Math100

Topics you need to know:

Solving Linear Equations (Chapter 2)

●​ Solve & Classify Linear Equations (including eq’s with fraction/decimal coefficients)
●​ Solve number word problems, percent applications, simple interest applications
●​ Solve a formula for a specific variable & use formulas to solve geometry applications
●​ Solve mixture word problems & uniform motion applications
●​ Graph inequalities on the number line
●​ Solve linear inequalities & translate words into inequalities
●​ Solve applications with linear/compound inequalities & absolute value
●​ Solve compound inequalities with ‘and’/’or’
●​ Solve absolute value equations
●​ Solve absolute value inequalities with ‘less than/greater than’

Graphs and Functions (Chapter 3)

●​ Plot points in a rectangular coordinate system

●​ Graph a linear equation by plotting points
●​ Graph vertical & horizontal lines
●​ Find the x and y intercepts
●​ Graph a line using the intercepts
●​ Find the slope of a line
●​ Graph a line given a point and the slope
●​ Graph a line using its slope and intercept
●​ Gaph and interpret applications of slope-intercept
●​ Use slopes to identify parallel and perpendicular lines
●​ Find an equation of the line given:
○​ the slope and the y-intercept
○​ the slope and a point
○​ two points
●​ Find an equation of a line a parallel/perpendicular to a given line
●​ Verify solutions to an inequality in two variables
●​ Graph linear inequalities in two variables
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●​ Solve applications using linear inequalities in two variables

●​ Find the domain and range of a relation
●​ Determine if a relation is a function & find the value of a function
●​ Use the vertical line test
●​ Identify graphs of basic functions
●​ Read information from a graph of a function

Systems of Linear Equations (Chapter 4)

●​ Determine whether an ordered pair is a solution of a system of equations

●​ Solve a system of linear equations by graphing/substitution/elimination
●​ Determine which method is more convenient
●​ Solve geometry/uniform motion applications
●​ Solve mixture/interest/cost & revenue applications
●​ Determine whether an ordered triple is a sol’n to a system of linear equations w/ 3 vars.
●​ Solve a system of linear equations with 3 vars./ applications

Polynomials and Polynomial Functions (Chapter 5)

●​ Determine the degree of polynomials

●​ Add & Subtract polynomials/polynomial functions
●​ Multiply/Divide Polynomials

Factoring (Chapter 6)

●​ Find the greatest common factor of two or more expressions/from a polynomial

●​ Factor by grouping
●​ Factor trinomials of all forms, using trial & error, the ac method, and substitution
●​ Factor perfect square trinomials/difference of squares/sums & differences of cubes
●​ Use the zero product property
●​ Solve quadratic equations by factoring
●​ Solve equations with polynomial functions
●​ Solve appolications modeled by polynomials equations
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Rational Expressions and Functions (Chapter 7)

●​ Determine the values for which a rational expression is undefined
●​ Simplify/multiply/divide rational expressions/functions
●​ Add and subtract rational expressions/functions with alike/unlike & opposite
denominators
●​ Find the LCD of a rational expression
●​ Solve rational equations/ for a specific variable
●​ Use rational functions

Roots and Radicals (Chapter 8)

●​ Simplify expressions/variable expressions with roots
●​ Estimate & approximate roots
●​ Use the product/quotient property to simplify radical expressions

●​ Simplify expressions with

●​ Simplify expressions with

●​ Add, subtract, and multiply radical expressions
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Final Practice Test

1) Solve the following linear equations, then classify each equation as a conditional equation, an
identity, or a contradiction

a)​

b)​

c)​

2) Solve the following word problems & percent applications

a)​ One number is 5 more than the other. Their sum is 33. Find the numbers.
b)​ The sum of two numbers is 0. One number is nine less than twice the other. Find the
numbers.
c)​ Find 3 consecutive integers whose sum is 222.
d)​ 83 is 67% of what number?
e)​ What number is 18% of 3?.
f)​ What percent of 198 is 16?
g)​ 48 is what percent of 47?
h)​ Steve gets paid $3,750 per month. He pays $980 a month for rent. What percent of his
monthly pay goes towards rent?
i)​ Bill pays his supplier $0.86 a bolt to sell at his hardware store. He adds a 95% mark-up.
What price do his customers pay?

