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BA REVIEW VIII IMM 2022

1. Find the value of x
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a. 23𝑥𝑥+4 = 32 (Answer : 3 )
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b. 52(3𝑥𝑥+1) = √125 (Answer : − 12 )
1 −17
c. 93𝑥𝑥+4 = ( )4𝑥𝑥+3 (Answer : )
27 18
2𝑥𝑥+10
d. 2 × 5 = 50 (Answer : −4 )

2. Please simplify into simplest index notation

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�4𝑥𝑥 4 𝑦𝑦 5 𝑦𝑦 2 2𝑦𝑦 2
a. × �𝑥𝑥 3 � (Answer : )
5𝑥𝑥 2 𝑦𝑦 3 5𝑥𝑥 12
−1
125𝑎𝑎 −3 3 𝑎𝑎𝑦𝑦 2
b. � � (Answer : )
𝑦𝑦 6 5
6𝑎𝑎4 𝑏𝑏2 𝑐𝑐 10
c. 3 (Answer :2𝑎𝑎2 𝑏𝑏 3 𝑐𝑐 )
√27𝑎𝑎6 𝑏𝑏 −4

3. Please calculate and give your answer in standard form

a. (8 × 106 ) − (6 × 104 ) ÷ (2 × 10−2 ) ( Answer : 5 × 106 )
b. (7.51 × 105 ) + (4 × 10−4 ) × (2.5 × 1012 ) ( Answer : 1.000751 × 109 )
c. (3 × 10−3 )2 × (5 × 1012 ) − (4 × 103 ) ( Answer : 4.4996 × 107 )

4. Find the value of x

𝑥𝑥 1 𝑥𝑥 66
a. − =2− (Answer : 𝑥𝑥 = )
2 5 3 25
b. 3(5 − 𝑥𝑥) − 2(𝑥𝑥 − 2) = −1 (Answer : 𝑥𝑥 = 4 )
2𝑥𝑥−3 𝑥𝑥−3 −3
c. = (Answer : 𝑥𝑥 = )
4 3 2

5. A man is six times as old as his son. Twenty years later, the man will be twice as old as his son.
Find the age of the man when his son was born. (Answer : 25 years old )

6. The sum of 4 consecutive odd number is 56. Find the greatest of the 4 numbers. (Answer : 17 )

7. If a number is tripled, it gives the same result as when 28 is added to it. Find the number. (Answer : 14 )

8. An airline uses the following formula to roughly estimate the total mass of passengers and checked bags per
flight in kilograms.
T = 70P + 12B
T is the total mass, P is the number of passengers and B is the number of bags.
𝑇𝑇−70𝑃𝑃
a. Make B the subject of the formula (Answer : 𝐵𝐵 = )
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b. Estimate the total mass for 124 passengers each with two checked bags (Answer : 11 656 kg )
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c. Calculate the number and the total mass of the bags if the total mass of 124 passengers and checked
bags on a flight is 9.64 tonnes. (Answer : 960 kg , 80 bags )
9. Please factorise this following algebraic expression
a. 7x3y – 14x2y2 + 21xy2 (Answer : 7𝑥𝑥𝑥𝑥 (𝑥𝑥 2 − 2𝑥𝑥𝑥𝑥 + 3𝑦𝑦) )
b. m3n2 + 6m2n2 (8m + n) (Answer : 𝑚𝑚2 𝑛𝑛2 (49𝑚𝑚 + 6𝑛𝑛) )
3 4 7 1
c. 𝑥𝑥 + 𝑥𝑥 (Answer : 𝑥𝑥 (6𝑥𝑥 3 + 7) )
4 8 8

10. A rectangular block of metal is 256 mm long, 152 mm wide and 81 mm high. If the metal block is melted to
form a cube, find the length of each side of the cube! (Answer : 147 mm )

11. The figure shows a glass block made up of a rectangular prism with
dimensions 56 cm by 24 cm by 40 cm and one quarter of
a cylinder with base radius of 24 cm.
Find :
a. The volume (Answer : 79 100 cm3 )
b. The total surface area of the glass block (Answer : 12 100 cm2 )

12. The figure shows a solid cuboid of dimensions 12 cm by

10 cm by 7 cm, with a half – cylinder of diameter 4 cm
horizontally carved out of it. Find :
a. The volume (Answer : 765 cm3 )
b. The total surface area of the solid
(Answer : 563 cm2 )

13. Change the subject of each equation to the letter given in brackets.
Answer :
a.
𝑧𝑧
b. a. 𝑥𝑥 =
𝑦𝑦+1
c.
𝑧𝑧
b. 𝑦𝑦 =
𝑧𝑧+1−𝑥𝑥
d.
𝑝𝑝+1
c. 𝑞𝑞 =
𝑝𝑝−1
e.
𝑦𝑦√𝑥𝑥 − √𝑥𝑥
d. 𝑧𝑧 = 𝑦𝑦+1

𝑦𝑦𝑧𝑧+𝑧𝑧 2
e. 𝑥𝑥 = � �
𝑦𝑦−1