MCQ WORKSHEET-I

CLASS VIII: CHAPTER - 2

LINEAR EQUATION IN ONE VARIABLE
1. The solution of 2x – 3 = 7 is
(a) 2 (b) –2 (c) 5 (d) –5

2. Which of the following is not a linear equation

(a) 2x + 5 = 1 (b) x – 1 = 0 (c) y + 1 = 0 (d) 5x + 3

3. Solve 2y + 9 = 4
(a) 2 (b) –2 (c) 5 (d) none of these

x 5 3
4. Solve :  
3 2 2
(a) 12 (b) –12 (c) 15 (d) none of these

15
5. Solve:  7x  9
4
3 3
(a) (b) – (c) 1 (d) none of these
4 4

6. Solve: x – 2 = 7
(a) 5 (b) –9 (c) 5 (d) 9

7. Solve: y + 3 = 10
(a) 7 (b) –7 (c) 13 (d) –13

8. Solve: 6 = z + 2
(a) 4 (b) –4 (c) 8 (d) –8

9. Solve: 6x = 12
(a) 2 (b) –2 (c) 3 (d) none of these

x
10. Solve:  10
5
(a) 15 (b) 50 (c) –50 (d) none of these

2x
11. Solve:  18
3
(a) 9 (b) 27 (c) –9 (d) none of these

12. The present age of Sahil’s mother is three times the present age of Sahil. After 5 years their ages
will add to 66 years. Find the present ages of Sahil.
(a) 12 (b) 14 (c) 16 (d) 20

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 MCQ WORKSHEET-II
CLASS VIII: CHAPTER - 2
LINEAR EQUATION IN ONE VARIABLE
1. Solve: 7x – 9 = 12
(a) 2 (b) –2 (c) 3 (d) none of these

2. Find the solution of 2x + 3 = 7

(a) 2 (b) –2 (c) 3 (d) none of these

3. Solve: 8x = 20 + 3x
(a) 4 (b) –4 (c) 2 (d) none of these

2 7
4. Solve: x 1 
3 3
(a) 2 (b) –2 (c) 3 (d) none of these

x x
5. Solve:   x7
4 6
(a) 12 (b) –12 (c) 3 (d) none of these

3x  5 1
6. Find the solution of 
2x 1 3
(a) 2 (b) –2 (c) 3 (d) none of these

x  6 x  3 5x  4
7. Find the solution of  
4 5 8
(a) 8 (b) –8 (c) 4 (d) none of these

8. Solve: 8x + 3 = 27
(a) 3 (b) –3 (c) 2 (d) none of these

9. Solve: 5x – 7 = 2x + 8
(a) 5 (b) –9 (c) 5 (d) 9

3
10. The perimeter of a rectangle is 13 cm and its width is 2 cm. Find its length in cm.
4
3 3 3
(a) 3 (b) –3 (c) 2 (d) none of these
4 4 4

11. Bansi has 3 times as many two-rupee coins as he has five-rupee coins. If he has in all a sum of
Rs 77, how many coins of each denomination does he have?
(a) 7, 21 (b) 3, 9 (c) 6, 18 (d) 5, 15

12. The sum of three consecutive multiples of 11 is 363. Find these multiples.
(a) 117, 121, 125 (b) 110, 121, 132 (c) 110, 99, 154 (d) 154, 88, 121

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 MCQ WORKSHEET-III
CLASS VIII: CHAPTER - 2
LINEAR EQUATION IN ONE VARIABLE

1. The difference between two whole numbers is 66. The ratio of the two numbers is 2 : 5. What are
the two numbers?
(a) 110, 44 (b) 120, 54 (c) 140, 74 (d) none of these

2. Sum of two numbers is 95. If one exceeds the other by 15, find the numbers.
(a) 55, 35 (b) 50, 45 (c) 40, 25 (d) none of these

3. Two numbers are in the ratio 5:3. If they differ by 18, what are the numbers?
(a) 45, 27 (b) 50, 32 (c) 40, 22 (d) none of these

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

(a) 117, 121, 125 (b) 110, 121, 132 (c) 110, 99, 154 (d) none of these

5. The sum of three consecutive multiples of 8 is 888. Find the multiples.

(a) 120, 136, 400 (b) 110, 121, 132 (c) 110, 99, 154 (d) none of these

6. Solve: 2x – 3 = x + 2
(a) 5 (b) –9 (c) 5 (d) 9

7. Solve: 3x = 2x + 18
(a) 18 (b) –18 (c) 14 (d) none of these

8. Solve: 5t – 3 = 3t – 5
(a) 1 (b) –1 (c) 2 (d) none of these

9. Solve: 5x + 9 = 5 + 3x
(a) 2 (b) –2 (c) 3 (d) none of these

10. Solve: 4z + 3 = 6 + 2z
3 3
(a) (b) – (c) 2 (d) none of these
2 2

11. Solve: 2x – 1 = 14 – x
(a) 5 (b) –9 (c) 5 (d) 9

12. Solve: 8x + 4 = 3 (x – 1) + 7
(a) 1 (b) –1 (c) 0 (d) none of these

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 PRACTICE QUESTIONS
CLASS VIII: CHAPTER - 2
LINEAR EQUATION IN ONE VARIABLE
3x  5 1
1. Find the solution of 
2x 1 3
x  6 x  3 5x  4
2. Find the solution of  
4 5 8
x x
3. Solve:   x  7
4 6
2 7
4. Solve: x  1 
3 3
x 5 3
5. Solve:  
3 2 2
15
6. Solve:  7x  9
4
4
7. Solve: x  ( x  10)
5
2x 7x
8. Solve: 1  3
3 15
5 26
9. Solve: 2 y   y
3 3
8
10. Solve: 3m  5m 
5
7 3
11. Solve: 5 x   x  14
2 2

12. The perimeter of a rectangular swimming pool is 154 m. Its length is 2 m more than
twice its breadth. What are the length and the breadth of the pool?
4 2
13. The base of an isosceles triangle is cm. The perimeter of the triangle is 4 cm.
3 15
What is the length of either of the remaining equal sides?

