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AQA Paper 3 2018 June Q18
18 In a region of England, the government decides to use an advertising campaign to encourage people to eat more healthily. Before the campaign, the mean consumption of chocolate per person per week was known to be 66.5 g , with a standard deviation of 21.2 g 18
  1. After the campaign, the first 750 available people from this region were surveyed to find out their average consumption of chocolate. 18
    1. State the sampling method used to collect the survey. 18
  3. (ii) Explain why this sample should not be used to conduct a hypothesis test.
    18
  4. A second sample of 750 people revealed that the mean consumption of chocolate per person per week was 65.4 g Investigate, at the \(10 \%\) level of significance, whether the advertising campaign has decreased the mean consumption of chocolate per person per week. Assume that an appropriate sampling method was used and that the consumption of chocolate is normally distributed with an unchanged standard deviation.
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AQA Paper 3 2019 June Q2
2 Find the value of \(\frac { 100 ! } { 98 ! \times 3 ! }\)
Circle your answer. $$\begin{array} { l l l l } \frac { 50 } { 147 } & 1650 & 3300 & 161700 \end{array}$$
AQA Paper 3 2019 June Q3
1 marks
3
Given \(u _ { 1 } = 1\), determine which one of the formulae below defines an increasing sequence for \(n \geq 1\) Circle your answer.
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\(u _ { n + 1 } = 1 + \frac { 1 } { u _ { n } } \quad u _ { n } = 2 - 0.9 ^ { n - 1 } \quad u _ { n + 1 } = - 1 + 0.5 u _ { n } \quad u _ { n } = 0.9 ^ { n - 1 }\)
AQA Paper 3 2019 June Q4
4 Sketch the region defined by the inequalities $$y \leq ( 1 - 2 x ) ( x + 3 ) \text { and } y - x \leq 3$$ Clearly indicate your region by shading it in and labelling it \(R\).
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AQA Paper 3 2019 June Q5
5 A circle has equation \(x ^ { 2 } + y ^ { 2 } - 6 x - 8 y = 264\)
\(A B\) is a chord of the circle. The angle at the centre of the circle, subtended by \(A B\), is 0.9 radians, as shown in the diagram below.
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Give your answer to three significant figures.
AQA Paper 3 2019 June Q6
6 The three sides of a right-angled triangle have lengths \(a , b\) and \(c\), where \(a , b , c \in \mathbb { Z }\) 6
  1. State an example where \(a , b\) and \(c\) are all even.
    6
  2. Prove that it is not possible for all of \(a , b\) and \(c\) to be odd.
AQA Paper 3 2019 June Q7
7
  1. Express \(\frac { 4 x + 3 } { ( x - 1 ) ^ { 2 } }\) in the form \(\frac { A } { x - 1 } + \frac { B } { ( x - 1 ) ^ { 2 } }\) 7
  2. Show that $$\int _ { 3 } ^ { 4 } \frac { 4 x + 3 } { ( x - 1 ) ^ { 2 } } \mathrm {~d} x = p + \ln q$$ where \(p\) and \(q\) are rational numbers.
AQA Paper 3 2019 June Q8
8 A student is conducting an experiment in a laboratory to investigate how quickly liquids cool to room temperature. A beaker containing a hot liquid at an initial temperature of \(75 ^ { \circ } \mathrm { C }\) cools so that the temperature, \(\theta ^ { \circ } \mathrm { C }\), of the liquid at time \(t\) minutes can be modelled by the equation $$\theta = 5 \left( 4 + \lambda \mathrm { e } ^ { - k t } \right)$$ where \(\lambda\) and \(k\) are constants. After 2 minutes the temperature falls to \(68 ^ { \circ } \mathrm { C }\).
8
  1. Find the temperature of the liquid after 15 minutes.
    Give your answer to three significant figures.
    8
    1. Find the room temperature of the laboratory, giving a reason for your answer.
      8
  3. (ii) Find the time taken in minutes for the liquid to cool to \(1 ^ { \circ } \mathrm { C }\) above the room temperature of the laboratory.
    8
  4. Explain why the model might need to be changed if the experiment was conducted in a different place.
AQA Paper 3 2019 June Q9
9 A curve has equation $$x ^ { 2 } y ^ { 2 } + x y ^ { 4 } = 12$$ 9
  1. Prove that the curve does not intersect the coordinate axes.
    9
    1. Show that \(\frac { \mathrm { d } y } { \mathrm {~d} x } = - \frac { 2 x y + y ^ { 3 } } { 2 x ^ { 2 } + 4 x y ^ { 2 } }\)
      9
  3. (ii) Prove that the curve has no stationary points.
