POLYNOMIAL FUNCTIONS (A) 1. What part of the leading term determines the degree of a polynomial function? 2.

What is the degree of 6x5 3xy4 + 2xy2 1? 3. What is the degree of the function represented by the graph below?

POLYNOMIAL FUNCTIONS (B) 11. What are the possible rational zeros of f(x) = 4x3 6x2 3x 12? 12. Find the quotient by synthetic division.

4. Find P(1) for P(x) = x4 + 3x3 - 2x2 4x + 1 by applying the remainder theorem. 5. What conclusion can you make if in dividing a polynomial P(x)by (x c) the remainder is zero? 6. Use synthetic division to find P(3) for P(x) = x6 3x5 2x4 + 8x3 x2 x + 1. 7. Find a rational zero of P(x) = 6x5 7x4 - 13x3 + 19x2 9. 8. Write an expression for the area of the rectangle below. X+6 X2 4x + 5

13. What are the rational zeros of the function p(x) = x4 x3 + 4x2 4x? 14. Find the value of k so that the remainder is 5. (x2 + 8x + 17) (x + k) 15. The sales, in thousands, of a certain cell phone model can be represented by the function C(x) = 2x3 x + 16, where x represents the number of months after the release of the cell phone in the market. Find the number of sales 6 months after the release of the phone. (2 pts) 16. Find the area of the parallelogram.
(3a + 7b) cm

(3a 7b)cm

17. How are the zeros of a polynomial function related to the x-intercepts of its graph? (2 pts)

9. Draw the graph of f(x) = x3 4x2 + 2x 3 where values of x are -1, 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4. 10. What is the maximum number of turning points of a polynomial of degree 10?

QUADRATIC FUNCTIONS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Which is the quadratic term in the function f(x) = 6 + 3x 4x2? Solve x2 7x = 0 by factoring. What is the sign of a in f(x) = ax2 + bx + c for the parabola to open upward? If a = 3 and the vertex is (1,-2), will there be a minimum or maximum value for the parabola? What is the value? (2 pts) Find the zeros of f(x) = x2 7x + 5 by using the quadratic formula. What is the nature of the roots or zeros? How many times will the graph intersects the x-axis if it has two real roots? If the graph of y = x2 is shifted 5 units to the right and 7 units below, what equation will describe the graph? Write the function f(x) = x2 + 2x + 1 in vertex form. 9. Give the function whose zeros are -5 and -2. 10. Use the graph to determine the solution of f(x) = x2 x - 6

-3 -2 -1

1 2 3

Given the function f(x) = x2 3x + 4 11. What is the vertex of the parabola? 12. What is the line of symmetry? 13. What is the y-intercept?