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Syllabus for term I

Chapter 1 Rational Numbers

Chapter 2 Linear Equations in One Variable

Chapter 5 Data Handling

Chapter 6 Squares and Square roots

Chapter 7 Cubes and cube roots

Chapter 12 Exponents and Powers

Chapter 13 Direct and inverse variations

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 CHAPTER 1- RATIONAL NUMBERS
LEVEL 1
Q1) which of the pairs of actions can said to be commutative (i.e. done in any order)?
i. Put on a shirt, put on a tie.
ii. Put on a coat, answer the phone
iii. Put on the left shoe, put on the right shoe.
iv. Put on socks, put on shoes.
v. Wash your clothes, dry them.
vi. Put tooth paste on brush, brush your teeth.

Q2) Answer the following:

−2
i. What number should be added to to get 0?
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−5 3 4 −5 3 −5 4
ii. Verify : ×( + )= × + ×
6 8 7 6 8 6 7
−3 3
iii. Give a rational number between and .
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iv. Give the rational number which has no reciprocal.

Q3) Write the following rational numbers in the standard form:

5 −24 33 −45
i. ii. iii. iv.
15 40 −77 −105

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Q4) If a = and b = − check whether a ÷ b and b ÷ a have the same values.
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9 8 24 33
Q5) Solve × × × by suitable rearrangement.
12 11 27 40

LEVEL 2
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Q6) Find six rational numbers between − and
9 3

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Q7) By what number should we multiply − so as to get the number − ?
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Q8) 12 litres of milk was poured equally into 7 small containers. How much milk
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will be there in each container?
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Q9) Represent − and on a number line.
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LEVEL 3

1 1 1 1
Q10) Divide the sum of 2 and 5 by the product of 2 and 5 .
4 5 4 5

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Q11) The perimeter of a rectangle is 18 metre. If the length of the rectangle is twice
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the breadth, find the area of the rectangle.
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Q12) The sum of two rational numbers is − . If one of the number is − , find the
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other number.

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 CHAPTER 2 - LINEAR EQUATIONS IN ONE VRAIABLE

LEVEL 1

1. Frame equations representing the following statements:

a) The sum of three consecutive multiples of 13 is 273.

b) The number of girls is ¾ of the boys in a class of strength 35.

2. 3x + 9 = 36

3. 4a – 12 = 9a – 36

LEVEL 2
4. (3X/4) + (X/6) = -2X+5. Solve for X.

5. {(2Y-3)/5 + (Y+3)/4} = (4Y+1)/7. Solve for Y

6. A number is such that it is as much greater than 84 as it is less than 108. Find it.

7. Divide 184 into two parts such that 1/3 of one part may exceed 1/7 of the other
part by 8.

8. The sum of two numbers is 9 and their difference is 6. What are the two
numbers?

9. The smaller of two numbers is 9 less than the larger, and their sum is 38.
Find the numbers.

LEVEL 3
10.At a party, Colas, squash and fruit juice were offered to the guests. One fourth
of the guests drank cola, one third drank squash, two fifths drank fruit juice and
3 people did not drank anything. How many guests were there in the party?

11.0.3X+0.5= 0.4 X-0.2……Solve for X

12. Solve for m : (3m-1)/3 + (3m+1)/3 = m/2

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13.The numerator of a fraction is six less than the denominator. If three is added to
the numerator, the fraction is equal 2/3.Find the original fraction.

14. The length of the rectangle exceeds the breadth by 8cm.If its perimeter is
120cm, find its area.

15. Hamid has three boxes of different fruits. Box A weighs (2½ )kg more than
box B and box C weighs(10¼ ) kg more than B. Total weight of the boxes is
(48¾) kg. Find the weight of Box A.

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 CHAPTER 5 - DATA HANDLING
LEVEL 1

Q1) The weight of 25 mangoes (in grams) picked at random from a basket are given
below:

166, 190, 150, 175, 178, 165, 178, 192, 199, 155, 188, 177,

97, 93, 80, 187, 155, 146, 142, 81, 100, 109, 137, 188, 130.

