Chapter

Whole Numbers

Assignment 1
Fill in the blanks :
1. The smallest whole number is ______________________.
2. Is the largest whole number possible? _____________________ .
3. The counting numbers are also called _____________________ numbers.

4. The natural numbers along with the number zero form the system of _______________
numbers.

NA

AB

5. The successor of a natural number or a whole number is _______________ more than the
number.
6. The successor of the smallest whole number is the smallest ______________ number.

IO

UL

7. The predecessor of 1 is the smallest _________________ number.

8. The smallest 3-digit whole number is ______________ and the largest is ______________ .

AT

9. Is every natural number a whole number? _________________

ED

10. How many whole numbers are there between 81 and 101? _______________

RN

11. The successor of 199999 is ____________________ .

12. Is there any whole number between 200 and 201? _______________

TE

13. Do we have the predecessor of the smallest whole number? ______________

______________________.

IN

14. The next three natural numbers after 209999 are __________________, _______________,

15. To get the predecessor of a natural number, we ___________________ 1 from the number.
16. How many whole numbers are there upto 50? ________________
17. How many natural numbers are there upto 50? ________________
18. Every natural number is a whole number but every whole number is not a natural number. Is it true? _________________
ANSWERS
Assignment 1
1. 0 2. No 3. natural 4. whole 5. 1 6. natural 7. whole 8. 100, 999 9. Yes
13. No 14. 210000, 210001, 210002 15. subtract 16. 51
17. 50
18. yes
1

10. 19

11. 200000

12. No

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Assignment 2
Answer the following questions :
1. Write all 1-digit whole numbers.
_____________________________________________________________________
2. The whole number which is not a natural number is ____________________.
__________________________

3. How many 2-digit whole numbers are there?

NA

AB

4. The largest 5-digit whole number is ___________________________. Its successor is

____________________.
5. Give the predecessor of the smallest 4-digit whole number ending in 6.
____________________________________________________________________________________

IO

UL

6. On the number line, 9 lies on the ___________________________ side of 4.

AT

7. How many whole numbers are there up to 100? ________________________

8. Is there any natural number which does not have a successor? __________

RN

ED

9. How many whole numbers are there ? _______________________________

10. The whole number which does not have a predecessor is ________________

TE

11. The largest 5-digit whole number is the _____________________ of the smallest 6-digit
whole number.
12. Write down the three consecutive whole numbers starting from 199.

IN

_____________________________________________________________________
13. The successor of a 2-digit whole number is always a 2-digit whole number. Is it true?
__________________________________
14. The predecessor of a 2-digit whole number is always a 2-digit whole number. Is it true?
__________________________________
15. 750 lies to the right of 705 on the number line. Is it true? ______________________
ANSWERS
Assignment 2
1. 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 2. 0 3. 90 4. 99999, 100000 5. 1005
10. 0 11. Predecessor 12. 199, 200, 201 13. no 14. no 15. yes
2

6. Right

7. 101

8. No

9. Infinite

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Assignment 3
1. Fill in the blanks :
(i) 27304 + 1534 = ___________________ + 27304.
(ii) 567 + (690 + 310) = (567 + ___________________) + 310
(iii) 3899 + ___________________ = 9899 + 3899

(vi) 9876 + ____________________ = 9876

AB

(vii) 8273 ____________________ = 8273

(viii) 99978 ____________________ = 0

NA

(v) 4231 + 0 = ____________________

(iv) 400 + ( __________________ + 381) = ( _______________+ 619) + 381

UL

(x) 9999 = 9999 + ____________________

(xi) 843 + ____________________ = 666 + 843

AT

(xii) 1000 0 = ____________________.

IO

(ix) (61 + 39) + 45 = 61 + ( ____________________ + 45)

RN

ED

2. By suitable rearrangement, find the sum :

(i) 477 + 635 + 523 = ___________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________________

TE

(ii) 62 + 697 + 38 + 303 = ________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________________
(iii) 176 + 43 + 624 + 57 = ________________________________________________________

IN

_______________________________________________________________________________
3. Are whole numbers closed under subtraction? ____________________________
4. Are whole numbers commutative under addition? ____________________________
5. Whole numbers are associative under subtraction. Is it true? ____________________

ANSWERS
Assignment 3
1. (i) 1534 (ii) 690 (iii) 9899 (iv) 619, 400 (v) 4231 (vi) 0 (vii) 0 (viii) 99978
(xi) 666 (xii) 1000 2. (i) 1635 (ii) 1100 (iii) 900 3. No 4. yes
5. no

(ix) 39 (x) 0

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Assignment 4
1. Fill in the blanks :
(i) 491 0 = ____________________
(ii) 51 17 = ___________________________ 51
(iii) 50 3 7 = ___________________________ 50 3

AB

(v) 65 _________________ = _________________ = 0 65.

