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Comparing Quantities

This document contains a mathematics assignment with questions divided into multiple sections of varying difficulty. The assignment covers topics related to percentages, profits/losses, interest, and comparing quantities. Students are asked to solve word problems requiring calculations of percentages, discounts, interest, costs, selling prices and changes in value over time. The questions progress from short to longer answers involving multiple steps.

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MATHEMATICS ASSIGNMENT –CLASS VIII

TOPIC-COMPARING QUANTITIES

SECTION-A (very short answers)


1. What percent is Rs 6.50 of Rs 5?
2. Find x if 0.5% of x is 45.
3. Convert these percentages into fractions
a) 0.4%
b) 112%
4. A school has 220 working days. Ravis attendance is 85%. How many days
did he remain absent?
5. Find the marked price when S.P= Rs1600 and discount= 20%
SECTION-B (short answers)
6. If a is 5% of b, b is 24% of c. If a=480. Find the value of b & c.
7. In an election there are only 2 candidates. The candidates who gets 62
percent of votes is elected by a majority of 144 votes. Find the total number of
votes recorded.
8. If 11% VAT is included in the price. Find the original price of a t.v. set which is
bought for Rs 22200.
9. Find the single discount equivalent to 2 successive discounts of 15% and
20%.
10. Rajat sells a toy for Rs 650 gaining 1/5 of its cost price. Find his gain %.
SECTION-C (long answers)
11. The price of sugar has been increased by 40%. By how much percent must
this new price be decreased to retain its former price.
12. Manu requires 40% to pass. If he gets 190 marks and falls short by 10 marks.
What were the maximum marks.
13. A shopkeeper bought 15 transformers for Rs 450 each. He spent Rs 30 as the
transportation charge and Rs 12 per transformer on packaging. He sold them
at the rate of Rs520 per transformer. Find his profit or loss percent.
14. A dealer marks a refrigerator 20% above the C.P. of Rs 8000 and allows a
discount of 10%. Find the S.P and profit %.
15. The value of a car decreases by 10% every year. What will be its value after 2
years.
SECTION-D (very long answers)
16. Find the difference in the simple interest and the compound interest on Rs
625 for 2 years at the rate of 4% p.a.
17. Find the amount on Rs 5050 for 18 months at the rate of 10% per annum the
interest being compounded semi annually.
18. By selling a cricket bat for Rs 570 a shopkeeper loses 5%. For how much
should he sell the cricket bat to gain 5%.
19. Beckham sold a wrist watch to Victoria at 20% profit. Victoria further sold it to
Brad Pitt at a profit of 5%. If Brad Pitt paid Rs 441 for it, what was the cost
price of the wrist watch?
20. Find the compound interest on Rs 5000 for 2½ years at a rate of 6% per
annum compounded annually.

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