APPC Test Practice Unit 1 FRQ
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Raad Al-Shaikh MD JDPractice Test: (Unit 1) Free Response Questions Name:
You may use your graphing calculator for this portion of the exam.
Directions: The following pages contain two free response problems. While you may write on the following pages, the
only work and answers that will be graded are what you write in the appropriate spaces of the free response answer
booklet. When completing the free response problems, consider the following:
• Show all of your work. Your work will be scored on the correctness and completeness of your responses,
including your supporting work and answers. Answers without supporting work may not receive credit in cases
where supporting work is required.
• For the following questions, you are expected to use your graphing calculator for tasks such as producing graphs
and tables, evaluating functions, solving equations, and performing computations.
• Avoid rounding intermediate computations on the way to the final result. Unless otherwise specified, any decimal
approximations reported in your work should be accurate to three places after the decimal point.
• It may be helpful to use your graphing calculator to store information such as computed values for constants,
functions you are working with solutions to equations, and any intermediate values. Computations with the
graphing calculator that use the stored information help to maintain as much precision as possible and ensure the
desired accuracy in final answers.
1. Let f be the piecewise defined function consisting of three linear segments shown in the figure above. The function
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g is defined by 𝑔(𝑥) = .
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(A) (i) The function h is defined by h ( x ) = ( g f )( x ) = g ( f ( x )) . Find the value of ℎ(−1) as a decimal
approximation, or indicate that it is not defined.
(ii) Find the value of 𝑓 "# (−2), or indicate that it is not defined.
(B) (i) Find all zeros of g ( x ) , as decimal approximations, or indicate that there are no such values.
(ii) Determine the end behavior of g as x decreases without bound. Express your answer using the
mathematical notation of a limit.
(C) (i) Determine if an inverse function of f can be constructed for all values in the domain of f .
(ii) Give a reason for your answer based on the definition of a function and the graph of f .
t
2 6 11
(in minutes)
C (t )
16 30 25
(in number of customers)
2. In a large town, the local cable company experienced a service outage that prevented residents of the town from being
able to watch their local football team play on the television. As the local cable company began receiving phone calls to
report the outage, residents were placed on hold while operators attempted to respond to the customer calls. The number
of customers on hold with the cable company is given in the table above for selected times following the service outage.
The number of customers on hold t minutes after the service outage can be modeled by the function C given by
C ( t ) = at 2 + bt + c .
(A) (i) Use the given data to write three equations that can be used to find the values for constants a, b, and c in
the expression for C ( t ) .
(ii) Find the values for a, b, and c .
(B) (i) Use the given data to find the average rate of change in the number of customers on hold, in customers per
minute, from 𝑡 = 3 to 𝑡 = 10 minutes. Express your answer as a decimal approximation. Show the
computations that lead to your answer.
(ii) Use the average rate of change found in (i) to estimate the number of customers on hold when 𝑡 = 6 minutes.
(iii) Consider the average rates of change of C from 𝑡 = 10 to t = k minutes where 10 < 𝑘 < 15. Are these
average rates of change less than or greater than the average rate of change from 𝑡 = 3 to 𝑡 = 10 minutes
found in (i)? Explain your reasoning.
(C) The local cable company wanted to use model C to make predictions about the number of customers on hold
beyond 15 minutes. The model C is an appropriate model if the predicted number of customers on hold is
nonnegative. Based on this information, what is the largest integer value of t for which the model C is an
appropriate model? Give a reason for your answer.
