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2020 Year 11 Atar Scotch Semester 1 Mathematics Specialist Exam and Marking Key
2020 Year 11 Atar Scotch Semester 1 Mathematics Specialist Exam and Marking Key
Question/Answer booklet
MATHEMATICS
SPECIALIST If required by your examination administrator, please
place your student identification label in this box
Section One:
Calculator-free
In words
Your name
Section Two:
13 13 100 98 65
Calculator-assumed
Total 100
2. Write your answers in this Question/Answer booklet preferably using a blue/black pen.
Do not use erasable or gel pens.
3. You must be careful to confine your answers to the specific question asked and to follow
any instructions that are specific to a particular question.
4. 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.
Question 1 (5 marks)
(a) Find the values of ! and " which satisfy the matrix equation given below. (2 marks)
2! " 1 −1 13 1
# &' *=' *
−2" ! −3 1 26 −18
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(b) Calculate:
0 −2 2
(i) ' *' * (1 mark)
1 −1 4
−3 −1 0 −2
(i) 2' *−3' * (2 marks)
0 1 1 2
Question 2 (7 marks)
Two forces are given by 01 = −32 + 55 N and 06 = 22 − 5 N.
(a) Determine
(i) 01 − 06 . (1 mark)
(b) The resultant of 301 , 606 and a third force is 52 + 45 N. Determine the magnitude of the
third force. (3 marks)
Question 3 (6 marks)
:
(a) Consider the statement: 8 = 2 ⇒ 8 = 4.
(b) State whether each of the following statements are true or false, supporting each answer
with an example or counterexample.
Question 4 (6 marks)
−8 7
The position vectors of points E and F are GH = I J and GK = I J.
3 −2
(a) Determine the position vector of point M that divides EF internally in the ratio 2: 3.
(3 marks)
Question 5 (7 marks)
(a) 4 different letters are chosen from the 7 in the word PAYMENT and then arranged to form
a password. Determine how many different passwords are possible that
(b) Determine the number of two letter permutations that can be made using letters from the
word REPAYMENT. (3 marks)
Question 6 (5 marks)
(a) Without prefacing the statement with 'It is not ...' or similar, write the negation of the
following statements:
S
(ii) ∀ obtuse angles S, the angle is acute. (2 marks)
2
Question 7 (7 marks)
−7 3 1
Consider the vectors T = I J , U = I J and G = I J.
8 −4 −2
(b) Given that T = VU + WG, determine the value of V and the value of W. (4 marks)
Question 8 (9 marks)
(a) Use a matrix approach to solve the following system of linear equations. (5 marks)
2< + 5X − 3 = 0
X = −4< − 3
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(b) Solve the following equation for Z, given that [ is a 2x2 identity matrix and Z is a 1x2 row
matrix. (4 marks)
−1 0
Z I' * + 4[J = 2Z + [3 −5]
1 −3
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Semester One Examination, 2020
Question/Answer booklet
MATHEMATICS
SPECIALIST If required by your examination administrator, please
place your student identification label in this box
Section Two:
Calculator-assumed
In words
Your name
Special items: drawing instruments, templates, notes on two unfolded sheets of A4 paper,
and up to three calculators approved for use in this examination
Section Two:
13 13 100 98 65
Calculator-assumed
Total 100
2. Write your answers in this Question/Answer booklet preferably using a blue/black pen.
Do not use erasable or gel pens.
3. You must be careful to confine your answers to the specific question asked and to follow
any instructions that are specific to a particular question.
4. 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.
Question 9 (9 marks)
Consider the following matrices.
,
$ −2 −5
!=# 2,
' , * = + . , / = [31 1 21], 3 = 4 5 6
2$ $
3,
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(a) Which product can be calculated using all matrices once? (1 mark)
(b) What will the dimensions of the matrix in (a) be? (1 mark)
Question 10 (5 marks)
Three forces act on an object so that it remains in equilibrium. Two of the forces have
magnitudes of 80 N and 110 N and the angle between their directions is 105°. Determine the
magnitude of the third force and the angle its direction makes with the smaller force.
Question 11 (8 marks)
(a) An art gallery plans to display a single painting on each of the three walls in a room.
