HOLIDAY HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT

Mathematics - Class 8

Name: ______________________ Roll No: _________ Section: _________

General Instructions:
• This assignment contains a total of 85 questions across 3 sections.
• All questions are compulsory.
• Solve the questions neatly in your separate Mathematics Homework Notebook.
• Show all necessary working steps clearly.

Section A: Rational Numbers (Chapter 1)

Q2. Represent the rational number -5/6 on a number line.

Q3. Find five rational numbers between -2/3 and 1/4.

Q4. Find ten rational numbers between -3/5 and 1/2.

Q5. Verify the commutative property of addition for x = -3/4 and y = 5/6.

Q6. Verify the associative property of multiplication for x = -2/3, y = 3/5, and z = -5/6.

Q7. Using appropriate properties, evaluate: (2/5) × (-3/7) - (1/14) - (3/7) × (3/5)

Q8. Write the additive inverse of: (i) -7/19 (ii) 21/112

Q9. Write the multiplicative inverse of: (i) -13/19 (ii) -5/8 × -3/7

Q10. Multiply 6/13 by the reciprocal of -7/16.

Q11. Is 8/9 the multiplicative inverse of -1 (1/8)? Why or why not?

Q12. The product of two rational numbers is -16/9. If one of the numbers is -4/3, find the
other.

Q13. By what rational number should we multiply -15/56 to get -5/7?

Q14. Divide the sum of 65/12 and 12/7 by their difference.

Q15. Find the cost of 3 (1/3) meters of cloth at ₹ 40 (1/2) per meter.

Q16. A train travels at a uniform speed of 68 (2/3) km/h. How much distance will it cover in 3
(1/4) hours?

Q17. Insert 6 rational numbers between -1/2 and 2/3.

Q18. Simplify: [(-3/5) × (25/12)] + [(5/4) × (-8/15)]

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Q19. Find a rational number exactly halfway between 1/4 and 1/3.

Q20. Evaluate using distributivity: {7/5 × (-3/12)} + {7/5 × 5/12}

Q21. A rope of length 20 (1/2) meters is cut into 5 equal pieces. Find the length of each piece.

Q22. If 2/5 of a number is 18, what is the number?

Q23. Arrange the following in descending order: -4/5, -2/3, -1/2, -7/10

Q24. Verify that -(-x) = x for x = 11/15.

Q25. Find the sum of the additive inverse and multiplicative inverse of 5.

Section B: Linear Equations in One Variable (Chapter 2)

Q27. Solve the equation and check your result: y + 3 = 10

Q28. Solve the equation and check your result: 6 = z + 2

Q29. Solve the equation and check your result: 3/7 + x = 17/7

Q30. Solve the equation and check your result: 6x = 12

Q31. Solve the equation and check your result: t / 5 = 10

Q32. Solve the equation and check your result: 2x / 3 = 18

Q33. Solve the equation and check your result: 1.6 = y / 1.5

Q34. Solve the equation and check your result: 7x - 9 = 16

Q35. Solve the equation and check your result: 14y - 8 = 13

Q36. Solve the equation and check your result: 17 + 6p = 9

Q37. Solve the equation and check your result: x/3 + 1 = 7/15

Q38. Solve the equation and check your result: 3x = 2x + 18

Q39. Solve the equation and check your result: 5t - 3 = 3t - 5

Q40. Solve the equation and check your result: 5x + 9 = 5 + 3x

Q41. Solve the equation and check your result: 4z + 3 = 6 + 2z

Q42. Solve the equation and check your result: 2x - 1 = 14 - x

Q43. Solve the equation and check your result: 8x + 4 = 3(x - 1) + 7

Q44. Solve the equation and check your result: x = 4/5 (x + 10)

Q45. Solve the equation and check your result: 2x/3 + 1 = 7x/15 + 3

Q46. Solve the equation and check your result: m - (m-1)/2 = 1 - (m-2)/3

Q47. If you subtract 1/2 from a number and multiply the result by 1/2, you get 1/8. What is
the number?

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Q48. The perimeter of a rectangular swimming pool is 154 m. Its length is 2 m more than
twice its breadth. What are the length and breadth?

Q49. The base of an isosceles triangle is 4/3 cm. The perimeter of the triangle is 4 (2/15) cm.
What is the length of either of the remaining equal sides?

