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MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.

Determine the number of real-number solutions of the equation from the given graph.
1) 4x2 + 16 = 16x, given the graph of y = 16x - 4x2 - 16

5 y

4
3
2
1

-5 -4 -3 -2 -1 1 2 3 4 5x
-1
-2
-3
-4
-5
A) 2 B) 3 C) 1 D) 0
Answer: C

2) 4x2 + 20x + 25 = 0, given the graph of y = 4x2 + 20x + 25

5 y

4
3
2
1

-5 -4 -3 -2 -1 1 2 3 4 5x
-1
-2
-3
-4
-5
A) 2 B) 1 C) 0 D) 3
Answer: B

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3) x2 + x - 9 = 0, given the graph of y = x2 + x - 9

y
14
12
10
8
6
4
2

-14-12-10-8 -6 -4 -2
-2 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 x
-4
-6
-8
-10
-12
-14

A) 3 B) 2 C) 1 D) 0
Answer: B

4) x2 - x - 8 = 0, given the graph of y = x2 - x - 8

y
14
12
10
8
6
4
2

-14-12-10-8 -6 -4 -2
-2 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 x
-4
-6
-8
-10
-12
-14

A) 0 B) 3 C) 1 D) 2
Answer: D

5) x2 - x + 1 = 0, given the graph of y = x2 - x + 1

y
14
12
10
8
6
4
2

-14-12-10-8 -6 -4 -2
-2 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 x
-4
-6
-8
-10
-12
-14

A) 2 B) 0 C) 3 D) 1
Answer: B

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6) -2x2 - x - 5 = 0, given the graph of y = -2x2 - x - 5

10 y

8
6
4
2

-10 -8 -6 -4 -2 2 4 6 8 x
-2
-4
-6
-8
-10
A) 1 B) 0 C) 3 D) 2
Answer: B

7) 5x2 + 4x + 5 = 0, given the graph of y = 5x2 + 4x + 5

10 y

8
6
4
2

-10 -8 -6 -4 -2 2 4 6 8 x
-2
-4
-6
-8
-10
A) 3 B) 2 C) 0 D) 1
Answer: C

8) 2x2 + 4 = 6x, given the graph of y = 2x2 + 4 - 6x

10 y

8
6
4
2

-10 -8 -6 -4 -2 2 4 6 8 x
-2
-4
-6
-8
-10
A) 2 B) 3 C) 1 D) 0
Answer: A

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 9) 0.01x2 + 0.004x + 0.0004 = 0, given the graph of y = 0.01x2 + 0.004x + 0.0004

10 y

8
6
4
2

-10 -8 -6 -4 -2 2 4 6 8 x
-2
-4
-6
-8
-10
A) 2 B) 0 C) 1 D) 3
Answer: C

Solve.
10) (x - 12)2 = 4
A) {10, 14} B) {14} C) {8} D) {-10, -14}
Answer: A

11) (p - 1)2 = 17
A) { 17 + 1, - 17 + 1} B) { 17 - -1}
C) { 17 + 1} D) { 17 - 1, - 17 - 1}
Answer: A

12) 3x2 = 21
A) 10.5 B) 8 C) ± 7 D) ±7
Answer: C

13) 4z2 + 5 = 329

A) ±10 B) ±9 C) 9 D) 164.5
Answer: B

14) (2s + 6)2 = 9

3 3 3 9 3 9
A) - , 0 B) C) - ,- D) ,
2 2 2 2 2 2
Answer: C

15) (5t + 5)2 = 15

10 10 15 + 5 - 15 + 5
A) ,- B) ,
5 5 5 5
15 - 5 - 15 - 5
C) , D) 15 - 5, - 15 - 5
5 5
Answer: C

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16) x2 - 8x + 16 = 49
A) 7, -7 B) 11, -3 C) 53 D) -3, -11
Answer: B

17) x2 + 4x + 4 = 15
A) -2 + 15, -2 - 15 B) 2 + 15, 2 - 15
C) 13 D) 15, 15
Answer: A

1 2 3
18) x + =
5 25
-1 ± 3 -1 ± 3 2 -1 ± 3 1± 3
A) B) C) D)
25 5 5 5
Answer: C

1 2
19) x - 3 = 80
3
3±4 5
A) 12 5 ± -9 B) -9 ± 12 5 C) D) 9 ± 12 5
3
Answer: D

20) Let f(x) = (x + 8)2 . Find x so that f(x) = 100.

A) 2 B) 18 C) 92 D) -18, 2
Answer: D

21) Let f(x) = (x + 4)2 . Find x so that f(x) = 20.

A) -4 + 2 5 B) -24, 16
C) 396 D) -4 + 2 5, -4 - 2 5
Answer: D

22) Let f(x) = (x + 3)2 . Find x so that f(x) = 75.

A) 3 + 5 3, 3 - 5 3 B) 72, -78
C) -3 + 5 3, -3 - 5 3 D) 12, -18
Answer: C

23) Let f(x) = x2 - 2x + 1. Find x so that f(x) = 100.

A) -9, 11 B) 9 C) 11 D) -1
Answer: A

24) Let f(x) = x2 - 14x + 49. Find x so that f(x) = 12.

A) -5, 19 B) 151 C) 7 + 2 3 D) 7 + 2 3 , 7 - 2 3
Answer: D

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Complete the square. Then write the perfect-square trinomial in factored form.
25) x2 + 6x
A) x2 + 6x; (x + 3)2 B) x2 + 6x + 9; (x - 3)2
C) x2 + 6x + 9; (x + 3)2 D) x2 + 6x + 36; (x + 6)2
Answer: C

26) x2 + 16x
A) x2 + 16x + 64; (x - 8)2 B) x2 + 16x + 64; (x + 8)2
C) x2 + 16x + 256; (x + 16)2 D) x2 + 16x; (x + 8)2
Answer: B

27) x2 - 8x
A) x2 - 8x + 16; (x - 4)2 B) x2 - 8x; (x - 4)2
C) x2 - 8x - 16; (x - 8)2 D) x2 - 8x + 16; (x + 4)2
Answer: A

28) x2 - 16x
A) x2 - 16x + 64; (x + 8)2 B) x2 - 16x; (x - 8)2
C) x2 - 16x - 64; (x - 16)2 D) x2 - 16x + 64; (x - 8)2
Answer: D

29) x2 + 7x
7 2
A) x2 + 7x; x + B) x2 + 7x + 49; x + 7 2
2
49 7 2 49 7 2
C) x2 + 7x + ; x- D) x2 + 7x + ; x+
4 2 4 2
Answer: D

30) x2 - 5x
25 5 2
A) x2 - 5x + 25; x - 5 2 B) x2 - 5x + ; x+
4 2
5 2 25 5 2
C) x2 - 5x; x - D) x2 - 5x + ; x-
2 4 2
Answer: D

2
31) x2 - x
9
2 1 2 2 1 2
A) x2 - x + 81; x - B) x2 - x; x -
9 9 9 9
2 1 1 2 2 1 1 2
C) x2 - x+ ; x- D) x2 - x+ ; x+
9 81 9 9 81 9
Answer: C

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 2
32) x2 + x
9
2 1 1 2 2 1 2
A) x2 + x+ ; x+ B) x2 + x; x -
9 81 9 9 9
2 1 1 2 2 1 2
C) x2 + x- ; x- D) x2 + x + 81; x +
9 81 9 9 9
Answer: A

5
33) x2 + x
4
5 25 5 2 5 25 5 2
A) x2 + x+ ; x- B) x2 + x+ ; x-
4 16 8 4 64 8
5 25 5 2 5 25 5 2
C) x2 + x+ ; x+ D) x2 + x+ ; x+
4 16 8 4 64 8
Answer: D

5
34) x2 - x
3
5 25 5 2 5 5 2
A) x2 - x+ ; x+ B) x2 - x; x -
3 36 6 3 6
5 25 5 2 5 25 5 2
C) x2 - x+ ; x- D) x2 - x+ ; x-
3 36 6 3 9 6
Answer: C

Solve by completing the square.

