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WMET HSC 2013 General Mathematics
WMET HSC 2013 General Mathematics
General Mathematics
General Instructions
Total marks 100
o Reading Time - 5 minutes
o Working Time 2 hours
Section I
25 marks
General Mathematics
NAME: __________________________
TEACHER:_______________________
Sample:
(A) 2
(B) 6
(C) 8
(D) 9
If you think you have made a mistake, put a cross through the incorrect answer and fill in the new
answer.
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If you change your mind and have crossed out what you consider to be the correct answer, then indicate
the correct answer by writing the word correct and drawing an arrow as follows.
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14.
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(B) 8x y 9xy
(D) 8x y 10xy xy
(A) 8x y 10xy + xy
(C) 4x y 10xy xy
2. Ben surveyed his soccer teams shoe sizes. He displayed the data on a dot plot.
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3. Gregs normal hourly rate is $23.50 for a 35 hours week and he is paid time and a
half for all overtime. In one week he earns $1 175. How many hours of overtime
did he do?
(A) 10 hours
(B) 15 hours
(C) 50 hours
(D) 8 hours
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4. Simplify 4x y
2 6
5 6
(A) 64x y
(B) 16x y
6 9
6 9
(C) 64x y
(D) 4x y
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5. Cassie is late for work and she still needs to get through three sets of traffic lights.
If the probability of getting a green light is 0.37. What is the probability she will
not get three green lights?
(A) 0.7
(B) 0.95
(C) 0.05
(D) 0.3
7. Savannah wants to have $1 000 000 in her superannuation fund in 25 years for
when she retires. If the best interest rate she can find is 6.8% p.a. compounded
annually. Calculate the amount of each annual contribution she will need to make.
(A) $76167.95
(B) $193071.73
(C) $5179422.24
(D) $16270.19
(B) 2.678 10
(D) 2.68 10
(A) 3.0 10
(C) 2.7 10
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10. Frances and seven other students in her class nominate to be class captain and
vice-captain. What is the probability that Frances will get one of these jobs?
(A)
1
28
(B) 1
4
(C) 1
(D) 1
56
11. Gabriel wants to know how much her monthly repayment would be on a $10 000
loan at 7.5% p.a. reducible interest over 4 years. Which of the following will give
her the correct monthly repayment?
(A) M = 10000 0.075 4 1.074
1.074 1
48
1.074
48
1.006
13. What effect will the replacement have upon the standard deviation?
(A) The standard deviation will increase.
(B) The standard deviation will decrease.
(C) The standard deviation will remain unchanged.
(D) The effect of the standard deviation cannot be calculated.
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14. . Find the value of x, correct to 1 decimal place, in the right triangle below.
26m
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(A) 55.4m
(B) 18.4m
(C) 12.2m
(D) 23.0m
15. Lleyton Hewitt has a 2 chance of beating Roger Federer. They have played each
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other 20 times. Based on this, how many times has Roger won?
(A) 18
(B) 6
(C) 20
(D) 14
16. The volume of a sphere with diameter (d) is given by the formula
3
V = 4 d
3 2
d = 3 32V
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(B)
d = 6V
(C)
d = 3 3V
2
(D)
d = 3 6V
17. The radius of Earth is approximately 6400km at the equator. If two cities lie on the
equator and the angle subtended between them is 230 . What is the shortest
distance to the nearest kilometre between the two cities?
