Department of Education

Region IX, Zamboanga Peninsula

Division of Zamboanga City
MATH 9 FIRST QUARTER PRE-TEST
Name: Date:
Grade and Section: Score:
Instruction. Write the letter of your choice on the space provided before each number.
_____1) Which of the following is the standard form of A) a2 + 2ab + b2 C) a2 + ab + b2
2
quadratic equation? B) a + b2 D) a3 - 2ab - b2
A) Ax + By + C = 0 _____13) What is the highest degree of a linear
B) ax2 + bx + c = 0, a is not equal to 0 equation?
C) ax2 + bx + c < 0, a is not equal to 0 A) 1 C) 3
D) y = mx + b B) 0 D) 2
_____2) Transform f(x) = -3(x+2)2 + 2 into general form _____14) It is the highest or lowest point the parabola
of the quadratic function. (Show your solution for 3 will reach.
points) A) symmetry C) vertex
A) f(x) = -3x2 - 12x - 10 B) all of the above D) axis
B) f(x) = -3x2 + 12x + 10 _____15) What is the highest degree of the linear
C) f(x) = -3x2 + 12x - 10 function?
D) f(x) = 3x2 - 12x + 10 A) 1 C) 0
_____3) A 3cm by 3cm square piece of cardboard was B) 2 D) 3
cut from a bigger square cardboard. The area of the _____16) The quadratic function y = -2x2 + 4x - 3
remaining cardborad was 40cm2. If s represents the A) real and equal of zeros
length of the bigger cardboard, which of the following B) real and unequal zeros
expressions give the are of the remaining piece? (sketch C) equal and not real
the cardboard partition for 3 points) D) no real roots
A) s2 – 9 C) s2 + 40 _____17) Which of the following is the Quadratic
B) s2 + 9 D) s - 9 Formula?
_____4) Which of the following equation represents a −b ± b 2−4 ac
√
quadratic function? A)
A) 2y2 + 3 = x 2a
B) y = 3x - 22
B)
b ± b 2−4 ac
√
2
C) y = 3 + 2x 2a
D) y = 2x - 3
_____5) If 2x2 - px + 8 = 0 has equal roots and p > 0, C)
−b ± b 2+ 4 ac
√
then the value of p is (Show your solution for 2 points) 2a
A) 8 C) 1 D) none of the above
B) 4 D) 2 _____18) What is the constant or the c term in the
_____6) It is a polynomial equation of degree two that equation x2 + 5x + 7 = 0?
can be written in the form ax 2 + bx + c = 0, where a, b, c A) 1
are real numbers and a is not equal to 0. B) 7
A) quadratic equation C) 3
B) linear inequality D) 2
C) quadratic inequality _____19) Which of the following quadratic equation is in
D) linear equation the standard form?
_____7) The sum of the roots of 4x2 + 8x - 3 = 0 (Show A) 7x + 12 = x2
your solution for 3 points) B) x2 + 7x + 12 = 0
A) -2 C) - 15/8 C) x2 + 7x = -12
B) 12 D) - 8/5 D) x2 = -12 - 7x
_____8) Which of the following is the simplified form of _____20) The discriminant of x2 + 4x + 3 = 0 is
2
the equation 3(x + 7)? (Show your solution for 3 points) A) 12 C) 4
A) -3x2 + 10 B) 13 D) 5
B) 3x2 - 21 _____21) The product of the roots of the equation (m-
C) -3x2 + 4 1)/2 = 3/(m+2) is (Show your solution for 3 points)
D) 3x2 + 21 A) 3 C) 4
_____9) What is the absolute value of -3? B) -8 D) -1
A) -3 _____22) What is the highest degree of the quadratic
B) -1/3 function?
C) 1/3 A) 2 C) 1
D) 3 B) 0 D) 3
_____10) The length of the garden is 5 m longer than its _____23) Which of the following is a quadratic
width and the area is 14m2. How long is the garden? equation?
(Show your solution for 3 points) A) 3m - 7 = 12 B) -5n2 + 4n -1
A) 5m C) 7m 2
C) 2x -7x >/= 3 D) t2 + 5t - 14
B) 9m D) 2m 2
_____24) If x + mx + 7 = 0 can be solved by factoring
_____11) Which of the following rational algebraic and m > 0, then m is (Show your solution for 3 points)
equations is transformable to a quadratic equation? A) 8 C) 0
(Show your solution for 3 points) B) 2 D) 7
7 5 7 (w+1) ( w+2 ) _____25) The quadratic function f(x) = x 2 + 2x - 1 is
A) + = B) - =7 expressed in standard form as (Show your solution for 3
2 (s+2) 8 s 2 4
points)
1 5
C) + =5 m D) (2 t−1) + 2 = 3 t A) f(x) = (x+1)2 - 1
m (m+1) 5 3 4 B) f(x) = (x+1)2 + 2
_____12) A perfect square trinomial is a trinomial in the C) f(x) = (x+1)2 - 2
form: D) f(x) = (x+1)2 + 1
Answer Key

1) B Poi: 1.0
2) A Poi: 1.0
3) A Poi: 3.0
4) C Poi: 1.0
5) A Poi: 2.0
6) A Poi: 1.0
7) A Poi: 3.0
8) D Poi: 3.0
9) D Poi: 1.0
10) D Poi: 3.0
11) C Poi: 3.0
12) A Poi: 1.0
13) A Poi: 1.0
14) C Poi: 1.0
15) A Poi: 1.0
16) D Poi: 1.0
17) A Poi: 1.0
18) B Poi: 1.0
19) B Poi: 1.0
20) C Poi: 1.0
21) B Poi: 3.0
22) A Poi: 1.0
23) D Poi: 1.0
24) A Poi: 3.0
25) C Poi: 3.0