Name: Class: MAA 11 SL Date: / /2021

Final Exam Study Guide

Topic 1: Number and Algebra

1. Write the value 0.00002956 in scientific notation.

A. 2.956×10−4 C. 0.2956×10−4
B. 2.956×10−5 D. 2956×10−5

2. Identify which of the following numbers has the largest value.

A. 3.4×10−3 C. 9.2×10−4
B. 1.5×10 −7 D. 2.7×10−1

3. Identify the value of k when 0.0000345 is converted to a×10k form, where 1≤a<10.
A. 5 C. 6
B. −5 D. −6

4. Which of the following algebraic expressions is the calculation of the value of (3×105)×(1.5×102)
similar to?
A. (3+x5)(1.5×102) C. 3x5−1.5x2
B. 3x5+1.5x2 D. 3x5×1.5x2

5. Calculate the value of k in =a×10k, where 1≤a<10 and k is an integer.

A. 18 C. 11
B. 2 D. 7

6. Calculate the value of (2.735×105)×(9.321×103). Identify the answer that gives this value using
scientific notation correct to 3 significant figures.
A. 2.55×109 C. 25.5×108
B. 2.549×109 D. 2 549 293 500

7. Find the sum of 3.7×106 and 1.2×106.

A. 4.9×1012 C. 2.5×107
B. 2.5×106 D. 4.9×106

8. Simplify 5a4×3a7.
A. 8a11 C. 8a28
B. 15a11 D. 15a28

9. Simplify 8x5y7 × 3x6y2 × 2y.

A. 13x11y10 C. 48x11y10
B. 48x11y9 D. 13x11y9

10. Simplify 12a3b6 × ab−3 × 5a−2b.

A. 30a2b4 C. 17 a2b4
B. 30a6b10
D. 30a2b3
11. Simplify .
A. C.
B. D.

12. Simplify .
A. C.
B. D.

13. Simplify (b5 × b−1)6.

A. b36 C. b30
B. b24 D. b−30

14. Simplify 6(c4)−2 using positive indices only in your answer.

A. C. 6c−8
B. 6−2c−8 D.

15. Simplify using positive indices only in your answer.

A. C.
B. D.

16. Given that 3.2×106−1.5×105=a×10k, where 1≤a<10.

Write down the value of k.

17. Write down the value of k in (1.65×1015)4=a×10k, where 1≤a<10.

18. Simplify: 6 5 5 6 3 6

19. Simplify: 2 28  7  6 63

20. Multiply and simplify: 3 2  10

x 5 y 3  3xy
21. Multiply and simplify:

22. Divide and simplify: 24x  3x

2 3

80x 2 y
2
23. Divide and simplify: 30xy
24. Divide and simplify: 50a  5a
3

18c3
25. Divide and simplify: 9c

26. Use to expand and simplify.

a) −4

b) 3

27. Find each coefficient described.

a) Coefficient of in expansion of −3

b) Coefficient of in expansion of 3

28. Determine which of the following is equivalent to .

A. o C. o
B. o D. o

29. Determine which of the following is equivalent to 3 .

A. 3 C. 3 5 −
B. 5 − D. 5 −

30. Evaluate o .
A. 25 C. −3
B. 3 D. −25

31. Deduce which of the following is equivalent to .

A. None of these.
B. 5

C. 3
D.
32. Evaluate .

33. Simplify .

34. Evaluate log 1000 + o 1.

35. Given that 4 where k, n and m are integers, find the values of k, m and n. Write your
answer as an integer.

36. Write o −5 o o as a single logarithm.

37. Write o 5 3o − o as a single logarithm.

38. Given that o 1.3 o 4, evaluate o .

39. Given that o 0. o 0. , find the exact value of o .

40. Solve the following equation: 3 4 4 .

41. Solve for , 7 1 3 .

42. Solve for given the equation 3 −7 0, giving your answer in decimal form rounded to
three significant figures.

43. What is a formula for the nth term of sequence B shown below?

, 11, 14, 17,

A) 3
B) 3
C) 5 3
D) 5 3

44. What is the formula for the nth term of the sequence 54, 1 , , ?

A) C)

B) D)

45. What is the common difference of the arithmetic sequence 11, 14, 17, .?

A) C) 1

B) D) 3
46. What is the common ratio of the geometric sequence whose first term is 8 and fourth term is 125?

