2004 Trial General Mathematics Year 12 Paper

2OO4 TRIAL HIGHER SCHOOL CERTIFICATE
General Mathematics
General Instructions SectionlPages2-9

o Reading time - 5 minutes Total marks (22)
o Working time - 2% hours . Attempt Questions 1 - 22
o Wiite using blue or black pen o Allow about 30 minutes for this section
o Calculators may be used
o Write your Centre Number and Student Number at Section II pages 10 - 17
the top of relevant pages as indicated Total marks (78)
o A Formulae Sheet is provided at the back of this r Attempt Questions 23 - 28
paper o Allow about 2 hours for this section
Care has been taken to ensure that this paper is free oferrors and that it mirrors the format and style ofpast HSC papers Moreover, some
questions have been adaptedfrom previous HSC examinations as well as from trial examinations from a variety of schools, in an attempt to
provide students with exposure to a broad range ofpossible questions.
However, there is no guarantee whatsoever that the 2004 HSC examination will have similar content, style or format. This paper is intended
only as a trial for the HSC examination or as revision leading up to the examination.
@ Five Senses Education Pty Ltd 41 Trialmaths 2004 General Mathematics Year 12
Section I
Total marks (22)
Attempt Questions I -22
Allow about 30 minutes for this section
IJse the Multiple-Choice Answer sheet provided
1 Solve for x : 2(*+ 3) - -4

(A) -312
(B) -s
(c) 1
(D) -20
2 2.3x 10-a is the same as
(A) 0.23 x 0.01
(B) 0.023 x 0.01
(C) 0.00023 x 0.1
(D) 23000
3 Which of the following is an exarnple of discrete data?
(A) The time taken to travel home from school
(B) The weight of Year 8 students
(C) The number of people who attend a cricket match
(D) The colour of a textbook
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Afamily is travelling on holidays. Between which hours are they travelling at the greatest
speed?
8
Distance
7
from 6
(A) 0toZ 5 NIOTTO
home (km) SCALE
4
(B) Zto3 .)
J
(c) 3to5 2
1
(D) 5to6
2345
Time in hours
Two hundred tickets are sold in a raffle, in r,vhich there are two prizes. If Vi buys ten tickets,
which expression gives the probability that she wins both prizes?
(A)
10+-9
2AA 20A
(B)
10+-9
240 r99
(c)
10x- 9
20a Zaa
(D)
10x- 9
200 r99
The surface area of a cube is 96cm2. What is the volume ofthe cube?
(A) 18cm3
(B) 48cm3
(C) 64 cm3
(D) 96cm3
7 Ridgestone High decide to survey their students using a stratified random sample r,vhich will be
based on year level and gender. The following table shows the number of students in each level
and their gender.
Year level Males Females

7 110 10s
8 110 110
9 105 100
10 100 t02
11 98 101
I2 84 75
Based on this table, the number of Year 12 girls who should be surveyed in a sample of 80
students is :
(A) 4
(B) s
(c) 6
(D) 7
8 After 3 months of football training, Leroy had reduced his weight bV

'2nlN to 73.5kg. His
original weight was:
(A) 81kg
(B) 82kg
(C) 83kg
(D) 84kg
9 0
Sydney is located 150 east of Greenwich. If it is 4 pm on Tuesday in Greenwich, which of the
following will be true. Assume no daylight saving.
(A) It will be 4 am Wednesday in Sydney
(B) It will be 4 arnThursday in Sydney
(C) It will be 2 arr, Wednesday in Sydney
(D) It will be2 affrMondry in Sydney
10 The distance, in nautical miles, between TownA (300N, 75'UD
o o
and Town B (40 S, 75 sD is
(A) 4200
(B) 60
(c) 70
(D) 4s00
11 The bearing of B from A is
(A) 11s
o
(B) 1ss
o
(c) 2rso NIOT TO SCALE
(D) 24so
12 John made two effors in his solution to the following equation:
-3x - -5
x-4
-3x - -5(, - 4).........o............ ....Lingl
-3x - -5 x -20..................... ,,...Ling2
t) .l
- ./-./L - -20. ..
-20.........................i
.................... ....Line S
.......
x - 0...................... o............. .Line 4

1
Which two lines do not follow correctly from the previous line?
(A) Line I and Line 2

(B) Line I and Line 3
(C) Line 2 and Line 3
(D) Line 3 and Line 4
13 In how many ways can four tennis players form a doubles team consisting of two players.
(A) 2
(B) 4
(c) 6
(D) 8
14 The following is a menu from a local restaurant. How many different 3-course meals are
possible?
Entree Main I)essert

l. Smoked salmon 1. Chicken fillets with mango chutney 1 . Pec an ptaline cheesecake
scramble glaze 2. Liqueur fruits with mango

