2017 HSC Maths General 2
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Mathematics General 2
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Section I
25 marks
Attempt Questions 1–25
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A. 15
B. 20
C. 30
D. 35
A. 38 km
B. 41.3 km
C. 218.5 km
D. 237.5 km
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3 The graph shows the relationship between infant mortality rate (deaths per 1000 live
births) and life expectancy at birth (in years) for different countries.
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Life expectancy at birth
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70
(years)
60
50
What is the life expectancy at birth in a country which has an infant mortality rate of 60?
A. 68 years
B. 69 years
C. 86 years
D. 88 years
4 A factory’s quality control department has tested every 50th item produced for possible
defects.
A. Random
B. Stratified
C. Systematic
D. Quantitative
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5 In a survey of 200 randomly selected Year 12 students it was found that 180 use social
media.
Based on this survey, approximately how many of 75 000 Year 12 students would be
expected to use social media?
A. 60 000
B. 67 500
C. 74 980
D. 75 000
6 Tom earns a weekly wage of $1025. He also receives an additional allowance of $87.50
per day when handling toxic substances.
A. $ 1112.50
B. $1462.50
C. $2225.00
D. $2487.50
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7 It is given that I = MR2.
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What is the value of I when M = 26.55 and R = 3.07, correct to two decimal places?
A. 375.35
B. 3246.08
C. 9965.45
D. 14 948.18
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A. 70°16'
B. 70°17'
C. 70°27'
D. 70°28'
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9 What is the value of x in the equation = 6?
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A. −13
B. −3
C. 3
D. 13
10 A single amount of $10 000 is invested for 4 years, earning interest at the rate of 3% per
annum, compounded monthly.
A. 10 000 × (1 + 0.03)4
B. 10 000 × (1 + 0.03)48
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10 000 ×
⎛ 1 +
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10 000 ×
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D.
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11 A new car was bought for $19 900 and one year later its value had depreciated to
$16 300.
A. 1 8%
B. 22%
C. 78%
D. 82%
12 Which of the data sets graphed below has the largest positive correlation coefficient
value?
A. B.
C. D.
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13 The heights of Year 12 girls are normally distributed with a mean of 165 cm and a
standard deviation of 5.5 cm.
A. −2
B. −0.5
C. 0.5
D. 2
14 Kate is comparing two different models of car. Car A uses fuel at the rate of 9 L /100 km.
Car B uses 3.5 L /100 km.
How much less fuel will she use driving car B instead of car A?
A. 280 L
B. 440 L
C. 720 L
D. 1000 L
15 The faces on a twenty-sided die are labelled $0.05, $0.10, $0.15, … , $1.00 .
What is the probability that the amount showing on the upper face is more than 50 cents
but less than 80 cents?
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A.
4
B.
10
C.
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D.
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16 The benchmark for annual greenhouse gas emissions from the residential sector is
3292 kg of carbon dioxide per person per year.
A new building, planned to house 6 people, has been designed to achieve a 25% reduction
on this benchmark.
What is the maximum amount of carbon dioxide per year, to the nearest kilogram, that
this building is designed to emit when fully occupied?
A. 8 23 kg
B. 2469 kg
C. 4938 kg
D. 14 814 kg
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When the graph of the line with equation y = x + 3 is also drawn on this number plane,
what will be the point of intersection of the two lines?
A. (0, 6)
B. (1, 4)
C. (2, 2)
D. (3, 0)
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3.6 m
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1.5 m
2.4 m
A. 5.4 m3
B. 7.776 m3
C. 10.8 m3
D. 15.552 m3
19 Young’s formula, shown below, is used to calculate the dosage of medication for children
aged 1−12 years based on the adult dosage.
yA
D=
y + 12
A. 6
B. 8
C. 10
D. 12
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Continuing this pattern, what is the maximum number of complete pentagons that can be
formed if 100 matches in total are available?
A. 25
B. 24
C. 21
D. 20
21 The length of a netball court is measured to be 30.50 metres, correct to the nearest
centimetre.
What is the lower limit for the length of the netball court?
A. 3 0.45 m
B. 30.49 m
C. 30.495 m
D. 30.499 m
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What is the approximate volume of concrete needed to make the water pipe?
A. 0.06 m3
B. 0.09 m3
C. 0.70 m3
D. 0.99 m3
A. 2
40
B. 2
41
C. 2
43
D. 244
24 A deck of 52 playing cards contains 12 picture cards. Two cards from the deck are drawn
at random and placed on a table.
What is the probability, correct to four decimal places, that exactly one picture card is on
the table?
A. 0 .0498
B. 0.1810
C. 0.3550
D. 0.3620
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O A = 100 cm2 l
A. 8.9 cm
B. 11.3 cm
C. 17.7 cm
D. 25.1 cm
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Mathematics General 2
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Section II Answer Booklet
75 marks
Attempt Questions 26–30
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Question 26 (15 marks)
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(b) Toby’s mobile phone plan costs $20 per month, plus the cost of all calls. Calls 2
are charged at the rate of 70 cents per 30 seconds, or part thereof. There is also
a call connection fee of 50c per call.
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(c) A farmer needed to estimate the number of goats on his property. He tagged 80 2
of his goats. Later, he collected a random sample of 45 goats and found that 16
of these had tags.
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(d) A sewer pipe needs to be placed into the ground so that it has a 2° angle of 2
depression. The length of the pipe is 15 000 mm.
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How much deeper should one end of the pipe be compared to the other end?
Answer to the nearest mm.
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(e) Sam purchased 500 company shares at $3.20 per share. Brokerage fees were 3
1.5% of the purchase price.
