Western Australian Certificate of Education

Examination, 2013
Question/Answer Booklet

MATHEMATICS
2A/2B

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Section Two:
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Working time for section:
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Structure of this paper

Number of
questions
available

Number of
questions to
be answered

Working
time
(minutes)

Marks
available

Percentage
of exam

Section One:
Calculator-free

50

50

331 3

Section Two:
Calculator-assumed

13

13

100

100

662 3

Total

100

Section

Instructions to candidates
1.

The rules for the conduct of Western Australian external examinations are detailed in the
Year 12 Information Handbook 2013. Sitting this examination implies that you agree to
abide by these rules.

2.

Write your answers in this Question/Answer Booklet

3.

You must be careful to confine your response to the specific question asked and to follow
any instructions that are specified to a particular question.

4.

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.
Continuing an answer: If you need to use the space to continue an answer, indicate in
the original answer space where the answer is continued, i.e. give the page number.
Fill in the number of the question that you are continuing to answer at the top of the
page.

5.

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.

6.

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

7.

The Formula Sheet is not handed in with your Question/Answer Booklet.

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Section Two: Calculator-assumed

(100 Marks)

This section has thirteen 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.
Continuing an answer: If you need to use the space to continue an answer, indicate in the
original answer space where the answer is continued, i.e. give the page number. Fill in the
number of the question that you are continuing to answer at the top of the page.
Working time: 100 minutes.
Question 8

(4 marks)

Evaluate each expression and round your result to the required degree of accuracy.
(a)

(252.4)2 1232, correct to the nearest million.

(2 marks)

(b)

25.46 64.003, correct to three decimal places.

(2 marks)

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Question 9

(6 marks)

In 2012, the Bureau of Meteorology recorded the following rainfall data (mm) for Adelaide and
Perth.
Rainfall
(mm)

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Adelaide 12.6 16.2 61.4 27.8 65.4

Perth
(a)

18.8 23.6

0.2

Jun
114.0

Jul

Aug

Sep

Nov

Dec

Total

52.0 69.2 21.8 15.6 16.4 13.6 486.0

69.2 49.0 140.8 34.6 87.2 90.8 15.6 58.2 20.2 608.2

Complete the following table to summarise the data.

Monthly rainfall
in 2012
Adelaide rainfall
(mm)
Perth rainfall
(mm)

Oct

Maximum rainfall
(mm)

(3 marks)

Minimum rainfall
(mm)

114.0

Range
101.4

0.2

(b)

What was the mean monthly rainfall for Perth?

(1 mark)

(c)

What was the median monthly rainfall for Adelaide?

(1 mark)

(d)

In which month was there the greatest difference in rainfall between the two cities?

(1 mark)

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Question 10

(7 marks)

Year 12 students are ordering their school leavers jumpers in Term One. The jumpers are priced
at $50 each. In addition, it costs $3 per letter to have their names printed on the backs of the
jumpers.
(a)

Complete the following table to show the cost of the leavers jumper, with different
numbers of letters printed on the back.
(2 marks)
Number of letters
printed on the back (N)
Total cost of leavers
jumper ($C)

50

53

(b)

Give a rule for the relationship between N and C.

(2 marks)

(c)

At the end of Term Two, the price of a leavers jumper will be reduced to $42, but the cost
per letter to be printed on the back will increase to $5.
(i)

State the new rule.

(1 mark)

(ii)

Rozalyn wants to order a leavers jumper with her full name, ROZALYN, printed
on the back. When would it be cheaper to order her jumper, in Term One or at the
end of Term Two? Explain your answer.
(2 marks)

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Question 11
(a)

(5 marks)

The diagram below shows triangle ABC and rectangle EFGH. The line y = x is also
drawn.

On the diagram above, draw the following transformations.

(i)

A reflection of ABC in the line y = x. Label the image ABC.

(ii)

A rotation of EFGH 90 degrees anticlockwise about the origin (0, 0). Label the
image EFGH.
(2 marks)

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An object has been transformed to give the image indicated in the diagram below.