14. Sum of two numbers is 95. If one exceeds the other by 15, find the numbers.

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 sum of three consecutive multiples of 8 is 888. Find the multiples.

18. 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.

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

20. 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?

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21. Fifteen years from now Ravi’s age will be four times his present age. What is Ravi’s present
age?
5 2
22. A rational number is such that when you multiply it by and add to the product, you
2 3
7
get  . What is the number?
12
23. Lakshmi is a cashier in a bank. She has currency notes of denominations Rs 100, Rs 50 and Rs
10, respectively. The ratio of the number of these notes is 2:3:5. The total cash with Lakshmi is
Rs 4,00,000. How many notes of each denomination does she have?

24. I have a total of Rs 300 in coins of denomination Re 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?

25. The organisers of an essay 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.

26. Deveshi has a total of Rs 590 as currency notes in the denominations of Rs 50, Rs 20 and Rs 10.
The ratio of the number of Rs 50 notes and Rs 20 notes is 3:5. If she has a total of 25 notes, how
many notes of each denomination she has?

6x  1 x3
27. Solve: 1 
3 6
7
28. Solve: 5 x  2(2 x  7)  2(3 x  1) 
2
3x  2 2 x  3 2
29. Solve:   x
4 3 3
3 x  2 4( x  1) 2
30. Solve:   (2 x  1)
7 5 3
x 1 x2
31. Solve: x   1
2 3

x 3x 5x
32. Solve:    21
2 4 6
8 x 17 5 x
33. Solve: x  7   
3 6 2
3x  4 2
34. Solve: 
2  6x 5
7 x  4 4
35. Solve: 
x2 3

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 Assignment QUEStIOnS
CLASS VIII: CHAPTER - 2
LINEAR EQUATION IN ONE VARIABLE

1. A train is moving at the speed of x km/hour. What distance will it cover in 15 hours if it stops for
1 hour at two stations.

2. 48 sweets are to be distributed among three friends A, B and C in such a way that B gets 5 sweets
more than A and C gets 7 sweets more than A. Form an equation.

3. I guessed a number (x) then added 10 to it. Give the expression for double of it.

4. Find x if 2x + 5 = x + 25.

5. Ratio of three angles of a triangle is 1 : 2 : 3. Find the angles.

6. Perimeter of the top of a table in the conference hall is 32cm. If the length of the table is 3 times
its breadth, how long is the table?
7. Preeti has three more dolls than Renu. If there are 11 dolls in all, how many dolls does each
have.

1 1
8. Ankit covered of the distance by metro train, of the distance by bus and rest of 6 km by car
2 3
for moving from Dwarka to South Extension. Find the total distance covered?

9. Sum of two numbers is 30. If one number is twice the other, form an equation for finding the
numbers.

10. If 3(x + 4) = x + 38 find x.

11. Ratio of three sides of a triangle are 1 : 3 : 5 and perimeter of the triangle is 270m. Find the sides.

12. Two numbers are in the ratio 4:7. If the sum of numbers is 143, find the numbers.

13. Sides of a rectangle are in the ratio 14:3. If the perimeter of the rectangle is 170 cms, find the
length and breadth.

14. Find three consecutive odd numbers whose sum is 147.

15. If father is twice as old as his son and also 29 years older than his son. What is the age of father?
1 1 1
16. If you subtract from a number and multiply the result by , you get .What is the number?
2 2 8
17. The perimeter of a rectangular swimming pool is 154 metres. Its length is 2 m more than twice
its breadth. What are the length and breadth of the pool
4 2
18. The base of an isosceles triangle is cms. The Perimeter of the triangle is 4 cm. Find the
3 15
length of other two sides of the triangle

19. Sum of two numbers is 95. If one exceeds the other by 15 find the numbers

20. Two numbers are in the ration 5:3. If they differ by 18, find these numbers
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21. Three consecutive integers add up to 51. What are these integers?

22. The sum of three consecutive multiples of 8 is 888. Find the multiple

23. Three consecutive integers are as such when they are taken in increasing order and multiplied by
2, 3, and 4 respectively, they add up to 74. Find these numbers

24. The ages of Rahul and Haroon are in the ratio of 5:7. Four years from now sum of their ages will
be 56 years. Find their present age.

25. Baichung’s father is 26 years younger than Baichung’s grandfather and 29 years older than
Baichung. The sum of their ages is 135. Find their ages

26. Lakshmi is a cashier in a bank. She has notes of denominations of Rs.100, 50 and 10
respectively. The ratio of number of these notes is 2:3:5 respectively. The total cash with
Lakshmi is 4,00,000. How many notes of each denomination does she have?

27. Lakshmi is a cashier in a bank. She has notes of denominations of Rs.100, 50 and 10
respectively. The ratio of number of these notes is 2:3:5 respectively. The total cash with
Lakshmi is 4,00,000. How many notes of each denomination does she have?

