2023/65350

ATAR course examination, 2023

Question/Answer booklet

MATHEMATICS
METHODS
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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:
5 5 50 53 35
Calculator-free
Section Two:
9 9 100 96 65
Calculator-assumed

Total 100

Instructions to candidates

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1. The rules for the conduct of the Western Australian external examinations are detailed in
the Year 12 Information Handbook 2023: Part II Examinations. Sitting this examination
implies that you agree to abide by these rules.

2. Write your answers in this Question/Answer booklet preferably using a blue/black pen.
Do not use erasable or gel pens.

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. 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.

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

6. Supplementary pages for planning/continuing your answers to questions are provided at

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indicate at the original answer where the answer is continued, i.e. give the page number.

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

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Section One: Calculator-free 35% (53 Marks)

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

Supplementary pages for planning/continuing your answers to questions are provided at the end
of this Question/Answer booklet. If you use these pages to continue an answer, indicate at the
original answer where the answer is continued, i.e. give the page number.

Working time: 50 minutes.

Question 1 (8 marks)

(a) Consider the function f (x) = x 3e 2 x .

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(i) Differentiate f (x). (2 marks)

(ii) Determine the value of x for any stationary points of f (x). (3 marks)

π
(b) Evaluate
0
4
sin (2x + π)dx. (3 marks)

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Question 2 (14 marks)

Let p = ln(2), q = ln(3) and r = ln(5).

(a) Express each of the following in terms of p, q and/or r.

(i) ln(6) (2 marks)

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(ii) ln(6.25) (3 marks)

3 d
(iii) ln(x) dx (2 marks)
2 dx

(b) Evaluate e p + q. (2 marks)

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d x ln(x) .
dx ( )
(c) (i) Determine (1 mark)

(ii) Hence show that ln(x) dx = x ln(x) – x + c where c is a constant. (2 marks)

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(iii) Evaluate 1
ln(x) dx in terms of p, q and/or r. (2 marks)

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Question 3 (10 marks)

Solcolwa is a green energy company that owns 20 solar farms across Western Australia. The
generation capacities, in megawatts (MW), of the solar farms are displayed in the histogram
below.

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Frequency

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0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45
Generation capacity (MW)

Suppose that one of the Solcolwa solar farms is selected at random. Let the random variable W
denote the generation capacity of the randomly-selected solar farm.

(a) Complete the following table of cumulative probabilities for W. (2 marks)

w 5 15 25 35 45

P (W ≤ w)

(b) Determine P (W ≥ 35). (1 mark)

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(c) Assuming the solar farms are uniformly distributed within each interval:

(i) estimate P (W ≥ 20). (2 marks)

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(ii) estimate the expected value E(W ). (2 marks)

To increase the generation capacity of its solar farms, Solcolwa decides to upgrade all its solar
panels with the latest technology. A new random variable Y denotes the generation capacity of
a randomly-selected upgraded solar farm. The random variables W and Y are related by

Y = aW

for some constant a > 0.

(d) Given that W and Y have variances Var(W ) = 81 and Var(Y ) = 324, determine the
expected value E(Y ). (3 marks)

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Question 4 (8 marks)

An internet search engine uses a logarithmic scale to rank the importance of internet websites. If
a website has S visits each week, the site rank, R, is given by

S
R = 2 log10
S0

where S0 is the reference value (the same for all websites). The reference value is the minimum
number of visits per week required for a website to register on the site rank scale.

(a) Determine the site rank for a website whose weekly visits are one hundred times the
reference value. (2 marks)

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(b) Given that a site rank of 12 is assigned to a website with 1.5 billion (1.5 × 10 9 ) visits per
week, determine the value of S0. (3 marks)

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(c) The plot of y = log10 (x) is shown below. If a website has a site rank of 3.2, use the plot
and your answer from part (b) to approximate the website’s number of weekly visits.
(3 marks)

3.5

2.5
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y 2

1.5

0.5

0
100 101 102 103 104
x

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Question 5 (13 marks)

The table below contains values of the polynomial function f (x), its first and second derivatives,
x
and the function F (x) = f (t)dt for x = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
0

f (x) has no stationary points at non-integer values of x, and the letters a, b, c, d and e represent
unspecified constants.

x=0 x=1 x=2 x=3 x=4 x=5 x=6

f (x) a b 4 c 0 d e
f '(x) 16 0 –4 –2 0 –4 –20
f "(x) –24 –9 0 3 0 –9 –24
F (x) 0 4.7 10.4 12.6 12.8 12.5 7.2

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d
dx (
(a) Evaluate f (x)2 ) when x = 2 . (2 marks)

( f (x) + 2) dx .
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(b) Evaluate 2
(3 marks)

d x
f (t) dt when x = 2 .
(c) Evaluate (2 marks)
dx 2

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(d) Determine the x-coordinate of any stationary points and whether they are local maxima,
local minima or inflection points. Justify your answer. (3 marks)
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(e) Sketch a possible graph of f (x) for 0 ≤ x ≤ 6 on the axes below. (3 marks)

f (x)
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10

0 x
1 2 3 4 5 6

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-10

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