Circle the incorrect statement below.

(1 mark)

The object has been reflected in the y-axis and then reflected in the x-axis.

The object has been translated 8 units right and then reflected in the x-axis.

The object has been rotated 180 degrees about the origin.

The object has been reflected in the y-axis and then translated 8 units left.

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Question 12

CALCULATOR-ASSUMED
(8 marks)

The womens 100 metre Olympic gold medal winning times are displayed in the scattergraph
below. The Olympic Games are held every four years. Until 1968, the times were recorded to
the nearest one-tenth of a second. Since then, times have been recorded to the nearest onehundredth of a second.

(a)

Marion Jones won the 2000 Olympics, but years later she was disqualified for taking
performance-enhancing drugs. Ekaterini Thanou was awarded the gold medal in a time
of 11.12 seconds. Plot her time on the axes above.
(1 mark)

(b)

Florence Griffith-Joyner holds the Olympic record for the womens 100 m. Estimate her
time. Give your answer to the nearest one-hundredth of a second.
(1 mark)

(c)

Describe the trend in these data.

(1 mark)

(d)

Draw a trend line by eye for these data.

(1 mark)

(e)

The 1944 Olympic Games were cancelled due to World War Two. Use your trend line to
predict the time the 1944 womens 100 m gold medallist would have taken and state this
time.
(2 marks)

(f)

Use your trend line to predict the Olympic year in which the winner will run under
10.3 seconds.
(2 marks)
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Question 13
(a)

(8 marks)

In the following table, three consecutive even numbers are being added together.
(i)

Fill in the blank cells in this table.

(2 marks)

Even numbers to be added

Middle even number

Total

2+4+6

12

4+6+8
6 + 8 + 10
8 + 10 + 12

(b)

(ii)

What type of number is found in the Total column?

(iii)

Show how you could use the Middle even number to determine the total of the
following expression.
(1 mark)

18 + 20 + 22

(iv)

Write a conjecture to show how you could use the Middle even number to
determine the Total of any three consecutive even numbers.
(1 mark)

(1 mark)

Write a conjecture about the total when you add five consecutive even numbers. Show
two different examples to support your conjecture.
(3 marks)

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Question 14
(a)

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(14 marks)

Determine the value of the unknown in each triangle below.

(i)

(2 marks)

(ii)

(2 marks)

(b)

Basil is an apprentice builder. His boss has asked him to check whether the floor and the
wall he is building are at right angles to each other. Basil takes the measurements of a
triangle as shown below.

Use Pythagoras Theorem to determine whether Basils wall is at right angles to the floor.

(3 marks)

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The sloping sides of a gable roof (AC and BC) are each 7.2 m long. They meet at a
height of 2.4 m in the centre.

(i)

What angle does the sloping side AC make with the horizontal?

(2 marks)

(ii)

Determine the width (AB) of the roof.

(2 marks)

(iii)

EG is a wooden support, with G located 3.8 m from M and at right angles to the
sloping side BC.

How far from B should E be positioned?

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Question 15

CALCULATOR-ASSUMED
(6 marks)

Susan walks from home to school each day. The following network diagram shows roads that
are represented by arcs, linking a number of road intersections that are shown as nodes. The
number on each arc indicates the length, in metres, of each stretch of road.

(a)

Determine the length of the shortest possible journey Susan can take to travel from home
to school, and state the route. Show workings on the diagram above.
(3 marks)

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On Tuesday, Susan hears that the road from F to E is under repair and she cannot walk
down this road. She also hears that an 80 metre laneway has been added between B
and D.

(i)

Represent all this information for Tuesday on the above network.

(ii)

Determine the length of the shortest possible journey Susan can take to travel
from home to school and state the route. Show your workings.
(2 marks)

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Question 16
(a)

(9 marks)

This is a list of ingredients needed to make 24 ANZAC cookies.

