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MFM2P Exam Review

Part 1: Measurement & Trigonometry

1. State the value of sin A in the following right 2. State one of the 3 primary trig ratios from the
triangle. following right triangle (Hint: there are six
possible answers).
C
C
5 o
53
3 5
3
B A
4 o
37
B A
4

3. Indicate the trig ratio used to find side x in the 4. Use the right triangle to find sin A
following right triangle.
C

39
x
15

B A
40º 36
8

5. In a right triangle where sin A = 0.3456, 6. In a right triangle where cos B = 0.5592,
determine angle A to the nearest degree. determine angle B to the nearest degree.

7. Use the Pythagorean Theorem to solve for the 8. At a certain time of day the angle of elevation
unknown side. of the sun is 70°. A tree casts a shadow that
x is 5.1m long. Determine the height of the
tree.

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9. A wall is to be supported by a wooden pole. In order for a support pole to keep a wall vertical, the
angle of elevation of the pole must be within the range of 30-60 degrees. If the pole is 8 feet long,
determine the distance from the base of the wall to position the pole.

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pp
or
wall

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angle of
elev ation
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10. A plane is approaching Ottawa International Airport to land. It is at a vertical height or altitude of
850m and a horizontal distance of 5 km from the runway.

Determine if the plane can land at a safe angle of no more than 10°. Show your work and include
a sketch in your solution.

11 a) Convert 5 cubic yards to cubic feet. b) Convert 36 inches to metres.

12. Solve

13. The volume of the cylinder is 60 cm3. What is the volume of the cone with the same base and
same height?

14. The pyramid on the left has a volume of 40 cm3. The pyramid on the right has the same base but
double the height. What is its volume?

15. Explain why the net below will not form a proper triangular prism when it is folded.

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53º
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16. The silo in the picture is used on a farm to store grain. It is made of a cylinder with a half-sphere on
top.
a) The radius of the base is 2.8 m. The height of the cylinder is 14 m. What is the total
volume inside the silo?

b) A train box car, in the shape of a rectangular prism, filled with grain is set to be
delivered to the silo. The box car has dimensions 16 yards by 5 yards by 5 yards.
Will the grain fit in the silo?

Part 2: Linear Relations

1. Given C = 4.2 n + 12 , solve for n when C = 33.

2. Determine the slope-intercept form (y = mx + b) of the equation 2x + y = 5.

3. Sketch 2x + y = 5. Identify key points on the graph.

7 y

6
5
4
3
2
1

–7 –6 –5 –4 –3 –2 –1–1 1 2 3 4 5 6 x

–2
–3
–4
–5
–6
–7

4. Given x + 2y = 9, determine x when y = -3.

5. a) Determine the y-intercept for the graph of 3x + y = 6.

b) Determine the x-intercept for the graph of 3x + y = 6.

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6. Determine the slope for the graph of 3x + y =6

7. Calculate the slope of the line from ( 5 , 0 ) to ( 9 , 8 )

8. Determine the equation of a line that has slope of and passes through the point (0,-6).

9. Sketch the graph of the equation .

7 y

6
5
4
3
2
1

–7 –6 –5 –4 –3 –2 –1–1 1 2 3 4 5 6 x

–2
–3
–4
–5
–6
–7

10. Solve the following system of linear equations using an algebraic method of your choice by
elimination or substitution.

11. Three different systems of equations are listed below.

System A System B System C

Choose ONE of the systems and find the point of intersection (by substitution, elimination or
graphing).
y
8

–8 –6 –4 –2 2 4 6 8 x
–2

–4

–6

–8
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12. Strawberry Summer

Rhonda and Nadine both pick strawberries in the summer but for different companies. Rhonda earns
$3 for each basket she picks. Nadine earns $1 per basket she picks plus $20 for the day.

a) Write an equation to represent the income that each girl earns at their job, where E is their total
earning for one day in dollars and n is the number of baskets of strawberries picked that day.

Rhonda: _______________________

Nadine: ________________________

b) If they each pick 15 baskets of strawberries, who makes more money and by how much? Show
your work.

c) If they each earn $81, how many baskets of strawberries does each girl pick? Show your work.

d) Describe at least two methods you could use to determine when they will make the same amount of
money.

e) Determine the point of intersection algebraically by substitution or elimination.

f) Explain what the point of intersection means in this problem.

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13. Online Banking: You researched two banks on the internet.

- OttawaBank.com offers an account with an initial fee of $10.00 and charges $0.50 per transaction.