2. Chilli prawns 2. Seafood Kebabs with lime dill cream
butter 3. Plum fitters with fried sage
3. Cheese and roulade leaves
(A) 8
(B) 10
(c) ls
(D) 18
x
ls rfl-
x a-b
make x the subject of the equation.
(A) x- ),(b-r)
(B) y(a - b)
(c) x- 2
(D) x- t(b - r)
16 A car with an original value of $28 000 depreciates by $1 780 every year. Use the straight line
depreciation formula s =vo - Dn to calculate when the car is half its original value (to the
nearest year).
(A) 6
(B) 7
(c) I
(D) e
17 A closed cylinder is of height tAr cm and diameter r cm
E
<-r cm +
T{OT TO
1/z
r cm SCALE
The surfac e areaof the cylinder in cm' is
(A) +
(B) 3n 12
(C) n r'
(D) +
18 Nicole performed as well in Mathematics as she did in English. What mark did she achieve in
English?
Mathematics Enelish
Nicole's mark 59
Class mean 55 50
Class standard 2 5
deviation
(A) 40
(B) s0
(c) 60
(D) 70
t9 Aradial survey of a field is shown. All measurements are in metres. From this radial survey, the
expression which would give the distance AB is
A 3200 NOTTO SCALE
(A)
20m B 0900
40m
(B)
20 80
(c) =
*/0' rirrUil
-:_20 80 c 2ta0
(D) o
sin 40 sin l20o
2A Consider the following scores 6,7 , 8, 1 1, 13, 16
Statement 1: The interquartile range is 4.5

Statement 2:The median is 8.5
Statement 3: The range is greater than the interquartile range
Which of the following is correct?
(A) Statements I ard2are false and Statement 3 is true.
(B) Statements I and 3 are true and Statement 2 is false.
(C) Statements 2 and 3 are true and Statement 1 is false.
(D) All three Statements are true.
2l John caught a sample of 700 salmon from a river. He tagged them and released them back into
the river. The next day he caught 40 salmon and found 8 had been tagged. The estimated number
of salmon in the river would be:
(A) r40
(B) 3000
(c) 3s00
(D) 7000
22 Phil wishes to have $20 000 after 7 yea.rs. He will do this by making annual payments into an
account. What annual payment must he make if the account is offering ll%opa.
(A) $1002.3
(B) $2 044.31
(c) $2 3 57 .87
(D) $5 93 1.89
Section II
Total marks (78)
Attempt Question s 23-28
Allow about 2 hours for this section
Start each question on a SEPARATE pagel booklet.
A11 necessary working should be shown in every question
Question 23 (13 marks) Use a separate pagelbooklet Marks
(a) Leo deposits $400 at the beginning of every month for three years in an account
eaming l2Yop.a.If the interest is compounded monthly, how much will he have at
the end of three years?
(b) Bill, Chris,

Peter and Jane are to play table tennis. What is the probability that Peter
and Jane play first?
(c) The cost (C) of printing pamphlets is a fixed charge of $P plus an additional charge of
8 cents per copy. If the fixed charge is $200 and I paid atotal of $700, how many
copies did I print?
(d) The number of people in a city is given by P = 25 000(1.7)0 2' where / is the
number of years since 1998. The formula gives the number of people at the
beginning of the year.
(i) Find to the nearest I 000, the population of the town at the beginning of
the year 2 000. 1
(ii) During which year will the population reach 50 000. I
(e) :
The scale on a map is given as 2 cm 5 km. The distance between two towns
on the map is 1.9 cm. Find the actual distance between the two towns.
(0 There are 12 teams in a netball competition. The probability that a particular team
will win the competition is

't2 |. Co*-ent briefly on this statement.
(g) Michelle will work for 35 years. Over this period she expects to save $1 250 000
while earning an average of 6%o pa in interest, compounded every six months.
Calculate the present value of this annuity.
Question 24 (13 marks) tlse a separate pagel booklet Marks
(a) A clothing shop wishes to open a business. In order to find out which area they
will open, they record the number of people living in each household. The
histograms and box and whisker plots show the results for two towns, Locus
Heights and Compound Valley.
Locus Heights
6
F
r 5
e
q 4
m
u a
J
e
n 2
c
1
v
Number of people
0 I 22.53 3.54 5 6
Compound Valley
F6
r
5
EJ
q4
u
e3
n2
c
y1
34
Number of people
0 I 1.5
(i) Find the mean and median for the two areas. 3
(ii) Using the above displays, compare and contrast the number of people living
in the households of the two areas by examining the following:
the shape and skewness of the distribution, and

the measures of location and spread
(iii) Use your answer to part (ii) to either support or reject the statement:
'Essentially, the two sets of data have similar shape and the same spread,
therefore it does not matter which area the clothing shop opens.'
(b) Aregular amount is paid into an account each year and the investment is
compounded annually. The table shows the expected amount in the account at
the end of a number of years up to four, when $1 is regularly invested each year.
Annuity Annual payment $ 1.00

