Grade 8 - Question - Assignment-Data Handling
Grade 8 - Question - Assignment-Data Handling
5. The teacher distributes 5 pencils per student. Can you tell how many pencils are
needed, given the number of students? (Use s for the number of students.)
6. A bird flies 1 kilometer in one minute. Can you express the distance covered by
the bird in terms of its flying time in minutes? (Use t for flying time in minutes.)
11.
(b) Fig 11.7 gives a matchstick pattern of triangles. As in Exercise 11 (a) above,
find the general rule that gives the number of matchsticks in terms of the number
of triangles.
2. The side of a regular hexagon (Fig 11.10) is denoted by l. Express the perimeter of
the hexagon using l. (Hint : A regular hexagon has all its six sides equal in length.)
EXERCISE: 11.3 (NCERT)
1.
(e). A bus travels at v km per hour. It is going from Daspur to Beespur. After
the bus has travelled 5 hours, Beespur is still 20 km away. What is the distance
from Dasspur to Beespur? Express it using v.
(d). Jaggu is z years old. His uncle is 4 z years old and his aunt is (4z – 3) years
old.
(e). In an arrangement of dots there are r rows. Each row contains 5 dots.
1. State which of the following are equations (with a variable). Give reason for
your answer. Identity the variable from the equations with a variable.
(a). 17 = x + 7
(b). (t – 7) > 5
4
(c). 2 = 2
(d). (7 x 3) – 19 = 8
(e). 5 x 4 – 8 = 2 x
(f). x – 2 = 0
3. Pick out the solution from the values given in the bracket next to each equation.
Show that the other values do not satisfy the equation.
(a) 5m = 60 (10, 5, 12, 15)
(b) n + 12 = 20 (12, 8, 20, 0)
(c) p – 5 = 5 (0, 10, 5 – 5)
4.
(a) Complete the table and by inspection of the table find the solution to the
equation m + 10 = 16
(b) Complete the table and by inspection of the table, find the solution to the
equation 5t = 35.
EXERCISE: 8A:
1. Write the following using literals, numbers and signs of basic operations:
(i) x increased by 12
(iii) 9xy²z
(iv) 10a³b³c³
EXERCISE: 8B:
(iii) p – q – r
(iii) a in 6ab
(iv) z in – 7xz
(i) ab
(ii) – 6bc
(i) 3x² + 5x + 8
(ii) 2x² - 9
(ii)
(ii)
EXERCISE: 8C:
1. Add
(vii) 6a³, -4a³, 10a³, -8a³
3. Add
(iii)
4. Subtract
(iii) 3a from 5b
5. Subtract
(iv)
6. Simplify
(ii)
7.
9.
12.
15.
EXERCISE: 8D:
7.
EXERCISE: 9A:
(i) x – 7 = 14
(iii) 11 + 3x = 17
(i) y+9=13
(iii) 4x = 28
EXERCISE: 9B:
Solve each of the following equations and verify the answer in each case
5. 3x – 5 = 13
6. 4x + 7 = 15
x
7. 5 = 12
3x
8. 5 = 15
9. 5x – 3 = x + 17
1
10. 2x - 2 = 3
EXERCISE: 9C:
5. When Raju multiplies a certain number by 17 and adds 4 to the product, he gets
225. Find that number.
7. Find two number such that one of them exceeds the other by 18 and their sum is
92.
9. Find two numbers such that one of them is five times the other and their
differences is 132.
11. The sum of three consecutive odd numbers is 21. Find the numbers.
17. After 16 years, Fatima will be three times as old as she is now. Find her present
ages.
20. Five times the price of a pen is Rs 17 more than three times its price. Find the
price of the pen.