Indraprastha WORLD SCHOOL

Paschim Vihar, New Delhi-110063

Session: 2023-24 A
Sample Paper
Subject: Mathematics
Class: VIII Maximum Marks: 80
Time Allowed: 3 Hours
General Instructions
 This question paper consists of 30 questions and 3 printed pages.
 All the questions are compulsory.
 Attempt the paper neatly and legibly.
 Mention the same question number in your answer sheet.

Section-A
1. Name the quadrilateral whose diagonals are not equal but bisect each other at 90 o . 1
2. Which is the greatest 3-digit perfect cube? 1
3. Write the one’s digit of the cube of 123. 1
4. Which of the following groups of angles form a quadrilateral? 1
a. 90o, 120o, 70o, 80o b. 95o, 98o, 98o, 39o
5. Write a rational number that is equal to its negative. 1
6. What is the sum of all exterior angles of a quadrilateral? 1
7. Two members of a Pythagorean triplet are 14 and 48. Find the third member. 1
8. Write two such rational numbers whose multiplicative inverse is same as they are. 1
9. If cost of an item is ₹ 50 and it was sold with a profit of 12%. Find its selling price. 1
10. From a well shuffled pack of 52 cards, find the probability of getting a face card. 1
11. What is the class mark of the class interval 5-10? 1
12. Find the value of : 1
√ √
√ √
13. What is the maximum exterior angle possible in a regular polygon? 1
14. A student got 150 marks out of 200 in Mathematics and got 120 marks out of 180 in science. 1
In which subject did the student perform better?
15. In the given figure find x + y + z. 1

16. Express 81 as the sum of 9 odd numbers. 1

17. Fill in the blanks.

a. The ratio of ₹ 6 to 50 paise is ______. 1
b. Zero has ______ reciprocal. 1
c. The additive inverse of -10 is ______. 1
d. The diagonals of a ______are equal. 1
18. Tick the correct answer.
a. The additive inverse of is ______. 1
i. 1 ii. 0 iii. iv.
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 b. Which of the following is the number of zeros in the square of 900? 1
i. 2 ii. 3 iii. 4 iv. 8
c. The smallest natural number by which 243 must be multiplied to make the product a 1
perfect cube is ______.
i. 3 ii. 9 iii. 8 iv. 7
d. The sides of a pentagon are produced in order. Which of the following is the sum of its exterior
angle? 1
i. 180 ii. 540 iii. 360 iv. 720
e. A school team won 6 games this year against 4 games won last year. The percentage 1
increase is ______.
i. 75% ii. 50% iii. 60% iv. 40%
f. When 35% is expressed as a fraction, we get ______. 1
i. 7/20 ii. 5/17 iii. 2.5 iv. 35
g. Which of the following is the square of an odd number? 1
i. 2116 ii. 3844 iii. 1369 iv. 2500
h. By what rational number should be multiplied to get 20? 1
i. -36 ii. 36 iii. iv. - 192
i. A coin is tossed. Which of the following is the probability of getting a head or tail? 1
i. 1 ii. 2 iii. ½ iv. 0
j. The measure of each exterior angle of a regular polygon of 9 sides is ______. 1
i. 30° ii. 40° iii. 60° iv. 45°
19. State whether the statement is true or false.
a. The square of -9 is -81. 1
b. Sum of all interior angles of an n-sided polygon is (n – 2)180o. 1
20. Case study:
a. Two candidates Raman and Rajan contested an election. Raman gets 46% of the votes
and is defeated by 1600 votes.
i. Find the total number of votes cast in the election. 2
ii. Find 16% of 1600. 2
b. Mr. Rahul went shopping with a certain amount of money. He spent ₹10 on buying a
pen and ₹ 25 in food. He then gave the remaining ₹ 16 to his friend.
i. How much money he initially had. 2
ii. More money was spent on food or pen? 2
c. A school collected ₹ 2304 as fees from its students. If each student pays as much money
as the number of students in the school.
i. How many students were there in the school. 2
ii. Is the total number of students a perfect square number ? 2
d. The given pie chart shows the subject of interest of each student in a class. Answer the following
questions:
i.
ii. If 30 student’s subjects of interest are history, how many total students were 2
surveyed?
iii. Which subject is liked the most. 2

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 Section-B
21. By what number should be multiplied so that the product may be ? 2
o
22. In a parallelogram RING, if measure of angle R is 70 , find all the other angles. 2

Section-C
23. Salma bought 2 kg onions at ₹ 12 per kg and 1 kg tomatoes at ₹ 16 per kg. 3
How much money did she give to the shopkeeper?
24. The perimeter of a parallelogram is 150 cm, One of its sides is greater than the other by 25cm. Find the
perimeter of the parallelogram. 3

25. Abhay lent ₹ 8000 to his friend for 3 years at the rate of 5 % per annum compound interest. What amount
does Abhay get after 3 years? 3
26. Find the smallest number by which 576 must be multiplied so that the product is a 3
perfect cube?

Section-D
27. Find the square root of 12.25 up to two places of decimal. 4
28. A man buys a plot of agricultural land for ₹ 300000. He sells one-third at a loss of 20% 4
and two-fifth at a gain of 25%. At what price must he sell the remaining land so as to
make an overall profit of 10%.
29. Find the value of x, y and z where ABCD is a parallelogram. 4

30. The marks obtained by students in a Mathematics Paper of maximum marks 100 4
are given below:

Marks obtained 0 – 10 10 – 20 20 – 30 30 – 40 40 – 50 50 – 60

No. of students 2 6 10 17 30 14

Represent this data in the form of a histogram.

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