Student Number

2021
TRIAL HIGHER SCHOOL CERTIFICATE
EXAMINATION

Mathematics Standard 2
General • Reading time – 10 minutes
Instructions
• Working time – 2 hours and 30 minutes
• Write using black pen
• Calculators approved by NESA may be used
• A reference sheet is provided at the back of this paper
• For questions in Section II, show relevant mathematical
reasoning
• and/or calculations

Total marks: Section I – 15 marks (pages 2-11)

100 • Attempt Questions 1-15
• Allow about 25 minutes for this section

Section II – 85 marks (pages 12-33)

• Attempt Questions 16-36
• Allow about 2 hours and 5 minutes for this section

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Section I

15 marks
Attempt Questions 1-15
Allow about 25 minutes for this section

Use the multiple -choice answer sheet for Questions 1-15

1 The line below passes through the points (1,0) and ( 3,1) .

The gradient of the line is

A −2
1
B −
2
1
C
2
D 2

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2 An amount of money is invested in an account which pays simple interest at a rate of
4% per annum. Over a 3 year period, the total interest earned on this investment is
$16200.

The amount of money invested is

A $1 944
B $45 000
C $135 000
D $405 000

3 What is the best description of the correlation for the data shown on the

scatterplot?

A No correlation
B Weak positive
C Moderate positive
D Moderate negative

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4 For school sports, 35 students, out of a total of 90 students, choose to play cricket.
The rest choose to play football.

What is the ratio of cricket players to footballers?

A 5:11
B 7:11
C 5:18
D 7:18

k
5 The point ( 4,5) lies on the graph of y = as shown below.
x

The value of k is

A 1
B 9
C 10
D 20

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6 Marina scored the following results in her subjects
Class Standard
Subject Mark
Mean Deviation
Economics 64 60 3
Maths 71 60 10
Art 82 60 18
Chemistry 69 60 5

In which subject did Marina have the best mark?

A Economics
B Maths
C Art
D Chemistry

7 Four cities have the following locations:

Sydney ( 34S ,151E ) Manila (15 N ,121E )

Hawaii ( 20 N ,156W ) Canberra ( 35S ,149E )
Which city will see the sun rise first?

A Sydney
B Manila
C Hawaii
D Canberra

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8 Ship B is located on a bearing of 120 from ship A .
Which of the following diagrams demonstrates this information?

A B

C D

9 Deenah has an annual salary this year of $87 200. For each of the past two years, her
salary increased by 2%.
Two years ago, Deenah’s salary was closest to

A $83 711
B $83 814
C $85 490
D $90 723

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10 A block of land, scheduled for redevelopment, has an area of 5600 m 2 .
On the survey map, the block of land is represented by an area of 14 cm 2 .
A 1 cm length, on the map, would represent an actual distance of

A 10 m
B 14 m
C 20 m
D 400 m

11 The directed graph shown below indicates the sequence of activities needed to
complete a project.

How many activities have exactly two immediate predecessors?

A 1
B 2
C 3
D 4

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12 Consider the following graph.

Which table would represent this graph?

A A B C D B A B C D
A 0 1 1 1 A 0 1 1 1
B 1 0 2 0 B 1 0 2 0
C 1 2 0 1 C 1 2 2 1
D 1 0 1 0 D 1 0 1 0

C A B C D D A B C D
A 0 0 0 0 A 1 1 1 1
B 1 0 2 0 B 1 1 2 0
C 1 2 0 1 C 1 2 1 1
D 1 0 1 0 D 1 0 1 1

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13 The price of a property purchased in 2020 was $780 000.
The following table was used to calculate the stamp (transfer) duty paid on the
purchase.

The amount of stamp duty paid was

A $9 285
B $30 435
C $21 150
D $44 385

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14 Barry, Garry and Harry must complete three activities, X , Y and Z . The project must
be completed within one hour of the first activity being started.
The person selected for each activity, and the time (in minutes) to complete each
activity, and the immediate predecessor for each activity is listed in the following
table:

Person Activity Duration Immediate Predecessor

Barry X 12 −
Garry Y 15 X
Harry Z 18 Y

How long after Barry starts his activity, does Harry have to start his activity?

A 15 minutes
B 27 minutes
C 42 minutes
D 45 minutes

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15 An investment earns the rate of interest each for four years. The points on the graph
below show the balance of the investment at the start of each quarter.

Which of the following statements is true for this investment?

