November 23rd , 2021

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Specimen paper – Maths A&I SL – Answers

Financial maths
Silvia invests UK£4500 in a bank that pays r% interest compounded annually After
five years, she has UK£5066.55 in the bank.
a) Find the interest rate [2 marks]
b) Calculate how many years it will take for Silvia to have UK£8000 in the bank. [2
marks]

Colin, Ryan and Kyle each have €1500 to invest. Colin invests his money in a bank
that offers 2.6% interest compounded quarterly. Ryan invests his money in a bank
that offers 2.55% interest compounded monthly. Kyle invests his money in a bank
that offers 2.75% interest compounded annually.
a) Calculate who has the most money in their account after six years. [2 marks]
b) Find how long it will take before Ryan has €2500. [2 marks]
c) Find how long it will take for Kyle to double his money. [2 marks]

You have US$20000 and want to get a monthly income for 10 years. If the
monthly interest rate is 0.9%.
a) Find how much you would receive each month. [2 marks]
b) Comment on why you think that you would do this. [3 marks]

Sami takes out a loan of €150000 to buy a boat. The loan is for 20 years at 5% per
annum.
a) Find how much he must pay each month. [2 marks]
b) Another loan was for 10 years at 5% per annum. Determine how much Sami
would pay each month. [3 marks]
c) For each of these calculations find out the difference in the monthly payments
and the amount of interest paid. [3 marks]

Functions
The dose D (in milligrams, mg) of a h certain medicine for a child of mass
m kg is determined by the equation D = am + b, where a and b are constants.
For a child of mass 20 kg the correct dose is 115 mg, and for a child of mass
25 kg the correct dose is 137.5 mg.
a) Determine the value of a and the value of b. [1 mark]
b) Find the correct dose that should be given to a child with mass 23 kg. [2 marks]
c) Suggest reason(s) why the equation may not be appropriate for determining the
dosage required for an adult with mass 100 kg. [2 marks]

Boris plays a game of tennis. He serves from the base line to his opponent,
Steffi. The path of the ball may be modelled by the quadratic curve.
 H(x) = 2.103 + 0.1455x - 0.01932x2 for 0 ≤ x ≤ X.

a) Find the maximum height of the ball during its motion. [2 marks]
b) The height of the net is 1.07 m. Boris is standing on the baseline of the court,
at a horizontal distance of 11.98 m from the net. Show that the ball just passes
over the net. [2 marks]
c) Suggest a maximum value for X and explain why this would be sensible
value to take. [3 marks]

Mannie starts working as a police constable at the age of 20. He works for 40
years and retires at the age of 60.
His annual salary, P (in thousands of UK pounds), is given by the formula

P(t) = 0.0045(t-30)3 + 0.1215(t-30)2 + 0.3585t + 23

where t is the number of years Mannie has been working for the police force.

a) Find Mannie's starting salary. [2 marks]

b) Find Mannie's maximum salary over the course of his working life [2 marks]
c) Find the times (to the nearest whole number of years) when Mannie's salary was
UK£ 35 000. [3 marks]
d) Over what proportion of his working life was Mannie's salary increasing?
[3 marks]

A sinusoidal curve y = a + bsin(cx) (a > 0, b > 0, c> 0) has two concurrent

maximum points at coordinates (60°, 5) and (300°, 5).
Given that it also has an amplitude of 2 units, determine the values of a and b,
and determine the least possible value of c. [8 marks]

A sinusoidal wave is given by the equation y = 5.7 + 0.3cos(12.5x) for -5 ≤ x ≤ 5

a) Write down the amplitude of the wave. [1 mark]
b) Find the minimum value of y and first the value of x for when this occurs. [2
marks]
c) Find the period of the wave. [2 marks]
d) Sketch the graph of this function with the given domain. [3 marks]