HOLY TRINITY UNIVERSITY

Puerto Princesa City, 5300

Integrated Basic Education Department
SY 2017 - 2018

ACHIEVEMENT TEST IN MATHEMATICS 9

(Grade 9 – Charity)

“The only permanent thing in this world is change.

What you own today may not be yours in the future. What is true today may not be true tomorrow.
Where you are staying at the moment may not be where you are after a while.
- Gladys Glo H. Marcelo, Basic Calculus

Name: ______________________ Date: _____________ Score: _____________

Directions: Read and understand each question very carefully. Write the letter of the correct answer on
the space provided before each number. STRICTLY NO ERASURES. USE OF ANY CORRECTION FLUID
OR CORRECTION TAPE IS NOT ALLOWED.

_______1. What is the degree of any real numbers?

A. 0 B. 1 C. 2 D. 3

_______2. The number 78 is divided into the ratio 3:5. What is the larger part?
A. 9.75 B. 29.25 C. 48.75 D. 69.25

_______3. Suppose z varies directly as y and inversely as x, and z = 12 when x = 8 and y = 24. What
𝑥
is when z = 16?
𝑦
1 1
A. B. 4 C. 2 D, 4
2

_______4. What is the simplified form of √48𝑎𝑏 4 𝑐 5 ?

A. 4b2c2√3𝑎𝑐 B. 2b2c2√12𝑎𝑐 C. 2b2c2√4𝑏𝑐 D. 12b2c2√2𝑏 2 𝑐

_______5. What is the vertex of the parabola y = x2 – 3 ?

A. (3, 0) B. (- 3, 0) C. (0,3) D. (0, -3)

_______6. What is the square root of 169?

A. 11 B. 12 C. 13 D. 14

_______7. What is the value of the discriminant of 3x2 + 4x = - 5?

A. 22 B. 44 C. - 44 D. - 22

_______8. What is the product of the roots of x2 – 8 = 0?

A. – 8 B. – 4 C. – 2 D. 0

_______9. What are the roots of the equation x2 + x – 12 = 0?

A. Two rational roots B. Two irrational roots
C. Two imaginary roots D. One real root

_______10. Which of the following are proportions?

A. 4:3 = 12:9 B. 3:4 = 5:6 C. 10:15 = 3:5 D. 6:8 = 42:56
_______11. What is the product of √8 and √12?
A. 96 B. 9.7 C. 4√6 D. - 4√6

_______12. What are the zeroes of f(x) = x2 – 2x – 15?

A. 5 and 3 B. 5 and – 3 C. – 5 and 3 D. – 5 and – 3

_______13. What is the graph of a quadratic equation?

A. Circle B. Ellipse C. Line D. Parabola

_______14. The supplementary angles are in the ratio 3;7. What is the measure of each angle?
A. 50 and 130 B. 54 and 126 B. 60 and 120 C. 64 and 116

_______15. What must be added to x2 – 4x to make it a perfect square trinomial?

A. 2 B. 4 C. 8 D. 16

_______16. The roots of a quadratic equation are 3 and – 3. What is the equation?
A. x2 + 9 = 0 B. x2 – 9 = 0
C. x2 – 3 = 0 D. x + 3 = 0

_______17. The sum of two numbers is 22 and the sum of their squares is 250. What is the product
of the two numbers?
A. 9 B. 13 C. 22 D. 117

_______18. What do you call a polynomial in 2nd degree?

A. Cubic B. Quadratic C. Quantic D. Quartic

_______19. Which of the following has -3 and 7 as roots?

A. x2 + 4x – 21 = 0 B. x2 – 4x – 21 = 0
C. x2 – 4x + 21 = 0 D. x2 + 4x + 21 = 0

_______20. The legs of a right triangle are 3 cm and 4 cm. What is the value of its hypotenuse?
A. 1 B. 3 C. 5 D. 7

_______21. How can you describe the graph of a quadratic function of the form y = ax2 + bx + c?
B. Circle B. Ellipse C. Line D. Parabola