Compounding rate 4%
of interest
Year Payment Start of year Interest End of year

1 $1.00 $1.00 $0.04 $1.04
2 $1.00 $2.A4 $0.08 A
a
J $1.00 $3. 12 B 83.24
4 $ 1.00 C $0.1 7 $4.41
(i) Calculate the missing amounts A, B and C.
(ii) If Michelle made an annual payment of $300 and the interest rate remained
at 4oh pa, using the information in the table, find the amount she would have
atthe end of5 years?
Question 25 (13 marks) IJse a separate pagel booklet Marks
(a) Sara's annual income as an engineer is $53 000. She also earns $4 200 a year as a
part time consultant. Her allowable tax deductions total $2 600.
(i) Find the value of A in the following tax scale (The scale does not include the
Medicare levy).
Taxable income Tax payable

$0-$6 000 NIil
$6 001-$20 000 17 c for each $ 1 over $6 000
$20 001-$s0 000 $2 3 80 plus A for each $ 1 over $20 000

$s0 001-$60 000 $ I 1 3 80 plus 42c fbr each $ 1 over $50 000
Over $60 000 $15 580 plus 47c for every $1 over $60 000
)
/a
(ii) Show that Sara's taxable income is $54 600 1
(iii) The total amount that Sara had to pay in tax was $14 13 1. This amount
includedthe Medicare levy whichwas 1.5% oftaxable income. Findthe
amount Sara paid for the Medicare levy.
(iv) Sara's employer gave her a rise of $12 a week. How much of this $12 will
she actually receive after she pays her tax and medicare levy?
(b) TWo standard dice have faces numbered 1-6.
The two dice are rolled and the scores on the uppermost face on each die are noted.
The smallest score is subtracted from the larger score. If both scores are equal, a score
ofzero is recorded.
(i) List all possible scores 2
(ii) What is the highest possible recorded score. I

(iii) Find the probability that the score is 5. 1
(iv) Which recorded score(s), occulred least often? 1
(v) Find the probability that the score is less than 3 "
I
Question 26 (13 marks) IJse a separate pagel booklet Marks
(a) Nine girls played basketball and netball. The number of goals scored by the girls
throughout the season are recorded.
Player A B C D E, F G H I
Basketball T6 18 t9 23 25 27 28 30 30
Netball L2 13 l4 24 25 26 27 28 29
(i) On the grid paper provided, display this data on a scatterplot. Allow the
horizontal axis to be the number of goals scored in basketball.
(ii) The parent of player A assumed that if you are good at scoring goals in netball
you are also good at scoring goals in basketball.
Comment briefly on this statement. 1
(iii) Draw the three-median line of good fit on the scatterplot. 2
(iv) Using the line of good fit estimate the number of goals a player would
score in basketball if she scored 6 goals in netball.
(b) The Cook family is planning to build a swimming pool. They agree that in order
to save water through evaporation they will place a cover over the surface area of the
water. The shape of the cover is drawn below
NOTTO SCALtr
5m
3m
(i) Use two applications of Simpson's rule to find an approximation for the area
of the cover. State your answer correct to 2 decimal places.
(ii) The pool is to have a consistent depth of 1.700 m. Calculate the volume
Correct to 3 decimal places.
(iii) Calculate the capacity of the pool in litres.
(iv) Their pool shop supplier recommends that for every 15000, of water you need
l2L of chlorine and 5I of acid. Chlorine comes in containers of 15I and
acid in containers of 20L. Fifteen litres of chlorine costs $18 and 20L of acid
costs $16.
Find the total cost of buying the chlorine and acid.
Question 27 (13 marks) [Jse a separate pagel booklet Marks
(a) Hiliary wishes to buy property costing $350 000. She has $35 000 and will need to
a
borrow the rest. The best interest rate she can find from a bank is 60/o p.a compounding
monthly. If she is to borrow the amount over 20 years find
(i) (a) the monthly repayments 2
(b the total amount she pays back to the bank I
(y) the interest paid over the term of the loan.
(r) How much is saved on the loan if Hiliary takes the loan over 12 years?
(ii) Hiliary earns $50 000 a year. Her expenses excluding her loan repayments
amount to $13 000 a year. Would it be wise of Hiliary to take the loan out
for 12 years. Comment briefly.
(b) The bearing of a town B fromAis N32oE. The bearing of a town B from C is N200W.
The distance AB is 18km and the distance CB is l2krn. C is due East ofA.
NOTTO SCALE
18km 12km
N
200
320.
(i) Find the size of I-ACB 1
(ii) Show thatthe size of ZABC is 52

