Examples with solutions for Solving Quadratic Equations using Factoring: Worded problems

Exercise #1

The mathematics assessment has two parts, the second part has half of the questions of the first part, in total there are 15 questions.

How many questions are in each part?

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Answer

5, 10

Exercise #2

A theory exam consists of 17 questions and is divided into three parts.

The second part has 3 fewer questions than the first part and the last part has half the number of questions as the first part.

How many questions are there in each part?

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Answer

8,5,4 8,5,4

Exercise #3

Sarah likes to go to the market every Tuesday, she always buys 2 tomatoes and cucumbers and a greater amount 5 times the amount of bananas than the amount of tomatoes.

In total she goes home with 40 units of fruits and vegetables.

How many cucumbers does Sarah buy?

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Answer

7