A simple interest is paid on the opening balance and credited quarterly

B simple interest is paid on the opening balance and credited annually
C interest is compounding quarterly and credited quarterly
D interest is compounding annually and credited annually

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 Student Number

2021
TRIAL HIGHER SCHOOL CERTIFICATE
EXAMINATION

Mathematics Standard 2

Section II Answer Book

85 marks
Attempt Questions 16-36
Allow about 2 hours and 5 minutes for this section

Instructions Write your Student Number at the top of this page.

Answer the questions in the space provided. These spaces

provide guidance for the expected length of response.

Your response should include relevant mathematical

reasoning and/or calculations.

Please turn over

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Question 16 (2 marks)

Solve for x : 2

3( x + 1) − 5 = 7 ( x − 2)

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Question 17 (2 marks)

A plumber charges $150 per hour for their work. GST of 10% is added to the bill. 2

Including GST, how much will the plumber charge for a 2 hour job?

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Question 18 (4 marks)

Peter and Brian are in the same class and have completed a series of 5 quizzes.
They have an average score of 12 and 14 respectively. Each quiz has a maximum mark of 20.

For the remaining two quizzes, they decide to study hard, with the goal that their respective
averages for all 7 quizzes increase to 14 and 16.

(a) What will be Peter’s average for the final two quizzes need to be if he successfully 2
increases his average for all 7 quizzes to 14?

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(b Will Brian be able to achieve his goal of an average of 16 for all 7 quizzes? 2
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Support your answer with appropriate calculations.

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Question 19 (4 marks)
A biased die has faces numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.

When the die is thrown, the probability of an even number on the uppermost face is .

The die is thrown twice and the uppermost number is recorded after each throw.

(a) Draw a tree diagram to show the possible outcomes. Include the probabilities on each 2
branch.

(b) What is the probability of at least one even number being recorded? 2

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Question 20 (2 marks)
Zara invests $3000 into a savings account which pays interest at a rate of 2.4% p.a. 2
compounded monthly. To the nearest dollar, how much interest will she earn over 3 years?

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Question 21 (3 marks)

4
The volume of a sphere of radius r is given by the formula V =  r 3 .
3
(a) Write the formula with r as the subject. 2

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(b) A weather balloon, in the shape of a sphere has a volume of 3m 3 . 1

To the nearest centimetre, determine the radius of the weather balloon.

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Question 22 (4 marks)

The heights of a group of 120 Year 12 students are normally distributed with a mean of 168
cm and a standard deviation of 12 cm.

(a) A student is chosen at random. 2

Find the probability that the student is taller than 180 cm.

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(b) How many of the students are shorter than 144 cm? 2

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Question 23 (3 marks)

Andy and Miki are each designing a poster for their art project. 3

Andy uses a trapezium shape for his poster, and Miki chooses a sector of a circle, as
shown.
Determine the size of the angle  in Miki’s sector if the two posters have the same area.

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Question 24 (5 marks)
The table below shows monthly repayments for each $1000 borrowed.

Hoimo borrows $42,000 to buy a new car, at 3.5% p.a. over 10 years.

(a) What will be Hoimo’s monthly payment? 1

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(b) When the loan has been repaid, how much interest will Hoimo have been charged? 2

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(c) How much more would Hoimo pay if the loan was at 2.5% over 20 years? 2

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Question 25 (4 marks)
Six rural towns, Adun, Baru, Cirri, Dalmore, Ezuri and Fyves are connected by roads as
shown in the network diagram below. The numbers on the edges are the distances, in
kilometres, between the towns.

(a) In kilometres, what is the shortest distance between Adun and Dalmore? 1

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(b) A council engineer needs to inspect the major roads in this region. Starting from 1
Cirri, she plans to only inspect each road once.

In which town will her inspection finish?

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(c) A second council engineer plans to start and end their inspection at Cirri, moving 2
through each of the other five towns only once. To do this, they ask a colleague to
inspect two roads.

How many kilometres of road will the colleague inspect?

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Question 26 (3 marks)

A dam, shown below, is located on a rectangular block of land. All measurements are in
metres.

Use two applications of the Trapezoidal Rule to calculate the surface area of the dam. 3

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Question 27 (5 marks)
Maxim sets up an annuity account to fund his retirement.

• He makes a one-off payment;

• The account will receive quarterly interest; and
• Maxim will receive quarterly payments.

The annuity is modelled by the recurrence relation

Maxim sets up a spreadsheet according to the recurrence relation above:

(a) State the values of P and R. 2

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(c) What annual rate of interest being used for the annuity account? 1

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Question 28 (3 marks)
A heated metal ball is dropped into a liquid. As the ball cools, its temperature, T C, t
minutes after it enters the liquid is given by

T = 400  3−0.05t + 25, t  0.