_______22. What must be added to x2 – 4x to make it a perfect square trinomial?

A. 2 B. 4 C. 8 D. 16

_______23. If x4 = 16 is equivalent to (x2)2 = 16, which of the following are two of its solutions?
A. ± 16 B. ± 8 C. ± 4 D. ±2

_______24. What is the roots of x2 + 3x + 9 = 0?

A. 3 and 3 B. – 3 and 3

−3±3√3 −3±3𝑖√3
C. D. .
2 2

_______25. How many real-number solutions are there in x2 + 16 = 0?

A. 2 B. 1 C. infinite D. none

_______26. What is the product of the roots of 2x2 = x + 3?

1 3 3
A. B. C. – 1 D.− 2
2 2
_______27. What is the sum of the roots of 2x2 – 50 = 0?
A. 25 B. 5 C. 0 D. – 5

_______28. What is the quotient of the radicals if √32 is divided by √2 ?

A. 96 B. 9.7 C. 4√6 D. – 4√6

_______29. Which of the following is a solution of (x – 3)(x – 4) = 20?

A. – 3 B. 4 C. 8 D. 20

3
_______30. What is the radical form of (4x)2 ?
3 4 3
A. √(4𝑥)3 B. √(4𝑥)2 B. √(2𝑥)3 B. √(2𝑥)4

6(𝑥−1) 3𝑥
_______31. A student said that the solution set for the equation –𝑥= is {2, 3}.
𝑥−2 𝑥−2
Was he correct?
A. Cannot be determined B. Maybe
C. No D. Yes

_______32. What type of variation is illustrated by the table below?

x 2 4 5 9
y 1 2 2.5 4.5

A. Direct B. Direct Square

C. Inverse D. Joint

_______33. What is the relation among the variables if V is proportional to r2 and h, and V = 8𝜋
when r = 2 and h = 2?
1
A. V = 𝜋r2h B. V = 2𝜋r2h C. V = 4𝜋r2h D. V = 2 𝜋r2h

_______34. What is the best method to sove quadratic equation 3x2 – 11x + 10 = 0?
A. Completing the Square B. Factoring
C. Quadratic Formula D. Square Root Property

_______35. The distance travelled by a falling object varies directly as the square of the time it
spends in falling. If a body falls 64 ft in 2 seconds, what is the distance that it will fall in
10 seconds/
A. 40 ft B. 160 ft. C. 1,600 ft D. 4,000 ft

_______36. How do you express the statement “W varies directly as x3 but inversely as y2” as an
equation?
𝑥3 𝑘𝑥 3
A. 𝑊 = B. W = kx3y2 C. W = x3y2 D. 𝑊 =
𝑦2 𝑦2

2
_______37. What is the fourth proportional to 143, 22 and 8?
4 1
A. B. 122 C. 12 D. 18
9

_______38. The sum of two numbers is 22, and their product is 120. What equations can be used to
find the numbers?
A. x2 – 22x + 120 = 0 B. x2 + 22x + 120 = 0
C. x2 – 22x – 120 = 0 D. - x2 + 22x – 120 = 0
_______39. If the recirprocal of a number is subtracted from th original number, the difference
8
is 3? What is the number?
1
A. B. – 3 C. 3 D. - 1
3

_______40. What is the constant of variation shown in the table below?

a 10 7 5.5 1.5
b 50 35 27.5 6.5

1 1
A. B. 2 C. 5 D. 10
5

_______41. What is the third proportional to 8 and 14?

1
A. 196 B. 112 C. 64 D. 24 2

_______42. The square root of a number is 25. What is the number?

A. 441 B. 529 C. 625 D. 729

_______43. What is the discriminant of 5x2 = 3x + 2?

A. 49 B. – 49 C. 7 D. √7

_______44. If 5:6 = x:24, what is x?

1
A. 120 B. 20 C. 20 D. 100

_______45. What is the value of x in the equation √2𝑥 + 7 = 3?

A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4

_______46. What are the roots of 3(x2 – 1) = 24?

A. 3 and 24 B. 3 and 8 C. 3 and – 1 D. 3 and – 3

_______47. What is the mean proportional between 2 and 8?

A. 16 B. 8 C. 20 D. 2

_______48. What are the values of a, b, and c in the equation 5x = (2x + 1)2?
A. a = - 4, b = - 1, c = 1 B. a = 2, b = -5, c = 1
C. a = 4, b = -1, c = 1 D. a = -4, b = 7, c = - 1

