
A train which moves with uniform speed for a certain distance takes less if its speed is increased by it would have taken more, had its speed been decreased by Find the distance of the journey and the speed of the train.

Important Questions on Pair of Linear Equations in Two Variables


A man can row in still water and he finds that it takes him twice as long to row up as to row down the stream. What is the rate of the stream.



A person walks a certain distance. Had she walked half a km an hour faster than she did, she would have taken half an hour less, but had she walked half a km an hour slower, she would have taken more. Find the distance and her rate of walking.

A wizard having powers of magical medicines seeing a cock fight going on, spoke privately to both the owners of cocks. To one he said, if your bird wins, then you give me your stake-money, but if you do not win, I shall give you two third of that. Going to the other, he promised in the same way to give three fourths. From both of them his gain would be only gold pieces. Tell me Ornament of the first rate Mathematicians, the stake of money each of the cock-owners.

Write the values of '' for which the system of equations: has a unique solution.
