Semester One Examination, 2020

Question/Answer booklet

MATHEMATICS METHODS
UNIT 3
Section One:
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Your Name:

Your Teacher’s Name:

Time allowed for this section

Reading time before commencing work: five minutes
Working time: fifty minutes

Materials required/recommended for this section

To be provided by the supervisor
This Question/Answer booklet
Formula sheet

To be provided by the candidate

Standard items: pens (blue/black preferred), pencils (including coloured), sharpener,
correction fluid/tape, eraser, ruler, highlighters

Special items: nil

Important note to candidates

No other items may be taken into the examination room. It is your responsibility to ensure that
you do not have any unauthorised material. If you have any unauthorised material with you,
hand it to the supervisor before reading any further.

Question Marks Max Question Mark Max

1 5 5 8
2 7 6 10
3 7 7 6
4 5
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Structure of this paper

Number of Number of Working Percentage

Marks
Section questions questions to time of
available
available be answered (minutes) examination

Section One:
7 7 50 48 34
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Section Two:
Calculator- 12 12 100 93 66
assumed

Total 100

Instructions to candidates
1. The rules for the conduct of the Western Australian Certificate of Education ATAR
course examinations are detailed in the Year 12 Information Handbook 2019. Sitting this
examination implies that you agree to abide by these rules.

2. Write your answers in this Question/Answer booklet.

3. You must be careful to confine your answers to the specific questions asked and to
follow any instructions that are specific to a particular question.

4. Additional pages for the use of planning your answer to a question or continuing your
answer to a question have been provided at the end of this Question/Answer booklet. If
you use the space to continue an answer, indicate in the original answer space where
the answer is continued, i.e. give the page number.

5. Show all your working clearly. Your working should be in sufficient detail to allow your
answers to be checked readily and for marks to be awarded for reasoning. Incorrect
answers given without supporting reasoning cannot be allocated any marks. For any
question or part question worth more than two marks, valid working or justification is
required to receive full marks. If you repeat any question, ensure that you cancel the
answer you do not wish to have marked.

6. It is recommended that you do not use pencil, except in diagrams.

7. The Formula sheet is not to be handed in with your Question/Answer booklet.

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Section One: Calculator-free (48 Marks)

This section has seven questions. Answer all questions. Write your answers in the spaces
provided.

Spare pages are included at the end of this booklet. They can be used for planning your
responses and/or as additional space if required to continue an answer.
● Planning: If you use the spare pages for planning, indicate this clearly at the top of the page.
● Continuing an answer: If you need to use the space to continue an answer, indicate in the
original answer space where the answer is continued, i.e. give the page number. Fill in the
number of the question that you are continuing to answer at the top of the page.

Working time: 50 minutes.

Question 1 (5 marks)

Jamie and Catherine are racing on roller skates. They race along a long, straight track, and
whoever has gone the farthest after 5 seconds wins a prize.
If Jamie can skate at a velocity of f ( t )=5+ 2t m/s and Catherine can skate at a velocity of

m/sec, who is going to win the race? Justify.

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Question 2 (7 marks)

Suppose that f ( x ) and g ( x ) are differentiable functions and that h ( x )=f ( x ) g ( x ). You are given
the following table of values.

x −1
h(x) −9
g(x) 9
'
f (x) −2
'
h (x) −20

f (−1 )
(a) Determine the value for and hence determine when .
(3 marks)

(b) Determine the value for when . (2 marks)

(c) Determine the value for T ' (−1 ) , given thatT ( x )=f ( f ( x ) ).
(2 marks)

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Question 3 (7 marks)

The diagram below shows the curve y= (3−2 x )3 and the tangent line to the curve at ( 12 , 8) .

(a) Find the equation of this tangent, giving your answer in the form y=mx+c .
(3 marks)

(b) Find the area of the shaded region. (4 marks)

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Question 4 (5 marks)

3
The total cost, $ to manufacture items at a factory is given by the ruleC=( 2 x+16 ) .
Determine the minimum value of the average cost per unit. Justify.

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Question 5 (8 marks)

(a) Consider a cubic polynomial y= A x 3 +6 x 2−Bx , where A and B are unknown constants.
Determine the values of A and B ,so that the graph of y has a maximum value at x=−1
and an inflection point at x=1 . (4 marks)

(b) Find the point ( x , y ) on the graph of where the tangent line is
perpendicular to the line 4 x+ y=1.
(4 marks)

(c)

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Question 6 (10 marks)

A discrete random variable X has the probability function

1
(a) Show that k = (3 marks)
6

(b) Find E( X ). (2 marks)

2 4
(c) Show that E( X )= (2 marks)
3

(d) Find Var (1−3 X) (3 marks)

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Question 7 (6 marks)

2
Let f ( x ) be a non-zero function such that f ' ( x )=[ f ( x ) ] .

d 1
(a) Determine an expression for . (3
dx f ( x )
marks)

1
(b) Determine an expression for f (x) using the result from (a), or otherwise, given f ( 0 )= .
2
(3 marks)

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