Pre-Requisite Skills Assessment - A Name:

Directions: Respond to each of the following items to the best of your ability without the use of technology.
The purpose of this assessment is to inform you and your instructor of the pre-requisite skills that you need to
revisit. Show all of your work (for feedback!).

1. Find the value of the following expression:

2(5 8)2 10
2

2. Express as a single fraction:

3 5 2
+
2 5

3. Solve the inequality.

5 2 2 ( + 3)

4. Find the equation of the line that contains (3, 0) and (2, 5).

5. Addison goes to the movies with her brother and notices that he grabs three pieces of popcorn each
time he reaches into the bag. The bag started with 100 pieces of popcorn. Write an equation that
models the amount of popcorn in the bag based on the number of times Addisons brother removes
some.
6. Factor the following expression.
x3 9x

7. Solve the following equation by factoring:

6 2 7 = 3

8. Expand the expression:

(2 )2

9. Given () = 2 + 2 4, find ().

10. Simplify the expression:

3(2 2 7) 2(4 2 + 5)