𝑘𝑥 𝑚
_______49. In the equation 𝑧 = , y ≠ 0, what varies inversely as z?
𝑦𝑛
A. k B. xm C. n D. yn

_______50. P is inversely proportional to x, and P = 9 when x = 4. What is the value of P when x =

12?
1
A. B. 3 C. 9 D. 27
3

_______51. What is the value of x in the equation √𝑥 − 1 - 5 = - 3?

A. 5 B. – 5 C. 3 D. – 3

_______52. The areas of two circles vary directly as the squares of their radii. What is the ratio of
the area of a circle whose radius is 9 cm to the area of the circle whose radius is 6 cm?
A. 9:4 B. 4: 9 C. 2:3 D. 3:2
_______53. What is the value of x in the equation 3 - √𝑥 − 4 = 0?
A. 11 B. 12 C. 13 D. 14

_______54. A post 5 m high casts a shadow of 6 m. if the shadow of a nearby tree is measured to
be 24 m, how high is the tree?
A. 144 m B. 120 m C. 30 m D. 20 m

_______55. What is the quantity whose value is always changing?

A. Cannot be determined B. Direct Variation
C. Inverse Variation D. Joint Variation

For items 56 – 60, determine whether the relation between the quantities involved is a direct,
inverse joint or combined variation. Choose and write the letter of the correct answer.

_______56. The number of workers and the time required to finish an amount of work.
A. Combined Variation B. Direct Variation
C. Inverse Variation D. Joint Variation

_______57. The number of workers and the amount of work finished.

A. Combined Variation B. Direct Variation
C. Inverse Variation D. Joint Variation

_______58. The number of family members and the length of time to consume 1 sack of rice.
A. Combined Variation B. Direct Variation
C. Inverse Variation D. Joint Variation

_______59. The quality of the goods and the price of these goods
A. Combined Variation B. Direct Variation
C. Inverse Variation D. Joint Variation

_______60. The time elapsed for a car to cover a distance and the speed of the car
A. Combined Variation B. Direct Variation
C. Inverse Variation D. Joint Variation

For items 61 – 65, refer to the figure below

Given: Triangle ABC is similar to Triangle DEF.

A D

c b
f e

B C
a
E F
d

_______61. If a = 3, b = 4, c = 2, and d = 6, what is the value of e?

A. 2 B. 4 C. 6 D. 8

_______62. If a = 3, b = 4, c = 2, and d = 6, what is the value of f?

A. 2 B. 4 C. 6 D. 8

_______63. If a = 5, b = 7, c = 2, and f = 4, what is the value of d?

A. 10 B. 12 C. 14 D. 16
_______64. If a = 5, b = x + 5, c = x + 2, d = 10, e = 12 and f = 6, what is the value of x?
A. 1 B. 1 C. 3 D. 4
_______65. If a = 3, b = 6, c = 4, d = x + 3, e = 12 and f = x + 5, what is the value of x?
A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5

For items 66 - 70, refer to the figure below.

In triangle ABC, DE is parallel to BC.

A

E D

C B

_______66. If DB = 3, AE = 2, and EC = 6, what is the value of AD?

A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4

_______67. If AD = 2, DB = 3, and EC = 6, what is the value of AE?

A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4

_______68. If AE = 6, EC = 8, and AD = 3, what is the value of DB?

A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4

_______69. If AD = 2, DB = 5, and Ae = 4, what is the value of EC?

A. 5 B. 10 C. 15 D. 20

_______70. If AD = x + 2, AE = 6, EC = 8, and DB = 4, what is the value of x?

A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4

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Prepared by:

MR. DIONEL R. RIZO

Subject Teacher