THE EMIRATES NATIONAL SCHOOL, SHARJAH

WORKSHEET: CLASS 8
UNIT III UNDERSTANDING QUADRILATERALS
LEVEL 1
1 The perimeter of a parallelogram is 80 m. If the longer side is 10 m greater
than the shorter side, then find the length of each side.
2 In a parallelogram PQRS, if ∠P = (3x − 5)° and ∠Q = (2x + 15)°, then find the
value of x.
3 The angles of a quadrilateral are in the ra o 1:2:3:4 .Find the measure of
each angle.
4 An exterior angle and the interior angle of a regular polygon are in the ra o
2 : 7. Find the number of sides of the polygon.
LEVEL II
5 The interior angle of a regular polygon is four mes its exterior angle. How
many sides does the polygon have?
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8 The diagonals of a rhombus are 42 cm and 40 cm respec vely. Find the length of the sides of the
rhombus. Also find its perimeter.

LEVEL III
9 ABCD is a parallelogram.∠𝐴 = 80°.The internal bisectors of
∠𝐵 𝑎𝑛𝑑∠𝐶 meet at O. Find the measures of all angles of ∆𝐵𝐶𝑂

10 The diagonal and side of a rhombus are equal in length. Find the measure of all angles of the
Rhombus
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3 Two adjacent sides AB and BC of a parallelogram ABCD are in the ra o 5 : 3. If the perimeter is 200 cm,
what is the length of AB and BC ?
(a) 25 cm & 50 cm (b) 40 cm & 37.5 cm (c) 62.5 cm & 37.5 cm (d) 60 cm & 62.5 cm

4 The roads connec ng the houses of Ravi, Sunil, Kapil, and Roger
form a quadrilateral as shown here. Let us refer to the quadrilateral
as KLMN. It is not known which corner is K, which is L, etc. It is
known that OPPOSITE angles ∠K + ∠M > 180 and that ∠L is not the
smallest angle of the quadrilateral.
(a) Ravi (b) Kapil (c)Sunil (d) Roger

5 If the sum of the interior angles of a regular polygon measures 1440°, how many sides does the
polygon have?

(a) 10 sides (b)8 sides (c)12 sides (d)9 sides

6 How many diagonals does a 63-sided convex polygon have?

(a)3780 (b)1890 (c)3843 (d)3906

7 If the length of one of the diagonals of a square is p units, then what is the perimeter of the
square?
(a)√2p (b)2p (c)2√2p (d)4p
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In a square ABCD, the diagonals intersect at a point O. If the side length of
the square is 4 units, then what is the area of the shaded region?

(a) 2 sq units (b) 4 sq units (a) 8 sq units (d) 12 sq units

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Max drew a diagonal inside a quadrilateral and made two equilateral triangles.Inside which
quadrilateral could Max have drawn the diagonal

a) Rhombus b) Trapezium c) Rectangle d) Pentagon

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Choose the answer that correctly identifies only the true statements from the following list.
(i) A parallelogram is a quadrilateral with opposite sides parallel
(ii) A rectangle is a square and a polygon
(iii) A square is a rhombus
(iv) A trapezoid is a parallelogram
(a) (i) and (iii) (b) (i) and (ii) (c) (iii) and (iv) (d) (ii) and(iii)

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