Student Number: ___________________

Teacher: KS LD LK
Ascham School

Friday 2 August 2024

2024 Year 12 Trial Examination

Mathematics Standard 2
General • Reading time – 10 minutes
Instructions • Working time – 2 hours 30 minutes
• Write using black pen
• Calculators approved by NESA may be used
• A reference sheet is provided
• For questions in Section II, show relevant mathematical reasoning
and/or calculations

Total marks: Section I – 15 marks (pages 3–12)

100 • Attempt Questions 1–15
• Allow about 25 minutes for this section

Section II – 85 marks (pages 13–37)

• Attempt Questions 16–39
• Allow about 2 hours and 5 minutes for this section

Section I Section II
Q1 - 15 Q16 - 26 Q27 – 33 Q34 – 39 TOTAL

15 34 29 22 100
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Section I
15 marks
Attempt Questions 1-15
Allow about 25 minutes for this section.

Use the multiple-choice answer sheet provided for Questions 1-15.

Select the alternative A, B, C or D that best answers the question. Fill in the response oval
completely.
Sample 2 + 4 = (A) 2 (B) 6 (C) 8 (D) 9
A B C D
If you think you have made a mistake, put a cross through the incorrect answer and fill in the new
answer.
A B C D
If you have changed your mind and have crossed out what you consider to be the correct answer,
then indicate this by writing the word correct and drawing an arrow as follows:
correct

A B C D

1 An amount of $4000 is invested at a simple interest rate of 2% per annum. How much interest
is earned in the first 10 years?

(A) $80

(B) $480

(C) $800

(D) $4800

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2 A network diagram is shown:

Which of the following most accurately describe the route presented above?

(A) A closed walk

(B) A path

(C) A cycle

(D) A tree

3 In a normal distribution, approximately what percentage of z-scores are less than 2?

(A) 50%

(B) 47.5%

(C) 95%

(D) 97.5%

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4 A set of 30 scores is displayed in the dot-plot below:

What is the median score?

(A) 20

(B) 21

(C) 21.5

(D) 22

5 An item was purchased for $550, including 10% GST.

What is the amount of GST included in the price?

(A) $5

(B) $5.50

(C) $50

(D) $55

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6 12 builders can build a house in 6 weeks.

How many builders are needed to finish the same house in 4 weeks?

(A) 18 builders

(B) 16 builders

(C) 8 builders

(D) 6 builders

7 A car uses fuel at a rate of 12L/100km.

How much fuel would the car use to travel 425 km?

(A) 8L

(B) 28 L

(C) 35 L

(D) 51 L

8 The pyramid of Cestius, in Rome, Italy, has a square base of side length 29.6 m. Its height is
37 m.

The volume of the pyramid of Cestius is closest to:

(A) 365 m3

(B) 1095 m3

(C) 10806 m3

(D) 32418 m3

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9 A spinner is to be designed so that the probability of the arrow landing in the blue region is
twice that of landing in the green region.

Which spinner below meets the desired specification?

10 Cate has 2000 shares with a current market value of $3.50 each.

During the past twelve months, Cate received a total dividend of $87.50.

What is the current dividend yield on these shares?

(A) 1.25%

(B) 2%

(C) 4%

(D) 12.5%

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11 The map below shows all 7 countries in Central America:

A network diagram is drawn with 7 vertices, where each vertex represents each of the
countries. Edges are drawn to represent a border shared between two countries.

The number of edges that this network has is:

(A) 6

(B) 7

(C) 8

(D) 9

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12 Which of the following graphs best represents the equation ?

(A) (B)

(C) (D)

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13 The following formula can be used to calculate an estimate for blood alcohol content (BAC)
for males.

N is the number of standard drinks consumed

M is the person’s weight in kilograms
H is the number of hours of drinking

Tristan weighs 80 kg. His BAC was zero when he began drinking alcohol. At 10:00 pm, after
consuming 3.5 standard drinks, his BAC was 0.03. Using the formula, estimate at what time
Tristan began drinking alcohol, to the nearest minute.

(A) 3:09 pm

(B) 7:31 pm

(C) 8:04 pm

(D) 9:26 pm

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14 These scatterplots show the number of high-rises in a city and their distance from the city
centre.
Which scatterplot was used to extrapolate that 25 km from the city centre there were 20 high-
rises?

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15 A child’s toy is designed as follows:

The area of the shaded region, in square centimetres, is closest to:

(A) 6

(B) 12

(C) 14

(D) 20

End of Section I

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Section II
85 marks
Attempt all questions.
Allow about 2 hours and 5 minutes for this section.
Answer each question in the space provided.
Show all relevant working in questions involving calculations.

Marks
16 The paddock enclosed by the fence shown in the diagram consists of a rectangle and
a semicircle.

Calculate the area of the paddock, to the nearest square metre.

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17 A refrigerator has a power rating of 150 W. This refrigerator runs continuously.

(a) How much energy does the refrigerator consume in a week? Answer in 1
kWh.

(b) What is the cost of using the refrigerator for a week if the cost of electricity 1
is 35.71 cents/kWh.

