TEST ITEMS IN ADVANCED ALGEBRA:

EXPONENTS/ RADICALS/ RATIONAL EXPONENTS

1. Which of the following is equivalent to 777-776?

a. 7 (77-76) b. 776(6) c. 777-76 d. 777+76
1/2 1/3 1/6
2. What is the value of (16 )(16 )(16 )
a. 161/36 b. 2 c. 4 d. 16
0 -2 4
3. Evaluate: 3 + 3 (3 )
a. 82 b. 10 c. 9 d. 81
4. If 310041005100 = 220a1550b, then a + b =
a. 7 b. 12 c. 50 d. 100
5. Simplify 5√75 - 4√12
a. 33√3 b. 13√5 c. √63 d. 17√3
6. Find the numerical value of 363/2
a. 6 b. 432 c.108 d. 216
3x – 1
7. If 2 = 16, then x =
a. 1/3 b. 1/2 c. 1 d. 5/3
8. If x > 0 and (2x2 – 1)(4x + 2) = 8x + 3, then x =
a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 5
9. For what value(s) of n is √(n+1) = n + 1?
a. 3 b. 0 and 3 c. 1 and -1 d. no values
10. If a = b , b = c√2, and a = 18, which of the following could be the value of c?
2

a. 3 b. 3√2 c. 9 d. 81

FUNCTIONS

1. An online shop sells a certain calculator for P650 and charges P250 for shipping within
Manila, regardless of the number of calculators ordered. Which of the following equations
shows the total cost(y) of an order as a function of the number of calculators ordered (x)?
a. y= 850x + 250 c. y= (850 + 250)x
b. x= 850y + 250 d. y= 250x + 850
2. What is the domain of the function f(x) =(x-2)3/(x+2)2?
a. All real numbers. c. {x I x ≠ 2}
b. {x I -2 < x < 2} d. {x I x ≠ - 2}
3. What is the range of the function f(x) = √(x2-4)?
a. All real numbers
b. All real numbers greater than or equal to 0.
c. All real numbers greater than or equal to 2.
d. All real numbers greater than or equal to 2 or less than or equal to -2.
4. f(x) = -2x2 – 3x, f(-5) =
a. -65 b. -35 c. 35 d. 85
5. If f(x) = x2 – 5 and g(x) = x2 + 5, what is the value of f(g(5))?
a. 50 b. 405 c. 600 d. 895
6. If f(x) = (4-3x)/2, then f-1(x)=
a. (4-2x)/3 b. (3x-4)/2 c. (2x-4)/3 d. (2-3x)/4
7. If f(x) = x4 – x2 and g(x) = x3 – 3x2 + 2x, then for all values of x for which g(x) ≠ 0, f(x)

g(x)
a. 2(x+1) b. x(x+1) c. x(x-1) d. x(x-1)
x-2 x-2 x-2 x+2
 8. If y = 3x and 2x + 3y = 22, then y =
a. 2 b. 3 c. 6 d. 22/9

9. For which of the following equations is the sum of the roots equal to twice the product of
the roots?
a. x2 + 5x – 10 = 0 c. x2 – 10 x – 5 = 0
2
b. x + 10x + 5 = 0 d. x2 – 10x + 5 = 0
10. For which of the following quadratic equations is the sum of its roots equal to the product
of its roots?
a. x2 + 5x + 5 = 0 c. 2x2 - 3x + 6 = 0
2
b. x - 5x + 5 = 0 d. 2x2 + 3x - 6 = 0

WORD PROBLEMS

1. Mario sold five pigs and four goats for 21,000 pesos. Selling the animals at the same price,
Ben sold three pigs and two goats for 12,000 pesos. What is the selling price of each
animal?
a. pig = P4,000, goat = P1,000 c. pig= P3,500, goat = 2,500
b. pig = P3,000, goat = P1,500 d. pig = P2,500, goat = 2,000
2. In one senior class 1/3 of the students are honor students. Of these honor students 2/7
are varsity athletes. If they are four athletes in the class, how many students are there in
the class?
a. 84 b. 42 c. 52 d. 60
3. The product of two numbers is 60. If the sum of their reciprocals is 4/5, what are the
numbers?
a. 12 and 5 b. 10 and 6 c. 15 and 4 d. 20 and 3
4. If the sum of two numbers is 5 and the difference of the two numbers is 5, what is the
product of the two numbers?
a. 0 b. 1 c. 5 d. 25
5. A certain supermarket repacks line in smaller bags from big sacks of about 50 kg. Whether
they use 2 kgs, they still have 1 kg of rice left in the sack. How many kg of rice does a sack
contain?
a. 50 kg b. 48 kg c. 49 kg d. 55 kg
6. Charlie was 40 years when his son Adam was born. How old was Charlie when he was 5
times as old as Adam?
a. 40 b. 45 c. 50 d. 60
7. If Mary can address a box of envelopes in 5 hours and Jane can address the same box of
envelopes in 10 hours, how many minutes will it take Mary and Jane working together to
address all the envelopes in the box?
a. 80 b. 160 c. 200 d. 450
8. A father and son working together can finish painting a room in 6 hours. Working alone, a
father takes 9 hours to do the painting. How many painting hours will it take the son,
working alone, to finish painting the room?
a. 18 c. 75
b. 15 d. 12
9. At an amusement park, Lance bought 3 hamburgers and 4 sodas for a total of PhP
150. While paying the same prices, Karen bought 2 hamburgers and 3 sodas for PhP 105.
What is the total cost of 1 hamburger and 1 soda?
a. PhP 15 b. PhP 30 c. PhP 40 d. PhP 45
10. How much alcohol must be added to 100 cc of 80% sulfuric acid solution to reduce it to
50%?
 a. 18 cc b. 36 cc c. 1540 cc d. 60 cc
11. Three (3) cavans of rice will last a family of 6 members 5 weeks. At this rate, how many
weeks will 2 cavans of rice last a family of 4 members?
a. 4 b. 6 c. 5 d. 3
12. In a class of 10 boys and 15 girls, the boy’s average score on the final exam was 80 and
the girl’s average score was 90. What was the average score for the whole class?
a. 85 b. 86 c. 87 d. 84
13. In the playground for kindergarten kids, 18 children are riding tricycles or bicycles. If there
are 43 wheels in all, how many tricycles are there?
a. 7 b. 8 c. 9 d. 11
14. The average of 5 different numbers is 10. What is the highest possible value that one of
the numbers can have?
a. 30 b. 40 c. 20 d. 38
15. Nelia takes ¾ hour to dress and get ready for school. It takes 4/5 hour to reach school. If
her class start promptly at 8:15 a.m; what is the latest time she can jump out of bed in
order not to be late for school?
a. 6:42 a.m c. 6:45 a.m
b. 6:50 a.m d. 7:22 a.m