ICSE Class 8 – Mathematics
Chapter: Squares and Square Roots
Time: 1½ hours
Max Marks: 40
Section A – [1 mark each] (10 marks)
Attempt all questions.
1. Find the square of 23.
2. What will be the digit at the unit place of 67²?
3. Find the square root of 625.
4. Is 144 a perfect square?
5. Write the square root of 0.04.
6. What is the square of the smallest 2-digit number?
7. Find the square root of 1.21.
8. What is the square of a prime number?
9. Is 500 a perfect square? Give a reason.
10. Find the value: √(49 × 36).
Section B – [2 marks each] (10 marks)
Attempt any five questions.
11. Find the square root of 784 using the prime factorization method.
12. Find the smallest number that must be added to 300 to make it a perfect square.
13. Find the least number that must be subtracted from 5607 to get a perfect
square.
14. Find the square root of 1.44 by division method.
15. Find the number of natural numbers between 100 and 200 whose squares end with
1.
16. If the area of a square field is 484 m², find the length of its side.
Section C – [4 marks each] (20 marks)
Attempt any five questions.
17. Find the square root of 1225 using the long division method.
18. A gardener has 1024 plants. He wants to plant them so that the number of rows
and columns is equal. How should he do it?
19. By what least number must 3600 be divided to make it a perfect square? Also,
find the square root of the resulting number.
20. A square piece of land has an area of 8100 m². A path of width 3 m is built all
around it on the inside. Find the area of the path.
21. A ladder 6.5 m long is leaning against a wall. It reaches up to a height of 6.2
m. Find the distance of the foot of the ladder from the wall (use Pythagoras
theorem).
22. Find the greatest 4-digit number which is a perfect square. Also, find its
square root.
HOMEWORK
Section A (1 mark each)
Attempt all questions]
1. Find the square of 18.
2. Find the square root of 144.
3. Is 90 a perfect square? Why or why not?
4. What will be the unit digit of the square of 76?
5. Find the value of: √(16/81)
Section B (2 marks each)
[Attempt all questions]
6. Find the least number that must be added to 500 to make it a perfect
square.
7. Without actual multiplication, state whether 137 is a perfect square.
8. Find the square root of 0.0009.
9. Write a Pythagorean triplet whose smallest number is 12.
10. Find the smallest number by which 90 must be multiplied to make a
perfect square.
Section C (3 marks each)
[Attempt any three questions]
11. Find the number of digits in the square of 101.
12. Find the square root of 7744 using prime factorisation.
13. A field has 2025 plants arranged in rows and columns such that each row
has the same number of plants as each column. How many rows are there?
14. Find the least number which must be subtracted from 7300 to make it a
perfect square.
Section D (4 marks each)
[Attempt any two questions]
15. Find the square root of 4761 using the long division method.
16. The area of a square is 9604 m². Find the length of its side and the
cost of fencing it at ₹15 per metre.
17. The product of two numbers is 4096. If one number is 64, find the other
using square roots. <This message was edited>
