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Mathematics C
Term 2 Final Examination Paper

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 FINAL EXAMINATION

Directions to Candidates

1. Attempt ALL questions.

2. Answer each question in a separate answer book. Clearly write the

question number in the box provided on the front of each answer book.

3. All necessary working should be shown in every question. Answers must

be correctly numbered and clearly arranged.

4. All questions are of equal value. The total marks available is 72.

5. A table of standard integrals and normal distribution table are provided

after the last question on this paper.

6. Marks will not necessarily be awarded if directions to candidates have

not been followed.
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Question 1 (12 marks) Use a SEPARATE book clearly marked Question 1

(i) One letter is chosen at random from the letters of the word TABULATION.
Find the probability that the chosen letter is T .

k!
(ii) Simplify .
k  1!

(iii) For the scores 6, 8, 2, 4, 8, 6, 7, 5, 9, 8 find:

(a) the median.

(b) the range.

(iv) In a survey 810 school students are asked how they travel to school. When the
results of the survey are presented in a sector graph, the sector angle for the
sector representing those who walk to school is 100  . Find the number of
students surveyed who walk to school.

(v) In how many ways can a committee of 3 boys and 2 girls be selected from a
class of 10 boys and 8 girls?

(vi) Differentiate each of the following with respect to x :

(a) e x
2 
4
.

(b) xe 2 x .

 3 
(c) ln .
 2x  7 
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Question 2 (12 marks) Use a SEPARATE book clearly marked Question 2

(i) Chen estimates the probability of him achieving Grade A in Mathematics to be

0  7 and the probability of him achieving Grade A in Economics to be 0  8 .
Calculate the probability that he will achieve Grade A in exactly one of these
subjects.

(ii) Find the indefinite integral of each of the following:

(a) 3x  24 .

(b) e 9 x2 .

(c) ex 2 .

(iii) A curve passes through the point 3,1 and has gradient function
dy
 5 x  2 . Find the equation of the curve.
dx

(iv)
Score Frequency
4 1
5 4
6 6
7 11
8 9
9 5
10 2

For the data in the table above find:

(a) the mean, correct to 2 decimal places.

(b) the standard deviation, correct to 2 decimal places.

(c) the percentage of scores within two standard deviations of the mean,
correct to 1 decimal place.
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Question 3 (12 marks) Use a SEPARATE book clearly marked Question 6

(i) The monthly sales, S , of personal computers manufactured by a particular

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company are expected to decrease at a rate of 25t 3 computers per month,
where t is the time in months. The company plans to stop manufacturing the
computers when the monthly sales reach 800 computers. If initially the
monthly sales are 2 000 computers find how long the company will continue to
manufacture the computers.

(ii) An insurance company charges a customer an annual premium of $1 200 to

insure a car against theft. In the event of theft a payment of $15 000 will be
made to the customer. The probability of theft is empirically estimated to be
0  02 .

(a) Find the expected value of the insurance policy to the customer.

(b) Find the premium which should be charged if the policy is to be fair.

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(iii) (a) Sketch the graph of the function y  showing the y-intercept and
x2
asymptotes.

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(b) The region bounded by the curve y  and the lines x  2 and
x2
x  0 has area A  ln k . Find the value of k .
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Question 4 (12 marks) Use a SEPARATE book clearly marked Question 4

12
 1
(i) Find the term independent of x in the expansion of  5 x 3   .
 x

(ii) A and B are events such that P A  0  4 , P  A  B   0  7 and PB   x .

Find the value of x if :

(a) A and B are mutually exclusive.

(b) A and B are independent.

(iii) The annual rainfall at Tibooburra is known to be normally distributed with a

mean of 670 mm and a standard deviation of 90 mm .

(a) Find the probability that the annual rainfall will exceed 700 mm .

(b) Suppose that the annual rainfall is above x mm in 95% of years.

Find the value of x .

(iv) The random variable X has the following probability distribution:

xi 3 5 8 9
P X  xi  02 a 04 b

(a) Write down the value of a  b .

(b) Given that the expected value of X is 6 , find the values of a and b .
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Question 5 (12 marks) Use a SEPARATE book clearly marked Question 5

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
(i) Evaluate  x 2  x dx using the substitution u  2  x . Express your

1
answer in simplest surd form.

(ii) The total revenue that a manufacturer receives from selling x toothbrushes is
 x 
given by R(x) dollars where R( x)  800 ln1   . The total cost of
 200 
producing x toothbrushes is given by C (x) dollars where C ( x)  300  x .

