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 Practice

1. What is the product of (x – 3)(x + 7)? 6. What are the factors of x2 – x – 6?

a. x2 – 21 a. (x – 3)(x – 2)
b. x2 – 3x – 21 b. (x – 3)(x + 2)
c. x2 + 4x – 21 c. (x + 3)(x – 2)
d. x2 + 7x – 21 d. (x – 6)(x + 1)
e. x2 – 21x – 21 e. (x – 1)(x + 6)

2. What is the product of (x – 6)(x – 6)? 7. What is one factor of x2 – 4?

a. x2 + 36 a. x2
b. x2 – 36 b. –4
c. x2 – 12x – 36 c. (x – 1)
d. x2 – 12x + 36 d. (x + 2)
e. x2 – 36x + 36 e. (x – 4)

3. What is the product of (x – 1)(x + 1)? 8. What are the factors of x2 – 11x + 28?
a. x2 – 1 a. (x – 4)(x – 7)
b. x2 + 1 b. (x – 4)(x + 7)
c. x2 – x – 1 c. (x + 14)(x – 2)
d. x2 – x + 1 d. (x – 14)(x + 2)
e. x2 – 2x – 1 e. (x – 11)(x + 28)

4. What is the value of (x + c)2? 9. What are the roots of x2 – 18x + 32 = 0?

a. x2 + c2 a. –4 and –8
b. x2 + cx + c2 b. –4 and 8
c. x2 + c2x2 + c2 c. –2 and –16
d. x2 + cx2 + c2x + c2 d. 2 and –16
e. x2 + 2cx + c2 e. 2 and 16

5. What is the product of (2x + 6)(3x – 9)? 10. What are the roots of x2 + 8x – 48 = 0?
a. 5x2 – 54 a. –6 and –8
b. 6x2 – 54 b. –6 and 8
c. 6x2 + 18x – 15 c. 4 and –12
d. 6x2 – 18x – 15 d. –4 and 12
e. 6x2 + 36x – 54 e. –4 and –12

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(x + 9)
11. The fraction  
(x2 – 81) is equivalent to 15. If x2 – x = 12, what is one possible value of x?
a. 
1 a. –6
(x – 9)
1
b. –2
b. 
(x + 9) c. 1
1
c.   d. 3
(x2 – 81)

d.
(x + 9)
 e. 4
(x – 9)
(x – 9)
e. 
(x + 9) 16. If x2 – 3x – 30 = 10, what is one possible value
(x2 – 6x – 16)
of x?
12. The fraction  
(x2 – x – 56) is equivalent to a. –10
(x + 2)
a.  b. 3
(x – 8)

b.
(x + 2)
 c. 5
(x + 7)
(x + 7)
d. 8
c. 
(x + 2) e. 10
(x – 4)
d. 
(x – 8)
x+5 6x – 6
e.
(x – 8)
 17. If 4 =  
x + 4 , what is one possible value of x?
(x – 8)
a. –5
13. The fraction 
(x2 – 4x – 45)
 b. –4
(x2 + 11x + 30) is equivalent to
(x + 5)
c. 3
a. 
(x – 9) d. 5
(x + 5)
b.  e. 11
(x + 6)
(x – 9)
c. 
(x + 6)
(x – 9)
18. If (x – 2)(x + 6) = –16, what is the value of x?
d. 
(x + 5) a. –6
(x + 5)
e.  b. –4
(x + 5)
c. –2
(x2 + 14x + 33)
14. The fraction  
(x2 + 8x – 33) is equivalent to d. 6
a. –1 e. 7
(x + 3)
b.  
(x – 3)
(x – 3)
c. 
(x + 3)
(x + 3)
d. 
(x + 11)
(x – 3)
e. 
(x + 11)

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(x – 16)
19. If (x – 7)(x – 5) = –1, what is the value of x? 23. What is one value that makes the fraction  
(x2 – 16)
a. –6 undefined?
b. –4 a. –16
c. –2 b. –4
d. 6 c. –1
e. 7 d. 1
e. 16
20. The square of a number is equal to two less than
(x2)
three times the number. What are two possible 24. What is one value that makes the fraction  
(9x2 – 1)
values of the number? undefined?
a. 1, 2 a. –3
b. –1, 2 b. 0
1
c. 1, –2 c. 3
d. –1, –2 d. 3
e. 2, 3 e. 9

(x2 – 36)
21. What is one value that makes the fraction 25. What values make the fraction  
(2x2 – 25x + 72)
(4x – 8)
 
(x2 + x – 42) undefined? undefined?
a. –7 a. –8, –9
b. –6
b. –6, 6
c. –2 9
c. 2, 4
d. 2
9
e. 21 d. 2, 8
e. 8, 9
(x2 + 8x + 7)
22. What values make the fraction  
(x2 – 8x + 7)
undefined? 26. What is the vertex of the parabola whose equa-
a. –1, –7 tion is y = x2 + 4?
b. 1, –7 a. (–4,0)
c. –1, 7 b. (0,–4)
d. 1, 7 c. (–2,0)
e. –1, –7, 1, 7 d. (0,4)
e. (2,8)

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27. Which of the following is the equation of a 30. What is the equation of the parabola shown
parabola whose vertex is (–3,–4)? below?
a. y = x2 – 7
b. y = (x – 3)2 – 4 y

c. y = (x – 4)2 – 3
d. y = (x + 4)2 – 5 4

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e. y = (x + 3)2 – 4
2

1
x
28. What is the vertex of the parabola whose equa-
–4 –3 –2 –1 1 2 3 4
tion is y = (x + 2)2 + 2? –1
–2
a. (2,2)
–3
b. (–2,2) –4
c. (2,–2)
d. (–2,–2)
e. (2,18)
a. y = (x – 1)2 – 2
29. Which of the following is the equation of a
b. y = (x + 1)2 – 2
parabola whose vertex is (5,0)?
c. y = (x – 1)2 + 2
a. y = x2 – 5
d. y = (x + 1)2 + 2
b. y = x2 + 5
e. y = x2 – 3
c. y = (x – 5)2
d. y = (x + 5)2
e. y = x2 – 25

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