CHAPTER 4 QUADRATIC EQUATIONS

1) A train travels a distance of 480 km at a uniform speed. If the speed had been 8
km/h less, then it would have taken 3 hours more to cover the same distance. What
is the speed of the train?
2) Find the discriminant of the equation 3x2– 2x +1/3= 0 and hence find the nature of
its roots. Find them, if they are real.
3) Find the values of k for each of the following quadratic equations, so that they have
two equal roots.
(i) 2x2 + kx + 3 = 0
(ii) kx (x – 2) + 6 = 0
4) An express train takes 1 hour less than a passenger train to travel 132 km between
Mysore and Bangalore (without taking into consideration the time they stop at
intermediate stations). If, the average speed of the express train is 11 km/h more
than that of the passenger train, find the average speed of two trains.
5) If I had walked 1 km per hour faster, I would have taken 10 minutes less to walk 2
km. Find the rate of my walking.
6) A swimming pool is filled with three pipes with uniform flow. The first two pipes
operating simultaneously fill the pool in the same time during which the pool is the
same time during which the pool is filled by the third pipe alone. The second pipe
fills the pool five hours faster than the first pipe and four hours slower than the
third pipe. Find the time required by each pipe to fill the pool separately.
7) The length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangleexceeds the length of the base by 2
cm and exceeds twice the length of the altitude by 1 cm. Find the length of each side of the
triangle.