Western Australian Certificate of Education

Examination, 2012
Question/Answer Booklet

MATHEMATICS
2C/2D

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Section

Instructions to candidates
1.
The rules for the conduct of Western Australian external examinations are detailed in
the Year 12 Information Handbook 2012. Sitting this examination implies that you

agree to abide by these rules.
2.

Write your answers in the spaces provided in this Question/Answer Booklet. 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.
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the page.
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the original answer space where the answer is continued, i.e. give the page number.
Fill in the number of the question(s) that you are continuing to answer at the top of the
page.

3.

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 an answer to any question, ensure that you
cancel the answer you do not wish to have marked.

4.

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

5.

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Structure of this paper

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Section One: Calculator-free

(50 Marks)

This section has six (6) 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.
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original answer space where the answer is continued, i.e. give the page number. Fill in the
number of the question(s) that you are continuing to answer at the top of the page.
Working time: 50 minutes.

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Question 1
(a)

(9 marks)

On the Venn diagram below, shade the region given by B.

(1 mark)

(b)

Determine the gradient of the line 3x + 4y = 2.

(1 mark)

(c)

Determine the y-intercept of the line 2y = x 4.

(1 mark)

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Question 1 (continued)
The graphs below show the test results for two different science classes.
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Frequency

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Test scores

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Which science class has the smaller mean?

(e)

The graphs below show the test results for two different mathematics classes.

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Class A
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Frequency

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Which mathematics class has the larger standard deviation?

(1 mark)

(f)

For the recursive rule Tn+1 = Tn 4 with T3 = 15, determine T1.

(1 mark)

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(d)

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. Give the answer as a power of 5.
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(g)

Simplify

(1 mark)

(h)

Determine the number of significant figures in the number 820.

(1 mark)

(i)

Determine the value of tan BAC in the following triangle.

(1 mark)

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Question 2

(18 marks)

(a)

Solve 2(x 4)(2x + 3) = 0.

(b)

Five integers satisfy the following description: they have a median of 7, the mode is 5, the
range is 15 and the mean is 9. Write the five integers below in order from smallest to
largest.
(2 marks)

(c)

The two graphs shown are for the functions y = 2x and y = 3x. The point (2, q) belongs to
one of these functions. Decide which function the given point belongs to and hence
determine the value of q.
(2 marks)

y
(2, q)

(d)

Estimate the solution to the equation 2x = 80. Give the answer to the nearest integer.
(2 marks)

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(2 marks)

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Sketch the function y = x 1 on the given axes.

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(f)

Determine the value of 232 172.

(g)

Describe in words how the graph of y = x2 can be transformed to the graph of

y = (x + 4)2.
(2 marks)

(h)

A survey of a town gave these probabilities for the number of children living in each
house.
Number of children
Probability

(2 marks)

0
0.15

1
0.30

2
0.35

3
0.10

4
0.05

5
0.05

There are 600 houses in the town. How many of the houses have fewer than three
children living in them?
(2 marks)

(i)

Consider the triangle ABC where sin BCA =

3
displayed below:
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A
500 m

Side AC has length 500 m. Determine the length of the side AB.
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Question 3

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(7 marks)

Vehicle licence plates in Western Australia can be customised to suit individual requirements.

Jessica has decided on the wording of her customised licence plates, and has restricted her
choice to the following options:
colour pink (P), red (R), green (G) or black (B)
material metal (M) or acrylic (A)
size normal size (N) or slim-line (S).

(a)

Draw a tree diagram to show her available options.

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Jessica randomly selects her customised licence plates from the available options.

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(b)

Determine the probability that she selects green slim-line licence plates.

(1 mark)

(c)

Determine the probability that she does not select red licence plates.

(1 mark)

Jessica has now decided that she definitely does not want pink or acrylic licence plates.
(d)
Determine the probability that she selects normal-sized plates that are made from metal.

(2 marks)

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Question 4

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(a)

Determine the value of f (1) g(2).

(2 marks)

(b)

Solve for x if f (x) = 1.

(2 marks)

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Given f (x) = x2 + 2x + 1 and g (x) = 2 x 2.

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Question 5

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(4 marks)

Peter was investigating prime numbers and made a conjecture that if one is added to the
product of two or more prime numbers, then the result is also a prime number.

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(a)

Test the conjecture with three different sets of prime numbers.

(b)

What conclusion can you make about Peters conjecture based on your results from Part
(a)?
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Question 6

(8 marks)

Country
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
(a)

Percentage of target
population vaccinated
against Hepatitis B
92
66
59
94
96
90
83
56
66
73
64
83

Child (under 5 years)

mortality rate/1000 live
births
5
199
209
15
21
4
84
68
138
191
112
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The information for the first six countries (A to F) has been plotted on the scatter plot
below. Complete the scattergraph.
(2 marks)

500

Child mortality (deaths/1000 births)

450
400
350
300
250
200
150
100
50
10

20

30
40 50 60 70 80 90
Percentage of population vaccinated

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The World Health Organisation (WHO) monitors the percentage of a countrys target population
that has been vaccinated against a number of diseases as well as the child (under 5 years)
mortality rate for that country. The information for 12 countries is shown in the table below.

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(b)

Fit a trend line by eye to your graph.

(c)

Use your trend line to estimate the change in the child (under 5 years) mortality rate for a
country that increases its immunisation level of Hepatitis B from 10% to 30%. (3 marks)

(d)

Comment on the reliability of your estimate in Part (c). Justify your answer.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Section One
Question 3

Department of Transport. (2012). Custom series plate [Image]. Retrieved

March 29, 2012, from www.transport.wa.gov.au/licensing/20416.asp.

Question 6

Data source: World Health Organization. (n.d.). WHO Vaccine

Preventable Diseases Monitoring System 2011 global summary.
Retrieved March 17, 2012, from
http://apps.who.int/immunization_monitoring/en/globalsummary/countrypr
ofileselect.cfm.

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