Construct a frequency distribution table using equal class intervals one of them
being 80 – 100, 100 not included.
Using the table find
(i) The lowest limit of the third class
(ii) Class limits of fourth class
(iii) The class mark of the second class
(iv) The class size or width of the class intervals.

Q2) The following figures give education level of a state’s population in 1981. Draw
a bar graph to rep resent the data.
S.No Education Level Percentage of population

I Illiterate 2.5%

II Below middle school 15%

III Middle school 20%

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 IV Secondary 40%

V Senior secondary 10%

VI Graduation 7.5%

VII Post Graduation and above 5%

Q3) A bag contains 5 red, 4 blue, 3 green and 3 black balls. A ball is selected at random
from the bag. Find.
(i) P (a red or a blue ball)
(ii) P (green ball)

Q4) The table given below shows the marks scored by 80 students (out of 50) in a
certain test. Draw a histogram to represent this data.

Marks No of students (Frequency)

0 – 10 3

10 – 20 14

20 – 30 24

30 – 40 27

40 – 50 12

Total 80

Q5) Find the probability of picking out a coloured marble in each of the following
cases:

(i)

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 (ii)

(iii)

(iv)

LEVEL 2

Q7) An unbiased die is thrown. What is the probability of getting:

(i) an even number

(ii) an even number or a multiple of three
(iii) an even number or and a multiple of three
(iv) an odd number
(v) a number greater than 3

Q8) The following table shows how a student spends his pocket money during the
course of a month. Represent it by a pie-diagram.

Items Food Entertainment Other expenditure Savings

Expenditure 40% 25% 20% 15%

Q9) The following histogram shows the monthly wages (in Rs) of workers in a
factory:

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 i) In which wage-group the largest number of workers are being kept? What I s
their number?
ii) What wages are the least number getting? What is the number of such
workers?
iii) What is the total number of workers?
iv) What is the factory size?

Q10) Seven cups are kept upside down. Under two of the cups is a pebble and under
one cup is a flower. What is the probability of finding:
(i) A pebble under the cup
(ii) A flower under the cup
(iii) An empty cup
(iv) Not an empty cup
(v) Not a flower under the cup

LEVEL 3

Q11) The total area of Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Europe and
Australia is 134 million square kilometers. The pie chart below shows the
percentage of each continent.
a) What is the area of Asia?
b) What is the area of Europe?
c) How much bigger is Africa than Europe?

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 Area Per Continent

CHAPTER - 6 SQUARES AND SQUARE ROOTS

LEVEL 1

Q1) Without actual addition, find the sum of

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10 + 11 + 12 + 13 + 14
Q2) By what number should we divide 23232 to make it a perfect square
Also, find the square root of the quotient.
Q3) Find the square root of 169774 by long division method.
Q4) I am a state in India. If you find the square root of half of 98, you will know the
number of letters in my name. Which state am I?

LEVEL 2

Q5) Find the length of the side of a square whose area is 57.1536m2.
Q6) Estimate the square root of 93.

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Q7) Find the least number that must be subtracted from 4337 to obtain a perfect
square.
Q8) Find the smallest square number that can be completely divided by 6, 10, 12.
LEVEL 3

Q10) The cost of polishing a square table top at the rate of Rs 5 per cm2 is Rs 19845.
Find the length of the side of the table top.
Q11) For a function the chairs for seating were arranged on such a way that the number
of rows and columns were the same. If there were 3100 chairs how many more
chairs are needed for such an arrangement? How many rows are there?

CHAPTER 7 - CUBES AND CUBE ROOTS

LEVEL 1
Q1) Find the cube of the following numbers
i) 22 ii) 1.5 iii) -12 iv) 7/11

Q2) Find the volume of a cube with edge 4.2cm

Q3) Find the cube root of 32768

Q4) Show that 1323 is not a perfect cube.

