THE INDIAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL KUWAIT

TERM II – SAMPLE PAPER (2023-2024)

SUBJECT: MATHEMATICS

NAME: __________________________________ TOTAL MARKS: 80

CLASS: VIII SEC: ______ ROLL NO.: _____ TIME ALLOTTED: 3 Hours
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SECTION – A (1x10= 10)
Choose the correct answer
1.Which of the following is not a linear equation in one variable?
i) 2x-3=7 ii) x2-1=3 iii) y+2+y=9 iv) 2x=5
2.What is the solution of the equation 2x-3=7?
i) x=5 ii) x=4 iii) x=-4 iv) x=-5
3.If 8 men could do a certain piece of work in 40 days, in how many days could 20 men do
the same work?
i) 16days ii) 4days iii) 6days iv) 8days
4.If one angle of a parallelogram is of 65°, then the measure of adjacent angle is
i) 25° ii) 115° iii) 125° iv) 90°
5.Which of the following numbers cannot be a perfect square?
i) 1478 ii) 1331 iii) 1600 iv) 144
6.The area of a rectangle whose length and breadth are 9y and 4y2 respectively is
i) 4y3 ii)9y3 iii)13y3 iv) 36y3
7.The area of a rhombus is 240cm2 and one of the diagonals is 16cm. Find the other
diagonal.
i) 50cm ii) 40cm iii) 30cm iv) 60cm
8.Multiplicative inverse of 7-2
i) 71/2 ii) 1/72 iii) 72 Iv) -72
9.3-2 × 3-5 is equal to
i) 9-7 ii) 37 iii) 310 iv) 3-7
10. The common factor of 10pq, 20qr, 30rp is
i) 10q ii) q iii) 10 iv) 2pqr

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 SECTION – B (2x10= 20)
11. Name the quadrilaterals whose diagonals
a) are perpendicular bisectors of each other
b) are equal
12. If you have a spinning wheel with 3 green sectors,1 blue sector and 1 red sector,
what is the probability of getting a green sector? What is the probability of getting a
nonblue sector?
13. Write the Pythagorean triplet whose one member is 16
14. Add a - b +ab, b - c + bc, c-a+ ac
15. Simplify x(x-3)+2 for x=1
16. Find the height of a cuboid whose base area is 180cm2 and volume is 900cm3.
17. Find the height of a cylinder whose radius is 7cm and total surface area is 968cm2.
18. Abdul takes 75 steps to cover a distance of 50m. How much distance will it cover
in 375 steps?
19. Factorize: a4– 2a2 b2 + b4
20. The following graph shows the temperature of a patient in a hospital, recorded
every hour.

(a) What was the patient’s temperature at 1 pm?

(b) When was the patient’s temperature 38.5°C?

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 SECTION – C (3x10= 30)
21. Solve the following equation and check your answer:
6 x+1 x−3
3
+ 1 = 6

22. The adjacent figure HOPE is a parallelogram. Find the angle measures x, y and z.
State the properties you use to find them.

23. Observe the graph and answer the questions given below.

(i) What is the number of boys in class IV?

(ii) What is the total strength of class III?
(iii) What is the difference in the number of boys in class IV and class II?
24. Is 2352 a perfect square? If not, find the smallest multiple of 2352 which is a
perfect square. Find the square root of the new number.

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25. The given graph represents the total runs scored by two batsmen A and B, during
each of the ten different matches in the year 2007. Study the graph and answer the
following questions.

i) What information is given on the two axes?

ii) Which line shows the runs scored by batsman A?
iii) Were the runs scored by them same in any match in 2007? If so, in which match?

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27. In a Television game show, the prize money of ` 1,00,000 is to be divided equally
amongst the winners. Complete the following table and find whether the prize money
given to an individual winner is directly or inversely proportional to the number of
winners?
NUMBER OF
WINNERS 1 2 4 5 8 10 20
PRIZE OF EACH
WINNER IN Rs 100000 50000 … … … … …

28. A car travels 14 km in 25 minutes. Find out how far the car can travel in 5 hours if
the speed remains the same?
29. Factorise and divide:
i) 4yz(z2+6z-16) ÷ 2y(z+8)

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30. Obtain the factors of:
63a2 – 112b2
SECTION – D (4x5= 20)
31. Find x in the following figures.

32. The number of hours spent by a schoolboy on different activities in a working day
is given below:

Present the information in form of a pie chat.

33. Mohan wants to buy a trapezium shaped field. Its side along the 2river is parallel to
and twice the side along the road. If the area of this field is 10500 m and the
perpendicular distance between the two parallel sides is 100 m, find the length of the
side along the river.

34. In a stack there are 5 books each of thickness 20mm and 5 paper sheets each of
thickness 0.016 mm. What is the total thickness of the stack?
35. Draw a graph for the following.

Is it a linear graph?
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