ACCUPLACER: College-Level Mathematics

The College-Level Mathematics test assesses proficiency from intermediate algebra through pre-calculus. Five categories are covered.

The first category, algebraic operations, includes simplifying rational algebraic expressions, factoring, expanding polynomials, and manipulating roots and exponents.

The category, solutions of equations and inequalities, includes the solution of linear and quadratic equations and inequalities, equation systems, and other algebraic equations.

Coordinate geometry asks questions about plane geometry, the coordinate plane, straight lines, conics, sets of points in the plane, and graphs of algebraic functions.

Applications and other algebra topics asks about complex numbers, series and sequences, determinants, permutations and combinations, fractions, and word problems.

The last category, functions and trigonometry, presents questions about polynomial, algebraic, exponential, logarithmic and trigonometric functions.

Twenty questions are asked.

Sample Questions

Question 1:

If f(x) =- x⁴ + 2 , then f(-x) =

A. x⁴ - x
B. x⁴ + x
C. x⁴ - x + 2
D. -x⁴ + 2
E. x⁴ + x - 2

Question 2:

The equation x² + 2ix - 4 = 0 has as its roots

A. Ö5 - 1 , - Ö5 -1
B. Ö5 - i , Ö5 + i
C. Ö3 - i , - Ö5 + i
D. Ö3 - i , Ö3 + i
E. Ö3 - i , - Ö3 - i

Answers

1. D
2. E

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