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SIMULTANEOUS EQUATIONS (SE)

XO STEPS OF SOLVING SE
Step 1 :

Step 2 :

Step 3 :

Step 4 :

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1. Solve the simultaneous equations and give your answers correct to three decimal places.
2m + 3n + 1 = 0,
m2 + 6mn + 6 + 0

2. Solve the simultaneous equations and give your answer correct to four significant figures.

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x + 2y = 2
2y2 xy 7 = 0

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3. Solve the equation 4x + y + 8 = x2 + x y = 2.

4. Solve the simultaneous equations

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2 + 1 = 2 and 3p + q = 3.
3p q

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5. Solve the simultaneous equations

x + 1 y = 3 and y2 1 = 2x.
3

6. Solve the simultaneous equations

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x y + 3 = 0 and 3 + 2 1 = 0
3 2
x y 2

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7. Solve the equation x2 y + y2 = 2x + 2y = 10.

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8. Given (2k, -4p) is the solution of the simultaneous equations x 3y = 4 and 9 + 7 = 1.

x 4y
Find the values of k and p.

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INDEX NUMBER (IN)

PRICE INDEX

COMPOSITE INDEX

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WEIGHTAG

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1. Table 3 shows the prices and the price indices of four types of food items in 2006 based on 2004.
Diagram 7 shows the pie chart that reflects the proportion of expenditure of Puan Aminah in2004.

a) Find the values of x, y and z.

b) Calculate the price index of P in the year 2004 based on the year 2002 if the price of P in the year
2002 is RM5.45.

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c) Find the composite index for the four types of food.

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2. Table 3 shows the price indices in the year 2007 based on the year 2006, of four different materials A,
B, C and D, in the production of a type of shampoo. It also includes the division of the usages of the
materials in the production of the shampoo.

a)
b)
c)
d)

If the price of material A is RM 50 in the year 2007, calculate its price in 2006.
If the composite index for the year 2007 based to the year 2006 is 120, find the value of p.
Find the price of the shampoo in 2007 if its price in 2006 was RM 15.
Given that the price of material C is estimated to increase by 15% from the year 2007 to 2008,
while the others remain unchanged. Calculate the composite index of the shampoo in the year
2008 based on the year 2006.

3. Table 4 shows the prices of four types of book in a bookstore for three successive years.

Boo
k

Price in year
(RM)

Price index in
2001

Price index in
2002

Weightage

200
0

200
1

200
2

based on 2000

based on 2000

20

30

150

225

50

65

115

130

40

50

56

125

140

80

150

TABLE 4
a) Find the values of w, x, y and z.

c) A school spent RM 4, 865 to buy books for the library in the year 2002. Find the expected total
expenditure of the books in the year 2003 if the composite index for the year 2003 based on the
year 2002 id the same as for the year 2002 based on the year 2001.
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b) Calculate the composite index for the year 2002 based on the year 2001.

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4. Diagram 7 shows a bar chart which represents the quantity of rice in a supermarket. Table 3 shows the
prices and the price indices for five different brands of rice available in the supermarket.

a) Find the value of

i) x
ii) y.
b) Calculate the composite index for the cost of rice in the year 2007 based on the year 2006.
c) The total monthly cost of rice in the year 2006 is RM 4000. Calculate the corresponding total
monthly cost in the year 2007.
d) The price of rice increases by 30% from the year 2007 to the year 2008. Find the composite index

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for the year 2008 based on the year 2006.

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5.

Table 2 shows the price indices and weightage of 5 types of food consumed in the year 2007 using
2006 as the base year. The composite index of these 5 items in the year 2007 using 2006 as the base
year is 117 and w = 13.
a) Calculate the values of m and n.
b) Find the price of a kilogram of rice in the year 2007 if its price in the year 2006 is RM 12.50.
c) Given that the projected rate of change in the prices of all the foods from 2007 to 2008 is the same
as that from 2006 to 2007. Find
i)

the composite index number of these foods in the year 2008, using the year 2006 as the
base year.

ii)

The amount to be paid for these foods in the year 2008 if the amount paid for these items

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in 2006 was RM 650.

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6. Table 3 shows the price indices and weightages of monthly expenditure of a student living in Bukit
Mertajam for the year 2007 based on the year 2005.

Calculate
a) the composite index for the monthly expenditure in the year 2007 base on the year 2005. Give your
answer correct to two decimal places.
b) the total amount spent in the year 2007 if the expenditure in the year 2005 is RM 1000.
c) the cost of the monthly expenditure increases by 20% from the year 2007 to the year 2008.
Calculate
the composite index in the year 2008 based on the year 2007,

ii)

the price of the book in the year 2007 if the price in the year 2008 is RM 550.

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i)

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7. Diagram 7 is a bar chart indicating the weekly expenditure of the items P, Q, R, S and T for the year
2004. Table 3 shows the prices and the price indices for the items.

b) Calculate the composite index for the items in the year 2004 based on the year 2000.
c) The total monthly expenditure of the items in the year 2000 is RM 684. Calculate the corresponding
total monthly expenditure for the year 2004.
d) The cost of the items increases by 15% from the year 2004 to the year 2007. Find the composite
index for the year 2007 based on the year 2000,
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a) Find the value of

i)
x,
ii)
y,
iii)
z.

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8. Diagram 8 is a bar chart which represents the percentage of expenditure on the five items needed for a
student at the beginning of a school term.

Table 3 shows the prices and the price indices of the items for the year 2007 based on the year 2006.

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a) Find the values of x, of y and of z.

b) Calculate the composite index of the items for the year 2007 based on the year 2006.
c) The total expenditure of the items in the year 2007 was RM 880. Calculate the corresponding total
expenditure for the year 2006.
d) The price of the bag is expected to decrease by 5% while the price of each of the other items is
expected to increase by 10% from the year 2007 to the year 2008. Find the expected composite
index for the year 2008 based on the year 2006

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