35) a 2 + 6a - 27 = 0
A) 3, -9 B) 3i 3, - 3i 3 C) -3, 9 D) -18, -9
Answer: A

36) 9b2 - 12b - 32 = 0

8 4 8 4 8 4 4 28
A) , - B) - , C) ,- D) - ,-
9 9 3 3 3 3 9 9
Answer: C

37) z 2 + 14z + 26 = 0
A) 7 + 23 B) -7 + 23, -7 - 23 C) -14 + 26 D) 7 + 26, 7 - 26
Answer: B

38) p2 + 5p - 5 = 0
-5 - 3 5 -5 ± 3 5 5+3 5
A) B) C) D) -5 ± 3 5
2 2 2
Answer: B

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 39) 2x2 + 7x + 3 = 0
1 -7 ± 2 6 3
A) 3, -1 B) -3, - C) D) -2 ±
2 4 2
Answer: B

40) 4x2 + 2x - 2 = 0
1
A) 2, 0 B) 2, -1 C) 2, 1 D) , -1
2
Answer: D

41) 15d2 + 43d + 30 = 0

6 5 6 5 5 3 5 5
A) - , - B) , C) , D) - ,-
5 3 5 3 6 5 6 3
Answer: A

42) x2 + 8x = 5
A) -1 ± 21 B) 4 + 21 C) -4 ± 2 21 D) -4 ± 21
Answer: D

43) x2 = 3 - 8x
A) -4 ± 2 19 B) -1 ± 19 C) -4 ± 19 D) 4 + 19
Answer: C

44) x2 + 4x + 29 = 0
A) -2 ± 29i B) 2 ± 5i C) -2 ± 5i D) 3, -7
Answer: C

Complete the square to find the x-intercepts of the function given by the equation listed.
45) f(x) = x2 + 18x + 58
A) (9 + 23, 0) B) (9 + 58, 0), (9 - 58, 0)
C) (-18 + 58, 0) D) (-9 + 23, 0), (-9 - 23, 0)
Answer: D

46) f(x) = x2 + 3x - 9
-3 - 3 5
A) (-3 - 3 5, 0), (-3 + 3 5, 0) B) ,0
2
-3 - 3 5 -3 + 3 5 3+3 5
C) ,0, ,0 D) ,0
2 2 2
Answer: C

47) f(x) = x2 + 4x - 3
A) (-2 - 7, 0), (-2 + 7, 0) B) (-1 - 7, 0), (-1 + 7, 0)
C) (2 + 7, 0) D) (-2 - 2 7, 0), (-2 + 2 7, 0)
Answer: A

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 48) f(x) = x2 + 4x + 1
A) (2 - 3, 0), (2 + 3, 0) B) (-2 - 3, 0), (-2 + 3, 0)
C) (1, 0) D) ( 3 - 2, 0), ( 3 + 2, 0)
Answer: B

49) f(x) = 4x2 + 12x + 2

-3 - 7 -3 + 7 -3 - 11 -3 + 11
A) ,0, ,0 B) ,0, ,0
2 2 2 2
-12 - 7 -12 + 7 -3 - 7 -3 + 7
C) ,0, ,0 D) ,0, ,0
2 2 8 8
Answer: A

50) f(x) = 5x2 + 8x + 2

-8 - 6 -8 + 6 -4 - 6 -4 + 6
A) ,0, ,0 B) ,0, ,0
5 5 5 5
-4 - 26 -4 + 26 -4 - 6 -4 + 6
C) ,0, ,0 D) ,0, ,0
5 5 10 10
Answer: B

Use A = P(1 + r) t to find the interest rate. Round to the nearest hundredth, if necessary.
51) $4000 grows to $4494 in 2 years. Assume that interest is compounded annually.
A) 0.06% B) 1.12% C) 6% D) 1.06%
Answer: C

52) $6000 grows to $6242 in 2 years. Assume that interest is compounded annually.
A) 2% B) 1.04% C) 1.02% D) 0.02%
Answer: A

53) $7000 grows to $8317 in 2 years. Assume that interest is compounded annually.
A) 1.09% B) 1.19% C) 9% D) 0.09%
Answer: C

54) $9000 grows to $9364 in 2 years. Assume that interest is compounded annually.
A) 1.04% B) 0.02% C) 1.02% D) 2%
Answer: D

55) $8000 grows to $8820 in 2 years. Assume that interest is compounded annually.
A) 1.05% B) 0.05% C) 1.1% D) 5%
Answer: D

56) $2000 grows to $2376 in 2 years. Assume that interest is compounded annually.
A) 0.09% B) 9% C) 1.19% D) 1.09%
Answer: B

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The formula s = 16t2 is used to approximate the distance s, in feet, that an object falls freely (from rest) in t seconds. Use
this formula to solve the problem. (Round answer to the nearest tenth.)
57) How long would it take an object to fall freely from the top of a tower 1870 ft tall?
A) About 116.9 sec B) About 58.4 sec C) About 173.0 sec D) About 10.8 sec
Answer: D

58) How long would it take an object to fall freely from a bridge 525 ft above the water?
A) About 4,410,000.0 sec B) About 91.7 sec
C) About 5.7 sec D) About 32.8 sec
Answer: C

59) A man drops his keys off a building 1320 ft high. How long does it take the keys, falling freely, to hit the
ground?
A) About 82.5 sec B) About 41.3 sec C) About 9.1 sec D) About 145.3 sec
Answer: C

60) A stuntman jumps from a rooftop 315 ft off the ground. How long will it take him, falling freely, to reach the
ground?
A) About 19.7 sec B) About 4.4 sec C) About 71.0 sec D) About 9.8 sec
Answer: B

61) A branch of a tree hangs 605 ft above the soil. If a twig breaks off, how long will it take it, falling freely, to reach
the soil?
A) About 98.4 sec B) About 6.1 sec C) About 37.8 sec D) About 9680.0 sec
Answer: B

Solve.
62) 6x2 + 13x + 6 = 0
2 3 2 3 2 3 1 1
A) , B) ,- C) - ,- D) - ,-
3 2 3 2 3 2 3 2
Answer: C

63) 3x2 + 6x = - 1
-3 ± 3 -3 ± 6 -6 ± 6 -3 ± 6
A) B) C) D)
3 6 3 3
Answer: D

64) 2n 2 = -10n - 5
-5 ± 15 -5 ± 35 -10 ± 15 -5 ± 15
A) B) C) D)
2 2 2 4
Answer: A

65) 2m 2 + 12m + 5 = 0
-6 ± 26 -12 ± 26 -6 ± 26 -6 ± 46
A) B) C) D)
4 2 2 2
Answer: C

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66) 22m 2 + 72m + 33 = 0
-36 ± 2022 -36 ± 570 -36 ± 570 -72 ± 570
A) B) C) D)
22 22 44 22
Answer: B

12 3
67) 7 = - -
x x2
-6 ± 57 -6 ± 15 -6 ± 15 -12 ± 15
A) B) C) D)
7 7 14 7
Answer: B

68) x2 - 6x + 25 = 0
A) 7, -1 B) 3 ± 4i C) -3 ± 4i D) 6 ± 8i
Answer: B

69) x2 + x + 9 = 0
-1 ± i 35 1± 35 -1 ± 35 1 ± i 35
A) B) C) D)
2 2 2 2
Answer: A

