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PAIR OF LINEAR EQUATION IN TWO VARIABLE

Exercise 3.11

Question 1: If in a rectangle, the length is increased and breadth reduced each by

2 units, the area is reduced by 28 square units. If, however the length is reduced
by 1 unit and the breadth increased by 2 units, the area increases by 33 square
units. Find the area of the rectangle.

Question 2: The area of a rectangle remains the same if the length is increased by
7 meters and the breadth is decreased by 3 meters. The area remains unaffected
if the length is decreased by 7 meters and breadth in increased by 5 meters. Find
the dimensions of the rectangle.

Question 3: In a rectangle, if the length is increased by 3 meters and breadth is

decreased by 4 meters, the area of the rectangle is reduced by 67 square meters.
If length is reduced by 1 meter and breadth is increased by 4 meters, the area is
increased by 89 Sq. meters. Find the dimensions of the rectangle.

Question 4: The incomes of 𝑋 and 𝑌 are in the ratio of 8: 7 and their

expenditures are in the ratio 19: 16. If each saves Rs 1250, find their incomes.

Question 5: A and B each has some money. If A gives Rs 30 to B, then B will have
twice the money left with A. But, if B gives Rs 10 to A, then A will have thrice as
much as is left with B. How much money does each have?

Question 6:ABCD is a cyclic quadrilateral such that ∠A = (4𝑦 + 20)°, ∠B = (3𝑦 –

5)°, ∠C = (−4𝑥)° and ∠D = (7𝑥 + 5)°. Find the four angles.

Question 7: 2 men and 7 boys can do a piece of work in 4 days. The same work is
done in 3 days by 4 men and 4 boys. How long would it take one man and one
boy to do it?

Question 8: In a ∆ABC, ∠A = x°, ∠B = (3𝑥 – 2)°, ∠C = y°. Also, ∠C − ∠B = 9°.

Find the three angles.

Question 9: In a cyclic quadrilateral ABCD, ∠A = (2𝑥 + 4)°, ∠B = (𝑦 + 3)°, ∠C =

(2𝑦 + 10)°, ∠D = (4𝑥 – 5)°. Find the four angles.

Question 10: Yash scored 40 marks in a test, getting 3 marks for each right
answer and losing 1 mark for each wrong answer. Had 4 marks been awanded
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for each correct answer and 2 marks been deducted for each incorrect answer,
the Yash would have scored 50 marks. How many question were there in the
test?

Question 11: In a ∆ABC, ∠A = x°, ∠B = 3x° and ∠C = y°. If 3y – 5x = 30, prove

that the triangle is right angled.

Question 12: The car hires charges in a city comprise of a fixed charge together
with the charge for the distance covered. For a journey of 12 km, the charge paid
is Rs 89 and the journey of 20 km, the charge paid is Rs 145. What will a person
have to pay for travelling a distance of 30 km?

Question 13: A part of monthly hostel charges in a college are fixed and the
remaining depend on the number of days one has taken food in the mess. When a
student A takes food for 20 days, he has to pay Rs 1000 as hostel charges whereas
a student’s B, who takes food for 26 days, pays Rs 1180 as hostel charges. Find
the fixed charge and the cost of food per day.
Question 14: Half the perimeter of a garden, whose length is 4 more than its
width is 36 m. Find the dimension of the garden.

Question 15: The larger of two supplementary angles exceeds the smaller by 18
degrees. Find them.

Question 16: 2 women and 5 men can together finish a piece of embroidery in 4
days, while 3 women and 6 men can finish it in 3 days. Find the time taken by 1
woman alone to finish the embroidery, and that taken by 1 man alone.

Question 17: Meena went to a bank to withdraw Rs 2000. She asked the cashier
to give her Rs 50 and Rs 100 notes only. Meena got 25 notes in all. Find how
many notes Rs 50 and Rs 100 she received.

Question 18: There are two examination rooms A and B. If 10 candidates are sent
from A to B, the number of students in each room is same. If 20 candidates are
sent from B to A, the number of students in A is double the number of students in
B. Find the number of students in each room.

Question 19: A railway half ticket costs half the full fare and the reservation
charge is the same on half ticket as on full ticket. One reserved first class ticket
from Mumbai to Ahmedabad costs Rs 216 and one full and one half reserved
first class tickets cost Rs 327. What is the basic first class full fare and what is the
reservation charge?
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Question 20: A wizard having powers of mystic in candations and magical

medicines seeing a cock, fight going on, spoke privately to both the owners of
cocks. To one he said; if your bird wins, then you give me your stake-money, but
if you do not win, I shall give you two third of that’. Going to the other, he
promised in the same way to give three fourths. From both of them his gain
would be only 12 gold coins. Find the stake of money each of the cock-owners
have.

Question 21: The students of a class are made to stand in rows. If 3 students are
extra in a row, there would be 1 row less. If 3 students are less in a row there
would be 2 rows more. Find the number of student in the class.