28. The organizers in an essay competition decide that winner will get a prize of Rs. 100 and a
participation who doesn’t 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.

29. Sum of the digits of a two digit number is 9. When we interchange the digits the new number is
27 greater than the earlier number. Find the number

30. One of the digits of a two digit number is three times the other digit. If you interchange the digits
and add the resulting number to original number you get 88 as final result. Find the numbers.

31. Sahoo’s mother’s present age is six times Sahoo’s present age. Five year from now Sahoo’s age
will be one-third of his mother’s age. Find their cur-rent age

32. Half of a herd 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 total number of deer in the herd

33. A man’s age is three times his son’s age. Ten years ago his age was five times his son’s age. Find
their current age

34. If in a rational number denominator is greater than numerator by 8. If you increase the numerator
by 17 and decrease the denominator by 1, you get 3/2 as result. Find the number

35. The perimeter of a rectangular swimming pool is 154 m. Its length is 2m more than twice its
breadth. What are the length and breadth of the pool?

36. Two numbers are in the ratio 8:3. If sum of the numbers is 143, find the numbers

37. Four-fifths of a number is 10more than two-thirds of the number. Find the number
38. If 10 be added to four times a certain number, the result is 5less than five times the number. Find
the number

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39. The width of a rectangle is two-thirds its length. If the perimeter is 180m, find the dimensions of
the rectangle

40. Rakhi's mother is four times as old as Rakhi. After 5years, her mother will be three times as she
will be then. Find their present ages

41. The length of a rectangle exceeds its breadth by 7cm. If the length is deceased by 4cm and the
breadth is increased by 3cm, the area of the new rectangle is the same as the area of original
rectangle. Find the length and breadth of the original rectangle

42. The difference between ages of two cousins is 10years. 15yearsago, if the elder one was twice as
old as the younger one, find their present ages.

43. Find three consecutive even numbers whose sum is 234

44. Twenty four is divided into two parts such that 7times the first part added to 5times the second
part makes 146. Find each part

45. Three numbers are in ratio 4:5:6. If the sum of the largest and the smallest equals the sum of the
third and 55, find the numbers

46. The altitude of a triangle is five-thirds the length of its corresponding base. If the altitude be
increased by 4 cm , and the base decreased by 2cm, the area of the triangle remains the same.
Find the base and altitude of the triangle

47. A streamer goes downstream from point A to B in 9hrs. From B to A, upstream, it takes 10h. If
the speed of the stream is 1km/hr, what will be the speed of streamer in still water? Also find
distance between the points A and B.

48. Divide 150 into three parts, such that the second number is five-sixths the first and the third
number is four-fifths the second

49. The ages of Sonu and Monu are in the ratio 5:7. If Sonu were 9yearsolder and Monu 9years
younger, the age of Sonu would have been twice the age of Monu. Find their ages

50. Two years ago, Dalip was three times as old as his son and two years hence, twice his age will be
equal to five times that of his son. Find their present ages. Check your solution

51. The distance between two stations is 425km. Two trains start simultaneously from these stations
on parallel tracks to cross each other. The speed of one of them is greater than that of the other
by 5km/h. If the distance between the two trains after 3h of their start is 20km, find the speed of
each train. Check your solution

52. The length of a rectangle exceeds its breadth by 9cm. If the length and breadth are each increased
by 3cm, the area of the new rectangle will be 84cm2more than that of the given rectangle. Find
the length and breadth of the given rectangle. Check your solution.

53. The digit in the tens place of a two-digit number is three times that in the units place. If the digits
are reversed, the new number will be 36 less than the original number. Find the original number

54. A motor boat covers a certain distance downstream in a river in 5 hours. It covers the same
distance upstream in 6 hours. The speed of water is 2 km/hr . Find the speed of the boat in still
water.

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55. Three prizes are to be distributed in a quiz contest. The value of the second prize is five sixths
the value of the first prize and the value of the third prize is four – fifths that of the second prize.
If the total value of three prizes is Rs. 150, find the value of each prize.

56. Each side of a triangle is increased by 10 cm. If the ratio of the perimeters of the new triangle
and the given triangle is 5 : 4, find the perimeter of the given triangle

57. The difference between two positive integers is 36. The quotient, when one integer is divided by
the other is 4. Find the two integers.

58. Amina thinks of a number and subtracts 5/2 from it. She multiplies the result by 8. The final
result is 3 times her original number. Find the number

59. A positive number is 5 times another number. If 21 is added to both the numbers then one of the
new numbers becomes twice of another new numbers. Find the original numbers.

60. Sum of the digits of a two digit number is 9. When we interchange the digits the new number is
27 greater than the earlier number. Find the number.

