Semester One Examination, 2022

Question/Answer booklet
MATHEMATICS
APPLICATIONS
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Section One:
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Time allowed for this section

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Working time: fifty minutes

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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 51 35
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Section Two:
12 12 100 98 65
Calculator-assumed

Total 100

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Section One: Calculator-free 35% (51 Marks)

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

Working time: 50 minutes.

Question 1 (5 marks)
The statements in parts (a) to (e)
of this question relate to graph 𝐺
shown at right.

For each statement, state whether

it is true or false and support your
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answer with brief reasons.

(a) Graph 𝐺 has a bridge. (1 mark)

(b) Graph 𝐺 is planar. (1 mark)

(c) Graph 𝐺 has 2 even vertices. (1 mark)

(d) Graph 𝐺 has a trail of length 8. (1 mark)

(e) Graph 𝐹, shown below, is a subgraph of graph 𝐺. (1 mark)

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Question 2 (5 marks)
The graph below shows the first few terms of an arithmetic sequence and a geometric sequence.

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(a) Deduce a rule for the 𝑛th term of the geometric sequence. (2 marks)

(b) Determine the 30th term of the arithmetic sequence. (3 marks)

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Question 3 (7 marks)
(a) Graph 𝐺1 is shown at right.

Show that graph 𝐺1 satisfies Euler's formula.

(2 marks)
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(b) A haulage company has three trucks and four drivers. The drivers that are licensed to
drive each of the trucks are shown with a tick in the following table.

Driver
A B C D
1 ✓ ✓ ✓
Truck 2 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
3 ✓ ✓ ✓

(i) Represent the information in the table as bipartite graph 𝐺2 . (3 marks)

(ii) Graph 𝐺2 can be drawn in the plane. Determine, with justification, the number of
faces 𝐺2 has. (2 marks)

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Question 4 (10 marks)

Over a period of one week, a group of children were observed and the total time that they slept
each day recorded. The scatterplot below shows the age in years and months of each child on
the 𝑥-axis and their average daily sleep time in hours on the 𝑦-axis.

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The equation of the least-squares line is 𝑦̂ = 12.4 − 0.2𝑥.

(a) How many children aged 2 were in the group? (1 mark)

(b) Name the explanatory variable. (1 mark)

(c) Describe the linear association between the variables in terms of direction and strength.
(2 marks)

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(d) Interpret the slope of the least-squares line in the context of this question. (2 marks)

(e) Predict the average daily sleep time of a child who has just had their eighth birthday.
(2 marks)
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(f) A paediatrician looked at the data and said, " as children age, it causes them to need less
sleep". Comment on this statement. (2 marks)

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Question 5 (8 marks)
The graph below represents a town
centre, with street corners shown as
vertices, streets as edges and the
length, in metres, of each street as
an edge weight.

The total length of all streets in the

town centre is 925 m.

(a) List, in order, the vertices that lie on the shortest path from 𝐻 to 𝐶 and state the length of

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this path in metres. (3 marks)

(b) Does the graph contain an Eulerian trail? Justify your answer. (2 marks)

(c) A cleaning team must make their way along every street in the town centre, starting and
finishing at the same street corner. Determine, if any the adjustments necessary to
achieve this, and the minimum distance the cleaning team must travel. (3 marks)

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Question 6 (7 marks)
A complete bipartite graph with 𝑛 vertices in one group and 𝑚 vertices in the other group will
have 𝑛𝑚 edges.

(a) Explain the meaning of the term complete for such a graph. (1 mark)

(b) Draw a complete bipartite graph with 5 edges. The graph should clearly be bipartite with
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its vertices labelled 1, 2, 3, … and so on. (2 marks)

(c) Construct the adjacency matrix for the graph you drew in part (b). (2 marks)

(d) Determine, with justification, the minimum number of vertices that a complete bipartite
graph with 24 edges can have. (2 marks)

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Question 7 (9 marks)
A small animal sanctuary has six buildings spread out over an area of land. There are paved
roads between buildings 1 and 2, 2 and 3, 2 and 5, 3 and 4, 3 and 5, and 5 and 6.

(a) Construct graph 𝐺 to represent this network of buildings and paved roads. (2 marks)

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(b) Determine the length of

(i) the longest trail in graph 𝐺. (1 mark)

(ii) the shortest, closed walk in graph 𝐺 that visits all six vertices. (1 mark)

(c) State, with justification, whether graph 𝐺 is a Hamiltonian graph. (2 marks)

(d) A new paved road is planned between two different buildings. With the addition of this
road, graph 𝐺 will be a semi-Hamiltonian graph. Determine the number of possible pairs of
buildings that the road could be built between. Justify your answer. (3 marks)

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