Question 22: One says. “give me hundred, friend! I shall then become twice as
rich as you” The other replies, “If you give me ten, I shall be six times as rich as
you”. Tell me what is the amount of their respective capital?

Question 23: A shopkeeper sells a saree at 8% profit and a sweater at 10%

discount, thereby getting a sum of ₹1008. If she had sold the saree at 10% profit
and the sweater at 8% discount, she would have got ₹1028. Find the cost price of
the saree and the list price (price before discount) of the sweater.

Question 24: In a competitive examination, one mark is awarded for each correct
answer while ½ mark is deducted for every wrong answer. Jayanti answered 120
questions and got 90 marks. How many questions did she answer correctly?

Question 25: A shopkeeper gives books on rent for reading. She takes a fixed
charge for the first two days, and an additional charge for each day thereafter.
Latika paid ₹22 for a book kept for 6 days, while Anand paid ₹16 for the book
kept for four days. Find the fixed charges and charge for each extra day.

Exercise 3.10
Question 1: Point A and B are 70 km. a part on a highway. A car starts from A
and another car starts from B simultaneously. If they travel in the same
direction, they meet in 7 hours, but if the travel towards each other, the meet in
one hour. Find the speed of the two cars.

Question 2: A sailor goes 8 km downstream in 40 minutes and returns in 1 hours.

Determine the speed of the sailor in still water and the speed of the current.
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Question 3: The boat goes 30 km upstream and 44 km downstream in 10 hours.

In 13 hours, it can go 40 km upstream and 55 km downstream. Determine the
speed of stream and that of the boat in still water.

Question 4: A boat goes 24 km upstream and 28 km downstream in 6 hrs. It goes

30 km upstream and 21 km downstream in 612 hrs612 hrs. Find the speed of the
boat in still water and also speed of the stream.

Question 5: A man walks a certain distance with certain speed. If he walks ½ km

an hour faster, he takes 1 hour less. But, if he walks 1 km an hour slower, he
takes 3 more hours. Find the distance covered by the man and his original rate of
walking.

Question 6: A person rowing at the rate of 5 km/h in still water, takes thrice as
much time in going 40 km upstream as in going 40 km downstream. Find the
speed of the stream.

Question 7: Ramesh travels 760 km to his home partly by train and partly by
car. He takes 8 hours if he travels 160 km. by train and the rest by car. He takes
12 minutes more if the travels 240 km by train and the rest by car. Find the
speed of the train and car respectively.

Question 8: A man travels 600 km partly by train and partly by car. If the covers
400 km by train and the rest by car, it takes him 6 hours 30 minutes. But, if the
travels 200 km by train and the rest by car, he takes half an hour longer. Find the
speed of the train and that of the car.

Question 9: Places A and B are 80 km apart from each other on a highway. A car
starts from A and other from B at the same time. If they move in the same
direction, they meet in 8 hours and if they move in opposite directions, they meet
in 1 hour and 20 minutes. Find the speeds of the cars.

Question 10: A boat goes 12 km upstream and 40 km downstream in 8 hours. I

can go 16 km upstream and 32 km downstream in the same time. Find the speed
of the boat in still water and the speed of the stream.

Question 11: Roohi travels 300 km to her home partly by train and partly by
bus. She takes 4 hours if she travels 60 km by train and the remaining by bus. If
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she travels 100 km by train and the remaining by bus, she takes 10 minutes
longer. Find the speed of the train and the bus separately.

Question 12: Ritu can row downstream 20 km in 2 hours, and upstream 4 km in

2 hours. Find her speed of rowing in still water and the speed of the current.

Question 13: A motor boat can travel 30 km upstream and 28 km downstream in

7 hours. It can travel 21 km upstream and return in 5 hours. Find the speed of
the boat in still water and the speed of the upstream.

Question 14: Abdul travelled 300 km by train and 200 km by taxi, it took him 5
hours 30 minutes. But if he travels 260 km by train and 240 km by taxi he takes
6 minutes longer. Find the speed of the train and that of the taxi.

Question 15: A train covered a certain distance at a uniform speed. If the train
could have been 10 km/hr. faster, it would have taken 2 hours less than the
scheduled time. And, if the train were slower by 10 km/hr; it would have taken 3
hours more than the scheduled time. Find the distance covered by the train.
Exercise 3.7:
Question 1: The sum of two numbers is 8. If their sum is four times their
difference, find the numbers.

Question 2: The sum of digits of a two-digit number is 13. If the number is

subtracted from the one obtained by interchanging the digits, the result is 45.
What is the number?

Question 3: A number consist of two digits whose sum is five. When the digits are
reversed, the number becomes greater by nine. Find the number.

Question 4: The sum of digits of a two number is 15. The number obtained by
reversing the order of digits of the given number exceeds the given number by 9.
Find the given number.

Question 5: The sum of a two-digit number and the number formed by reversing
the order of digit is 66. If the two digits differ by 2, find the number. How many
such numbers are there?

