EASY ROUND

1. WHAT IS THE INTERSECTION OF TWO DISTINCT LINES?

a. POINT
b. LINE
c. PLANE
d. SPACE
ANSWER

A
2. IT IS THE REVERSE PROCESS OF MULTIPLICATION.
a. FACTORING
b. SUBTRACTING
c. ADDING
d. SIMPLIFYING
ANSWER

A
3. AN ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSION THAT IS MADE UP OF THREE OR MORE TERMS.
a. MONOMIAL
b. BINOMIAL
c. TRINOMIAL
d. MULTINOMIAL
ANSWER

D
 TYPE EQUATION HERE.
4. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING CAN BE FACTORED USING THE DIFFERENCE OF TWO SQUARES?
a. 3𝑥 2 + 4𝑥 4
b. 𝑎4 − 64𝑏 3
c. 𝑥 2 − 81
d. 9𝑏 2 − 144𝑐 3
ANSWER

C
5. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING DOES NOT BELONG TO THE GROUP?

a. −
3
−5

b. −3
−5

c. 3
5

d. −
−3
−5
ANSWER

D
6. EVALUATE 8𝑥 0
a. 0
b. 1
c. 8
d. X
ANSWER

C
7. WHAT IS THE VALUE OF 𝜋?
a. 4
b. 3.41
c. 3.1416
d. 3
ANSWER

C
8. IN WHICH QUADRANT CAN WE FOUND THE ORDERED PAIR (10, -2)?
a. QUADRANT 1
b. QUADRANT 2
c. QUADRANT 3
d. QUADRANT 4
ANSWER

D
9. IF THE GRAPH OF A LINEAR FUNCTION POINTS DOWNWARD TO THE RIGHT, THE FUNCTION IS SAID TO
BE________.
a. INCREASING
b. DECREASING
c. CONSTANT
d. NOT DEFINED
ANSWER

B
10. THE GRAPH OF A LINEAR EQUATION IN TWO VARIABLES IS __________.
a. A POINT
b. A LINE
c. A RAY
d. A SEGMENT
ANSWER

B
 AVERAGE ROUND
1. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS GIVES A PRODUCT OF 𝑥 2 + 5𝑥 + 4?
a. (𝑥 + 1)(𝑥 + 4)
b. (𝑥 + 2)(𝑥 + 2)
c. (𝑥 + 5)(𝑥 − 1)
d. (𝑥 + 1)2
ANSWER

A
 1 3 𝑥+1
2. WHAT IS THE LEAST COMMON DENOMINATOR OF , − , 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ?
2𝑥 3 6𝑥 2 9𝑥

a. 9𝑥 6
b. 18𝑥 3
c. 54𝑥
d. 108
ANSWER

B
3. SIMPLIFY 4𝑥 3 − 3𝑥 2 − 𝑥 3 + 5𝑥 2
a. 3𝑥 3 + 2𝑥 2
b. 3𝑥 3 − 2𝑥 2
c. 5𝑥 3 + 2𝑥 2
d. 3𝑥 3 − 8𝑥 2
ANSWER

A
4. MULTIPLY THE MONOMIALS 3𝑥𝑦 2 𝑎𝑛𝑑 5𝑦.
a. 15𝑥𝑦 3
b. 15𝑥𝑦 2
c. 15𝑥 2 𝑦 2
d. 8𝑥𝑦 3
ANSWER

A
5. IF THE RECIPROCAL OF 𝑥 3 𝑖𝑠 27, WHAT IS THE VALUE OF X ?
a. 1/9
b. 1/3
c. 3
d. 9
ANSWER

B
 DIFFICULT ROUND

1. IF (𝑎 + 𝑏)2 = 81, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎2 + 𝑏 2 = 41, 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑏?

ANSWER

20
2. IF RECTANGLE IS 3𝑥 + 1 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑠 LONG AND 2𝑥 − 3 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑑𝑒. 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝐴𝑅𝐸𝐴.
 ANSWER

2
6𝑥 − 7𝑥 − 3
3. WHO WAS THE FRENCH MATHEMATICIANS AND PHILOSOPHER WHO INVENTED THE RECTANGULAR
COORDINATE SYSTEM?
 ANSWER

RENE DESCARTES
4. WHAT IS THE POSSIBLE VALUE OF B SO THAT 4𝑥 2 + 𝑏𝑥𝑦 + 36𝑦 2 WOULD BE A PERFECT SQUARE
TRINOMIAL?
ANSWER

24
5. THE LENGTH OF A RECTANGLE IS 2 MORE THAN TWICE ITS WIDTH. IF THE AREA OF THE RECTANGLE IS 24
SQ. METERS, FIND ITS DIMENSIONS.
ANSWER

L=8
W=3