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Unitary Method Ten questions which can be solved using the unitary method.
Unit Pricing Calculate the unit cost of items to earn jigsaw pieces that make a joke.
Direct and Inverse Proportion A self-marking exercise in solving direct and inverse variation problems.
Here are some exam-style questions on this statement:
- "The Billing triplets are planting seedlings on the first day of the month. The three of them take two hours to plant 300 seedlings." ... more
- "A Primary school asked 9 children to remove the weeds from the school gardens. The gardens measured 100m2 in total and the job was completed in 10 hours (spread over many weeks)." ... more
- "People are paid to paint polygons." ... more
- "Which of the following statements are correct if \(xy = c\) and \(c\) is a constant." ... more
- "If \(a\) is inversely proportional to \(b\) and \(b\) is directly proportional to \(c^2\) find a formula for \(a\) in terms of \(c\) given that \( a=20 \) and \(c = 4 \) when \(b = 8 \). " ... more
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