1 6
70) + = -1
x x2
1 ± i 23 -1 ± 23 -1 ± i 23 1± 23
A) B) C) D)
2 2 2 2
Answer: C

71) -6x2 + 7x - 5 = 0
7 ± 71 -7 ± i 71 -7 ± 71 7 ± i 71
A) B) C) D)
-12 -12 -12 -12
Answer: B

72) 5x + x(x - 4) = 0
A) -1, 0 B) 0 C) 1, 0 D) -1
Answer: A

73) 9x - x(x + 8) = -5
1± 21 -1 ± 21
A) 1, 0 B) C) 0, 1 D)
2 2
Answer: B

74) 2x - x(x + 1) = 0
A) 1, 0 B) -1 C) 0 D) -1, 0
Answer: A

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75) 6x + x(x - 5) = -3
1 ± i 11 1 ± i 13 -1 ± i 11 -1 ± i 13
A) B) C) D)
2 2 2 2
Answer: C

76) 5x(x - 5) - 36 = 4x(x - 4)

A) 3, -12 B) -3, 12 C) -3 D) 12
Answer: B

77) 5x(x + 4) - 64 = 4x(x + 2)

A) 4, 16 B) -4, 16 C) 4, -16 D) -4, -16
Answer: C

78) 7x(x + 4) + 24 = 3x(x + 2)

3 3 3
A) -4 B) - , -4 C) ,4 D) , -4
2 2 2
Answer: B

79) 8x(x - 5) - 25 = 5x(x - 6)

5 5 5
A) - , -5 B) , -5 C) -5i, 5i D) - ,5
3 3 3
Answer: D

80) 14(x - 4) - (x - 22) = (x + 2)(x - 4)

A) 13 B) 2, 13 C) -2, -13 D) -2i, 2i
Answer: B

81) x3 - 64 (Hint: Factor the difference of cubes. Then use the quadratic formula.)
A) 4, -1 ± i 3 B) 4, -2 ± 2i 3 C) -4, -2 ± 2i 3 D) -4, -1 ± i 3
Answer: B

82) Let f(x) = 3x2 + 5x - 5. Find all x for which f(x) = 0.

5 ± 85 -5 ± 85 -5 ± 35 5± 35
A) B) C) D)
6 6 6 6
Answer: B

83) Let f(x) = 2x2 + 2x + 2. Find all x for which f(x) = 0.

-1 ± 3 -1 ± i 3 1±i 5 1± 5
A) B) C) D)
2 2 2 2
Answer: B

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84) Let f(x) = + . Find all x for which f(x) = 1.
x x+1
15 ± 257 17 ± 193 15 ± 17
A) 15 B) C) D)
2 2 2
Answer: B

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 2 2
85) Let f(x) = + . Find all x for which f(x) = 1.
x x+3
A) 3 B) -2, 3 C) 2 D) 2, -3
Answer: B

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86) Let f(x) = x - 1, and g(x) = . Find all x for which f(x) = g(x).
x+1
A) -1 + 5, -1 - 5 B) -6, 4 C) 6, - 6 D) 2i, - 2i
Answer: C

Use a calculator to approximate, as precisely as possible, the solutions as rational numbers.

87) x2 - 7x - 51 = 0
A) 4.45298686, -11.45298686 B) 11.45298686, -4.45298686
C) 22.13688749, -29.13688749 D) 29.13688749, -22.13688749
Answer: B

88) x2 + 4x - 41 = 0
A) 4.70820393, -8.70820393 B) 22.40220576, -18.40220576
C) 8.70820393, -4.70820393 D) 18.40220576, -22.40220576
Answer: A

89) x2 - 3x - 28 = 0
A) 7.00000000, -4.00000000 B) 12.60673598, -15.60673598
C) 4.00000000, -7.00000000 D) 15.60673598, -12.60673598
Answer: A

90) x2 + 3x - 45 = 0
A) 20.93323427, -23.93323427 B) 5.37386354, -8.37386354
C) 23.93323427, -20.93323427 D) 8.37386354, -5.37386354
Answer: B

91) 4x2 - 8x - 3 = 0
A) 0.46308749, -2.46308749 B) 2.46308749, -0.46308749
C) 0.32287566, -2.32287566 D) 2.32287566, -0.32287566
Answer: D

92) 4x2 + 8x - 14 = 0
A) 2.03077641, -0.03077641 B) 0.03077641, -2.03077641
C) 1.12132034, -3.12132034 D) 3.12132034, -1.12132034
Answer: C

93) 3x2 - 10x + 9 = 0

A) 0.69624115, -4.02957448 B) 2.13807119, 1.19526215
C) 4.02957448, -0.69624115 D) -1.19526215, -2.13807119
Answer: B

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 94) 2x2 + 5x + 13 = 0
A) 0.97204860, -3.47204860 B) 4.08945417, -1.58945417
C) 1.58945417, -4.08945417 D) 3.47204860, -0.97204860
Answer: A

Determine what type of number the solutions are and how many solutions exist.
95) s2 - 6s + 5 = 0
A) Two imaginary B) Two irrational C) Two rational D) One rational
Answer: C

96) t2 + 2t + 1 = 0
A) Two rational B) One rational C) Two irrational D) Two imaginary
Answer: B

97) v2 - 7v + 2 = 0
A) Two irrational B) One rational C) Two rational D) Two imaginary
Answer: A

98) w2 + 2w + 3 = 0
A) Two irrational B) Two rational C) Two imaginary D) One rational
Answer: C

99) 16x2 - 8x + 1 = 0
A) Two rational B) Two irrational C) Two imaginary D) One rational
Answer: D

100) 5y2 = -3y - 4

A) Two irrational B) Two rational C) Two imaginary D) One rational
Answer: C

101) 7 + 8z2 = 3z
A) Two rational B) Two irrational C) Two imaginary D) One rational
Answer: C

102) -3 - 6a 2 = -3a - 8
A) Two rational B) Two irrational C) One rational D) Two imaginary
Answer: B

Write a quadratic equation having the given numbers as solutions.

103) -2, 4
A) x2 - 8x + 2 = 0 B) x2 - 2x - 8 = 0 C) x2 + 2x - 8 = 0 D) x2 - 8x - 2 = 0
Answer: B

2 7
104) - ,-
5 2
A) 10x2 + 39x + 14 = 0 B) 10x2 + 14x + 10 = 0 C) 10x2 - 39x + 14 = 0 D) 10x2 + 10x + 14 = 0
Answer: A

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 1 6
105) ,-
3 5
13 13
A) 5x2 - 6x - 18 = 0 B) 5x2 - 18x - 6 = 0 C) 5x2 + x-2=0 D) 5x2 - x-2=0
3 3
Answer: C

7 9
106) ,-
5 4
63
A) 20x2 + 17x - 63 = 0 B) 20x2 - x + 17 = 0
20
63
C) 20x2 + 17x - =0 D) 20x2 + 17x + 63 = 0
20
Answer: A

107) 2, only solution

A) x2 + 4x + 4 = 0 B) x2 - 4 = 0 C) x2 - 4x + 4 = 0 D) x2 + 2x + 4 = 0
Answer: C

108) -2.9, 2.6

A) x2 - 7.54 = 0 B) x2 + 2.9x - 7.54 = 0 C) x2 - 0.3x - 7.54 = 0 D) x2 + 0.3x - 7.54 = 0
Answer: D

109) 4i, -4i

A) x2 - 16 = 0 B) x2 + 16 = 0 C) x2 - 8ix + 16 = 0 D) x2 + 16i = 0
Answer: B

110) 4 - 8,4+ 8
A) x2 - 8x + 16 = 0 B) x2 - 8x + 8x + 8 = 0
C) x2 - 8x + 8 = 0 D) x2 - 4x + 8 = 0
Answer: C

111) 15, 9 15
A) x2 + 10 15x + 135 = 0 B) x2 + 135 15x - 10 = 0
C) x2 + 135 15x + 10 = 0 D) x2 - 10 15x + 135 = 0
Answer: D

Write a third-degree equation having the given numbers as solutions.

