Mathematics: Application and Interpretation

Year 12 DP MOCK EXAMINATION

Standard Level
Paper 1

Thursday, 22 February 2024 (afternoon) Candidate's Name

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1 hour 30 minutes

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• Do not open this examination paper until instructed to do so.
• A graphic display calculator is required for this paper
• Answer all questions.
• Answer must be written within the answer boxes provided
• Unless otherwise stated in the question, all numerical answers should be given exactly or correct
to three significant figures.
• A clean copy of the mathematics: applications and interpretation formula booklet is required
for this paper.
• The maximum mark for this examination paper is [80 marks]

14 pages
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Answer must be written within the answer boxes provided. Full marks are not necessarily awarded
for a correct answer with no working. Answers must be supported by working and/or explanations.
Solutions found from a graphic display calculator should be supported by suitable working. For
example, if graphs are used to find a solution, you should sketch these as part of your answer.
Where an answer is incorrect, some marks may be given for a correct method, provided this is
shown by written working. You are therefore advised to show all working.

1. [Maximum mark: 5]
Carys believes that, on a memory retention test, the mean score of bilingual people (µb) will be
higher than the mean score of monolingual people (µm). Carys gave a memory retention test to
a random sample of students in her class. The results are shown in the two tables.

Carys performs a one-tailed t-test at a 5 % level of significance. It is assumed that the scores
are normally distributed and the samples have equal variances.
(a) State the alternative hypothesis. [1]
(b) Calculate the p-value for this test [2]
(c) State the conclusion of the test in the context of the question.
Justify your answer. [2]
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2. [Maximum mark: 7]
On 1 December 2022, Laviola invests 800 euros (EUR) into a savings account which pays a
nominal annual interest rate of 7.5% compounded monthly. At the end of each month, Laviola
deposits an additional EUR 500 into the savings account.
At the end of k months, Laviola will have saved enough money to withdraw EUR 10 000.
(a) Find the smallest possible value of k, for k ℤ+. [4]
(b) For this value of k, find the interest earned in the savings account. Express your answer
correct to the nearest EUR. [3]
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3. [Maximum mark: 5]
Roy is a member of a motorsport club and regularly drives around the Port Campbell racetrack.
The times he takes to complete a lap are normally distributed with mean 59 seconds and
standard deviation 3 seconds.
(a) Find the probability that Roy completes a lap in less than 55 seconds. [2]
Roy will complete a 20-lap race. It is expected that 8.6 of the laps will take more than t
seconds.
(b) Find the value of t. [3]
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4. [Maximum mark: 6]
Stars are classified by their brightness. The brightest starts in the sky have a magnitude of 1.
The magnitude, m, of another star can be modelled as a function of its brightness, b, relative to
a star of magnitude 1, as shown by the following equation.

𝑚 = 1 − 2.5log10 (𝑏)

The star called Acubens has a brightness of 0.0525.

(a) Find the magnitude of Acubens. [2]
Ceres has a magnitude of 7 and is the least bright star visible without magnification.
(b) Find the brightness of Ceres. [2]
(c) Find how many times brighter Acubens is compared to Ceres. [2]
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5. [Maximum mark: 8]
Giles charges a customer per hour to hire his boat. It is known that

where P is the cost per hour, in Norwegian krone (NOK), that the customer is charged and t is
the time, in hours, spent on the boat.
The cost per hour has a local minimum when the boat is hired for h hours.
(a) Find the value of h. [2]
Sandra hired Giles’ boat for 5 hours and was charged NOK 328 per hour. Yvonne hires Giles’
boat for 7 hours.
(b) Show that the cost per hour for Yvonne is NOK 312. [6]
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6. [Maximum mark: 6]
At a running club, Sung-Jin conducts a test to determine if there is any association between an
athlete’s age and their best time taken to run 100m. Eight athletes are chosen at random and
their details are shown below.