o
. I
(iii) Find the distance AC to the nearest km. 1
(iv) What is the bearing of C from B? 2
Question 28 (13 marks) Use a separate pagel booklet Marks
(a) A ship sails due north, from a City (1005, 1500E) for 10 hours, at a speed of 18 knots.
Find the new coordinates of the ship.
(b) The following shows two ellipses. Where AB = 28m, CD 12m,EF : : l6m
:
and GH 6m. Find the shaded area colrect to 1 decimal place.
(c) A lie detector was tested for its reliability over 300 trials and the results were
recorded as follows:
kst results
Accurate Not Accurate Totals
True statements 92 8 100
False statements t78 22 200
Totals 270 30 300
(i) How many true statements were accurately detected? I

,,
(i, Is the lie detector better at detecting true or false statements?
(iii) What percentage probability (correct to 1 decimal place) that a statement

,,
judged as being true, actually was true?
(d) A machine is set to produce rubber discs with a mean diameter of 8.00 cm and a
standard deviation of 0.03 cm.The diameters are normally distributed.
(i) Within what interval will 95Yo of diarteters lie? I

(i0 An operator selects a disc at random and notes its diameter to be 9.0A cm.
Briefly state rvhat conclusions he can make. )
@ Five Senses Education Pty Ltd Trialmaths 2004 General Mathematics Year 12
Tiial trxamination Paper
GE,NERAL MATHEMATICS
FORMT]LAE, SHEE,T
Area of an annulus Surface area
A- n(R' -r') Sphere A - 4m2

R - radius of outer circle Closedcylinder A-2nrh+2m2
r - radius of inner circle
r : radius
h - pe{pendicular height
Area of an ellipse Volume
A- nab
Cone v -!*'h
a
J
a - length of semi-major axis
b - length of semi-minor axis Cylinder V-ru'h
Area of a sector
Pyramid v -!uo
J
a
A-
t-'
0
rTr'
Sphere v -!*'
a
J
360 r : radius
0 - number of degrees in central angle h - pe{pendicular height
A - area of base
Arc length of a circle
l- o 2nr
360
e - number of degrees in central angle
Simpson's rule for area approximation Sine rule

abc
A N + 4d*,+ d,) sin,4 sin B sin C
*rn,
h = distance between successive Area of a triangle
measurements
A-LoUsinC
df = first measurement 2
d* = middle measurement
Cosine rule
dt = last measurement
c' = a2 +b2 -2abcosC
or
a'+b2 -c'
cosC-
2ab
FORMT]LAE SHE,ET
Simple interest Declining balance formula for depreciation
I = Ptn S - Vr(l-r)"
P - initial quantity ,S - salvage value of asset after n periods
r - percentage interest rate per period, r -- percentage interest rate per period,
expressed as a decimal expressed as a decimal
n - number of periods
Compound interest Mean of a sample
A: P(l + r)n 1,
Yx
/-/
/ -final balance .L -
n
P - initial quantity
r - percentage interest rate per compounding X = Zn
period, expressed as a decimal Zt
; -mean
x: individual score
n : number of seores
:
-f frequency
Future value (A) of an annuity Formulafora z-score

x-x
A- ul(t*'>' -t1
Lrl ,s
g - standard deviation
ful -contribution per period,
paid at the end of the period
Present value (I/) of an annuity Gradient of a straight line
vertical change in position

t/ - *1 0*D" -t1 m-
horizontal change in position
L r(l+r)' l
Gradient-intercept form of a straight line
or
y -mx+b
A
t/- (1 + r)n ffi = gradient
b-y-intercept
Straight-line formula for depreciation Probabilify of an event

The probability of an event where outcomes
,s-va-Dn
are equally likely is given by:
- salvage value of asset after n periods
S
Vo - purchase price of the asset P(event) : number of favourable outcomes
D - amount of depreciation apportioned total number of outcomes
per period
n - number of periods
Centre Number Student Number
I"Ise for Question 26 (a) parts (i), (iii) and (iv)
tl
lt
L
[l
I
I l
I
I
Centre Number Student l.lumber
YEAR 12 TRIAL HIGHER SCHOOL CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION 2OO4
GENERAL MATHEMATICS-MULTIPLE CHOICE A}ISWER SHEET
Sample 2+4:? ()2 (B) 6 (c) I (D) e
(A) o (B) (D (C) O (D) O

