ST.

XAVIER’S SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL, DELHI – 110 054

Class 8 Time: 3 hrs.
16-9-2022 MID TERM EXAMINATION - MATHEMATICS Max. Marks : 80
General Instructions:
Read the following instructions very carefully and strictly follow them:
i) This question paper contains four sections A, B, C and D.
ii) Section A consists of two parts 1 and 2
iii) Part 1 of section A has 16 questions of 1 mark each and Part 2 of section A
has 4 questions. Each question has 5 parts and each part is of 1 mark.
iv) Section B has 7 questions of 2 marks each.
v) Section C has 6 questions of 3 marks each.
vi) Section D has 3 questions of 4 marks each.

SECTION - A
PART 1 (1 x 16 = 16 marks)
1. is called the identity of addition of rational numbers.
2. Polygon with nine sides is called _________.
3. The value of x in the equation 2x + 4 = 14 is _______________.
4. The diagonal of a convex polygon is in the of the polygon.
5. The unit digit in the square of number 799 is ______________.
6. is a regular polyhedron.
7o + 5o
7. The value of is ___________.
14o
8. The value of 7-3 x 73 is ________.
22
9. Additive inverse of is ____________.
35
10. numbers lie between the squares of 14 and 15.
8
11. Reciprocal of − is ______________.
9
12. Name of regular polygon of 4 sides is _____________.
13. The value of y in the equation 3y = 4y + 9 is _______________.
14. The value of (-5)3 = ______________.
15. The sum of interior angles of a quadrilateral is ____________.
16. is a rational number that does not have a reciprocal.

PART 2 (5 x 4 = 20 marks)
17. MATCH THE FOLLOWING:
2 5 5 2
(a) 7
+9=9+7 - Property of multiplicative inverse
3 1 1 3 1 3 1
(b) (
5 2
+ 3) = 5 × 2 + 5 × 3 - Property of multiplicative identity
9 8
(c) 8
×9=1 - Associative property
1 1 1 1 1 1
(d) +( + )=( + )+ - Commutative property
2 3 4 2 3 4
3 3 3
(e) 7
× 1=1 ×7=7 - Distributive property
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L D
18. KIND and LOVE are two parallelograms. K E
a) What is the measure of DLO? 100o x

b) What is the measure of I?

c) If KD = 9 cm. Find IN.
d) Find the value of x. 65o
e) What is the measure ofE? I V
N O
19. Using Euler’s Formula, fill in the blank:
FACES VERTICES EDGES
a. 6 8 _________

b. ________ 10 15
c. 8 12 _________

d. 4 _________ 6

e. 5 6 _________

20. i) The value of 30 is

a) 0 b) 3 c) -1 d) 1
ii) The exponent in the expression 37 is
a) 1 b) 7 c) 0 d) 3
1
iii) The multiplicative inverse of 9
is
a) 81 b) 3 c) -9 d) 9
iv) 7 x 10-5 is the standard form of
a) 0.0007 b) 0.000007 c) 0.00007 d) 0.0000007
v) The expression (52 + 72 +32)0 is equal to
a) (15)6 b) 83 c) 1 d) 15

SECTION – B (2 x 7 = 14 marks)
8 4
21. Multiply by the reciprocal of .
21 7
x 5 3 3t - 2 2t + 3 2
22. Solve for x : + 2 = - 2. (OR) Solve for t : - = -t
3 4 3 3

23. ABCD is a parallelogram. 20

D C
Find x and y.

4x 24

A B
3y – 1

24. Find the smallest square number which is divisible by each of the numbers 4, 8, 9 and 12.
25. Find the smallest number by which 53240 must be divided to get a perfect cube.
8¯¹ × 5³
26. Evaluate : (-3)4 x (5/3)4 (OR) Evaluate :
2¯⁴
.
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27. Verify Eulers formula for cuboid.

(OR)
How many sides does a regular polygon have if the measure of an exterior angle is 24°?

SECTION - C (3 x 6 = 18 marks)
28. The number of boys and girls in a class are in the ratio 7:4. The number of boys is 15 more than
number of girls. Find the strength of the class.
29. HOPE is a parallelogram. E P
Find X and Y.

H O

30. Find the value of m : (3)m+1 x (3)5 = (3)7 (OR) (-5)3m+1 ÷ (-5)4 = (-5)33
31. There are 3249 students in a school. P.T. teacher want them to stand in rows and columns such
that number of rows is equal to number of columns. Find the number of rows.
32. A student makes a cuboid of sides 4 cm, 8 cm and 4 cm by card board. How many such cuboids
will be needed to form a cube.
2 -3 1 3 3 2 3 5 3 1
33. Using properties, find × 7 − 14 − 7 × (OR) − 3 × 5 + 2 − 5 × 6.
5 5

SECTION - D (4 x 3 = 12 marks)
34. The ages of Anu and Binu are in the ratio 4:5. Eight years from now their ages will be 5:6.
Find their present ages.
35. a) Find the square root of 7921 by long division method.
b) In a right triangle the length of hypotenuse and a side are 13 cm and 5 cm respectively.
Find the third side.
36. a) The volume of cube is 15625 cm3. Find its edge.
b) Write a Pythagorean triplet whose one member is 12.
-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-