Sung-Jin decides to calculate the Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient for his set of data.
(a) Complete the table of ranks. [2]

(b) Calculate the Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient, rs. [2]

(c) Interpret this value of rs in the context of the question. [1]
(d) Suggest a mathematical reason why Sung-Jin may have decided not to use Pearson’s
product-moment correlation coefficient with his data from the original table. [1]
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7. [Maximum mark: 6]
Ani owns four cafes represented by points A, B, C, and D. Ani wants to divide the area into
delivery regions. This process has been started in the following incomplete Voronoi diagram,
where 1 unit represents 1 kilometre.

The midpoint of CD is (5.5, 1.5).

(a) Show that the equation of the perpendicular bisector of [CD] is . [3]
(b) Complete the Voronoi diagram shown above. [1]
Ani opens an office equidistant from three of the cafes, B, C, and D. The equation of the
perpendicular bisector of [BC] is 3𝑦 = 2𝑥 − 1.5.

(c) Find the coordinates of the office. [2]

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8. [Maximum mark: 5]
In a game, balls are thrown to hit a target. The random variable X is the number of times the
target is hit in five attempts. The probability distribution for X is shown in the following table.

(a) Find the value of k. [2]

The player has a chance to win money based on how many times they hit the target.
The gain for the player, in $, is shown in the following table, where a negative gain means that
the player loses money.

(b) Determine whether this game is fair. Justify your answer. [3]
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9. [Maximum mark: 8]
The cross section of a scale model of a hill is modelled by the following graph.

The heights of the model are measured at horizontal intervals and are given in the table.

(a) Use the trapezoidal rule with h = 10 to find an approximation for the cross-sectional area
of the model. [2]
It is given that the equation of the curve is .
(b) (i) Write down an integral to find the exact cross-sectional area.
(ii) Calculate the value of the cross-sectional area to two decimal places. [4]
(c) Find the percentage error in the area found using the trapezoidal rule. [2]
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10. [Maximum mark: 6]

Point H on a hot-air balloon is sighted at the same time by two observes. One observer is at
the top of a vertical building that is 156 metres tall. The other observer is at the base of the
building.
The angle of elevation from point A (at the top of the building) to H is 40°, and the angle of
elevation from point B (at the base of the building) to H is 57°. Point X is the ground directly
below point H. This information is shown in the diagram.

(a) Find the size of angle AHB. [2]

(b) Calculate the distance from point B to point H. [3]
The hot-air balloon remains at a constant height as it moves further away from the building.
(c) Describe, in words, the change in the angle of depression from point H to point B as the
horizontal distance between the balloon and the building increases. [1]
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11. [Maximum mark: 5]

When the brakes of a car are fully applied, the car will continue to travel some distance before
it completely stops. This stopping distance, d, in metres is directly proportional to the square of
the speed of the car, v, in kilometres per hour (km h-1).
When a car is travelling at a speed of 50 km h-1 it will travel 12.3 m after the brakes are fully
applied before it completely stops.
(a) Determine an equation for d in terms of v. [2]
The police can use this equation to estimate if cars are exceeding the speed limit.
A car is found to have travelled 33 m, after fully applying its brakes, before it completely
stopped.
(b) Use your equation from part (a) to estimate the speed at which this car was travelling
before the brakes were applied. [2]
(c) After the brakes have been fully applied, identify one other variable besides speed that
could affect stopping distance. [1]
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12. [Maximum mark: 8]

A player throws a basketball. The height of the basketball is modelled by

Where h is the height of the basketball above the ground, in metres, and t is the time, in
seconds, after it was thrown.
(a) Find how long it takes for the basketball to reach its maximum height. [2]
(b) Assuming that no player catches the basketball, find how long it would take for the
basketball to hit the ground. [2]
Another player catches the basketball when it is at a height of 1.2 metres.
(c) Find the value of t when this player catches the basketball. [2]
(d) Write down two limitations of using h(t) to model the height of the basketball. [2]
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13. [Maximum mark: 5]

Line L1 is tangent to the graph of a function 𝑓(𝑥) at the point P(3, -1). Line L2 is given by the

equation and is perpendicular to L1.

(a) Write down the gradient of L1. [1]

(b) Find the equation of L1 in the form 𝑦 = 𝑚𝑥 + 𝑐. [2]
(c) Show that L2 is not the line that is normal to 𝑓(𝑥) at point P. [2]