Sam is paid a dividend of 26 cents per share, then immediately sells the shares
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(f) The area chart shows the number of goals scored by three hockey teams, A, B
and C, in the first 4 rounds.
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Goals scored
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(ii) In which round did all three teams score the same number of goals? 1
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Question 26 (continued)
(g) Rachel bought a motorcycle advertised for $7990. She paid a $500 deposit and 3
took out a flat-rate loan to repay the balance. Simple interest was charged at a
rate of 7% per annum on the amount borrowed. She repaid the loan over 2 years,
making equal weekly repayments.
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Question 27 (15 marks)
(a) Jamal surveyed eight households in his street. He asked them how many
kilolitres (kL) of water they used in the last year. Here are the results.
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(ii) What is the standard deviation of this set of data, correct to one decimal 1
place?
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Question 27 (continued)
An annuity involves contributions of $12 000 per annum for 5 years. The
interest rate is 4% per annum, compounded annually.
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Question 27 (continued)
(d) Island A and island B are both on the equator. Island B is west of island A. The
longitude of island A is 5°E and the angle at the centre of Earth (O ), between A
and B, is 30°.
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B A (0°, 5°E)
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(iii) A ship leaves island A and travels west along the equator to island B. It 3
travels at a constant speed of 40 km/h.
How long will the ship take to arrive at island B? Give your answer in
days and hours to the nearest hour.
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(e) Rhys is drinking low alcohol beer at a party over a five-hour period. He reads 4
on the label of the low alcohol beer bottle that it is equivalent to 0.8 of a standard
drink.
What is the maximum number of complete bottles of the low alcohol beer he
can drink to remain under a Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) of 0.05?
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Question 28 (15 marks)
(a) Temperature can be measured in degrees Celsius (C) or degrees Fahrenheit (F).
9C
The two temperature scales are related by the equation F = + 32.
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9C
F= + 32
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Question 28 (continued)
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(iii) The graphs of F = + 32 and F = C are shown below. 1
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F 9C
F= + 32
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70
60
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F=C
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−10 0 10 20 30 40 C
−10
What does the result from part (ii) mean in the context of the graph?
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Question 28 (continued)
(b) Five people are in a team. Two of them are selected at random to attend a
competition.
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(ii) If Mary is one of the five people in the team, what is the probability that 1
she is selected to attend the competition?
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Question 28 (continued)
(c) Michelle borrows $100 000. The interest rate charged is 12% per annum 3
compounded monthly. The monthly payment is $1029 and the first repayment
is made after one month.
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Question 28 (continued)
(e) A movie theatre has 200 seats. Each ticket currently costs $8.
The theatre owners are currently selling all 200 tickets for each session. They decide
to increase the price of tickets to see if they can increase the income earned from each
movie session.
It is assumed that for each one dollar increase in ticket price, there will be 10 fewer
tickets sold.
A graph showing the relationship between an increase in ticket price and the income is
shown below.
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Income ($)
1000
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Question 28 (continued)
(i) What ticket price should be charged to maximise the income from a 1
movie session?
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(ii) What is the number of tickets sold when the income is maximised? 1
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(iii) The cost to the theatre owners of running each session is $500 plus $2 2
per ticket sold.
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Calculate the profit earned by the theatre owners when the income
earned from a session is maximised.
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Question 29 (15 marks)
The plan for the new dam shows evenly spaced cross-sectional areas.
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m 360
200 m2
300
m2
270
m2
140
m2
(i) Using TWO applications of Simpson’s rule, show that the volume of the 2
dam is approximately 44 333 m3.
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(ii) It is known that the catchment area for this dam is 2 km2. 2
Calculate how much rainfall is needed, to the nearest mm, to fill the dam.
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The table below is used to calculate her tax payable. In addition, she pays the
Medicare levy, which is 2% of her taxable income.
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Question 29 (continued)
(c) A group of Year 12 students was surveyed. The students were asked whether
they live in the city or the country. They were also asked if they have ever
waterskied.
Calculate the probability that the person lives in the city and has never
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(ii) A newspaper article claimed that Year 12 students who live in the 2
country are more likely to have waterskied than those who live in the
city.
Is this true, based on the survey results? Justify your answer with
relevant calculations.
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Question 29 (continued)
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Number of students
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(ii) The mean test mark is 5.4 . The standard deviation of the test marks 2
is 4.22 .
Using the dot plot, calculate the percentage of the marks which lie within
one standard deviation of the mean.
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(iii) A student states that for any data set, 68% of the scores should lie within 1
one standard deviation of the mean.
With reference to the dot plot, explain why the student’s statement is
NOT relevant in this context.
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Question 30 (15 marks)
(a) A set of data has a lower quartile (QL) of 10 and an upper quartile (QU) of 16. 2
What is the maximum possible range for this set of data if there are no outliers?
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Question 30 (continued)
(c) The diagram shows the location of three schools. School A is 5 km due north of
school B, school C is 13 km from school B and ABC is 135°.
5 km
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13 km
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(i) Calculate the shortest distance from school A to school C, to the nearest 2
kilometre.
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(ii) Determine the bearing of school C from school A, to the nearest degree. 3
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The equation of the least-squares line of best fit, relating the speed and the
number of solar panels, has been calculated to be
y = 2.125x + 2.0375.
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Question 30 (continued)
The sphere, centre O, has a radius of 4 cm and sits 2 cm inside the cone. The
solid has a total height of 15 cm. The solid and its cross-section are shown.
Solid Cross-section
O NOT TO
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2 cm
15 cm
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