Practice Paper 1 (DP IB Maths: AI HL)

Practice Paper Questions

1a
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The line l subscript 1 passes through the points (1, 7) and (5, 5).

Find the equation of l subscript 1. Give your answer in the form of y space equals space m x space plus space c.

1b
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A new line, l subscript 2, is perpendicular to l subscript 1 and passes through the point (4, 8).

Find the equation of l subscript 2. Give your answer in the form of y space equals space m x space plus space c.

1c
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The point Z is the intersection of l subscript 1 and l subscript 2.

Find the coordinates of Z.

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2a
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3 marks

A function is defined by f open parentheses x close parentheses equals 4 minus fraction numerator 12 over denominator 5 x plus 9 end fraction,  for negative 5 less or equal than x less or equal than 5 comma space x not equal to negative 9 over 5. 

Find the range of f.

2b
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Find an expression for the inverse function f to the power of negative 1 end exponent open parentheses x close parentheses. The domain is not required.

2c
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1 mark

Write down the range of f to the power of negative 1 end exponent open parentheses x close parentheses.

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3a
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It is claimed that women from Japan are taller on average than women from India. The heights, in cm, of 11 women from each country have been collated in the table below.

Japan India
173.0 155.2
158.2 157.8
148.5 156.0
150.6 142.7
168.7 149.6
149.8 150.1
158.8 152.6
155.3 148.2
159.2 151.3
158.9 147.6
166.0 168.0

A t-test is to be performed at the 5% significance level.
State the null and alternative hypotheses.

3b
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Find the p-value for this test.

3c
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State whether or not the initial claim is justified. Give a reason for your answer.

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4a
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Adah would like to estimate the height of a tree located at point P on the edge of a  riverbank, with the top of the tree at point straight Q. However, due to a raging river, she is unable to reach the base of the tree. From point straight M she measures an angle of elevation of 20° to the top of the tree, and then from point N (which is on the edge of Adah's bank of the river) she measures an angle of elevation of 35° to the top of the tree. Between the points straight M and straight N she measures a horizontal distance of 12 m. Points straight M comma space straight N and straight P all lie on a single horizontal line, and point straight Q is vertically above point straight P. The diagram below shows this  information.

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Calculate the length of NQ.

4b
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Calculate the height of the tree.

4c
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3 marks

Adah borrows a boat and crosses the river at a rate of 50 metres per 15 minutes.

Assuming that she crosses in a straight line directly from point straight N to point straight P, find out how long it takes her to cross the river.

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5a
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3 marks

A new car costs $20 000 and its value depreciates to $14 792 after 2 years.

Calculate

i)
the annual rate of depreciation of the car

ii)
the value of the car after 5 years. Give your answer correct to 2 decimal places.
5b
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Find the number of years and months it will take for the car's value to be approximately $4000.

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6a
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4 marks

The function g left parenthesis x right parenthesis space equals space a x squared space plus space b x space plus space c intercepts the y-axis at —16, has an x-intercept when space x space equals space long dash 4 space and can be obtained by an appropriate translation of the graph y space equals space 2 x squared.

i)
Find the values of a, b and c.

ii)
Write down g space left parenthesis x right parenthesis.
6b
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Find the other x-intercept of g space left parenthesis x right parenthesis.

6c
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2 marks

Write down the coordinates of the vertex of g space left parenthesis x right parenthesis.

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7a
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Ashley and Emma are attempting to swim a total of 2000 m each by completing laps of a 25 m pool. Ashley swims her first lap in 17 s and takes 0.2 s longer each lap after that.
Emma swims her first lap in 16.5 s and takes 1.01 s times longer each lap after that.

i)
Find the time Ashley takes to swim her final lap.

ii)
Find the time Emma takes to swim her final lap.
7b
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i)
State who swims the 2000 m the fastest.

ii)
Find the mean lap time for both Ashley and Emma.

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8
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Consider the lines  l subscript 1 and l subscript 2 defined by the equations:

 l subscript 1 colon open curly brackets table row cell x equals 2 plus 6 lambda end cell row cell y equals 2 plus q lambda end cell row cell z equals negative 8 minus 5 lambda end cell end table close

l subscript 2 colon r equals open parentheses table row cell negative 4 end cell row 5 row p end table close parentheses plus lambda open parentheses table row cell negative 24 end cell row 12 row 20 end table close parentheses 

Given that  l subscript 1 and l subscript 2 are identical, find the value of p and q.

 

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9a
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A carpet salesman in interested how his sales are distributed and records his sales results over a period of six months. The data is shown in the table.

Month January February March April May June
Number of sales 16 12 14 20 15 19

A chi-squared goodness of fit test is to be performed on the data at the 5% significance level to find out whether the data fits a uniform distribution.

The critical value for the test is 11.070 and the hypotheses are

                     H0: The data satisfies the model.
                     H1: The data does not satisfy the model.

Find an estimate of how many carpets the salesman expects to sell each month.

9b
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Write down the number of degrees of freedom for this test.

9c
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State the conclusion of the test. Give a reason for your answer.

