TAGORE PUBLIC SCHOOL, PALWAL

Assignment : 2025-26
Class : VIII Maths
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Rational Numbers
1. Using appropriate properties of addition, find the following:
4 11 −7 −2
+ + +
5 7 5 7
−4 −11
2. What number should be subtracted from to get ?
5 14
−5 −8 5 −11
3. Subtract the sum of and from the sum of 2 and .
7 3 12
4. Verify the following and name the property also:
5 −3 7 5 −3 5 7
× ( 2 + 5) = × +9×5
9 9 2
5. Using the appropriate properties of operations of rational numbers, evaluate the following:
8 4 5 9 8
×5+6−5×9
9
6. Using distributivity, find
7 −3 7 5
{ × ( )} + { × }
5 12 5 12
7. Find the sum of additive inverse and multiplicative inverse of 9.
3
8. Find the product of additive inverse and multiplicative inverse of − .
7
−11 4
9. The product of two rational numbers is . If one of them is 2 9 , find the other.
12
−9
10. By what rational number should –3 be divided to get 13 ?
8 4 −3 14
11. Divide the sum of 3 and 7 by the product of and .
7 9
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12. Arti has to cut out circle of diameter 1 4 cm cm from an aluminium strip of dimensions 8 4 cm
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by 1 4 cm. How many full circles can Arti cut? Also calculate the wastage of the aluminium strip.
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13. If 5 of a number excess its 7 by 44, find the number.
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14. The highest score in a cricket test match in an innings was of the total and the next highest
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was of the remaining. If the difference between two score was 24 runs, what was the total
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score?
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15. In the examination, 400 students appeared. If of the boys and all 130 girls passed in
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examination, then find how many boys failed in examination.
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16. Rahul had a rope of 3255 m long. He cut off a 1505 m long piece, then he divided the rest of the
rope into 3 parts of equal length. Find the length of each part.
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17. A, B, C, D and E went to a restaurant for dinner. A paid 2 of the bill, B paid 5 of the bill and rest of
the bill was shared equally by C, E and E. What fraction of the bill was paid by each?
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18. of total number of students of a school come by car while of students come by bus to school.
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All the other students walk to school of which 3 walk on their own and the rest are escorted by
their parent. If 224 students come to school walking on their own, how many students study in
that school?
19. A mother and her two sons got a room constructed for Rs. 6,00,000. The elder son contributed
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of his mother’s contribution while the younger son contributed 2 of his mother’s share. How
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much did the three contribute individually?
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20. In a class of 56 students, the number of boys is 5 𝑡ℎ of the number of girls. Find the number of
boys and girls.

Square and Square Roots

1. Without adding, find the sum :
1 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 9 + 11 + 13 + 15
2. Express the following as the sum of two consecutive integers:
232
3. Find the squares of the following numbers containing 5 in unit’s place:
525
4. Write a Pythagorean triplet whose one number is
(i) 15 (ii) 80
5. Find the square roots of the following numbers by prime factorization method:
(i) 784 (ii) 1849
6. For each of the following numbers, find the smallest natural number by which it should be
multiplied so as to get a perfect square. Also find the square root of the square number so
obtained:
(i) 720 (ii) 1728
7. For each of the following numbers, find the smallest natural number by which it should be
divided so that this quotient is a perfect square.. Also find the square root of the square number
so obtained:
(i) 1872 (ii) 3380
8. Find the smallest square number that is divisible by each of the following numbers
3 , 6 , 10 , 15
9. The area of a rectangle is 1936 sq. m. If the length of the rectangle is 4 times its breadth, find
the dimensions of the rectangle.
10. In a school, the students of class VIII collected Rs. 2304 for a picnic. Each student contributed
as many rupees as the number of students in the class. Find the number of students in the class.
11. Find three positive numbers in the ratio 2 : 3 : 5, the sum of whose squares is 950.
12. Find the square root of each of the following by division method :
(i) 4489 (ii) 213444
13. Find the square root of the following decimal number:
42.25
14. Find the square root of the following correct to two decimal places:
645.8
15. Find the least number which must be subtracted from each of the following numbers to make
them a perfect square. Also find the square root of the perfect square number so obtained:
(i) 2000 (ii) 825
16. Find the least number which must be added to each of the following numbers to make them a
perfect square. Also find the square root of the perfect square number so obtained:
(i) 6412 (ii) 8000
17. There are 1000 children in a school. For a P.T. drill, they have to stand in such a way that the
number of rows is equal to number of columns. How many children would be left out in this
arrangement?