Determine how many arrangements of paintings are possible in the room if they have a
selection of 24 different paintings to choose from. (2 marks)
(b) In another room, the gallery plan to hang 8 different paintings in a row. If 2 of the paintings
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are by the artist Marr, determine the number of different arrangements of paintings that
are possible when
(iii) the paintings by Marr must be apart and not at the ends. (2 marks)
Question 12 (6 marks)
(a) Prove that every perfect square is either a multiple of 4 or one more than a multiple of 4.
(2 marks)
Question 13 (7 marks)
CCCCC⃗ = 3?B
Trapezium ?@AB is such that @A CCCCC⃗ .
Let CCCCC⃗ CCCCC⃗ = J. Use a vector method to prove that EFGH is a parallelogram.
?@ = I and ?B
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Question 14 (8 marks)
CCCCCC⃗L = 3|KG
In quadrilateral ?EFG shown below, K lies on FG so that LFK CCCCCC⃗ |.
(i) CCCCC⃗
EG. (1 mark)
(iii) CCCCCC⃗
EK. (2 marks)
(b) If ? is the origin and points E, F and G have coordinates (−2, 39), (28, −14) and (32, −18)
respectively, determine the distance EK. (3 marks)
Question 15 (8 marks)
2 0 0 −1
Two transformations, H = 4 6 and T = 4 6, are applied to all points on the line
1 −1 3 2
UV : X = −2Y + 4.
5
(b) The point @(5, −6) lies on UV and can be described by the position vector 4 6.
−6
Calculate the coordinates of @′′ after both transformations. (3 marks)
Question 16 (7 marks)
(a) A calculator can generate random integers between 10 and 25. Use the pigeonhole
principle to explain why 49 random integers should be generated to be certain that at least
4 of them are the same. (3 marks)
Question 17 (9 marks)
(a) Determine the scalar product of
(ii) two vectors with directions 60° apart that have magnitudes of 15 and 18. (1 mark)
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3 −2 −5
(c) The position vectors of points E, F and G are c d , c d and c d. Show use of a vector
−2 −1 3
method to determine the size of angle EFG. (4 marks)
Question 18 (8 marks)
A school yearbook is produced by a committee of 3 teachers and 8 students. 5 teachers and 17
students have nominated for the committee.
(a) Determine how many different committees could be formed from the nominations.
(2 marks)
(c) Suppose one of the teachers in the committee will be appointed as treasurer and one of
the students will be appointed as secretary. Determine how many different committees
can be formed with this structure. (2 marks)
Question 19 (8 marks)
Oil platform T lies 66.5 km away from another oil platform F on a bearing of 215°. A steady
current of 4.5 km per hour flows between the platforms on a bearing of 110°. A small boat at F,
with a cruising speed of 12 km per hour, needs to arrive at T by 4 pm.
Determine the bearing that the boat should steer and the latest time it should depart from F.
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Question 20 (7 marks)
(a) There are 10 plates left on the conveyor belt of a circular sushi train at the end of the
night. 3 of the plates are blue, 2 of the plates are red, while the rest of the plates are all
different colours. Assuming the dishes are spaced evenly along the conveyor belt and that
plates with the same colour must be placed consecutively on the belt, how many different
ways are there to arrange the plates? (3 marks)
Question 21 (8 marks)
Particle @, initially at the point with position vector 42^ − 25_ cm, moves with a constant velocity of
−8^ + 15_ cm/s. Particle A is stationary at the point with position vector −35^ + 11_.
(b) Determine an expression for the distance e between @ and A after f seconds. (3 marks)
(c) Sketch a graph of e against f and hence determine the time that minimises e and state
what this minimum distance is. (3 marks)
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9 9
10 5
11 8
12 6
13 7
14 8
15 8
16 7
17 9
18 8
19 8
20 7
21 8
S2 Total 98
S2 Wt
65%
(×0.6633)
© 2020 WA Exam Papers. Scotch College has a non-exclusive licence to copy and
communicate this document for non-commercial, educational use within the school. No
other copying, communication or use is permitted without the express written permission
of WA Exam Papers. SN090-151-2.
Semester One Examination, 2020
Question/Answer booklet
MATHEMATICS
SPECIALIST If required by your examination administrator, please
place your student identification label in this box
Section One:
Calculator-free
In words
Your name
Section Two:
13 13 100 98 65
Calculator-assumed
Total 100
2. Write your answers in this Question/Answer booklet preferably using a blue/black pen.
Do not use erasable or gel pens.
