXAMINATION – (2024 – 25)

TYPES OF QUESTIONS
S.NO NAME OF THE TOPIC CASE BASED TOTAL
MCQ VSA SA LA
QUESTIONS
(1 MARK) (2 MARKS) (3 MARKS) (5 MARKS)
(4 MARKS)
SQUARES AND SQUARE ROOTS
1 3(1) - 1(3) - 1(4) 10
(FIRST TERM)
EXPONENTS AND POWERS
2 2(1) 1(2) 1(3) - - 7
(FIRST TERM)
ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSIONS
3 3(1) 1(2) 1(3) - - 8
(FIRST TERM & SECOND TERM)
4 FACTORIZATION 2(1) - 1(3) 1(5) - 10

5 LINEAR EQUATIONS IN ONE VARAIBLE 1(1) 1(2) 1(3) - - 6

6 COMPARING QUANTITIES 3(1) - - 1(5) 1(4) 12

7 MENSURATION 3(1) - 1(3) - 1(4) 10

8 DATA HANDLING 2(1) 1(2) - 1(5) - 9

9 INTRODUCTION TO GRAPHS 1(1) 1(2) - 1(5) - 8

TOTAL 20 × 1 = 20 5 × 2 = 10 6 × 3 = 18 4 × 5 = 20 3 × 4 = 12 80

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