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18 A farmer used the ‘capture-recapture’ technique to estimate the number of chickens 2
on his farm. He captured, tagged and released 36 of the chickens.

Later, he caught a second sample of chickens, and found that 40 did not have a tag,
while 6 did have a tag.

What is the estimate for the total number of chickens on this farm?

19 The population of Barbieland in the 2021 census was 5 760 000. The annual growth 2
rate of Barbieland is estimated at 1.81% per annum.

Therefore the population, P, of Barbieland, n years after the 2021 census is given by
the equation:

Using the formula, or otherwise, find an estimate for the size of Barbieland’s
population three years after the 2021 census. Express your answer to the nearest
thousand.

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20 Peta is driving through a carpark at 20 km/h when she has to brake suddenly to 3
avoid a collision with another car. Her reaction time is 1.5 seconds. The braking
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distance (D metres) is given by D = 0.01v , where v is speed in km/h.

Stopping distance can be calculated using the following formula:

stopping distance
= {reaction time distance} + {braking distance}

Calculate Peta’s stopping distance, correct to the nearest metre.

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21 The table shows income tax rates for the 2023-2024 financial year. 3

Taxable income Tax on this income

0 – $18 200 Nil
$18 201 – $45 000 19c for each $1 over $18 200
$45 001 – $120 000 $5092 plus 32.5c for each $1 over $45 000
$120 001 – $180 000 $29 467 plus 37c for each $1 over $120 000
$180 001 and over $51 667 plus 45c for each $1 over $180 000

Chris has a gross annual salary of $115 800. He has allowable tax deductions of
$3700 for work-related expenses and $1200 in charitable donations.
Chris must also pay a Medicare levy of 2% of his taxable income.

Calculate the total tax payable by Chris including the Medicare levy.

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22 Simon makes necklaces and sells them. The graph below shows the cost of making
necklaces and the income received from their sale.

(a) What is the y-intercept of the cost line, and what does it represent? 2

(b) How many necklaces need to be sold to break even? 1

(c) What is the profit when five necklaces are sold? 1

(d) Write an equation for the cost, C, in terms of n. 1

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23 The diagram below shows a compass radial survey of a field ABCD.

(a) Determine the size of . 1

(b) Calculate the area of , in square metres, correct to three significant 3

figures.

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24 A network of water pipes with source S and sink T is shown below.
The numbers on the edges show the maximum capacity of each pipe in litres per
minute.

(a) Determine the capacity of Cut 1, in litres per minute. 1

(b) Determine the maximum flow of this network, in litres per minute. 1

(c) Draw the minimum cut on the diagram above. 1

(d) You wish to increase the maximum flow through the network, but you only 2
have the budget to replace one pipe.
Determine which pipe should be replaced and the new maximum flow
through this network, in litres per minute.

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25 Sam scored 76 in her first school assessment task for which the mean was 66 and the 2
standard deviation was 10.

In her second assessment task, she scored 85. for which the mean was 71 and the
standard deviation was 14.

Did Sam’s performance improve from her first assessment task to the second?
Justify your answer with reference to Sam’s z-scores.

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26 The network below represents the walking course for a scavenger hunt. The weight
on each edge represents the time (in minutes) it takes to walk between each
checkpoint.

(a) Name the vertex with even degree. 1

(b) Draw the minimum spanning tree and determine its weight. 2

Weight of minimum spanning tree: _____________________________

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27 Sophie deposits $600 into an account at the end of every six months for 4 years.
The account pays 4% per annum interest, compounding every six months.

(a) Use the table above to find the future value of Sophie’s investment after 4 2
years, correct to the nearest cent.

(b) Calculate the amount of interest that Sophie will earn on this investment. 1

(c) Find the single amount Sophie can invest now for 4 years at 4% per annum, 2
compounding every six months, to achieve the same result.

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28 Zendaya surveys her extended family on each person’s foot length and height,
measured in centimetres. The data is displayed in the table and scatterplot below.
The least squares regression line for this data is also shown.

Height (cm) 140 142 150 151 152 152 160 168
Foot length (cm) 22 21.5 22 22.5 24 23 24 25

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Foot length, f (cm)

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23

22

21

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130 140 150 160 170 180
Height, h (cm)

(a) Calculate Pearson’s correlation coefficient, correct to 3 decimal places. 1

(b) Explain what your result tells you about height and foot length. 1

Question 28 continues on page 25

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(c) Zendaya’s younger sister is 150 cm tall. According to the least squares 1
regression line, what should be her foot length?

(d) Zendaya decides to include herself in the data. Her foot length is 24.4 cm and 1
her height is 178 cm.

When this point is added to the plot, what happens to the gradient of the
regression line?

End of question 28

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29 A farmer wants to build a rectangular garden bed so that the length is 4 metres
longer than the width.

(a) Write an equation for the area of the garden bed, A, in terms of the length, l. 1

(b) A graph comparing the area of the garden bed to its length is shown.

Why are lengths between 0 and 4 metres not possible? 1

(c) Use the graph to determine the dimensions of the garden bed when the area 2
is 45 m2.

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30 The directed graph below shows the sequence of activities required to complete a kitchen
renovation project. The time taken to complete each activity, in weeks, is also shown.

