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PRE-TEST PRECALCULUS

GRADE 11-STEM
DIRECTION: Read each statement carefully. Choose the correct answer from the
choices. Write your answer in a long bond paper. Include your solution in an item that
needed to be solved. USED CAPITAL LETTERS.

1. What is the formula to find the vertex of a parabola?


a. x = -b/2
b. x = -b
c. x = -b / (2a)
d. x = -b / 2
2. Which letter in a quadratic formula represents the y-intercept?
a. a
b. b
c. c
3. The axis of symmetry line passes through which point?
a. y-intercept
b. any random point
c. vertex
d. symmetrical point for the vertex
4. Which letter determines if a parabola opens up or down?
a. a
b. h
c. k
5. If the a value is positive, which direction does the graph open?
a. Up
b. Down
c. Left
d. Right
6. If the a value is negative, which direction does the parabola open?
a. Up
b. Down
c. Left
d. Right
7. The equation for the axis of symmetry line is x = -b/(2a)
a. True
b. False
8. The maximum/minimum value of a parabola is which value from the ordered pair of
the vertex?
a. x
b. y
9. Where does the graph y=3(x-1) 2 - 8 increase?
a. (-∞,8)
b. (8,∞)
c. (-∞,1)
d. (1,∞)
10. What is the vertex form for a vertex of (-3,-5) and when a=-2?
a. y = -2(x-3)2+5
b. y = -2(x+3)2+5
c. y = -2(x+3)2-5
11. What is the axis of symmetry of the given function?
a. y=1
b. y = -1
c. x=1
d. x = -1

12. Identify the vertex and whether the graph opens up or down.
a. (-1, 4); opens up
b. (-1, 4); opens down
c. (1, 4); opens up
d. (1, 4); opens down
13. A parabola has a vertex at (-3,2). Where is the axis of symmetry?
a. y = -2
b. x = 3
c. x = -3
d. y = 2
14. Write the equation of the quadratic in vertex form given the following: vertex: (4,
-2), point: (0,-6), opens downward
a. f(x)=(x-4)2-2
b. f(x)=-4(x-4)2-2
c. f(x)=1/4(x+4)2-2
d. f(x)=-1/4(x-4)2-2
15. Write the equation of the quadratic in vertex form given the following: axis of
symmetry: x=1, Points: (2, 5) (-2, 21)
a. f(x)=(x-1)2+5
b. f(x)=1/2(x-1)2+3
c. f(x)=2(x-1)2+3
d. f(x)=2(x-1)2-3
16. Steven purchases a bowl. The diameter of the bowl is 14 cm. What is the
circumference of the bowl?
a. 28 cm
b. 43.98 cm
c. 87.96 cm
d. 7 cm
17. The diameter of a circle is:
a. The measurement around the circle.
b. The distance from an edge of a circle to another edge.
c. The distance from the center of the circle to an edge of a circle.
d. The distance from an edge of a circle to another edge through the center.
18. The radius of a circle is
a. The measurement from the center of a circle to an edge of the circle.
b. The measurement around the circle.
c. The measurement from and edge of the circle to another edge through the center.
d. A line perpendicular to the diameter of the circle
19. What is the distance around a circle?
a. Circumference
b. Area
c. Diameter
d. Radius
20. A circle has only one radius.
a. True
b. False
21. What is the formula for finding the circumference for a circle with just the radius?
a. 2πr
b. 1/2bh
c. πr2
22. What is the formula for finding the circumference of a circle with just the
diameter?
a. 𝜋𝑑
b. bh
c. lwh
23. Which method could be used to find the radius of the circle formed by the
pinwheel as it spins?
a. Divide 9 inches by 2
b. Divide 9 inches by pi
c. Multiply 9 inches by pi
d. Multiply 9 inches by 2
24. A line that goes from one end of the circle to the other and crosses the center
point.
a. Center
b. Diameter
c. Dimeeater
d. Radius
25. The distance around a circle; much like the perimeter of a rectangle.
a. Perimeter
b. Diameter
c. Circumference
d. Radius
26. Which function is the reciprocal function of the cosine?
a. Sine
b. Cosecant
c. Secant
d. tangent
27. Which function is the reciprocal of the sine?
a. Cosine
b. Secant
c. Cotangent
d. cosecant
28. What is a Radian?
a. another name for pi
b. a unit of angle, equal to an angle at the center of a circle whose arc is equal in
length to the radius.
c. a degree
d. a what?
29. What is the length of the radius of a unit circle?
a. one unit
b. pi units
c. radians
d. diameter
30. What are co-terminal angles?
a. angles that share the same terminal side
b. angles that are supplementary
c. angles that are complimentary
d. angles that are opposite each other
31. Name the reciprocal trig functions.
a. sin, cos, tan
b. sin⁻¹, cos⁻¹, tan⁻¹
c. csc, cot, secd
d. asher, dancer, prancer

32. State if the sequence 1,9, 25, 49, 81, ... is arithmetic, geometric, or neither.
a. Geometric
b. Arithmetic
c. Neither
33. State if the sequence -4, 8, -16, 32, -64, ... is arithmetic, geometric, or neither.
a. Geometric
b. Arithmetic
c. Neither
34. State if the sequence 19, 28, 37, 46, 55 ... is arithmetic, geometric, or neither.
a. Geometric
b. Arithmetic
c. Neither
35. Which statement is true about the sequence 15,25,35,45,...?
a. It is arithmetic with a common difference of 5.
b. It is geometric with a common ratio of 5/3.
c. It is arithmetic with a common difference of 10.
d. It is geometric with a common ratio of 10.
36. The 35th term of the arithmetic sequence 21, 31, 41, 51,... is?
a. 395
b. 361
c. -353
d. -387
37. Write an explicit rule for the general term of the sequence 5, 15, 45, . . . ?
a. an = an-1 x 3
b. an = 5(3)n-1
c. an = 3(5)n-1
d. an = 5 + (n-1)3
38. What is the sum of the first 18 terms of the sequence 9, 6, 3, . . .?
a. 567
b. -24
c. -33
d. -297
39. What is the twelfth term in the sequence 3, -6, 12, . . . ?
a. -2,048
b. 6,144
c. -6,144
d. -531,441
40. What is the explicit rule for the sequence: 11, 22, 44, 88...
a. an = 2(11)n-1
b. an = 11x2
c. an = 11(2)n-1

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