112) -1, 4, 0
A) x2 - 3x - 4 = 0 B) x3 - 3x2 - 4x = 0 C) x3 + 3x2 - 4x = 0 D) x3 - 3x2 + 4x = 0
Answer: B

113) -4, 5, 0
A) x2 - x - 20 = 0 B) x3 + x2 + 20x = 0 C) x3 + x2 - 20x = 0 D) x3 - x2 - 20x = 0
Answer: D

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 114) -3, 3, 4
A) x3 + 4x2 + 9x + 36> = 0 B) x3 - 13x2 + 36 = 0
C) x3 - 4x2 + 9x - 36 = 0 D) x3 - 4x2 - 9x + 36 = 0
Answer: D

115) -1, 1, 2
A) x3 - 3x2 + 2 = 0 B) x3 + 2x2 + x + 2 = 0 C) x3 - 2x2 + x - 2 = 0 D) x3 - 2x2 - x + 2 = 0
Answer: D

116) -5, 5, 1
A) x3 - 26x + 25 = 0 B) x3 - x2 - 26x = 0
C) x3 + x2 + 25x + 25 = 0 D) x3 - x2 - 25x + 25 = 0
Answer: D

117) -3, 2, 0
A) x3 - x2 - 6x = 0 B) x3 - x2 + 6x = 0 C) x3 + x2 - 6x = 0 D) x2 +x - 6 = 0
Answer: C

Solve the problem.

118) Working together, Rick and Juanita can complete a job in 6 hours. It would take Rick 9 hours longer than Juanita
to do the job alone. How long would it take Juanita alone?
A) 9 hr B) 6 hr C) 3 hr D) 15 hr
Answer: A

119) Two pipes can fill a large tank in 10 hours. One of the pipes, used alone, takes 15 hours longer than the other to
fill the tank. How long would each pipe take to fill the tank alone?
A) 10 hr for one B) 25 hr for one C) 12.5 hr for one D) 15 hr for one
20 hr for the other 50 hr for the other 25 hr for the other 30 hr for the other
Answer: D

120) Bill can row 3 mph in still water. It takes him 3 hours 36 minutes to go 3 miles upstream and return. Find the
speed of the current.
A) 3 mph B) 2 mph C) 1.5 mph D) 2.5 mph
Answer: B

121) Sue rowed her boat across Lake Bend and back in 3 hours. If her rate returning was 2 mph less than the rate
going, and if the distance each way was 7 miles, find her rate going.
A) 3.7 mph B) 5.9 mph C) 1.5 mph D) 5.5 mph
Answer: B

122) Amy travels 450 miles at a certain speed. If the car had gone 15 mph faster, the trip would have taken 1 hour
less. Find Amy's speed.
A) 68 mph B) 78 mph C) 75 mph D) 72 mph
Answer: C

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 123) The distance traveled by an object moving in a straight line is given by s = t2 - 8t , where s is in feet and t is the
time in seconds the object has been in motion. How long (to the nearest tenth) will it take the object to move 5
feet?
A) 8.6 sec B) 6.0 sec C) 1.5 sec D) 8.4 sec
Answer: A

124) A ball is thrown downward from a window in a tall building. The distance traveled by the ball in t seconds is
s = 16t2 + 32t, where s is in feet. How long (to the nearest tenth) will it take the ball to fall 171 feet?
A) 3.3 sec B) 2.2 sec C) 2.4 sec D) 5.8 sec
Answer: C

125) A rock falls from a tower that is 464 ft high. As it is falling, its height is given by the formula h = 464 - 16t2 .
How many seconds will it take for the rock to hit the ground (h=0)?
A) 13,456 sec B) 21.2 sec C) 5.4 sec D) 21.5 sec
Answer: C

126) An object is thrown downward from a plane which is 400 m above the ground. The object is thrown with an
initial velocity of 27 m/sec. How long does it take the object to reach the ground?
A) 35.43 seconds B) 49.06 seconds C) 14.81 seconds D) 39.05 seconds
Answer: D

127) A basketball player has a vertical leap of about 28 in. What is his hang time?
A) 0.84 seconds B) 0.11 seconds C) 0.76 seconds D) 0.34 seconds
Answer: C

Solve the formula for the indicated letter. Assume that all variables represent nonnegative numbers.
128) v2 = 2as for v
2a 2a
A) v = 2a s B) v = C) v = D) v = 2as
s s
Answer: D

1 2
129) A = πr for r
3
3A 3π A
A) r = B) r = C) r = D) r = 3 Aπ
π A 3π
Answer: A

130) c2 + d2 + f 2 = g2, for c

A) c = g2 - d2 - f 2 B) c = -g + d + f C) c = g2 - d2 - f 2 D) c = g - d - f
Answer: C

1
131) V = 2Vem, for m
m
2V ± 2Ve 2V3 2e
A) m = B) m = C) m = D) m =
e Ve e V
Answer: D

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 1 2
132) S = gt for t
2
2S g
A) t = 2 gs B) t = C) t = D) t = 2gS
g 2S
Answer: B

133) x = r2 - y2 for r
A) r = x2 + y2 B) r = x+y C) r = x2 - y2 D) r = x + y
Answer: A

x
134) = kn, for n
1-n

x k+ 1 k2 - 4kx k± k2 - 4kx
A) n = ± B) n = C) n = D) n =
k x 2 2k
Answer: D

135) rm = t2 - mt, for t

m ± m 2 - 4mr
A) t = B) t = mr - m
4

m± m 2 + 4rm m± m 2 + 4mr
C) t = D) t =
2 2m
Answer: C

P - 2w
136) A = w , for w
2

-2P ± P2 + 16A 2P ± P2 - 16A

A) w = B) w =
4 4
P ± (P - 4 A) P± P2 - 16A
C) w = D) w =
2 4
Answer: D

137) aS2 + bS = c, for S

-b + b2 - 4ac -b + b2 + 4ac -b + b2 + 4ac -b + b2 - 4ac
A) S = B) S = C) S = D) S =
2a 2a 2a 2a
Answer: C

Write the substitution that could be used to make each equation quadratic in u.
138) For 9n + 3 n - 8, use u = .
1 1
A) n 2 B) C) n D) n
n 2
Answer: C

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 139) For y1/2 + y1/4 +7 = 0, use u = .
1
A) y1/2 B) y C) y1/4 D) 2y
4
Answer: C

140) For t-6 - 9t-3 - 8 = 0, use u = .

1
A) 3t B) t-6 C) t D) t-3
6
Answer: D

141) For (2 - t)4 - (2 - t)2 + 9, use u = .

