Direction: Read each item carefully. Encircle the letter of the correct answer.

1. Which expression is a binomial?

a. 2x2y b. xy + 2 c. 3x(2y) d. xy2
2. If x = -3, what is the value of the expression 2x 2 – 3x3?
a. -99 b. -63 c. 63 d. 99
3. What must be multiplied to x – 1 to obtain x 4 – 1?
a. X3 b. x3 + 1 c. x3 + x2 + x + 1 d. x3-x2 -x + 1
4. Which of the following is “twice the square of a number x”?
a. 2x2 b. 2x + 2 c. 2 + x2 d. x + 2
5. What is the constant term in the expression 3xy + 2?
a. 3 b. 2 c. x d. y
6. What is the degree of the of the expression 3x 2y?
a. 0 b. 1 c. 2 d. 3
7. What is any non-zero number raise to zero is equal to ___.
a. 2 b. 0 c. 4 d. 1
8. Which of the following is considered a binomial?
a. 3xy + 3x + 4 b. 3x – 2 c. 5xyz d. 2x(-3yz)
9. Which mathematical statement shows equality?
a. x + 5 > 2 b. 2x + 1 = 5 c. 3x + 2 ≤ 4 d. x + 1 < 3
10. What is the simplest form (x2) (x12)?
a. x24 b. x2 c. x14 d.2x14
11. Which of the following is “three more than a number”?
a. 3x b. x + 3 c. x/3 d. x – 3

12. What is the difference of the following polynomials: (-x2 + 5 x) – (6 x2 + x - 2)?
a. -5x2 + 6x + 2 c. 5x2 + 6x – 2
b. 5x2 + 6x d. -7x2 + 4x + 2
13. How would you translate “the sum of five and thrice the number x” into
mathematical phrase?
a. 5x + 3 b. 5 + 3x c. 5 – 3x d. 5x – 3x
14. Which value corresponds to the expression (3a 2b3)3?
 a. 27a9b3 b. 27a6b9 c. 9a6b9 d. 9a9b6
15.Which expression has the highest degree?
a. 4x3y2 b. x2 -5xy c. 2xyz d. x2y
16. How will you find the product of (x + 5) (3x + 2)?
a. Find their numerical coefficients then multiply.
b. Solve using the FOIL method.
c. Identify the last term.
d. Multiply their variables and numerical coefficients.

17. How do you translate mathematical sentence 2(x + y) / 2 = 20 to

verbal sentence?

a. Twice the sum of x and y divided by two is twenty.

b. The product of two and x and y are twenty.
c. The sum of two divided by x plus y is twenty.
d. Two divided by two times x and y is twenty.

18. If the sum x + 15 = 25, then what the value of x is___?

a. 10 b. -10 c. -15 d. 15
19. Which of the following is the value of x that satisfies the inequality 2x +2 > 6?
a. 0 b. 1 c. 2 d. 3
20. What is the mathematical sentence of the English sentence “Five more than a
number is forty”?
a. x + 5 = 40 b. 2x + 5 = 40 c. 2x + 5x = 40 d. 40
21. In the expression 12x – 7 + x – 2, what are the terms ______?
a. 12,7,1-2 b. 12 and 1 c. 12x, -7, x, -2 d. 12x, 7, x, 2

