Homework

Simultaneous Linear Equations

1. Solve the following simultaneous equations.
13a 5b = 16a + b = 10a 14b 3
2. Solve the following simultaneous equations.
3
4

8
a2 b3
7
4

6
a 2 b3

3. Solve the following simultaneous equations.

2p

5
1
31 4q

3
4q 31
1 2 p

4. If either 7 tables and 9 cabinets, or 2 tables and 10 cabinets can be bought for $1560, what
is the price of each?
5. If 2 books and 4 pencils cost $10.80, and 6 books and 10 pencils cost $30.00, what is the
cost of a pencil?
6. A shopkeeper sells ball-point pens at $2.50 each and felt pens at $3.50 each. On a
particular day, he made a total sale of $102.50 from the sale of these 2 items. Given that
the number of felt pens sold is of the number of ball-point pens sold, how many felt
pens and how many ball-point pens did he sell on that day?
7. A piece of wire is used to form a rectangle which has the following dimensions.
(x y 3) cm

(y + 4) cm

(3x/7) cm
(y/2 7) cm

The same piece of wire is then used to form a circle. Find the radius of the circle formed.
Give your answer in terms of .

8. A fishmonger sold 2 types of fishes A and B. He kept a record of his sales.

Unfortunately, he accidentally erased some information. Below shows the information
left.
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Day
Mon
Tues

Type A
90

Type B
60

Total
150
130

Sales
$570
$490

Given that the cost of type A fish was 60% that of type B fish, find the number of type A
and type B fish sold on Tuesday.
9. A sailing club plans to buy some secondhand cabin cruisers and yachts. The capacity of a
cabin cruiser is 2 times that of a yacht. A cabin cruiser and a yacht cost $60000 and
$48000 respectively. The yacht can ferry 20 passengers. Given that the club must be able
to ferry 320 passengers at the same time and the total sum of money available to buy the
vehicles is $528000, find the number of each type of vehicles that the club can buy.
10. In a 2-digit number, reversing the digits increases the number by 45. The average of the
original number and the number with the reversed digits is 49.5. Find the original number.
End of Homework

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