1. A ladder is 6m long. How far from the base of a wall should it be placed if it is to reach 5m up the wall?

Give your answer correct to 1 decimal place 2. One side of a right angled triangle is 10cm. The other two sides are both of length x. Calculate x to 3 significant figures. 3. At a concert, David spent $200 on lawn seats and pavilion seats. Lawn seats cost $10 and pavilion seats cost $12.50. The equation representing x lawn seats, y pavilion seats and the total spent is 10x + 12.50 y = 200. Graph the equation on a grid. Find the x-intercept. Explain what the x-intercept means in the context of this problem. Suppose David purchased 4 pavilion seats. How many lawn seats did he buy? 4. Linda was selling tickets for the school play. She sold 10 more adult tickets than children tickets and she sold twice as many senior tickets as children tickets. Adult tickets cost $5, childrens tickets cost $2 and senior tickets cost $3. Linda made $700. Write an equation represent the total tickets sales and find the number of the children tickets. 5. If 9 more than 12 times a number is 105, what is the value of the number? 6. If each side of a square is represented by the expression 4x-1, and the perimeter of the square is 60, what is the length of a side of the square? 7. Four times a number increased by nine is 37. Find the number 8. Jack goes to the gym each week. Every week he lifts 8 pounds more than the previous week. During the ninth week he lifts 250 pounds. How much was he lifting during his 1st week? 9. Students at Hilltop Middle School are dismissed at 2:55p.m. During the day there is a 10 minute homeroom period, 8 class periods of 41 minutes each, and a 34 minute lunch period. If 4 minutes is allowed for passing between each period, what time does school start each morning? 10. Postage is 34 cents for the first ounce and 21 cents for each additional ounce. If the cost of mailing a package is $2.23, how much does the package weigh? 11. If a + b = 6, b + c = 11, and c + d = 4, find the value of a if d = 1 12. Write the equation for a line that has a slope of -2 and y-intercept of 5. 13. Write a linear equation for the following: A line with a slope of -4 and y-intercept of 1. A line with a slope of 2/3 and y-intercept of -3. 14. Write an equation for the line that passes through the point (1,4) with a slope of 3. 15. Write an equation for the line that passes through the point (-2,-3) with a slope of 1/2. 16. Admission to a theme park is $32 per person. The park will open early for groups of thirty or more for an additional charge. A group of 50 students is charged $1665 for admission. Write a linear equation that the park can use to determine the amount of admission it should charge for any large group. 17. Directions: Write an equation for the line that passes through the following points: a. (5, -2) and (4,-4) b. (-4, -8) and (2,4) 18. In 1998, the cost of college tuition was $9000 a year. In 2009, the cost of college tuition is $16,500 a year. Let x = 0 represent 1990. Write an equation that could be used to predict the college tuition for any given year. Predict the college tuition for the year 2012. 19. Directions: Use the substitution method to solve the following systems of equations.

a. x - 2y = -10 3x - y = 0 b. x +3y = 2 -x +2y = 3