22. Which mathematical phrase corresponds to “seven divided by a

number”.
a. 7x b. 7 + x c. 7/x d. 7 – x
23. In the expression 3x + 8 + 4x + 2x, which number is NOT a coefficient?
a. 3 B. 8 C. 4 d. 2
24. What is the value of the expression 2x3 – y – 3xy3, when x = -1 and y = -2?
a. -28 b. -24 c. -20 d. -18
25. How would difficulties you write 3x 3y2 + 5x4y + 7x2y3 in descending order in terms
of y?
a. 5x4y + 3x3y2 + 7x2y3 c. 3x3y2 + 7x2y3 + 5x4y
 b. 7x2y3 + 3x3y2 + 5x4y d. 5x4y + 7x2y3 + 3x3y2
26. What must be added to a to get 5a?
a. a b. 2a c. 3a d. 4a
27. Which of the following is the quotient of (2mn) 0 and [ (2m) (n) ]0?
a. 2mn b. 1 c. 2 d. 0
28. What is the product of 3x and 1/3?
a. x / 9 b. 3x c. x d. 1 / 4 x
29.What is the sum of three consecutive integers in an algebraic expression?
a. x + x+1+x + 2 c. 2 (x + 1)
b. (x + 1) + (x + 2) d. x + 2x + 3x
30. What is the value of x that would earning difficulties satisfy the equation 3x + 5 =
-1?
a. 0 b. -1 c. -2 d. -3
31. What is the equivalent of the expression 4(x+ 9) when x = 2?
a. 17 b. 23 c. 44 d. 45
32. What is the simplest form a3 b4 using the law of exponent?
a 2 b6
a. a/b12 b. a5/a10 c. b2 / a d. a / b2
33. If x – 3 is a factor of x2 + 2x – 15, then which of the following is the
another factor?
a. x + 3 b. x + 2 c. x – 5 d. x + 5
34. Which of the following is an algebraic expression?
a. 2x + 4 b. 2x ≥ 4 c. 5x + 1 = 2 d. 3x + 2 ≤ 1

35. What conclusion can you draw in an inequality x ≥ - 5?

a. The graph is going to the left including -5.
b. The graph is going to the right excluding -5.
c. The graph is going to the right including -5.
d. The graph is going to the left excluding -5.

36. Why do you think -3 is the solution to x + 5 = 2?

a. When -3 is multiplied to the variable, the expression is true.
b. When -3 is added to the variable, the expression is true.
c. When -3 is substituted to the variable, the expression is true.
 d. When -3 is subtracted to the variable, the expression is true.

37. What is the simplest form of the expression │x + 1 │ + 2 when x = 2?

a. 6 b. 5 c. 4 d. 3
38. Given 2 + x = 7, what must be done to solve for x?
a. Multiply to both sides of the equation by ½.
b. Subtract -2 to both sides of the equation.
c. Add -2 to both sides of the equation.
d. Divide both sides of the equation by 2.

39.What is the verbal phrase of (x + 3) 2?

a. Twice the sum of a number x and 3.
b. The square of the sum of a number x and 3.
c. The sum of x and 3 multiplied by 2.
d. The difference of the square of x and 3.

40. What is the value of the expression 2x + 5 where x = 5?

a. 5 b. 10 c. 15 d. 2
41. What must be added to 4x 2 + 3x + 9 to get the sum of 7x 2 + 8x + 16?
a. 3x 2 + 5x + 7 c. 11x 2 + 10x + 25
b. b. x 2 + 8x + 2 d. -3x + 2x – 7

42. What must be multiplied to (x + 5) to obtain x 2 + 10x + 25?

a. X + 10 b. x – 10 c. x – 5 d. x + 5
43. How to simplify 5x (x + 4)?
a. Add x & 4 and multiply by 5x.
b. Apply addition property first, then apply multiplication property.
c. Apply the distributive property and multiplication property.
d. Apply the distributive property and the product rule for exponents.

44. What is the mathematical sentence of a verbal sentence “The sum of a

number and five is four”?
a. x + 5 =4 b.4 + 5 = x c. 4x + 5 d. x +4 =5
45.Which is included in the solution set of the given absolute value inequality
│x - 2│< 3?
a. -1 < x < 5 b. 1 < x < -5 c. -5 < x < 5 d. 0
46. What is the value of the expression 4a+7b+3a−2(b−a) for a= −8 and b=2?
a. 58 b. -62 c. 62 d. -58
47. How will you find the product of two binomials?
 a. Find their numerical coefficient then multiply.
b. Solve using FOIL method.
c. Identify the last term.
d. Multiply their variables & numerical coefficients.

