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XAVIER'S SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL, DELHI - 110 054

Mid-Term Examination in MATHEMATICS

Std. 8 Time : 3 hrs.

17-9-2019 Max. Marks : 80
Total printed pages : 02
Roll No: Total printed questions : 40

Section – A [1 x 20 = 20 marks]

1. Write a number that does not have a reciprocal.

−4 15 −14
2. Solve : 5
× 16
× 9

3. Solve the equation : x + 5 = 16

4. Solve for t : 5t – 3 = 3t – 5

5. Write the name of a regular polygon with four sides.

6. Find the measure of each exterior angle of regular polygon with eight sides.

7. Name the quadrilaterals that have four right angles.

8. How many numbers lie between the square of 35 and 36?

9. Find the value of 3–2.

10. Simplify : 25 ÷ 2–6.

11. Express 0.000723 in the standard form.

12. Write the multiplicative inverse of 8–2.

13. Find the sum without adding:

1 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 9 + 11 + 13 + 15 + 17 + 19 + 21 + 23 + 25

14. Factorise and check whether 243 is a perfect cube.

15. Convert 2:3 into percentage.

16. Find the ratio of 75 paise to Rs. 15.

17. Write the number which is a whole number but not a natural number.

18. Find the product of the additive inverse of -2 and multiplicative inverse of 8.

19. Write the name of a polygon with 8 sides.

20. Solve for p : 6p + 17 = q

Section – B [2 x 6 = 12 marks]

21. Name the property used in the following:

−7 −9
a) 9
× 7
= 1

8 3 9 8 3 8 9
b) [4 + 7] = 13 × + ×
13 4 13 7

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22. Solve for x : x= (x + 10).
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23. Find x, y and z in the following figure: x

90o

y
30o
z

24. Find the square root of 1764 by prime factorisation.

25. Find the smallest number by which 675 must be multiplied to get a perfect cube.

1 −2 1 −3 1 −2
26. Simplify : [(3) − (2) ] ÷ (4)

Section – C [3 x 8 = 24 marks]

27. Find the value of m so that: (−5)2𝑚+3 × (−5)5 = (−5)22

28. Construct quadrilateral EASY with AS = 7.5 cm, ES = 6 cm, EY = 6 cm, SY = 5 cm and AY = 10 cm.

29. Construct rhombus TRUE with TU = 8 cm and RE = 6 cm.

30. Find the least number that must be added to 4314 to get a perfect square. Also find the square
root of the perfect square so obtained.

31. Find the cube root of 13824 by prime factorisation method.

32. Find the value of x and y in

parallelogram PQRS.

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33. The perimeter of a rectangle is 13cm and its width is 24 cm. Find its length.

2 1
34. Find ten rational numbers in between 7
and 2
.

Section – D [4 x 6 = 24 marks]
35. Arun is twice as old as Amina. Five years ago his age was three times Amina’s age.
Find their present ages.

2 5 −3 −7
36. Represent , , ,
13 13 13 13
on a number line.

37. Construct quadrilateral PLAN, PL = 4 cm, LA = 6.5 cm, P = 900, A = 1100 and N = 850.

38. There are 2401 students in a school. PT 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.

39. In the figure, ABCD and PQRS are

parallelograms. Find the value of x.

-5 -5
3 ×10 ×125
40. a) Simplify : -7 -5
5 ×6

b) Express the number 7.088 x 10– 4 in usual form.

-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-