SHASHI PANDEY TEST SERIES
PRACTICE PAPER 04 (2025- 26)
DIRECT AND INVERSE PROPORTION
SUBJECT: MATHEMATICS MAX. MARKS : 40
CLASS : VIII DURATION : 1½ hr
General Instructions:
(i). All questions are compulsory.
(ii). This question paper contains 17 questions divided into five Sections A, B, C, D and E.
(iii). Section A comprises of 6 MCQs of 1 mark each. Section B comprises of 3 questions of 2 marks
each. Section C comprises of 4 questions of 3 marks each and Section D comprises of 3 questions
of 4 marks each. Section E comprises of 1 Case Based question of 4 marks
SECTION – A
Questions 1 to 6 carry 1 mark each.
1. Both x and y vary directly with each other, and when x is 10, y is 14, which of the
following is not a possible pair of corresponding values of x and y?
(a) 25 and 35 (b) 35 and 25 (c) 35 and 49 (d) 15 and 21
2. By travelling at a speed of 48 kilometres per hour, a car can finish a certain journey in 10
hours. To cover the same distance in 8 hours, the speed of the car should be
(a) 60 km/h (b) 80 km/h (c) 30 km/h (d) 40 km/h
3. Which of the following vary inversely with each other?
(a) speed and distance covered. (b) distance covered and taxi fare.
(c) distance travelled and time taken. (d) speed and time taken.
4. Meenakshee cycles to her school at an average speed of 12 km/h and takes 20 minutes to
reach her school. If she wants to reach her school in 12 minutes, her average speed should
be
(a) 20/3 km/h (b) 16 km/h (c) 20 km/h (d) 15 km/h
5. If 36 men can do a piece of work in 25 days, in how many days will 15 men do it?
(a) 30 days (b) 96/5 days (c) 60 days (d) 40 days
6. Assuming land to be uniformly fertile, the area of land and the yield on it vary
(a) directly with each other. (b) inversely with each other.
(c) neither directly nor inversely with each other.
(d) sometimes directly and sometimes inversely with each other.
SECTION – B
Questions 7 to 9 carry 2 marks each.
7. If the cost of 93 m of a certain kind of plastic sheet is Rs 1395, then what would it cost to
buy 105 m of such plastic sheet?
8. A work-force of 420 men with a contractor can finish a certain piece of work in 9
months. How many extra men must he employ to complete the job in 7 months?
9. Anupama takes 125 minutes in walking a distance of 100 metre. What distance would she
cover in 315 minutes?
SECTION – C
Questions 10 to 13 carry 3 marks each.
10. The amount of extension in an elastic spring varies directly with the weight hung on it. If
a weight of 250 gm produces an extension of 3.5 cm, find the extension produced by the
weight of 700 gm.
11. 68 boxes of a certain commodity require a shelf-length of 13.6 m. How many boxes of
the same commodity would occupy a shelf length of 20.4 m?
12. Which of the following quantities vary inversely as each other?
(i) The number of x men hired to construct a wall and the time y taken to finish the job.
(ii) The length x of a journey by bus and price y of the ticket.
(iii) Journey (x km) undertaken by a car and the petrol (y litres) consumed by it.
13. 1200 soldiers in a fort had enough food for 28 days. After 4 days, some soldiers were
transferred to another fort and thus the food lasted now for 32 days. How many soldiers
left the fort?
SECTION – D
Questions 14 to 16 carry 4 marks each.
14. Complete the following tables given that x varies directly as y.
x 5 ... 10 35 25 ...
y 8 12 ... ... ... 32
15. Complete the following tables given that x varies inversely as y.
x 12 16 ... 8 ...
y ... 6 4 ... 0.25
16. If x and y vary inversely as each other and
(i) x = 3 when y = 8, find y when x = 4
(ii) x = 5 when y = 15, find x when y = 12
(iii) x = 30, find y when constant of variation = 900.
(iv) y = 35, find x when constant of variation = 7.
SECTION – E (Case Study Based Questions)
Questions 17 carry 4 mark each.
17. One day Maths teacher explaining about Direct and Inverse proportion with the help of
many examples. He has given one example. The cost of 5 metres of a particular quality of
cloth is Rs 210. He tabulated the cost of 2, 4, 10 and 13 metres of cloth of the same type
as shown in below table and ask the cost to the students one by one.
x 2 4 5 10 13
y y2 y3 210 y4 y5
Answer the following questions based on the above information:
(a) Find the value of y2.
(b) Find the value of y3.
(c) Find the value of y4.
(d) Find the value of y5.