DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL RUBY PARK, KOLKATA
SUBJECT - MATHEMATICS, CLASS – VIII
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CHAPTER : DATA HANDLING
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS (MCQ)
1. A man’s monthly salary is Rs.24000 and his monthly expenses on travel are Rs.2500. The central
angle of the sector representing travel expenses in the pie chart would be
a) 30° b) 37.5° c) 45° d) 60°
2. What is the probability of choosing a vowel from the English alphabets?
21 5 7 3
a) 26 b) 26 c) 26 d) 26
3. The following pie chart represents the distribution of proteins in
parts of a human body. What is the ratio of distribution of proteins in
the muscles to that of proteins in the bones?
(a) 3 : 1 (b) 1 : 2 (c) 1 : 3 (d) 2 : 1
4. The probability of getting a multiple of 2 when a dice is rolled is :
2 1 1 1
a) 5 b) 2 c) 3 d) 6
5. A pie chart is also called a :
(a) Pictograph (b) Histogram (c) Circle graph (d) Bar graph
VERY SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS
6. A survey was carried out to find the favourite street food
preferred by a certain group of young people of Kolkata.
The following pie chart shows the findings of this survey.
From this pie chart, answer the following:
(i) Which type of street food is liked by the maximum
number of people?
(ii) If 45 people like momos, how many people were
surveyed?
7. A bag contains 3 white and 2 red balls. One ball is drawn at
random. What is the probability that the ball drawn is :
(a) red (b) either white or red
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8. Ritwik draws a ball from a bag that contains white and yellow balls. The probability of choosing a
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white ball is 9. If the total number of balls in the bag is 36, find the number of yellow balls.
9. Rohan and Shalu are playing with 5 cards as shown in the figure. What is the probability of Rohan
picking a card without seeing, that has the number 2 on it?
SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS
10. A card is drawn at random from a pack of 52 cards. Find the probability that the carddrawn is:
a. A red queen
b. A multiple of 3
c. A factor of 10
11. Represent the following data with the help of a pie – diagram.
Item Wheat Rice Tea
Production (in metric tons) 3200 1900 900
12. At a birthday party, the children spin a wheel to get a gift.
Find the probability of
(a) getting a ball
(b) getting a toy car
(c) getting any toy except a chocolate.
LONG ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS
13. The number of students admitted in different faculties of a college are given below :
Faculty Science Arts Commerce Law Educations
No. of 1000 1200 650 450 300
students
Draw a pie chart to represent the above information.
14. A bag contains 3 red balls, 5 black balls, and 4 white balls. A ball is drawn at random from the bag.
What is the probability that the ball drawn is:
(i) White? (ii) Red? (iii) Blue? (iv) Not red?
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15. A survey was made to find the type of music that a certain group of young people liked in a city.
Adjoining pie chart shows the findings of this survey. From this pie chart answer the following:
(i) If 50 people liked classical music, how many young people were surveyed?
(ii) Which type of music is liked by the maximum number of people?
(iii) If a cassette company were to make 2000 CD’s, how many CD’s of folk type would they make?
(iv) What fraction of people like semi classical music?
COMPETENCY BASED QUESTIONS
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS (MCQ)
16. Rahul, Varun and Yash are playing a game of spinning a coloured wheel. Rahul wins if spinner lands
on red. Varun wins if spinner lands on blue and Yash wins if it lands on green. Which of the
following spinner should be used to make the game fair?
(a) (i) (b) (ii) (c) (iii) (d) (iv)
17. Which of the following is not a random experiment?
(a) Tossing a coin
(b) Rolling a dice
(c) Choosing a card from a deck of 52 cards
(d) Thowing a stone from a roof of a building
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ASSERTION AND REASON TYPE QUESTIONS
Direction: In Questions number 19 and 20, a statement of Assertion (A) is followed by a statement
of Reason (R). Choose the correct option.
(a) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) correctly explains (A).
(b) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) does not explain (A).
(c) (A) is true ; (R) is false.
(d) (A) is false ; (R) is true.
18. Assertion (A) : Probability of an event can neither be less than 0 nor greater than 1.
Reason (R) : Number of favourable outcomes of an event can never be greater than the total number
of outcomes.
19. Assertion (A) : Picking a card from a well-shuffled deck of cards is a random experiment
Reason (R) : A random experiment is one whose outcome cannot be predicted exactly in advance.
VERY SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS
20. List all the possible outcomes when :
(i) two coins are tossed simultaneously
(ii) three coins are tossed simultaneously
21. What is the probability of getting atmost one head when two coins are tossed simultaneously.
SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS
22. The following pie chart shows the monthly
expenditure of Shikha on various items.
If she spends ₹ 16000 per month,answer
the following questions:
a. How much does she spend on rent?
b. How much does she spend on education?
c. What is the ratio of expenses on food and
rent?
LONG ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS
23. A box contains 19 balls bearing numbers 1, 2, 3…… 19. A ball is drawn at random from the box.
What is the probability that the number on the ball is
a) a prime number
b) divisible by 3 or 5
c) neither divisible 5 nor by 10
d) less than 20