A) C)
5 1 5
1 5 5
B) D)

47. Find the 4th term of the geometric sequence for which a1 = 81 and r = − .
(A) − . (C) −
(B)− . (D) .

48. Suppose you record the number of claps of thunder during a thunderstorm. The table below shows
the pattern of claps over time. If the pattern continues, how many total claps will occur in 64 seconds?

Seconds Total
Claps
1 2
2 3
4 4
8 5

49. Express the sum 5 11 17 3 usin si ma notation.

50. Jonathan’s teacher required him to express the sum using sigma notation. Jonathan
proposed four possible answers. Which of these four answers is not correct?

A) C)

B) D)

51. Keith has recently begun swimming in order to improve his overall fitness. He makes a commitment
to go to the pool every day for the next two months and increase the amount he swims each day by 50
meters. On the first day, he swims 75 meters.

a. How far will he swim on the 10th day? Explain or show your work.
b. How far did he swim total during the first 10 days? Explain or show your work.
c. On what day will he swim exactly 1,500 meters? Explain or show your work.

52. Find the sum of the first ten terms of each sequence.
a. An 1.05An1, A0 15
b. An  An1 15, A0  40
53. Evaluate each arithmetic series.
a.
15
(4n)
n 1

b. 0 3 44 ,n 1

54. Evaluate each geometric series.

a.
31
2(1.2)
n 1
n 1

b. -4 + -8 + -16 + -3 ,n 11

55. Determine if each geometric series converges or diverges.

a. −0. − 0.1 − 0.03 − 0.007 ...

b. −3 1 −4 1 ...
c.
Topic 2: Functions

1. The function is of the form , where a , b and c are positive integers.

Part of the graph of is shown on the axes below. The graph of the function has its local
maximum at − , −2) and its local minimum at (2, 6).

a. Draw the line −4 on the axes.

b. Write down the number of solutions to −4.
c. Find the range of values of for which has no solution.

2. Consider the function − − 1.

The function has one local maximum at and one local minimum at .
a. Write down the y-intercept of the graph of .
b. Sketch the graph of − ≤ ≤ − ≤ ≤ 4.
c. Determine the range of ≤ ≤ .

3. The functions ff and gg are defined such that 5.

a. Show that 11.

b. Given that 4, find the value of .

4. Let , , − .

a. Find all the intercepts of the graph of with both the and axes.
b. Write down the equation of the vertical asymptote.
c. As the graph of approaches an oblique straight line asymptote.
Divide − 5 − 1 by to find the equation of this asymptote.

5. Let −4 , .
Find .
6. The following diagram shows the graph of a function , −4 0.
The points −4, 4) and (0, 4) lie on the graph of . There is a minimum point at − , 0).

Let −4 .
a. Write down the range of .
b. Write down the domain of .

7. The following diagram shows the graph of , −3 4.

a. Find the value of 1 .

b. Given that 3, determine the value of a.
c. Given that − 1 , find the domain and range of g.
8. Let 4− , 0.

a. Find .
b. Solve the equation .
c. Hence or otherwise, given that , find the value of .

9. Let 11. The point −1, 8) lies on the graph of .

a. Find the value of .
b. The graph of is transformed to obtain the graph of .
Describe this transformation.

10. Consider the function − − 4, .

The graph of is translated two units to the left to form the function .
Express in the form where , , , , .
Topic 4: Statistics and Probability

1. Which one of the following variables is a discrete numerical variable?

A. The height of a person.
B. The weight of a car.
C. The number of students in a class.
D. Distance between two cities.

2. Which one of the following variables is a continuous variable?

A. The number of people on a bus.
B. The score out of 90 for a test.
C. The number of computers in a computer room in a school.
D. The height of Year 12 students in a high school.

3. Which one of the following variables is a discrete numerical variable?

A. The score out of 100 for a test.
B. The speed of racing cars on the track in a race.
C. The distance of drives that a professional golfer has hit in a practice.
D. The length of bananas in a basket.

4. Which of the following are NOT discrete data?

A. Number of eggs laid daily by the chickens on a farm.
B. Shoe size.
C. Number of actors in a Hollywood film.
D. Acceleration of an airplane on take-off.

5. A text book on Astronomy contains the following information about the Sun. Which of the four
statistics is discrete?
A. Surface temperature : 5,778 K
B. Number of solar eclipses in the 20th century: 228
C. Mass: 1.99×1030 kg
D. Distance from Earth: 1496×108 km

6. Which of the following pairs of data include one discrete and one continuous variable?
A. Weight and height of a class of students.
B. Number of pages and number of words in a book.
C. Duration of a game of chess and the number of moves to check-mate
D. Weight of sugar and volume of milk in a cake recipe.

