Math1111 – Carmack Due: Tuesday, November 28

Assessment #4
10 pts Name: _________________________________________

***You must show your work for each problem to receive credit.
This assessment does not serve as an adequate study guide for the final exam. Rather, it covers about
half of the content you will see on the final exam. Please review the final exam study guide in the
CourseDen content (under Unit 5 module) to adequately prepare for the final exam.

−3
−4𝑥 2 𝑦 9 2. Simplify: √17640𝑥 19 𝑦10
1. Simplify: ( 2𝑥𝑦 −5 )

3. Multiply: (𝑥 − 2)(𝑥 2 − 𝑥 + 1)

𝑥 2 +𝑥−2 𝑥2− 9 5. Solve: 3x – (5x + 1) = 2x + 3

4. Simplify: ∙
𝑥 2 +3𝑥 𝑥 2 −𝑥−6

6. Solve: (2𝑥 + 1)2 = 81

7. Solve: 𝑥 2 + 2𝑥 = −4 8. Solve: |𝑥 − 3| + 7 = 15

2𝑥 2 𝑥
9. Solve: + =
𝑥 2 +6𝑥+8 𝑥+2 𝑥+4

10. Solve: √𝑥 + 10 = 𝑥 − 2

11. Find the product: (−2 + 3𝑖)2 12. Evaluate 𝑓(𝑥) = −4𝑥 2 − 𝑥 + 2 ; 𝑓(𝑥 − 1)
 13. Find the composition: 𝑓𝑜𝑔 if 𝑓(𝑥) = 𝑥 2 − 7 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑔(𝑥) = 𝑥 + 3

14. A person standing close to the edge on top of a tall building throws a baseball vertically
upward. The function 𝑠(𝑡) = −16𝑡 2 + 64𝑡 + 32 models the ball’s height above the ground,
s(t), in feet, t seconds after it was thrown. What is the maximum height of the ball and after
how many seconds does the ball reach its maximum height?

Maximum height: __________________ How many seconds: _____________________

15. Find the end behavior; zeros, multiplicity and behavior at each zero; and the y-intercept.
𝑓(𝑥) = −2𝑥 7 (𝑥 − 3)2 (𝑥 + 2) *You do not have to sketch the graph.

16. Find the equation of the line that passes through the point (-1, -3) and is perpendicular to a line
that has a slope of -4. Write your answer in point-slope, slope-intercept, and standard form

Point-slope: ________________________________ Slope-int: ______________________

Standard: ____________________________
17. Solve the system of equations:

−6𝑥 + 7𝑦 = −15
{
−2𝑥 − 3𝑦 = 11

18. A chemist is working on a flu vaccine and needs to mix a 10% sodium-iodine solution with a
60% sodium-iodine solution to obtain 60 milliliters of a 25% sodium-iodine solution. How
many milliliters of the 10% solution and the 60% solution should be mixed?