1 cup rolled oats

1 cup plain flour

3 cup brown sugar

4

3
cup desiccated coconut
4

120 g butter, chopped

2 tablespoons golden syrup

1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

Complete the amounts needed to make 40 ANZAC cookies.

1

2
cups rolled oats
3

2
cups plain flour
3

(3 marks)

cups brown sugar

cups desiccated coconut
g butter, chopped
tablespoons golden syrup

(b)

2
teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
3

Janine and Carrie go to a delicatessen together to purchase sliced polony. Janine buys
400 g of polony for $2.56.
Carrie buys 350 g of polony. How much does she pay?

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(c)

E-Video, a new online store, allows you to download songs and videos. All songs cost the
same amount to download and all videos cost the same amount to download.

Julian downloads 3 songs and 4 videos for a total of $18.

Cherise downloads 10 songs and 2 videos for a total of $26.

Let x be the cost of a song download in dollars($), and let y be the cost of a video
download in dollars ($).
(i)

Write two equations in x and y for the above information.

(ii)

By solving the two equations in part (c)(i), determine the cost of downloading
each song and each video.
(2 marks)

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Question 17

(13 marks)

A well-established population of blue swimmer crabs is scattered throughout a local estuary.

Blue swimmer crabs with a back shell length at least 128 mm are deemed to be of legal size for
catching and removing.
Peter is concerned that most blue swimmer crabs in the estuary may not have grown to the legal
size.
(a)

Peter wants to collect data to indicate the size of blue swimmer crabs in the estuary. He
decides to collect some blue swimmer crabs and measure their back shell length. Circle
the two statements below that together outline reliable sampling methods.

Peter should go to the centre of the estuary and collect 20 blue swimmer crabs
from that area.
Peter should select random positions around the estuary and collect a few blue
swimmer crabs from each position.
Peter should collect all of his blue swimmer crabs using nets off a jetty.
Peter should collect at least 20 blue swimmer crabs.
(2 marks)

(b)

Peter collected 20 blue swimmer crabs from the estuary and their sizes, in mm, were as
shown below:

89, 121, 97, 113, 141, 124, 98, 89, 99, 128, 127, 132, 88, 91, 95, 97, 98, 116, 90, 101.
(i)

Record these data in the table below using the given class intervals.
Size of crab (x mm)

(2 marks)

Frequency

88 x < 98
98 x < 108
108 x < 118
118 x < 128
128 x < 138
138 x < 148
(ii)

What is the modal class for this group?

(1 mark)

(iii)

Determine the median class.

(1 mark)

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(iv)

What proportion of blue swimmer crabs from this group is of legal size? (1 mark)

(v)

Use the grouped data from your table in part (b) (i) to draw a histogram on the grid
below.
(3 marks)

(vi) Describe two aspects of the spread of blue swimmer crab lengths in the estuary.

(2 marks)

(c)

Is Peters claim that most blue swimmer crabs from this estuary have not reached their
legal size for capture valid? Justify your answer.
(1 mark)

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Question 18

CALCULATOR-ASSUMED
(6 marks)

Consider the pillar shown below. The bottom section of the pillar is made from bricks and the top
section (also shown separately) is made from solid concrete.

(a)

Calculate the amount of concrete needed to make the top section of the pillar. (3 marks)

To improve the look of the pillar, the bottom section is to be rendered. A coating will be applied to
the four sides of the pillar to match the top section.
(b)

If the cost of rendering the brick (bottom) section of the pillar is $50 per square metre,
how much will it cost to render this section of the pillar?
(3 marks)

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Question 19

(6 marks)

At the beginning of 1978, the population of Mandurah, Western Australia, was approximately
10 000. Since then it has experienced an average growth rate of 6.5% per year. The population
of Mandurah can be modelled by the recursive rule:

Pn+1 = 1.065 Pn and P0 = 10 000.

(a)

Use the recursive rule to complete the table below for the population of Mandurah.
Year

1978

1979

1980

1981

1982

Population (Pn )

10 000

10 650

11 342

(2 marks)

(b)
What would be the predicted population for Mandurah at the beginning of 2014?