A) 2 - t B) 2 + t C) 2-t D) (2 - t)2
Answer: D

Solve.
142) (3m - 6)2 + 6(3m - 6) + 8 = 0
2 4 10 8 2 4 10 8
A) - , - B) ,- C) , D) - ,
3 3 3 3 3 3 6 3
Answer: C

143) 2p-2 + 7p-1 - 4 = 0

1 1 1 1
A) - , 4 B) , -4 C) 2, - D) - 2,
2 2 4 4
Answer: C

144) 7t-2 + 26t-1 - 8 = 0

2 2 7 1 7 1
A) - , 4 B) , -4 C) - , D) ,-
7 7 2 4 2 4
Answer: D

145) (m - 2)2/3 + 6(m - 2)1/3 + 8 = 0

3 3
A) -2, -4 B) -2, -4 C) 6, -62 D) -6, -62
Answer: D

146) 5(-17 + x)2 = -21(-17 + x) - 4

7056
A) No solution B) , 169
25
83 7056 7056
C) 13, D) , 169, - , -169
5 25 25
Answer: B

147) 6x2/5 + 17x1/5 + 12 = 0

1024 243 1024 243 4 3
A) 3, 2 B) , C) - ,- D) - ,-
243 32 243 32 3 2
Answer: C

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148) x=6-x
A) 4 B) ± 6 C) -9, -4 D) ±5
Answer: A

149) x4 - 11x2 + 18 = 0
A) ±3, ± 2 B) ±3, ±2 2 C) 3, 2 D) ±3, ±2
Answer: A

150) x4 - 24x2 + 80 = 0
A) ±2, ±2 6 B) ±2, ±2 5 C) ±2, ± 5 D) ±3, ±2
Answer: B

151) x - 88 x + 88 = 0
A) 8, 11 B) 64, 121 C) No solution D) 64
Answer: B

2
152) (x2 - 3) - 11(x2 - 3) + 24 = 0
A) ± 6 , ± 11 B) ± 6 C) ± 6 , ± 14 D) 6, 11
Answer: A

2
153) (x2 - 4) - 3(x2 - 4) + 2 = 0
A) ± 6 , ± 5 B) 6, 5 C) ± 2 , ± 7 D) ± 6
Answer: A

2
154) (x2 - 8) - 7(x2 - 8) + 10 = 0
A) ± 13 B) 13 , 10 C) ± 5 , ± 2 D) ± 13 , ± 10
Answer: D

2
155) (x2 - 8) + 6(x2 - 8) + 5 = 0
A) ± 2 , ± 7 B) 3, 7 C) ± 3 D) ± 3 , ± 7
Answer: D

156) (-1 - x)2 - 10(-1 - x) + 22 = 0

A) 36 - 12 3 , 36 + 12 3 B) 36 - 12 3
C) No solution D) 36 + 12 3
Answer: C

157) (7 + x)2 - 14(7 + x) + 12 = 0

A) 37 B) - 37 C) No solution D) 37
Answer: A

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 49 x - 6 2 x-6
158) +7 +1=0
4 x-3 x-3
10 16
A) 5 B) C) D) 4
9 3
Answer: C

x-2 2 x-2
159) - -2=0
x+2 x+2

A) 0, - 3 B) 0, - 6 C) -1, 2 D) 1, -2
Answer: B

Find the x-intercepts of the graph of the function.

160) f(x) = 4x + 13 x - 35
A) (3.0625, 0) B) (1.75, 0); (-5, 0) C) (1.75, 0) D) (3.0625, 0); (-25, 0)
Answer: A

161) f(x) = x1/2 + 4x1/4 - 45

A) (625, 0); (6561, 0) B) (5, 0); (-9, 0) C) (625, 0) D) (9, 0)
Answer: C

x2 - 1 2 x2 - 1
162) f(x) = -6 +8
x x
A) (1 ± 2, 0); ( 2 ± 5, 0) B) (2, 0); (4, 0); (-2, 0); (-4, 0)
C) (2, 0); (4, 0) D) (2 ± 2 5, 0); ( 4 ± i 2, 0)
Answer: A

163) f(x) = x2/5 + x1/5 - 12

A) (243, 0); (-1024, 0) B) (27, 0); (-32, 0) C) (3, 0); (-4,0) D) (81, 0); (256, 0)
Answer: A

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Identify which graph matches the equation.
164) f(x) = x2 - 2
A) B)
y y
10 10

-10 10 x -10 10 x

-10 -10

C) D)
y y
10 10

-10 10 x -10 10 x

-10 -10

Answer: C

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165) f(x) = (x + 5)2
A) B)
y y
10 10

-10 10 x -10 10 x

-10 -10

C) D)
y y
10 10

-10 10 x -10 10 x

-10 -10

Answer: B

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166) f(x) = -3x2
A) B)
y y
10 10

-10 10 x -10 10 x

-10 -10

C) D)
y y
10 10

-10 10 x -10 10 x

-10 -10

Answer: B

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167) f(x) = 3(x - 2)2 + 4
A) B)
y y
10 10

-10 10 x -10 10 x

-10 -10

C) D)
y y
10 10

-10 10 x -10 10 x

-10 -10

Answer: B

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168) f(x) = -2(x + 5)2 - 4
A) B)
y y
10 10

5 5

-10 -5 5 10 x -10 -5 5 10 x

-5 -5

-10 -10

C) D)
y y
10 10

5 5

-10 -5 5 10 x -10 -5 5 10 x

-5 -5

-10 -10

Answer: D

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169) f(x) = -4(x - 9)2 + 2

A) B)
y y
10 10

5 5

-10 -5 5 10 x -10 -5 5 10 x

-5 -5

-10 -10

C) D)
y y
10 10

5 5

-10 -5 5 10 x -10 -5 5 10 x

-5 -5

-10 -10

Answer: C

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170) f(x) = 3(x + 3)2 - 1
A) B)
y y
10 10

5 5

-10 -5 5 10 x -10 -5 5 10 x

-5 -5

-10 -10

C) D)
y y
10 10

5 5

-10 -5 5 10 x -10 -5 5 10 x

-5 -5

-10 -10

Answer: B

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 171) f(x) = -3(x + 9)2 - 3
A) B)
y y
10 10

5 5

-10 -5 5 10 x -10 -5 5 10 x

-5 -5

-10 -10

C) D)
y y
10 10

5 5

-10 -5 5 10 x -10 -5 5 10 x

-5 -5

-10 -10

Answer: D

For each graph of a quadratic function f(x) = a(x - h)2 + k:

a) Tell whether a is positive or negative,
b) Determine the vertex,
c) Determine the axis of symmetry, and
d) Determine the range.
172)
10 y
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
-1
-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 123456789 x
-2
-3
-4
-5
-6
-7
-8
-9
-10
A) Positive; (5, 3); x= 5; [3, ∞) B) Negative; (3, 5); x= 3; [5, ∞)
C) Positive; (3, 5); y= 5; (5, ∞) D) Positive; (3, 5); x= 3; [5, ∞)
Answer: D

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173)
10 y
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
-1
-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 123456789 x
-2
-3
-4
-5
-6
-7
-8
-9
-10
A) Positive; (0, 2); x= 0; [2, ∞ ) B) Positive; (2, 0); x= 0; [2, ∞)
C) Negative; (0, 2); x= 0; [2, ∞) D) Positive; (0, 2); y= 0; [2, ∞)
Answer: A

174)
10 y
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
-1
-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 123456789 x
-2
-3
-4
-5
-6
-7
-8
-9
-10
A) Positive; (0, 5); x= 0; [5, ∞ ) B) Negative; (0, 5); x= 0; (- ∞, 5]
C) Positive; (0, 5); x= 0; (- ∞, 5] D) Negative; (0, -5); x= 0; (- ∞, -5]
Answer: B

175)
10 y
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
-1
-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 123456789 x
-2
-3
-4
-5
-6
-7
-8
-9
-10
A) Positive; (1, -2); x= 1; [-2, ∞) B) Positive; (-2, 1); x= -2; (- ∞, 1]
C) Negative; (-2, 1); x= -2; [1, ∞) D) Positive; (-2, 1); x= -2; [1, ∞)
Answer: D

