DELHIPUBLIC SCHOOL, BANGALORE SOUTH

GRADE 8 QUESTION BANK

SOLVE THE FOLLOWING:

1. Complete the following tables given that x varics directly asy.

2.5 15

12

5 10 35

12

2. Complete the following tables given that x varies inversely as y

12 16 8

3. Aschool has &periods a day each of 45 minutes duration. How long would each period be, if the
school has 9periods a day, assuming the number of schol hours to be the same.
4. An electric pole, 14 metres high, casts a shadow of 10 metres. Find the height of the tree that casts a
shadow of 15 metres under similar conditions.
5. The area of a rectarngle is (x + 3x - 54) and one of its sides is (x 6). Find the length of its adjacent
side.
6. There are 216 workers ina factory as per list given below:

Cadre Labourer Mechanic Fitter Supervisor Clerk

No of workers 75 60 36 27 18

Represent the above data by pie graph.

7. Resolve the following into factors by spliting the middle term p'm' - 2pm - 63.
8. Resolve the following into factors by regrouping: (n'- m'-4m - 4)
9. Factorise: 5(2a -7h) - 3(2a - 7?.
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10. The ratio of an interior angle to the exterior angle of aregular polygon is 4:1. Find the number of
sides.
11. Find the sum of the lengths of the bases of a trapezium whose area is 4.2 sq.m and whose height is
280 cmn.
12. Factorise: x- ( + z)

13. The atea of a rectangular lawn is (& + 12x + 35) sq.m. Find the length and breadth of thc
rectangular lawn. If the cost of fencing is 3000 at the tate of 25 per metre, then find out the valuc
of x, and hence the actual dimensiotns of the rcctanglc.

14. Show that (9p - 5q) + 180pq = (p + 5q).

15. In a hypothetical sample of 20 people, the amount of money (in thousands) with cach was found to
be as follows:
114,108, 100, 98, 101, 109,117, 119, 126, 131,
136, 143, 156, 169, 182, 195, 207, 219, 235, 118

Prepare a frequency distribution table and draw a histogram of the frequency distribution, taking onc
of the class intervals as 50 - 100.
16. There are 24% of bovs in a school. If the number of gitls is 456. find the total numbcr of students in
the school.
17. A watch was bought for 2,700 including 8% VAT. Find its price before the VAT was added.

18. Find the amount if 2,000 is invested for 2 years at 4% p.a. compounded annually.
19. The marked price of aceiling fan is? 1250 andthe shopkeeper allows a discount of 6 % on it. Find
the sale price of a fan.

20. In the above figure both RISK and CLUE are parallelograms. Find the value of x.
K E

P20
70
R

21. Explain how the adjoining figure is a trapezium. Which of its two sides are parallel?
M
10001

K
80°

22. Find the number of sides of a regular polygon whose each exterior angle has a measure of 45°.

23. Find the measure of each exterior angle of a regular polygon () 9 sides () 15 sides.
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 24. ABCD is a rhombus whOse diagonals AC and BD intcrscct at (), If
side AB =10cm and diagonal
BD = 16cm. Find the length of the diagonal AC.

25. From the figurc, ABCD is a parallclogram. l'ind the

valuc of x.

3x + 50

80°
A B

26. Each of the following pic charts gives you a different piece of
information about your class. Find the
fraction of the circle representing cach of these information.

o) (W)
Walk
(ü)
Girls 40%
S0% Love
20%
Boys Cyele
50% Bus or car
40%
15%
Hate
Girls or Boys Transport to school Love/Hate Mathematics

27. Below pie chart gives the expenditure (in House rent Bducation for
percentage) on various 10% children
items and savings of the family during a month. Transport 15%
5%
On which item, the expenditure is maximum?
b
Expenditure on which item is equal to the total savings of Others
Food
the family? 20%
25%

C If the monthly saving of the family is 3000, what is the

Savings
monthly expenditure on clothes? 15% Clothes
10%

28. Cards marked with numbers 1 to 40 are placed in a box

and mixed thoroughly. One card is drawn at
random from the box. What is the probability that the cards are marked with
A prime number
b An even number
C A number multiple of 5
A
number divisible by 6
e. A number 4
29. When a die is thrown, list the outcomes of an
event of getting
A prime number
b A non-prime number
C. A number greater than 5
d A number less than 5

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30. From the adjoining figure, find the area of the
quadrilaterals.

A
4 Cm

3 cn
4 cmy 4 cn

(i) 4 cn

(ii)

31. A wall of length 10 m is to be built acroSs an open ground. The height of the
wall is 4 m and the
thickness is 24 cm. If this wall is built up with bricks whose dimensions are 24 cm x 12cm x 8
cm, how
many brickswould be required?

32. A cylindrical pillar is 50 cm in diameter and 3.5 m in height. Find the

cost of painting the curved
surface of the pillar the rate of 12.50 per sq metre.

33. Express the following in standard form

a)0.0000000000000564893
b)4058030000000000
34. Express the following in usual form
a)8.5625 x 10-6
b)352.8965 x 10
35. Simpify using the suitable laws of exponents
25 X x4
a) 5-3 x 10 xx-8

b) Find the value of z from the following:

) By what number should (-12) be divided so that the quotient may be ?

d) If 5²r*+25 =125, Find the value of x