Holiday Homework

Name: __________________________ Grade: 9 Subject: Mathematics

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3 Athletic, Rovers and United are three football teams.

Athletic have a point score of x.

Rovers have 12 points more than Athletic’s point score.
United have 3 points fewer than twice Athletic’s point score.

The total point score of all three teams is 121.

Use this information to write down an equation in terms of x.

Solve your equation to work out the point score for each team.

Athletic ................................................... points

Rovers ................................................... points

United ................................................... points [5]

[Total: 5]

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4 Solve the simultaneous equations.
You must show all your working.

x = ...................................................

y = ................................................... [4]

[Total: 4]

5 Geeta buys x apples, oranges and bananas.

The total number of pieces of fruit Geeta buys is 30.

(a) Find the number of apples Geeta buys.

................................................... [3]

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 (b) The cost of one apple is 15 cents.
The cost of one orange is 18 cents.
The total cost of all the fruit is $5.55 .

Find the cost, in cents, of one banana.

................................................... cents [3]

[Total: 6]

6 Solve the inequality.

................................................... [2]

[Total: 2]

7 Find the integer values of n that satisfy this inequality.

................................................... [3]

[Total: 3]

8 Raheem makes baskets and mats.

Each week he makes x baskets and y mats.

He makes fewer than 10 mats.

The number of mats he makes is greater than or equal to the number of baskets he makes.

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(a) One of the inequalities that shows this information is .

Write down the other inequality.

................................................... [1]

(b) He takes hours to make a basket and hours to make a mat.

Each week he works for a maximum of 22.5 hours.

Show that .

[2]

(d) He makes $40 profit on each basket he sells and $28 profit on each mat he sells.

Calculate the maximum profit he can make each week.

$ ................................................... [2]

[Total: 5]

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9 Solve the inequality.

................................................... [3]

[Total: 3]

10 Find the integer values of n that satisfy the inequality.

................................................... [3]

[Total: 3]

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(a) Find the value of p and the value of q.

p = ...................................................

q = ................................................... [2]

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 (b) Solve.

x = .............................. or x = .............................. [2]

[Total: 4]

12 Solve.

w = ................................................... [2]

[Total: 2]

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(x – 1) cm
x cm NOT TO
SCALE

(2x + 1) cm
x cm

The area of the rectangle is 29 cm2 greater than the area of the square.
The difference between the perimeters of the two shapes is k cm.

Find the value of k.

You must show all your working.

k = ................................................... [6]

[Total: 6]

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14 Solve the simultaneous equations.
You must show all your working.

.................................................................

................................................................. [5]

[Total: 5]

15 In this question, all angles are in degrees.

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A, B, C and D lie on a circle, centre O, diameter AC.
XY is a tangent to the circle at D.

(a) Use the information in the diagram to complete these two simultaneous equations.

..............................

.............................. [2]

(b) Solve your simultaneous equations.

You must show all your working.

x = ...................................................

y = ................................................... [3]

[Total: 5]

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16 Solve.

................................................... [2]

[Total: 2]

17 Solve the inequality.

................................................... [2]

[Total: 2]

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