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176)
10 y
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
-1
-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 123456789 x
-2
-3
-4
-5
-6
-7
-8
-9
-10
A) Positive; (1, 3); x= 1; [3, ∞) B) Negative; (-1, -3); x= -1; (- ∞, -3]
C) Negative; (-1, -3); x= -1; [-3, ∞ ) D) Positive; (-1, -3); x= -1; [-3, ∞)
Answer: D

177)
10 y
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
-1
-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 123456789 x
-2
-3
-4
-5
-6
-7
-8
-9
-10
A) Negative; (6, -4); x= 6; (- ∞, -4] B) Positive; (6, 4); x= 6; (- ∞, 4]
C) Negative; (6, 4); x= 6; (- ∞, 4] D) Negative; (-6, 4); x= -6; (- ∞, 4]
Answer: C

178)
10 y
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
-1
-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 123456789 x
-2
-3
-4
-5
-6
-7
-8
-9
-10
A) Positive; (-5, -2); x= -5; (-∞ , -2] B) Negative; (-5, -2); x= -5; (- ∞, -2]
C) Positive; (-2, -5); x= -2; (-∞ , -5] D) Negative; (-5, -2); y= -5; (- ∞, -2)
Answer: B

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 179)
10 y
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
-1
-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 123456789 x
-2
-3
-4
-5
-6
-7
-8
-9
-10
A) Positive; (0, 1); x= 0; [1, ∞ ) B) Positive; (1, 0); x= 1; [0, ∞)
C) Positive; (0, 1); x= 1; [0, ∞) D) Negative; (1, 0); x= 1; [0, ∞)
Answer: B

180)
10 y
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
-1
-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 123456789 x
-2
-3
-4
-5
-6
-7
-8
-9
-10
A) Positive; (-3, 0); x= -3; [0, ∞) B) Positive; (0, -3); x= -3; [0, ∞)
C) Positive; (-3, 0); x= -3; (0, ∞] D) Positive; (3, 0); x= 3; [0, ∞)
Answer: A

181)
10 y
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
-1
-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 123456789 x
-2
-3
-4
-5
-6
-7
-8
-9
-10
A) Negative; (4, -6); y= 4; [- ∞, -6) B) Negative; (4, -6); x= 4; (- ∞, -6]
C) Positive; (4, -6); x= 4; (- ∞, -6] D) Negative; (4, 6); x= 4; (-∞ , 6]
Answer: B

Graph.

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182) f(x) = -2x2
y
10

-10 -5 5 10 x

-5

-10

A) B)
y y
10 10

5 5

-10 -5 5 10 x -10 -5 5 10 x

-5 -5

-10 -10

C) D)
y y
10 10

5 5

-10 -5 5 10 x -10 -5 5 10 x

-5 -5

-10 -10

Answer: C

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 1 2
183) f(x) = x
3
y
10

-10 -5 5 10 x

-5

-10

A) B)
y y
10 10

5 5

-10 -5 5 10 x -10 -5 5 10 x

-5 -5

-10 -10

C) D)
y y
10 10

5 5

-10 -5 5 10 x -10 -5 5 10 x

-5 -5

-10 -10

Answer: C

34
 1 2
184) f(x) = - x
4
y
10

-10 -5 5 10 x

-5

-10

A) B)
y y
10 10

5 5

-10 -5 5 10 x -10 -5 5 10 x

-5 -5

-10 -10

C) D)
y y
10 10

5 5

-10 -5 5 10 x -10 -5 5 10 x

-5 -5

-10 -10

Answer: C

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185) f(x) = (x - 1)2
y
10

-10 -5 5 10 x

-5

-10

A) B)
y y
10 10

5 5

-10 -5 5 10 x -10 -5 5 10 x

-5 -5

-10 -10

C) D)
y y
10 10

5 5

-10 -5 5 10 x -10 -5 5 10 x

-5 -5

-10 -10

Answer: C

36
186) f(x) = -(x - 1)2
y
10

-10 -5 5 10 x

-5

-10

A) B)
y y
10 10

5 5

-10 -5 5 10 x -10 -5 5 10 x

-5 -5

-10 -10

C) D)
y y
10 10

5 5

-10 -5 5 10 x -10 -5 5 10 x

-5 -5

-10 -10

Answer: D

37
187) f(x) = 2(x - 1)2
y
10

-10 -5 5 10 x

-5

-10

A) B)
y y
10 10

5 5

-10 -5 5 10 x -10 -5 5 10 x

-5 -5

-10 -10

C) D)
y y
10 10

5 5

-10 -5 5 10 x -10 -5 5 10 x

-5 -5

-10 -10

Answer: B

38
 1
188) f(x) = (x - 1)2
2
y
10

-10 -5 5 10 x

-5

-10

A) B)
y y
10 10

5 5

-10 -5 5 10 x -10 -5 5 10 x

-5 -5

-10 -10

C) D)
y y
10 10

5 5

-10 -5 5 10 x -10 -5 5 10 x

-5 -5

-10 -10

Answer: C

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 -11
189) f(x) = (x + 2)2
-18
y
10

-10 -5 5 10 x

-5

-10

A) B)
y y
10 10

5 5

-10 -5 5 10 x -10 -5 5 10 x

-5 -5

-10 -10

C) D)
y y
10 10

5 5

-10 -5 5 10 x -10 -5 5 10 x

-5 -5

-10 -10

Answer: D

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190) f(x) = (x - 2)2 + 3
y
10

-10 -5 5 10 x

-5

-10

A) B)
y y
10 10

5 5

-10 -5 5 10 x -10 -5 5 10 x

-5 -5

-10 -10

C) D)
y y
10 10

5 5

-10 -5 5 10 x -10 -5 5 10 x

-5 -5

-10 -10

Answer: B

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191) f(x) = -3(x - 3)2 - 2
y
10

-10 -5 5 10 x

-5

-10

A) B)
y y
10 10

5 5

-10 -5 5 10 x -10 -5 5 10 x

-5 -5

-10 -10

C) D)
y y
10 10

5 5

-10 -5 5 10 x -10 -5 5 10 x

-5 -5

-10 -10

Answer: A

42
192) f(x) = -4(x + 1)2 - 2
y
10

-10 -5 5 10 x

-5

-10

A) B)
y y
10 10

5 5

-10 -5 5 10 x -10 -5 5 10 x

-5 -5

-10 -10

C) D)
y y
10 10

5 5

-10 -5 5 10 x -10 -5 5 10 x

-5 -5

-10 -10

Answer: D

43
 2
193) f(x) = (x - 1)2 - 3
3
y
10

-10 -5 5 10 x

-5

-10

A) B)
y y
10 10

5 5

-10 -5 5 10 x -10 -5 5 10 x

-5 -5

-10 -10

C) D)
y y
10 10

5 5

-10 -5 5 10 x -10 -5 5 10 x

-5 -5

-10 -10

Answer: D

Without graphing, find the vertex.

