Dear Abdul-Ahad Please consult https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/Hist21/q6S.pdf for the full solutions. You got 8 points (out of 10). In #4 you forgot to take the cubic roots of -1 and 8. By luck the cubic root of -1 is -1, so u=-1, but v^3=8 hence v=2. You could have found the error by plugging in x=7 into the equation and realized that you were wrong. So you lost 2 points. Best wishes, Dr. Z.