3. You must be careful to confine your answers to the specific question asked and to follow
any instructions that are specific to a particular question.
4. 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.
Question 1 (5 marks)
(a) Find the values of ! and " which satisfy the matrix equation given below. (2 marks)
2! " 1 −1 13 1
# &' *=' *
−2" ! −3 1 26 −18
DO NOT WRITE IN THIS AREA AS IT WILL BE CUT OFF
(b) Calculate:
0 −2 2
(i) ' *' * (1 mark)
1 −1 4
−3 −1 0 −2
(i) 2' *−3' * (2 marks)
0 1 1 2
Question 2 (7 marks)
Two forces are given by 01 = −32 + 55 N and 06 = 22 − 5 N.
(a) Determine
(i) 01 − 06 . (1 mark)
(b) The resultant of 301 , 606 and a third force is 52 + 45 N. Determine the magnitude of the
third force. (3 marks)
Question 3 (6 marks)
:
(a) Consider the statement: 8 = 2 ⇒ 8 = 4.
(b) State whether each of the following statements are true or false, supporting each answer
with an example or counterexample.
Question 4 (6 marks)
−8 7
The position vectors of points E and F are GH = I J and GK = I J.
3 −2
(a) Determine the position vector of point M that divides EF internally in the ratio 2: 3.
(3 marks)
Question 5 (7 marks)
(a) 4 different letters are chosen from the 7 in the word PAYMENT and then arranged to form
a password. Determine how many different passwords are possible that
(b) Determine the number of two letter permutations that can be made using letters from the
word REPAYMENT. (3 marks)
Question 6 (5 marks)
(a) Without prefacing the statement with 'It is not ...' or similar, write the negation of the
following statements:
S
(ii) ∀ obtuse angles S, the angle is acute. (2 marks)
2
Question 7 (7 marks)
−7 3 1
Consider the vectors T = I J , U = I J and G = I J.
8 −4 −2
(b) Given that T = VU + WG, determine the value of V and the value of W. (4 marks)
Question 8 (9 marks)
(a) Use a matrix approach to solve the following system of linear equations. (5 marks)
2< + 5X − 3 = 0
X = −4< − 3
DO NOT WRITE IN THIS AREA AS IT WILL BE CUT OFF
(b) Solve the following equation for Z, given that [ is a 2x2 identity matrix and Z is a 1x2 row
matrix. (4 marks)
−1 0
Z I' * + 4[J = 2Z + [3 −5]
1 −3
SN090-151-1
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Supplementary page
SN090-151-1
Markers use only
1 5
2 7
3 6
4 6
5 7
6 5
7 7
8 9
S1 Total 52
S1 Wt
35%
(×0.6731)
S2 Wt 65%
Total 100%
© 2020 WA Exam Papers. Scotch College has a non-exclusive licence to copy and
communicate this document for non-commercial, educational use within the school. No
other copying, communication or use is permitted without the express written permission
of WA Exam Papers. SN090-151-1.
Semester One Examination, 2020
Question/Answer booklet
MATHEMATICS
SPECIALIST If required by your examination administrator, please
place your student identification label in this box
Section Two:
Calculator-assumed
In words
Your name
Special items: drawing instruments, templates, notes on two unfolded sheets of A4 paper,
and up to three calculators approved for use in this examination
Section Two:
13 13 100 98 65
Calculator-assumed
Total 100
2. Write your answers in this Question/Answer booklet preferably using a blue/black pen.
Do not use erasable or gel pens.
3. You must be careful to confine your answers to the specific question asked and to follow
any instructions that are specific to a particular question.
4. 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.
Question 9 (9 marks)
Consider the following matrices.
,
$ −2 2, −5
!=# ' , * = + . , / = [31 1 21], 3 = 4 5 6
2$ $ 3,
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(a) Which product can be calculated using all matrices once? (1 mark)
(b) What will the dimensions of the matrix in (a) be? (1 mark)
Question 10 (5 marks)
Three forces act on an object so that it remains in equilibrium. Two of the forces have
magnitudes of 80 N and 110 N and the angle between their directions is 105°. Determine the
magnitude of the third force and the angle its direction makes with the smaller force.
Question 11 (8 marks)
(a) An art gallery plans to display a single painting on each of the three walls in a room.