194) f(x) = (x - 3)2 - 3
A) (0, -3) B) (3, -3) C) (-3, 0) D) (3, 3)
Answer: B

195) f(x) = (x + 6)2 - 6

A) (6, -6) B) (-6, -6) C) (-6, 6) D) (6, 6)
Answer: B

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 196) f(x) = -(x - 1)2 - 1
A) (-1, 0) B) (1, -1) C) (1, 1) D) (0, -1)
Answer: B

197) f(x) = -(x + 3)2 + 8

A) (-8, 3) B) (8, -3) C) (8, -9) D) (-3, 8)
Answer: D

198) f(x) = -(x + 3)2 - 7

A) (-3, -7) B) (-3, 7) C) (3, 7) D) (3, -7)
Answer: A

-13
199) f(x) = (x - 13)2 - 16
-16
A) (0, -16) B) (13, -16) C) (13, -13) D) (-16, 0)
Answer: B

-16
200) f(x) = (x + 9)2 - 7
5
A) (-9, 7) B) (9, -7) C) (-9, -7) D) (9, 7)
Answer: C

201) f(x) = 7 x - 4 2 - 2
A) 4, -2 B) 7, 4 C) -2, 4 D) -4, -2
Answer: A

1 2
202) f(x) = 4 x + + 16
8
1 1 1
A) 4, 16 B) , 16 C) - , 16 D) 16,
8 8 8
Answer: C

203) f(x) = 3 x + 37 2 - 14.42

A) - 37, -14.42 B) -14.42, - 37 C) 3, -14.42 D) 37, -14.42
Answer: A

Without graphing, find the line of symmetry.

204) f(x) = (x + 1)2 - 1
A) x = -1 B) x = 0 C) x = -2 D) x = 1
Answer: A

205) f(x) = (x + 4)2 - 7

A) x = -4 B) x = 7 C) x = 3 D) x = 5
Answer: A

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Title: Jules Bastien-Lepage and his art

a memoir

Author: Mathilde Blind

George Clausen
Walter Sickert
André Theuriet

Release date: September 12, 2023 [eBook #71623]

Language: English

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JULES BASTIEN-LEPAGE
 JULES BASTIEN-LEPAGE
After the portrait by himself

Imp. Chardon-Wiltmann, Paris

 JULES BASTIEN-LEPAGE
AND HIS ART. A MEMOIR,
BY ANDRÉ THEURIET

JULES BASTIEN-LEPAGE AS
ARTIST, BY GEORGE
CLAUSEN,
A.R.W.S.; MODERN REALISM
IN
PAINTING, BY WALTER
SICKERT,
N.E.A.C.; AND, A STUDY OF
MARIE BASHKIRTSEFF, BY
MATHILDE BLIND
ILLUSTRATED WITH
REPRODUCTIONS
OF BASTIEN-LEPAGE’S
AND MARIE BASHKIRTSEFF’S
WORKS

L O N D O N : T. F I S H E R U N W I N ,
PATERNOSTER SQUARE. MDCCCXCII.
 CONTENTS.

PAGE
Jules Bastien-Lepage and his Art: A Memoir.
By André Theuriet 11
Jules Bastien-Lepage as Artist. By George
Clausen, A.R.W.S. 107
Modern Realism in Painting. By Walter
Sickert, N.E.A.C. 129
A Study of Marie Bashkirtseff. By Mathilde
Blind 145
 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Jules Bastien-Lepage. After a

Portrait by Himself. Frontispiece
PAGE
Grandfather Lepage. By Jules
Bastien-Lepage 25
The Communicant. By Jules Bastien-
Lepage 31
The Hayfield. By Jules Bastien-
Lepage 43
Sarah Bernhardt. By Jules Bastien-
Lepage 51
Joan of Arc Listening to the Voices.
By Jules Bastien-Lepage 55
The Beggar. By Jules Bastien-Lepage 61
Father Jacques, the Woodman. By
Jules Bastien-Lepage 71
Sketch for Father Jacques. By Jules
Bastien-Lepage 75
The Inn. By Jules Bastien-Lepage 101
Bas-relief Portrait of Bastien-Lepage.
By Augustus Saint-Gaudens 110
The Little Sweep. By Jules Bastien-
Lepage 132
Marie Bashkirtseff. From a Portrait
by Herself 148
A Meeting. By Marie Bashkirtseff 169
Marie Bashkirtseff. From a
Photograph 187
JULES BASTIEN-LEPAGE AND
HIS ART.
 JULES BASTIEN-LEPAGE

AS MAN AND ARTIST.

In the month of June, 1856, the chances of a Civil Service noviciate

compelled me to live for six weeks at Damvillers, a small town on the
Meuse, half-way between Verdun and Montmédy.
Damvillers was formerly fortified, and had the honour of being
besieged by Charles V., but there is now nothing left to recall the
memory of those warlike days. The whole aspect of the place is
peaceful and rural. The people are occupied with agriculture.
Orchards now cover the ground where the fortifications once stood,
and form a circle of verdure round the scattered houses, in a valley
where the Tinte winds through osier beds and meadows. On the right
a vine-covered mound like the back of a camel, on the left a
succession of wooded slopes, enclose the little town. The grey, blue
hills are low. The monotony of the fields and meadows is broken only
by rows of poplars. The ill-kept solitary streets bordered by the
labourers’ houses with grey or dingy yellow fronts, have the same
washed-out look as the landscape.
For a young fellow of twenty-two there was nothing here
particularly attractive. I spent my solitary evenings with my elbows on
my window-sill watching the twilight descend upon the brown-tiled
roofs which enclose the great square as with a horizontal frame. In
one corner the large green waggon of a travelling pedler was resting
by the side of rows of earthenware, whose polished surface reflected
the lights from the window of the neighbouring inn.
 My only amusement consisted in listening to the chatter of some
girls sitting at the tinner’s door, or the shouts of the children playing
at ball by the wall of the corn-market.
I little thought then that among these urchins, with torn pinafores
and tangled hair, was to be found a future master of contemporary
painting, and that the name of Bastien-Lepage thrown to and fro
each evening by the children’s voices, and repeated by the echoes
of the solitary square, would come to be known, and received with
acclamations throughout the world, by all who are interested in Art
and in Artists.
 I.

