MHF4U0 Unit 5 Test: Rational Fn’s, Eq’s and Inequalities

Name:_____________ Date:________________

Knowledge Application Communication TIPS

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Knowledge (16 marks)

1) Match each function to its correct graph:

A B
1
_____ f(x) = 2
x 1

1
[4] _____ g(x) =
( x  1)( x  1)

x2 1
_____ h(x) =
( x  1)( x  1) C D E

1
_____ j(x) = 2
x  2x  1

2) Solve. Leave your answers in exact simplified form:

2x  1 x  2

x4 x3

[3]

3) Use an interval chart to find the solution:

x 1 x 1

x2 x7

[4]
 4) Sketch the graph of
(2 x  3)( x 2  1)
f(x) = .
( x  1)( x  2)

State all asymptotes, zeros and

Y intercept.

[5]

Application (14 marks):

5) The graph of a function y  f (x) is shown on the right. Sketch the graph
of y =1/f (x) on the same axes.

[3]
 6) Sarah purchased a shipment of calculators for $3082.50. She kept 15
calculators to give as Christmas presents for her closest friends and sold
the remaining calculators for $3751.50, making a profit of $8.25 on each
calculator that she sold. Determine the number of calculators in the original
shipment.

[4]

7) The Research In Motion company estimates that the profit/ item

20 x 2  30 x  160
functions for a BlackBerry is given by: P(x) = , where x is the
x
number of phones produced in thousands, and C is in dollars $.

a. How many phones must be produced for the Revenue of a BlackBerry to

be $150?

[4]

b. What will be the Marginal Revenue at a level of production of 5 000

phones?

[3]
 Communication ( 9 marks)
4x  2
8) Describe what happens to the value of f(x) = as x->  .
3x  5

[2]

9) Explain the difference between the solution to the equation

4 3 4 3
 and the solution to the inequality  .
x5 x4 x5 x4

[4]

10) The graph on the left contains a hole where x = 3. Determine a possible
equation for the graph.

[3]
 Thinking ( 8 marks)

11) The Westfield Basketball Team bought pizza for $1200 to sell at the
game. They kept 30 pizzas to feed the players after the game and sold the
rest for $2250. There were 14 slices in each pizza. Their profit was $2 a
slice.

a) How many pizzas were in the original order?

b) What was the original price of each pizza?

[6]

c) What did they charge per slice?

12) Estimate the slope of the tangent line to the graph of f (x)  4x at the
[2]
point where x = 0 and find the average rate of change for the function over
the interval [3, 4].