Examples of math exam questions for grade 2 high school along with answer keys and explanations

1. If a right triangle has legs of length 6 and 8, what is the length of the hypotenuse?
Answer: The length of the hypotenuse is 10. This can be found using the Pythagorean theorem,
which states that a² + b² = c², where a and b are the lengths of the legs and c is the length of the
hypotenuse.

2. What is the slope of the line that passes through the points (3, 4) and (7, 10)?
Answer: The slope of the line is 1. This can be found using the slope formula, which states that (y2 -
y1) / (x2 - x1) is the slope of a line that passes through the points (x1, y1) and (x2, y2).

3. What is the equation of the line that passes through the point (4, -2) and has a slope of 2?
Answer: The equation of the line is y = 2x - 10. This can be found using the point-slope form of the
equation of a line, which states that y - y1 = m(x - x1), where m is the slope of the line and (x1, y1) is
a point on the line.

4. If the radius of a circle is 5, what is its circumference?

Answer: The circumference of the circle is 2πr, or 10π.

5. What is the equation of a circle with center (2, -3) and radius 4?
Answer: The equation of the circle is (x - 2)² + (y + 3)² = 16. This can be found using the standard
form of the equation of a circle, which is (x - h)² + (y - k)² = r², where (h, k) is the center of the circle
and r is its radius.

6. If f(x) = 3x - 2 and g(x) = x² + 1, what is f(g(2))?

Answer: First, we find g(2) by substituting 2 for x in the equation for g(x): g(2) = 2² + 1 = 5. Then, we
find f(g(2)) by substituting 5 for x in the equation for f(x): f(g(2)) = 3(5) - 2 = 13.

7. If log₂(x) = 3, what is x?
Answer: x = 8. This can be found by rewriting the logarithmic equation as an exponential equation:
2³ = x.
8. If a function is defined by f(x) = 2x + 1, what is the value of f(4)?
Answer: f(4) = 9. This can be found by substituting 4 for x in the equation for f(x): f(4) = 2(4) + 1 = 9.

9. What is the solution to the equation 2x - 3 = 7?

Answer: x = 5. This can be found by adding 3 to both sides of the equation and then dividing by 2:
2x = 10, x = 5.

10. If a rectangle has a length of 8 and a width of 3, what is its area?

Answer: The area of the rectangle is 24. This can be found by multiplying the length and width of
the rectangle: 8 x 3 = 24.
11. What is the slope-intercept form of the equation of a line with a slope of -2 and a y-intercept of 4?
Answer: The slope-intercept form of the equation is y = -2x + 4. This can be found using the formula
y = mx + b, where m is the slope and b is the y-intercept.

12. If the roots of the quadratic equation x² - 6x + 9 = 0 are both equal, what is the value of the roots?
Answer: The roots are both equal to 3. This can be found by factoring the quadratic equation as (x -
3)² = 0 and then taking the square root of both sides.

13. If a sphere has a radius of 2, what is its volume?

Answer: The volume of the sphere is (4/3)πr³, or about 33.51.

14. If sinθ = 0.6, what is cosθ?

Answer: cosθ = √(1 - sin²θ), or about 0.8. This can be found using the Pythagorean identity, which
states that sin²θ + cos²θ = 1.

15. What is the midpoint of the line segment that connects the points (-1, 2) and (5, -6)?
Answer: The midpoint is (2, -2). This can be found using the midpoint formula, which states that the
midpoint of a line segment with endpoints (x1, y1) and (x2, y2) is ((x1 + x2)/2, (y1 + y2)/2).

16. If log₃(x) - log₃(y) = 2, what is the value of x/y?

Answer: x/y = 9. This can be found by using the logarithmic identity logₐ(b/c) = logₐ(b) - logₐ(c) to
rewrite the left-hand side of the equation as log₃(x/y) = 2, and then solving for x/y.
17. If a function is defined by g(x) = 2x - 3 and h(x) = 4x + 1, what is h(g(2))?
Answer: First, we find g(2) by substituting 2 for x in the equation for g(x): g(2) = 2(2) - 3 = 1. Then,
we find h(g(2)) by substituting 1 for x in the equation for h(x): h(g(2)) = 4(1) + 1 = 5.

18. If a triangle has side lengths of 3, 4, and 5, what type of triangle is it?
Answer: The triangle is a right triangle. This can be found using the Pythagorean theorem, which
states that a² + b² = c² for a right triangle with legs of length a and b and hypotenuse of length c.

19. What is the solution to the equation |2x - 3| = 5?

Answer: The solutions are x = 4 and x = -1/2. This can be found by using the definition of absolute
value: |2x - 3| = 5 if 2x - 3 = 5 or 2x - 3 = -5.

20. What is the derivative of the function f(x) = x² - 3x + 2?

Answer: The derivative is f'(x) = 2x - 3. This can be found using the power rule of differentiation,
which states that the derivative