- Sketch the graph of `y = |\ x-1\ |` for `-4 <= x <= 4`. (1 mark)
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- Using the sketch from part i, or otherwise, solve `|\ x-1\ | = 2x + 4`. (2 marks)
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Networks, STD2 N2 2019 HSC 30
The network diagram shows the tracks connecting 8 picnic sites in a nature park. The vertices `A` to `H` represents the picnic sites. The weights on the edges represent the distance along the tracks between the picnic sites, in kilometres.
- Each picnic site needs to provide drinking water. The main water source is at site `A`.
Draw a minimum spanning tree and calculate the minimum length of water pipes required to supply water to all the sites if the water pipes can only be laid along the tracks. (2 marks)
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- One day, the track between `C` and `H` is closed. State the vertices that identify the shortest path from `C` to `E` that avoids the closed track. (1 mark)
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Calculus, EXT1* C3 2019 HSC 13d
Trigonometry, 2ADV T1 2019 HSC 13b
Calculus, 2ADV C4 2019 HSC 12d
Calculus, EXT1* C1 2019 HSC 12c
The number of leaves, `L(t)`, on a tree `t` days after the start of autumn can be modelled by
`L(t) = 200\ 000e^(-0.14t)`
- What is the number of leaves on the tree when `t = 31`? (1 mark)
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- What is the rate of change of the number of leaves on the tree when `t = 31`? (2 marks)
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- For what value of `t` are there 100 leaves on the tree? (2 marks)
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Functions, EXT1* F1 2019 HSC 11g
The parabola `y = x^2` meets the line `y = x + 2` at the points `(-1, 1)` and `(2, 4)`. Do NOT prove this.
By first sketching the graphs of `y = x^2` and `y = x + 2`, shade the region which simultaneously satisfies the two inequalities `y >= x^2` and `y >= x + 2`. (2 marks)
Algebra, STD2 A1 2019 HSC 28
The formula below is used to calculate an estimate for blood alcohol content `(BAC)` for females.
`BAC_text(female) = (10N - 7.5H)/(5.5M)`
The number of hours required for a person to reach zero `BAC` after they stop consuming alcohol is given by the following formula.
`text(Time) = (BAC)/0.015`
The number of standard drinks in a glass of wine and a glass of spirits is shown.
Hannah weighs 60 kg. She consumed 3 glasses of wine and 4 glasses of spirits between 6:15 pm and 12:30 am the following day. She then stopped drinking alcohol.
Using the given formulae, calculate the time in the morning when Hannah's `BAC` should reach zero. (4 marks)
Networks, STD2 N3 2019 HSC 26
A project requires activities `A` to `F` to be completed. The activity chart shows the immediate prerequisite(s) and duration for each activity.
- By drawing a network diagram, determine the minimum time for the project to be completed. (3 marks)
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- Determine the float time of the non-critical activity. (1 mark)
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Calculus, 2ADV C4 2019 HSC 11e
Evaluate `int_0^1 1/(3x + 2)^2\ dx`. (2 marks)
Algebra, STD2 A2 2019 HSC 14 MC
Last Saturday, Luke had 165 followers on social media. Rhys had 537 followers. On average, Luke gains another 3 followers per day and Rhys loses 2 followers per day.
If `x` represents the number of days since last Saturday and `y` represents the number of followers, which pair of equations model this situation?
| A. | `text(Luke:)\ \ y = 165x + 3`
`text(Rhys:)\ \ y = 537x - 2` |
| B. | `text(Luke:)\ \ y = 165 + 3x`
`text(Rhys:)\ \ y = 537 - 2x` |
| C. | `text(Luke:)\ \ y = 3x + 165`
`text(Rhys:)\ \ y = 2x - 537` |
| D. | `text(Luke:)\ \ y = 3 + 165x`
`text(Rhys:)\ \ y = 2 - 537x` |
Financial Maths, STD2 F4 2019 HSC 13 MC
Measurement, STD2 M2 2019 HSC 5 MC
The Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) of Auckland is +12 hours and the UTC of Chicago is −5 hours.
