Fort St High School

2021 Year 11 Assessment Task 3 - Online examination

Mathematics Advanced
Total Marks: 55 Working time: 65 minutes

General • This is an open book task

Instructions
• Write using black pen
• Calculators approved by NESA may be used
• A reference sheet will be provided
• Show relevant mathematical reasoning and/or calculations

Specific • You will not be able to leave your desk for the duration of the task.
Instructions:
• Mobile phones must be turned off and out of sight.
• Your microphone and cameras must be on, but you can turn the volume on your devices
down so that any noise from other students does not disturb you.
• You are not permitted to have headphones/ear buds and if you have long hair, please
tie it back.
• You can ask for assistance through the direct chat function of Zoom/Teams or ask as
your microphone is on.
• You are to manage your time and make sure you have a timer at hand to keep within
the assessment time limit.
• At the end of the assessment, you will have 15 minutes to scan and submit your task on
Google Classroom. During this time, if you have any difficulty with submitting your task,
please communicate this with your teacher immediately.
• Please note that submission of the task is your responsibility.
Question 1. (6 marks)

4+ 2
(a) Rationalise the denominator of , simplifying your answer. 2
4− 2

2 1
(b) Simplify − 2 . 2
x +1 x −1

(c) Solve by completing the square 2 x 2 − 14 x + 5 =0 leaving you answer in exact form 2

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Question 2. (7 marks) Start a separate Booklet

Consider the function f ( x ) =( x − 1)( x + 4 ) .

2
(a)

(i) Find f ( 0 ) 1

(ii) Determine whether f ( x ) is considered odd, even or neither.

Justify your answer. 1

(iii) Describe how the graph intersects with the x axis? 2

(b) Consider f (=
x) 18 − x 2 .

(i) State the domain and range of f ( x ) 2

(ii) Identify the type of relation as one-to-one or one-to-many or many-to-one or

many-to-many 1

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Question 3. (8 marks) Start a separate Booklet

(a) Starting from point A, a hiker walks 800 metres on a bearing of 053o T , reaching point B. From point B the
hiker walks a further 1.35 kilometres on a bearing of 165o T until point C.

(i) Draw a one-third page diagram of the hiker’s path. 1

(ii) What is the distance from A to C correct to the nearest metre? 2

(iii) What bearing should the hiker take to get back to A from C? 3

(b) Show that ( cosec x + cot x )( cosec x − cot x ) =

1 2

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Question 4. (7 marks) Start a separate Booklet

(a) Sector ABC has an angle of 0.927 radians and a radius of 5 cm.

0.927c

Find the area of the shaded region BCD correct to 2 decimal places. 3

(b) Solve 6sin 2 θ − sin θ − 1 =0 for 0o ≤ θ ≤ 360o , correct to the nearest degree. 4

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Question 5. (7 marks) Start a separate Booklet

(a) A dragster is a car that races in a straight line.

Its displacement d over 400 m is modelled by the equation

d ( t ) = t 2 + 3t − 2 where time t in seconds is 0 ≤ t ≤ 20 .

d (t + h ) − d (t )
(i) The difference quotient is given by
h

What is the meaning of the difference quotient in this context? 1

(ii) Use the difference quotient to find the average speed of the car over 2
the first 10 seconds.

(b) (i) Use the product rule to differentiate x 2 e x with respect to x. 2

x3
(ii) Use the quotient rule to differentiate with respect to x, simplify your answer. 2
( x − 1)
2

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Question 6. (7 marks) Start a separate Booklet

(a) The graph of y = f ( x ) where x ≠ 0 is shown below.

(i) Explain why y = f ( x ) is continuous or discontinuous? 1

(ii) For what values of x is f ( x ) decreasing? 1

(iii) Sketch a one-third of the page graph of y = f ′ ( x ) 2

(b) y x 3 − 2 x at the point P where x = 2

Find the equation of a normal to the curve = 3

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Question 7. (6 marks) Start a separate Booklet

(a) Loudness, L in decibels dB, is given by the formula

 I 
L = 10log10   ,
 I0 

where I is the intensity level and I 0 is the threshold sound (or sound that can barely be heard).

During a particular day, city traffic noise level was measured to be 67 decibels.

(i) How many more times the threshold of sound is city traffic? 2

(ii) Late at night, the traffic noise’s intensity was measured to be half of what it
is during the day.

How many decibels is this, correct to one decimal place? 1

(b) Solve for x, 3ln=

x ln x − ln 3 . 3

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Question 8. (7 marks) Start a separate Booklet

(a) Gertrude heard that the number of branches on a tree after it was planted could be modelled using the formula

N ( t ) = A (1.04 )
t

where N ( t ) is the number of branches after time t in years.

(i) What does the value of A represent in this equation? 1

(ii) Gertrude bought a tree from a nursery and noted it had 9 branches when she planted it.

To the nearest month, how long does it take for the tree to have 200 branches? 2

(b) A large stone is sinking through a layer of mud. At time t seconds, the displacement of the stone in metres
below the surface is given by

1
 − t
=x 20  1 − e 2 
 

where downwards is taken to be in the positive direction.

dx
(i) Find an equation for the velocity, v, of the stone in terms of t where v = . 1
dt

dv
(ii) Hence find the acceleration, a, of the stone after 2 seconds, where a = . 2
dt

(iii) What happens to displacement as t → ∞ ? 1

End of examination