Math Activity Sheet 1 –Grade 8
Application of percentages
1. A car used to cost £3000. Find the new price if it increases by 40%.
2. A new TV is priced at £120 In a sale it is reduced by 50% Calculate the selling price
3. Find the percentage decrease in the price of a dress when it is decreased from ₹ 800 to ₹
640.
4. Rahul bought a cycle for ₹ 800 and sold it for ₹ 1040. Find his gain percent.
5. Eli purchased a second-hand dress for $40, made some alterations costing $15, and then
sold it for $70. Calculate her profit and Profit %
6. The marked price of an article is ₹ 80. If it is sold at ₹ 72, what is the discount percentage?
7. Amjad just bought a second hand car for AED 125,000 and spent AED 15,000 for repairing
it. If he sold for AED 161,000 what is the profit per cent?
8. Lisa purchased 48 cans of paint for $192. How many cans of the same paint can she buy
for $144?
9. If a man bought two TV sets for ₹ 42,500 each. He sold one at a loss of 10% and the other
at a profit of 10%. Find the selling price of each set.
[Link] bought a motorcycle for AED 27,000 and bought some accessories for it to make it
look good. He sold the bike at a profit of 10% and at selling price of AED 33,000. How
much did he spend on the accessories?
[Link] a festive season, a retailer sells readymade cloths at a discount of 20% and still gains
20% of cost price. If the marked price for a pair of jeans is ₹ 4200, find the retailer’s cost
price.
12.A shopkeeper has marked one article 50% above the cost price. Then he announced a
discount of 20% on the article. Find the selling price, the profit, and the profit percentage
after the discount if the original cost price of the article was ₹ 750.
Math Activity Sheet 2
Direct & Inverse proportion
[Link] VIII has 48 boys and 36 girls. Write the ratio of the boys to girls in the simplest ratio.
4 𝑥
[Link] value of x in the proportion = is
7 21
[Link] numbers are in the ratio 8:3 and their sum is 132. Find the numbers.
[Link] it takes 8 workers 5 hours to complete a construction project, how many workers are
needed to finish the same project in 2 hours?
[Link] leaves her home at 11:50 am. She travels 75 km at an average speed of 30 km/h. At
what time does she finish the journey?
18.1200 men can finish a stock of food in 30 days. How many men should join them so the
same stock of food last for only 25 days?
19.A car started from A as shown in the figure. It stopped at B and then travelled at a speed
of 80 km/hr to reach C. It halted only at B and the time taken to travel from A to B is the
same as the time taken to travel from B to C. How far is C from A?
20.6 typist working 5 hours a day can type manuscript of a book in 18 days. How many days
will 4 typist do the same job working 6 hours in a day?
21.𝑥1 = 6 𝑥2 = ? 𝑦1 = 42 𝑦2 = 14
a) Find 𝑥2 if x varies directly as y.
b) Find 𝑥2 if x varies inversely as y.
[Link] 10 planters can plant 8 fields in 4 days. How many days are required to plant 18 field by
12 men.
[Link] numbers are in the ratio 8:3 and their sum is 132. Find the numbers.
[Link] purchased 48 cans of paint for $192. How many cans of the same paint can she buy
for $144?
Math Activity Sheet 3
Simple & Compound Interest
[Link] will a loan of 15000Rs amount to in 1 year if compounded annually at the rate of
10% p.a.? What if it for 2 years?
[Link] population of a city increases every year at the rate of 10%. If the population now is
1250000. What will be the population after 2 years?
[Link] is the formula for finding simple and compound interest?
[Link] deposited ₹12000 in a bank for 2 years. It is compounded annually at 9% p.a. What
amount will she receive at the end of 2 years?
[Link] the CI on 7000Rs at 10% p.a. compounded annually for 2 year?
[Link] borrowed 5000Rs at 8% p.a for 2 years. Find the difference between compound
interest and simple interest, compounded annually.
[Link] deposited 12000Rs in a bank for 2 years. It is compounded annually at 9%p.a.
What amount will she receive on maturity(at the end of 2 years)?
[Link] the principal if it amounted to 16335Rs compounded annually at the rate of 10%p.a
in 2 years?
[Link] how many years will 8800Rs amount to 10648Rs compounded annually at the rate of
10%p.a. compounded annually?
[Link] compound interest on 50000Rs at 4% per annum for 2 years compounded annually is:
[Link] the amount, if the interest is compounded annually, principal=5000Rs , Rate=9% ,
Time=2years
[Link] the CI, if the interest is compounded annually, principal=5000Rs , Rate=9% ,
Time=2years
