Grade 8 – EASY ROUND

1. What is the simplest form of Answer:

  1
2. What are the factors of m2 – 14m + 49? Answer: (m-7)(m-7), (m-7)2
3. On which Quadrants does (-3, -5) lies? Answer: Quadrant 3
4. The LCD of Answer: 2xy
5. What would be the difference when Answer:
6. Divide Answer: Undefined
7. What is the slope of the equation 3x + 5y = 6? Answer:
8. What is the value b in the equation -12b = 60? Answer: - 5
9. Express in exponential form 5 5 5 5 n n n 5 Answer:
10. Rewrite the equation (below) in standard form.
Answer: 3x + 2y = 6
 Grade 8 – AVERAGE ROUND
1. What is the simplest form of Answer:
 
2. What is the expanded form of Answer: (x+y)(x2-xy+y2)
3. What is the slope intercept form of 2x + 5y = 10? Answer:
4. D Answer:
5. What is the complete factor of Answer:(x2+y2)(x+y)(x-y)
6. Give the domain of the following relation:
{(1,1,), (2,8), (3,27), (4,81)} Answer: D={1,2,3,4}
7. Write the equation of a line in slope intercept form:
x-intercept = 3, y-intercept = 2. Answer: y =
8. What is the equation of the line has 4 and 5 as
its x and y intercepts? Answer: 5x+4y=20
9. Which of the following is a solution of x – 5y > 6 Answer: (20,2)
10. Which of the following is NOT a solution of y < x + 1 Answer: (3,6)
 Grade 8 – DIFFICULT ROUND
1. Find the equation of a line passing through  the
given points (-2,3) and (4,8) in standard form. Answer: 5x - 6y = -28
2. Onyok can paint a certain area of a house in ten hours while Ligaya can paint a
certain area in 15 hours. How long would it take them working together to do the
painting job? Answer: 6 hours
3. Factor completely Answer: am(m+1)(m-1)
4. A 20 feet board is cut into two pieces. Twice the length of the shorter piece is
4 feet more than the length of the longer one. Find the length of the
shorter piece? Answer: 8 feet
5. Havinah made deposits from her school allowance as follows P15 on the first week,
P17 on the second week, P19 on the third week and so on until she made 49 deposits.
What was the amount of her last deposit? Answer: P111
 Grade 8 – CLINCHER ROUND
1. Simplify: Answer: 1  
2. Find the quotient Answer: 3
3. Find the LCD of the given rational expression. Answer: (w-3)(w+2)
4. Simplify: Answer: 1
5. The simplified form for
4y + 4 Answer: 9
Grade 9 – EASY ROUND
1. Simplify the radical . Answer:  
2. Expand . Answer: 4x2 – 4x + 1
3. Solve for x: Answer:
4. For a given gas of constant temperature, the formula
that relates P to V is P = . What kind of variation is it? Answer: Inverse Variation
5. What are the solutions of the given quadratic equation using extracting the square roots,
? Answer:
6. Evaluate -32 Answer: -9
7. Simplify 16mn0. Answer:
8. Rewrite the expression below into radical form, Answer:
9. What is the sum of the roots of the quadratic equation Answer:

10. What is the nature of the roots of the quadratic equation if

the value of its discriminant is zero? Answer: real, rational and equal
 Grade 9 – AVERAGE ROUND
1. Find the quadratic function whose zeros are and  
Answer:
2. What is the product of the roots of the equation Answer: - 3, -3, negative 3
3. If b varies inversely as d, and b = 7, when d = 8, find b when d = 4. Answer: b=14
4. Simplify Answer: 16
5. How many real roots does the quadratic equation have ? Answer:0, zero, none
6. Simplify the expression and write the answer with only
positive exponents, Answer:
7. If p varies directly as the square of q and inversely as the square root of r,
and p = 60 when q = 6 and r = 81, find p when q = 8 and r = 144. Answer:
8. What are the roots of the quadratic function, x2 – 5x + 6 = 0? Answer:
9. What is the discriminant of the quadratic function, 16x2 – 8x + 1 = 0? Answer:
10. Suppose y varies jointly as x and z, and y = 32 when x = 8 and z = 2. Find y when x = 15 and z = 6. Answer: 18
 Grade 9 – DIFFICULT ROUND
1. A rectangular garden has an area of 112 m  squared. If it's length is 6m
more than it's width what are the dimensions of the garden?
Answer: 8 meters by 14 meters
2. Two numbers have a difference of 18. The sum of their squares is 194.
What are the numbers? Answer: 13 & 5
3. Evaluate Answer: 4
4. What is an equation of a quadratic function whose zeros
are twice the zeros of y = 2x2 – x – 10 = 0
Answer: f(x) = x2 – x – 20 or y = x2 – x – 20
5. The amount of gasoline used by a car varies jointly as the distance travelled and the
square root of the speed. Supposed a car used 25 liters on a 100 km- trip at 100kph,
about how many liters will it use on a 1000 km trip at 64ph?
Answer: 200 Liters
Grade 9 – CLINCHER ROUND

1. Solve Answer: - 4 and 1  

2. What is the vertex of the given function, ?
Answer: (5,-1)
3. Factor completely Answer: (n + 9)2
4. Simplify. (8 + 4i) + (−2 − 8i) Answer: 6 - 4i
5. If y varies directly as x, and x = 9 when y = 15,
find y when x = 33. Answer: 55