MATH QUIZ BEE

ELIMINATION ROUND 2024

ROUND 1: EASY ROUND (1 point each)

1. What is the degree of a quadratic equation?
a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 4
2. Which of the following is the standard form of a quadratic equation?
a. ax 2 +bx−c=0 b. ax 2 +bx +c=0 c. ax 2 +bx=c d. ax 2−bx=c
3. What is the square root of 81?
a. 7 b. 8 c. 9 d. 10
2
4. In the quadratic equation 3 x + 8 x + 4=0, what is its quadratic term?
a. 3 x 2 b. 8 x c. 4 d. 0
5. What kind of variation is represented in the equation y=kx ?
a. Direct b. Inverse c. Joint d. Combined
6. Which of the following represents the statement, “h varies inversely as d.”
k d
a. h=kd b. h=−d c. h= d. h=
d k
7. A polygon with four sides and four angles is called _____________.
a. Square b. Triangle c. Rectangle d. Quadrilateral
8. It is a parallelogram with four equal sides and four right angles.
a. Square b. Rhombus c. Rectangle d. Parallelogram
9. Which of the following parallelogram satisfies this condition, “parallelogram with congruent
diagonals”?
a. Rhombus and Square
b. Rhombus and Rectangle
c. Square and Rectangle
d. Square Only
10. In a parallelogram ABCD, if angle B=104 ° find the measure of angle C.
a. 256 ° b. 104 ° c. 52 ° d. 76 °

ROUND 2: AVERAGE ROUND (2 points each)

1. What is the factored form of the expression x 2+ 11 x+24 .
2. Simplify the radical: √ 25+ √ 49
3. Write the quadratic equation in standard form: −25−13 x +5 x 2=−27
4. What are the roots of the quadratic equation x 2−144=0 ?
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5. Transform the exponential form into its simplified radical form: 3 5
6. Given a rhombus STUV, if VU =2 x−15 and ST =37, find x.
7. The length of rectangle is 7 more than its width. If its width measures 9 centimeters, what is
the sum of ALL its sides?

ROUND 3: DIFFICULT ROUND (3 points each)

1. Simplify: √ 75+9 √ 50+ √ 48−12 √8
2. What is the sum and product of quadratic equation x 2−6 x +28=68.
√
3. Simplify: 60+5 √ 16 √ 8 √ 4 .
4. In a rectangle, the measure of its length is 6 more than twice its width. If their sum is 39, find
the measure of its length in centimeters.
5. If 18 workers can finish the job in 12 days, how many more workers should be added so that
they could finish the same job in 8 days?

ANSWER KEY:
ROUND 1
1. b
2. b
3. c
4. a
5. a
6. c
7. d
8. a
9. c
10. d

ROUND 2
1. ( x +3 ) ( x+ 8 )
2. 12
3. 5 x 2−13 x+2=0
4. 12 & -12
5. √5 81
6. 26
7. 50 centimeters

ROUND 3
1. 9 √ 3+21 √2
2. Sum = 6; Product = -40
3. 10
4. 28 centimeters
5. 9 more workers