(a) What is the temperature of the ball as it enters the liquid? 1

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(b) The metal ball can be safely removed from the liquid when its temperature has 2
fallen below 75 C.

If the experiment is performed during a class which lasts for 50 minutes, will
there be time to remove the metal ball from the liquid?

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Question 29 (4 marks)
The table below shows the current individual tax rates.

Taxable Income ($) Tax payable

$0 to $18,200 Nil

$18,201 to $37,000 19c for each $1 over $18,200

$37,001 to $90,000 $3,572 plus 32.5c for each $1 over $37,000

$90,001 to $180,000 $20,797 plus 37c for each $1 over $90,000

$180,001 and over $54,097 plus 45c for each $1 over $180,000

The Medicare levy to be paid is 2% of the taxable income.

Jenny calculates her tax payable as $21,833. How much will she have to pay for the 4
Medicare levy.

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Question 30 (4 marks)
A network flow diagram has some unknown edge values as shown below

The capacity of cut 1 is 7, which gives the equation .

(a) Write a similar equation for cut 2, which has a capacity of 3. 2

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(b) The line representing the equation for cut 1 is drawn on the graph below. Add the line 1
for the equation for cut 2.

(c) Determine the values of so that cuts 1 and 2 have the indicated capacities. 1
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Question 31 (6 marks)
Consider the radial survey shown.

(a) Using the Cosine rule, show that 2

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(b) Determine the area of . Give your answer correct to the nearest square 2
metre.

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(c) What is the bearing of A from O? 2

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Question 32 (6 marks)
The dot plot below show the waiting times of 50 people ordering a take away coffee from a
local café.

(a) Complete the following table 3

Lowest score Q1 Q2 Q3 Highest score

(b) Calculate the inter-quartile range. 1

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Support your answer with mathematical calculations.

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Question 33 (4 marks)
John owns a piece of land consisting of a rectangular section and a triangular section as shown
in the diagram.

(a) Using the Sine rule, calculate the length of CD, in metres, correct to 2 decimal places. 2

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John wants to build a fence along BA, AE, ED and CD.
Fencing can be purchased in metre lengths at a cost of $75 per metre.

(b) How much will it cost John for the fencing required? 2

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Question 34 (4 marks)
When a ball is thrown from the top of a building, its height above the ground, h metres, is
modelled by the formula

(a) What is the height of the building? 1

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(b) The graph of is shown below 1

Indicate on the graph above that section of the graph which makes sense in practice.

(c) Fill in the missing spaces in the following sentence: 2

The ball reaches a maximum height of ________metres, and it takes ________

seconds to reach that height.

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Question 35 (6 marks)
Nine activities are required to be completed for a school project. The table below shows the
activities and their immediate predecessors.

Activity Immediately preceded by

A −
B −
C −
D A
E B
F C
G D, E
H F
I G, H

At this stage, the duration of each activity is not known.

(a) The edges of the network below indicate an activity. Complete the network using 2
the information given in the table above.

The project has only one critical path.

(b) Explain why there are 5 non-critical activities. 2

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Question 35 (continued)

The early start time (EST) and latest start time (LST), given in hours, are known for only three
of the activities, according to the table below.

Activity EST LST

A 0 1
B 0 2
I 7 7

(c) Using this information, write down the critical path for the project. 1

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The project has a minimum completion time of 15 hours.

(d) What is the duration of activity I? 1

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Question 36 (7 marks)
The systolic blood pressure of a sample of 10 workers, aged between 30 and 55 years is shown
in the table below.

Worker A B C D E F G H I J
Age 36 39 41 42 45 46 49 50 52 54
Systolic Blood Pressure 138 141 132 155 147 161 151 153 149 163

(a) Determine the correlation coefficient, r, for this set of data. 1

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(b) Describe the strength and direction of the linear relationship between the two 2
variables, age and systolic blood pressure.

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The data for 8 workers has been plotted on the scatter plot below.

(c) Add the data for the workers labelled G and H to the scatterplot above. 1

(d) For the data of all 10 workers, draw a line of best fit on the scatterplot above. 1

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Question 36 Continued

(e) The least-squares regression line has equation y = 1.19 x + 94.41 . 1

What is the meaning of the gradient of the least squares-regression line?

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(f) Comment on the validity of using the least-squares regression line in part (e) to 1
predict the systolic blood pressure of a worker’s 18 year old daughter?

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