Topics: Work, Binomial Expansion & Remainder Theorem

1st Review Session 3 (February 3, 2024)

Assignment Problems

Problems:

1. A room can be painted in 21 hours by John and in 14 hours by Johnson. How

long will it take them to paint the room working together?
Answer: 8¾ hours

2. How long will it take workers A and B, together, to complete a job which could be
done by A alone in 7 days, and by B alone in 9 day.
Answer: 3 and 15/16 days

3. Two people working together can complete a job in 6 hours. If one of them works
twice as fast as the other, how long would it take the slower person, working
alone, to do the job?
Answer: 18 hours

4. A sink has two faucets: one for hot water and one for cold water. The sink can be
filled by a cold-water faucet in 3.5 minutes. If both faucets are open, the sink is
filled in 2.1 minutes. How long does it take to fill the sink with just the hot-water
faucet open?
Answer: 5.25 minutes

5. If 1000 articles of a given type can be turned out by a first machine in 9 hours, by
a second in 6 hours, and by a third in 12 hours, how long will it take to turn out
the articles if all machines work together?
Answer: 2 and 10/13 days

6. Find the term involving y4 in the expansion of (x-y)7.

Answer: 35x3y4
7. Find the 6th term of (a2+x)7.
Answer: 21a4x3
8. Find middle term of (a + 3x2)8.
Answer: 5670a4x3
9. Find the term of (a + x)8 with the largest coefficient in the expansion of the power.
Answer: 70a4x4
10. Find the term involving a3/x3 in the expansion of (z3 + (3a/x))7.
Answer: 945a3z12/x3

11. Find the remainder when 4x3 – 8x2 – 9x + 7 is divided by 2x – 3.

Answer: -11
12. The polynomial 3x3 – kx + 5 leaves a remainder of 80 when divided by x – 3. Find
the value of k.
Answer: 2

13. If two polynomials 2x3 + kx2 + 4x – 12 and x3 + x2 – 2x + k leave the same remainder
when divided by (x – 3), find the value of k and the remainder.
Answer: -3 & 27

14. Find the value of m, if x = 1/2 is one of the zeroes of the polynomial p(x) = 4x 4 −
4x3 − mx2 + 12x − 3.
Answer: 11

15. Find the value of k if p(x) = (3x – 2)(x – k) – 8 is divided by (x – 2) leaving the
remainder 4.
Answer: -1

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