UNIT 1 TEST: SUMMARY

NAME: ______________________________________________________________________________________

Knowledge & Application Thinking/Inquiry Communication

Understanding

/20 Marks /18 Marks /18 Marks /20 Marks

Communication throughout the test will be evaluated on 1) significant digits (avoid rounding off errors); 2) correct mathematical
form; 3) well-labelled diagrams; 4) organised, neat and legible; 5) show all work with concluding statements. [5
Marks]
Level 4 Level 3 Level 2 Level 1

Communicates for Communicates for different Communicates for different Communicates for different
difference audiences and audiences and purposes audiences and purposes audiences and purposes
purposes with a high degree with considerable with some effectiveness and with limited effectiveness
of effectiveness and uses effectiveness and uses uses conventions, and uses conventions,
conventions, vocabulary, conventions, vocabulary and vocabulary, and terminology vocabulary, and terminology
and terminology of the terminology of the disciple of the discipline with some of the discipline with limited
disciple with a high degree with considerable effectiveness effectiveness
of effectiveness effectiveness

Part A: Knowledge & Understanding

1. Which graph has all four of the following characteristics?
● The graph is symmetric with
respect to the y-axis.
● The graph has a vertical asymptote
at 𝑥 = 1
● The graph has a horizontal
asymptote at 𝑦 = 0
● The graph is decreasing on
the interval (3,∞)
2. Which of the following functions is odd?
a) 𝑦 = 3 + 𝑥
b) 𝑦 = 3𝑥 2
c) 𝑦 = 3𝑥
d) 𝑦 = 𝑥 3

𝑥−4
3. Identify the vertical and horizontal asymptotes of 𝑓(𝑥) = 2𝑥+1
1
a) Vertical: 𝑥 = 4 , Horizontal: 𝑦 = − 2
1
b) Vertical: 𝑥 = 4 , Horizontal: 𝑦 = 2
1 1
c) Vertical: 𝑥 = − 2 ; Horizontal: 𝑦 = 2
1 1
d) Vertical: 𝑥 = 2 , Horizontal: 𝑦 = − 2

𝑥+4
4. The inequality of 3𝑥 − 2 < is equivalent to which of the following?
𝑥−2
a) 3𝑥 2 − 9𝑥 + 8 < 0
3𝑥 2 −9𝑥+8
b) <0
𝑥−2
2
c) 3𝑥 − 9𝑥 > 0
3𝑥 2 −9𝑥
d) <0
𝑥−2

5. The graph of which of the following rational functions has a hole?

2𝑥−6 2𝑥−6
a) 𝑦 = c) 𝑦 =
𝑥−6 2𝑥
2𝑥−3 2𝑥−6
b) 𝑦 = d) 𝑦 =
𝑥−3 𝑥−3

6. Solve for x. State any inadmissible values.

[5 Marks]
𝑥 + 2 𝑥 − 1 4𝑥 + 2
= − 2
𝑥 𝑥 𝑥 − 3𝑥
7. Factor the following function completely, state the following key features and sketch a graph of the
function: (Note: You must show all you work in factoring the polynomial by synthetic/long division) [10 Marks]
4 3 2
𝑓(𝑥) = 𝑥 − 7𝑥 + 5𝑥 + 31𝑥 − 30

Degree Sign of Lead x-intercept(s) y-intercept End Behaviour

(Even or Odd) Coefficient

Part B: Application

8. Salt water is flowing into a large tank that contains pure water. The concentration of salt, c, in the
10𝑡
tank at t minutes is given by 𝑐(𝑡) = 25+𝑡, where c is measured in grams per litre. When does the salt
concentration in the tank reach 3.75 g/L?
[4 Marks]
9. After t hours, the number of bacteria, N, in a culture can be modelled using the function 𝑁(𝑡) =
7500 + 64𝑡 3 .
a) Determine the average rate of change of the growth of the number of bacteria with respect to time
for the first 6 hours.
[3 Marks]

b) Estimate the instantaneous rate of change of the number of bacteria after 6 hours. [5 Marks]
Hint: using average rate of change, choose at least two intervals of time on either side that get closer
to 6 hours. (Note: derivatives will not be given credit as this is outside our courses domain)

5𝑡
10. The equation 𝑓(𝑡) = 𝑡 2 +3𝑡+2 models the bacteria count, in thousands, [6 Marks]
15𝑡
for a sample of tap water that is left to sit over time, t, in days. The equation 𝑔(𝑡) = 𝑡 2 +9 models the bacteria
count, in thousands, for a sample of pond water that is also left to sit over several days. In both models, t >
0. Will the bacteria count for the tap water sample ever exceed the bacteria count for the pond water?
Justify your answer.
Part C: Thinking/Inquiry
11. Determine a polynomial function that satisfies the following set of conditions:
2
𝑃(2) = 𝑃(3) = 𝑃(−4) = 0 and 𝑃(3) = −7 .
[4 Marks]

12. Suppose the cubic polynomial 8𝑥 3 + 𝑚𝑥 2 + 𝑛𝑥 − 6 has both 2𝑥 + 3 and 𝑥 − 1 as factors. Find the
values of m and n.
[6 Marks]

2
13. Determine the equation of a rational function with a vertical asymptote 𝑥 = 3, a hole at 𝑥 = 4, and
a horizontal asymptote at 𝑦 = 1.
[4 Marks]
 𝑎𝑥+𝑏
14. Determine the equation of the form 𝑓(𝑥) = for a rational function whose graph has the
𝑐𝑥+𝑑
indicated features.
[4 Marks]
2 b)
a) Vertical asymptote at 𝑥 = − 3, Horizontal
4 1
asymptote at 𝑦 = 3, x-intercept of 4 and y-
1
intercept of − 2

Part D: Communication
15. Complete the following table.
[4 Marks]

Type of Minimum Maximum Minimum Maximum

Polynomial Number of Number of Number of Number of
Functions Zeros Zeros Turning Points Turning Points

Cubic

Quartic

16. Explain the difference between a polynomial equation [e.g. (𝑥 − 1)(𝑥 + 2)(𝑥 − 3) = 0] and a
polynomial inequality [e.g. (𝑥 − 1)(𝑥 + 2)(𝑥 − 3) > 0]. What is the inequality asking you to solve? Use
a graph of a function in your explanation.
[4 Marks]
17. a) If 𝑓(𝑥) = 𝑥 3 , describe the transformations that must be applied to obtain the transformed
1 1
function 𝑔(𝑥) = − 2 𝑓[2 (𝑥 + 1)] + 2.
[4 Marks]

b) Write the equation of the transformed function and state the domain and range. [3
Marks]