Girraween High School

2023 Year 10 Mathematics

Yearly Exam

General Instructions Teacher

• Time allowed: 2 hours plus 5 minutes reading time  Ms Kularajendran

• Write using black pen.  Mr Hurley
• Answer in the spaces provided.  Ms Sreedevi
• NESA approved calculators may be used.  Ms Li
• Marks may be deducted for poorly arranged work.  Ms Bonala
• Show all necessary working out.

Name ___________________________________

Question NA MG SP Total

Non Calculator /20

Multiple Choice /11 /4 /5 /20

Short Answer /7 /4 /4 /15

Q1 /19 /19

Q2 /18 /18

Q3 /16 /16

Q4 /19 /19

Total /75 /24 /28 /107

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 2023 Year 10 Yearly Exam
Multiple Choice Answer Sheet

Name ______________________________________
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 2023 Year 10 Mathematics Yearly Exam
Multiple Choice Questions
• Select your answer on the Multiple Choice Answer Sheet provided.
• All Questions are worth 1 mark.

Questions
𝑥
1) Which of these equations is equivalent to 𝑦 = 5 − 3 ?

A) 𝑥 + 5𝑦 − 3 = 0
B) 5𝑥 − 𝑦 + 3 = 0
C) 𝑥 − 5𝑦 − 15 = 0
D) 𝑥 − 5𝑦 + 15 = 0

2) The diagram shows the line y = x intersecting the semicircle with centre (0, 0) and radius 2, at the
point P.

R is the foot of the perpendicular from P to the x-axis. y

What is the area of triangle OPR? y=x

A) 1 P

B) √2
x
0 R
C) 2√2

D) 4

3) To the nearest degree, what is the size of angle Ø shown in this diagram?

y
k
A) 26°
DIAGRAM NOT TO SCALE
B) 27°
Ø
C) 63° 2 x

D) 64° –4

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4) Solve 2𝑥 2 − 5𝑥 − 1 = 0

5±√17
A) 𝑥 = 4

−5±√17
B) 𝑥 = 4

5±√33
C) 𝑥 = 4

−5±√33
D) 𝑥 = 4

5) Consider the function 𝑓(𝑥) = 𝑥 3 .

The function 𝑔(𝑥) = (𝑥 − 4)3 can best be described graphically as:

A) 𝑓(𝑥) moved up 4 units.

B) 𝑓(𝑥) moved down 4 units.

C) 𝑓(𝑥) moved to the right by 4 units.

D) 𝑓(𝑥) moved to the left by 4 units.

6) Which of the following is equivalent to 5n – 5n – 1 ?

A) 5

B) 5n – 1

C) 4(5n – 1)

D) 4(5n – 1)

7) Which of the following is equivalent to w – w–1?

w2 –1
A)
w

w2 – 2
B)
w

C) w2 – 2

D) 1

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8) David drew a correct diagram that gave the solution to the simultaneous equations 𝑦 = 2𝑥 − 5
and 𝑦 = 𝑥 + 6.

Which diagram did he draw?

A) B)

C) D)

9) This graph represents the function 𝑦 = 𝑔(𝑥).

Which graph best represents the equation 𝑦 = 𝑔(𝑥) − 𝑘, where 𝑘 > 0.

A) B) C) D)

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10) If an electrical current varies inversely with resistance, what is the effect on the current
when the resistance is doubled?

A) The current is doubled.

B) The current is exactly the same.
C) The current is halved.
D) The current is squared.

11) The container below is to be filled with water at a uniform rate. Select the graph that best shows
the change in the height of the water against time.

12) What is the area of the shaded part of this quadrant, to the nearest square centimetre?

A) 34𝑐𝑚2
B) 42𝑐𝑚2
C) 50𝑐𝑚2
D) 193𝑐𝑚2

13) The volume of a sphere is 36π cm3. What is the surface area (cm2) of the sphere?

A) 36π
B) 42π
C) 48π
D) 72π

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14) An equilateral triangle has a side length of 8 cm.
What is the area (cm2) of the triangle?

A) 8√3
8 cm DIAGRAM NOT TO SCALE
B) 16√3
C) 32
D) 32√3

15) The height of the cone is twice the length of its diameter.
Which expression gives the volume of the cone?
𝜋𝑥 3
A) 𝑉 =
12
2𝜋𝑥 3 2x
B) 𝑉 =
3
𝜋𝑥 3
C) 𝑉 =
6
2𝜋𝑥 4
D) 𝑉 =
3 x

16) The height of each student in a class was measured and it was found that the mean height
was 160cm. Two students were absent. When their heights were included in the data for the
class, the mean height did not change.
Which of the following heights are possible for the two absent students?

A) 155 cm and 162 cm

B) 152 cm and 167 cm
C) 149 cm and 171 cm
D) 143 cm and 178 cm

17) The frequency histogram shows the number of goals scored by a football team in each game in a
season.