48. How would you translate “thrice a number decrease by one” to

mathematical phrase?

a. (a – 1) – 3 b. 3 (a – 1) c. 3a – 1 d. (a – 1) 3
49. What properties of equality will be used in solving the equation 2x – 4 = 1?
a. addition & division property c. division & subtraction property
b. addition & multiplication property d. division property

50. What is the sum of the expressions (-x2 + 5 x + 2) + (6 x2 + x)?

a. 7x2 + 6x + 2 c. 5x2 + 6x
b. 5x2 + 6x + 2 d.7x2 + 6x

51. What is any number raised to 1 is equal to itself?

a. true b. false c. both a and b d. none of the above
52. Applying the rules of exponents, which expression equivalent to (2*3 2)3?
a. 1728 b.5832 c. 729 d. 27
53. If a player hits a baseball straight up with a speed of 120 feet per second,
the height of the ball after x seconds is given by -16x2 + 120x. Find the height
that the ball will reach after 3 seconds by evaluating the expression x=3?

a. 216 b. 504 c. 612 d. 405

54.What is the value of the expression 2x2 – 11x + 15 if x=-3?
a. 0 b. 60 c. 66 d. -66
55 – 57. What is the classification of each expression according to its number of terms?

55. –x – 2
a. monomial b. binomial c. trinomial d. polynomial
56. 2 (x2 + 1) + 2
a. monomial b. binomial c. trinomial d. polynomial
57. -5x2y3
a. monomial b. binomial c. trinomial d. polynomial
58. What is the product of (5x2) (3x)?
 a. 15x3 b. -15x3 c. 8x2 d. 15x4
59. If a = 20, b = 35 and c = 5 then what is (4a + b)/c?
a. 23 b. 115 c. 53 d. 43
60. If a = 2, b = 4 and c =3 then what is 2ac [(2b + 3c)-c]?
a. 11 b. 51 c. 132 d. 12
61. Which of the following is not an algebraic equation?
a. 2x + 3 = 10 b. x+5 = 13 c. x + y d. 4 + p = 30
62. What is a + a + a?
a. 3a b. a3 c. 3a3 d. a
63. What is the simplest form of the expression a(b+c)?
a. abc b. ab + c c. cba d. a + bc
64. What is the verbal phrase of 3(2 + y)?
a. thrice the sum of 2 and y c. twice the sum of 3 and y
b. thrice the sum of 3 and y d. twice the sum of 2 and y

65. The algebraic expression (6m )2 is a

a. monomial c. trinomial
b. binomial d. multinomial

66. What is the simplest form of the expression 3x 2 – 4x – 8 – x2 + 4x – 11?

a. 2x2 – 19 b. 4x2 + 8x + 19 c. 2x2 + 8x + 19 d. 2x2 + 19
67. Which quotient is correct in the expression 72k2c?
12kc
a. 10c b. 10k c. 6k d. 4c
68. What is the quotient of the expression 27x4 – 12x3 + 9x2 + 18x?
3x
a. 9x3 – 4x2 + 3x + 6 c. 27x3 – 12x2 + 9x + 6
b. c. 9x4 – 4x3 + 3x2 + 6x d. 27x4 – 12x3 + 9x2 + 18x

69. What is the sum of the expression 82x – 33 and -68x + 42?
a. 14x + 9 b. -14x – 9 c. 150x + 75 d. -150x + 75
70. What is the difference of the expression 39x – 75y + 28z to 47x – 52y + 37z?
a. 8x +23y + 9z c. 8x – 23y – 9z
b. b. -8x – 23y – 9z d. 8x +23y – 9z
71. What is -42?
a. (-4) (-4) = 16 b. (-4) (4) = 16 c. (-2) (-2) = 4 d. (2)(2) = 4
72. Which of the following is considered a constant?
a. X b. 7b c. 10 d. y
73. Evaluate the expression x – y, when x = -3 and y = 5?
a. -8 b. 8 c. 2 d. 2
74. What kind of polynomial is the expression m(7mn) according to terms?
a. monomial c. trinomial
b. binomial d. multinomial

