SQUARE ROOTS

WORKSHEET – GRADE 08
DEADLINES : Next class date (Try to finish it within 3 days and WA it )

Please do all the questions on separate papers and put all

REMARKS :
the answer sheets in the worksheet file

1. Sandun has a square table that has an area of 1.4 square meters. he buys a table cloth with an area of 2.4
square meters. How many centimeters does the cloth hang over the table on each side if put centered?

2. Tim wants to put shutters on his square window. The window has an area of 1625 square inches. How high
are the shutters if they are square and have an area of 2601 square inches?

3. Boat builders share an old rule of thumb for sailboats. The maximum speed K in knots is 2 times
the square root of the length L in feet of the boat's waterline. A customer is planning to order a
sailboat with a maximum speed of 8 knots. How long should the waterline be?

4. Dilini's flower garden is now square-shaped. If she enlarges it by increasing the width by 1 meter
and the length by 3 meters, the area will be 19 square meters more than the present area. What is
the length of a side now?

5. Siril has a bag with cubes. 25 of them are red and 119 are blue. If she makes a square that
consists of all the bricks, how many bricks would be on each side?

6. Virat Kohli has 169 flower seedlings and wants to plant them into a square bed. If she puts
only 13 seedlings in a row but bought 196, can the remaining seedlings be used to form
another square bed? How many seedlings would be on a row of this bed?

7. In a town, a new big playground is built on a square area of 400 square yards. It will be
divided into four equal square zones for different age groups. How many modules can be put
in a row on one side of one zone without surpassing it?

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B.Eng. in Mech (UK), H.Dip in Mech (MY)

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Grade 08 Group Classes

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