What is the mean number of goals?

Goals scored
A) 1 6

Number
B) 1.6 of 4
Games
C) 2 2

D) 2.6 0
0 1 2 3 4
Number of Goals

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18) There are 20 cards in a game of shape recognition for young children.
5 cards have a picture of a cube, 5 have cylinders, 5 have pyramids and 5 have cones.
Sally has been given the following four cards at random from the set of 20 and these cards are
kept out on the table.

What is the probability that Sally's next (5th) card randomly drawn from the set, will give her
"three of a kind"?

2
A) 3
4
B)
5
1
C) 8
3
D)
8

19) A set of data is displayed in this box-and-whisker plot.

What is the interquartile range?

A) 40
B) 155
C) 190
D) 150
20) A bag contains red, green, yellow and blue balls.
The table shows the probability of choosing a red, green or blue ball from the bag.
If there are 12 yellow balls in the bag, how many
balls are in the bag altogether?

A) 16
B) 36
C) 48
D) 60

End of Multiple Choice questions.

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Short Answer Questions (15 marks)
• Write you answer in the space provided.
• All Questions are worth 1 mark.

Questions Answers
1) 1
Evaluate log 2 32.

2) If the lines with equations 2𝑥 − 4𝑦 + 1 = 0 and 𝑦 = 2𝑚𝑥 are

perpendicular, what is the value of m?

3) Expand and simplify (3√7 – 2)2

4) The stopping distance 𝑑 (metres) for a vehicle travelling at a speed

𝑠 (kilometres per hour) can also be given by the formula:

𝑠 𝑠
𝑑= ( + 2)
10 20

Use this formula to calculate the stopping distance of a car

travelling at 40km/h in a school zone.

5) What is the equation of the line 𝑙 ?

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 Questions Answers
6) Solve 6𝑥(𝑥 − 3) = 0

7) Solve 2𝑥 = 7. Give your answer to 1 decimal place.

8) The Great Pyramid of Egypt has a square base of side 230 m. Its
perpendicular height is 135 m.

What is the volume of the pyramid?

9) Find the value of 𝑥 if: cos(30°) = sin(𝑥), where 0 < 𝑥 < 90𝑜 .

10) Solve tan 𝜃 = − 1

for 0 ≤ 𝜃 ≤ 360𝑜
√3

11) An astronomical unit (AU) is the mean distance from the centre of
the Earth to the centre of the Sun.

1 AU = 149 597 870 km

The dwarf planet Pluto is approximately 39.79 AU from the Sun.

Express this distance in km.
Answer in scientific notation correct to 2 significant figures.

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 Questions Answers
12) The following box-and-whisker plot shows the number of hours
spent doing gardening by a group of 60 people.

How many people gardened for more than 20 hours?

15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

13) Find the median from the table below.

14) A group of 12 students sat a Science exam. The marks obtained in

the Science exam are as follows:
Science:
42, 60, 74, 76, 58, 64,
80, 39, 78, 84, 53, 57

Calculate the standard deviation of the Science exam.

(Answer correct to 2 decimal places)

15) The arrow is spun and will point to one of the four colours when it
stops. If the arrow is spun twice, what is the probability that it
points to the same colour both times it stops?

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Extended Response Questions
Show all working where necessary.

Question 1 (19 marks)

a) Factorise fully 3𝑦 4 − 12𝑦 2 2

b)
i) By completing the square, show that 𝑥 2 + 𝑦 2 + 6𝑥 − 4𝑦 − 12 = 0 is equivalent to 1
(𝑥 + 3)2 + (𝑦 − 2)2 = 25

ii) State the centre and radius of the circle. 2

Centre ___________________ radius _________________

iii) State its domain. 1

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c) Solve for 𝑥: log 2 (𝑥 − 2) + log 2 𝑥 = 3 3

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d) Sketch the curve 𝑓(𝑥) = 2𝑥 + 3 on the axes below. Show any important features. 2

e) State the domain and range of 𝑦 = log 2 (𝑥 − 3) + 5 2

Domain _________________________________________________

Range ___________________________________________________

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f) A rectangular photograph, 18𝑐𝑚 long and 12𝑐𝑚 wide, is surrounded by a frame of
uniform width, whose area is equal to the area of the photograph.
i) If 𝑥 is the width of the frame, show that the area of the frame can be represented by 1
the expression: (18 + 2𝑥)(12 + 2𝑥) − 216.

Not to scale

ii) Hence, find the width of the frame. 2

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 125𝑘𝑎𝑡 3
g) Consider the equation 𝑃 = where 𝑡 ≥ 0
𝑘+2𝑎𝑡
Given 𝑃 = 400, 𝑘 = 8, 𝑎 = 1.2, solve for 𝑡.

