Diocesan Schools of Urdaneta

ST. PHILOMENA’S ACADEMY

Pozorrubio, Pangasinan

FIRST PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION

MATHEMATICS 8
(All Section)

NAME: _________________________________________________________ SCORE: _____________

SECTION: _______________________________________________________ DATE: ______________

I. MULTIPLE CHOICE
Direction: Choose the letter of the correct answer. Write your answer on the space before the number.

_____1. What is the product of 4 a and 3 a2 ?

A. 7 a 3 B. 12 a C. 12 a3 D. 15 a3
_____2. What is square root of 100?
A. 10 B. 11 C. 12 D. 13
_____3. Which of the following is a perfect square?
A. 141 B. 196 C. 222 D. 224
_____4. Which of the following is the correct factor of x + y 3 ?
3

A. ( x− y ) (x 2−xy − y 2) C. ( x + y ) (x 2+ xy+ y 2)
B. ( x + y ) ( x 2−xy + y 2 ) D. ( x + y ) ( x 2−xy− y2 )
_____5. What do we call the method used to get the square of binomial?
A. Expand Method C. Product Method
B. Sum Method D. Foil Method
_____6. Which statement is NOT true?
A. √ 4 = 2 B. √3 8 = 2 C. 4 2=8 D. 72 =14
_____7. Which of the following is the factor of a 2−36 b2 ?
A. (a ¿ ¿ 2+ 6 b2 )¿ ¿ C. ( a+ 6 ) (a−6)
B. ( a+ 6 b ) (a−6 b) D. ( a+ 6 ) (a+6)
______8. What is the cube root of 125?
A. 50 B. 25 C. 5 D. 3
3 3
______9. The binomial x + y is called the ___________ of two cubes.
A. difference B. product C. sum D. Quotient
______10. Which of the following is an example binomial?
4x
A. 3 a b 2 B. 2 c + y C. D. ( 36 abc )
5x

II. TRUE or FALSE

Direction: Write T if the statement is true and F if it is false. Write your answer before the number.

____1. ( t u 2 v )( t u3 v 2 )=t 2 u 5 v 3
____2. ( x +2 ) ( x +8 )=x 2+ 10 x +16
____3. The product of (c 2 d ¿ ( ce ) is c2 de .
____4. (a+ b)2=( a+ b ) (a +b)
____5. A difference of two squares has a middle term.
____6. x 2−16 can be factored into a product of two binomials.
____7. x 2−9 = ( x +3 ¿(x−3)
____8. x 3−36 is an example of difference of two squares.
____9. ( a−b )( a+ b )=a2−b 2
____10. x 3−8=( x+ 2 ) ( x 2+2 x +2)
III. FILL IN THE BLANK
Direction: Fill in the blank/s to complete each statement.
1. 92 = ____ 6. a 2−121 = ¿____ ) ¿___ )
2. 4 3 = ____ 7. p2−q2 = ¿ ) ( p−q ¿
3. √3 125 = _____ 8. (25 e ¿¿ 2−16)=(¿¿ +4)¿( ____ - 4 )
4. √ 256 = _____ 9.( ¿¿ −25 a 4 ) = ( 3 a+ 5 a2 ) (3 a−5 a2 )
5. ( 2 p +1 )( 2 p−1 ) = ( 4 p2 −¿ ¿ ) 10. ¿) = ( 2 a+ ¿ ¿ ) (4 b2−6 bc+ 9 c2 ¿

IV. FACTORING
Direction: Factor each completely.

A. Difference of Two Squares C. Perfect Square Trinomials

1. h 4−64 = ____________________ 6. 9 x 2−30 x+ 25 = _____________________

2. 16 r 2−121=¿ _________________ 7.49 m2 +42 mn+9 n2 ¿ = _______________
3. 4 m4−4 n2 = __________________ 8. x 2−10 x+ 25 = ______________________

B. Sum and Difference of Two Cubes D. Factoring trinomials in form of x 2+ bx+ c

4. s3 +64 = ____________________ 9. x 2+ 10 x +16 = _____________________

5. 8 e 3−125 g3 = _________________ 10. x 2−9 x +18 = ______________________

Prepared by:

MARK BERT B. CINCO

Subject Teacher