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PETER’S MODEL SCHOOLCBSE

Worksheet – I (2023-2024)

Name: Subject: MATHS

Class / Sec: VIII Roll No:

1 The following are the car parking charges near a railway station up to,
4 hours – Rs.60, 8 hours – Rs.100 12 hours – Rs.140 24 hours – Rs.180

Check if the parking charges are in direct proportion to the parking time.

2 A machine in a soft drink factory fills 840 bottles in six hours. How many
bottles will it fill in five hours?

3 Suppose 2 kg of sugar contains 9×106 crystals. How many sugar crystals are there
in (i) 5 kg of sugar? (ii) 1.2 kg of sugar?

4 Which of the following are in inverse proportion?

(i) The number of workers on a job and the time to complete the job.
(ii) The time taken for a journey and the distance travelled at a uniform
speed.
(iii) Area of cultivated land and the crop harvested.
(iv) The time taken for a fixed journey and the speed of the vehicle.
(v) The population of a country and the area of land per person
5 Rehman is making a wheel using spokes. He wants to fix equal spokes in
such a way that the angles between any pair of consecutive spokes are
equal. Help him by completing the following table:

(i) Are the number of spokes and the angles formed between the pairs of
consecutive spokes in inverse proportion?
(ii) Calculate the angle between a pair of consecutive spokes on a wheel with
15 spokes.
(iii) How many spokes would be needed, if the angle between a pair of
consecutive spokes is 40 degree?
6 A contractor estimates that 3 persons could rewire Jasminder’s house in 4 days. If
he uses 4 persons instead of three, how long should they take to complete the job?
7 Swati took a loan of Rs. 16000 against her insurance policy at the rate of 12 ½ % per
annum. Calculate the total compound interest payable by Swati after 3 years.
8 What will be the compound interest on Rs. 4000 in two years when rate of interest is
5% per annum?
9 Find the compound interest when principal = Rs 3000, rate = 5% per annum and
time = 2 years.
10 On what sum will the compound interest at 5% per annum for 2 years compounded
annually be Rs 164?
11 In how much time would Rs. 5000 amount to Rs. 6655 at 10% per annum
compound interest?

12 Solve the following:

(i) 3/7 + x = 17/7 (ii) 6x=12 (iii) 2x/3 = 18 (iv) x/3 + 1 = 7/15
13 If you subtract ½ from a number and multiply the result by ½, you get 1/8. What is
the number?
14 The base of an isosceles triangle is 4/3 cm. The perimeter of the triangle
is cm. What is the length of either of the remaining equal sides?

15 Two numbers are in the ratio 5:3. If they differ by 18, what are the numbers?

16 Three consecutive integers add up to 51. What are these integers?

17 The number of boys and girls in a class is in the ratio of 7:5. The number of
boys is 8 more than the number of girls. What is the total class strength?

18 Find the common factors of the given terms.

(i) 12x, 36
(ii) 2y, 22xy
(iii) 14 pq, 28p2q2
(iv) 2x, 3x2, 4
(v) 6 abc, 24ab2, 12a2b
(vi) 16 x3, – 4x2 , 32 x
(vii) 10 pq, 20qr, 30 rp
(viii) 3x2y3 , 10x3y2 , 6x2y2z

19 Factorise the following expressions.

(i) 7x–42

(ii) 6p–12q

(iii) 7a2+ 14a

(iv) -16z+20 z3
(v) 20l2m+30alm

(vi) 5x2y-15xy2

(vii) 10a2-15b2+20c2
 (viii) -4a2+4ab–4 ca

(ix) x2yz+xy2z +xyz2

(x) ax2y+bxy2+cxyz

20 Carry out the following divisions.

(i) 28x4 ÷ 56x

(ii) –36y3 ÷ 9y2

(iii) 66pq2r3 ÷ 11qr2

(iv) 34x3y3z3 ÷ 51xy2z3

(v) 12a8b8 ÷ (– 6a6b4)

21 Divide the given polynomial by the given monomial.

(i)(5x2–6x) ÷ 3x (ii)(3y8–4y6+5y4) ÷ y4

(iii) 8(x3y2z2+x2y3z2+x2y2z3)÷ 4x2 y2 z2

(iv)(x3+2x2+3x) ÷2x (v) (p3q6–p6q3) ÷ p3q3

22 What will be the unit digit of the squares of the following numbers?
(i) 81
(ii) 272
(iii) 799
(iv) 3853
(v) 1234
(vi) 20387
(vii) 52698
(viii) 99880
(ix) 12796
(x) 55555

23 Without doing any calculation, find the numbers which are surely not perfect
squares.
i. 153 ii. 257 iii. 408 iv. 441
24 Find the square roots of the following numbers by the Prime Factorisation
Method.
i. 729 ii. 400 iii. 1764 iv. 4096 v. 7744 vi. 9604 vii. 5929 viii. 9216
ix. 529 x. 8100
25 The students of Class VIII of a school donated Rs 2401 in all, for Prime
Minister’s National Relief Fund. Each student donated as many rupees as
the number of students in the class. Find the number of students in the
class.

26 Find the square root of each of the following numbers by Division method.

i. 2304 ii. 4489 iii. 3481 iv. 529 v. 3249 vi. 1369 vii. 5776 viii. 7921
 ix. 576 x. 1024 xi. 3136 xii. 900
27 Write each of the following as percentage.
(i) 7/25 (ii) 14/625 (iii) 5/8 (iv) 0.8 (v) 0.005
28 Convert the following percentages to fractions and ratios.
(i) 25% (ii) 2.5% (iii) 0.25% (iv) 0.3% (v) 125%
29 Find:
(i) 22% of 120 (ii) 25% of Rs 1000 (iii) 25% of 10 kg (iv) 16.5% of 5000 metre
(v) 135% of 80 cm (vi) 2.5% of 10000 ml

30 x is 5% of y, y is 24% of z. If x = 480, find the values of y and z.

31 A coolie deposits Rs 1500 per month in his post office Savings Bank
account. If this is 15% of his monthly income, find his monthly income.
32 Deepti went to school for 216 days in a full year. If her attendance is 90%,
find the number of days on which the school was opened.
33 An alloy of tin and copper consists of 15 parts of tin and 105 parts of copper.
Find the percentage of copper in the alloy?
34 fter a 20% hike, the cost of Chinese Vase is Rs 2000. What was the original
price of the object?
35 Two adjacent angles of a parallelogram have equal measure. Find the
measure of each of the angles of the parallelogram
36 A plot is in the form of a rectangle ABCD having semi-circle on BC, as
shown in Fig. If AB = 60 m and BC = 28 m, Find the area of the plot.

37 A rectangular piece is 20 m long and 15 m wide. From its four corners,

quadrants of radii 3.5 m have been cut. Find the area of the remaining part.

38 The area of a rhombus is 84 m2. If its perimeter is 40 m, then find its altitude.