Victorian Certificate of Education SUPERVISOR TO ATTACH PROCESSING LABEL HERE

2022

Letter
STUDENT NUMBER

SPECIALIST MATHEMATICS
Written examination 1

Tuesday 31 May 2022

Reading time: 2.00 pm to 2.15 pm (15 minutes)
Writing time: 2.15 pm to 3.15 pm (1 hour)

QUESTION AND ANSWER BOOK

Structure of book
Number of Number of questions Number of
questions to be answered marks
10 10 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.
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Instructions
Answer all questions in the spaces provided.
Unless otherwise specified, an exact answer is required to a question.
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.
Take the acceleration due to gravity to have magnitude g ms–2, where g = 9.8

Question 1 (3 marks)
Consider the relation x 2 e y 1  4 ye x  9e .
dy
Find at the point (1, 2).
dx
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Question 2 (3 marks)
z3
Given the complex numbers z  1  3i and w = –2 – 2i, find in cartesian form.
w2

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Question 3 (3 marks)
The region enclosed by the graph of y = x2 – 2x + 1 and the straight line that passes through the x and y
intercepts of this parabola is rotated about the x-axis to form a solid of revolution.
Find the volume of this solid of revolution.

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Question 4 (5 marks)
A smooth plane is inclined at an angle θ to the horizontal. Two particles of mass m1 kilograms and
m2 kilograms are connected by a light inextensible string that passes over a smooth pulley, as shown in
the diagram below. The particle of mass m1 kilograms lies on the plane.

m1

m2
3m

θ 4m

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a. Given that the system is in equilibrium, express m2 in terms of m1. 2 marks

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b. The string is cut and the particle of mass m1 kilograms starts to slide down the plane.
Find how far, in metres, the particle of mass m1 kilograms has slid down the plane from its
initial position when the particle has a velocity of 6 ms–1. 3 marks

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Question 5 (3 marks)
Find the centre and the radius of the circle defined by 3 z  i  z , where z ∈ C.

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Question 6 (3 marks)
Relative to a fixed origin, the position of a 2 kg mass after t seconds is given by r (t )  32 t i + 6t 2 j  3e 2t 8 k ,
t ≥ 0, where components are measured in metres.    

Find the magnitude of the resultant force, in newtons, after it has acted on the mass for four seconds, giving
your answer as an integer.
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Question 7 (4 marks)
 
The path of a moving particle after t seconds is given by r (t ) = 4 sec(t ) i + 2tan (t ) j for t  0,  ,
where components are measured in metres.     2

a. Find the cartesian equation of the path. 2 marks

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b. Find the speed of the particle when t  . 2 marks
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Question 8 (6 marks)
A printer can use three types of ink cartridges: Standard, Deluxe and Elite. The Standard cartridge
has a mean print run (the average number of pages that can be printed before all of the ink has been
used up) of 2000 pages with a standard deviation of 40 pages. The mean print run of the Deluxe
cartridge is 2500 pages with a standard deviation of 30 pages. The mean print run of the Elite
cartridge is µE pages with a standard deviation of σE pages. The print runs of each type of cartridge
are normally distributed and independent.
a. Find the expected print run and the standard deviation when one Standard cartridge and one
Deluxe cartridge are used in succession (that is, one is used after the other is finished). 2 marks

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b. One of each of the three types of cartridges is used in succession.
For what values of σE is the standard deviation of the print run for this situation less than or
equal to 60? 2 marks

Question 8 ‒ continued
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c. A person knows that the standard deviation of the print run of the Standard cartridge is 40 but
this person does not know the mean. A random sample of n Standard cartridges is selected
and these cartridges are used in the printer in succession. The 95% confidence interval, using z
correct to two decimal places, for the mean print run based on this sample is (1960.4, 1999.6).
Find the value of n. 2 marks
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Question 9 (5 marks)
a. Given that there is a local minimum turning point at x = 0, sketch the graph of
9
y on the axes provided below. Label any asymptotes with their equations
( x  1)( x  2) 2
and axes intercepts with their coordinates. 2 marks

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x

9
b. Find the area bounded by the graph of y  , the coordinate axes and the line
x = 1. ( x  1)( x  2) 2 3 marks
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Question 10 (5 marks)
 3 3  3x  
a. Consider f : 0,   R, f ( x)   3 arcsin  
  x 3  x 2
.
 2 2   3 


Show that f ( x)  9  3 x 2 . 2 marks
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b. A particle moves along a curve such that its position vector at time t is

t3 3  3t  
r(t )  i   3 arcsin  
  t 3  t2  j .
 6  2   3 
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3
Find the distance that the particle travels along the curve from t = 0 to t = . 3 marks
2

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Victorian Certificate of Education
2022

SPECIALIST MATHEMATICS
Written examination 1

FORMULA SHEET

Instructions

This formula sheet is provided for your reference.

