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Financial Maths, 2ADV M1 2018 HSC 14d

An artist posted a song online. Each day there were    downloads, where  is the number of days after the song was posted.

  1. Find the number of downloads on each of the first 3 days after the song was posted.  (1 mark)

  2. What is the total number of times the song was downloaded in the first 20 days after it was posted?  (2 marks)

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♦ Mean mark 38%.

Financial Maths, 2ADV M1 2005 HSC 7a

Anne and Kay are employed by an accounting firm.

Anne accepts employment with an initial annual salary of  $50 000. In each of the following years her annual salary is increased by $2500.

Kay accepts employment with an initial annual salary of  $50 000. In each of the following years her annual salary is increased by 4%.

  1. What is Anne’s annual salary in her thirteenth year?  (2 marks)

  2. What is Kay’s annual salary in her thirteenth year?  (2 marks)

  3. By what amount does the total amount paid to Kay in her first twenty years exceed that paid to Anne in her first twenty years?  (3 marks)

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Financial Maths, 2ADV M1 2011 HSC 9d

 

  1. Rationalise the denominator in the expression    where    is an integer and  .   (1 mark)

  2. Using your result from part (i), or otherwise, find the value of the sum
     
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MARKER’S COMMENT: Students connecting the information between parts (i) and (ii) were easily the most successful. AGAIN, the information from earlier parts of multi-part questions is gold plated information for directing your answer.

 

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♦♦♦ Mean mark 15%.

 

Financial Maths, 2ADV M1 2011 HSC 5a

The number of members of a new social networking site doubles every day. On Day 1 there were 27 members and on Day 2 there were 54 members.

  1. How many members were there on Day 12?     (1 mark)

  2. On which day was the number of members first greater than 10 million?     (2 marks)

  3. The site earns 0.5 cents per member per day. How much money did the site earn in the first 12 days? Give your answer to the nearest dollar.     (2 marks)

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MARKER’S COMMENT: Better responses stated the general term, before any substitution was made, as shown in the worked solutions.

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MARKER’S COMMENT: Many elementary errors were made by students in dealing with logarithms. BE VIGILANT.

 

 

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♦ Mean mark 44%.
NOTE: This question can also be easily solved by making the total sum of members (each day) and then multiplying by 0.5 cents.
 
 
 

 

Financial Maths, 2ADV M1 2012 HSC 15a

Rectangles of the same height are cut from a strip and arranged in a row. The first rectangle has width 10cm. The width of each subsequent rectangle is 96% of the width of the previous rectangle.
 

2012 15a
 

  1. Find the length of the strip required to make the first ten rectangles.     (2 marks)

  2. Explain why a strip of 3m is sufficient to make any number of rectangles.     (1 mark)

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Financial Maths, 2ADV M1 2013 HSC 12c

Kim and Alex start jobs at the beginning of the same year. Kim's annual salary in the first year is $30,000 and increases by 5% at the beginning of each subsequent year. Alex's annual salary in the first year is $33,000, and increases by $1,500 at the beginning of each subsequent year.

  1. Show that in the 10th year, Kim's annual salary is higher than Alex's annual salary.     (2 marks)

  2. In the first 10 years how much, in total, does Kim earn?     (2 marks)

  3. Every year, Alex saves of her annual salary. How many years does it take her to save $87,500?     (3 marks)

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♦ Mean mark 45%.
IMPORTANT: Using the AP sum formula to create and then solve a quadratic in is challenging and often examined. Students need to solve and interpret the solutions.