75. Which of these is equivalent to 5(8−x)?

a. 5x−40 b. 40−5x c. x−40 d. 5−8x
76.When you combine like terms 5x−3y−6x−9y, what is the expression?
a. −x+(−12y) b. 11x+(−12y) c. x+6y d. −x+(−6y)
77. Which of the following expressions is equivalent to the algebraic
expression 3x+2-x+4?

a. 6 b. 4x + 6 c. 2x + 6 d. 3x2 +6

78. Which of the following algebraic expression is a mathematical representation

to the statement "2 times x plus 20"?

a. 2 + x + 20 b. 2x + 20 c. 2 - x + 20 d. x+20

79.What is the difference of the following polynomials (9 x - 6) - (- 5x + 7)?

a. 14x – 13 b. 4x + 1 c. -4x + 13 d. -4x – 13
80.Which of the following is the sum of the polynomials (xy + 3x + 2) + (3x2 + y)?
a. 3x2 + 4xy + 2 c. 3x2 + xy + 3x + y + 2
b. 3x  + 2xy + 3x + 2
2
d. 3x2 + 5xy + 2

81. In the expression 5x + 2 + 7x, how many terms are there?

a. 3 b. 5 c. 1 d. 2
82. Which is an algebraic inequality?
a. 8x + 7 =45 b. 5x + x c. 4x ≥ 8 d. 9 and x
83. What is a term without variable?
a. constant b. variable c. number d. term
84. Sean biked 37km this morning and another x km in the evening. How many
 kilometers did she ride altogether? Which algebraic expression fit this word
problem?

a. 37/x b. 37 + x c. 37 – x d. 37(x)
85. Jane spent P 42.00 for shoes.  This was P 14.00 less than twice what
she spent for a blouse.  How much was the blouse?

a. 28 b. 56 c. 12 d. 48
86. The sum of two numbers is 84, and one of them is 12 more than the
other.  What are the two numbers?

a. 72 b. 36 c. 84 d. 12
87.What is the mathematical phrase of “two times the difference of five and
three”?

a. 2 x (5 – 3) b. 2 ÷ (5 – 3) c. 2 x 5 – 3 d. 5 – 3 ÷ 2
88.Which is equivalent to the expression: 40 − 9x2 for x=-3?
a. 41 b. -41 c. 12 d. -40
89.What is the quotient of the monomials 8x2y / 4xy?
a. 2x b. 4xy c. 2xy d. 2
90. What is the simplest form of the expression: (x - 7) x?
a. x2 – 7 b. 2x – 7 c. 7x – x d. x2 – 7x
91. What is the product of x (x + 5)?
a. x2 + 5x b. x2 + 5 c. 2x + 5 d. 2x + 5x

92. What is simplest form of the algebraic expression x + 5 + 3x + 5y – 2 + 5?

a. 4x + 5y + 3 c. 4x + 5y – 3
b. b. 4x + 5y + 8 d. 4x + 5y

93. What is the quotient of the following expression 30a3b2 divided by 5a2b3?
a. 6a b. 6a c. 6ab d. a
b b

94. Which algebraic expression for the math phrase ”3 more than twice a
number “?

a. 2x + 3 b. 3x + 2 c. 3 + 2 d. x + 3
95. Which algebraic expression for the math phrase” 7 less than the
product of a number and 6″?

a. 6b – 7 b. 6 – 7 c. 7b + 6 d. 6b + 6
96. What is the product of (2x + 3) (2x – 3)?
a. 4x2 + 9 b. 2x2 – 9 c. 4x2 – 9 d. 2x2 – 9
97. Three less than twice a number is 13. What is the number?
a. 3 b. 8 c. 16 d. 2
98. In a fruit bowl there are “M” Mangoes and “O” Oranges. In a basket there are 6
Mangoes and 8 Oranges. What is the total number of fruits?

a. (m)(n) + 6 b. m + n + 14 c. m + n – 14 d. m + n + 8
99. What is the simplest form of 17a8 – 23a8?
a. -6a16 b. -40a8 c. -40a16 d. -6a8
100. Which of the following is equivalent to (4x) -6?
a. 1/(4x)6 b. 4x6 c. -4x6 d. 46x6