Maths VIII PDF

DELHIPUBLIC SCHOOL, CHANDIGARH
Summative Assessment-I, Session 2014-15

Class : VIII, Subject : Maths (Sample Paper)
Time : 3hours MM : 90
Instructions:
1. All questions are compulsory.
2. Section A carries 6 marks, one mark for each part.
3. Section B carries 10 marks, one mark for each part.
4. Section C carries 12 marks, two marks for each question.
5. Section D carries 32 marks, four marks for each question.
6. Section E carries 30 marks, five marks for each question.
Section A
Q.1 Choose the most appropriate option for the following:
(i) The sum of all interior angles of a regular pentagon is
(a) 540° (b) 360° (c) 600° (d) 480°
(ii) If the selling price of an item is `150 and loss is of `10, then the cost price is
(a) ` 140 (b) `130 (c) `150 (d) `160
(iii) A square pyramid has __________ faces.
(a) 6 (b) 4 (c) 5 (d) 7
(iv) Cube of 0.1 is
(a) 0.001 (b) 0.01 (c) 0.010 (d) 1
−8
(v) The multiplicative inverse of is
3
8 −3
(a) (b) (c) 8 (d) –3
3 8
(vi) The digit that cannot be at the unit’s place of a perfect square number is
(a) 1 (b) 4 (c) 6 (d) 2
Section B
Q2. Fill in the blanks:
(a) Square root of 0.64 is ___________
(b) The probability of getting a multiple of 3 in a single throw of dice is _____________
(c) The number of digits in the cube root of 175616 is ____________
(d) For any two rational numbers m and n, if m × n = n × m, then the property satisfied
is called ______________property of multiplication of rational numbers.
(e) A triangular pyramid is also called ____________
p 3
(f) If = , then p is equal to __________
2 4
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(g) Discount is calculated on ________________
(h) A parallelogram with all sides of equal length and unequal diagonals is called
_______________
(i) A triangular prism has ______________edges
21
(j) The standard form of is ______________
− 28
Section C
Q3. Find the cube root of 216.
Q4. One of the letters from the word CHEMISTRY is chosen at random. What is the
probability that the letter is T?
−1 −1
Q5. Find four rational numbers between and
4 8
Q6. Using long method, division find the square root of 7225
Q7. If the adjacent angles of a parallelogram are in the ratio 5: 4, find the measure of all
the angles.
Q8. If the polyhedron has 30 edges and 19 vertices, find its number of faces.
Section D
Q9. Find the smallest number by which 2187 must be divided so that the quotient is a
perfect square.
Q10. What is the smallest number by which 1323 must be multiplied so that the product is
a perfect cube?
Q11. Construct a quadrilateral PQRS in which PQ=4 cm, QR=5 cm, PR=7 cm, PS=3 cm
and QS=6 cm
Q12. If 8% VAT is included in the price, find the original price of a T.V. bought for `17820.
Q13. In the given parallelogram, the bisectors of ∠ S and ∠ R meet at O. If ∠ P=80 ̊ and
∠ Q = 100°, find the measure of ∠ SOR.
S R
P Q
−5 − 20
Q14. By what number should be multiplied to get the product
14 21
2 x − 3 3(1 − 5 x ) 3x
Q15. Solve: + =7−
5 2 2

Q16. Out of 200 people surveyed, the following data was gathered about favourite flavour
of ice cream
Flavour Vanilla Strawberry Chocolate Butter Scotch
No. of people 50 60 70 20
Construct a pie chart to represent this data
Section E
Q17. Draw a histogram to represent the following data:
Marks Obtained 0-5 5-10 10-15 15-20 20-25
No. of Girls 8 6 7 11 8
Q18. The ten’s digit of a two digit number is three times of its unit’s digit. If the sum of
this number and the number got by reversing the digits is 88, find the original
number.
Q19. Find the selling price of a flat whose cost price was `10,00,000 and was sold at a
gain of 45%.
Q20. What number should be subtracted from 6783 to make it a perfect square? Also, find
the square root of the perfect square so obtained.
Q21. Find the compound interest on `1,00,000 at the rate of 6% per annum compounded
annually, after 2 years.
Q22. Construct a rhombus whose diagonals measure 6 cm and 4 cm.

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