1. Mere, Sam and Nathan go to a bookshop to buy supplies for their school.

Mere bought
one pencil and
two erasers and pencils and paid $2.40 for it. Sam bought six erasers,
four
for an eraser, a pencil and four pens.
two pens and paid $3.95 while Nathan paid $4.15
to find the cost of each item.
Write a system of equations that can be used
a I5 MARKS]

b) Use Gauss Jordan elimination to solve the system of equations.

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2. Use Cramer's rule to solve the following system:

*- 4y +z=4

5x+6y- 7z = 10
3x-2y+z= 16

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3. Solve the following system of linear equations using the substitution method

y= 6x+11
2y-4x= 14

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4. Graph the following system of linear inequalities:
2x-y2 4

x+ys6 [5 MARKS

5.A dietician has two foods with which to prepare a diet containing at least 400 units of
280
calcium, 175 units of iron and units of vitamin A.
calcium, iron and vitamin A per ounce for the two foods.
The table below gives the units of
 Food I Food II|
Calcium
Iron 14
Vitamin A 10

Food I costs 35 cents an ounce and Food II costs 42 cents an ounce. What combination of
the two foods gives the diet, meeting the above requirements, of minimum costs?

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6. A manufacturer can sell a certain product for SI 10 per unit. Total cost consists of a fixed
overhead of S7.500 plus production costs of S60 per unit.

(a) What is the total cost function, Clx)?

(6) What is the revenue function, R(X)?

(c) Find the number of units the manu facturer must sell to break cven.

(d) What is the manu facturer's profit and loss if 100 units are sold?

12+2+3+3-10 marks

. In 1990 the cost of an uverage home in the Western Viti Levu was $75,000. In 1994, the cost was
S87,000. Assuming that the relationship between time and cost is linear, develop a
formula for predicting the cost of an average home in 2019.

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