(2 marks)

(c)

According to the Local Government Act 1995, a district can be classified as a city if its
population exceeds 20 000. Using this definition, at the beginning of which year was the
district of Mandurah first entitled to be classified as a city?
(2 marks)

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Question 20

(8 marks)

To win a prize in the Wheat Flakes Companys Cereal Prize Giveaway, customers must collect
all of the letters of the word CEREAL from packets of Wheat Flakes.
A machine prints the word CEREAL onto a strip of card, then cuts out each individual letter. One
letter from each strip is placed in each packet of Wheat Flakes. This process is repeated over
and over.

Nguyen wants to be able to estimate the number of packets of Wheat Flakes he would need to
purchase, on average, before he is likely to win a prize.
Nguyen uses random numbers from his calculator to simulate the selection of letters for this
situation. He assigns letters to random numbers as in the table below:
Number range
000 099
100 199
200 399
400 499
500 599

Letter
A
C
E
L
R

Any number greater than or equal to 600 is ignored.

(a)

Why are 200 numbers assigned to the letter E and only 100 numbers to the other letters?

(1 mark)

The first twenty random numbers that Nguyen gets from his calculator are shown below, with his
first number being 242, the second, 413, and so on.

242

413

176

075

500

832

416

974

587

004

723

124

543

219

853

361

643

054

387

634

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(b)

Use Nguyens random numbers to assign letters until you have spelt the word CEREAL.

(3 marks)
Random number used Letter
242
E
413
176

(c)

How many packets of Wheat Flakes would Nguyen need to buy to win a prize in this
competition, on the basis of the results in part (b)?
(1 mark)

(d)

If you ran this simulation with your calculator, what would be the minimum number of
times you would need to generate a random number to spell CEREAL?
(1 mark)

(e)

Nguyens friend Georgina buys 30 packets of Wheat Flakes. Will she definitely win a
prize? Explain.
(1 mark)

(f)

Students in Nguyens class were discussing how to best run this simulation with a
random number generator. Their suggestions about how to best estimate the number
of packets of cereal he would need to purchase before he would be likely to win a prize
were:
Pyper:
Run the simulation once, as it will always be the same answer.
Joshua:

Run the simulation three times and calculate the mean of your results.

Harriet:

Run the simulation 30 times and calculate the median of your results, as the
mean will be affected by outliers.

Tabitha:

Run the simulation 30 times and calculate the mean of your results, as the
median wont take into account all of the results.
Which students suggestion should Nguyen follow to best estimate the number of packets
of Wheat Flakes needed to win a prize?
(1 mark)

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Section Two
Question 9

Table adapted from: Bureau of Meteorology (BOM). (2013). Monthly

Rainfall for Perth. Retrieved January 20, 2013, from
www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_nccObsCode=139&p_
display_type=dataFile&p_startYear=&p_c=17017823&p_stn_num=009225
Table adapted from: Bureau of Meteorology (BOM). (2013). Monthly
Rainfall for Adelaide. Retrieved January 20, 2013, from
www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_nccObsCode=139&p_
display_type=dataFile&p_startYear=&p_c=17017823&p_stn_num=023011

Question 12

Data source: DatabaseOlympics.com. (2011). Womens Olympic 100 m

times to 2008 [Graph]. Retrieved January 27, 2013, from
www.databaseolympics.com/sport/sportevent.htm?sp=ATH&enum=700
Data source: DatabaseOlympics.com. (2011). Womens Olympic 100 m
times to 2012 [Graph]. Retrieved January 27, 2013, from
www.london2012.com/athletics/event=athletics-women-100m/

Question 18

Image adapted from: Alberta Education. (2011). Brick pillar with

concrete top. Retrieved January 24, 2013, from
http://resource.rockyview.ab.ca/t4t/math203/images/m7/m20_3_m7_059
.jpg

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