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MATHEMATICS
(CLASS-VIII)
SET-2

Maximum time: 3 hour Maximum marks: 80

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1. Section-A Objective Questions 1 to 40 carry 1 marks each.
2. Subjective paper
• Section B : Very Short Answer Type – Q 41 to Q 45 carry 2 marks each.
• Section C : Short Answer Type – Q 46 to Q 51 carry 3 marks each.
• Section D : Long Answer Type – Q 52 to Q 54 carry 4 marks each.
(a) All Questions are compulsory.
(b) Answer all questions in the given sequence.
(c) Draw geometrical figures wherever necessary.
(d) Do the rough work in the rough column.
SYLLABUS
Square and Square Roots, Cube and Cube Roots, Algebraic Expressions

SECTION-A
[1 × 40 = 40]
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

1. Which of the following is not a perfect square?

(a) 81 (b) 18 (c) 100 (d) 121

2. Which is the smallest square number that is divisible by each of the number 4, 9 and 10?
(a) 900 (b) 810 (c) 800 (d) 920

3. The square of which of the following would be even number?

(a) 2826 (b) 7779 (c) 1057 (d) 131

4. The square of which of the following would be odd number?

(a) 431 (b) 272 (c) 1234 (d) 7928

5. What will be the number of zeros in the square of 400?

(a) 5 (b) 1 (c) 3 (d) 4

6. Which is the greatest three digit perfect cube?

(a) 125 (b) 343 (c) 729 (d) 512

7. By which smallest natural number 392 must be multiplied so as to make the product a perfect cube?
(a) 2 (b) 14 (c) 7 (d) 49
8. Which of the following is monomial.
(a) 2x + 3 (b) 2x (c) 4x + 2 y + 3 (d) 4 y + 5x + z − 1

9. Terms with factors y in the expression 8 + xy + xyz are:

(a) xy, xyz (b) x, xz (c) 8, xy, xyz (d) y, xz

10. ABC is isosceles in which AE ⊥ BC, AE = 6 cm, BC = 9 cm, the area of ABC is:
(a) 27 cm2 (b) 54 cm2 (c) 22.5 cm2 (d) 45 cm2

11. The factors of 4y2 – 12y + 9 is

(a) (2y + 3)2 (b) (2y – 3)2 (c) (2y – 3) (2y + 3) (d) None of these

12. The factors of 49p2 – 36 are :

(a) (7p + 6)2 (b) (7p – 6)2 (c) (7p – 6) (7p + 6) (d) None of these

13. What degree does x3 – x2y2 – 8y2 + 2 have?

(a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 4 (d) 7

14. What is the value of 5x25 – 3x32 + 2x–12 at x = 1?

(a) 0 (b) 2 (c) 4 (d) None of these

15. The difference between the highest and the lowest value of the observations in a data is called:
(a) Mean (b) Range (c) Total frequency (d) Sum of observation

FILL IN THE BLANKS

16. If the number has 2 or 8 in its unit place then its square would end in ____________.

17. Cube of an odd number is an __________.

18. The smallest number that should be added to the sum of the squares of 9 and 10 to make it a perfect
square is ____________.

19. The value of x2 – 5x + 8 is ___________ if x = 2.

20. The coefficient of y in 13 – y + 5y2 is ___________.

21. The Cube root of 13824 is ___________.

TRUE AND FALSE

22. All rectangles are squares.

23. A perfect cube does not end with two zeroes.

24. Cube of negative number is negative.

25. All parallelograms are trapeziums.

26. If x = y then y2 = x.
CASE STUDY BASED QUESTIONS
Case Study-1
Anup after retirement thought to stay in village’s house. After going there he found there was shortage of
water in village, so he thought of constructing a well. He hired some labourers and guided them that well
should be 7m in diameter and 20m deep.

Based on the above information answer the following questions.

27. What is the shape of the well? [1]

28. What will be the radius of the well? [1]

29. What will be the volume of the earth dug out? [1]

30. What will be the total surface area of the well? [1]

Case Study-2
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 9 children are left
out. Find the number of children in each row of the square. What is the value depicted from the exercise?
31. How many students were left out in arrangement? [1]
(a) 9 (b) 10 (c) 11 (d) 15

32. What is the number of students forming a square? [1]

(a) 6250 (b) 6760 (c) 6561 (d) 6769

33. When arranged for dance, number of students are equal to. [1]
(a) Number of columns (b) Number of rows
(c) Number of classes (d) None of these

34. Find the number of children in each row of the square. [1]

PICTURE BASED QUESTIONS

Picture Based-1
To test the ability of students on the topic of algebra, the teacher drew a rectangle and a square on the blackboard
and mark their sides in the form of algebraic expressions as shown below.

Based on the above information answer the following questions

35. Write the algebraic expression for the area of square. [1]

36. Find the difference between length and breadth of rectangle [1]

37. Find the side of square at a = 5, b = 1 and x = 3 [1]

Picture Based-2
Smart watches are a big innovation in the wearable industry, performing too many functions. The most common
now a days is to count the number of steps. This has a big impact on health.

Gunjan noticed the number of steps she walked on her smart watch in the evening and found it to be ’23,328’.
38. Is the given number a perfect cube? [1]

39. If not, then what is the smallest number to be multiplied to make it a perfect cube? [1]
OR
What is the cube-root of the resulting number?

40. Find the one’s digit in the cube of the number 9999. [1]

SECTION-B
[2 × 5 = 10]
41. What will be the area of circular button of radius 7 cm.

42. The circumference of circle whose diameter is 14 cm will be.

43. Simplify: 153 − 143

44. Write a Pythagorean triplet whose smallest member is 8.

45. Add and subtract:

(a) m − n, m + n (b) mn + 5 − 2, mn + 3

SECTION-C
[3 × 6 = 18]
46. Write a Pythagorean triplet whose one number is:
(i) 6 (ii) 14 (iii) 16
47. Find the cube root of each of the following numbers by prime factorisation method.
(i) 64 (ii) 512 (iii) 10648
48. Add:
(i) t = 8tz,3tz − z, z − t
(ii) 7mn + 5,12mn + 2,9mn − 8, −2mn − 3
(iii) a + b − 3, b − a + 3, a − b + 3
49. Find the curved surface area and total surface area of the cylinders whose dimensions are:
(i) radius = 7 cm and height = 35 cm
(ii) radius = 14 cm and height = 10 cm
(iii) radius = 10 cm and height = 25 cm
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4 3  16 9
50. Show that  m – n  + 2mn = m2 + n 2 .
3 4  9 16

51. Find the area of rhombus whose side is 6 cm and whose altitude is 4 cm. If one of its diagonals is 8 cm
long, find the length of the other diagonal.

SECTION-D
[4 × 3 = 12]
52. (a) Savitri had to make a model of a cylinder kaleidoscope for her science project. She wanted to use
chart paper to make the curved surface of the kaleidoscope. What would be the area of chart paper
required by her, if she wanted to make a kaleidoscope of length 25 cm with a 3.5 cm radius? (Take
22
= )
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(b) The inner diameter of a circular well is 3.5 m. It is 10 m deep. Find (i) its inner curved surface area,
(ii) the cost of plastering this curved surface at the rate of Rs. 40 per m2 .
53. Find the product
(i) (5 − 2 x)(3 + x) (ii) ( x + 7 y)(7 x − y) (iii) (a2 + b)(a + b2 ) (iv) ( p2 − q2 )(2 p + q)

54. A road roller takes 750 complete revolutions to move once over to level a road. Find the area of the road
if the diameter of a road roller is 84 cm and length is 1 m.

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