When the time in Chicago is 2 pm, Thursday, what is the time in Auckland?
- 9 pm, Wednesday
- 7 am, Thursday
- 9 pm, Thursday
- 7 am, Friday
Financial Maths, STD2 F4 2019 HSC 3 MC
Chris opens a bank account and deposits $1000 into it. Interest is paid at 3.5% per annum, compounding annually.
Assuming no further deposits or withdrawals are made, what will be the balance in the account at the end of two years?
- $1070.00
- $1071.23
- $1822.50
- $2070.00
Statistics, STD2 S4 2019 HSC 23
A set of bivariate data is collected by measuring the height and arm span of seven children. The graph shows a scatterplot of these measurements.
- Calculate Pearson's correlation coefficient for the data, correct to two decimal places. (1 mark)
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- Identify the direction and the strength of the linear association between height and arm span. (1 mark)
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- The equation of the least-squares regression line is shown.
Height = 0.866 × (arm span) + 23.7
A child has an arm span of 143 cm.
Calculate the predicted height for this child using the equation of the least-squares regression line. (1 mark)
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Measurement, STD2 M6 2019 HSC 22
Financial Maths, STD2 F4 2019 HSC 21
A person owns 1526 shares with a market value of $8.75 per share. The total dividend received for these shares is $1068.20.
Calculate the percentage dividend yield. (2 marks)
Probability, STD2 S2 2019 HSC 20
Statistics, STD2 S1 2019 HSC 19
The heights, in centimetres, of 10 players on a basketball team are shown.
170, 180, 185, 188, 192, 193, 193, 194, 196, 202
Is the height of the shortest player on the team considered an outlier? Justify your answer with calculations. (3 marks)
Measurement, STD2 M7 2019 HSC 18
Andrew, Brandon and Cosmo are the first three batters in the school cricket team. In a recent match, Andrew scored 30 runs, Brandon scored 25 runs and Cosmo scored 40 runs.
- What is the ratio of Andrew's to Brandon's to Cosmo's runs scored, in simplest form? (2 marks)
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- In this match, the ratio of the total number of runs scored by Andrew, Brandon and Cosmo to the total number of runs scored by the whole team is `19:36`.
- How many runs were scored by the whole team? (2 marks)
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Measurement, STD2 M6 2019 HSC 17
Measurement, STD2 M1 2019 HSC 16
Calculus, 2ADV C1 2019 HSC 8 MC
Trigonometry, 2ADV T3 2019 HSC 7 MC
Probability, 2ADV S1 2019 HSC 6 MC
A game is played by tossing an ordinary 6-sided die and an ordinary coin at the same time. The game is won if the uppermost face of the die shows an even number or the uppermost face of the coin shows a tail (or both).
What is the probability of winning this game?
- `1/4`
- `1/2`
- `3/4`
- `1`
L&E, 2ADV E1 2019 HSC 5 MC
Which of the following is equal to `(log_2 9)/(log_2 3)`?
- `2`
- `3`
- `log_2 3`
- `log_2 6`
L&E, 2ADV E1 2019 HSC 3 MC
What is the value of `p` so that `(a^2a^(-3))/sqrt a = a^p`?
- `-3`
- `-3/2`
- `-1/2`
- `12`
Vectors, EXT1 V1 SM-Bank 8
A projectile is fired horizontally off a cliff at an initial speed of `V` metres per second.
The projectile strikes the water, `l` metres from the base of the cliff.
Let `g` be the acceleration due to gravity and assume air resistance is negligible.
- Show the projectile hits the water when
`qquadt = sqrt((2d)/g)` (2 marks)
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- If `l` equals twice the height of the cliff, at what angle does the projectile hit the water? (2 marks)
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- Show that the speed at which the projectile hits the water is
`qquad2sqrt(dg)` metres per second. (1 mark)
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Vectors, EXT1 V1 EQ-Bank 1
A basketball player aims to throw a basketball through a ring, the centre of which is at a horizontal distance of 4.5 m from the point of release of the ball and 3 m above floor level. The ball is released at a height of 1.75 m above floor level, at an angle of projection `alpha` to the horizontal and at a speed of `V\ text(ms)^(-1)`. Air resistance is assumed to be negligible.
