EXERCISE FOR Cross -Multiplication Method
1. Which of the following pairs of linear equations has unique solution, no solution, or infinitely many solutions. In case there is a unique solution, find it by using cross multiplication method. (i) ${x – 3y – 3 = 0}$ (ii) ${2x + y = 5}$ ${3x – 9y – 2 = 0}$ ${3x+2y = 8}$ (iii) ${3x – 5y = 20}$ (iv) ${6x – 10y = 40}$ ${x – 3y – 7 =0}$ ${3x – 3y – 15 = 0}$ 2. (i) For which values of a and b does the following pair of linear equations have an infinite number of solutions? ${2x + 3y = 7}$ ${(a – b) x + (a + b) y = 3a + b – 2}$ (ii) For which value of k will the following pair of linear equations have no solution? ${3x + y = 1}$ ${(2k – 1) x + (k – 1) y = 2k + 1}$ 3. Solve the following pair of linear equations by the substitution and cross-multiplication methods : ${8x + 5y = 9}$ ${3x + 2y = 4}$ 4. Form the pair of linear equations in the following problems and find their solutions (if they exist) by any algebraic method (i) A part of monthly hostel charges is fixed and the remaining depends on the number of days one has taken food in the mess. When a student A takes food for 20 days she has to pay ₹ 1000 as hostel charges whereas a student B, who takes food for 26 days, pays ₹ 1180 as hostel charges. Find the fixed charges and the cost of food per day. (ii) A fraction becomes ${1/3}$ when 1 is subtracted from the numerator and it become ${1/4}$ when 8 is added to its denominator. Find the fraction. (iii) 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 awarded for each correct answer and 2 marks been deducted for each incorrect answer, then Yash would have scored 50 marks. How many questions were there in the test? (iv) Places A and B are 100 km apart on a highway. One car starts from A and another from B at the same time. If the cars travel in the same direction at different speeds, they meet in 5 hours. If they travel towards each other, they meet in 1 hour. What are the speeds of the two cars? (v) The area of a rectangle gets reduced by 9 square units, if its length is reduced by 5 units and breadth is increased by 3 units. If we increase the length by 3 units and the breadth by 2 units, the area increases by 67 square units. Find the dimensions of the rectangle.