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 MCQ WORKSHEET-I
CLASS VIII: CHAPTER - 6
SQUARES AND SQUARE ROOTS
1. Which is the smallest three-digit perfect square?
(a) 100 (b) 101 (c) 121 (d) 144

2. Which is the greatest three-digit perfect square?

(a) 999 (b) 961 (c) 962 (d) 970

3. Which is the greatest 4-digit perfect square?

(a) 9999 (b) 9990 (c) 9800 (d) 9801

4. Which is the smallest 4-digit perfect square?

(a) 1024 (b) 1025 (c) 1000 (d) 1016

5. What will be the number of digits in the square root of 25600?

(a) 3 (b) 2 (c) 5 (d) 4

6. What will be the number of digits in the square root of 1296?

(a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 1 (d) 4

7. The square root of 12.25 is _______________ .

(a) 3.5 (b) 2.5 (c) 35 (d) 25

8. What is the length of the side of a square whose area is 441 cm2 ?
(a) 21 (b) 22 (c) 20 (d) 12

9. In a right angle triangle ABC , right angled at B, AB=6cm, BC=8cm ,then AC= ____ .
(a) 10 (b) 12 (c) 21 (d) 14

10. Which least number should be subtracted from 629 so as to get a perfect square ?
(a) 4 (b) 5 (c) 6 (d) 3

11. The square root of 1.21 is

(a) 1.1 (b) 11 (c) 21 (d) 2.1

12. What is the smallest square number which is divisible by each of the numbers 6,9 and 15 ?
(a) 900 (b) 810 (c) 630 (d) 720

13. The square of 1.2 is

(a) 144 (b) 1.44 (c) 14.4 (d) 2.4

14. The square root of 169 is

13
(a) -13 (b) 1.3 (c) -1.3 (d)
10

15. What is the length of the diagonal of a rectangle having dimensions 3cm and 4cm?
(a) 5 (b) 7 (c) 1 (d) 4

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 MCQ WORKSHEET-II
CLASS VIII: CHAPTER - 6
SQUARES AND SQUARE ROOTS

1. What will be the length of third side of a right angled triangle whose hypotenuse is 5cm and one
of the side is 3 cm ?
(a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 4 (d) 5

2. Which of the following is not a perfect square ?

(a) 81 (b) 18 (c) 100 (d) 121

3. Which is the smallest square number that is divisible by each of the number 4,9 and10?
(a) 900 (b) 810 (c) 800 (d) 920

4. Which of the following is not a square number?

( a) 4 (b)9 ( c) 16 ( d ) 24

5. The square of 23 is :
( a ) 529 ( b ) 526 ( c ) 46 ( d ) 429

6. The square of which of the following would be even number?

(a ) 2826 ( b ) 7779 ( c ) 1057 ( d ) 131

7. The square of which of the following would be odd number?

( a) 431 ( b) 272 ( c) 1234 ( d ) 7928

8. Which of the following is a perfect square ?

( a ) 45 ( b) 81 ( c ) 18 ( d ) 54

9. What will be the “ one’s digit” in the square of 1234 ?

(a)6 ( b) 2 (c)8 (d)9

10. What will be the number of zeros in the square of 400 ?

( a) 5 ( b) 1 (c)3 (d)4

11. The perfect square number between 30 and 40 is :

( a) 35 ( b ) 39 ( c ) 36 ( d ) 32

12. Which of the following number would have digit 6 at units place ?
( a ) 192 ( b ) 242 ( c) 252 ( d) 132

13. Which of the following number would have digit 5 at units place :
( a ) 952 ( b) 592 ( c ) 242 (d) 422

14. Which of the following number would have digit 1 at units place ?
( a ) 812 ( b ) 182 ( c ) 542 ( d ) 952

15. How many natural numbers lie between 92 and 102?

(a) 15 (b) 19 (c) 18 (d) 17

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 MCQ WORKSHEET-III
CLASS VIII: CHAPTER - 6
SQUARES AND SQUARE ROOTS

1. How many non square numbers lie between 112and 122?

(a) 21 (b) 23 (c) 22 (d) 20
2. 25 can be express as the sum of first _________consecutive odd numbers .
(a) (b) 4 (c) 6 (d) 3
3. How many numbers lie between square of 12 and 13?
(a) 21 (b) 23 (c)22 (d)24
4. What will be the value of ‘ x’ in Pythagorean triplet (6,8, x)?
(a) 5 (b) 7 (c)10 (d) 11
5. The square of -9 is
(a) -81 (b) 81 (c) 18 (d) -18
6. The square root of 6400 is
(a) 80 (b) 81 (c) 32 (d) 23
7. By which smallest number 90 must be multiplied so as to make it a perfect square ?
(a) 10 (b) 2 (c) 5 (d) 3
8. By which smallest number 48 must be divided so as to make it a perfect square ?
(a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 6 (d) 4
9. Which smallest number should be added to 80 so as to make it a perfect square ?
(a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 1 (d) 4
10. What could be the possible “one’s digit” of the square root of 625?
(a) 5 (b) 0 (c) 4 (d) 8
11. The Smallest number by which 12348 must be divided to obtain a perfect square is
(a) 3 (b) 5 (c) 4 (d) 7

12. 0.9 = ?
(a) 3 (b) 0.3 (c) 0.03 (d) 0.33

13. 1.0816 = ?
(a) 1.04 (b) 1.286 (c) 0.904 (d) 1.35

288
14. =?
128
1 3 5 9
(a) 2 (b) 2 (c) 2 (d) 2
14 14 14 14

15. 0.9  1.6 = ?