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Question 2 (18 marks)
a) If 𝑓(𝑥) = 𝑥 2 + 1

i) Evaluate 𝑓(−3) 1

ii) 𝑓(𝑥+ℎ)−𝑓(𝑥) 3
Find an expression for in simplest form.
ℎ

b) The quadratic function 𝑦 = 3𝑥 2 + 𝑏𝑥 + 𝑐 has a minimum value of −16 when 𝑥 = 3. 2

Find values for 𝑏 and 𝑐.

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c) 1
Consider the function of 𝑓(𝑥) = 2 − 𝑥−1

i) 1 3
Sketch the function 𝑓(𝑥) = 2 − 𝑥−1 on the axes below. Show all asymptotes and
intercepts.

ii) 1 2
Find the inverse function of 𝑓(𝑥) = 2 − 𝑥−1

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d) Solve simultaneously, to find the points of intersection of 𝑥 2 + 𝑦 2 = 5 and 𝑦 = 𝑥 + 1. 3

e) Given 𝑝 = log 𝑎 4 and 𝑞 = log 𝑎 5, express each of the following logarithms in terms
of p and q.

i) log 𝑎 100 2

ii) log 𝑎 0.4 2

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Question 3 (16 marks)
a) The diagram shows an arc PQ, part of the circumference of a circle (centre O), drawn on
the co-ordinate axes.
The points R and S are also on the circumference of the circle, and have horizontal
distances from the origin, as shown.

i) What is the length of OS? 1

ii) Calculate the size of ∠𝑆𝑂𝑄. 1

iii) Show that the value of ∠𝑅𝑂𝑆 = 15.5𝑜 (1 decimal place) 2

iv) Calculate the arc length (to 2 decimal places) between R and S. 1

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b) The diagram shows information about the locations of towns A, B and Q.

i) Amy walks to Town B from Town A and then to Town Q. 2

Find the distance from Town A to Town B. Give your answer to the nearest km.

ii) Calculate the bearing of Town Q from Town B. 1

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c) Ayana finds that the angle of elevation of the top of a pole A, from B is 30𝑜 , but when she
walks 30 metres towards a point P, the angle of elevation is 45𝑜 .

i) 30 sin 30𝑜 2
Show that 𝐴𝑃 =
sin 15𝑜

ii) Hence, calculate the height of the pole correct to the nearest metre. 2

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d) A cylindrical water tank, of height 2 m, is placed in the ground at a school.

The radius of the tank is 3.78 metres. The hole is 2 metres deep. When the tank is placed
in the hole there is a gap of 1 metre all the way around the side of the tank.

i) When digging the hole for the water tank, what volume of soil was removed? 2
Give your answer to the nearest cubic metre.

ii) Water is to be collected in the tank from the roof of the school hall, which has an area of 2
400m2. During a storm, 20mm of rain falls on the roof and is collected in the tank.
How many litres of water were collected?

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Question 4 (19 marks)
a) A new test has been developed for determining whether or not people are carriers of the
Noether virus.

Two hundred people are tested. A two-way table is being used to record the results.

i) What is the value of A? 1

ii) A person selected from the tested group is a carrier of the virus. What is the probability that 1
the test results would show this?

iii) For how many of the people tested were their test results inaccurate? 1

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b) Jason travels to work by car on all five days of this working week, leaving home at 7am each
day. He compares his travel times using roads without tolls and roads with tolls over a period
of 12 working weeks.

He records his travel times (in minutes) in a back to back stem and leaf plot.

i) What is the modal travel time when he uses roads without tolls? 1

ii) What is the median travel time with he uses roads without tolls? 1

iii) Describe the shape/skewness of each distribution: ‘Without tolls’ and ‘Tolls’. 2

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c) The Mathematics and Chemistry exam results for a group of students are recorded in the
scatterplot. A line of best fit was drawn as shown.

i) Calculate the gradient of the line of best fit. 1

ii) Describe the strength and direction of the correlation between the Mathematics and Chemistry 2
exam results using the words below: (Circle your answer for 𝛼 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝛽)

𝛼) strong or weak

𝛽) positive or negative

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d) The coach of a football team notices that the team has a probability of 2 of winning if it is
3
1
rainy (R) and if the weather is dry (D), the probability of the team winning is . The
5
1
probability of rainy weather is .
4

i) Draw a probability tree diagram of this scenario and list the outcomes. 2

ii) 2Find the probability that the team will win. 2

iii) Given that the team has won a game, calculate the probability that it rained on the day of the 2
match.

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e) A bag has x discs of the same size, of which 6 are blue and the rest are white.
Two discs are randomly selected from the bag, without replacement.

i) Find the probability (in terms of 𝑥), of choosing two white discs. 1
(You may draw a tree diagram to help you)

6(2x – 7) 2
ii) Show that the probability of selecting at least one blue disc can be given by:
x2 –x

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