3) Solve for the wanted value, use a geometry formula if necessary

a)​ Solve for h.

b)​ Solve for y.
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c)​ The measure of the smallest angle of a right triangle is 20° less than the measure of the
next larger angle. Find the measures of all three angles.
d)​ The length of a rectangle is eight feet more than the width. The perimeter is 60 feet. Find
the length and the width.

4) Answer the following word problems

a)​ Jackson has $9.70 in quarters, dimes. The number of quarters is eight more than four
times the number of dimes. How many of each coin does he have?
b)​ Jason went to the post office and bought $0.41 stamps and $0.26 postcards and spent
$10.28. The number of stamps was four more than twice the number of postcards. How
many of each did he buy?
c)​ Allison is planning to plant a lawn in her yard. She will need nine pounds of grass seed.
She wants to mix Bermuada seed that costs $4.80 per pound with Fescue seed that costs
$3.50 per pound. How much of each seed should he buy so that the overall cost will be
$4.02 per pound?
d)​ Max was paid $25,000 and wants to invest it. He wants to put some of the money into a
bond that pays 4% annual interest and the rest into stocks that pay 9% annual interest. If
he wants to earn 7.4% annual interest on the total amount, how much money should he
invest into each account?
e)​ Alex and Trevor live 332 miles apart. For vacation, they decide to meet somewhere part
way between their homes. Alex drove 3.2 hours and Trevor drove 2.8 hours. Alex’s
average speed was four miles per hour faster than Trevors’. Find both Alex and Trevor’s
average speed.

5) Solve the following problems regarding linear inequalities

a)​ Graph each inequality on the number line and write it in interval notation
i)​
ii)​
iii)​
b)​ Solve the following inequality, then graph its solution on the number line and write it in
interval notation
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i)​
ii)​
iii)​

6) Answer the following questions regarding graphing linear equations in two variables/linear
inequalities

a)​ Graph the following equation using the intercepts

i)​
b)​ Graph the line with the given point and slope
i)​
c)​ Graph the line using its slope and y-intercept
i)​
d)​ Use slopes and y-intercepts to determine whether the lines are parallel, perpendicular,
or neither.
i)​
e)​ Find an equation of the line given the 2 points, write the equation in slope-intercept
form
i)​
f)​ Find an equation of a line parallel to a given line that contains the given point. Find an
eq’n of a perpendicular line as well.
i)​ ,
g)​ Graph the linear inequality
i)​

7) Answer the following questions about relations and functions

a)​ Find the domain and the range of the following relation. Determine whether the relation
is a function.
i)​
b)​ Determine whether each equation is a function.
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ii)​
c)​ Evaluate the following functions at: a) b) c) d)
i)​
ii)​

d)​ Determine whether the following graphs are graphs of functions. Explain your
reasoning.

i)​
e)​ Graph the following functions and state its domain and range in interval notation.
i)​
ii)​
iii)​
iv)​

f)​
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g)​ Is every relation a function? Is every function a relation? Justify your response.

h)​ The number of unwatched shows in Ted’s DVR is 96. This number grows by 32 unwatched
shows per week. The function represents the relation between the
number of unwatched shows, N, and the time,t, measured in weeks.
i)​ Determine the independent & dependentvariable
ii)​ Find N(2). Explain what this result means.

8) Answer the following questions relating to systems of equations with two variables
a)​ Solve the following system of equations by graphing

i)​

b)​ Without graphing, determine the number of solutions and then classify the sys. of eq’s.

i)​

c)​ Solve the following system of equations by substitution

i)​

d)​ Solve the following system of equations by elimination

i)​

9) Solve the following Applications with Systems of Equations

a)​ The sum of two numbers is 65. Their difference is 25. Find the numbers.
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b)​ Travis and Lisa were shopping for school supplies. Travis bought four notebooks and five
thumb drives for $116. Lisa bought two notebooks and three thumb drives for $68. Find
the cost of each notebook and each thumb drive.

c)​ Molly is making strawberry infused water. For each ounce of strawberry juice, she uses
three times as many ounces of water as juice. How many ounces of strawberry juice and
how many ounces of water does she need to make 64 ounces of strawberry infused water.

d)​ Jack is offered a salary of $400 plus a commission of $50 per client earned from one
company, and $300 plus a commission of $75 per client earned from another company.
How many clients will Jack need to earn to make his total pay the same?

e)​ The difference of two supplementary angles is 20. Find the measures of the angles.