(A) 14521km
(B) 40212km
(C) 25691km
(D) 29042km
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18. The speed limit on the M5 Motorway is 110km/h. This is equivalent to:
(A) 1.83m/s
(B) 30.6m/s
(C) 1833.3m/s
(D) 110m/s
19. The mean and population standard deviation of the following set of scores is:
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leaves
1111449
0289
1359
20. Jack takes out a simple interest loan for $2000 over 5 years. The simple interest is
calculated monthly. The total amount he repays for this loan is $3600. The simple
interest rate per year on this loan is closest to:
(A) 8.9%
(B) 16%
(C) 36%
(D) 5%
21. The following statistics were obtained from History and Geography tests.
Subject
Mean
Standard Deviation
History
55
12
Geography
66
(B) 71
(C) 73
(D) 75
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22. Which of the following graphs could have the equation y = 6 for x > 0
x
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
23. Kobi wants to buy shares in a medical research company. Over the past 10 years
the share price in the company has risen by $6 per year for three of those years and
fallen by $1.70 per year for the other seven years. Based upon these results if he
purchased shares, what would his financial expectation be for the year ahead?
(A) $6.00
(B) -$1.70
(C) -$1.60
(D) $0.61
24. Matt and Indiana plan an overseas trip in 5 years time, they need $20 000 each.
Matt pays $200 per month into an annuity that pays 6% p.a. interest compounded
quarterly. Indiana wants to invest a single sum of money now under the same
conditions as Matt. How much does Indiana need to invest to have the same
amount of money as Matt in 5 years?
(A) $14 945.16
(B) $606.29
(D) $8 185.92
25. Penny is superstitious and can only live in a house with 2 digits in the address and
the number must be greater than 35. If the only streets available have the possible
digits 2, 3, 4 and 7. How many possible houses can Penny live in?
(A) 9
(B) 12
(C) 16
(D) 7
End of Section I
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Section II
Total marks (75)
Attempt Questions 26-30
Allow about 1 hour & 50 minutes for this section
Answer all questions, starting each question on a new sheet of paper with your name and
question number at the top of the page. Do not write on the back of sheets.
Question 26
(15 marks)
Marks
b) Emma collected everyones phone before a test and placed them in a box at the
front of the room. While the class was working on the test Miss Riley counted the
phones and started drawing a probability tree for the phone brands on the board.
1st Phone Chosen
Apple 20
35
Samsung 11
35
HTC
i)
ii) Miss Riley hands back the phones at the end of the lesson. Calculate the
probability the first 2 phones she selects are HTC.
iii) Calculate the probability that at least one of the first two phones selected is a
Samsung.
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Question 26 continues
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c) Georgie and James want to know the height of a building near their school.
James measured the length of the shadow cast by the building at a certain time and
also the shadow cast by a 1 metre ruler at the same time. His results are shown
below:
i)
ii) Georgie used a clinometer to measure the angle of elevation of the building
from a distance of 10m from its base. Hence or otherwise using your answer
from part i), what angle must have Georgies clinometer have given to the
nearest minute?
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2
d) A sailor in a boat is lost at sea and his emergency beacon has sent back its last
known coordinates as 30 S , 70 E
i)
30 S , 120 E or Durban 30 S , 30 E
ii) After the call out it is realised a cruise ship returning from Antarctica is at
60 S , 70 E and can travel at 40 knots. How long will it take to reach the
End Question 26
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(15 marks)
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Use a separate sheet of paper
Marks
a) Rhiannah collected 20 peoples mobile phone bills for the month of June. Ten
people had their phone with Melstra and ten people used Doptus. Rhiannah
created the following 5 number summaries for the data she collected.
Melstra
Lower Extreme
Lower Quartile
Median
Upper Quartile
Upper Extreme
i)
Doptus
10
50
70
80
95
Lower Extreme
Lower Quartile
Median
Upper Quartile
Upper Extreme
50
65
80
90
100
Display this data in a box and whisker plot using the axis on page 19.
ii) Which company has the largest interquartile range and how much more is it?
iv) Which company appears to have the higher bills? Give a reason why this
may not be necessarily true.
ii) If Aziz made her contributions at the end of every month starting in July
2013. What will her super fund balance be at the end of 2040, after she has
deposited the last payment in June 2040?
c) Peter needs to create a new pass code for his bank account. The pass code must be
4 characters long. It can consist of any letter, digit or use the following 3 special
characters ( * , ! , - )
i)
ii) If Peter can only remember the first and last characters of his pass code
1
2
N__*
What is the probability Peter can guess the correct pass code?