LEVEL 2
Q5) The volume of a cubical box is 46.656 m3. Find the length of a side of the box.

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Q6) Find the smallest number to be multiplied with 13720 to make it a perfect cube.
Also find the cube root of the cube number so obtained.

Q7) Find the cube root of (i) 125 x 216 (ii) 0.001331

LEVEL 3
Q8) The volume of a cube is 0.125cm3. Find the length of its side. If the length of its
edge is increased three times, by how many times will the volume increase?

Q9) Three numbers are in the ratio 2 : 3: 4 . The sum of their cubes is 33957. Find the
numbers.

CHAPTER-12 EXPONENTS AND POWERS

LEVEL 1
Q1) Write the following with positive exponent

a) (13)-8 b) (-9)-1 c) (-2)9

Q2) Solve:
a) 132 × 131 b) (-0.005)-1 + 0.0050 c) 6-2 - 6-1

Q3) Write the reciprocal of :

c)   -4
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a) 63 b) 7-3
3

Q4) Express the following in the standard form:

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 a) 38020000000 b) 0.00000000000004

Q5) Write in the usual form:

a) 1.36 × 104 b) 8.1 × 10-7

LEVEL -2
Q6) Simplify : 64 × 9-5× 27 -3×m-5
8-2 ×4-2× m-4 ×4 -8
Q7) Simplify : 3-6×4-3 ×125
94×25×25-4

Q8) Put +, -, × or ÷sign in the following:

a) 72_____7-5 = 7-3
b) 30 ____ 50 = 0
c) 8-3___ 83 = 1
d) 42_____42=1

LEVEL-3
Q9) Find the value of missing terms the following:

a) (28)n-3 = 64n-8 , find n

b) If x3=(7/3) -3 × (7/3)6, find x

c) Find the value of a if (-4)3a× (-4)5=(-4)14

Q10) The mass of Earth is 5.97 × 1024 kg and the mass of the moon 7.35 × 1022 kg.
Write the total mass in the standard form.

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 CHAPTER - 13 DIRECT AND INVERSE PROPORTION
LEVEL 1
Q1) Identify if the following quantities vary directly or inversely
(i) Number of articles(x) and their price(y).
(ii) Weight of articles(x) and their cost(y).
(iii) Distance(x) and time(y), speed remaining the same.
(iv) Number of people working(x) and the time taken to complete the work(y).

Q2) Complete the table, if x and y vary directly.

X 5 ____ 10 35 25 _____

Y 8 12 _____ _____ _____ _____

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Q3) Complete the table, if x and y vary inversely.

X 12 16 _____ 8 128 _____

Y _____ 6 4 _____ _____ 0.25

Q4) Anupama takes 125 minutes to walk a distance of 100 meters. What distance
would she cover in 315 minutes?

Q5) 55 cows can graze a field in 16 days. How many cows will graze the field in 10
days?

LEVEL 2
Q6) A worker is paid Rs.610 for 6 days. If his total income of the month is Rs.875, for
how many days did he work?

Q7) 1200 men can finish a stock of food in 35 days. How many more men should join
them so that the same stock may last for 25 days only?

Q8) If the thickness of a pile of 12 cardboards is 35mm, find the thickness of a pile of
294 cardboards, in cm.

Q9) If Bob developed four cavities during the year he spent only 30 seconds brushing
his teeth each time, how many annual cavities will Bob develop if he increases his
brushing time to two minutes per session?

LEVEL 3
Q10) If 20 men can build a 112-m-long wall in 6 days, what will be the length of a
similar wall that can be built by 25 men in 3 days?

Q11) The volume of a gas varies directly as its temperature and inversely as its pressure.
Alison is working with a gas in a laboratory at Lynchburg College. At a temperature of
375 Kelvin and a pressure of 25 pascals, she measured the volume of this gas as 30
cubic centimeters. What volume should she expect if she to 40 pascals decreases the
temperature to 320 Kelvin and increases the pressure?