Question 6: The sum of two numbers is 1000 and the difference between their
squares is 256000. Find the numbers.
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Question 7: The sum of a two-digit number and the number obtained by

reversing the order of its digits is 99. If the digits differ by 3, find the number.

Question 8: A two-digit number is 4 times the sum of its digits. If 18 is added to

the number, the digits are reversed. Find the number.

Question 9: A two-digit number is 3 more than 4 times the sum of its digits. If 8 is
added to the number, the digits are reversed. Find the number.

Question 10: A two-digit number is 4 more than 6 times the sum of its digits. If 18
is subtracted from the number, the digits are reversed. Find the number.

Question 11: A two-digit number is 4 times the sum of its digits and twice the
product of the digits. Find the number.

Question 12: A two-digit number is such that the product of its digits is 20. If 9 is
added to the number, the digits interchange their places. Find the number.

Question 13: The difference between two numbers is 26 and one number is three
times the other. Find them.

Question 14: The sum of the digits of a two-digit number is 9. Also, nine times
this number is twice the number obtained by reversing the order of the digits.
Find the number.

Question 15: Seven times a two-digit number is equal to four times the number
obtained by reversing the digits. If the difference between the digits is 3. Find the
number.

Question 16: Two numbers are in the ratio 5 : 6. If 8 is subtracted from each of
the numbers, the ratio becomes 4 : 5. Find the numbers.

Question 17: A two-digit number is obtained by either multiplying the sum of the
digits by 8 and then subtracting 5 or by multiplying the difference of the digits
by 16 and then adding 3. Find the number.

Exercise 3.6
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Question 1: 5 pens and 6 pencils together cost Rs 9 and 3 pens and 2 pencils cost
Rs 5. Find the cost of 1 pen and 1 pencil.

Question 2: 7 audio cassettes and 3 video cassettes cost Rs 1110, while 5 audio
cassettes and 4 video cassettes cost Rs 1350. Find the cost of an audio cassette
and a video cassette.

Question 3: Reena has pens and pencils which together are 40 in number. If she
has 5 more pencils and 5 less pens, the number of pencils would become 4 times
the number of pens. Find the original number of pens and pencils.

Question 4: 4 tables and 3 chairs, together, cost Rs 2,250 and 3 tables and 4
chairs cost Rs 1950. Find the cost of 2 chairs and 1 table.

Question 5: 3 bags and 4 pens together cost Rs 257 whereas 4 bags and 3 pens
together cost Rs 324. Find the total cost of 1 bag and 10 pens.

Question 6: 5 books and 7 pens together cost Rs 79 whereas 7 books and 5 pens
together cost Rs 77. Find the total cost of 1 book and 2 pens.

Question 7: Jamila sold a table and a chair for ₹1050, thereby making a profit of
10% on the table and 25% on the chair. If she had taken a profit of 25% on the
table and 10% on the chair she would have got ₹ 1065. Find the cost price of
each.

Question 8: Susan invested certain amount of money in two schemes A and B,

which offer interest at the rate of 8% per annum and 9% per annum,
respectively. She received ₹1860 as annual interest. However, had she
interchanged the amount of investment in the two schemes, she would have
received ₹20 more as annual interest. How much money did she invest in each
scheme?

Question 9: The coach of a cricket team buys 7 bats and 6 balls for Rs 3800.
Later, he buys 3 bats and 5 balls for Rs 1750. Find the cost of each bat and each
ball.

Question 10: A lending library has a fixed charge for the first three days and
additional charge for each day thereafter. Saritha paid Rs 27 for a book kept for
seven days, while Susy paid Rs 21 for the book she kept for five days. Find the
fixed charge and the charge for each extra day.
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Question 11: The cost of 4 pens and 4 pencil boxes is ₹100. Three times the cost
of a pen is ₹15 more than the cost of a pencil box. Form the pair of linear
equations for the above situation. Find the cost of a pen and a pencil box.

Question 12: One says, “Give me a hundred, friend! I shall then become twice as
rich as you.” The other replies, “If you give me ten, I shall be six times as rich as
you.” Tell me what is the amount of their respective capital?
Question 13: A and B each have a certain number of mangoes. A says to B, “if
you give 30 of your mangoes, I will have twice as many as left with you.” B
replies, “if you give me 10, I will have thrice as many as left with you.” How
many mangoes does each have?

Question 14: Vijay had some bananas, and he divided them into two lots A and
B. He sold first lot at the rate of ₹2 for 3 bananas and the second lot at the rate
of ₹1 per banana and got a total of ₹400. If he had sold the first lot at the rate of
₹1 per banana and the second lot at the rate of ₹4 per five bananas, his total
collection would have been ₹460. Find the total number of bananas he had.

Question 15: On selling a T.V. at 5% gain and a fridge at 10% gain, a shopkeeper
gains Rs 2000. But if he sells the T.V. at 10% gain the fridge at 5% loss. He gains
Rs 1500 on the transaction. Find the actual prices of T.V. and fridge.