(a) List the activities on the critical path. 1

(b) Complete a forward and backward scan of the project. 2

(c) Determine the float time for activity B. 1

(d) The project manager hires more builders such that Activity D’s duration is 1
reduced to 3 weeks. What is the new critical time for the project?

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31 The table below is used to find the present value of a $1 annuity at different interest
rates over different numbers of time periods.

Present value of an annuity of $1 per period at the end of n periods

Interest rate per period
Period 0.2% 0.25% 0.5% 0.75% 1% 2%
12 11.8454 11.8073 11.6189 11.4349 11.2551 10.5753
24 23.4103 23.2660 22.5629 21.8891 21.2434 18.9139
36 34.7011 34.3865 32.8710 31.4468 30.1075 25.4888
48 45.7244 45.1787 42.5803 40.1848 37.9740 30.6731
60 56.4866 55.6524 51.7256 48.1734 44.9550 34.7609

Anthony borrowed $25 000 to buy a car.

Interest is charged at 2% interest per annum, compounded quarterly.
Anthony will repay the loan in full, with quarterly repayments over six years.

(a) Find Anthony’s quarterly repayment, correct to the nearest cent. 2

(b) The balance of the loan, An, in dollars, after n quarters, can be modelled by 2
the recurrence relation:

where R is Anthony’s quarterly repayment and Ao = 25000.

Use this recurrence relation to find the balance of the loan after two quarters.
Answer to the nearest cent.

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32 Elsa lives in Sydney (UTC+10). Her sister Anna is an exchange student in Denver,
Colorado USA (UTC–7).

(a) What is the time difference between Sydney and Denver? 1

(b) Anna boards a flight from Denver to Sydney via Los Angeles. 3
Her plane left Denver on Friday at 4:00 pm (Denver time), stopped for 4
hours in Los Angeles, and arrived in Sydney at 6:30 am on Sunday.
What was the plane’s total flying time?

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33 The graph below gives information about the weights of boys aged between 10 and
20.
BOYS - HEIGHT FOR AGE
190

180

170
Height (cm)

160 lower quartile

median
150 upper quartile

140

130
10 12 14 16 18 20
Age (years)

(a) Find the IQR of 15-year-old boys in this group. 1

(b) What is the maximum possible range for 15-year-olds if there are no 2
outliers?

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34 Two machines, A and B, produce light globes. It is known that 4% of the light
globes produced by machine A are faulty and that 2% of the light globes produced
by machine B are faulty.

Timothee selects two light globes at random, one from each machine.

(a) Complete the probability tree diagram by writing the correct probability on 2
each branch.

(b) Find the probability of choosing two faulty light globes. Answer as a 1
percentage.

(c) What is the probability that at least one light globe is faulty? Answer as a 2
percentage.

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35 An aeroplane completed a flight consisting of three stages. 3

Starting at Amberley (A), it flew 40 km directly due north to Beachwood (B).

From Beachwood, it flew 76 km on a bearing of 290° to Chalton (C).
From Chalton, it flew 97 km to return to Amberley.

Find the bearing of the trip from Chalton to Amberley. Round your answer to the
nearest degree.

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36 While Barbie is on holidays she buys a new laptop computer for $1200. Using the 3
straight-line method of depreciation, the salvage value, S, of the laptop computer
will be zero in six years time, as shown on the graph below.

Using the declining balance method of depreciation, at a rate of R% per annum, the
salvage value is represented by the dotted curve on the graph below.

Both methods give the same salvage value after three years. Find the value of R,
correct to the nearest whole.

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37 A large storage tank consists of a cylinder with a hemisphere at each end.

The cylinder has a length of 12 m and a diameter of x m, as shown in the diagram

below.

(a) A scale model of this storage tank is constructed. The length of the cylinder 1
of the scale model is 480 mm.

Show that scale used to construct the model is 1:25.

(b) The diameter of the scale model of the tank is 160 mm. 3

The real tank is filled with fuel at a rate of 1000 L/min.

How long does it take to fill the tank completely? Answer in hours and
minutes, correct to the nearest minute.

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38 Two hotels, the Belleview and the Grandview, built on flat, level ground, face each
other. The Grandview has a height of 40.3 m.

From Fred’s window ledge in the Belleview, F, he measured an angle of elevation 3

of 20° to the top of the Grandview and an angle of depression of 17° to the ground
at the Grandview. This information is shown in the diagram below.

By first finding the distance labelled x, find the height, h, from the ground to Fred’s
window ledge. Answer in metres, to one decimal place.

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39 There is a “Giant Pumpkins” competition at the Royal Easter Show. The weights of 4
pumpkins were normally distributed, with a mean of 8 kg and a standard deviation
of 1.5 kg.

The largest pumpkins were given awards. Three award categories were used:

• Honours for the heaviest 15% of pumpkins;

• Distinction for the next 15% and
• Commendation for the next 20%.

Emma’s pumpkin only just missed out on a commendation. Lachlan’s pumpkin

only just qualified for honours. Determine the weight difference, to the nearest
gram, between Emma and Lachlan’s pumpkins.

You may use the standardised z-scores table on page 37 to assist you.

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