ELEMENTARY AND INTERMEDIATE ALGEBRA
Answer any six questions.
1. Find the product of
and
2. Resolve into linear factors:
2. (a)
2. (b)
2. (c)
2. (d)
3. Reduce to simplest form:
3. (a)
3. (b)
4. (a) Divide
by
4. (b) Find correct to one place of decimals the value of
5. (a) If
show that
5. (b) Two numbers are in the ratio
and if 7 be subtracted from each the remainders are in the ratio
Find the numbers.
6. Solve the equations:
6. (a)
6. (b)
6. (c)
7. A field could be made into a square by diminishing the length by 10 feet and increasing the breadth by 5 feet, but its area would then be diminished by 210 square feet. Find the length and the breadth of the field.