Cubes and Cube Roots

1. Which of the following numbers are not perfect cubes? Give reasons in support of your answer:
(i) 3375 (ii) 8640
2. Show that each of the following numbers is a perfect cube:
(i) 5832 (ii) 13824
3. Find the smallest number by which each of the following numbers must be multiplied to obtain
a perfect cube:
(i) 3072 (ii) 19652
4. Find the smallest number by which each of the following numbers must be divided to obtained
a perfect cube:
(i) 10985 (ii) 28672
5. Rahul makes a cuboid of plasticine of sides 3 cm × 3 cm × 5 cm. How many such cuboids will he
need to form a cube?
6. Find the cubes of the following number:
1
35
7. Find the cube root of each of the following numbers by prime factorization :
(i) 35937 (ii) 262144
8. Evaluate the following:
3
√(−1331) × (3375)
9. Divide the number 8748 by the smallest number so that the quotient is a perfect cube. Also find
the cube root of the quotient.
10. Three numbers are in the ratio 3 : 4 : 5. If their product is 480, find the numbers.
11. Two numbers are in the ratio 4 : 5. If the difference of their cubes is 61, find the numbers.

Percentage and its Applications

1. On a rainy day, only 36 students out of 45 came to a class. What percent were absent?
2. On reducing the price of a shirt by 8%, it becomes Rs. 1692.80. What was its original price?
3. A student secured 32% marks in an examination and failed by 12 marks. Another student
secured 42% marks and got 28 marks more than the minimum marks required to pass. Find
the maximum marks and the pass percentage of marks.
4. Decrease the number 750 by 10%
5. Mr. Khanna spent 83% of his salary and saved Rs. 7480. Calculate his monthly salary.
6. Out of 8000 students, 60%, were boys. If 80% of the boys and 90% of the girls passed the
exam, find the number of students who failed.
7. Pratibha reduced her weight by 15%. If now she weighs 59.5 kg, what was her earlier weight?
8. The side of a rectangle are 20 cm and 15 cm. If each side is increased by 20%, find the
percentage increase in the area.
9. By selling a bike for Rs. 22464, Ansari incurs a loss of Rs. 1536. Find his loss percentage.
10. A shopkeeper purchased 250 bulbs for Rs. 12 each. However, 5 bulbs were fused and had to be
thrown away. The remaining were sold at Rs. 15 each. Find his gain or loss%.
11. By selling a fan for Rs. 6490, Anil earns a profit of 18%. Find its cost price.
12. Manish sold a bicycle at a profit of 10%. Had it been sold for Rs. 300 more, the profit would
have been 16%. Find the cost price of the bicycle.
13. The cost of an article was Rs. 20000 and Rs. 1400 were spent on its repairs. If it is sold for a
profit of 20%, find the selling price of the article.
14. A laptop and a mobile phone were bought for Rs. 40000 and 24000 respectively. The
shopkeeper made a profit of 8% on laptop and a loss of 12% on mobile phone. Find his gain or
loss percent on the whole transaction.
15. A dealer buys a bicycle for Rs. 1250 and marks it at 40% above its cost price. If he allows 8%
discount find:
(i) the marked price (ii) selling price (iii) his profit percentage
16. A notebook is marked at Rs. 90. Find the price a student pays for a dozen notebooks if he gets
15% discount.
17. The cost price of an article is Rs. 1600, which is 20% below the marked price. If the article is
sold at a discount of 16%, find:
(i) the marked price (ii) the selling price (iii) profit percentage
18. Find a single discount equivalent to two successive discounts of 30% and 10%.
19. Gaurav bought a shirt for Rs. 1296 including CST. If the original price of the shirt is Rs. 1200,
find the rate of GST.
20. A wall hanging is marked for Rs. 4800. The shopkeeper offers 10% discount on it. If GST is
received 8% from the customer, find the amount paid by the customer to purchase the wall
hanging.

