SAMPLE PAPER QUESTIONS

COMPARING QUANTITIES

1. a shopkeeper purchased 200 bulbs for Rs.10 each. However 5 bulbs were fused and had to be
thrown away. The remaining were sold at Rs 12 each. Find the gain or loss per cent.
2. A second hand Tv is for Rs 2500. And then Rs 500 was spent on its repair and sold for Rs
3300. Find profit/loss percent.
3. What amount has to paid to on a loan of Rs 12000 for 1½ years at 10% per annum
compounded half yearly.
4. The population of a city was Rs20,000 in 1997. It increased at the rate of 5% per annum. Find
the population of city at the end of the year 2000.
5. A fan is marked ar Rs 15600 and it is available for Rs 12480. Find the discount given and
discount percent
6. Convert □ as percentage.
7. What should be the current price of the box which was Rs 25000 last year and it increased by
20% this year.
8. Find the population of a city after 2 years, which is at present is 20 lakh, if the rate of increase
is 5%p.a.

Cubes and Cube Roots

1. What is the smallest number by which 288 must be multiplied so the product is a perfect
cube?
2. Find the cube of 4/5.
3. Show that 0.001728 is a cube root of a rational number.
4. Find the sides of a cubical box whose volume is 64 cm3.
5. If the surface area of a cube is 486 cm2, find its volume.
6. Find the volume of a cube whose surface area is 96 cm2.
7. Write all the digits that would appear as the last digits of their respective cubes.
8. Show that if a number is doubled, then it cube becomes eight times the cube of the given
number.

Sample Paper for Direct and Inverse Proportions

1. A contractor estimates that 5 persons complete a task in 4 days. If he uses 4 persons instead
of 5, how long should they take to complete the task?
2. A school has 9 periods a day each of 50 minutes duration. How many period will there be, if
the duration of every period is reduced by 5 minutes?
3. A machine can fill 420 bottles of mineral water in 3 hours. How many bottles can be filled in
5 hours?
4. In a model of a ship. the mast is 9 cm high, while the mast of the actual ship is 12 m high..
If the length of the model ship is 21 cm, then how long is the actual ship?
5. If kg of sugar contains 2.25 � 107 crystals. How many sugar crystals are there in 2 kg of
sugar?
 Sample Paper for Playing with Numbers
1. Check the divisibility by 21436587 by 9.
2. Check the disibility of 152875 by 9.
3. If the three digit number 24x is divisible by 9, what is the value of x?
4. Check the divisibility of 2146587 by 3.
5. Check the divisibility of 15287 by 3.

Practical Geometry
1. Construct a rhombus whose diagonals are 4.5cm and 6.2 cm.
2. Draw a parallelogram whose adjacent sides are 2.8 cm and 4.8 cm.
3. Draw a rectangle whose adjacent sides are 3 cm and 5 cm.
4. Construct a quadrilateral ABCD, where AB= 4.3 cm, BC= 5.2 cm, CD= 6.5 cm, ∟B= 105°
and ∟C= 60°.
5. Construct a quadrilateral PQRS where, PQ= 5.4 cm, ∟P= 6°, ∟Q= 105°, ∟R=75° and ∟S=
120°

Linear equation in One Variable

1. Solve x/3 + 1/5 = x/2 – 1/4

2. Show that x = 4 is a solution of the equation x + 7 – 8x/3 = 17/6 – 5x/8
3. Find x for the equation: (2 + x)(7 – x)/(5 – x)(4 + x) = 1
4. A number is such that it is as much greater than 45 as it is less than 75. Find the
number.
5. Divide 40 into two parts such that 1/4th of one part is 3/8th of the other.
6. x + 3x/2 = 35. Find x.
7. A is twice old as B. Five years ago A was 3 times as old as B. Find their present ages.
8. Solve : (x + 3)/6 + 1 = (6x – 1)/3
9. The digits of a 2-digit number differ by 5. If the digits are interchanged and the
resulting number is added to the original number, we get99. Find the original number.
10. Solve : 5x – 3 = 3x + 7

Sample paper for Rational Numbers

1. Associative property is not followed by which type of numbers?

2. ____ is the identity for the addition of rational numbers.
(a) 1
(b) 0
(c) � 1
(d) 1
3. What is the multiplicative identity for rational numbers.
4. What is the additive inverse of 3/5?
5. How many reciprocals does zero have?
6. Write.
(i) The rational number that does not have any reciprocal at all.
(ii) The rational numbers those are equal to their reciprocals.
(iii) The rational number that is equal to its negative.
7. Give a rational number which when added to it gives the same number.
8. By what rational number should 22/7 be divided, to get the number - 11/24?
9. Represent the following rational numbers on the number line. (i) � 3/10 (ii) 8/7 (iii) 1.345
(iv)21/7
10. If you subtract 1/8 from a number and multiply the result by 1/4, you get 1/16. What is the
number?
11. Which of the following can be expressed as terminating or non - terminating?
(a) 1/3
(b) -14/15
(c) -38/81
12. Find two rational numbers between (i) -3 and 3. (ii) 0 and 1.
13. Insert six rational numbers between (i) -1/4 and -2/5 (ii) 21/12 and 12/21.
14. Find two rational and two irrational no between 1/8 and 2/9.

Sample Paper For Squares and Square Roots

1. A perfect square number can never have the digits ... at the units place.
2. Find
3. Find the value of (23)2 using column method.
4. Find the value
5. Write a Pythagorean triplet whose smaller member is 6.
6. What is the sum of first n odd natural numbers?
7. A number ending in an odd number of zeros is never a
8. If m, n, p are natural numbers such that
(m2 + n2) = p2, then (m, n, p) is called
9. Express 49 as the sum of seven odd numbers.
10. Without adding, find the sum.
(1 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 9 + 11 + 13 + 15 + 17)
11. Find the value of
12. Write the unit digit of square of 799.