1.   Determine the slope of the line graphed below.
   
    A. B.
    C. D. 0
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  2.   What is the slope of in parallelogram ABCD?
   
    A. B.
    C. D.
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  3.   Determine the slope of the line containing the points P(-7, -8) and
Q(3, 0).
    A. B. 2
    C. -2 D.
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  4.   The greatest power in a quadratic function is ______.
    A. 4 B. 2
    C. 3 D. 1
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  5.   What is the equation of the graph shown?
   
    A. y = -x2 - 2x - 1 B. y = x2 - 2x + 1
    C. y = x2 + 2x + 1 D. y = -x2 +2x - 1
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  6.   Which characteristic describes a graph that is linear and has direct variation.
    A. The equation has the form y = mx.
    B. The graph does not pass through (0, 0).
    C. Variables x and y are not proportional.
    D. The equation has the form y = mx + b.
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  7.   Find the equation that has direct variation.
    A. y = 5x + 1.3 B. y = 0.8x + 9
    C. y = 4x D. y = –3x – 1
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  8.   Which characteristic describes a graph that is linear and has direct variation.
    A. The graph does not pass through (0, 0).
    B. The equation has the form y = mx + b.
    C. The equation has the form y = mx.
    D. Variables x and y are not proportional.
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  9.   Find the equation that has direct variation.
    A. y = 5x + 1.3 B. y = 4x
    C. y = –3x – 1 D. y = 0.8x + 9
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  10.   Find the graph that does not have direct variation.
    A. B.
    C. D.
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  11.   Find the situation that is linear but does not have direct variation.
    A. At the beginning of the summer, Dina had $0 in the bank. She started a job and deposited $10 per week.
    B. At the beginning of the summer, Dina had $200 in the bank. She started a job and deposited $10 per week.
    C. At the beginning of the summer, Dina had $0 in the bank. She earned $50 mowing lawns the previous week and deposited the money in the bank.
    D. At the beginning of the summer, Dina had $200 in the bank. She withdrew $30 to buy a new pair of shorts.
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  12.   Find the equation that is nonlinear.
    A. y = 4y2 B. y = –3x – 1
    C. y = 8 – x D. y = 14 + 6x
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  13.   Michael just got a job mowing his elderly neighbor's lawn paying him $10 each week. Draw a graph showing the amount he receives is increasing very rapidly. Suppose you graph the time in weeks on the horizontal axis and the amount Michael receives on the vertical axis.
    A. B.
    C. D.
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  14.   Which three points are collinear?
    A. (–4, 4), (0, –4), (–1, –2)
    B. (3, –1), (2, 5), (2, –3)
    C. (1, 2), (–3, –2), (–2, –4)
    D. (–5, 2), (1, 1), (4, 4)
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  15.   Write the equation in slope-intercept form.
–6x = –10 – 2y
    A. y + 8 = 3(x + 1)
    B. y = 3x + 8
    C. –6x + 2y + 10 = 0
    D. y = 3x – 5
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  16.   What is the reciprocal of –20? Evaluate it in decimal form.
    A. –0.20 B. –0.02
    C. –0.05 D. –0.50
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  17.   Find which equation does not represent a reciprocal relationship.
    A. ab = 3 B. –6 = ef
    C. D.
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  18.   How does a affect graphs of equations in the form of ?
    A. a affects the width of the graph
    B. positive values of a move the graph to the left, negative values move it to the right
    C. negative values of a move the graph to the left, positive values move it to the right
    D. a affects the length of the graph
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  19.   Which differences are constant in a cubic equation?
    A. third B. fourth
    C. first D. second
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  20.   Find the values for m and n which the conjecture (m – n)2 = m2 – n2 is false.
    A. m = –2, n = 0 B. m = 1, n = 0
    C. m = 1, n = 1 D. m = 1, n = 2
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