A question and answer book is provided with this formula sheet.

Students are NOT permitted to bring mobile phones and/or any other unauthorised electronic
devices into the examination room.

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Specialist Mathematics formulas

Mensuration

area of a trapezium  
1 ab h
2

curved surface area of a cylinder 2π rh

volume of a cylinder π r2h

1 2
volume of a cone πr h
3

volume of a pyramid 1 Ah
3

4 π r3
volume of a sphere
3

1 bc sin (A )
area of a triangle
2

a b c
sine rule = =
sin ( A) sin ( B) sin (C )

cosine rule c2 = a2 + b2 – 2ab cos (C )

Circular functions

cos2 (x) + sin2 (x) = 1

1 + tan2 (x) = sec2 (x) cot2 (x) + 1 = cosec2 (x)

sin (x + y) = sin (x) cos (y) + cos (x) sin (y) sin (x – y) = sin (x) cos (y) – cos (x) sin (y)

cos (x + y) = cos (x) cos (y) – sin (x) sin (y) cos (x – y) = cos (x) cos (y) + sin (x) sin (y)

tan ( x)  tan ( y ) tan ( x)  tan ( y )

tan ( x  y )  tan ( x  y ) 
1  tan ( x) tan ( y ) 1  tan ( x) tan ( y )

cos (2x) = cos2 (x) – sin2 (x) = 2 cos2 (x) – 1 = 1 – 2 sin2 (x)

2 tan ( x)
sin (2x) = 2 sin (x) cos (x) tan (2 x) 
1  tan 2 ( x)
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Circular functions – continued

Function sin–1 or arcsin cos–1 or arccos tan–1 or arctan

Domain [–1, 1] [–1, 1] R

     
Range  2 , 2  [0, �]  , 
   2 2

Algebra (complex numbers)

z  x  iy  r  cos ( )  i sin ( )   r cis ( )

z  x2  y 2  r –π < Arg(z) ≤ π

z1 r1
z2 r2  1 2 
z1z2 = r1r2 cis (θ1 + θ2)  cis   

zn = rn cis (nθ) (de Moivre’s theorem)

Probability and statistics

E(aX + b) = aE(X) + b
for random variables X and Y E(aX + bY ) = aE(X ) + bE(Y )
var(aX + b) = a2var(X )

for independent random variables X and Y var(aX + bY ) = a2var(X ) + b2var(Y )

 s s 
approximate confidence interval for μ x z , xz 
 n n

mean  
E X 
distribution of sample mean X 2
variance var  X  
n

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Calculus
d n
dx
 
x  nx n  1
 x dx  n  1 x
n 1 n 1
 c, n  1

d ax 1 ax
dx
 
e  ae ax
e
ax
dx 
a
e c

d
 x dx  log
1 1
 log e ( x)   e x c
dx x
d
 sin (ax) dx   a cos (ax)  c
1
 sin (ax)   a cos (ax)
dx
d
 cos (ax) dx  a sin (ax)  c
1
 cos (ax)   a sin (ax)
dx
d
 sec (ax) dx  a tan (ax)  c
1
 tan (ax)   a sec2 (ax) 2
dx
d
dx
 
sin 1 ( x) 
1
1  x2 2
x
 a  x dx  sin  a   c, a  0
1
2
1

d
dx

cos 1 ( x)  1
1  x2 
1 x
dx  cos 1    c, a  0
a
a x 2 2

d a x
dx

tan 1 ( x)  1
1  x2 a x2
dx  tan 1    c
2
a


1
(ax  b) n dx  (ax  b) n  1  c, n  1
a (n  1)


1
(ax  b) 1 dx  log e ax  b  c
a
d dv du
product rule  uv   u  v
dx dx dx
du dv
v u
quotient rule d u dx dx
  2
dx  v  v
dy dy du
chain rule =
dx du dx
dy
Euler’s method If = f ( x), x0 = a and y0 = b, then xn + 1 = xn + h and yn + 1 = yn + h f (xn)
dx
d 2x dv dv d  1 
acceleration a   v   v2 
dt 2 dt dx dx  2 
x2 t2

 1   f ( x)  dx or
  x(t ) 2   y(t ) 2 dt
2
arc length
x1 t1

Vectors in two and three dimensions Mechanics

r = x i + yj + zk momentum p = mv
     
r  x2  y 2  z 2  r equation of motion R = ma
  
i d r dx dy dz
r    i j k
 dt dt  dt  dt 
r 1 . r 2  r1r2 cos ( )  x1 x2  y1 y2  z1 z2
 
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