Early Solutions to the 2024 AP Precalculus Free Response
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The innaugural AP Precalculus Exam is now complete, and we’re here to offer our early attempt at solutions to the four free response questions. Luckily, we knew what questions were coming, since all the AP Precalc FRQs are based on task models that the College Board shared with us throughout this school year. True to their word, the College Board gave us four questions that reflected the four task models:
FRQ 1: Function Concepts
FRQ 2: Modeling a Non-periodic Context
FRQ 3: Modeling a Periodic Context
FRQ 4: Symbolic Manipulations
You can see this yearās AP Precalc questions here. Although the official scoring guidelines donāt release until the summer, hereās a first attempt at solutions. (Please be gentle if we have any errors!).
FRQ 1: Function Concepts
FRQ 2: Modeling a Non-periodic Context
FRQ 3: Modeling a Periodic Context
FRQ 4: Symbolic Manipulations
About the Author
Kelly Pendleton
Kelly has the fun job of writing questions for the assessment platforms and free lessons. As an AP Stats teacher at Ardrey Kell High School in Charlotte, NC, she loves coming up with interesting and engaging scenarios to keep students on their toes! Kelly is all-in on the “EFFL revolution” (as she calls it) and uses it with her own students, even online during the pandemic. Kelly is passionate about schools having equal access to quality materials no matter where they’re located and loves that Math Medic is helping to better that. If you see her in person, she’s the tall one who’s probably munching on popcorn.