Q50. Sum of two numbers is 95. If one exceeds the other by 15, find the numbers.

Q51. Two numbers are in the ratio 5:3. If they differ by 18, what are the numbers?

Q52. Three consecutive integers add up to 51. What are these integers?

Q53. The sum of three consecutive multiples of 8 is 888. Find the multiples.

Q54. Three consecutive integers are such that when they are taken in increasing order and
multiplied by 2, 3 and 4 respectively, they add up to 74. Find these numbers.

Q55. Ages of Rahul and Haroon are in the ratio 5:7. Four years later the sum of their ages will
be 56 years. What are their present ages?

Q56. The number of boys and girls in a class are in the ratio 7:5. The number of boys is 8
more than the number of girls. What is the total class strength?

Q57. Baichung's father is 26 years younger than Baichung's grandfather and 29 years older
than Baichung. The sum of the ages of all the three is 135 years. What is the age of
each one of them?

Q58. 15 years from now Ravi's age will be four times his present age. What is Ravi's present
age?

Q59. A rational number is such that when you multiply it by 5/2 and add 2/3 to the product,
you get -7/12. What is the number?

Q60. Lakshmi is a cashier in a bank. She has currency notes of denominations ₹ 100, ₹ 50
and ₹ 10, respectively. The ratio of the number of these notes is 2:3:5. The total cash
with Lakshmi is ₹ 4,00,000. How many notes of each denomination does she have?

Q61. I have a total of ₹ 300 in coins of denomination ₹ 1, ₹ 2 and ₹ 5. The number of ₹ 2

Q62. The organizers of an essay competition decide that a winner in the competition gets a
prize of ₹ 100 and a participant who does not win gets a prize of ₹ 25. The total prize
money distributed is ₹ 3,000. Find the number of winners, if the total number of
participants is 63.

Q63. The digits of a two-digit number differ by 3. If the digits are interchanged and the
resulting number is added to the original number, we get 143. What can be the original
number?

Q64. Arjun is twice as old as Shriya. Five years ago his age was three times Shriya's age. Find
their present ages.

Q65. Solve: (3t - 2)/4 - (2t + 3)/3 = 2/3 - t

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Section C: General Math & Logical Puzzles
Q66. A snail is at the bottom of a 30-foot well. Each day it climbs up 3 feet, but at night it
slips back 2 feet. How many days will it take the snail to reach the top?

Q67. If 5 machines take 5 minutes to make 5 widgets, how long would it take 100 machines
to make 100 widgets?

Q68. A bat and a ball cost ₹ 110 in total. The bat costs ₹ 100 more than the ball. How much
does the ball cost?

Q69. There are 3 doors. Behind one is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door. The
host opens another door, revealing a goat. Should you switch your choice? Explain
mathematically.

Q70. Find the missing number in the sequence: 2, 6, 12, 20, 30, 42, ?

Q71. How many times do the hands of a clock overlap in a 24-hour period? Explain your
reasoning.

Q72. You have an 8-gallon jug full of water, and two empty jugs of 5-gallon and 3-gallon
capacity. How can you divide the water into two equal parts of 4 gallons each?

Q73. If it takes 8 men 10 hours to build a wall, how long would it take 4 men to build the
same wall?

Q74. What is the angle between the hour and minute hands of a clock at 3:15?

Q75. A farmer has chickens and pigs. In total, there are 30 heads and 100 legs. How many
chickens and how many pigs are there?

Q76. The day before yesterday was three days after Saturday. What day is it today?

Q77. What is the next prime number after 97?

Q78. If you roll two standard six-sided dice, what is the probability of rolling a sum of 7?

Q79. How many squares are there on a standard 8x8 chessboard? (Hint: It's not just 64!)

Q80. A train 100 meters long is moving at a speed of 60 km/hr. How long will it take to cross
a bridge of 1 km?

Q81. Calculate the sum of the first 100 natural numbers without adding them one by one.
Explain the method.

Q82. There is a lily pad in a pond. Every day, the lily pad doubles in size. If it takes 48 days to
cover the entire pond, how long does it take to cover half the pond?

Q83. You have 9 identical-looking coins, but one is counterfeit and weighs slightly less. Using
a balance scale, how can you find the fake coin in exactly two weighings?

Q84. What number comes next? 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ?

Q85. In a room of 23 people, what is the rough probability that at least two people share the
same birthday? Explain briefly.

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