PRECALCULUS

MAED MATH
ACTIVITY 1
JULY 5, 2020

Handwritten, answer the following on clean sheet/s of paper. After you have finished, clearly photo-
capture your answer sheet/s (per page) and compile in a single portable document format (.pdf) file with
filename: “activity1.precal.yourname”

1. Solve the system, or show that it has no solution then state the type of system and number of
solutions. Use any pertinent method.
a. 3x – 6y =12 b. 8x – 2y = 5 c. 3x – y = 0
4x – 8y = 16 -12x +3y = 7 5x + 2y = 22

2. A winery fortifies product that contain 10% alcohol by adding a 70% alcohol solution to it. The
resulting mixture has an alcohol strength of 16% and fills 1000 one-liter bottles. How many liters
(L) of the wine and of the alcohol solution does the winery use.

3. Solve the system, or show that it has no solution then state the type of system and number of
solutions. Use any pertinent method except Cramer’s rule.
a. x- 2y + z =1 b. x + 2y – 2z = 1 c. 2x + 4y - z = 3
x+ 2y – z = 13 3x + 4y – 3z = 5 x + 2y + 4z= 6
3x + 2y – 5z = 3 2x + 2y – z = 6

4. Jaryss receives an inheritance of 50, 000 USD. His financial advisor suggests that he invest in three
mutual funds: a money- market fund, a blue chip stock fund and a high tech stock fund. The
advisor estimates that the money-market fund will return 5% over the next year, the blue chip
fund 9% and the high tech fund 16%. Jaryss wants a total first-year return of 4, 000 USD. To avoid
excessive risks, he decides to invest three times as much in the money-market fund as in the high-
tech stock fund. How much should he invest in each fund.

5. Solve the system using Cramer’s rule.

a. x+ y = 1 b. x – y +z +w = 0
y+z=2 x + y +2z + 2w = 0
z+w=3 2x + 2y + 3z + 4w = 1
w–x=4 2x + 3y + 4z + 5 w = 2

6. Consider the system

x + 2y = 6z = 5
-3x – 6y +z = 8
2x + 6y + 9z = 7
a. Verify that x = -1, y = 0, z = 1 is a solution to the system.
b. Find the determinant of the coefficient matrix
c. Can Cramer’s rule be used to solve the system? Why?

Prepared by
JESSIE RAY B. MANGUNDAYAO
Instructor