f)​ John is hanging string lights that are 45 feets long around three sides of his patio,
adjacent to his house. The length of the patio, the side along the house, is 5 feet longer
than three times the width. Find the length and width of the patio.

g)​ Two angles are supplementary. The measure of one the larger angle is four more than
three times the measure of the smaller angle. Find the measures of both angles.

h)​ A small jet can fly 1072 miles in 4 hours with a tailwind but only 848 miles in 4 hours into
a headwind. Find the speed of the jet in still air and the speed of the wind.

i)​ Sarah left Minneapolis heading east at a speed of 60 mph. Her sister followed her on the
same route, leaving two hours later and driving at a rate of 70 mph. How long will it take
for Sarah’s sister to catch up to Sarah?

j)​ A 40% antifreeze solution is to be mixed with a 70% antifreeze solution to get 240 liters
of a 50% solution. How many liters of the 40% and how many liters of the 70% will be
used?

k)​ Sam invested $48,000, some at 6% interest and the rest at 10%. How much did he invest
at each rate if he received $4000 interest in one year.
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l)​ The manufacturer of a sports drink spends $1.30 to make each drink and sells them for
$3.00. The manufacturer also has fixed costs each month of $6,000
i)​ Find the cost function, C, when x energy drinks are manufactured
ii)​ Find the revenue function, R, when x drinks are sold
iii)​ Show the break-even point by graphing both the Revenue and Cost functions on
the same grid
iv)​ Find the break even point. Determine what it means

10) Answer the following questions regarding systems of equations with three variables

a)​ Determine whether the given ordered triple is a solution to the system:

i)​ , ,

b)​ Solve the following system of equations:

i)​

ii)​

iii)​
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c)​ Solve the following applications using sys. of eq’s with three variables
i)​ The sum of the measures of the angle of a triangle is 180. The sum of the
measures of the second and third angles is three times the measure of the first
angle. The third angle is fifteen more than the second. Find the measures of the
three angles.

11) Answer the following questions regarding polynomials

a)​ Determine if the polynomial is a monomial, trinomial, or other polynomial. Then,

indicate the degree of the polynomial.
i)​
ii)​

b)​ Add or subtract the following polynomials

i)​
ii)​ Subtract from

c)​ For the functions , and

i)​ Find:
ii)​ Find:

12) Answer the following questions regarding multiplying/dividing polynomials

a)​ Multiply:

b)​ Multiply:

c)​ Multiply:

d)​ Multiply:
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e)​ Multiply:
f)​ Using either the Binomial Squares or Product of Conjugates pattern
i)​ Multiply:
ii)​ Multiply:

g)​ Divide:

h)​ Divide:

i)​ Using both synthetic & long division

i)​ For and . Find and

For and . Find and

j)​ Use the remainder theorem to evaluate the remainder, and the factor theorem to
determine whether (x-c) is a factor of the polynomial function.
i)​ divided by

k)​ For and , find and

13) Answer the following questions regarding factoring

a)​ Factor the greatest common from each polynomial

i)​
ii)​
b)​ Factor by grouping
i)​
ii)​
c)​ Factor the following trinomials, answer ‘prime’ if it cannot be factored. Use trial and
error, if necessary.
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d)​ Factor completely. If possible, use either the perfect square trinomials, difference of
squares, or sums/difference of cubes pattern.

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e)​ Solve the following equations using the zero product property, or by factoring

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f)​ For the function , find when . Use this information to

find two points that lie on the graph of this function.

14) Answer the following questions regarding rational expressions

a)​ Determine the values for which the rational expression is undefined

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ii)​
b)​ Simplify the following rational expressions

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c)​ Multiply or Divide the following rational expressions

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d)​ Add or subtract the following rational expressions

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e)​ Solve the following rational equations

i)​

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f)​ Solve for t.

g)​ Solve for x.

15) Answer the following questions regarding roots and radicals

a)​ Simplify:
i)​
ii)​
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b)​ Estimate each root between two consecutive whole numbers. Then approixamate each
root and round to two decimal places.
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ii)​

c)​ Simplify the following variable expressions with roots

i)​

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d)​ Simplify the following radical expressions, using absolute value signs as needed.
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e)​ Write the following as a radical expression

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f)​ Write the following with a rational exponent

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g)​ Simplify

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ii)​

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h)​ Simplify using the laws of exponents, assume all variables are positive

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i)​ Simplify the following radical expressions

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