Grade 8(DPS)

1. Fill in the blanks:-

(a) The square of 5.5 is ________.
(b) After 18 years, Shikha will be 4 times as old as she is now. Her present
age is__________.
(c) The number of sides of a regular polygon where each exterior angle has
a measure of 45° is _____________
(d) The time period after which the interest is added each time to form a
new principal, is called the ______________ period.
(e) When the speed remains constant, the distance travelled is ________
proportional to the time.

2. True or false:-
(a) Each prime factor appears three times in its cube.
(b) If , then
(c) Rectangle is a regular quadrilateral.
(d) The buying price of flour with the rate ₹ 20 per kg, when 5% sales tax is
added on the purchase, is ₹21.
(e) Length of a side of a square and its area vary directly with each other.

3. Simplify:-
4. What is the least number that should be subtracted from 1385 to get a
perfect square? Also, find the square root of the perfect square.
5. If one side of a cube is 19 m in length, then find its volume.
6. If a certain sum at compound interest becomes double in 5 years, then in
how many years will it be 16 times at the same rate of interest?

7. Solve:-
8. Two equal sides of a triangle are each 4 m less than three times the third
side. Find the dimensions of the triangle, if its perimeter is 55 m.

9. In parallelogram LOST, SN ⊥ OL and SM ⊥ LT. Find ∠STM, ∠SON and ∠NSM.

10.Kritika ordered one pizza and one garlic bread from a pizza store and paid
₹387 inclusive of taxes of ₹43. Find the tax%.
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11. 𝑙 varies directly as 𝑚 and 𝑙 = 5, when , find 𝑙 when .
12.A sum of money invested at compound interest amounts to ₹800 in 2 years
and ₹840 in 3 years. Find the rate of interest per annum and the sum.
13.The percent of pure gold in 14 carat gold is about 58.3%. A 14 carat gold
ring weighs 7.6 grams. How many grams of pure gold are in the ring?
14.Kriti always forgets how to convert miles to kilometers and back again.
However, she remembers that her car’s speedometer shows both, miles
and kilometers. She knows that travelling 50 miles per hour is same as
travelling 80 kilometers per hour. To cover a distance of 200 km, how many
miles Kriti would have to go?
15.Find five rational numbers between 0 and 1.
16.If ₹3000 amounts to ₹4320 at compound interest in a certain time, then
₹3000 amounts to what in half of the time?
17.ABCD is a rhombus such that the perpendicular bisector of AB passes
through D. Find the angles of the rhombus.
ANSWERS
1.
(a) 30.25
(b) 6 years
(c) 8
(d) Conversion
(e) Directly
2.
(a) True
(b) False
(c) False
(d) True
(e) false
3.
4. 16; 37
5. 6859 m3
6. 20 years
7. 𝑥 = 2
8. 9 m;23m;23m
9. ∠STM=50°, ∠SON=50° and ∠NSM=50°.
10. 12.5%
11. 𝑙 = 40
12.5%; ₹725.62
13.4.431 g
14.125 miles
15. , , , ,
16. ₹3600
17.60°,120°,60°,120°