ID : ph-8-Square-and-Square-Roots [1]

Grade 8
Square and Square Roots
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Answer the questions

(1) The total population of a village is a perfect square. The number of men in the village is 33966, and the
number of women in the village is 37962.
If we know that the number of children in the village is also a perfect square and is more than 19880,
then what is the smallest possible number of children in the village?
(2) Solve for x

(3) Find the largest perfect square number that is smaller than the largest 5 digit number?

(4) What is the expansion of (a - b)2?

(5) Which is the smallest number that can be used to divide 148720 to give a perfect square?

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(6) If you have a square playground with an area of 6 square metres, what would be the length of
12
each side?
(7) Which of the following numbers is not a perfect square?
1605, 729, 169, 1089
(8) Which is the smallest number that can be multiplied to 11088 to give a perfect square?
(9) What is the square root of 0.0196?
(10) If you add a number x with another number that is 4 times its value, and then take the square of the
sum, what will the result be?
(11) Find the smallest even number whose square is larger than 5628?
(12) Which is the smallest number that can be used to divide 81648 to give a perfect cube?
(13) In a school auditorium, the number of chairs in a row is the same as the number of rows of chairs.
There are 5025 students in the school. If we know that less than
30 chairs were empty, how many chairs were empty after all the students sat down?
(14) Find the smallest odd number whose cube is larger than 25965?

Choose correct answer(s) from the given choices

(15) A number n is called a square number if there exists:

a. a natural number m such that m = n + n b. a natural number m such that n = m + m
c. a natural number m such that m = n x m d. a natural number m such that n = m x m

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Answers
(1) 19881
(2) 60
(3) 99856

(4) a2 - 2ab + b 2
(5) 55 (Dividing 148720 by 55 gives you 2704 = 52 * 52)

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(6) m
2

(7) 1605
(8) 77
(9) ±0.14

(10) 25x2
(11) 76
(12) 14 (Dividing 81648 by 14 gives you 5832 = 18 * 18 * 18)
(13) 16
(14) 31
(15) d. a natural number m such that n = m x m

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