7. A book on Australia contains the following information. Which of the four statistics is NOT a
continuous measurement?
A. Population: 23130000
B. Height of Uluru above sea level: 862.5 m
C. Length of coastline: 25760 km
D. Land area: 7692000 km2
8. A greenhouse full of tomato plants is being looked after by a farmer. He measures each of the plants to
see how well they are growing. Based on his measurements, the following frequency table has been
produced:

Height H (mm) Frequency

1 0≤H<130 10
130≤H<140 20
140≤H<150 25
150≤H<1 0 5
1 0≤H<170 15

Which one of the following diagrams shows the corresponding frequency histogram?
A B

C D
9. The height of 16 members of a basketball team was measured and gathered in the table below. Find
the value of a and b.

a= and b=

10. A class of 30 students have just done a test and their scores are:
2 3 4 5 30 12 23 21 10 8
7 9 6 30 29 19 10 7 24 25
22 24 20 12 18 25 27 30 30 29

a. Complete the following frequency table?

Score Frequency
1 – 10
11 – 20
21 – 30
b. Use technology to find the population standard deviation of the data.
c. Find the population variance of the data.

11. The following is an ordered set of data:

1, 2, 2, 3, 3, r, 4, s, 10
The mean of the data is and the mode is 3. What are the values of r and s?
r= and s=

12. The diagram below shows a box-and-whisker plot of a set of data.

What is the range of the data?
13. The diagram below shows a box-and-whisker plot of a set of data.
The interquartile range of the data is 12. Find the value of a.

14. Professor Jordan is investigating pollution in two cities' water supplies by measuring the
concentration of chromium particles in particles per billion (ppb). Her measurements take place
over 12 days and the results are summarized in the box-and-whisker plots below.
What was the difference between the median values for the two cities?

15. Professor Jordan is investigating pollution in two cities' water supplies by measuring the
concentration of chromium particles in particles per billion (ppb). Her measurements take place
over 12 days (taking one measurement every day) and the results are summarized in the box-and-
whisker plots below. The regulated limit for chromium concentration is 5000 ppb. How many days was
this limit exceeded by in city 2?
16. As part of a study into healthy lifestyles, Jing visited Surrey Hills University. Jing recorded a person’s
position in the university and how frequently they ate a salad. Results are shown in the table.

Jing conducted a χ2 test for independence at a 5 % eve of si nificance.

a. State the null hypothesis.

b. Calculate the p-value for this test.
c. State, giving a reason, whether the null hypothesis should be accepted.

17. Abhinav carries out a χ2 test at the 1 % si nificance eve to determine whether a person’s ender
impacts their chosen professional field: engineering, medicine or law.
He surveyed 220 people and the results are shown in the table.

a. State the null hypothesis, H0, for this test.

b. Calculate the expected number of male engineers.
c. Find the p-value for this test.
d. Abhinav rejects H0.
State a reason why Abhinav is incorrect in doing so.

18. A group of 7 adult men wanted to see if there was a relationship between their Body Mass Index
(BMI) and their waist size. Their waist sizes, in centimetres, were recorded and their BMI calculated. The
following table shows the results.

The relationship between x and y can be modeled by the regression equation .

a.i. Write down the value of a and of b.
a.ii. Find the correlation coefficient.
b. Use the regression equation to estimate the BMI of an adu t man whose waist size is 5 cm.
19. A transportation company owns 30 buses. The distance that each bus has travelled since being
purchased by the company is recorded. The cumulative frequency curve for these data is shown.

It is known that 8 buses travelled more than m kilometres.

a. Find the number of buses that travelled a distance between 15000 and 20000 kilometres.
b.i. Use the cumulative frequency curve to find the median distance.
b.ii. Use the cumulative frequency curve to find the lower quartile.
b.iii. Use the cumulative frequency curve to find the upper quartile.
c. Hence write down the interquartile range.
d. Write down the percentage of buses that travelled a distance greater than the upper quartile.
e. Find the number of buses that trave ed a distance ess than or equa to 1  000 km.
f. Find the value of m.
20. The marks achieved by eight students in a class test are given in the following list.
8 4 7 6 10 9 7 3

The teacher increases all the marks by 2. Write down the new value for
a.i. Find the mean.
a.ii. Find the standard deviation.
b.i. the mean.
b.ii. the standard deviation.
c. A ninth student also takes the test.
Explain why the median is unchanged.