Author: Dr. McDonald

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9 Extended: Simultaneous Equations Part 1

Complete the following questions before our next class.

Exercise 16A.1 question 2b
Exercise 16A.2 questions 1b, 2a
Exercise 16B questions 1def, 2abc (these are similar to what we did in class—substitute in one equation to get one equation with a single variable, solve for that variable, then use one of the original equations to solve for the remaining variable)
Exercise 16C questions 1abc, 2def, 3

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12 HL The Normal Distribution

Here’s the question we were looking at in class, complete this question (and the other questions that I’ll include in an email to you) before our next class.

An manufacturing process produces aircraft parts such that the length of each part, X, (in cm) is such that \(X\sim N(\mu,\sigma^2)\).

We know that \(P(X\leq 120)=0.4596\) and \(P(X\leq 132)=0.6491\).

Find \(\mu\) and \(\sigma\).

If a part is rejected if it is more than 1 cm away from the mean, what percentage of parts are rejected?

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9 Extended: Term Test

On Wednesday, February 13th we’ll have a test on all of the topics we’ve covered so far this year. Those topics are listed below.

  • Number Sets (\(\mathbb{N}, \mathbb{R}\), etc.)
  • Number lines (representing 1 ≤ x < 4, etc.)
  • Operations with sets (\(A \cup B\), etc.)
  • Radicals (simplifying, adding, multiplying, rationalizing the denominator, etc.)
  • Trigonometry (finding sides, finding angles, working in 2D or 3D)
  • Coordinate Geometry (finding the slope, finding midpoints, parallel and perpendicular lines, equations of lines)
  • Word problems involving any of the above

In order to prepare for the test, the following questions may be helpful. We’ll discuss answers to these questions on Thursday. (Note that you will probably have done some of these before—make sure you still remember how to do them, and if you are absolutely sure you know how to solve a question, skip it and look for a harder question to try!)

Review Set 2B
Review Set 4A
Review Set 13A
Review Set 9A