Division of Marinduque First Periodical Test Mathematics II INTERMEDIATE ALGEBRA SY 2012 -2013 Name _________________________ Date _____________________ School

l ________________________ Teacher __________________ I Directions: Read each item carefully. Write the letter of the best answer on your answer sheet. ____1. What is the middle term of the product of (x-4)2 ? A. 8x C. 16x B. -8x D. -16x ____2. What is the product of (x+14) (x-14) A. x2 -28x + 196 C. x2 - 196 B. x2 -28 d. x2 +28x + 196 2 ____3. What is the product of (x-2) C. x2 + 2x + 1 C. x2 4x+ 4 D. x2 + 3x + 5 D. x2 6x +8 ____4. Find the greatest common factor of 14x2y2 and 56xy A. 14x2y C. 56xy B. 14xy D. 56x2y2 ____5. If 2x 3 is one of the factors of , what is the other factor? A. C. B. D. ____6. Which expression is a perfect square trinomial? A. a2 -5a + 4 C. a2 + 7a + 2/49 B. 4a2 4a + 1 D. 2x2 3x + 5 ____7. How will you express 100 and 5 as a difference of two squares? A. ( 100 + 5) (100 + 5) C. ( 100 + 5) ( 100 5) B. ( 100 5) ( 100 -5) D. ( 100 5)2 ____8. What must be the value of k in 4x2 + kx + 25 ? A. 28 C. 50 B. 20 D. 28 ____9. What is the area of the square with side (3x 5y) ? A. C. B. D. ____10. Which is the equivalent expression of (2x + 7 )2 ? A. C. B. D. ____11. What is the product of (5x +7) (5x 7)? A. C. B. D. ____12. The result when x+3 is multiplied to . A. C. B. D. ____13. Which of the following expressions is written in factored form? A. 4x ( 3x + 5) C. 3 ( a2 b2) B. 2x2 + 6x D. ( x + 4) (x2 + 4x + 4) 2 2 3 2 ____14. What is the GCF of 48x y , 7x y and 36xy2 ? A. 6xy2 C. 12x3y4 B. D. ____15. Factor A. (3x + 2) (5x + 3) C. (x + 6) (15x + 1) B. (5x + 6) (3x + 1) D. ( 3x + 2) (5x + 3) ____16. Which of the following are the correct factors of the expression A. (5y-12)(15+4) C. 3(25y-16)(25y+16) B. (15y-4)(5y+12) D. 3(5y-4)(5y+4)

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____17. In factoring completely the first step is to: A. Write the factors as a product C. use the FOIL method B. Find the common monomial factor D. find the binomial factors ____18. What are the factors of A. (x-3)(x+2y) C. (x-2y-3)(x+2y-3) B. (x-3)(x-2y) D. (x-2y-3)(x+2y+3) ____19. Which of the following equation is written in standard form? A. C. B. D. ____20. If is to be solved using quadratic formula, which of the following would be best to do first? A. Add 1/6 to each side C. multiply each side by 6 B. Divide each side by 6 D. multiply each side by 3 ____21. How many solutions does have? A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4 ____22. Which of the following is not factorable A. c. B. d. ____23. Which of the following is not factorable A. c. B. d. ____24. Find the sum of the roots of A. B. 9 C. -9 ____25. What is the product of the roots of ? A. B. 5 C. -59

D. D.

26- 30 Find the roots of the following quadratic equations using any method. ____26. A. 3, -4 B. -3 , -4 C. -3 , 4 D. 3 , 4 ____27. A. 2 , -5/3 C. -2 , 5/3 B. -2 , - 5/3 D. 2 , 5/3 ____28. A. 0 , 7/5 C. 5 , 7 B. 0, -7/5 D. -5 , 7
____29. A. 4, -4 B. 4 , 4 ____30. A. -7 , 3 B. 7 , -3 ____31. What number must be added to A. 11/2 B. 11/4 C. D. 2 , -2 ,

C. -7 , -3 D. 7 , 3 in order to make the expression a perfect square trinomial? C. 121/2 D. 121/4

____32. Which of the following is a quadratic formula? A. C.

B. D. ____33. Complete the square and write the resulting trinomial in factored form A. C. B. D. ____34. What is the product of the roots of ? A. 5/2 C. -5 B. 5 D. -5/2 ____35. In which is not equal to zero? A. a B. b C. c D. a and b
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____36. Which of the following describes a discriminant? A. To judge unfairly C. The leasing coefficient in B. D. The radicand in the quadratic formula. ____37. What is the value of the discriminant of the equation A. -31 B. -49 C. 31 D. 49 ____38. In the equation , what is b? A. -9 B. -3 C. 0 D. 2 ____39. Using the discriminant which of the following describes the solution of the equation ? A. Equal real numbers C. two imaginary B. Two real numbers D. two complex 2 ____40. If b 4ac > 0, what can be said about the solution of the quadratic equation? A. The equation has one real number solution. B. The equation has two unequal real number solutions C. The equation has two complex number solutions. D. The equation has imaginary solution. ____41. Which quadratic equation has only numerical 7 as a solution? A. C. B. D. is one of the roots of ____42. If is one of the roots of , what is the other root? A. 3 B. 1/3 C. 1/3 D. -2 ____43. The quadratic equation whose solutions are 4 and - 1/3 A. C. B. D. ____44. In a theater, there are 1200 seats. The number of seats in each row is 10 less than the number of rows. How many seats are there in each row? A. 40 B. 30 C. 30 D. 40 ____45. A number less its reciprocal is 8/3. What is the number? A. 3 B. 1/3 C. 1/3 D. 3 II. Solve. Each problem is worth 3 points. Show your computation. 46. The width of a rectangle is 16 feet less than 3 times the length. If the area is 35 square feet, How would you represent the equation to find the dimensions of the rectangle? A. 16 = x(3x -35). C. 35 = x(3x -16). B. 16 = x(3x +35). D. 35 = x(3x +16). 47. In the interior of a forest, a certain number of apes equal to the square of one-eighth of the total number are playing and having great fun. The remaining twelve apes are on a hill and the echo of their shrieks by the adjoining hills frightens them. They came and join the apes in the forest and play with enthusiasm. What is the total number of apes? a. 48 b. 16 c. 64 d. 80 e. 16 or 48 48. In writing a quadratic equation of the form a student writes the coefficient of x incorrectly and find the roots as 7 and 8. Another student makes a mistake in writing the constant term and gets the roots as 8 and -3. Find the correct quadratic equation. a. c. b. d. 49. A piece of wire is 52 m long. It is cut into two pieces, each of which is then bent to form a square. The total area of the two squares is 97 cm. How much longer is a side of the larger square than a side of the smaller square? 50. Construct a tile that represents the problem then solve. A plastic box that holds a standard audiocassette has a length 4 cm. longer than its width. The area of the rectangular top of the box is 77 square cm. Find the length and width of the box.

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