Semester Two Examination, 2019

Question/Answer booklet

MATHEMATICS
YEAR 10
Section One:
Calculator-free

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Your Teacher’s Name_______________________________

Time allowed for this section

Reading time before commencing work: five minutes
Working time: 45 minutes

Materials required/recommended for this section

To be provided by the supervisor
This Question/Answer booklet
Formula sheet
One A4 page of notes, double sided.

To be provided by the candidate

Standard items: pens (blue/black preferred), pencils (including coloured), sharpener,
correction fluid/tape, eraser, ruler, highlighters

Special items: nil

Important note to candidates

No other items may be taken into the examination room. It is your responsibility to ensure that
you do not have any unauthorised material. If you have any unauthorised material with you,
hand it to the supervisor before reading any further.
Structure of this paper

Number of Number of Working Percentage

Marks
Section questions questions to time of
available
available be answered (minutes) examination

Section One:
6 6 45 46 39
Calculator-free

Section Two:
Calculator- 10 10 70 72 61
assumed

Total 100

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Section One: Calculator-free (46 Marks)

This section has 6 questions. Answer all questions. Write your answers in the spaces provided.

Spare pages are included at the end of this booklet. They can be used for planning your
responses and/or as additional space if required to continue an answer.
● Planning: If you use the spare pages for planning, indicate this clearly at the top of the page.
● Continuing an answer: If you need to use the space to continue an answer, indicate in the
original answer space where the answer is continued, i.e. give the page number. Fill in the
number of the question that you are continuing to answer at the top of the page.

Working time: 45 minutes.

Question 1 (2, 2, 2, 2 & 2= 10 marks)

a) State the amplitude and period of each of the following functions.

i)

ii)

iii)

iv)

b) State the amplitude and period of the following graph.

Question 2 (1, 1, 1, 2 & 2= 7marks)

A child makes a spinner which, on 200 spins produces the results:

Result of 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
spin
frequency 15 22 36 8 62 20 11 26

Based on these figures what is the probability that on one spin the result will be:
(Do not simplify)
a) Even

b) 5

c) Less than 5

d) Greater than 3 given that the result is odd.

e) A prime number given that the result is less than or equal to 5.

Question 3 (1, 1, 2 & 2= 6 marks)

The Venn diagram below shows the probabilities of the events A and B occurring.

Determine.

a)

b) (simplify)

c)

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d) (simplify)
Question 4 (1, 1, 1, 1, 2 & 2= 8 marks)

Evaluate each of the following.

a)

b)

c)

d)

Determine the value of in each of the following.

e)

f)

Question 5 (2 & 2= 4 marks)

The above graph can be modelled by the function .

a) Determine the constants .

b) Determine to one decimal place the x value where y is approximately 7 times the value
when x=0.
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Question 6 (2, 2, 2, 2 & 3= 11 marks)

Determine the first four terms of the following sequences.

a) An arithmetic sequence with a tenth term of 18 and a common difference of 7.

b) A Geometric sequence with an eight term of 50 and a common ratio of 2.

(Do not simplify)

c)

Determine the following sums.

d)

e) The distance in the long run(infinite time) that a ball moves through the air, given that it
drops from a height of 5 metres and always bounces back to 50% of its previous height.

End of Exam

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