Applied Paper 3
Applied Paper 3
Applied Paper 3
Level 3 GCE
Mathematics
Advanced Subsidiary
Paper 2: Statistics and Mechanics
• The are 8 questions in this question paper. The total mark for this paper is 60.
marks for each question are shown in brackets
– use this as a guide as to how much time to spend on each question.
Advice
•• Read each question carefully before you start to answer it.
Try to answer every question.
•• Check your answers if you have time at the end.
If you change your mind about an answer, cross it out and put your
new answer and any working underneath. Turn over
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SECTION A: STATISTICS
(a) Use linear interpolation to estimate the median of the coded times.
(c) Calculate an estimate for the median and the standard deviation of t.
(3)
The following year, the company has 25 positions available. The company manager
decides not to offer a position to any applicant who takes 35 minutes or more to
complete the aptitude test.
(d) Comment on whether or not the company manager’s decision will result in the
company being able to fill the 25 positions available from these 60 applicants. Give a
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2. The discrete random variable X ~ B(30, 0.28)
(b) Test, at the 1% significance level, whether or not the proportion, p, of people who bought
organic eggs that day had increased. State your hypotheses clearly.
(5)
(c) State the conclusion you would have reached if a 5% significance level had been used
for this test.
(1)
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3. Pete is investigating the relationship between daily rainfall, w mm, and daily mean
pressure, p hPa, in Perth during 2015. He used the large data set to take a sample of size 12.
He obtained the following results.
(a) Show that the 3 points circled on the scatter diagram above are outliers.
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(b) Describe the effect of removing the 3 outliers on the correlation between daily rainfall
and daily mean pressure in this sample.
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John has also been studying the large data set and believes that the sample Pete has taken is
not random.
(c) From your knowledge of the large data set, explain why Pete’s sample is unlikely to be a
random sample.
(1)
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John finds that the equation of the regression line of w on p, using all the data in the large data
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set, is
w = 1023 – 0.223p
John decided to use the regression line to estimate the daily rainfall for a day in December
when the daily mean pressure is 1011 hPa.
(e) Using your knowledge of the large data set, comment on the reliability of John’s estimate.
(1)
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The Venn diagram below shows the three events A, D and S and the probabilities
associated with each region of D. The constants p, q and r each represent probabilities
associated with the three separate regions outside D.
Dawn and Sergei’s teacher believes that when Sergei is late for school, Dawn tends to be
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(c) State whether or not D and S are independent, giving a reason for your answer.
(1)
(d) Comment on the teacher’s belief in the light of your answer to part (c).
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SECTION B: MECHANICS
5. A small ball is projected vertically upwards from a point A which is 19.6 m above the
ground. The ball strikes the ground, for the first time, 4 s later.
The motion of the ball is modelled as that of a particle moving freely under gravity.
(a) Use the model to find the speed of the ball as it hits the ground for the first time.
(3)
The ball rebounds from the ground with a vertical speed of 14.7 m s-1 and next comes to
instantaneous rest at the point B.
(b) Use the model to find the height of B above the ground.
(2)
In a refined model of the motion of the ball, the effect of air resistance is included and this
(c) How would this new value of the speed of the ball as it hits the ground for the first time
compare with the value found using the initial model in part (a)?
(1)
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6. A car travels along a straight horizontal road between two sets of traffic lights.
The distance between the two sets of traffic lights is 1500 m.
The car completes the journey between the two sets of lights in 120 s.
(a) Sketch, on the diagram below, a velocity-time graph which represents the above
model of the journey of the car between the two sets of traffic lights.
(2)
(b) Using the model, find the value of V.
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It is given that the car accelerates uniformly for T seconds.
(c) Explain why there is a range of possible values for T which satisfy the requirements
of the model.
(2)
(d) Suggest one improvement to the model that would make it more realistic.
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7.
The other end of the rope is attached to another ball, Q, of mass M kg, which hangs freely
below the pulley, as shown in Figure 1.
In the subsequent motion, P does not reach the pulley before Q reaches the ground.
The balls are modelled as particles, the rope as a light and inextensible string and the
pulley as being small and smooth.
The total resistance to the motion of P is modelled as having constant magnitude 1.5 N.
The acceleration due to gravity is modelled as being 10 m s-2
(c) State one limitation of the model which will affect the accuracy of your answer to
part (a). (1)
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8. A particle P moves along a straight line such that at time t seconds, t 0, its velocity,
v m s–1, is given by
Find
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