In the diagram above ∆XYZ is right angled. PQ is parallel to YZ and Q is the midpoint of XZ. Copy the diagram into your answer booklet. Give a reason why∠XPQ = 90°. Prove that ∆XPQ ≡∆YPQ . Prove QZ = QY .
In an arithmetic series, the sixth term is 13 and the tenth term is 1.
i) Find the first term and common difference.
ii) Find the sum of the first twenty terms.
A landscape gardener quotes the cost of a job at $4763, which include 10% GST .What is the cost of the job before GST is added ?
The sum of the first three terms of a geometric series is 19 and the sum to infinity is 27. Find: (i) the value of the common ratio. (ii) the value of the first term. (iii) the value of the fifth term.
In a certain hospitality course all students sit for a theory examination in which 60% of the candidates pass. Those who pass the theory examination then sit a practical test which is passed by 40% of those who sit the practical test. A student is chosen at random. Find the probability that: (i) the student passes both examinations. (ii) the student passes just one of the examinations.
A box contains 10 chocolates all of identical appearance. Four have caramel centres and the other six have mint centres. Jolene randomly selects and eats three chocolates from a box. Find the probability that Jolene eats: (i) three mint chocolates. (ii) exactly one caramel chocolate. (iii) at least one mint chocolate.
Jenni invests $30000 into an account on the 1st of March. She receives 9% p.a. interest compounded monthly. On the first day of each month after that she withdraws $250 immediately after the interest is paid. How much money did she have in the account immediately after making the first withdrawal? Show that after making the n th withdrawal the balance of the account is given by 33333 13-333313×1.0073n
An ant colony has a population that is described by the function P =P0- ekt . If the ant conlony initially had 300 ants and after 100 days the population had increased to 550 ants, find: the value of P0 and k . the time taken for the population of the colony to reach 1000 ants (write your answer correct to the nearest day).It was found that on the 1st of June, 30 students in a school had the flu. Over the next month the number of cases of students being sick with the flu increased at decreasing rate. Draw a graph that would describe this situation.
Heather invests $50000 in an account that earns 8% p.a. interest, compounded annually. She intends to withdraw $M at the end of each year, immediately after the interest has been paid. She wishes to be able to do this for exactly 20 years, so that the account will then be empty. (i) Write an expression for the amount of money Heather has in the account immediately after she has made her first withdrawal. (ii) Write an expression in terms of M for the amount of money in the account, 1 immediately after her 20th withdrawal. (iii) Calculate the value of M which leaves her account empty after the 2 20th withdrawal.
The series which begins 12+17+22... has 16 terms Find: (i) the 16th term (ii) The sum of the first 16 terms
(a) For the parabola y2-2y-4x-7=0 find: (i) the co-ordinates of the vertex. (ii) the co-ordinates of the focus. 1 (iii) the equation of the directrix. (iv) Sketch y2-2y-4x-7=0, labelling the vertex, focus and directrix only.
A machine produces Mathomats of which 5% are defective. (i) What is the probability that a Mathomat is NOT defective? (ii) A random sample of n items is taken from the machine. Find the largest value of n that must be sampled so that the probability that none of the Mathomats are defective is at least 0.5.
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