Mr.

Purdy MHF4U Name: _________________

Unit 4 – 2 Practice Test

Short Answer (Level 1)
1. State the zeroes
f(x) = 2x(x-4)(x+3)(x-5)

2. Solve.
3x3 – 2x2 = 19x + 6

3. Solve the inequality. Write the answer using set notation.

3x – 4 ≥ 5x + 12

4. Solve the inequality.

7x  2
10   17
3

5. Solve the inequality.

(x - 3)(2x + 3)(5 - x)(x + 4)≤0

6. Show where is f(x) ≥ 0 using interval notation?

7. Solve the inequality.

2x2 + 4x – 1 < x2 - x – 7

8. When is the instantaneous rate of change >0 for the function below?
f(x) = -3(x – 4)4 + 5

9. Determine the average rate of change in the interval 2≤x≤4 for the function.
f(x) = 2(x – 1)3 + 6

10. Where is the instantaneous rate of change negative in the picture below?

11. What is the average rate of change of the function

f(x) = 4x2 + 3x + 2 over the interval 2≤x≤5

12. Calculate the instantaneous rate of change for the equation

g ( x)  6  3x  4 x 2 when x = 5

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13. Draw what calculating the instantaneous rate of change using the centered
interval would look like on the graph of the function below

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14. Given the function ℎ(𝑥) = 𝑥−3 + 2 when is its instantaneous rate of change
Positive: Negative: Zero:

15. Given the function h( x)  x  3 give two points that would have a ___ slope
2

Positive: Negative: Zero:

16. Draw a graph that has an instantaneous rate of change of ½ when x = 2

17. Draw the graph of the following motion. “Mr. Purdy starts 5m a wall, walks
3m towards the wall at a constant rate for 4s. Stops for 2s and then moves
6m in 4s an increasing speed.

18. The cost of business over time can be modeled by C (t )  13(0.7) t  20

where t is the time in years and C is the cost in thousands of dollars. How
quickly is the cost of running the business changing after 3 years?

Longer Questions (Level 2-3)

1. A cardboard box can be made by cutting congruent squares from the corners
of a piece of cardboard. If the cardboard is 30cm x 30cm what are the
dimensions to create a box with a volume greater than 1728 cm3?

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2. Determine where the function, that has zeroes at 2, -3, and 4 and passes
through (1, 24), has a value of 48.

3. Given the following number line, write an inequality that represents the
solution.

4. Solve the following inequalities and write them on a number line.

3x  4  8 f(x) > 100

f(x)

5. Solve the inequality

6 x 4  10 x 3  14 x 2  16 x  3x 3  13x 2  24 x  12

6. Solve the inequality

3x  6
2x   4  2x
2

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7. A square bottomed box is to be built with a height 15cm longer than its width,
if the volume is to be 304 cm3 what are the dimensions of the box?

8. Find the instantaneous rate of change at the zeroes of the equation below.
f(x) = x3 + 2x2 – 9x - 18

9. The population of a colony of algae was measured and entered into the
following table.
Time 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
(min)
Number 500 637 806 1000 1279 1670 2000 2643
Algae
What is the rate of change from?
 t=0 to t=2
 t=2 to t=4
 t=4 to t=6
What type of function could this be?

10. The value of a family’s home is given by 𝑓(𝑥) = 130 000(1.06)𝑥 , where x is
the number of years after the family purchases the house for $130 000.
a) What is the average rate of change in the value of the home in their 4th year
of owning the home?
b) What is a good estimate for the instantaneous rate of change in the value
of the home when the family has owned it for 6 years?
c) Explain why your answer for b is larger than your answer for a.

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Harder Questions (Level 4)

1. Solve the following inequality.
x 2  2 x  24
0
x2  5x  6

2. Solve the inequality (x+1)(x-2)(2x)≥0 algebraically.

3. Solve 3(8)x-3 > 6(16)x

4. Water is being poured into a bag shaped like a cylinder. The height stays
constant at 6m but the radius is increasing. What is the rate of change of the
surface area of the cylinder when the radius is 5m?

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5. Determine the value of ‘a’ so that the instantaneous rate of change of the
function f(x)= x2 + 3x + 2 is -1 at that point.

6. What is the speed at which an object is travelling between t = 6 s and t = 10 s

if the graph below is the distance versus time graph for the object?
d ( m)
10

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 t ( s)

7. The speed versus time graph for a moving object is shown below. How far
did the object travel from t=3s to t=9s?
s
10

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 t

8. The graph below shows the height of the water in a container as it is poured in
at a constant rate. Describe the shape of the container and draw the shape of
the container that matches this description.
h
10

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 t

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