HOLY TRINITY UNIVERSITY

Puerto Princesa City, 5300

Integrated Basic Education Department
SY 2017 - 2018

ACHIEVEMENT TEST IN MATHEMATICS 9

(Grade 9 - Charity)

“The only permanent thing in this world is change.

What you own today may not be yours in the future. What is true today may not be true tomorrow.
Where you are staying at the moment may not be where you are after a while.
- Gladys Glo H. Marcelo, Basic Calculus

Name: ______________________ Date: _____________ Score: _____________

Directions: Read each question carefully. Choose and write the letter of the correct answer on the
provided space.

_______1. What is the square root of 169?

A. 11 B. 12 C. 13 D.
_______2. What is the value of the discriminant of 3x2 + 4x = - 5?
A. 22 B. 44 C. - 44 D. - 22

_______3. What are the roots of the equation x2 + x – 12 = 0?

A. Two rational roots B. Two irrational roots
C. Two imaginary roots D. One real root

_______4. What must be added to x2 – 4x to make it a perfect square trinomial?

A. 2 B. 4 C. 8 D. 16

_______5. The roots of a quadratic equation are 3 and – 3. What is the equation?
A. x2 + 9 = 0 B. x2 – 9 = 0
C. x2 – 3 = 0 D. x + 3 = 0

_______6. The sum of two numbers is 22 and the sum of their squares is 250. What is the product
of the two numbers?
A. 9 B. 13 C. 22 D. 117

_______7. Which of the following has -3 and 7 as roots?

A. x2 + 4x – 21 = 0 B. x2 – 4x – 21 = 0
C. x2 – 4x + 21 = 0 D. x2 + 4x + 21 = 0

_______8. If x4 = 16 is equivalent to (x2)2 = 16, which of the following are two of its solutions?
A. ± 16 B. ± 8 C. ± 4 D. ±2

_______9. How many real-number solutions are there in x2 + 16 = 0?

A. 2 B. 1 C. infinite D. none

_______10. What is the sum of the roots of 2x2 – 50 = 0?

A. 25 B. 5 C. 0 D. – 5

_______11. Which of the following is a solution of (x – 3)(x – 4) = 20?

A. – 3 B. 4 C. 8 D. 20
 6(𝑥−1) 3𝑥
_______12. A student said that the solution set for the equation –𝑥= is {2, 3}. Was he
𝑥−2 𝑥−2
correct?
A. Cannot be determined B. Maybe

C. No D. Yes

_______13. What type of variation is illustrated by the table?

x 2 4 5 9

y 1 2 2.5 4.5

A. Direct B. Direct Square

C. Inverse D. Joint

_______14. What is the constant of variation shown in the table?

a 10 7 5.5 1.5

b 50 35 27.5 6.5

1 1
A. B. 2 C. 5 D. 10
5

_______15. If 5:6 = x:24, what is x?

1
A. 120 B. 20 C. 20 D. 100

_______16. What is the mean proportional between 2 and 8?

A. 16 B. 8 C. 20 D. 2

_______17. A post 5 m high casts a shadow of 6 m. if the shadow of a nearby tree is measured to
be 24 m, how high is the tree?
A. 144 m B. 120 m C. 30 m D. 20 m

_______18. What is the square root of 16?

A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4

_______19. What is the quotient when √32 is divided by √2 ?

A. 64 B. 9.7 C. 8 D. 4

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_______20. What is the fourth proportional to 143 , 22, and 8?

_______21. What is the third proportional to 8 and 14?

_______22. The number 78 is divided into the ratio 3:5. What is the larger part?
_______23. Suppose z varies directly as y and inversely as x, and z = 12 when x = 8 and y = 24.
𝑥
What is 𝑦 when z = 16?
_______24. The areas of two circles vary directly as the squares of their radii. What is the ratio of
the area of a circle whose radius is 9 cm to the area of a circle whose radius is 6 cm?
_______25. What is the quadrilateral with exactly one pair of parallel sides?
_______26.

GOOD LUCK! BLESSED BE GOD FOREVER!

Prepared by :

MR. DIONEL R. RIZO

Subject Teacher