Intermediate Algebra MCA Prep

Formula Fun

100

a² + b² = c²

What is the Pythagorean Theorem?

200

Formula that gets used when you have to find the distance between two things. (state formula name and write it)

What is the distance formula?

300

The equation for Slope-intercept form and Arithmetic Sequences

What is A(n)/y = m * x/n + b?

400

Variable that represents slope.

What is m?

500

Point-Slope Form and Standard Form.

What is y - y = m (x - x)

AND

What is Ax + By = C?

Algebra with a splash of Shapes

100

The length of one side of a square is 16 centimeters. What is the area of the square?

What is 256 centimeters squared?

200

The lengths of the two shorter sides of a right triangle measure 8 cm and 15 cm. What is the length of the longest side?

What is 17?

300

A 30 foot ladder is leaning against a building. If the base of the ladder is 10 ft from the building, about how far up the building is the ladder? 

What is About 28 ft?

400

The lengths of the two shorter sides of a right triangle measure 12 cm and 15 cm. What is the length of the longest side?

What is 19.20937271... cm?

500

Is a triangle with side lengths of 22, 26, and 14 a right triangle?

What is NO? (680 does not equal 676)

Live Laugh Love Linear Lines

100

Which of the following is not a linear function?

A. f(x) = -3

B. f(x) = -3x + 5

C. f(x) = (x)^-3

What is C?

200

The equation f(x) = 0.01x - 2.5 represents Alex's earning each day at his sales job, selling x magazines. What does the slope represent?

What is "Alex earns one cent for each magazine he sells"?

300

Which pair of lines from the list below form a system of equation that has an infinite number of solutions?

3x - y = 3.5

4x - 2y = 7

12x - 4y = 14

What is "3x - y = 3.5     &      12x - 4y = 14 are the same line"?

400

Which line is perpendicular to 7y + 4x + 5 = 0?

A. y - (7/4)x = -7

B. 7y + 4x = -4

C. 7y - 4x = 2

D. 4y + 7x = -6

What is A? 

500

Graph the line y = -2x + 4.

What is *insert graph here*?

We Love Math

100

What is the value of the expression |x - y| for x = -5 and y = 8?

What is 13?

200

What are the first six terms of the geometric sequence generated by the equation 

f(x) = 81(1/3)^x,

for x = 0, 1 , 2 , 3 ,.....?

What is ......

f(0) = 81

f(1) = 27

f(2) = 9

f(3) = 3

300

The solution to the equation 

7x - 45 = 25 - 3x

What is x = 7?

400

Find the product in both scientific notation and in standard form. 

(7.25 x  10^7)(8 x 10^-4)

What is 

5.8 x 10^4

OR

580,000

500

Ms. L's favorite number. 

What is 7?