MAYOOR PRIVATE SCHOOL, ABU DHABI

Academic Year 2023-24

NAME : CLASS : 8

DATE : /09/2023 SUBJECT : Mathematics

MAX. MARKS : 80 TIME : 3 Hours

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General Instructions:
● The question paper consists of 33 questions divided into 5 sections A, B, C, D,E
● Section A comprises 10 questions carrying 1 mark each
● Section B comprises 10 questions carrying 2 marks each. Internal choice is provided
in 2 questions.
● Section C comprises 6 questions carrying 3 marks each. Internal choice is provided in
2 questions.
● Section D comprises 3 Case Study questions each of 4 marks.
● Section E comprises 4 questions each of 5 marks. Internal choice is provided in 1 question.

Section A

1 The product of a rational number and its reciprocal 1

a. -1 b. 0 c.3 d. 1

2 3 1
2 2⎤
The value of ⎡⎢
⎣
( )⎦3 ⎥
=
64 729 2 3
a. 729 b. 64
c. 3 d. 2

3 Find the number which is a perfect square 1

a. 625 b. 160 c.1000 d. 1440

4 The exterior angle of a parallelogram is 110°,find all interior angles. 1

a. 70°,110°,110°,70° b. 110°,70°,70°,110°
c. 70°,110°,70°,110° d.none of these

5 2
Take away 2𝑥 − 3𝑥 + 10 from − 5𝑥 − 4𝑥 + 10
2 1
2 2
a. − 7𝑥 − 𝑥 + 20 b.− 7𝑥 − 𝑥 − 10
2 2
c. − 7𝑥 − 𝑥 + 10 d − 7𝑥 − 𝑥

6 Find the product of 𝑎 ( 2) × (502𝑎22) × (4𝑎26) 50 1

a. (𝑎50) b. (2𝑎 ) c.(8𝑎 ) d.0

7 What is the least number by which 80 should be divided to make it a perfect 1

square?
a. 3 b.5 c. 7 d.4

8 Express 0.0000000000345 in standard form 1

−13 −15 −11 −10
a. 3. 45 × 10 b. 3. 45 × 10 c.3. 45 × 10 d. 3. 45 × 10

9 ⎰ 1 −1 1 −1⎱ 1
⎱( )3
× ( ) 4 ⎰
=

1
 1 1
a. −12
b. 12 c.12 d. -12

10 In the figure trapezium,which two sides are parallel? 1

a. (KN,ML) b.(KL,NM) c.(KN,KL) d. (ML,LK)

Section B

11 The difference between the squares of two consecutive numbers is 15. Find 2
the numbers.

12 Find x value 3
3𝑥+3
=9
𝑥+4 2
Or
Write 0.00000007 in standard form

13 Find the product of 3y(2y-7)-3(y-4)-63 for y=-2 2

14 One member of the Pythagorean triplet is 18. Find the other. 2

15 Sum of three consecutive multiples of 11 is 363. Find these multiples. 2

16 Find the square root of 27225 using the prime factorisation method. 2

17 Solve
3
=
1 2
2𝑥−(3−4𝑥) 3

18 Represent the these number on a single number line:

−3
, -1,
2 2
7 7

19 How many sides does a regular polygon have if each of its interior angles is 2
156°?
Or
Find the measure of each exterior angle of a regular polygon of 9 sides

20 2
Subtract − 8𝑥 − 5𝑥 + 10 from − 10𝑥 − 10
2 2

Section C

21 Multiply:
2
2. 5𝑥(10𝑥 + 100𝑦) 3
Or
Simplify using identities: 101 x 99

22 Find the smallest whole number with which 5392 should be divided to get a 3
perfect square. Also ,find the square root of the quotient.

23 The ages of Rahul and Haroon are in the ratio 5 : 7. Four years later the sum 3
of their ages will be 56 years. What are their present ages?
Or

2
 5 2
A rational number is such that when you multiply it by 2
and add 3 to the
−7
product, you get 12
.What is the number?

24 Find the square root of 8649 using long division method 3

25 Use distributive property to evaluate 3

2 3 5 2 7 2
6 x + x6 + x6
3 2 2 3 2 3

26 3 2 4
42𝑥 𝑦 𝑧 3
Simplify 2 3
6𝑥𝑦 𝑧

Section D

27 If 𝑥 −
1
=3 find 4
𝑥
1 2
a. (𝑥 − ) 𝑥
2 1
b. 𝑥 + 2
𝑥
1 0
c. Find the value of 𝑥 − ( 𝑥)
28 The following figure RUNS is parallelogram. Find 4

a. Find the value of x

b. Find the value of y
c. If RUNS is a Rhombus, Find its area

29 Observe the histogram given below and answer the following question
a. What information is being given by histogram?teachers heights
b. Which interval has maximum teachers?
c. What is the total number of teachers?

30 2
(6𝑎−5𝑏) −(6𝑎+5𝑏)
2
Show that 𝑎𝑏
=− 120

3
 Section E

31 Find the least number which must be added to 1500 ,so as to get a perfect
square. Also, find the square root of the perfect square so obtained.
Or
There are 500 children in a school. For a P.T. drill, they have to stand in such
a manner that the number of rows is equal to the number of columns. How
many children would be left out in this arrangement?

32 The following is the data of sales of chocolate bars of a school canteen during
the first six days of a week. Draw a pie chart for the given data

Days Mon Tues wed Thurs Fri Sat

No. of 60 70 40 80 60 90
chocolate
bars.

33 Draw the histogram for the following data.

Class interval 110-120 120-130 130-140 140-150 150-160

Frequency 35 15 45 25 5