Macquarie Fields High School

Higher School Certificate

Assessment Task 1
Term 4 2016
Mathematics Faculty

Everyone Counts

MATHEMATICS
EXTENSION 1
Reading Time - 5 minutes
Working Time One hour

General Instructions Total marks 35

o Attempt all questions. Section I
o Show your answers to Questions 1-5 5 marks
on the multiple choice answer sheet Attempt Questions 1-5
provided on the back of the cover Totalmarks
Total Allow
marks about
70 70 8 minutes for this
page of your answer booklet. section
o In all other questions, all necessary Section
Section
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10 10Section
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working should be shown.
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Attempt Questions
Questions
1-10
1-10
o Write using a black or blue pen. Attempt Questions 6for-8for
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o Board approved calculators may be Allow
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section about 52 minutes for this
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Section
SectionII II
60 60 Examiner:
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Examiner:
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Section I
Attempt questions 1 5.
Allow about 8 minutes to do this section.

Use the multiple choice answer sheet provided for Questions 1 5.

1.
What is the number of asymptotes on the graph of ?
(A) 1

(B) 2

(C) 3

(D) 4

2.
Consider the function whose derivative is given by

What is the nature of the stationary point at x = 0?

(A) Relative Maximum

(B) Relative Minimum

(C) Horizontal Point of Inflexion

(D) Global Maximum

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3.
Evaluate

(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

4.

Evaluate
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

5.
If , then the values of m are?

(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

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Section II
30 marks

Attempt Question 6 to 8.
Allow about 52 minutes for this section.

Answer in your booklet. Show all necessary working.

Question 6 (10 marks) Start work on a new page Marks

(a) The diagram below shows the sketch of

2 4 6 8 x

Find the values of x for which:

(i) is increasing. 1

(ii) has a turning point. 1

(iii) has a horizontal point of inflexion. 1

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(b)
For the curve

(i) Find the asymptotes. 1

(ii) Find the stationary points, and determine their nature. 2

(iii) Find the points of inflexion. 2

(iv) 2
Using half a page, neatly sketch

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Question 7 (10 marks) Start work on a new page Marks

(a) In the diagram below ABCD forms an isosceles trapezium where and

Length AB + BC + CD = 36 cm. BC makes an angle of with CD.

A D

NOT TO SCALE
x cm x cm

B C

(i) Show that the area of the trapezium, ABCD, is given by 3

(ii) Find the length of CD which maximises the area of trapezium ABCD. 2

(b
) For the curve

(i) 1
Show that

(ii) Show that Simpsons Rule with 3 function values used to approximate the area between the 3

curve, the x-axis and the ordinates at x = m and x = n, gives you the same expression as

(iii) Hence what conclusion can be made? 1

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Question 8 (10 marks) Start work on a new page Marks

(a) The diagram shows a unit square, ABCD, where A(1,0), B(1,1), C(2,1), D(2,0).

(i) Copy the diagram into your answer booklet.

(ii) A line l with gradient m passes through the origin and cuts AB and CD at P and Q 1
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 respectively.

What are the possible values of the gradient m?

(iii) For what value(s) of m does the line l divide the area of the square in the ratio 2:1? 2

(b) A curve has gradient function It passes through the origin and has a maximum 2
turning point at (2, 8).

Find a and b.

(c) For the curve split the interval into n rectangles of width h (as shown below),

which means that .

Let the sum of the areas of the n rectangles.

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 1

1+h

1 + 2h

1 + 3h

1 + 4h

1 + 5h

1 + (n-2)h

1 + (n-1)h

1 + nh = 2
.
.
.

(i) 1
Show that

(ii) 1
Hence show that

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(iii) 2
Using

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 and

and and the result from part (ii)

Show that

(iv)
1
Hence find

End of examination.

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