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 Syllabus for term II

Chapter 3 Understanding Quadrilaterals

Chapter 4 Practical Geometry

Chapter 8 Comparing Quantities

Chapter 9 Algebraic Expressions and Identities

Chapter 10 Visualizing Solid Shapes

Chapter 11 Mensuration

Chapter14 Factorization

Chapter 15 Introduction to Graph

Chapter 16 Playing with Numbers

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 CHAPTER 3- UNDERSTANDING QUADRILATERALS
LEVEL 1
1. Find the sum of the exterior angles of a hexagon.

2. In what type of quadrilateral are all four angles equal?

3. What is the measure of each exterior angle of a regular polygon of 8 sides?

4. Find the measure of each interior angle of a regular polygon with 9 sides.
5. The angles of a quadrilateral are in the ratio 3:4:5:8. Find the angles of the
quadrilateral.
6. In a rectangle ABCD, the diagonals AC and BD intersect at O. If OA=2y+3,
OD=3y+1, find the lengths of the diagonals.

7. Two adjacent sides of parallelogram are 5cm and 3cm .Find its perimeter.

LEVEL 2
8. ABCD is a rectangle in which AC=3x+1, BD =2x+4. Find the value of x.
9. Two angles of a triangle are in the ratio 5:4.If the sum of these angles is equal
to the third angle, then find the angles of the triangle.
10.The ratio of each interior angles to each exterior angle of a regular polygon is
4:1. Find the number of sides of the polygon.

LEVEL 3
11.The diagonals of a quadrilateral are of lengths 6cm and 8cm .If the diagonals
bisect each other at right angles, what is the length of each side of quadrilateral?
12.Two opposite angles of a parallelogram are (3x-2)° and (50-x)°.Find the
measures of each angle.

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 13.The sum of two opposite angles of a parallelogram is 160°, find all the angles of
the parallelogram.

CHAPTER 4 - PRACTICAL GEOMETRY

LEVEL 1

Q1). Construct a quadrilateral PQRS such that PQ = 4.2 cm, QR = 1.5 cm, PS = 3.1
cm, QS = 5.6 cm and PR = 4.5 cm.
Q2). Construct a quadrilateral ABCD where AB = 4cm, BC = 3.5cm , A = 70o,
B = 60o, C = 90o.

Q3).Construct a rectangle ABCD where BC = 6 cm and CD = 8 cm.

LEVEL 2

Q4).Construct a quadrilateral where EF = 7.7 cm, FG = 6.8 cm, GH = 5.2 cm, EH = 4

cm and G = 120o.
Q5). Construct a parallelogram with sides 5.8 cm and 7.2 cm, one of the diagonals being
8.6 cm.

Q6). Construct a rhombus whose diagonals are 5 cm and 4 cm.

LEVEL 3

Q7). Construct a square MNOP where the length of the diagonals is 8 cm. Also,
measure its side.
Q8). Construct a parallelogram whose diagonals are 7.6 cm and 6.4 cm long and the
angle between them is 60o.

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 CHAPTER 8 - COMPARING QUANTITIES
LEVEL 1
Q1) Convert the ratio 3:20 into a percentage.

Q2) The population of a village is 6400. If 30% of the population is educated, find the
number of uneducated people.

Q3) Find the SI and CI on Rs.750 for two years at 10% per annum. Are they equal?

Q4) CP = Rs.1460, Overhead Expenses = Rs.100 and Gain% = 5%. Find SP.

Q5) The population of a city increases by 2.5% every year. If the present population is
30000, what will the population be after 2 years?

LEVEL 2
Q6) Rahul deposited a sum of Rs.32500 in the bank for 2 years, compounded half yearly
at 12% per annum. Find the compound interest he earns.

Q7) A vendor bought 20 oranges for Rs.56 and sold them at Rs.35 per dozen. Find his
gain or loss percent.

