1. Find five consecutive numbers below that total 23.

6 2 9 3 4 7 2 9 3 2 6 4 9 12

2. Simplify the following expressions:

(a) (3x 2 – 8x + 2) ÷ (5x)
(b) (6x 4 – 6x 2 +3) ÷ (2x – 1)

3. At a departmental store, x blouses were sold at $15 each and y pants were sold at $20 each.
(a) If a total of 80 pieces of blouse and pants were sold, write down an equation in x and y.
(b) If the total sales were $1460, write down another equation x and y.
(c) Find the ratio of the number of blouses sold to that of pants sold.

4. (a) Given the functions ƒ(x) = x – 3 and g(x) = 4x 2 – 3x – 9. Find the value for gƒ(2).
(b)Given the function h(x) = (t – 3)2 , t ≥ 3. Find the value of h -1(4).

5. Factorise completely the following expressions:

(a) 5y2 + 15y
(b) x 5 -81x
(c) a5 + a2b3 – a3 b2 – b5

6. Simply the following expressions:

(a) x 7y3 z2 + (x 3y) 2
5
(b) {[ (x 3)( 4√𝑦 )0 + 3}2
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(c) –(x 2 √𝑦 5 ) 4

7. The function ƒ and g are defined by:

ƒ(x) = 3x + 5
g(x) = 2x 2 – x + 8
(a) Evaluate gƒ(-2).
(b) Given that ƒg(x) = 32, find the values of x.
(c) Find g-1 (x).

8. Prove that
tan x + cot x = sec x csc x