(a) 0.12 (b) 1.2 (c) 0.75 (d) 12

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 PRACTICE QUESTIONS
CLASS VIII: CHAPTER - 6
SQUARES AND SQUARE ROOTS
1. Find the perfect square numbers between (i) 30 and 40 (ii) 50 and 60

2. Which of 1232, 772, 822, 1612, 1092 would end with digit 1?

3. Which of the following numbers would have digit 6 at unit place.

(i) 192 (ii) 242 (iii) 262 (iv) 362 (v) 342

4. What will be the “one’s digit” in the square of the following numbers?
(i) 1234 (ii) 26387 (iii) 52698 (iv) 99880 (v) 21222 (vi) 9106

5. The square of which of the following numbers would be an odd number/an even number? Why?
(i) 727 (ii) 158 (iii) 269 (iv) 1980

6. What will be the number of zeros in the square of the following numbers?
(i) 60 (ii) 400

7. How many natural numbers lie between 92 and 102 ? Between 112 and 122?

8. How many non square numbers lie between the following pairs of numbers
(i) 1002 and 1012 (ii) 902 and 912 (iii) 10002 and 10012

9. Find whether each of the following numbers is a perfect square or not?

(i) 121 (ii) 55 (iii) 81 (iv) 49 (v) 69

10. Express the following as the sum of two consecutive integers.

(i) 212 (ii) 132 (iii) 112 (iv) 192

11. (i) Express 49 as the sum of 7 odd numbers.

(ii) Express 121 as the sum of 11 odd numbers.

12. How many numbers lie between squares of the following numbers?
(i) 12 and 13 (ii) 25 and 26 (iii) 99 and 100

13. Find the square of the following numbers without actual multiplication.
(i) 39 (ii) 42
14. Find the squares of the following numbers containing 5 in unit’s place.
(i) 15 (ii) 95 (iii) 105 (iv) 205
15. Write a Pythagorean triplet whose smallest member is 8.
16. Find a Pythagorean triplet in which one member is 12.

17. Write a Pythagorean triplet whose one member is.

(i) 6 (ii) 14 (iii) 16 (iv) 18
18. By repeated subtraction of odd numbers starting from 1, find whether the following numbers are
perfect squares or not? If the number is a perfect square then find its square root.
(i) 121 (ii) 55 (iii) 36 (iv) 49 (v) 90

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19. Find the square root of 6400.
20. Is 2352 a perfect square? If not, find the smallest multiple of 2352 which is a perfect square. Find
the square root of the new number.
21. Find the smallest number by which 9408 must be divided so that the quotient is a perfect square.
Find the square root of the quotient.
22. Find the smallest square number which is divisible by each of the numbers 6, 9 and 15.
23. Find the square roots of 100 and 169 by the method of repeated subtraction.

24. Find the square roots of the following numbers by the Prime Factorisation Method.
(i) 729 (ii) 400 (iii) 1764 (iv) 4096 (v) 7744
25. 2025 plants are to be planted in a garden in such a way that each row contains as many plants as
the number of rows. Find the number of rows and the number of plants in each row.
26. Find the smallest square number that is divisible by each of the numbers 4, 9 and 10.
27. Find the smallest square number that is divisible by each of the numbers 8, 15 and 20.
28. Find the square root of : (i) 729 (ii) 1296
29. Find the least number that must be subtracted from 5607 so as to get a perfect square. Also find
the square root of the perfect square.
30. Find the greatest 4-digit number which is a perfect square.
31. Find the least number that must be added to 1300 so as to get a perfect square. Also find the
square root of the perfect square.
32. Find the square root of 12.25.
33. Area of a square plot is 2304 m2. Find the side of the square plot.
34. There are 2401 students in a school. P.T. teacher wants them to stand in rows and columns such
that the number of rows is equal to the number of columns. Find the number of rows.
35. Find the least number which must be subtracted from 1989 so as to get a perfect square. Also
find the square root of the perfect square so obtained.
36. Find the least number which must be added to 1750 so as to get a perfect square. Also find the
square root of the perfect square so obtained.
37. Find the length of the side of a square whose area is 441 m2.

38. In a right triangle ABC, B = 90°.

(a) If AB = 6 cm, BC = 8 cm, find AC (b) If AC = 13 cm, BC = 5 cm, find AB
39. A gardener has 1000 plants. He wants to plant these in such a way that the number of rows and
the number of columns remain same. Find the minimum number of plants he needs more for this.
40. 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 number of columns. How many children would be left out in this
arrangement.

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 ASSIGNMENT QUESTIONS
CLASS VIII: CHAPTER - 6
SQUARES AND SQUARE ROOTS

1. Which are the digits the square number can have at units place?

2. How many 2’s are there in the prime factors of 300?

3. How many 5’s are there in the prime factors of 13000?

4. How many digits will be there in the square root of 12321?

5. How much is 452 – 442?

6. Find the value of (39 + 21)2.

7. What is the missing digit in (37)2 = 136 – ?

8. Find the value of 1212 – 1202.

9. Simplify and give the answer : 62  28 .

10. How many natural nos lie between 562 and 572.

19
11. What is the square of
20

12. Find the square of (3.1).

13. How much is (0.1)2?

14. Find the value of 0.0081 .

15. Give the square number between 36 and 64.

16. How many square numbers lie between 81 and 225?

17. Find the least number which when added to 599 to make it a perfect square.

18. In a cinema hall 729 people are seated in such a way that the number of people in a row is equal
to number of rows. Then how many rows of people are there in the hall?

19. The length of a rectangular park is 80m and breadth is 60m. Find the length of its diagonal.

20. Give one Pythagorean triplet in which one of the number is 12.

21. Find the smallest number which when multiplied by 180 makes it a perfect square.

22. If the area of a square is 38.44 sq. cm. then find the side of the square.

23. A rectangular paper of length 45cm and breadth 5 cm is cut to form a square with the same
area. What is the side of the square?