The position vector of the centre of the ball at any time, `t` seconds, for `t >= 0`, relative to the point of release is given by
`qquad underset ~s(t) = Vt cos (alpha) underset ~i + (Vt sin(alpha) - 4.9t^2) underset ~j`,
where `underset ~i` is a unit vector in the horizontal direction of motion of the ball and `underset ~j` is a unit vector vertically up. Displacement components are measured in metres.
For the player’s first shot at goal, `V = 7\ text(ms)^(-1)` and `alpha = 45^@`
- Find the time, in seconds, taken for the ball to reach its maximum height. Give your answer in the form `(a sqrt b)/c`, where `a, b` and `c` are positive integers. (2 marks)
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- Find the maximum height, in metres, above floor level, reached by the centre of the ball. (2 marks)
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- Find the distance of the centre of the ball from the centre of the ring one second after release. Give your answer in metres, correct to two decimal places. (2 marks)
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Vectors, EXT1 V1 SM-Bank 6
A cricketer hits a ball at time `t = 0` seconds from an origin `O` at ground level across a level playing field.
The position vector `underset ~s(t)`, from `O`, of the ball after `t` seconds is given by
`qquad underset ~s(t) = 15t underset ~i + (15 sqrt 3 t - 4.9t^2)underset ~j`,
where, `underset ~i` is a unit vector in the forward direction, `underset ~j` is a unit vector vertically up and displacement components are measured in metres.
- Find the initial velocity of the ball and the initial angle, in degrees, of its trajectory to the horizontal. (2 marks)
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- Find the maximum height reached by the ball, giving your answer in metres, correct to two decimal places. (2 marks)
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- Find the time of flight of the ball. Give your answer in seconds, correct to three decimal places. (1 mark)
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- Find the range of the ball in metres, correct to one decimal place. (1 mark)
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- A fielder, more than 40 m from `O`, catches the ball at a height of 2 m above the ground.
How far horizontally from `O` is the fielder when the ball is caught? Give your answer in metres, correct to one decimal place. (2 marks)
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Statistics, EXT1 S1 SM-Bank 5
A manufacturer makes torches that have a probability of 0.03 of being defective.
Let `overset^p` be the random variable that represents the sample proportion of torches for samples of size `n` drawn from production.
Find the smallest integer value of `n` such that the standard deviation of `overset^p` is less than `1/50`. (2 marks)
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Statistics, EXT1 S1 SM-Bank 4 MC
When a standard 6-sided die is thrown, the probability that it shows a prime number is `2/3`.
If 10 standard dice are thrown, the number, `N`, of times a prime number is showing has a binomial distribution.
What is the standard deviation of `N`, correct to 3 decimal places?
- 0.222
- 0.471
- 1.491
- 2.222
Statistics, EXT1 S1 2017 MET1 4
In a large population of fish, the proportion of angel fish is `1/4`.
Let `hat p` be the random variable that represents the sample proportion of angel fish for samples of size `n` drawn from the population.
Find the smallest integer value of `n` such that the standard deviation of `hat p` is less than or equal to `1/100`. (2 marks)
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Statistics, EXT1 S1 2012 MET2 3
Steve and Jess are two students who have agreed to take part in a psychology experiment. Each has to answer several sets of multiple-choice questions. Each set has the same number of questions, `n`, where `n` is a number greater than 20. For each question there are four possible options A, B, C or D, of which only one is correct.
- Steve decides to guess the answer to every question, so that for each question he chooses A, B, C or D at random.
Let the random variable `X` be the number of questions that Steve answers correctly in a particular set.
