THE KINGS SCHOOL

General Mathematics
Year 12
Assessment Test
February 2003

General Instructions

Working time 50 minutes

Start a new page for each Part.

All questions may be attempted.

The value of each question is indicated.

Marks may be deducted for careless or

badly arranged work.

Approved calculators may be used.

Begin each question on a new sheet.

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Part A (10 marks)

(a)

(b)
2

Marks

What is the future value of an annuity of $2000 per year at 8?% pa invested
for 18 years?

What is the total interest?

Tom and Dick want to have $30 000 in 6 years' time to expand their business. To
achieve this goal, how much do they need to invest per fortnight at 12% pa
compounded fortnightly?

A playing field is in the shape of an ellipse. The length of the field is 130m and it
is 60m wide. Find the area of the field to the nearest square metre.

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Part B (8 marks)

Marks

Use Simpson's Rule to find an approximation to the area of this shape.

10
13
10
10
12

Find the surface area of a closed hemisphere with radius 30 mm (answer to

nearest square mm).

30 mm

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Find, to the nearest minute, the measure of the angle in the diagram.

7.1

12.3

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Part C (10 marks)

Marks

Find the length of the side 'e' to 1 decimal place.

5cm

7cm
146

In the quadrilateral WXYZ, XY = 95, WXY = 38, WZY = 59, WYX = 115
and YWZ is a right angle. (Measurements in cm.)
Find the length YZ to 1 decimal place.

W
Z
59

38
X

115
95 cm

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(a)

Draw a sketch diagram for this field notebook entry.

(b)

Calculate the area of the block of land. All measurements in metres.

L
64
45 50
38 25
0
K
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Part D (14 marks)

10

Marks

Consider the following distribution:

x

fn

1
2
3
4
5
6
7

3
5
9
6
7
4
6

3
10
27
24
35
24
42

f =

fx =

(a)

Find f

(b)

Find fx

(c)

Find the mean.

(d)

Find the median.

(e)

Find the mode.

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The following sets of data show the ages of males and females who went on a
cruise during the holidays.
(a)

Display these sets of data on an ordered back-to-back stem-and-leaf plot.

Males
15, 30, 25, 18, 10, 28, 32, 35, 23, 21
18, 10, 23, 32, 31, 42, 38, 41, 23, 25

Females

12

18, 16, 25, 19, 12, 27, 31, 32, 36, 43

48, 31, 16, 27, 31, 27, 32, 16, 31, 43

(b)

How many people were in the group?

(c)

How many were females.

(d)

Find the range of the female ages.

(e)

How many 32 year old males went on the cruise?

Consider the following box-and-whisker plot:

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

45

50

Find:
(a)

the median

(b)

the interquartile range

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Answers
Year 12 General Feb 2003
1a) $74900.49
b) $38900.49
2) $131.74
3) 6126m3
2
4) 216 or 216.6 or 217
3
5) 8482 mm2
6) 54045
7) 11.5cm
8) 150.3
9a) See teacher

15
45
12

25

38
b) 2240m2
10a) f = 40
b) fx = 4.125
c) Median=4
d) Mode=3

11a)

88500
8553331
852210
21

1 266689
2 5777
3 1111226
4 338

b) 40 in the group
c) 20 females
d) Range=36
e) 2x32 yo males
12a) Mediam=30
b) Interquartile range=25

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