SOLVING EQUATIONS SOLUTIONS DATE:
1. Find the root of the following equations. Check for questions B, G, and H.
SIMPLE EQUATIONS MULTI-STEP EQUATIONS FRACTIONAL EQUATIONS
A. 9 w - 34 = 20 B. 3(2a - 1) - (a - 4) = 8 a
C. - 3 =
2
D. 7 - 3 y = 3 y - 5 E. 2 - 3(4 y - 6) = 4(6 y + 1) - 20 2
F. (2 - t ) = 6
5
(3n + 4) = 2(6 - n )
G. 4( p - 5) = -32 H. 4(3k + 7) - 8(5k + 1) = 7(k - 3) + 6 -3
I.
7 21
J. - 8 = 2(3c - 1) K. 9(3r + 7) + 21 = -3(3r + 8) 6x - 7 4x + 3
L. 2x - =
3 2
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Check for G. Check for B. Check for H.
4(𝑝 − 5) = −32 3(2a - 1) - (a - 4) = 8 4(3k + 7) - 8(5k + 1) = 7(k - 3) + 6
FORMULAS
2. Solve for each formula for the variable indicated.
A. V = pr 2 h ; h ( a + b) h C. D = b2 - 4ac ; c
B. A= ; a & h
2
D. 2(c + x) = a ; x 1 a 2 + b2 = c 2 ; a
E. b = (a - x ) + c ; x F.
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3. The surface area of a sphere is given by the formula A = 4pr 2 , where r is the radius of the sphere.
a. Rearrange the formula so the radius, r is in terms of the area, A .
b. Using your answer from a), find the radius of the ball if the area is 20p .
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WORD PROBLEMS : SET UP THE EQUATION USING LET STATEMENTS. A CHART MAY BE USED TO ORGANIZE
YOU THOUGHTS.
AGE QUESTIONS
a) Barry is 5 years older than Artem. If the sum of their ages is 37 then how old is Barry?
b) Karan is four years younger than Dan. Ryan is 6 years older than Dan. Together their ages total is 113. Determine
their ages.
c) Dave’s uncle is twice as old as him. In 20 years, the sum of their ages will be 97. How old is Dave’s uncle right now?
VALUE QUESTIONS
d) Emma has a bag of coins which includes quarters and nickels only. She counts the coins and finds she has 58 coins
which total $7.30. Determine how many quarters and nickels Emma has.
e) Maxine sold 120 boxes of two types of cookies. The chocolate cookies sold for $3.50 and the vanilla cookies sold for
$2.75. Her total sales were $393.75. How many of each type of cookie did she sell?
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NUMBER QUESTIONS
f) The sum of four consecutive numbers is 970. Determine the numbers.
g) For two consecutive even integers, the sum of the smaller and twice the larger is 5650. Find the numbers.
h) There are 26 black marbles. This is four more than twice the number of red marbles. How many red marbles are
there?
GEOMETRY QUESTIONS
i) The length of a swimming pool at a resort is 25 metres less than 3 times its width. The perimeter is 62 metres. Find
the dimensions of the pool.
j) The length of the base of an isosceles triangle is one-third the length of the equal sides. If the perimeter of the
triangle is 28 cm then how long is the base?
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