Number Toolkit (DP IB Applications & Interpretation (AI): SL): Exam Questions

Let , where ,  and .

Calculate the exact value of .

Give your answer from part (a) correct to

(i) two decimal places.

(ii) two significant figures.

Michael estimates the value of to be 

Calculate the percentage error of Michael’s estimate.

Let , where   and 

Find the value of W. Give your answer as a fraction.

Give your answer from part (a) to

(i) three decimal places.

(ii) three significant figures.

Louis estimates the value of to be 0.03.

Calculate the percentage error of Louis’ estimate.

A prism has a cross sectional area of and volume of .

Calculate the height of the prism.

Lily estimates the height of the prism to be 7 cm.

Calculate the percentage error in Lily’s estimate.

Mary has found the exact answer for  is  .

Write down the exact answer of as a decimal.

Mary rounds her exact answer so that the percentage error is 6.67%.

State the number of significant figures Mary rounded the exact answer to and write down the approximate value of used in calculating the percentage error.

It is given that  and , where  and  .

Find the size of the angles  and .

A circle has radius  equal to

Find the area of the circle, giving your answer in terms of .

James rounds the answer from part (b) to the nearest integer.

Calculate the percentage error of James’ estimate.

A medium rare steak should have an internal temperature of  to . Max decides to go to 10 different steak houses, he measures the internal temperature of a medium rare steak at each establishment and records the following:

51.0,   52.1,  62.9,  49.0,  59.8,  50.2,  54.3,  47.7,  48.6,   65.4

Find the mean internal temperature of Max’s recordings.

Max goes to 5 more steak houses and calculates the mean of all 15 restaurants to be 

Calculate the mean internal temperature from the 5 additional steak houses Max went to.

Max records one last steak that has an internal temperature of

Calculate the interval of  such that the mean internal temperature for all 16 steaks is within the temperature range for a medium rare steak.

The diameter of Earth is  m, correct to four significant figures.  The circumference of Mars is  m, correct to four significant figures. 

Modelling Earth and Mars as perfect spheres, find the difference between the volume of Earth and the volume of Mars, giving your answer in the form , where .

Solve the following systems of linear equations using technology.

(i)

(ii)

Consider the numbers  .

Giving your answer to 1 decimal place, calculate the value of

(i)

(ii)

(iii)

(iv)

Points P and Q have coordinates  and  respectively.

The formula for the distance, , between two points with coordinates  and  is given in your formula booklet.

Using your answers from part (a), calculate the distance, , between points P and Q. Give your answer correct to 1 decimal place.

Find the percentage error between the distance, correct to 1 decimal place, found in part (b) and the exact distance between points P and Q.

Let  and , where, , 

Giving your answer to 1 decimal place, calculate the value of

(i)

(ii)

Using your answers to part (a), estimate the value of . Give your answer as a fraction.

Calculate the percentage error between your estimated value of  found in part (b) and the exact value of

A cuboid has length,  = 0.102 m, width, = 9.4 cm and height, = 0.25 m.

Calculate the exact volume of the cuboid

(i) in .

(ii) in .

Write your answers to part (a) (i) and (ii) in the form , where .

William estimates the volume of the cuboid as being  and the percentage error in his estimate is 5%.

Calculate the exact possible values of .

Let  where  = ,  = ,  = and  =

Note: sin²  = (sin )²

Find the value of , giving your answer as a fraction.

Let  = 

Find the value of  giving your answer as a fraction.

Calculate the value of  giving your answer as a fraction.

John estimates the value of  to be 0.3.

Calculate the percentage error in John’s estimate.

Consider the numbers and

Giving your answers in the form  where  calculate

(i)

(ii)

(iii)

(iv)

The formula for the distance,  between two points with coordinates  and  is given in your formula booklet.

Using your answers to part (a), estimate the distance between points A  and B.

Calculate the percentage error between the estimate of the distance between points P and Q found in part (b) and the exact distance.

A shop sells bags of potatoes labelled as “5 kg”. The shop owner weighs five bags, in kilograms, at random and recorded the following:

4.96,   4.89,   5.07,   5.11,   5.02

(i) Find the mean of the shop owner’s recorded weights.

(ii) Calculate the percentage error between the mean and the stated weight of 5 kg.

The shop owner shares his findings with his potato supplier, who weighs another five bags and recorded the following:

5.05,   5.01,   4.97,   5.09,   X

The supplier allows a maximum percentage error of 1%.

Find the interval for the values of X such that the percentage error from the five bags that the supplier weighed is less than 1%.

Find the interval for the values of X such that the percentage error from all the ten bags weighed is less than 1%.

Solve the following systems of linear equations using technology.

(i)

(ii)