Q8) After allowing a discount of 8% on a toy. It is sold for Rs. 216.20. Find the marked
price of the toy.

Q9) Vinod sold a watch to Alex at a gain of 12% and Alex had to sell it to Shweta at a
loss of 5%. If Shweta paid Rs.1330 for it, how much did Vinod pay for the watch?

LEVEL 3
Q10) A cell phone was marked at 40% above the cost price and a discount of 30% was
given on its marked price. Find the gain or loss percent made by the shopkeeper.

Q11) The difference between the compound interest and the simple interest on a certain
sum at 10% per annum for 3 years is Rs.93. Find the sum.

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 CHAPTER 9 – ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSIONS AND IDENTITIES
LEVEL 1
Q1) Classify the following as monomials, binomials, trinomials or polynomials
8xy, 9x³y², 6x + y, 7a²b³ - 2b²a⁵ + a⁷, 15p³ + q² - pq + 35
Q2) Multiply 3a³b² by 8a⁵c³
Q3) Subtract (x3 + 3x2 + 5x – 4) from (3x3 – 8x2 – 5x + 6)
Q4) Multiply –3x(4x2 – x + 10)
Q5) Divide (28x12 - 42x7 - 28x6) ÷ 21x²

LEVEL 2
Q6) Multiply 6x³ – x² + 2x – 3 by 2x + 7
Q7) Multiply (x + 3) and (x – 3) using identity.
Q8) Simplify using identity: (9x + 8y)2
Q9) Evaluate 199.5 (using identity)

LEVEL 3
Q10) Using the identity (x+a)(x+b) = x² + (a+b)x + ab, evaluate 109 x 107
Q11) What must be subtracted from 8x⁴ + 14x³ - 2x² + 7x – 8 so that the resulting
polynomial is exactly divisible by 4x² + 3x – 8?

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 CHAPTER 10 – VISUALISING SOLID SHAPES
LEVEL 1
Q1) How many faces, edges and vertices do the following objects have?

i) ii) iii)

Q2) The given figure shows the map of a colony:

Based on the given map, answer the following questions:

(a) Which landmark lies on the extreme North-West side? (1 mark)
(b) How many temples are shown in the given map? (1 mark)

LEVEL 2
Q3) Using Euler’s formula, fill in the blank spaces in the following table:

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 S. No. Face Vertex Edge
(a) 6 15 ____

(b) 4 ____ 8

(c) ___ 19 22

Q4) In the given figure, identify the front and side elevations.

LEVEL 3
Q5) Can a polyhedron have 16 faces, 20 vertices, and 30 edges? Give reasons for your
answer.

Q6) Draw the accurate front, side and top views of a square based pyramid with a base
of sides 1.5cm and a perpendicular height of 2cm.

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 CHAPTER 11 – MENSURATION
LEVEL 1
Q1) Find the area of a rhombus, the lengths of whose diagonals 36cm and 22.5cm.

Q2) Find the area of a trapezium whose parallel sides are of lengths 36cm and 20 cm
and the distance between them is 8cm.

Q3) The volume of a cylinder of base radius 0.35m is 385litres. Find the height of the
cylinder.

Q4) Find the lateral surface area and the total surface area of a cuboid which is 8m
long, 6m broad and 3.5m high.

Q5) A circular cylinder closed at both ends has the base diameter 20cm and height
18cm. Find the total surface area of the cylinder.

LEVEL 2
Q6) Find the area of a pentagonal field ABCDE with the following data

BF = 20M, BG = 50m, BH = 80m, BE = 120m, FC = 30m, HD + 25m and

AG = 70m.

Q7) The length of one of the diagonals of a quadrilateral is 16cm. the perpendicular
distances of the other two vertices from this diagonal are 5cm and 7cm. find the
area of the quadrilateral.

Q8) How many bricks will be required for a wall which is 8m long, 6m high and
22.5cm thick if each brick measures 25cm x 11.25cm x 6cm?

Q9) The surface area of a cube is 1176sq cm. Find its volume.