NA

(vi) 30 (100 5) = (30 ________ ) (30 ________)

(iv) 73214 _______________________ = 73214.

UL

(viii) 60 ________ 40 = 40 70 ________

IO

(vii) 365 15 = (300 15) + (________ 15) + (5 15)

AT

(ix) 41 (97 + 3) = (________ 97) + (41 ________)

(v) 4 (10 3)

________

(4 10) (4 3)

(ii) (43 47)

________

________

________

________

(iii) (61 38)

(53 47)

(51 38)
77 + 63

TE

(i) 3 (50 + 7)

RN

(3 50) + (3 7)

(iv) 7 (11 + 9)

ED

2. Insert the symbol > , < or = in the blanks :

IN

3. Name the property used in the following :

(i) 15 (21 8) = (15 21) 8 _______________________________________.
(ii) 105 32 = 32 105 _______________________________________________.
(iii) 65 (100 + 8) = (65 100) + (65 8) ________________________________.
(iv) 42 58 is a whole number ________________________________________.
ANSWERS
Assignment 4
1. (i) 0 (ii) 17 (iii) 7 (iv) 1 (v) 0, 0 (vi) 100, 5 (vii) 60 (viii) 70, 60 (ix) 41, 3
2. (i) = (ii) < (iii) > (iv) = (v) =
3. (i) Associative property of multiplication.
(ii) commutative property of multiplication
(iii) Distributivity of multiplication over addition
(iv) closure property
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Assignment 5
Fill in the blanks :
1. 35 7 = 5 gives ___________ ___________ = 35
2. 3 8 = 24 gives 24 3 = 8 and ___________ ___________ = ___________
3. 0 147 = ___________

6. 9999 ___________________________ = 9999

7. 10000 100 = ___________________

AB

5. 3254 __________________________ = 1

NA

4. 65732 1 = ___________

IO

UL

8. 47 10 gives the quotient 4 and the remainder ___________

9. 478 10 gives the quotient __________ and the remainder __________

AT

10. 1478 100 gives the quotient _________ and the remainder _________

RN

equal to itself.

ED

11. ________________ is the only whole number which when divided by itself gives the quotient

12. 1732 1 = 1732 ______________________

14. 36000 120 = ___________

IN

15. 15000 300 = ___________

TE

13. 134000 ______________________ = 1340

16. 0 263 = ___________ 632

17. Division is the inverse of ______________________.

18. Are whole numbers closed under division? ____________________.
19. Are whole numbers commutative under division? ________________.
20. Division of a whole number by ________________ is not defined.
ANSWERS
Assignment 5
1. 5, 7 2. 24, 8, 3 3. 0 4. 65732 5. 3254 6. 1 7. 100 8. 7 9. 47, 8 10. 14, 78
11. 1 12. 1 13. 100 14. 300 15. 50 16. 0
17. multiplication 18. no 19. no 20. 0
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Assignment 6
Fill in the blanks :
1. Sum of two whole numbers is again a ___________________ number.
2. Product of two whole numbers is a whole number. We say that the collection of whole
numbers is ___________________ under multiplication.
3. Whole numbers are not closed under ___________________ and ___________________.

4. The whole number which is never used as a divisor is ___________________.

5. Whole numbers are commutative under ___________________ and ___________________.

NA

AB

6. ___________________ and ___________________ are not commutative for whole numbers.

7. ___________________ is called additive identity for whole numbers.
8. Multiplicative identity for whole numbers is ___________________.

IO

UL

9. 8 (5 10) = (8 5) 10. This shows that multiplication of whole numbers is ___________

____________________________________________________________________________________

AT

10. Using distributivity, find the product :

ED

(i) 512 102 = ____________________________________________________________________

RN

(ii) 425 98 = _____________________________________________________________________

12. Match the columns :

Column A

7 + 8 is a whole number
121 (15 9) = (121 15) 9
1
0
18 (50 6) = 18 50 18 6
16 0
107 8 = 8 107

IN

(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
(v)
(vi)
(vii)

TE

11. The first five numbers which can be arranged as triangles are ___________________.

Column B
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
(g)

Multiplicative identity
Closure property for addition
Not defined
Distributivity
Commutativity
Associativity
Additive identity

ANSWERS
Assignment 6
1. Whole number
2. closed
3. subtraction, division
4. 0
5. addition, multiplication.
6. subtraction, division 7. 0
8. 1 9. associative 10. (i) 52,224 (ii) 41,650 11. 3, 6, 9, 12, 15
12. (i) (b), (ii) (f),
(iii) (a), (iv) (g), (v) (d), (vi) (c), (vii) (e)
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