- RichmondBank.com offers an account with no initial fee and charges $1.50 per transaction.

a) The graph of the charge at RichmondBank.com is shown below. On the same grid, sketch the graph
that represents the charge at OttawaBank.com.

b) Write an equation for the cost at OttawaBank.com, where C represents the charge in dollars, and n
represents the number of transactions.

14. Cellphone plan A is represented by , where C is the cost and n is the number of
minutes.

Graph a second plan that starts out cheaper but is more expensive after 100 minutes.

y
50

45

40

35

30

25

20

15

10

20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200 x

Describe how both the initial fee and the rate per minute are different from Cellphone Plan A.
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Part 3: Quadratic Relations

1. Expand and simplify 2. Factor

3. Factor 4. Factor

5. Factor 6. Determine the zeros for the relation

7. Given

State the x-intercepts ______________

State the y-intercept ______________

8. Karly used her graphing calculator to make graphs of three parabolas.

a) b) y
y y

(0, 8)
(–4, 0) (2, 0)
(–2, 0) (4, 0)
c)
x
x

(–2, 0) (4, 0) x (0, –8)

(0, –8)

She used the three relations below to make the graphs. Which relation made which graph? Explain.

1.

2.

3.

9. Compare the features of the following graphs.

a) b)
y y
5 5

4 4

3 3

2 2

1 1

–5 –4 –3 –2 –1 1 2 3 4 5 x –5 –4 –3 –2 –1 1 2 3 4 5 x
–1 –1

–2 –2

–3 –3

–4 –4

–5 –5
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10. Linda is throwing a ball from her dock into the water for her Labrador retriever Skyler to fetch. The
graph below represents the height of the ball and how far it is from the dock.

a) What is the maximum height reached by the ball?

b) How far did Linda throw the ball?

c) How high is the ball when it is 12m away from the dock?

d) Give a possible reason why the ball height does not start at zero.

e) Which of the following equations is most likely to represent the path of the ball? h is the height in
meters and d is the horizontal distance the ball has travelled. Justify your answer.

f) If Linda’s dock was 3 meters off the ground, but her throw remained the same, draw a sketch of the
resulting graph.
y
10

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height (m)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 x
distance from dock (m)

g) Did your x and y intercepts change? Explain why or why not.

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11. Rocket Launch: The following graph represents the path of a rocket. It shows the relationship
between the rocket’s height above the ground, h in feet, and how far it travelled from the launch
pad, d in feet.

The equation of the parabola is represented by .

y

35

30

25

20

15

10

5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 x

a. State the height of the rocket when it was launched.

b. State the maximum height of the rocket.

c. State how far the rocket landed from the launch pad.

d. If a tree is 40 ft from the launch pad, could the rocket pass over it? Justify your answer.

12. When Addie plays soccer, he can hit the ball up into the air in two ways:
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kicking it from the ground or heading it from the air

· Sketch a graph that represents the · Sketch a graph that represents the
path of a kicked ball. path of a headed ball.

Compare your two sketches.

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13. Write an expression for the area of the poster shown below.

14. A rectangular painting has an area defined by . Determine an expression for the
length and for the width of the painting.

15. Barry is looking at renovating his family room by putting in hard wood floors and a beautiful new
rug. The area of his room can be represented by the expression , in meters

a) Factor to determine an expression for the length and width of the room.

Therefore, Length = ___________ and Width = ___________

b) If x represents 10 m, what is the actual length and width of the room?

c) The contractor needs the dimensions of the room in feet, not meters. What is the length and
width of the room in feet? Round to the nearest foot.

d) What is the area of the room in square feet?

16. Compare the features of graphs of the following relations.

y
6

–6 –5 –4 –3 –2 –1 1 2 3 4 5 6 x
–1

–2

–3

–4

–5

–6
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17. In the Olympics Demetri threw a javelin along the path given by where h is the
height of the javelin in metres and d is the horizontal distance in metres.

a) A student drew this graph of the path of the javelin. There is something wrong with the graph.
Explain what is wrong and how you know it is wrong.
y

11
10
9
height (m)

8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 x
distance (m)

b) Draw the correct sketch for the path of the javelin.

y
10

8
height (m)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 x
distance (m)

c) Marcelo throws his javelin. Here is the graph of the path of his javelin.
y
10

7
height (m)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 x
distance (m)

i) What is the maximum height Marcelo’s javelin reaches?

ii) How far does his javelin land from where it starts?

iii) What is the height of the javelin when the horizontal distance is 6 m ?

iv) What does the graph tell us about Marcelo’s height? Explain your answer.

d) Compare the throws made by Demetri and Marcelo. Who wins the competition?