(a) Write down an expression in terms of x for the profit P x  when x

toothbrushes are produced and sold.

(b) Find the number of toothbrushes which should be produced and sold for
maximum profit.

(iii) It is known that 1% of a population has a particular type of cancer (C) .

When an individual is tested for this type of cancer, a POSITIVE test result (P)
suggests that the individual has the cancer and a NEGATIVE test result (N)
suggests that the individual does not have the cancer.
However, the test is not always accurate. Only 95% of individuals who have cancer
receive a positive test result, whilst 2% of individuals who do not have cancer
receive a positive test result.

(a) The tree diagram below illustrates the outcomes when an individual is
selected at random from the population and then tested for the cancer.
Copy into your writing book and complete the tree diagram, showing the
probabilities on each branch.
Cancer / Test
No Cancer Result

P
C

N
(b) Calculate the probability of a positive test result for the individual tested.

(c) Calculate the probability that an individual has the cancer given that they
have a positive test result.
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Question 6 (12 marks) Use a SEPARATE book clearly marked Question 6

x 2  3x  9 1 x
(i) (a) Show that   2 .
2 x 3  3x 2  18 x  27 3  2x x  9

1
 x 2  3x  9
(b) Hence find the value of A if  dx  ln A .
0 2 x 3  3 x 2  18 x  27

(ii) (a) Sketch the graph of the curve y  e  x  3 and shade the region
bounded by the curve, the line y  3 , the line x  ln 3 and the
y-axis.

(b) Find the area of the shaded region in part (a) .

(iii) Two machines, A and B , each have 3 component parts. Machine A will stop
working if all 3 of its parts fail, whilst Machine B stops working if one or more
of its parts fails.
Failure of any part is independent of failure of any other part and for each part
the probability of failure is p where p  0  5 .

(a) Write down separate expressions in terms of p for the probability that
Machine A stops working and for the probability that Machine B stops
working.

(b) Find the value of p if the probability that Machine A stops working is
0 1 less than the probability that Machine B stops working.

(c) Manufacturing can continue only if both machines are working.

Show that the probability that manufacturing can continue is given by
 
1  p 4 1  p  p 2 .
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 STANDARD INTEGRALS

For the following integrals, a, b, C and n are constants.

n 1
 x n dx  x  C , n  1.

 n 1

 (ax  b) n 1
 ( ax  b ) n
dx   C , n  1.
 a(n  1)

n 1
 f ( x)[ f ( x)]n dx  [ f ( x)]  C , n  1.

 n 1

 1 dx  ln x  C.

x

 1 dx  1 ln ax  b  C , a  0.

 ax  b a

 f ( x )
 dx  ln f ( x )  C.
 f ( x)

 x
 e dx  e  C.
x

 e ax b dx  1 e ax b  C , a  0.

 a


 f ( x )e dx  e C.
f ( x) f ( x)

 x 1 x
 a dx  ln a a  C , a  0 but a  1.

ANSWERS Question 3
(i) 14 months.
Question 1
(ii) (a) -$900 .
1 (b) $300 .
(i)
5 (iii) (a)
y

(ii) k

2 x
(iii) (a) 65

(b) 7
(b) k  2
(iv) 225

(v) 3360
(vi) (a) 
4e x e x  2 
3

Question 4

(b)
x
e 2  2 xe 2
x (i)  27 500

2 (ii) (a) x  0  3
(c) y  
2x  7
(b) x  0  5

Question 2
(i) 0  38 (a) 0.3707
(iii)
(ii)
(a)
3x  25 C (b) 522 (to nearest mm)
15
(iv) (a) 0.4
1 9 x2
(b) e C
9 (b) a = 0.35 , b = 0.05

ex 3
(c) C
3

(iii) 5x 2 35
y  2x 
2 2

(v) (a) 7  21

(b) 1 44

(c) 97  4%
 Question 5 (ii)
(i) 2 (a)
3
5 P(A stops)  p 3
P(B stops)  1  (1  p) 3
(ii) (a)
(b) p  0  0345 to 4 dec. pl.
 x 
P ( x)  800 ln1    (300  x) .
 200  (c) See solutions.
(b) 600 toothbrushes.

(iii)
(a)
0.95 P
C
0.01
0.05
N

0.02 P
0.99
C'
0.98
N

(b) 0  0293

95
(c)
293

Question 6
(i)
(b) 1
 10  2

A 
3

(i)
(a) y

0
ln 3 x

-2

-3

(b) 2
square units
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