Determine how many arrangements of paintings are possible in the room if they have a
selection of 24 different paintings to choose from. (2 marks)
(b) In another room, the gallery plan to hang 8 different paintings in a row. If 2 of the paintings
DO NOT WRITE IN THIS AREA AS IT WILL BE CUT OFF
are by the artist Marr, determine the number of different arrangements of paintings that
are possible when
(iii) the paintings by Marr must be apart and not at the ends. (2 marks)
Question 12 (6 marks)
(a) Prove that every perfect square is either a multiple of 4 or one more than a multiple of 4.
(2 marks)
Question 13 (7 marks)
CCCCC⃗ = 3?B
Trapezium ?@AB is such that @A CCCCC⃗ .
Let CCCCC⃗ CCCCC⃗ = J. Use a vector method to prove that EFGH is a parallelogram.
?@ = I and ?B
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Question 14 (8 marks)
CCCCCC⃗L = 3|KG
In quadrilateral ?EFG shown below, K lies on FG so that LFK CCCCCC⃗ |.
(i) CCCCC⃗
EG. (1 mark)
(iii) CCCCCC⃗
EK. (2 marks)
(b) If ? is the origin and points E, F and G have coordinates (−2, 39), (28, −14) and (32, −18)
respectively, determine the distance EK. (3 marks)
Question 15 (8 marks)
2 0 0 −1
Two transformations, H = 4 6 and T = 4 6, are applied to all points on the line
1 −1 3 2
UV : X = −2Y + 4.
5
(b) The point @(5, −6) lies on UV and can be described by the position vector 4 6.
−6
Calculate the coordinates of @′′ after both transformations. (3 marks)
Question 16 (7 marks)
(a) A calculator can generate random integers between 10 and 25. Use the pigeonhole
principle to explain why 49 random integers should be generated to be certain that at least
4 of them are the same. (3 marks)
Question 17 (9 marks)
(a) Determine the scalar product of
(ii) two vectors with directions 60° apart that have magnitudes of 15 and 18. (1 mark)
DO NOT WRITE IN THIS AREA AS IT WILL BE CUT OFF
3 −2 −5
(c) The position vectors of points E, F and G are c d , c d and c d. Show use of a vector
−2 −1 3
method to determine the size of angle EFG. (4 marks)
Question 18 (8 marks)
A school yearbook is produced by a committee of 3 teachers and 8 students. 5 teachers and 17
students have nominated for the committee.
(a) Determine how many different committees could be formed from the nominations.
(2 marks)
(c) Suppose one of the teachers in the committee will be appointed as treasurer and one of
the students will be appointed as secretary. Determine how many different committees
can be formed with this structure. (2 marks)
Question 19 (8 marks)
Oil platform T lies 66.5 km away from another oil platform F on a bearing of 215°. A steady
current of 4.5 km per hour flows between the platforms on a bearing of 110°. A small boat at F,
with a cruising speed of 12 km per hour, needs to arrive at T by 4 pm.
Determine the bearing that the boat should steer and the latest time it should depart from F.
DO NOT WRITE IN THIS AREA AS IT WILL BE CUT OFF
Question 20 (7 marks)
(a) There are 10 plates left on the conveyor belt of a circular sushi train at the end of the
night. 3 of the plates are blue, 2 of the plates are red, while the rest of the plates are all
different colours. Assuming the dishes are spaced evenly along the conveyor belt and that
plates with the same colour must be placed consecutively on the belt, how many different
ways are there to arrange the plates? (3 marks)
Question 21 (8 marks)
Particle @, initially at the point with position vector 42^ − 25_ cm, moves with a constant velocity of
−8^ + 15_ cm/s. Particle A is stationary at the point with position vector −35^ + 11_.
(b) Determine an expression for the distance e between @ and A after f seconds. (3 marks)
(c) Sketch a graph of e against f and hence determine the time that minimises e and state
what this minimum distance is. (3 marks)
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9 9
10 5
11 8
12 6
13 7
14 8
15 8
16 7
17 9
18 8
19 8
20 7
21 8
S2 Total 98
S2 Wt
65%
(×0.6633)
© 2020 WA Exam Papers. Scotch College has a non-exclusive licence to copy and
communicate this document for non-commercial, educational use within the school. No
other copying, communication or use is permitted without the express written permission
of WA Exam Papers. SN090-151-2.