- What is the probability that Steve will answer the first three questions of this set correctly? (1 mark)
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- Use the fact that the variance of `X` is `75/16` to show that the value of `n` is 25. (1 mark)
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- What is the probability that Steve will answer the first three questions of this set correctly? (1 mark)
- The probability that Jess will answer any question correctly, independently of her answer to any other question, is `p\ (p > 0)`. Let the random variable `Y` be the number of questions that Jess answers correctly in any set of 25.
If `P(Y > 23) = 6 xx P(Y = 25)`, show that the value of `p=5/6`. (2 marks)
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Statistics, EXT1 S1 SM-Bank 3
In a chocolate factory the material for making each chocolate is sent to a machines.
The time, `X` seconds, taken to produce a chocolate by machine is a binomial distribution where it can be shown that `P(X <= 3) = 9/32`.
A random sample of 10 chocolates is chosen. Find the probability, correct to two decimal places, that exactly 4 of these 10 chocolates took 3 or less seconds to produce. (2 marks)
Statistics, EXT1 S1 SM-Bank 2
A school has a class set of 22 new laptops kept in a recharging trolley. Provided each laptop is correctly plugged into the trolley after use, its battery recharges.
On a particular day, a class of 22 students uses the laptops. All laptop batteries are fully charged at the start of the lesson. Each student uses and returns exactly one laptop. The probability that a student does not correctly plug their laptop into the trolley at the end of the lesson is 10%. The correctness of any student’s plugging-in is independent of any other student’s correctness.
Determine the probability that at least one of the laptops is not correctly plugged into the trolley at the end of the lesson. Give your answer correct to three decimal places. (2 marks)
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Statistics, EXT1 S1 2007 MET1 5
It is known that 50% of the customers who enter a restaurant order a cup of coffee. If four customers enter the restaurant, what is the probability that more than two of these customers order coffee? (Assume that what any customer orders is independent of what any other customer orders.) (2 marks)
Statistics, EXT1 S1 2011 MET1 7
A biased coin tossed three times. The probability of a head from a toss of this coin is `p.`
- Find, in terms of `p`, the probability of obtaining
- three heads from the three tosses (1 mark)
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- two heads and a tail from the three tosses. (1 mark)
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- three heads from the three tosses (1 mark)
- If the probability of obtaining three heads equals the probability of obtaining two heads and a tail, find `p`. (2 marks)
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Statistics, EXT1 S1 2016 MET1 4
A paddock contains 10 tagged sheep and 20 untagged sheep. Four times each day, one sheep is selected at random from the paddock, placed in an observation area and studied, and then returned to the paddock.
- What is the probability that the number of tagged sheep selected on a given day is zero? (1 mark)
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- What is the probability that at least one tagged sheep is selected on a given day? (1 mark)
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- What is the probability that no tagged sheep are selected on each of six consecutive days?
Express your answer in the form `(a/c)^c`, where `a`, `b` and `c` are positive integers. (1 mark)
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Statistics, EXT1 S1 2015 MET2 10
The binomial random variable, `X`, has `E(X) = 2` and `text(Var)( X ) = 4/3.`
Calculate `P(X = 1)`. (3 marks)
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Statistics, EXT1 S1 2008 MET2 5 MC
Let `X` be a discrete random variable with a binomial distribution. The mean of `X` is 1.2 and the variance of `X` is 0.72
The values of `n` (the number of independent trials) and `p` (the probability of success in each trial) are
A. `n = 3,\ \ \ p = 0.6`
B. `n = 2,\ \ \ p = 0.6`
C. `n = 2,\ \ \ p = 0.4`
D. `n = 3,\ \ \ p = 0.4`
Statistics, EXT1 S1 MET2 2008 14 MC
The minimum number of times that a fair coin can be tossed so that the probability of obtaining a head on each trial is less than 0.0005 is
A. `9`
B. `10`
C. `11`
D. `12`
Functions, 2ADV F2 SM-Bank 13
- Show that the function `y = (1-e^x)/(1 + e^x)` is an odd function? (1 mark)
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- Sketch `y = (1-e^x)/(1 + e^x)`, labelling all intercepts and asymptotes. (2 marks)
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Functions, 2ADV F2 EQ-Bank 9
Consider the function `f(x) = 1/(4x - 1)`.