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10a
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Let D be a normally distributed random variable that represents the distance travelled in metres by a slug in one day. The distance covered by a random sample of 21 slugs on a randomly selected day can be summarized as follows

straight capital sigma d equals 341 comma space straight capital sigma d squared equals 5881.

Find an unbiased estimate of the mean, mu, of D.

10b
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Use the formula s subscript n minus 1 end subscript squared equals fraction numerator straight capital sigma x squared minus fraction numerator open parentheses straight capital sigma x close parentheses over denominator n end fraction squared over denominator n minus 1 end fraction to find an unbiased estimate of the variance of D.

10c
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Find a 95% confidence interval for μ.

10d
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Justin believes that the average slug travels 15 m per day.

State whether or not Justin’s statement is valid. Give a reason for your answer.

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11a
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The graph G below shows 7 towns and the train tracks that the connect them, with the vertices representing the towns and the weighting of each edge indicating the time taken in minutes to walk along the section of track.

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State the degree of each vertex.

11b
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Explain why G does not contain an Eulerian circuit.

11c
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The railway company in charge of maintaining the track wishes to inspect all sections of the track for defects after a storm event.

Find the minimum time it would take for a railway worker who was walking to inspect all of the track.

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12a
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It is given that that z subscript 1 equals 2 e to the power of straight i open parentheses pi over 3 close parentheses end exponent and z subscript 2 equals 3   c i s left parenthesis fraction numerator n pi over denominator 12 end fraction right parenthesis comma space n element of straight integer numbers to the power of plus. 

Find the value of z subscript 1 z subscript 2for n equals 3. 

12b
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Find the least value of n such that z subscript 1 z subscript 2 element of straight real numbers to the power of plus.

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13a
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The diagram below shows the plan of a school building.

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Construct a graph to represent this information, using vertices to represent rooms and edges to represent the connecting doors.

 

13b
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For a prank, a student releases a monkey into the English classroom at 8:30 pm on Thursday.  The monkey continues to wander at random through the school building all night until the cleaner arrives at 6 am on Friday morning. 

By inspecting the steady state probabilities, write down the room in which the cleaner is most likely to discover the monkey.

 

13c
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Stating clearly any assumptions you have made, find an approximation for the total length of time the monkey is likely to have spent in the Maths classroom before the cleaner arrives.

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14a
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Points in a plane are subjected to a transformation T colon open parentheses table row x row y end table close parentheses rightwards arrow from bar open parentheses table row cell x apostrophe end cell row cell y apostrophe end cell end table close parentheses comma where T is defined by:

 T colon open parentheses table row cell x apostrophe end cell row cell y apostrophe end cell end table close parentheses equals open parentheses table row cell begin inline style 1 half end style end cell cell begin inline style fraction numerator square root of 3 over denominator 2 end fraction end style end cell row cell begin inline style fraction numerator square root of 3 over denominator 2 end fraction end style end cell cell negative begin inline style 1 half end style end cell end table close parentheses open parentheses table row x row y end table close parentheses plus open parentheses table row p row 6 end table close parentheses           

Given that a point A open parentheses 4 comma space q close parentheses is mapped to A to the power of apostrophe open parentheses 7 minus square root of 3 comma space 2 square root of 3 plus 7 close parentheses , find p and q, where p comma q element of straight real numbers.

14b
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Given that Tcomprises two individual transformations describe in full the composite transformation T.

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15a
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The number of spam emails that Arturo receives per day is modelled by a Poisson distribution with a mean of 25 spam emails per day.

After changing the settings on his spam filter, Arturo decides to test whether the new settings have reduced the number of spam emails he receives. To do this he records the number of spam emails he receives over a period of one week. He decides to use a 5% level of significance for his test.

State the null and alternative hypotheses for the test.

15b
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5 marks

(i)
Find the critical value and the critical region for Arturo’s test.

(ii)
Hence find the probability that Arturo will make a Type I error in determining the conclusion of his test.
15c
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2 marks

During the 1-week period, Arturo receives 149 spam emails.

State Arturo’s conclusion to his test, being sure to justify your answer.

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16a
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A particle P moves in a straight line, such that its displacement x at time t is defined by the differential equation x equals x open parentheses straight e to the power of cos space t minus 1 end exponent close parentheses sin space t comma space t greater or equal than 0. At time t equals 0 comma space x equals straight e.

By using Euler’s method with a step length of 0.2, find an approximate value for xwhen t equals 0.6.

16b
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Solve the differential equation to find the actual value of x when t equals 0.6.

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17a
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A manufacturing process takes place inside a sealed chamber and produces a pollutant that decays over time.  After the process is completed, at time t = 0 seconds, the amount of pollutant, P  ppm (parts per million) in the chamber is modelled by

 P equals P subscript B plus P subscript A e to the power of k t end exponent 

Write down an expression for

(i)
the background level of the pollutant in the chamber,

(ii)
the amount of pollutant in the chamber at the moment the process completes,

(iii)
the half-life of the pollutant.
17b
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2 marks

The half-life of the pollutant is t subscript 0.5 end subscript equals e to the power of 4.

Find the value of k.

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