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howareya

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how did people find it

what about qns 9 and 10-- a bit tricky

what did people get for the area in q10

what about the distacne and time in q9.

i got total time of 40 secs

distance of 33.3km

???
 

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that was a horror paper if i ever saw one..i tried doing the James Ruse -3 Trial yesterday and i thought the CSSA one ws even harder!!! they used so much of the logs and 'e'- it was like they mixed up brackets, logs, e, Inx...and asked us to integrate, differentiate, and anything else they could imagine!!
i was hoping 4 maybe high 80's-90's for this one as i thought the past CSSA trials were decent, but this blew me out of the water- im now expecting a 60s+...

wow- long post!

:chainsaw: :argue:
 

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it wasn't too bad, cept for that train one. anyone want to explain that to me

oh yeah and i forgot all that cosec/cot bullcrap which came up a bit
 

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yeah the exam was crap hard man! i will be lucky to get mark for q9 and 910... it was ugly man
 

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the train

the end two areas have to be equal...because the end on the same point.

therefroe 0.5bh = 0.5bh

sub in the values (remeber to convert to hours)

0.5 x (0.3-t) x 80 = 0.5 x (0.3-t) x 100

rerrange for t and you get 1/3 or 20 mins

add then up total of 40 mins

diatacne is area under graph
 

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was the area for q.10??? our teacher took out probability...so you may not have got this qns
 

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yep that exam was shit. It was bloody hard especially Q10. Originally i was hoping to get 90 out of 120 but now even 80 looks hard. O well, shit happens. Q1-Q7 werent to bad. We didnt have probablity either. one more exam 2 go...
 

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did anyone else feel that it had absolutely no resemblance to previous CSSA papers? coz i did the 2001 and 2002 for practise and found them pretty straightforward, but geez this one was tricky! i didn't even get to go back to half of what i left...
 

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Originally posted by howareya
what answers did people get?

what defines a limitng sum?
That was one of the few questions I think I got right. A limiting sum is when the ration between the numbers is between -1 and 1:).
 

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jinglebell i totally agree, i did like 10 past CSSA Trial papers and they were nowhere as hard as this one. what the hell was wrong with the ppl who made it up- maybe they were having a bad day and decided to take it out on us helpless students..lol~
 

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hmm...mayb thats why our teachers changed ours...we were told we were gonna do CSSA papers, but when I did mine, it was set out by the school, but i think some questions were the same...and they just changed others...mine was alrite except i didnt get to finish, and i had the last couple of questions in Q10 left
 

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I thought the exam was alright.
I couldn't work out e^-x cosx though, (10(b) I think).
Got stuck on the stationary points when:
-e^-x (sinx + cosx) = 0 ?

Qs 9-10 were toughies, but I can probably scab a few marks somewhere. (I proved d/dx (xlnx - x) = logex though, 10(a)? :p)
 

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-e^-x (sinx + cosx) = 0

you then solve

-e^-x = 0 no soln.

sinx = -cos x

-1 = tan x

the solve i think you get

x= 3pie/ 180, and 7pie/180

is this right?
 

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i actually got the e^-x(sinx + cosx) one...but i was only up to drawing the graph when time ran out...i was very proud of myself though, i just about fainted when i first saw it:)

i caouldn't get the one with the triangle, with the sides x, x+1 and 2...i know i should've been able to do it, anyone care to enlighten me?
 

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