- Find the domain of `f(x)`. (1 mark)
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- Sketch `f(x)`, showing all asymptotes and intercepts? (2 marks)
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Functions, 2ADV F2 SM-Bank 12
Functions, 2ADV F2 EQ-Bank 11
Functions, 2ADV F2 SM-Bank 10 MC
The graph of the function `f(x) = (x - 3)/(2 - x)` has asymptotes
- `x = 3,\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ y = 2`
- `x = -2,\ \ \ \ \ y = 1`
- `x = 2,\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ y = -1`
- `x = 2,\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ y = 1`
Functions, 2ADV F2 SM-Bank 10
Consider the function `f(x) = x/(4 - x^2)`.
- Identify the domain of `f(x)`. (1 mark)
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- Sketch the graph `y = f(x)`, showing all intercepts and asymptotes. (3 marks)
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Functions, 2ADV’ F2 2007 HSC 3b
- Find the vertical and horizontal asymptotes of the hyperbola
`qquad y = (x − 2)/(x − 4)` and hence sketch the graph of `y = (x − 2)/(x − 4)`. (3 marks)
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- Hence, or otherwise, find the values of `x` for which `(x − 2)/(x − 4) ≤ 3`. (2 marks)
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Functions, 2ADV’ F2 2012 HSC 13b
- Find the horizontal asymptote of the graph `y=(2x^2)/(x^2 + 9)`. (1 mark)
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- Without the use of calculus, sketch the graph `y=(2x^2)/(x^2 + 9)`, showing the asymptote found in part (i). (2 marks)
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Functions, 2ADV’ F2 2015 HSC 5 MC
What are the asymptotes of `y = (3x)/((x + 1)(x + 2))`
| A. | `y = 0,` | `x = −1,` | `x = −2` |
| B. | `y = 0,` | `x = 1,` | `x = 2` |
| C. | `y = 3,` | `x = −1,` | `x = −2` |
| D. | `y = 3,` | `x = 1,` | `x = 2` |
Functions, 2ADV’ F2 2017 HSC 5 MC
Calculus, EXT1 C3 2017 SPEC1 8
A slope field representing the differential equation `dy/dx = −x/(1 + y^2)` is shown below.
- Sketch the solution curve of the differential equation corresponding to the condition `y(−1) = 1` on the slope field above and, hence, estimate the positive value of `x` when `y = 0`. Give your answer correct to one decimal place. (2 marks)
- Solve the differential equation `(dy)/(dx) = (−x)/(1 + y^2)` with the condition `y(−1) = 1`. Express your answer in the form `ay^3 + by + cx^2 + d = 0`, where `a`, `b`, `c` and `d` are integers. (2 marks)
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Calculus, EXT1 C3 SM-Bank 5
Bacteria are spreading over a Petri dish at a rate modelled by the differential equation
`(dP)/(dt) = P/2 (1 - P),\ 0 < P < 1`
where `P` is the proportion of the dish covered after `t` hours.
Given `2/(P(1 - P)) = 2/P + 2/(1 - P),`
- Show by integration that `(t - c)/2= log_e(P/(1 - P))`, where `c` is a constant of integration. (2 marks)
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- If half of the Petri dish is covered by the bacteria at `t = 0`, express `P` in terms of `t`. (2 marks)
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Calculus, EXT1 C3 2017 SPEC2 8 MC
Calculus, EXT1 C3 2018 SPEC2 10 MC
Calculus, EXT1 C3 2016 SPEC2 10 MC
Calculus, EXT1 C3 2014 SPEC2 14 MC
Calculus, EXT1 C3 2013 SPEC2 12 MC
Calculus, EXT1 C3 2012 SPEC2 10 MC
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