2
d) Simplify fully
3ab
18a b
.
3
2
5x y
(5x)
End Question 27
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(15 marks)
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Use a separate sheet of paper
Marks
Joanne is starting a new business and her sign is displayed above. The shape of
the sign is an elliptical prism which is 4 cm thick; with 2 identical hexagonal
prisms cut out of the solid. The sign is to be made of glass of negligible thickness
and will be filled with a neon liquid gel.
i)
ii)
iii)
If the neon gel costs $125/5L container. How much will the gel cost to fill
the sign?
iv)
b) Jayden and Stephen are bushwalking in the Blue Mountains. They park their car in
the car park and take different walking tracks to 2 different lookouts. Jayden walks
3.7km on a bearing of 300 while Stephen walks 2.4km on a bearing of 73 .
i)
ii)
How far apart are Jayden and Stephen when they reach their lookouts?
iii)
The parks and wildlife department has just planted native trees in this
enclosed triangular area, bounded by the car park and the 2 lookouts. What
area to the nearest hectare have they covered with native trees?
iv)
c) Explain using calculations or otherwise why the number of ways that two people
can be selected from ten for a committee is the same as the number of ways that
eight people can be selected from ten for a committee.
End Question 28
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Marks
a) A football coach analyses his teams performance in wet and dry conditions during
the season. He prepares a two way table to show the team the results.
Win
Lose
Total
Dry
Conditions
38
42
Wet
Conditions
10
18
Total
48
12
60
i)
ii)
iii)
b) Jesse buys a new Nissan Micra which costs $21 000 and depreciates at 20% p.a.
i)
What is the value of the car in 5 years time if she wishes to sell it?
ii)
Estimate to the nearest year when Jesse needs to sell the car if she doesnt
want to lose more than $11 000. (Use the guess and check method.)
Lake Frosty is shown above. Using two applications of Simpsons Rule estimate
the area of the lake.
d) Lachlan works as a TV presenter in Los Angles (120 W). His show is televised at
9:00pm on Tuesday local time. His mum wants to watch him live on the internet,
she lives in Sydney (150 E). On what day and at what time must she watch
Lachlans show?
c)
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Question 29 continued.
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e) Eli lives in Sydney and has a soccer ball signed by Sydney FC, which he must
send to his cousin Jonathan for his birthday in Perth. The soccer ball is a sphere
with diameter 30cm and weighs 800g.
i)
ii)
Eli places the ball in a cubical box that fits it exactly in each direction.
What is the volume of this box?
iii)
Using the table below how much will it cost to send the soccer ball to
Jonathon, if Perth is more than 1 000 km from Sydney?
Weight/ Distance
<500km
<500g
500g to3kg
>3kg
$7.85
$12.50
$18.20
500km to
1000km
$10.55
$15.70
$20.00
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>1000km
$12.50
$16.80
$22.90
(15 marks)
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a) Better Marks High School wanted to know if studying had any effect on the marks
gained in examinations. The table below shows the number of hours that each
student in a particular class spent studying for a mathematics examination over a
2 week period and the marks each student achieved.
Hours
Studied
1
3
7
8
10
Mark
40
58
65
69
72
Hours
Studied
12
15
19
20
Mark
77
100
90
85
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ii)
iii)
iv)
From your equation, what mark would you expect if you did no
study?
v)
If I take a bottle of Moca Cola off the production line, what limits will
the capacity almost certainly lie between?
ii)
Moca Cola has a policy that states its bottles must lie between
598mL and 604mL. What percentage of bottles will be rejected?
iii)
c) The time taken to complete a building project varies inversely with the number of
workers. If the building can be completed in 150 days by 70 workers, find the
number of workers needed to complete the building in 90 days.
End of Examination
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