ST.

PETER’S MODEL SCHOOL

NACHARAM, HYDERABAD
CLASS: VIII SUBJECT: MATHS WORKSHEET

1) In the given quadrilateral ABCD, the side BD = 15 cm and the heights of the triangles ABD and BCD
are 5 cm and 7 cm, respectively. Find the area of the quadrilateral ABCD.

2) Find the area of a rhombus whose diagonals are 7 cm and 6 cm respectively.

3) One side of a parallelogram is of length 24 centimetres and the height from this side is 18 centimetres. What is
its area?

4) Find the area of a trapezium with the parallel sides 24 centimeters and 18 centimeters long and the distance
between them, 16 centimeters.
5) In the trapezium PQRS shown below, PQ is parallel to RS. Find its area.

6) The number of hours for which students of a particular class watched television during holidays is
shown through the given graph. Answer the following:

7) (i) For how many hours did the maximum number of students watch T.V.?
(ii) How many students watched TV for less than 4 hours?

(iii) How many students spent more than 5 hours watching TV?

8)A survey was made to find the type of music that

a certain group of young people liked in a city. The
adjoining pie chart shows the findings of this
survey. From this pie chart, answer the following:

(i) If 20 people liked classical music, how many

young people were surveyed?

(ii) Which type of music is liked by the maximum number of people?

(iii) If a cassette company were to make 1000 CD’s, how many of each type would they make?
9) Area of a rhombus is equal to __________ of its diagonals.
10) The area of the cube’s face is 10 cm², then the total surface area of the cube is __________.
11) The volume of a cylinder becomes __________ the original volume if its radius becomes half of the
original radius.
12) Use the tables below to draw linear graphs:

(a) The number of days a hillside city received snow in different years.

Years 2003 2004 2005 2006

Days 8 10 5 12

(b) Population (in thousands) of men and women in a village in different years.

Years 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

No. of men 12 12.5 13 13.2 13.5

No. of women 11.3 11.9 13 13.6 12.8

13) Plot the following points on a graph sheet. Verify if they lie in a line:

(a) A(4,0), B(4,2), C(4,6), D(4,2.5).

(b) P(1,1), Q(2,2), R(3,3), S(4,4).

(c) K(2,3), L(5,3), M(5,5), N(2,5).

14) The following line graph shows the yearly sales figures for a manufacturing company.

(a) What were the sales in (i) 2002 (ii) 2006?

(b) What were the sales in (i) 2003 (ii) 2005?

(c) Compute the difference between sales in 2002 and 2006.

(d) In which year was there the greatest difference between the sales as compared to its previous year?
15) A ________ is a bar graph that shows data in intervals.

A. Bar-graph B. Pie-chart C. Histograph D. Line Graph

16) A graph that displays data that changes continuously over periods of time is called:

A. Bar-graph B. Pie-chart C. Histograph D. Line Graph

17) Which point lies only on y-axis?

A. (-2,0) B. (2,0) C. (0,-2) D. (2,-2)

18) The point (4,0) lies on which of the following?

A. x-axis B. y-axis C. origin D. None of the above

19) The point (-2,-2) is:

A. near to x-axis B. near to y-axis

C. near to origin D. Equidistant from x-axis and y-axis.

20) The point (0,0) lies at:

A. x-axis B. y-axis C. origin D. None of the above

21) The sum of the angles of a quadrilateral is ___.

22) The perimeter of a parallelogram whose parallel sides have lengths equal to 12 cm and 7 cm is _____

23) If ∠A and ∠B are two adjacent angles of a parallelogram. If ∠A = 70°, then ∠B = __________

24) Each of the angles of a square is _______________

25) If the two angles of a triangle are 80° and 50°, respectively. The measure of the third angle is
____________

26) The angles of a quadrilateral are in ratio 1:2:3:4. Which angle has the largest measure ___________