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24. Find the least number by which 200 must be multiplied to make it a perfect square.

25. Find the least number by which 384 must be divided to make it a perfect square

26. Find the square root of 529 using long division method.

27. Find the square root of 6.0516 Find the least number, which must be subtracted from 3250 to
make it a perfect square

28. Find the least number, which must be added to 1825 to make it a perfect square

29. Find the square root of 3 correct to two places of decimal.

30. Find the length of the side of a square where area is 441 m2.

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 MCQ WORKSHEET-I
CLASS VIII: CHAPTER - 12
EXPONENTS AND POWERS

1. Express 256 as a power 4.

(a) 48 (b) 28 (c) 44 (d) none of these

2. Express 729 as a power of 3

(a) 38 (b) 36 (c) 93 (d) none of these

3. Express 2048 as a power 2.

(a) 216 (b) 28 (c) 48 (d) none of these

4. Which one is greater?

(a) 23 (b) 32 (c) 18 (d) 42

5. Express 432 as a product of powers of prime factors.

(a) 23 x 33 (b) 24 x 33 (c) 16 x 27 (d) none of these

6. The value of (–1)55 is

(a) –1 (b) 1 (c) 0 (d) none of these

7. The value of (–1)500 is

(a) –1 (b) 1 (c) 0 (d) none of these

8. The value of 28 is
(a) 128 (b) 256 (c) 512 (d) none of these

9. Simplify and write in exponential form of 22 x 25

(a) 23 (b) 27 (c) 128 (d) none of these

10. Simplify and write in exponential form of (– 4)100 × (–4)20

(a) (–4)120 (b) (–4)80 (c) (–4)2000 (d) none of these

11. Simplify and write in exponential form of 52 × 57 × 512

(a) 53 (b) 57 (c) 521 (d) none of these

12. The value of 22

(a) 3 (b) 10 (c) 4 (d) 7

13. The exponent in the expression 37 is _______ .

(a) 1 (b) 7 (c) 0 (d) 3

14. The value of 30 is ________ .

(a) 0 (b) 3 (c) 1 (d) None of these

1
15. Multiplicative inverse of is _________ .
7
(a) 49 (b) 5 (c) 7 (d) -14

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 MCQ WORKSHEET-II
CLASS VIII: CHAPTER - 12
EXPONENTS AND POWERS

1. Fill in the Blank am ÷ an = a........ Where m and n are natural numbers:-

(a) mn (b) m + n (c) m - n (d) m ÷n

2. Express ( 2a )4 in exponential form.

(a) 4a3 (b) 16a4 (c) 2a4 (d) 8a4

1
3. The value of is equal to __________ .
32
1 1
(a) (b) 1 (c) -6 (d)
9 3

4. Find the value of 112

(a) 22 (b) 9 (c) 121 (d) 13

5. In simplified form ( 30 + 40 + 50 )0 is equals to

(a) 12 (b) 3 (c) 12 (d) 1

2
2
6. Find the value of  
3
4 9 2
(a) (b) (c) (d) 0
9 4 9

7. In standard form 52,00,00,000 is equal to ___________ .

(a) 5.2 x 107 (b) 5.2 x 108 (c) 52 x 108 (d) 52 x 100,00,000

8. Usual form of the expression 104 is given by _____________ .

(a) 100,00 (b) 1,0000 (c) 10 x 104 (d) 10,000

9. 1 micron is equals to ______________ .

1
(a) m (b) 106 m (c) 105 m (d) 107 m
1000000

10. The approximate distance of moon from the earth is 384,467,000 m and in exponential form
this distance can be written as ________________ .
(a) 3.84,467 x108m (b) 384,467 x 10-8 m (c) 384,467 x 10-9 m (d) 3.844,67 x 10-13 m

11. 7 x 10-5 m is the standard form of which of the following ________ .

(a) 0.0007 m (b) 0.000007 m (c) 0.0000007 m (d) 0.00007 m

12. The standard form of 4050000 is given by ______________ .

(a) 4.05 x 106 (b) 40.5 x 109 (c) 405 x 106 (d) 4.05 x 10-6

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 MCQ WORKSHEET-III
CLASS VIII: CHAPTER - 12
EXPONENTS AND POWERS

1. Which one of the following is the value of 115

(a) 0 (b) 15 (c) 1 (d) None of these

2. Fill in the blank : ( -1 ) even number = _____________ .

(a) 2 x (-1) (b) 1 (c) 0 (d) -13

3. Fill in the blank : (-1)odd number = ________________.

(a) 1 (b) -1 (c) 2 (d) 0

4. Value of ( 30 + 20 ) x 50 is
(a) 1 (b) 25 (c) 2 (d) 0

5. The value of 72 is ___________ .

(a) 7 (b) 49 (c) 2 (d) 14

6. The Base in the expression 810 is _______________ .

(a) 10 (b) 2 (c) 8 (d) 800
7. The value of 1000 is ________________ .
(a) 0 (b) 100 (c) 1 (d) None of these

8. Find the number from the following expanded form : 9 x 105 + 2 x 102 + 3 x 101
(a) 900203 (b) 912351 (c) 905302 (d) 900230

