Mathematics Department Perth Modern

Course: Mathematics Year: 8

Student Name: Teacher Name:

Date: 24/11/20

Task Type: Response

Time Allowed: 45 minutes

Number of Questions: 11

Materials Required: Scientific calculator and one double-sided A4 page of notes (to be
provided by the student)

Standard Items: Pens (blue/black preferred), pencils (including coloured), sharpener,

correction fluid/tape, eraser, ruler and highlighters

Special Items: Drawing instruments, templates, notes on one unfolded sheet of A4

paper (both sides) and up to three calculators approved for use in
the WACE examinations

Marks Available: 45 marks

Task Weighting: 30 % (Semester)

Formula Sheet Provided: No

Note: All questions worth more than 2 marks require working to obtain full marks.

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TEST 4: SIMILARITY, TRIGONOMETRY AND STATISTICS

Question 1 [3 marks – 1, 1, 1] (ACMMG221)
Consider the following quadrilaterals.

a) Given that they are similar, what is the enlargement factor?

b) Hence, find the value of x .

c) If the area of the larger shape is 48 cm2 , what is the area of the smaller shape?

Question 2 [3 marks – 2, 1] (ACMMG220)

Consider the following triangles.
a) Which two triangles are similar?
Write the similarity statement.

b) State the similarity test used to

determine this.

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Question 3 [2 marks – 1, 1] (ACMMG223)

For the triangle below, find the values of the following:
a) sin θ

b) tan α

Question 4 [6 marks – 3, 3] (ACMMG224)

a) Find the side length x below, correct to 1 decimal place.

b) Find the angle θ below, correct to 1 decimal place.

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Question 5 [4 marks] (ACMMG224)

Baldwin Street in New Zealand is officially recognised as the steepest street in the world.
Barry runs as fast as he can up the top section, which has an average slope of 16.3 ° over
a horizontal length of 161.2 m. Draw a labelled diagram of the situation, then calculate the
distance he travelled, to the nearest metre.

Question 6 [2 marks] (ACMSP284)

State whether a census or sample is appropriate for the following situations:
Checking the flavour of chocolate blocks from a production line.
Electing the new head boy and head girl to represent the school.

Question 7 [3 marks] (ACMSP284)

Bruce is retiring and decides to donate his fortune to half of the citizens of his city. Name
the ‘sampling’ technique he uses in the following situations:
Donating to every second person in an alphabetised list of citizens.
Donating to half of the citizens from each suburb in his city.
Flipping a coin for every person in an alphabetised list of citizens,
and donating to those who get heads.

Question 8 [3 marks – 1, 2] (ACMSP206)

Diana is seeking the truth about the new Perth Modern School bell, and decides to
conduct a stratified survey of its students. The school population is shown in the table
below.
a) If she surveys a total of 280 students, Year Population Poll
what proportion will be chosen?
7 220
8 220
9 230
10 250

b) Hence, how many students from each 11 240

year level should Diana survey? Fill in
12 240
the table accordingly.
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Question 9 [2 marks] (ACMSP206)

Clark loves solar power and wants to know the percentage of Australians who are willing
to install rooftop solar panels. He decides to survey every fourth house number on his
street. Describe two issues with his survey and/or sampling technique.
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Question 10 [7 marks – 4, 3] (ACMSP282)

Below are the test scores of two different classes:
Class A: 52, 82, 70, 73, 57, 47, 60, 49, 100, 53, 66, 49, 59, 68, 59
Class B: 91, 73, 77, 56, 45, 67, 68, 51, 71, 89, 82, 76, 62, 64
a) Construct a back-to-back stem-and-leaf plot of the data.

b) Compare and comment on the test scores for the two classes.
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Question 11 [10 marks – 8, 1, 1] (ACMSP283)

Arthur challenges his brother to see who can hold their breath the longest underwater.
Their attempts are summarised below:

Arthur’s Breath Times Brother's Breath Times

8
6, 5, 2, 2, 3, 4, 1
7
2, 5, 5, 3, 1, 6, 5 6

Frequency
(minutes) 5
4
3
2
1
0
1 2 3 4 5 6

Time (minutes)

a) Complete the summary table below. Show working and round your answers to two
decimal places where necessary.

Arthur Brother
Mean
Median
Range

b) Who is more consistent at holding their breath? Explain.

c) Overall, who is better at holding their breath? Explain.

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TEST 4: BONUS
Time Allowed: To be completed during the time allowed for the main test
Marks Available: 15
Show full working for questions worth more than 2 marks.
Unless stated otherwise, answers should be rounded to 2 decimal places.
This section is not compulsory. No additional time will be given to complete this section.
Make sure you are satisfied with the main test before attempting this section.

Question 1 [3 marks]
Construct a box-and-whiskers plot for the data below.
28, 4, 40, 16, 20, 48, 20, 44, 56

Question 2 [2 marks]
Five samples have been taken from the same population. Using the information in the
table, state and explain two possible conclusions that can be made about the population.

Sample Mean Median ____________________________________________________

1 33 34
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2 33 33
3 39 34 ____________________________________________________

4 32 33 ____________________________________________________
5 26 34 ____________________________________________________

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Question 3 [5 marks – 3, 2]
Consider the two triangles below.
a) Prove that they are similar.

b) Hence, show that AB∥ CD .

Question 4 [5 marks]
Consider the rectangular prism below. Find the values of x , y and θ to one decimal place.

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