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Answers To Core Revision Exercises: Algebra: Worksheet 2: Making Sense of Algebra

This document contains sample algebra problems and exercises including simplifying expressions, factorizing, expanding brackets, writing numbers as products of primes, and word problems involving bottles sold over multiple days. There are 9 sections with multiple parts to each section testing different algebra skills.

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Answers To Core Revision Exercises: Algebra: Worksheet 2: Making Sense of Algebra

This document contains sample algebra problems and exercises including simplifying expressions, factorizing, expanding brackets, writing numbers as products of primes, and word problems involving bottles sold over multiple days. There are 9 sections with multiple parts to each section testing different algebra skills.

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Cambridge IGCSE Mathematics Core and Extended CD-ROM

Answers to Core revision exercises: Algebra


Worksheet 2: Making sense of algebra

1 1
1 (a) x – 6 (b) x (c) x + 2.5 (d) x (e) 2x
2 3

2x2
2 (a) 2a + 6b (b) 32xy (c) (d) 2x2y – 4xy
9
6x x
(e) 9yz (f) 5x – 9y (g) (h)
5 2 y2

3 (a) 21 (b) 20 (c) –1


(d) 50 (e) 56 (f) 6
(g) 3 (h) 70 (i) 2
(j) 2 (k) 0.45 (l) 4
(m) 2 (n) 160 (o) 2

4 (a) 4x + 12
(b) 5x – 10
(c) 2x2 + 8x
(d) 3x2 – 6x
(e) 7x2 + 7xy
(f) 3x + 8
(g) 6x – 8
(h) 2x – 4y
(i) 6x + 2
(j) 4x2 – 8x + 2y2 + 3y
(k) 3x – 36
(l) 7x3 – 8x2 + 15x

5 (a) 13 × 22
(b) 2 × 13
(c) 22 × 32
(d) 24 × 32
(e) 25
(f) 34
(g) 210
(h) 2 × 52 × 72

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Cambridge IGCSE Mathematics Core and Extended CD-ROM

6 The only way that we can write the prime number 41 as a product is 41 x 1. But 1 is not a prime number.
Therefore we can’t write 41 as a product of only primes. In fact this is true for any prime integer.

7 (a) x6 (b) y4 (c) x6


(d) x15 (e) 2 (f) 2
-2 8
(g) x (h) 2x (i) 24x3y2
(j) 2x3y4 (k) 8x6 (l) 64x9
4
(m) 24x3 (n) (o) 64x12
3xy
2 1
(p) (q) x4 (r)
a 4x 2
2 1
(s) (t)
x2 y x y4z2
2

8 (a) 4(x + 3) = 4x + 12
(b) 4(x – 2) + 2(x + 4) = 4x – 8 + 2x + 8 = 6x + 0 = 6x
(c) 3(x – 2) + 5(x + 1) = 3x – 6 + 5x + 5 = 8x – 1
(d) 2(x + 3) + 3(x + 4) = 2x + 6 + 3x + 12 = 5x + 18

9 (a) Total bottles in a day


(b) How many more water bottles were sold than cool drink bottles
(c) How many more cool drink bottle were sold than water bottles
(d) Total number of water bottles in d days
(e) Total number of bottles in d days
(f) 8 less water bottles than the total number of bottles in d days

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