ALGEBRAI

C
FORMULA
CHAPTER 7: FORM
3

7.1
Concept of Variables And
Constant

LEARNING OBJECTIVE:
At the end of this subtopic students should be able
to:
i. determine if a quantity in a given situation is a
variable or a constant.
ii. determine the variable in a given situation and
represent it with a letter.
iii. determine the possible values of a variable in a
given situation.

Definition:
VARIABLE : quantities are not fixed

CONSTANT : quantities are fixed

Variable / Constant

SITUATION

VARIABLE/ CONSTANT

i)
The number of hours in a day
ii)
The speed of a formula one car in a
Formula
One Race
iii) Number of students in a school bus
every
day
iv)
Total number of sides of a square
v)
Blood pressure of football player

constant
variable
variable
constant
variable

Variable and letter

SITUATION
Height of each students in
your class
Number of students present
in your class every day
Number of books that you
bring to school

?
VARIABLE

LETTER

Height of student

Number of students

Number of books

7.2
Concept of Formulae
to Solve Problem

LEARNING OBJECTIVE:
At the end of this subtopic students should be
able to:
i. Write a formula based on a given
a) Statement
b) situation

ii. Identify the subject of a given formula

Definition

Formula : an equation
connect variable with an =
sign.

Example 1

Write
formula
Construct formula
forathe
perimeter, p cm, of the rectangle.
a cm
b cm
Perimeter = a+a+b+b
= 2a + 2b
= 2(a+b)

Subject of Formula

Subject
formula

Single
linear
variable
Coefficien
t subject
is 1

A = 2b
+c
A

Change Subject of the Formula

Example 2

Change the subject of the following formulae to the letter given in bracket.
a)

b)

c)