MINDANAO STATE UNIVERSITY - NAAWAN

College of Education and Social Sciences

8th Grade - First Quarterly Examination

Name:___________________________________________ Score:____________
Grade and Section:_________________________________ Date:_____________

General Direction: This is a 50-item test, read the instructions and questions carefully.
Answer the test in one (1) hour.

I. Multiple Choice Test

Instruction: Encircle the letter of your choice.

1. What are the coordinates of the origin in the rectangular coordinate system?
a. (0,1 ) b. (1,1) c. (0,0) d. (1,0)
2. What is the purpose of plotting points on the rectangular coordinate system?
a. To locate landmarks on a map b. To represent solutions to algebraic equations
C. To identify prime numbers d. To measure distance between cities
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3. Write the linear equation y= - x + 6 into standard form.
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a. 2x - 3y + 6
4. What is the slope intercept form of the equation 3x + 2y = 8?
3 3 3 3
a. y= x+4 b. y = - x+4 c. y = x-4 d.y = - x-4
2 2 2 2
5. Which of the following represents a point in the rectangular coordinate system?
a. {5,6} b. [ 7, 8] c. (3,2) d. |10, 12|
6. Which solution set satisfies the system of equations x+3y = -8 and 2x-5y=17.
a. (-3,1) b. (3,-1) c. (1,3) d. (1,-3)
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7. Which of the following equations represents a line with a slope of ?
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3 3
a. y= 2x+1 b. y= - x +2 c. y = x -5 d. y= - 3x + 5
4 4
8. On a coordinate plane, if two points have coordinates (3,4) and (7,10), what is the slope of
the line passing through these points?
a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 5
9. What is the factorization of x 2+25?
a. (x-5)(x+5) b. (x-25)(x+1) c. (x+5!)(x-5) d. (x-5)(x-5)
a. Which of the following is a difference of two squares?
b. x 2+9 b. x 2 - 9 c. x 2 -4x+ 4 d. x 2+4x+4
10. Mary wants to graph a line on her math worksheet. She knows that the line passes
through the points (2,3) and (4,7). Which of the following represents the equation of the
line Mary should graph?
a. Y=2x+1 b. y=2x-1 c.y=x-1 d. y=x+2
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11. Given the slope is - and the point (2,5) is on the line, what is the equation of the line?
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4 4 4 4
a. y = - x-3 b. y=- x +3 c. x -3 d. y= x+3
5 5 5 5
12. Which method can be used to find the slope of a line given two points?
a. Counting the number of intersections with the x-axis
b. Calculating the ratio of the vertical change to the horizontal change
c. Multiplying the y-coordinate of one point by the x-coordinate of the other point
d. Subtracting the y-coordinate of one point from the x-coordinate of the other point
3 3
13. If the equation of a line is y = - x +2, what does the number - tell us about the line?
4 4
a. How tall the line is b. How wide the line is
c. how steep the line is d. how long the line is
14. In a graph, if a line rises 3 units for every 2 units it runs to the right, what is its slope?
2 3
a. b. 3 c. d. 2
3 2
15. What is the slope of a line passing through the points (4,5) and (7,11)?
a. 1 b. 3 c. 2 d. 6
16. In a linear equation with two variables, what does it represent graphically?
a. Two parallel lines b. Two intersecting lines
c. Two perpendicular lines d. Two non-linear lines
17. In a system of linear equations with two variables, how many solutions can occur if the
lines represented by the equation is parallel?
a. One solution b. Infinite solutions c. No solution d. Two solutions
18. Which of the following is NOT an algebraic expression:
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2
x −9 2x 5 x
a. b. c. d.
x −3
2
x +1 √x 2
x −4
19. What makes a rational expression undefined?
a. If the denominator is a whole number b.If the denominator is 0
c. If it is addition of unlike terms d. If it is a multiplication of polynomials
20. Which of the following represents a linear equation in two variables?
a. y=2 x 2+3 b. 3x+2y = 8 c. y = |x| d. x 2 + y 2=25
21. If the line y = 4x-2 is graphed on the coordinate plane, what is the slope of the line?
a. - 2 b. - 4 c. 4 d. 2
22. Which of the following represents the slope-intercept form of a linear equation?
a. y=mx+b b. y=mx+b c. y=mx-b d. x=my-b
23. If a line has a slope of 3, what does this value indicate about the line?
a. The line is vertical b. The line is horizontal
c. The line goes up as you move from left to right
d. The line goes down as you move from left to right
2 a− b
24. If a = 1 and b = 2, find the answer for the rational expression .
3 ab
a. 1 b. 3 c. 4 d. 0
2
x −4
25. Answer the expression when x = 0.
x −2
a. 4 b. 2 c. 3 d. 6
26. What is the common monomial factor in the polynomial 3 x 2+9x?
a. 3x b. x c.3 x 2 d. 9x
27. What is the sum of cubes in the expression x 3-27?
a. x + 3 b. x +27 c. x - 3 d. x - 27
28. If the x-intercept is (-2,0) and the y-intercept is (0,3) what is the equation of the line?
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a. y= 3x - 2 b. y= -2x+3 c. y= x d. y=2x+3
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29.Given the points (2,3) and (4,7) which equation represents the line passing through these
points?
a. y=2x+1 b. y=2x-1 c. y=2x+3 d. y=2x-3
30. Is (-2,4) a solution set of the equation 2x-3y=3 and 5x-8y=8.
a. Yes it satisfies both linear equation.
b. Yes, it satisfies the first equation but not the second equation.
c. No, it does not satisfy both equation
 d. None of the above

II. Matching Type Test

Instruction: Write the letter of you choice in the space provided.
A. B.
_____1. (2,4) and (5,6). Find the equation a. y= mx+b
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_____2. Point-Slope Form b. y= x + 5
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4 y2− y1
_____3. slope of passing through the point (3,2) c.
5 x2− x1
=m
____4. Equation used if two coordinates are given in finding slope d. 5x - y = - 3
1
____5. Convert y = 5x+3 into standard form e. y= x+2
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_____6.Slope-Intercept method f. -5x+ y = - 3
g. y - y 1 = m (x - x 1)

III. True or False

Instruction: Write TRUE if the statement is true and FALSE if the statement is false.

_________1.If two linear equations in two variables are identical forming the same line, their
graphs will be coinciding.
_________2. If two linear equations in two variables have different slopes, their graphs will
intersect at every point.
_________3. If two linear equations in two variables have the same slope but different y-
intercepts, their graphs will be intersecting.
_________4. If two linear equations in two variables have the same slope and the same y-
intercept, their graphs will be parallel.

IV: Essay ( 5 points each)

1. Explain the steps involved in simplifying rational algebraic expressions, Provide examples of
expressions and walk through the simplification process step by step.
2. Explain how the x-intercept and y-intercept of a linear equation are represented graphically.

How can you determine these intercepts from the equation of the line?

Prepared by:
Amis, John Lawrence A.
Rabusa, Lucille Jean D.
CPE 106 / MATH 2A