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Example Question #41 : How To Find The Solution To An Equation
Angles g and h are supplementary. Angle g is 3 times as big as angle h. What is the value of angle h?
If angles g and h are supplementary, then they will add up to 180 degrees.
Given that angle g is 3 times as big as angle h, then:
Therefore,
Example Question #41 : How To Find The Solution To An Equation
Solve for .
In order to solve an equation, you first want to get like terms on the same sides: variables should be on one side and whole numbers on the other. To do this, you must add 6 to both sides of the equation.
The equation will then look like this:
In order to solve for , you must make it so that there is only one of the variable . Since the 3 is multiplied times the variable, you must divide by 3 on both sides of the equation to remove it.
The result you are left with is .
Example Question #165 : Isee Middle Level (Grades 7 8) Quantitative Reasoning
If x and y are angles that are equal to each other and are also complementary, what is the value of x?
If two angles are complementary, then they add up to 90 degrees.
Therefore, .
Given that x and y are equal to each other, .
Thus, .
Example Question #41 : Equations
Solve for x in the below equation:
Solve for x in the below equation:
First we must add like terms on the left side. 5x-2x = 3x
Next, we must subtract 4 from both sides.
Lastly, we must divide both sides by 3.
Example Question #172 : Algebraic Concepts
Which is the greater quantity?
(a)
(b)
(b) is the greater quantity
It is impossible to determine which is greater from the information given
(a) is the greater quantity
(a) and (b) are equal
(a) and (b) are equal
Example Question #173 : Algebraic Concepts
Which is the greater quantity?
(a)
(b)
(b) is the greater quantity
(a) is the greater quantity
It is impossible to determine which is greater from the information given
(a) and (b) are equal
(a) and (b) are equal
Example Question #172 : Isee Middle Level (Grades 7 8) Quantitative Reasoning
The lines of the equations
and
intersect at a point .
Which is the greater quantity?
(a)
(b)
(b) is the greater quantity
It is impossible to determine which is greater from the information given
(a) is the greater quantity
(a) and (b) are equal
(a) is the greater quantity
Since the numbers and satisfy both equations, we need only look at the second one,
.
It follows that
and
.
Example Question #174 : Algebraic Concepts
Both and are prime.
Which is the greater quantity?
(a)
(b) 50
(a) and (b) are equal
(a) is the greater quantity
It is impossible to determine which is greater from the information given
(b) is the greater quantity
It is impossible to determine which is greater from the information given
, and both are positive integers, so both will be between 1 and 15 inclusive. Since both are prime numbers - numbers with exactly two factors, 1 and the number itself - both are elements of the set
There are two ways to select two of these numbers so that their sum is 16 - 3 and 13, and 5 and 11.
If we select and , or vice versa, then .
If we select and , or vice versa, then .
Therefore, it is unclear whether or 50 is greater.
Example Question #42 : Equations
and are both positive integers. is a prime number and is a composite number.
Which is the greater quantity?
(a)
(b)
It is impossible to determine which is greater from the information given
(a) and (b) are equal
(a) is the greater quantity
(b) is the greater quantity
(b) is the greater quantity
A prime number is a number with exactly two factors - 1 and itself.
If and are both positive integers whose sum is 14, then each is an integer from 1 to 13 inclusive. The prime numbers in this range are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, and 13. , so , and this must be a composite number - one which has more than two factors.
Taking each case:
The only two prime values of that yields a composite are and . in both cases, .
Example Question #175 : Algebraic Concepts
Which is the greater quantity?
(a)
(b)
It is impossible to determine which is greater from the information given
(a) is the greater quantity
(b) is the greater quantity
(a) and (b) are equal
It is impossible to determine which is greater from the information given
, so is the positive or negative square root of 64; those are 8 and , respectively.
Two numbers - and 8 - have absolute value 8, so if , either or .
and , but without further information, it cannot be determined which is the greater, if either.
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