9. Value of ( 23 )2 is given by ______________ .

(a) 64 (b) 32 (c) 12 (d) None of these

10. The value of 72 ÷ 73 is given by ___________ .

1 1
(a) (b) 7 (c) (d) -7
7 14
1
11. The value of is equal to ---------.
52
1
(a) -5 (b) 25 (c) -15 (d)
25
12. In exponential form 140,000,000,000 Kg is given by _______________ .
(a) 1.4 x 1010 Kg (b) 1.4 x 109 Kg (c) 14 x 108 Kg (d) 1.4 x 1011 Kg

13. The expression , ( 52 + 72 + 32 )0 is equals to

(a) 156 (b) - 6 (c) 1 (d) 83
2
1
14. The value of   is _______________ .
6
1 2 1
(a) (b) (c) (d) 2
12 3 36

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 MCQ WORKSHEET-Iv
CLASS VIII: CHAPTER - 12
EXPONENTS AND POWERS
1. In standard form 56700000 is written as ________________ .
(a) 5.67 x 107 (b) 567 x 107 (c) 5.67 x 105 (d) 567 x 100000

2. Usual form of the expression 9 x 10-5 is given by ______________ .

(a) 0.00009 (b) 0.000009 (c) 90 x 10-4 (d) 0.09 x 10-3

3. The number 86,800,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Kg is equal to _________________ .

(a) 8.68 x 1025 Kg (b) 868 x 1023 Kg (c) 86.8 x 10-25 Kg (d) 868 x 10-23 m

4. Charge of an electron is 0.000,000,000,000,000,000,16 coulomb and in exponential form it can

be written as _________________________ .
(a) 16 x 10-18 coulomb (b) 1.6 x 10-21 coulomb
(c) 1.6 x 10-19 coulomb (d) 16 x 10-21 coulomb

5. 13 x 10-7 Km is the standard form of which of the following ______________ .

(a) 0.000000013 Km (b) 0.0000013 Km (c) 0.000000000013 Km (d) 0.00000000013 Km

6. The standard form of 9,030,000,000 is given by ______________ .

(a) 9.03 x 109 (b) 90.3 x 107 (c) 903 x 106 (d) 9.03 x 10-9

7. Which one of the following is the value of 35

(a) 3 (b) 15 (c) 2 (d) 243

8. Find the value of 50 x 70 x 30

1 1
(a) 1 (b) (c) 6 (d) 73
24 5

9. 64 in exponential form is _____________ .

1
(a) 26 (b) 162 (c) (d) 24
82

10. The value of 20 x 30 x 40 is

(a) 1 (b) 0 (c) 24 (d) None of these

11. 1024 in exponential form is _____________ .

1
(a) 26 (b) 162 (c) (d) none of these
82

22
12. The value of 2 in the exponential form is
3
4 2 0
2 2 2
(a)   (b)   (c)   (d) none of these
3 3 3

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 MCQ WORKSHEET-v
CLASS VIII: CHAPTER - 12
EXPONENTS AND POWERS

1
1. The value of  61  81  is
1 1
(a) (b)  2 (c) (d) 24
2 24

1
2. The value of  51  31  is
1 1
(a) (b) (c) 15 (d)  15
15 15

2
3. The value of  21  41  is
1 1
(a) (b) (c) 4 (d)  4
16 16

2 2 2
1 1 1
4. The value of         is
2  3 4
61 144
(a) (b) (c) 29 (d) none of these
144 61

1
 1  3  1 
5. The value of 6     is
  2  
2 5 6
(a) (b) (c) (d) none of these
3 6 5

6
 1 
6. The value of   is
 2 
1 1
(a) 64 (b) (c) (d) 64
64 64

1
 3  1  1  1 
7. The value of       is
 4   4  
3 3 8 8
(a) (b) (c) (d)
8 8 3 3

1
  1 2  2 
  
8. The value of       is
  2   
 
1 1
(a) (b) (c) 16 (d) 16
16 16

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 0
5
9. The value of   is
6
5 6
(a) 0 (b) (c) (d) none of these
6 5

5
2
10. The value of   is
3
32 243 243 32
(a) (b) (c) (d)
243 32 32 243

11. By what number should be multiplied to get ?

4 4 5
(a) (b) (c) (d) none of these
5 5 4

5 11 8x
5 5 5
12. If         , then the value of x is
3 3 3
1 1
(a) 2 (b) (c) (d)  2
2 2

3
 1 
13. The value of   is
 2 
3 1 1
(a) (b) (c) (d) none of these
2 6 8

2
 2 
14. The value of   is
 3 
4 4 2 4
(a) (b) (c) (d)
3 9 9 9

2
 4  3 
15. The value of    is
 3  
3 1024 729 3
(a) (b) (c) (d) 
4 243 4096 4

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 MCQ WORKSHEET-vI
CLASS VIII: CHAPTER - 12
EXPONENTS AND POWERS
3 8
 1   1 
1. The value of      is
 5   5 
5 5 11
 1  5 1  1 
(a)   (b)  5  (c)   (d)  
 5  5  5 

 1  3  1 3   1  3
2. The value of          is
 3   2    4 
19 27 64
(a) (b) (c) 19 (d) none of these
64 16

4
 1  2 
3. The value of    is
 3  
6 24 16 8
1 1 1 1
(a)   (b)   (c)   (d)  
3  3  3  3

1
 3 
4. The value of   is
 2 
2 2 3
(a) (b) (c) (d) none of these
3 3 2

3
2
5. The value of  32  22     is
3
45 135 8 8
(a) (b) (c) (d)
8 8 135 45

4 7 2 x 1
4 4 4
6. If         , then the value of x is
9 9 9
1 1
(a) 1 (b) (c) (d) none of these
2 2