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 LEVEL 3
Q10) How many cubic metres of earth must be dug out to sink a well which is 20m
deep and has a diameter of 7m? If the earth so dug out is spread over a
rectangular plot 28m by 11m, what is the height of the platform so formed?

Q11) A godown is 50m long, 40m broad and 10m high. Find the cost of whitewashing
its four walls at the rate of Rs.1.50 per sq m.

CHAPTER 14 – FACTORIZATION
LEVEL 1
Q1) Write the common factors of the following terms: 3x³, 9x y², 15x³y

Q2) Factorize by taking common factors

a) 6x² + 3x b) 10x²yz – 15xy²z

Q3) Factorize x² + 8x + 16

Q4) Factorize 4y² - 12y + 9

Q5) Divide 3x³y⁵ by xy

LEVEL 2
Q6 Factorize a² - 625

Q7) Factorize 1 - x² + 2xy - y²

Q8) Divide 8x²y – 4xy + 16x²y² by 2xy, using factorization.

Q9) Find and correct the error in the following mathematical statement:

(2a – 3)(a + 3) = 2a² - 6

LEVEL 3
Q10) Divide (27x³ - 1000) by (3x – 10), using factorization.

Q11) Factorize x² + y² + xy

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CHAPTER 15 – INTRODUCTION TO GRAPHS

LEVEL 1
Q1) The line graph below shows the profit a local candy company made over the
months of September through December of last year. Use the graph to answer
questions
a. About how much was the profit in the month of October?
b. Which month had the lowest profit?
c. What is the difference between the profits of November and December?

Q2) The double line graph below shows the total enrolment of students in a local
college from 1990 - 1995, broken down into part-time and full-time
students. Use the graph to answer questions

a. What was the full-time enrolment in 1992?

b. For what year shown on the graph did the number of part-time students
exceed the previous year’s number of part-time students by the greatest
number?
c. What was the total enrolment from 1993 to 1995?

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Q3) Plot the points (5,0), (6,1) and (7,2) on a graph sheet. Do they lie on a line?

Q4) In the following ordered pairs, identify the x-coordinate and the y-coordinate
(9,2), (15,24), (0,14), (13,0)
Which of these will lie on the x-axis and which will lie on the y-axis?

LEVEL 2
Q5) The following table shows the amount of rice grown by a farmer in different
years. Plot a graph of this information

Years 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006

Rice grown

(in quintals) 200 180 240 260 250 200 270

Q6) The following table shows the number of visitors in Delhi in 1989 and 1990 in
different months. Draw graphs to represent these.
Number of visitors in thousands

Year July Aug Sep Oct

1989 3 5 6 5

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Q7) Plot the following on a graph. Is this a linear graph?

X 2 5 8 3 7

Y 3 9 15 8 13

LEVEL 3
Q8) Plot the following points on a graph. What shape is made?
(2,1) (12,1) (1,3) (14,3) (2,4), (6,9), (6,4), (12,4), (7,4), (7,11)

CHAPTER 16 – PLAYING WITH NUMBERS

LEVEL 1
Q1) Write the following numbers in generalised form

a) 564 b) 2a7

Q2) Write the following numbers in usual form

a) 3x100 + 2x10 + 0 b) 7x100 + ax10 + b

Q3) Given that the number 35a64 is divisible by 3, where a is a digit, what are the
possible values of a. Give reasons.

Q4) Find the remainder when 51439786 is divided by 3. Do this without performing
actual division.

Q5) Give an example of a number which is divisible by

a) 3 but not by 6 b) both 4 and 8 but not by 32

LEVEL 2
Q6) Solve for A and B

a) A B b) 1 2 A
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9 A A 0 9

Q7) Find the value of A and B and C in the following products

a) 3 A b) 2 B A
x 7 x B
2 B A C A 9 0

LEVEL 3
Q8) The number 2x3456y is divisible by 6. What are the possible value of x and y?
Give reasons.

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