Jules bastien-lepage was born at Damvillers, on November 1,

1848, in a house which forms one of the corners of that square of
which I have just spoken; a simple, well-to-do farmer’s house, the
front coloured yellow, the shutters grey.
On opening the outer door one finds oneself at once in the
kitchen, the regular kitchen of the Meuse villages, with its high
chimney-piece surmounted by cooking utensils, with its rows of
copper saucepans, its maie for the bread, and its dresser furnished
with coloured earthenware. The next room serves at once as sitting-
room and dining-room, and even, at need, as bed-chamber. Above
are some apartments not in general use, and then some vast
granaries with sloping rafters.
It was in a room on the ground floor, with windows looking to the
south, that the painter of Les Foins (Hay) and of Jeanne d’Arc first
saw the light. The family consisted of the father, a sensible,
industrious, methodical man; of the mother, a woman of the truest
heart and untiring devotion; and of the Grandfather Lepage, formerly
a collector of taxes, who now found a home with his children. They
lived in common on the modest produce of the fields, which the
Bastiens themselves cultivated, and on the grandfather’s small
pension.
At five years old Jules began to show an aptitude for drawing, and
his father was eager to cultivate this dawning talent. He himself had
a taste for the imitative arts, employing his leisure in light work that
required a certain manual skill, and to this he brought the scrupulous
exactness and conscientious attention which were his ruling
qualities.
From this time, in the winter evenings, he required that Jules
should draw with pencil on paper the various articles in use upon the
table—the lamp, the jug, the inkstand, etc. It was to this first
education of the eye and of the hand that Bastien-Lepage owed that
love of sincerity, that patient seeking for exactness of detail, which
were the ruling motives of his life as an artist.
In thus urging him to draw every day, the father had no idea of
making his son a painter. At that time, especially at Damvillers,
painting was not looked upon as a serious profession. The dream
that he cherished, along with the grandfather, was to put Jules in a
position to choose later on one of the administrative careers, such as
overseer of forests, or bridges, or high-ways, which are always
easiest of access to those who have been well trained in drawing.
So, as soon as he should be eleven years old, he was to leave the
communal school, and go to the College.
This involved great sacrifice, for the resources of the family were
low, and in the interval a second boy was born; but they redoubled
their economy, and in 1859 they managed to send Jules to the
College of Verdun.
It was at the drawing class that he worked with the greatest zeal.
The correctness of his eye and the dexterity of his hand astonished
his master.
When the boy went back to Damvillers for the holidays he drew
everywhere; upon his books, upon the walls, upon the doors, and
long afterwards traces of these rough outlines might be seen on the
orchard palings. His mother carefully preserved books full of pencil
sketches of the little brother Emile in all sorts of poses.
His habit was to express any thought that possessed him by a
drawing. He already attempted to reproduce with his pencil,
passages that struck him in reading, and his first composition was
Abraham’s Sacrifice. Classical stories made more impression on his
mind at this time than the rustic scenes which met him everywhere in
his wanderings in the open air.
At this age, the surroundings in which we live, and which custom
renders familiar to us, excite neither our surprise nor our imagination,
but they enter our eyes and our memory, and, without our knowing it,
become deeply engraven there. It is only in later years that, by
comparison and reflection, we feel their powerful charm and their
original grace.
In his walks across the fields, Bastien-Lepage received
impressions of country life, and assimilated them like daily food.
Gatherers of faggots carrying their bundles of wood; fishers for frogs
wet to the knees, crossing the meadows with their fishing tackle on
their shoulders; washerwomen wringing out their linen by the banks
of the Tinte; loungers sitting under a willow tree, while the lunch of
cheese is carried to the workers; the village gardens in April at the
time of the spring digging, when the leafless trees spread their
shadows over borders adorned only by the precocious blossoms of
the primrose and the crown imperial; potato fields, where fires of
dried stems send up their blue smoke into the red October evening—
all these details of village life entered the eyes of the child, who
instinctively stored them up in his memory.
Literary studies had little interest for him, while on the contrary he
had a strong liking for mathematics.
At one time when he was leaving the fourth form he thought of
preparing for the examination for St. Cyr. This is not surprising in a
department essentially military, whose remarkable men have all
been generals or marshals; but this fancy, in which he was led more
by imitation of others than by his own true calling, soon passed
away, and during his last years at college his thoughts were
constantly turned towards drawing, and when his course of
philosophy came to an end, he made known to his parents his wish
to go to Paris to study painting.
Great was the astonishment in the home at Damvillers. While
recognizing his son’s skill as a draughtsman, Father Bastien
persisted in declaring that painting was not a career—nothing
certain, a long and costly apprenticeship, and then ten chances of
failure to one of success. Let us talk rather of an honourable
appointment in the administration of the state, where one is sure to
get one’s pay every month, with a prospect of a provision for one’s
old age!
 They held a family council. The grandfather considered the
adventure hazardous and shook his head; the mother was frightened
above all at the dangers of Paris and the life of privation to be
undergone there, but, conquered at last by the persistency of her
son, she murmured timidly, “Yet, if Jules wishes it!…”
A way was found for settling everything. A friend of the family,
who held a superior employment in the Central Postal
Administration, advised Jules to go up for examination for admission
into that department, promising him that on his being received, he
would have him called to Paris, when it could be arranged for him to
study at the École des Beaux Arts in the hours that were free from
his postal service. They took this advice; Bastien passed the
examination, was named supernumerary, and set out for Paris about
the end of 1867.
He divided his time between his postal duties and his studies in
the School. This could only be done under great disadvantages. The
requirements of his position in the Post Office made consecutive and
serious study very difficult.
By the end of six months he was brought to the conclusion that
this double work was impossible; that he must choose between the
Office and the School. He did not hesitate; he gave up the Post
Office, and, furnished with a letter from M. Bouguereau, he entered
the Cabanel studio after having been received in the School with the
number one.
“All beginnings are painful,” says Goethe. Bastien-Lepage had a
harsh experience of this. He had burnt his ships in leaving the Post
Office, and he found himself alone in Paris with very limited means
of existence.
At Damvillers there was more self-denial. The mother, always
valiant, herself went to work in the fields, that she might have
something to add to the little sum sent every month to the young
painter. The Council General of the Meuse had voted him an
allowance of, I believe, six hundred francs; all this together scarcely
furnished him with bed and board.
 But Jules was endowed with a robust faith, a firm will, a never-
failing cheerfulness, and the magical power of these three enabled
him to endure bravely the many trials of the years of his
apprenticeship.
In 1870 he sent his first picture to the Salon. It passed unnoticed.
I have just seen this picture again. It is the portrait of a man, quite
young, dressed in a coat of strong green, the whole flooded with a
greenish light. It is rather in the manner of Ricard, but the solid
construction of the head and the expression of the face already
indicate a painter who sees clearly and seeks to enter into the
character of his model.
A short time later the war broke out. Jules Bastien enlisted in a
company of volunteers, commanded by the painter Castellani, and
did his duty bravely at the outposts.
One day in the trenches a shell burst near him and sent a clod of
hardened earth straight at his chest. He was taken to the ambulance,
where he remained during the last month of the siege, while another
shell fell upon his studio, and there destroyed his first composition, a
nymph, nude, her arms clasped over her blonde head, and bathing
her feet in the waters of a spring.
On the re-opening of communications he hastened back to his
village, where he arrived, like the pigeon in the fable, disabled,
“Trainant l’aile et tirant le pied.”
There he spent the remainder of the year 1871, recovering his
shattered health in his native air, making long excursions as far as to
the Moselle, and painting various portraits of relations and friends.
He did not return to Paris until sometime in the year 1872.
Then the struggling life of the débutant began again. In order to
make both ends meet he tried to get some of his drawings into the
illustrated journals; but his manner of illustrating was not what was
wanted by the editors, who sought above all things to please the
ordinary public.
Weary of the struggle he began to paint fans.
 One day a manufacturer of antéphelic milk (lait antéphelique)
asked him to make a sort of allegorical picture intended for an
advertisement for his Elixir of Youth. The artist, making a virtue of
necessity, painted a bright gay picture, after the manner of Watteau’s
landscapes, with groups of young women dressed in modern style
approaching a fountain, where Cupids were gambolling.
The painting finished, Bastien explained to the manufacturer his
intention to exhibit it first of all in the Salon.
The perfumer wished for nothing better, but insisted on one
condition; above the fountain was to be placed on a scroll of all the
colours of the rainbow, the name of the cosmetic, and the address of
the place where it was sold.
Naturally Bastien refused, and the tradesman, disappointed of his
advertisement, left him the picture for his trouble.
This painting was exhibited in the Salon of 1873, under the title of
Au Printemps (In Spring); being placed very high it attracted no
attention.
Jules was not discouraged, but he was a prey to that restless and
feverish indecision which commonly besets beginners. The teaching
in the school troubled him, and being a great admirer of Puvis de
Chavannes, he was tempted to try decorative and allegorical
painting.
His second picture, La Chanson du Printemps (The Song of
Spring), exhibited in 1874, is conceived and executed under this
influence. It represents a young peasant girl seated at the edge of a
wood, bordered by a meadow which slopes down to a Meusian
village, whose red-tiled roofs are seen in the distance. The girl is
sitting, with wide-open eyes, her arm passed through the bowed
handle of a rustic basket strewn with violets, while from behind her
nude little children with butterflies’ wings and blowing upon pipes,
whisper to her the song of the growing grass, and tell her of coming
womanhood.
This light and spring-like picture, half realistic, half symbolical,
would, perhaps, in spite of its simple charm, have left the public