7. If 52 x1  25  125 , then the value of x is

1 1
(a) 2 (b) (c) (d)  2
2 2

1
8. The value of  31  41   51 is
7 7 7 12
(a) (b) (c) (d)
10 15 5 35

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  
9. If 23 x1  10  7  6 , then the value of x is
(a) 2 (b) 0 (c) 1 (d)  2

4 3x 5
7  7  7
10. If         , then the value of x is
 12   12   12 
(a) 1 (b) 1 (c) 2 (d) 3

7 5
 2   2 
11. The value of      is
 5   5 
12
 2  25 4 4
(a)   (b) (c) (d)
 5  4 25 25

2 2 2
1 2 3
12. The value of         is
2 3 4
289 313 27 241
(a) (b) (c) (d)
36 72 4 36

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 PRACTICE QUESTIONS
CLASS VIII: CHAPTER - 12
EXPONENTS AND POWERS
1. Express:
(i) 729 as a power of 3
(ii) 128 as a power of 2
(iii) 343 as a power of 7
(iv) 256 as a power 2.

2. Which one is greater 23 or 32?

3. Which one is greater 82 or 28?

4. Express the following numbers as a product of powers of prime factors:

(i) 72 (ii) 432 (iii) 1000 (iv) 16000

5. Express each of the following numbers using exponential notation:

(i) 512 (ii) 343 (iii) 729 (iv) 3125

6. Simplify:
(i) (– 4)3 (ii) (–3) × (–2)3 (iii) (–3)2 × (–5)2 (iv) (–2)3 × (–10)3

7. Compare the following numbers:

(i) 2.7 × 1012 ; 1.5 × 108 (ii) 4 × 1014 ; 3 × 1017

8. Simplify and write in exponential form:

(i) 25 × 23
(ii) p3 × p2
(iii) 43 ×42
(iv) a3 × a2 × a7
(v) 53 × 57 × 512
(vi) (– 4)100 × (–4)20

9. Simplify and write in exponential form:

(i) 29 ÷ 23
(ii) 108 ÷ 104
(iii) 911 ÷ 97
(iv) 2015 ÷ 2013
(v) 713 ÷ 710

10. Express the following terms in the exponential form:

(i) (2 × 3)5 (ii) (2a)4 (iii) (– 4m)3

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11. Simplify and write the answer in exponential form:
4
(i )62
100
 
(ii) 22
2
(iii)  7  50

3 7
(iv)  5 

4 5
3 4
12. Expand: (i )   (ii )  
5 7

13. Write exponential form for 8 × 8 × 8 × 8 taking base as 2.

14. Simplify and write the answer in the exponential form.

 37 
(i )  2   35 (ii )23  2 2  25 (iii)(62  6 4 )  63
3 
3
(iv)  22  36   56
  (v )82  23
 
15. Simplify:
124  93  4 3 3 4 2  34  25
(i) (ii ) 2  a  5 a (iii )
63  82  27 9  42

16. Express each of the following as a product of prime factors only in exponential form:
(i) 108 × 192 (ii) 270 (iii) 729 × 64 (iv) 768
17. Simplify:
2

(i )
2 
5
 73
(ii )
25  52  t 8
(iii )
35  105  25
83  7 103  t 4 57  6 5
18. Simplify and write the answer in the exponential form:
5

(i ) 25  28  25 
3 3 3
(ii )  4    5    5 
1 3
(iii )   3
8
4
5 4
(iv )  3    
3
19. Simplify:
 1  2  1  3   1  2
(i )         
 3   2    4 
7 5
5 8
(ii )     
8 5
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20. Simplify:
25  t 4
(i ) 3 (t  0)
5  10  t 8
35  105 125
(ii )
57  65
21. Find m so that (–3)m + 1 × (–3)5 = (–3)7

22. Find the value of m for which 5m 5– 3 = 55.

23. Write the following numbers in standard form.
(i) 0.000000564 (ii) 0.0000021 (iii) 21600000
(iv) 15240000 (v) 6020000000000000

24. Express the following numbers in standard form.

(i) 0.00000000000000000000035
(ii) 4050000000000
(iii) 51000000000000000000
(iv) 0.0000000000000000000000000000625
(v) 0.000000000000001257
25. Express the following numbers in usual form.
(i) 3.52 × 105 (ii) 7.54 × 10– 4 (iii) 3 × 10– 5 (iv) 5.25 × 10– 7 (v) 8.525 × 109

26. Express the number appearing in the following statements in standard form.
1
(i) 1 micron is equal to m.
1000000
(ii) Charge of an electron is 0.000,000,000,000,000,000,16 coulomb.
(iii) Size of a bacteria is 0.0000005 m
(iv) Size of a plant cell is 0.00001275 m
(v) Thickness of a thick paper is 0.07 mm
(vi) Mass of Uranus = 86,800,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg
(vii) Mass of the Earth = 5,976,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg
(viii) Distance of Sun from the centre of our Galaxy = 300,000,000,000,000,000,000 m
(ix) Sun is located 300,000,000,000,000,000,000 m from the centre of our Milky Way
Galaxy.
(x) The distance between Sun and Saturn is 1,433,500,000,000 m
27. Express the following numbers in standard form.
(i) 0.000035 (ii) 4050000

28. In a stack there are 5 books each of thickness 20mm and 5 paper sheets each of thickness 0.016
mm. What is the total thickness of the stack.

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