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Thursday, September 8, 2011

PCAT Quantitative Practice Questions -10

  1. The least common multiple of 8, 14, and 20 is

    1. $8$
    2. $70$
    3. $120$
    4. $280$

  2. What is the slope of the line $3x+y=5$

    1. $-3 $
    2. $ 1$
    3. $3 $
    4. $5 $

  3. What is the value of $(\frac{25}{16})^{-\frac{1}{2}}$

    1. $-\frac{4}{5}$
    2. $\frac{25}{16}$
    3. $\frac{4}{5}$
    4. $\frac{5}{4}$

  4. If $y=9x+1$, then $\frac{dy}{dx}$

    1. $1 $
    2. $3 $
    3. $9 $
    4. $9x $



    1. $ $
    2. $ $
    3. $ $
    4. $ $

  5. If $c^{\frac{3}{2}}=8$, what is the value of c?

    1. $3 $
    2. $9 $
    3. $27 $
    4. $81 $

  6. What is the value of $\log_{3}81=4$

    1. $2 $
    2. $ 4$
    3. $8 $
    4. $ 32$

  7. If $f(x)=25^{x}$, then $f(\frac{1}{2})=$

    1. $ 1$
    2. $5 $
    3. $5\frac{1}{2} $
    4. $15 $

  8. If $a=\frac{7}{3}$ then $\frac{1}{a}=$

    1. $3 $
    2. $7 $
    3. $\frac{3}{7} $
    4. $\frac{7}{3} $

  9. $y(x)=\frac{2}{x}$

    1. $2 $
    2. $\frac{2}{x^{2}} $
    3. $-\frac{2}{x^{2}} $
    4. $-2x^{2} $

  10. What is the second derivative of $y=7x^{2}+3x+1$

    1. $3 $
    2. $7 $
    3. $14 $
    4. $14x+3 $

Sunday, September 4, 2011

PCAT Quantitative Practice Questions -9

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  1. If $x=9$, then $3(x-3)^{2}=$

    1. $108$
    2. $112$
    3. $84$
    4. $94$

  2. $(a^{7})^{6}$

    1. $a^{13}$
    2. $a^{42}$
    3. $a^{7}$
    4. $a^{6}$

  3. What is the slop of the line that passes through $(-5,7)$ and $(2,-2)$?

    1. $\frac{9}{7}$
    2. $\frac{3}{7} $
    3. $-\frac{3}{7} $
    4. $\frac{-9}{7} $

  4. Factor: $x^{2}-4x-5$

    1. $(x-1)(x+5)$
    2. $(x+1)(x-5)$
    3. $(x+4)(x+1)$
    4. $(x-3)(x+4)$

  5. What is the y-intercept of the line expressed in the equation $2x+3y=6$?

    1. $3$
    2. $2 $
    3. $-2 $
    4. $\frac{2}{3} $

  6. Find the domain for the given function.
    $f(x)=\log(x+5)$

    1. $(-5,\infty)$
    2. $[-5,\infty)$
    3. $(-\infty,5)$
    4. $[-\infty,5)$

  7. Which line is perpendicular to the y-axis?

    1. $x=6$
    2. $x=y-1$
    3. $y=x+1 $
    4. $y=1$

  8. $\lim_{x \to \infty}(\frac{9x^{5}-9x^{4}+3x^{3}+6x^{2}-x}{3x^{5}-5x^{2}})$

    1. $3$
    2. $ 0$
    3. $-3 $
    4. $\infty $

  9. $x^{2}+5=149$, $x=$

    1. $11,-11$
    2. $12,-12 $
    3. $14,-14 $
    4. None of the above

  10. $\lim_{x \to 3}(\frac{x^{2}-9}{x-3})$

    1. $0$
    2. $ \infty$
    3. $6 $
    4. $1 $

Answer Key
1 A
2 B
3 D
4 B
5 B
6 A
7 D
8 A
9 B
10 C
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