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• Question #1: What is the length of the transverse diameter of the following ellipse?
  

  x²/49 + y²/19 = 1
  

  (a) 7
  (b) 14
  (c) 49
  (d) 2
  (e) 19

  • Solution: For any x²/a² + y²/b² = 1 ellipse, the transverse diameter is 2a.
    In our case a = 7, so the transverse diameter of the ellipse is 14.

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• Question #2: What is the real value of x in the equation log₃45 – log₃5 = log₇x?

  (a) 49
  (b) 16
  (c) 5
  (d) 7
  (e) 81

  • Answer: log₃45 – log₃5 = log₇x
    log₃(45/5) = log₇x
    log₃9 = log₇x
    log₃3² = log₇x
    2 = log₇x
    x = 7²
    x = 49

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• Question #4: Which of the following graphs could be the correct representation of 2 functions f(x) and g(x) that satisfy the equation g(x) = – f(-x)?

  (a)
  (b)
  (c)
  (d)

  • Answer: (b) is the correct solution.
    On the graph from solution (b), if we consider a random negative value for x, g(x) is negative.
    f(-x) will be positive and -f(-x) will be negative, same as g(x).
    This is not the case with solutions(a),(c) or (d).

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• Question #8: A box contains 7 blue marbles, 4 red marbles and 6 green marbles. How many additional blue marbles must be added in the box so that the probability of randomly drawing a blue marble is 1/2?
  (a) 2
  (b) 3
  (c) 4
  (d) 5
  (e) 6
  • Answer: If the probability of randomly drawing a blue marble is 1/2 after x blue marbles were added, the number of blue marbles must be half of the total numbers of marbles.
    1/2 = (x + 7)/(x + 7 + 4 + 6)
    x = 3




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