BGS International Residential School
Practice Worksheet
Subject : Mathematics
Date: 2/10/2024 Grade : VIII
Section A
[Section A consists of 7 questions of 1 mark each]
7 5
1. What number should be subtracted from so as to get ?
8 12
−11 −21 −31 −41
a) b) c) d)
24 24 24 24
5 26
2. If 2𝑦 + 3
= 3
− 𝑦 , then 𝑦 = ?
2 6 7
a) 1 b) c) d)
3 5 3
3. Find the measure of each interior angle of a regular polygon with 12 sides.
a) 150° b) 160° c) 130° d) 180°
4. What is the probability of choosing a vowel from the alphabet?
21 5 1 3
a) b) c) d)
26 26 26 26
5. A square board has an area of 144 square units. How long is each side of the board?
a) 11 units b) 12 units c) 13 units d) 14 units
6. Which of the following numbers is not a perfect cube?
a) 216 b) 567 c) 125 d) 343
−2 4
7. . The value of ( ) is equal to
3
16 81 −16 81
a) 81 b) 16 c) 81
d) −16
Section B
[Section B consists of 13 questions of 2 marks each]
8. Find the value of m for which 5𝑚 ÷ 5−3 = 55
9. Find using distributivity
10. Solve: 8𝑥 + 4 = 3 (𝑥 – 1) + 7
11. One angle of a quadrilateral is 120° and the remaining three angles are equal. Find the measure of each of
the three equal angles.
12. A bag contains 7 white, 4 red, and 3 green balls. A ball is randomly drawn from the bag. Find the probability
that it is a white ball.
13. What is the least number should be subtracted from 1385 to get a perfect square? Also find the
square root of the perfect square.
14. Find the smallest square number which is divisible by each of the numbers 6,9 and 15.
15.Find the smallest number by which 9408 must be divided so that the quotient is a perfect square. Find the
square root of the quotient.
16. Find the cube root of 13824 by prime factorisation method.
17. What is the smallest number by which 1323 may be multiplied so that the product is a perfect cube?
18. Is 1188 a perfect cube? If not, by which smallest natural number should 1188 be divided so that the quotient
is perfect cube?
19. Simplify:
20. A pie diagram of the marks secured by a student in Maths, English, Physics and
Chemistry is shown here. Read the graph and find the marks in Chemistry secured by the
student.
Section C
[Section C consists of 7 questions of 3 marks each]
21. The favourite ice cream flavours of students of a school are given below:
Flavours Vanilla Butterscotch Strawberry Chocolate
Percentage of students 25% 30% 15% 30%
Draw a pie chart to represent the above information.
22. ABCD is a parallelogram where 𝑚∠𝐴 = (2𝑥 + 50°) and 𝑚∠𝐶 = (3𝑥 + 40°).
(i) Find the value of 𝑥 (ii) Find the measure of each angle
23. In the following figure of a ship, ABDH and CEFG are two parallelograms. Find the value of x.
−3 5 −7
24. Arrange the rational numbers , , in ascending order.
7 −14 12
25. Solve:
26. If the area of a square picture is 20.25 cm², find the length of its side.
27. Sujatha makes a cuboid of plasticine of sides 5 cm, 2 cm, 5 cm. How many minimum such cuboids will she
need to form a cube?
SECTION – D (Case Study Based Question)
28. During dance practice in school 6570 students of different schools are
arranged in rows such that the number of students in each row is equal to the
number of rows. In doing so, the instructor finds out that few children are left
out.
(a) How many students were left out in arrangement? (1)
(b) What is the number of students forming a square? (1)
(c) Find the number of children in each row of the square. (2)
29. Mohan has to prepare a physics project in form of a cubical box for a social work campaign but he had a
cuboidal box of sides 4 cm, 2 cm, 4 cm. Now he has to change it in the form of cube so that he can complete his
project. For this, he needed more cuboids so that he can make his project in form of cube.
(a) What is the volume of the cuboidal box? [1]
(b) How many cuboids are more needed? [2]
