Semester 2 Examination 2011

Question/Answer booklet
Hale School


MATHEMATICS 3AB

Section One:
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Student Name : Score :
(out of 40)

Teacher : STL MS MRC
(Circle)


Time allowed for this section
Reading time before commencing work: 5 minutes
Working time for paper: 50 minutes


Material required/recommended for this section

To be provided by the supervisor
Question/Answer booklet for Section One, with a formula sheet which may also be used for
Section Two.

To be provided by the candidate
Standard items: pens, pencils, pencil sharpener, highlighter, eraser, ruler



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 notes or other items of a non-personal nature in the
examination room. If you have any unauthorised material with you, hand it to the supervisor
before reading any further.

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Structure of this paper


Number of
questions
available
Number of
questions to be
attempted
Suggested
working time
(minutes)
Marks
available
Section One
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6 6 50 minutes 40
Section Two
Calculatorassumed
11 11 100 minutes 80
Total marks 120


Instructions to candidates

1. Answer the questions in the spaces provided.

2. Spare answer pages are provided at the end of this booklet. If you need to use them, indicate
in the original answer space where the answer is continued i.e. give the page number. Fill in
the number of the question(s) that you are continuing to answer at the top of the page.

3. Show all your working clearly. Your working should be in sufficient detail to allow your
answers to be checked readily and for marks to be awarded for reasoning. Incorrect answers
given without supporting reasoning cannot be allocated any marks. For any question or part
question worth more than two marks, valid working or justification is required to receive full
marks. If you repeat an answer to any question, ensure that you cancel the answer you do
not wish to have marked.

4. It is recommended that you do not use pencil except in diagrams.


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Section One: CalculatorFree 40 marks

This section has SIX (6) questions. Attempt ALL questions.



Question 1 [6 marks]

Simplify the following expressions, expressing answers with positive indices :

(a) 2a
-1
[1]

(b) (ab)
3
x 3b
-3


[2]


(c) If
3 2
x y
5
a
= a
a
, determine the value of the integers x and y.
[3]








Question 2 [6 marks]

Given that f(x) = (x + 2)
2
- 4, g(x) =
2
+ 3
x + 1


(a) Give the domain and range of function g.
[2]




(b) If f(a) = 0, determine the possible value(s) of the constant a.
[2]






(c) If the graph of function g is translated 3 units down and then dilated vertically about
the line y = 0 with factor 2, write the defining rule for the resultant transformed graph
t(x).



[2]

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Question 3 [7 marks]

The pair of linear equations 2x - y = 9 . . . (1)
3x + 2y = 10 . . . (2)

can be solved using different methods. Solve the pair of equations using the :

(a) method of substitution
[3]















(b) method of elimination

[2]














(c) It was found that another equation kx - 7y = 60 had no solution when it was solved
simultaneously with equation (1) above.

Determine the value of the constant k.
Explain.







[2]


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Question 4 [9 marks]

Find the derivatives for each of the following functions. Take derivatives to a reasonable level
of simplification.

(a) f(x) = x
2
- 4x
3
+ 12
[2]






(b) Using the product rule differentiate g(x) = 2x
5
(4x + 3)
i.e. do not expand
[4]
















(c) y =
2 7
2x - 6x
4x


[3]




















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Question 5 [6 marks]

A rectangle can be defined as a parallelogram with ONE right angle.

(a) Explain, why using this definition, it will mean that ALL angles of a rectangle will be right
angles.
[1]












A student sets out to prove for a rectangle, the diagonals are equal in length, but he leaves
some gaps in his proof as he is uncertain what to write, especially in providing the reasons for
his statements.

(b) Complete the gaps in his proof in the spaces provided.








[5]

In s ADB and ADC :

AB = DC Property of a parallelogram (given)

sBAD = sADC

AD = AD

BAD CDA

DB = AC










A
B
C D
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Question 6 [6 marks]

(a) Write an algebraic expression for a number that is always three more than an even
number.
[2]





(b) Hence prove that the square of a number that is always three more than an even
number is one more than a multiple of 4.

[4]









































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Additional working space

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