    9
  4. (iii) In the case when \(x > 0\), find the equation of the tangent to the curve when \(y = 1\)
AQA Paper 3 2019 June Q10
10 Which of the options below best describes the correlation shown in the diagram below?
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moderate positive □
strong positive □
moderate negative □
strong negative □
AQA Paper 3 2019 June Q11
1 marks
11 Lenny is one of a team of people interviewing shoppers in a town centre.
He is asked to survey 50 women between the ages of 18 and 29
Identify the name of this type of sampling.
Circle your answer.
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simple random
stratified
quota
systematic
AQA Paper 3 2019 June Q12
12 Amelia decides to analyse the heights of members of her school rowing club. The heights of a random sample of 10 rowers are shown in the table below.
RowerJessNellLivNeveAnnToriMayaKathDarcyJen
Height (cm)162169172156146161159164157160
12
  1. Any value more than 2 standard deviations from the mean may be regarded as an outlier. Verify that Ann's height is an outlier.
    Fully justify your answer.
    12
  2. Amelia thinks she may have written down Ann's height incorrectly. If Ann's height were discarded, state with a reason what, if any, difference this would make to the mean and standard deviation.
AQA Paper 3 2019 June Q14
14 A survey was conducted into the health of 120 teachers. The survey recorded whether or not they had suffered from a range of four health issues in the past year. In addition, their physical exercise level was categorised as low, medium or high.
50 teachers had a low exercise level, 40 teachers had a medium exercise level and 30 teachers had a high exercise level. The results of the survey are shown in the table below.
Low exerciseMedium exerciseHigh exercise
Back trouble14710
Stress38145
Depression921
Headache/Migraine455
14
  1. Find the probability that a randomly selected teacher:
    14
    1. suffers from back trouble and has a high exercise level;
      14
  3. (ii) suffers from depression.
    14
  4. (iii) suffers from stress, given that they have a low exercise level.
    14
  5. For teachers in the survey with a low exercise level, explain why the events 'suffers from back trouble' and 'suffers from stress' are not mutually exclusive.
AQA Paper 3 2019 June Q15
15 Jamal, a farmer, claims that the larger the rainfall, the greater the yield of wheat from his farm. He decides to investigate his claim, at the \(5 \%\) level of significance.
He measures the rainfall in centimetres and the yield in kilograms for a random sample of ten years. He correctly calculates the product moment correlation coefficient between rainfall and yield for his sample to be 0.567 The table below shows the critical values for correlation coefficients for a sample size of 10 for different significance levels, for both 1- and 2-tailed tests.
1-tailed test significance level\(5 \%\)\(2.5 \%\)\(1 \%\)\(0.5 \%\)
2-tailed test significance level\(10 \%\)\(5 \%\)\(2 \%\)\(1 \%\)
Critical value0.5490.6320.7160.765
Determine what Jamal's conclusion to his investigation should be, justifying your answer.
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AQA Paper 3 2019 June Q16
4 marks
16
  1. The graph below shows the amount of salt, in grams, purchased per person per week in England between 2001-02 and 2014, based upon the Large Data Set.
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    Meera believes that the amount of salt consumed by people decreased greatly during this period. Gemma says that this is not the case.
    Using your knowledge of the Large Data Set, give two reasons why Gemma may be correct.
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    16
  2. It is known that the mean amount of sugar purchased per person in England in 2014 was 78.9 grams, with a standard deviation of 25.0 grams. In 2018, a sample of 918 people had a mean of 80.4 grams of sugar purchased per person. Investigate, at the \(5 \%\) level of significance, whether the mean amount of sugar purchased per person in England has changed between 2014 and 2018. Assume that the survey data is a random sample taken from a normal distribution and that the standard deviation has remained the same.
    16
  3. Another test is performed to determine whether the mean amount of fat purchased per person has changed between 2014 and 2018. At the \(10 \%\) significance level, the null hypothesis is rejected.
    With reference to the \(10 \%\) significance level, explain why it is not necessarily true that there has been a change.
    [0pt] [2 marks]
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AQA Paper 3 2019 June Q17
17 Elizabeth's Bakery makes brownies. It is known that the mass, \(X\) grams, of a brownie may be modelled by a normal distribution.
