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STUDENT NUMBER
MATHEMATICAL METHODS
Written examination 1
Structure of book
Number of Number of questions Number of
questions to be answered marks
8 8 40
• Students are permitted to bring into the examination room: pens, pencils, highlighters, erasers,
sharpeners and rulers.
• Students are NOT permitted to bring into the examination room: any technology (calculators or
software), notes of any kind, blank sheets of paper and/or correction fluid/tape.
Materials supplied
• Question and answer book of 11 pages
• Formula sheet
• Working space is provided throughout the book.
Instructions
• Write your student number in the space provided above on this page.
• Unless otherwise indicated, the diagrams in this book are not drawn to scale.
• All written responses must be in English.
At the end of the examination
• You may keep the formula sheet.
Students are NOT permitted to bring mobile phones and/or any other unauthorised electronic
devices into the examination room.
© VICTORIAN CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENT AUTHORITY 2022
2022 MATHMETH EXAM 1 (NHT) 2
Instructions
Answer all questions in the spaces provided.
In all questions where a numerical answer is required, an exact value must be given, unless otherwise
specified.
In questions where more than one mark is available, appropriate working must be shown.
Unless otherwise indicated, the diagrams in this book are not drawn to scale.
Question 1 (3 marks)
dy
a. If y = sin(x2 + 1), find . 1 mark
dx
do not write in this area
Question 2 (2 marks)
2
Find f (x), given that f (0) = 3 and f ( x) 2 cos( x) , where x > –1.
x 1
TURN OVER
2022 MATHMETH EXAM 1 (NHT) 4
Question 3 (2 marks)
A marketing company wants to estimate the proportion of a population who regularly ride bicycles
for exercise. The company randomly samples 100 people from this population and finds that 10 of
these people regularly ride bicycles for exercise.
Using z = 2, find an approximate 95% confidence interval for the true proportion of the population
who regularly ride bicycles for exercise.
Question 4 – continued
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b. Sketch the graph of y = f (x) on the set of axes below. Label the endpoints and the turning
points with their coordinates. 2 marks
x
0 π π 3π 2π
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2 2
–2
–4
–6
–8
c. State the values of k for which the equation f (x) + k = 0, where k ∈ R, has no solution for x. 2 marks
d. Find the value of m for which
0
f ( x) m dx 0, where m ∈ R. 2 marks
TURN OVER
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Question 5 (4 marks)
Consider the function with rule f (x) = e1 – x.
f ( x)
a. Simplify . Express your answer in the form ekx, where k is an integer. 1 mark
f (− x)
Question 6 (6 marks)
In a particular city, the probability that it will snow on Monday is x2.
1
If it does snow on Monday, the probability that it will snow on Tuesday is x.
4
If it does not snow on Monday, the probability that it will snow on Tuesday is x.
a. i. Find an expression, in terms of x, that gives the probability that it will snow on both
Monday and Tuesday. 1 mark
ii. Find the value of x if there is a 25% chance that it will snow on both Monday and
Tuesday. 1 mark
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b. i. Find an expression, in terms of x, that gives the probability that it will snow on Tuesday. 1 mark
ii. Find the value of x that will result in the highest probability that it will snow on Tuesday
a
and find the probability for this value of x in the form , where a, b ∈ Z. 3 marks
b
TURN OVER
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Question 7 (7 marks)
a. Consider the function p, where p : [1, ∞) → R, p(x) = x4 – x3 – x2 + x + 1.
i. Find the value of a when p–1(a) = 2, where a ∈ R. 2 marks
TURN OVER
2022 MATHMETH EXAM 1 (NHT) 10
Question 8 (9 marks)
Part of the graph of the function f, where f : (– ∞, 0] → R, f (x) = ex sin(x), is shown below.
x
O
Question 8 – continued
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d x
c. i. Show that
dx
e sin( x) e x cos( x) 2e x sin( x). 1 mark
ii. Hence, find the area bounded by the graph of the function f and the horizontal axis over
the interval x ∈ [–π, 0]. 2 marks
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2e x
e sin( x) x 0
g : R R, g ( x) 1 e
0
elsewhere
MATHEMATICAL METHODS
Written examination 1
FORMULA SHEET
Instructions
Students are NOT permitted to bring mobile phones and/or any other unauthorised electronic
devices into the examination room.
Mensuration
area of a trapezium
1 ab h
volume of a pyramid
1
Ah
2 3
curved surface area 4 3
2π rh volume of a sphere πr
of a cylinder 3
1
volume of a cylinder π r 2h area of a triangle bc sin A
2
1 2
volume of a cone πr h
3
Calculus
d n
dx
x nx n 1
x dx n 1 x
n 1 n 1
c, n 1
d
dx
(ax b) n an ax b
n 1
(ax b) n dx
1
a (n 1)
(ax b) n 1 c, n 1
d ax 1 ax
dx
e ae ax
e
ax
dx
a
e c
d
1 1
log e ( x) x x
dx log e ( x) c, x 0
dx
d
1
sin (ax) a cos (ax) sin (ax)dx cos (ax) c
a
dx
d
cos (ax)dx a sin (ax) c
1
cos (ax) = a sin (ax)
dx
d a
tan (ax) = 2 a sec 2 (ax)
dx cos (ax)
du dv
v u
d dv du d u dx dx
product rule uv u v quotient rule
dx dx dx dx v v2
dy dy du
chain rule =
dx du dx
3 MATHMETH EXAM
Probability
Pr A B
Pr(A|B) =
Pr B
b
continuous Pr(a X b)
a
f ( x)dx
x f ( x)dx 2
( x ) 2 f ( x)dx
Sample proportions
X
P̂ = mean E(P̂ ) = p
n
approximate
standard ˆ) = p (1 − p )
ˆp − z
ˆp (1 − ˆp ) , p + z ˆp (1 − ˆp )
deviation
sd ( P
n
confidence
n
ˆ n
interval