If you think you have made a mistake, put a cross through the incorrect answer and fill in the new answer.
O (B) (C) (D (D) o

(A)
x
If you change your mind and have crossed out what you consider to be the correct answer, then indicate this by
writing the word correct and drawing an alrow as follows ,oor,
,(
(A) O (B) x (c) x (D) O
ATTEMPTALL QUESTIO|{S
I (A)o (B)o (c)o (D)O t2 (A)o (B)o (c)(> (D)o
2 (A)o (B)o (C)o (D)O 13 (A)o (B)o (c)o (D)(>
3 (A)o (B)o (c)o (D)O t4 (A)o (B)o (c)o (D)o
4 (A)o (B)<3 (C)o (D)O ls (A)o (B)o (c)o (D)o
s (A)o (B)o (c)o (D)O 16 (A)o (B)o (c)o (D)o
6 (A)() (B)o (c)o (D)O t7 (A)o (B)o (c)o (D)(}
7 (A)o (B)o (c)o (D)O 18 (A)o (B)o (c)o (D)o
8 (A)o (B)o (c)o (D)O le (A)o (B)() (c)o (D)o
e (A)o (B)o (c)() (D)O 20 (A)o (B)() (c)o (D)o
10 (A)o (B)o (c)o (D)O 2t (A)o (B)o (c)c> (D)o

11 (A)o (B)o (C)o (D)O 22 (A)o (B)o (c)o (D)o

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2OO4 TRIAL HIGHER SCHOOL CERTIFICATE

General Instructions SectionlPages2-9

IJse the Multiple-Choice Answer sheet provided

1 Solve for x : 2(*+ 3) - -4

2 2.3x 10-a is the same as

(A) 0.23 x 0.01

(B) 0.023 x 0.01

(C) 0.00023 x 0.1

3 Which of the following is an exarnple of discrete data?

(A) The time taken to travel home from school

(B) The weight of Year 8 students

(C) The number of people who attend a cricket match

(D) The colour of a textbook

Year level Males Females

8 After 3 months of football training, Leroy had reduced his weight bV

(A) It will be 4 am Wednesday in Sydney

(B) It will be 4 arnThursday in Sydney

(C) It will be 2 arr, Wednesday in Sydney

(D) It will be2 affrMondry in Sydney

11 The bearing of B from A is

(c) 2rso NIOT TO SCALE

12 John made two effors in his solution to the following equation:

x - 0...................... o............. .Line 4

(A) Line I and Line 2

(C) Line 2 and Line 3

(D) Line 3 and Line 4

Entree Main I)essert

scramble glaze 2. Liqueur fruits with mango

17 A closed cylinder is of height tAr cm and diameter r cm

The surfac e areaof the cylinder in cm' is

A 3200 NOTTO SCALE

Statement 1: The interquartile range is 4.5

Which of the following is correct?

(A) Statements I ard2are false and Statement 3 is true.

(B) Statements I and 3 are true and Statement 2 is false.

(C) Statements 2 and 3 are true and Statement 1 is false.

(D) All three Statements are true.

Start each question on a SEPARATE pagel booklet.

A11 necessary working should be shown in every question

Question 23 (13 marks) Use a separate pagelbooklet Marks

(b) Bill, Chris,

(ii) During which year will the population reach 50 000. I

will win the competition is

the shape and skewness of the distribution, and

Annuity Annual payment $ 1.00

Year Payment Start of year Interest End of year

(i) Calculate the missing amounts A, B and C.

Taxable income Tax payable

$20 001-$s0 000 $2 3 80 plus A for each $ 1 over $20 000

(ii) Show that Sara's taxable income is $54 600 1

(b) TWo standard dice have faces numbered 1-6.

(i) List all possible scores 2

(ii) What is the highest possible recorded score. I

(iv) Which recorded score(s), occulred least often? 1

(iii) Draw the three-median line of good fit on the scatterplot. 2

(iii) Calculate the capacity of the pool in litres.

(i) (a) the monthly repayments 2

(b the total amount she pays back to the bank I

(y) the interest paid over the term of the loan.

(i) Find the size of I-ACB 1

(ii) Show thatthe size of ZABC is 52

(iv) What is the bearing of C from B? 2

(i) How many true statements were accurately detected? I