\(10 \%\) of the brownies have a mass less than 30 grams.
\(80 \%\) of the brownies have a mass greater than 32.5 grams.
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  1. Find the mean and standard deviation of \(X\).
    1. Find \(\mathrm { P } ( X \neq 35 )\)
      17
  3. (ii) Find \(\mathrm { P } ( X < 35 )\)
    17
  4. Brownies are baked in batches of 13.
    Calculate the probability that, in a batch of brownies, no more than 3 brownies are less than 35 grams. You may assume that the masses of brownies are independent of each other.
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AQA Paper 3 2020 June Q1
1 Given that $$\int _ { 0 } ^ { 10 } \mathrm { f } ( x ) \mathrm { d } x = 7$$ deduce the value of $$\int _ { 0 } ^ { 10 } ( \mathrm { f } ( x ) + 1 ) \mathrm { d } x$$ Circle your answer.
-3
7
8
17
AQA Paper 3 2020 June Q2
2 Given that $$6 \cos \theta + 8 \sin \theta \equiv R \cos ( \theta + \alpha )$$ find the value of \(R\). Circle your answer. 681014
AQA Paper 3 2020 June Q3
3 Determine which one of these graphs does not represent \(y\) as a function of \(x\). Tick \(( \checkmark )\) one box.
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AQA Paper 3 2020 June Q4
4
  1. Use the factor theorem to prove that \(x - 6\) is a factor of \(\mathrm { p } ( x )\).
    \(4 \quad \mathrm { p } ( x ) = 4 x ^ { 3 } - 15 x ^ { 2 } - 48 x - 36\) 4
    1. Prove that the graph of \(y = \mathrm { p } ( x )\) intersects the \(x\)-axis at exactly one point.
      4
  3. (ii) State the coordinates of this point of intersection.
AQA Paper 3 2020 June Q5
5 marks
5 The number of radioactive atoms, \(N\), in a sample of a sodium isotope after time \(t\) hours can be modelled by $$N = N _ { 0 } \mathrm { e } ^ { - k t }$$ where \(N _ { 0 }\) is the initial number of radioactive atoms in the sample and \(k\) is a positive constant. The model remains valid for large numbers of atoms.
5
  1. It takes 15.9 hours for half of the sodium atoms to decay.
    Determine the number of days required for at least \(90 \%\) of the number of atoms in the original sample to decay.
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    5
  2. Find the percentage of the atoms remaining after the first week. Give your answer to two significant figures.
    5
  3. Explain why the model can only provide an estimate for the number of remaining atoms.
    5
  4. Explain why the model is invalid in the long run.
AQA Paper 3 2020 June Q8
8
17 2 Given that $$6 \cos \theta + 8 \sin \theta \equiv R \cos ( \theta + \alpha )$$ find the value of \(R\). Circle your answer. 681014 3 Determine which one of these graphs does not represent \(y\) as a function of \(x\). Tick \(( \checkmark )\) one box.
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  1. Use the factor theorem to prove that \(x - 6\) is a factor of \(\mathrm { p } ( x )\).
    \(4 \quad \mathrm { p } ( x ) = 4 x ^ { 3 } - 15 x ^ { 2 } - 48 x - 36\) 4
    1. Prove that the graph of \(y = \mathrm { p } ( x )\) intersects the \(x\)-axis at exactly one point.
      4
  3. (ii) State the coordinates of this point of intersection.
AQA Paper 3 2020 June Q9
9
  1. For \(\cos \theta \neq 0\), prove that $$\operatorname { cosec } 2 \theta + \cot 2 \theta = \cot \theta$$ 9
  2. Explain why $$\cot \theta \neq \operatorname { cosec } 2 \theta + \cot 2 \theta$$ when \(\cos \theta = 0\)
AQA Paper 3 2020 June Q10
10 The probabilities of events \(A , B\) and \(C\) are related, as shown in the Venn diagram below.
\(\varepsilon\)
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\(0.11 \quad 0.46 \quad 0.54 \quad 0.89\)
AQA Paper 3 2020 June Q11
11 The table below shows the temperature on Mount Everest on the first day of each month.
MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Temperature \(\left( { } ^ { \circ } \mathbf { C } \right)\)- 17- 16- 14- 9- 2265- 3- 4- 11- 18
Calculate the standard deviation of these temperatures.
Circle your answer.
-6.75
5.82
8.24
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