Linear Equations in One Variable

1. Solve the following equations and check the solutions:
5 – 3 (5x + 2) = 4(7 – 3x) + 1
4𝑝−3 3𝑥+2 3
2. If p = x + 1 and − = ,find x.
2 5 2
3. Solve the equation :
𝑥+1 2𝑥+3
= 2𝑥−5
𝑥−1
4. Solve the following equations :
𝑝 𝑝 𝑝+40
(i) 4(2x + 1) = 3(x –1) + 7 (ii) + 4 = 55 −
3 5
(iii) 4(3x + 2) – 5(6x –1) = 2(x – 8) –6(7x – 4)
5𝑝+2 7 2𝑥−3 3𝑥−1
(iv) = (v) =
8−2𝑝 6 2𝑥−1 3𝑥+1
5. Two numbers are in the ratio 5 : 3. If they differ by 18, what are the numbers?
6. Three consecutive integers are such that when they are taken in increasing order and
multiplied by 2, 3 and 4 respectively, they add up to 74. Find these numbers.
7. The number of boys and girls in a class are in the ratio 7 : 5. The number of boys is 8 more than
the number of girls. What is the total class strength?
8. Baichung’s father is 26 years younger than Baichung’s grandfather and 29 years older than
Baichung. The sum of the ages of all the three is 135 years. What is the age of each one of them?
5 2 7
9. A rational number is such that when you multiply it by and add to the product you get − .
2 3 12
What is the number?
10. I have a total of Rs. 300 in coin of denomination Rs. 1, Rs. 2 and Rs. 5. The number of Rs. 2 coins
is 3 times the number of Rs. 5 coins. The total number of coins is 160. How many coins of each
denomination are with me?
11. The organizers of an easy competition decide that a winner in the competition gets a prize of
Rs. 100 and a participant who does not win gets a prize of Rs. 25. The total prize money
distributed is Rs. 3,000. Find the number of winners, if the total number of participants is 63.
12. Sum of the digits of a two-digit number is 9. When we interchange the digits, it is found that the
resulting new number is greater than the original number by 27. What is the two-digit
number?
13. One of the two digits of a two digit number is three times the other digit. If you interchange the
digits of this two-digit number and add the resulting number to the original number, you get
88. What is the original number?
14. Half of a hers of deer are grazing in the field and three fourths of the remaining are playing
nearby. The rest 9 are drinking water from the pond. Find the number of deer in the herd.
15. The age of Hari and Harry are in the ratio 5 : 7. Four years from now the ratio of their ages will
be 3 : 4. Find their present ages.
16. The denominator of a rational number is greater than its numerator by 8. If the numerator is
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increased by 17 and the denominator is decreased by 1, the number obtained is 2. Find the
rational number.

Understanding Quadrilaterals
1. The sum of interior angles of a polygon is 2700 0. How many sides this polygon has?

2. Find the angle measure x in the following figure.

3. Find the measure of angle x in the following figures :

4. Is it possible to have a regular polygon with measure of each exterior angle as 220?
5. The ratio between an exterior angle and interior angle of regular polygon is 1 : 8. Find the
number of sides in the polygon.
6. If the angles of a pentagon are in the ratio 7 : 8 : 11 : 13 : 15, find the angles.
7. From the adjoining figure, find
(i) x
(ii) DAB
(iii) ADB
8. Find the angle measure x in the following figure:

9. The ratio between an exterior angle and the interior angle of a regular polygon is 1 : 5. Find
(i) the measure of each exterior angle.
(ii) the measure of each interior angle.
(iii) the number of sides in the polygon.
10. Each interior angle of a regular polygon is double of its exterior angle. Find the number of sides
in the polygon.
11. In the adjoining figure, ABCD is a parallelogram.
Find the value of x, y and z.

12. Consider the following parallelograms. Find the values of x, y , z each.

(i) (ii)

13. In the following figure ROPE is parallelogram. Find

the measure of angles x, y and z. State the properties
you use to find them.

14. In the adjoining figures, BURN is a parallelograms. Find the measures of x and y (lengths are in
cm)
15. In the adjoining figure, find the value of x + y

16. In the adjoining figure, ABCD is a parallelogram, find the values of x and y .

17. In the adjoining figure, ABCD is a parallelogram find the values of x, y and z respectively.

18. In the adjoining figure ABCD is a kite, find the value of angle.

19. In the adjoining figure, ABCD is a trapezium. If A : D = 5 : 7, B = (3x + 11)0 and

C = (5x – 31)0, then find all the angles of the trapezium.

20. In the adjoining figure, ABCD is a rectangle and diagonals intersect at O. If AOB = 1180, find
(i) ABO (ii) ADO (iii) OCB