Chapter: Squares and Square Roots
Part 1: Basic Concepts and Properties
1. What is the square of 19?
2. Find the value of 352.
3. Which of the following numbers are perfect squares: 121, 150, 225, 1000?
4. A number ending in 3 can never be a ______________.
5. What is the unit digit of the square of 789?
6. The square of an odd number is always _________.
7. How many zeros are in the square of 400?
8. Is the square of -9 a positive or negative number?
9. Without adding, find the sum: 1+3+5+7+9+11.
10.How many non-perfect square numbers lie between 122 and 132?
Part 2: Finding Square Roots
11.Find the square root of 625 by prime factorization.
12.Find the square root of 1764 by prime factorization.
13.What is the value of √441?
14.Find the square root of 1296 using the long division method.
15.Find the square root of 50.41 using the long division method.
16.Estimate the value of √80to the nearest whole number.
17.Is 2352 a perfect square? If not, find the smallest whole number by which it must be
multiplied to get a perfect square.
18.Find the smallest whole number by which 2925 must be divided to get a perfect square.
19.Find the square root of 289196.
20.What is the value of √0.0081?
Part 3: Applications and Word Problems
21.Find the smallest square number that is divisible by each of the numbers 4, 9, and 10.
22.The area of a square park is 2025 m². Find the side length of the park.
23.Find a Pythagorean triplet whose smallest member is 8.
24.In an auditorium, the number of rows is equal to the number of chairs in each row. If the
capacity of the auditorium is 2304, find the number of rows.
25.Find the least number that must be subtracted from 5607 to make it a perfect square.
26.Find the least number that must be added to 1300 to make it a perfect square.
27.2025 plants are to be planted in a garden in such a way that each row contains as many
plants as the number of rows. Find the number of rows and the number of plants in each
row.
28.The product of two numbers is 1296. If one number is 16 times the other, find the
numbers.
29.Find the square root of 12.25.
30.A general wishes to arrange his 10406 men in the form of a square. He finds that he has
2 men left over. How many men were in each row?
Chapter: Cubes and Cube Roots
Part 1: Basic Concepts and Properties
1. What is the cube of 8?
2. Find the value of 153.
3. Which of the following are perfect cubes: 216, 500, 729, 1001?
4. The cube of an even number is always __________.
5. What is the unit digit of the cube of 347?
6. The cube of a negative number is always __________.
7. How many zeros are in the cube of 20?
8. Find the value of (−11)3.
9. By what smallest number must 392 be multiplied to make it a perfect cube?
10.The sum of the cubes of the first 'n' natural numbers is equal to the __________ of their
sum.
Part 2: Finding Cube Roots
11.Find the cube root of 1000 by prime factorization.
12.Find the cube root of 5832 by prime factorization.
13.What is the value of ∛3343?
14.Find the cube root of 9261.
15.Find the cube root of -2744.
16.Evaluate: ∛327+∛364.
17.Find the cube root of 43×63.
18.Find the cube root of 512125.
19.What is the value of ∛30.001?
20.Estimate the cube root of 300 to the nearest whole number.
Part 3: Applications and Word Problems
21.Find the smallest number by which 8788 must be divided to obtain a perfect cube.
22.The volume of a cubical box is 1331 cm³. What is its side length?
23.Three numbers are in the ratio 1:2:3. The sum of their cubes is 972. Find the numbers.
24.A metal cuboid of dimensions 100 cm x 80 cm x 64 cm is melted and recast into a cube.
Find the side length of the cube.
25.What is the side of a cube whose surface area is 150 m²? (Hint: First find the area of one
face).
26.Find the cube root of 15625.
27.Find the cube root of 343.
28.Parikshit makes a cuboid of plasticine of sides 5 cm, 2 cm, 5 cm. How many such
cuboids will he need to form a perfect cube?
29.The prime factorization of a number is 2×2×2×5×5×5×7×7. Is it a perfect cube? Why or
why not?
30.Find the volume of a cube if one of its faces has an area of 81 cm².
