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PETER’S SCHOOL, MAZAGAON, MUMBAI – 10
FIRST SEMESTER ASSESSMENT, AUGUST- 2025
CLASS: 8 MATHEMATICS (MORNING) MARKS: 80
DATE: / 08 / 2025 DURATION: 2hrs
Answers to this Paper must be written on the answer paper.
Attempt all questions from Section A and any four questions from Section B.
The intended marks for questions or parts of questions are given in brackets [ ]
SECTION- A [40 Marks]
(Attempt all questions from this Section)
Question 1: Choose the correct answer to the questions from the given options. [15]
1. If x + 8 =11, then x = ____.
11
a) 5 b) 11- x c) d) 3
8
2. The common factor of a2 m4 and a4m2 is:
a) a4m4 b) a2m2 c) a2m4 d) a4m2
y
3. The solution of = 10 is:
2
a) 20 b) 10 c) 50 d) 5
4. m 2 − n2 is equal to:
a) (m + n) (m − n) b) (m − n)2 c) m+ n/ m−n d) m 2 + n 2
5. What is the value of x if, x + 18 = 24?
a) 8 b) 6 c) 3 d) 4
6. Which of the following pairs are no additive inverse of each other?
−17 17 8 −8 −25 25 11 −11
a)
21
, 21 b)
9
, 9
c) ,
−52 52
d)
15
, 15
7. The formula (𝑎 + 𝑏) (a - b) is equal to:
a) 𝑎 2 − 𝑏 2 b) 𝑎 2 − 2𝑎𝑏 + 𝑏 2 c) 𝑎 2 − 2𝑎𝑏 + 𝑏 2 d) 4𝑎b
8. A quadrilateral has one angle equal to 120˚ and its other three angles are equal. The measure of
each of equal angles is ____.
a) 60˚ b) 70˚ c) 80˚ d) 90˚
9. If a number ends with 2 or 8, its square ends with in:
a) 5 b) 4 c) 7 d) 8
10. 35% of 4200 is:
a) 1450 b) 1400 c) 1470 d) 1490
11. The factorisation of 6x + 18 is
a) 6(x + 3) b) 6(3x) c) 6(3x + 1) d) x (6 + 18x)
12. The common factor 6a2 and 15a is
a) 3 b) 3a c) 6 d) 6a
13. The simple interest on ₹ 250 for 1 years at 5% p.a is:
a) ₹100 b) ₹50 c) ₹10 d) ₹500
14. On factorizing 𝑎2 - 2𝑎𝑏 + 𝑏2 we get
a) (𝑎 + 𝑏) (𝑎 − 𝑏) b) (𝑎 + 𝑏) 2 c) (𝑎 − 𝑏) 2 d) 𝑎 + b
15. Which of the following is a collection of sets:
a) Collection of all students in your class who are interested in maths.
b) Collection of all interesting books in the library.
c) Collection of all people in India who are overweight.
d) Collection of all polygons having 5 sides.
Question 2: Solve the following. [12]
a) Find the value of m in the following: [4]
i) (27)m+1 = 9m+1 × 81m -2
ii) (25)3 x 57 = 55m
b) Expand and simplify by collecting like terms: [4]
i) 12(𝑥 − 6) + (𝑥 + 7)𝑦
ii) 3(𝑥 − 8) − 5(2𝑥 − 3)
c) Expand using identities: [4]
i) (2x - 5)2
ii) 1032
Question 3: Solve the following. [13]
a) Write the elements of the following in the roster form: [4]
i) {x : x is a vowel in the word ‘AEROBICS’}
ii) {x : x is a factor of 72}
b) Find the value of 𝑥 ∶ (𝑥 + 2)(2𝑥 − 3) = (2𝑥 + 1)(𝑥 − 2) [4]
c) The population of a town increases every year by 5%. If the present population is 1,32,300,
what was the population of the town 2 years ago? [5]
SECTION B [40 Marks]
(Attempt any four questions)
Question 4: Answer the following. [10]
15
a) Evaluate the following: √1 49 [3]
b) Evaluate the following using identities: 99 x 101 [3]
c) Solve: [4]
i) If 15% of x is 75, find x.
ii) If 20% of y is 70, find y.
Question 5: Solve the following. [10]
a) Round off the following numbers to 2 significant figures. [3]
i) 2304 b) 79.83 c) 0.01304
b) Simplify: 64n x (4)2-3n [3]
c) Draw Venn diagrams to solve the following. [4]
Given n(a) = 29, n(B) = 27, n(A ∪ B) = 47.
Find: i) n(A ∩ B) ii) n(A - B)
Question 6: Answer the following. [10]
a) Evaluate using identities: 78 × 82 [3]
b) Classify the following as an empty set or a singleton set or a finite set. [3]
i) P = {set of vowels in the word ‘CONSTANTINOPLE’}
ii) C = {x : x ∈ N and x is a prime number, 23 < x < 29}
5𝑥−4 3𝑥−4 1
c) Solve the following equation: − = [4]
7 14 2
Question 7: Answer the following. [10]
a) Factorize: 2x2 - 5x - 3. [3]
5𝑥 − 2 2𝑥 + 1
b) Solve the following equation: = [3]
7 3
c) Name the parts of the given circle. [4]
i) MN is the ______ of the circle.
ii) RS is the ______ of the circle.
iii) PQ is the ______ of the circle.
iv) XY is the ______ of the circle.
Question 8: Answer the following. [10]
a) When 8 is subtracted from five times a certain number, the result is four more than four times the
number. Find the number. [3]
b) Factorize: 11m2 – 54mn + 63n2 [3]
c) Using prime factorization, find out which of the following is not a perfect square.
i) 990 ii) 1375 [4]
Question 9: Solve the following. [10]
a) Smitha went to school for 192 days in a year. If her attendance was 75%, find the total number of
working days of the school in that year.
b) The difference between two positive integers is 75. The ratio of these integers is 7 : 4. Find the
integers.
c) Represent the solution set on the number line:
i) 6x + 5 < 13, x ∈ W ii) 3x – 2 > 10, x ∈ W
Question 10: Solve the following. [10]
a) Fill in the blanks:
i) A parallelogram is a quadrilateral which has opposite sides ______.
ii) A parallelogram is which two adjacent pairs of sides are of equal length is called ______.
iii) An isosceles trapezium has ______ sides equal.
b) The sum of three consecutive odd numbers is 201. Find the numbers.
c) Hari bought an old steel almirah for ₹1000 and spent ₹300 on painting it. He then sold it for ₹1495.
Find his profit percent.