MATHS : BASIC INEQUALITIES :1

1. (a) Solve 30x < 200 when Ans: a) 6 solutions (ii) infinitely many solutions

(i) x is a natural number

(ii) x is an integer
(b) Solve 5x - 3 < 3x + 1 when (b) (i) ( x   , ...1, 0,1  (ii) x    , 2 
(i) x is an integer
(ii) x is a real number.

2. Solve the following linear inequations and

express the result in the form of intervals.
(a) 3x - 7 > x + 1 (b) - (x-3) + 4 < 5 - 2x Ans: (a) x   4,   (b) x    ,  2 

 1 
(c) 3x - 8 < x + 4 (d) 2 x  7  5  2 x (c) x    , 6  (d) x    ,  
 2 
5  2x x x 3x  2 5 x  3  2
(e)  5 (f)   (e) x  8,   (f) x   , 
3 6 5 4 5  9

3. Find the limits in which y lies if....

(a) 1 < x < 9, y= - x Ans: (a) y   9,1
(b) -9 < x < 5, y= -x (b) y   5,9
(c) -9 < x < -6, y= x/3 (c) y  2,3
(d) -9 < x < 5, y= -3x (d) y   15,27 

4. Find the range of x2 for the following cases.

1 5
(i) 2  x  5 (ii) x Ans: (i) [ 4,25 ] (ii) [ 1/4, 25/9 ]
2 3
1 3
(iii) x (iv)  2  x  3 (iii) [ 0, 9/4 ] (iv) [ 0, 9 ]
2 2
(v)  3  x  2 (vi) 4  x  4 (v) [ 0, 9 ] (vi) [ 0, 16 ]

5. Find the range of values of the receiprocal of x when :

(a) x  1,5 (b) x  2,7 Ans: (a) [ 1/5,1] (b) [ 1/7, 1/2)
(c) x[0, ) (d) x  0,3 (c) 0,   (d) 1 / 3,  
(e) x   5,1 (f) x  2,4 (e) [ -1, -1/5 ] (f) ( ,1 / 2]  [1 / 4,  )
(g) x   3,5

6. (a) Solve the following basic rational inequality:

(i) - 8 x + 3 (x-2) > - x + 2 Ans: (i) x   ,2
(ii) 3x + 2 < x - 4 (ii) x   ,3

 1 
(iii) 2x + 5 > 3- 2x (iii) x   ,  
 2 
(iv) 2x + 5 > x + 4 > x - 1 (iv) x   1,  
(v) 3x > 6x + 9 (v) x   ,3
(vi) - 3x + 6 < 12 x - 9 (vi) x  1,  