Linear Equations

A banca travels upstream at 6 km per hour and back to the starting place at 10 km per hour. The total journey takes 48
minutes. How far upstream did the banca rower go?

Jenny walked for 45 minutes at 3 km/h and then ran for half an hour at x km/h. At the end of that time she was 6 km
from the starting point. Find the value of x.

Two tanks contain equal amounts of water. They are connected by a pipe and 3000 liters of water is pumped from one
tank to the other. One tank then contains 6 times as much water as the other. How many liters of water did each tank
contain originally?

Simultaneous Linear Equations:

Find two numbers whose sum is 138 and whose difference is 88.

Two children had 110 marbles between them. After one child had lost half her marbles and the other had lost 20 they
had an equal number. How many marbles did each child start with and how many did they finish with?

In four years time a mother will be three times as old as her son. Four years ago she was five times as old as her son.
Find their present ages.

An ukay-ukay vendor sold his entire stock of shirts and ties in a sale for 10, 000 pesos. The shirts were priced at 3 for Php
100 and the ties Php 20 each. If he had sold only half the shirts and two-thirds of the ties he would have received Php
6000. How many of each did he sell in the sale?

An investor received Php 1, 400 interest per annum from a sum of money, with part of it invested at 10% and the
remainder at 7% simple interest. This investor found that if she interchanged the amounts she had invested she could
increase her return by Php 90 per annum. Calculate the total amount invested.

Linear Inequations

Solve for x and show the number line solutions for the ff:

4x + 3 < 11 - > -1 ½ (x + 1) – x > 1 -≤2 ≥ 60

For which real numbers x is 100 + 20x a positive number?

A student scores marks of 66 and 72 on two tests. What is the lowest mark she can obtain on a third test to have an
average for the three tests greater than or equal to 75?

Linear Relations

Find the gradient/slope of the straight line that passes through the points with coordinates (5a,2a) and (3a,6a).

A line has gradient 6 and passes through the points with coordinates (−1, 6) and (7, a). Find the value of a.

Find the equation of the line that is parallel to the y-axis and passes through the point with coordinates (4, 7).

Find the equation of the line that is parallel to the y-axis and passes through the point with coordinates (4, 7).

Find the equation of the line that is parallel to the x-axis and passes through the point with coordinates (−4, 11).
Quadratics

Find the solution/s of the equation x2 − 5x − 14 = 0.

For y = 8 + 2x − x2, what is the maximum value of y?

What is the value of the discriminant of x 2 + 3x – 10?

Which values of m will give the equation mx 2 + 6x – 3?

A parabola has the same shape as y = 3x 2 but its vertex is at (5, 2). Find the equation corresponding to this parabola.

Cubics and Quartics

Find the values of a in the expressions below when the following conditions are satisfied:

x3 + ax2 + 3x − 5 has remainder −3 when divided by x − 2.

x3 + x2 − 2ax + a2 has remainder 8 when divided by x − 2.

x3 − 3x2 + ax + 5 has remainder 17 when divided by x − 3.

Factorize each of the following:

4x3 + 4x2 − 11x – 6 6x3 − 13x2 + 13x – 6 8 + 27x3 6x3 + 17x2 − 4x – 3

Exponentials

Simplify:

(23a3b2) (2a-1b2)-2 (m3n2p-2) (mn2p)-3

Rationals

Evaluate:

1252/3 (a-2b)3 x ()1/2

Solve for x:

5n × 252n −1 = 125 2−3n × 42n −2 = 16 93n +3 = 27n-2

Logarithmics

log5 (2x – 3) = 3 log3 x = 3 log10 2 + log10 5 + log10 x – log10 3 = 2

Rationals:

Find the solution set to each:

-= += +=

-= -= -=