Let .
Write down the equation of the horizontal asymptote of the graph of .
Find the -intercept of the graph of .
Solve .
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Let .
State the domain of and the equation of its vertical asymptote.
Find the -intercept of the graph of .
State the range of .
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Let .
Write in the form .
Find , giving your answer using natural logarithms.
Find the exact value of .
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Consider the function .
State the domain of and the equation of its vertical asymptote.
Find the -intercept of the graph of .
Find the value of for which .
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Consider the equation .
State the restriction on .
Write the equation as a quadratic equation in .
Hence solve the equation.
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A quantity is modelled by , where is measured in hours. Initially , and after hours .
Find the value of .
Determine the exact value of .
Find the time at which .
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Let .
State the domain of and the equation of its vertical asymptote.
Solve .
Find .
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Consider the equation .
By using the substitution , write the equation as a quadratic equation in .
Hence solve the original equation for .
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A culture of bacteria is modelled by , where is the number of bacteria hours after observation begins. Initially there are bacteria. After hours there are bacteria.
Write down the value of .
Find the value of .
Calculate the number of bacteria after hours.
Find the time at which the model first predicts bacteria.
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Solve the equation . Give your answers in exact form.
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An investment of euros increases by each year. The value, euros, after years is modelled by .
Write the model in the form , giving the value of .
Calculate the value of the investment after years.
Find the time taken for the investment to double in value.
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The graphs of and intersect at the point .

Write down the equation that must be solved to find the -coordinate of .
Use your graphic display calculator to find the coordinates of .
Explain why there is only one point of intersection.
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A phone battery is being charged. The percentage charge, , after hours is modelled by , where is a positive constant. After hours, the battery charge is .
Find the value of .
Calculate the time taken for the battery charge to reach .
According to the model, will the battery ever reach exactly charge? Give a reason for your answer.
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Consider the equation .
Let . Write the equation as a quadratic equation in .
Solve the quadratic equation for .
Hence find all values of .
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Solve , where and .
Let . Express in terms of .
Form a quadratic equation in .
Hence solve for .
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The function is defined by , where and . The graph of has horizontal asymptote and passes through the points and .
Find .
Find .
Find .
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Positive variables and are related by , where and are constants. It is known that when , and when .
Find .
Determine the exact value of .
Write the relationship in the form .
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Let , where . The point lies on the graph of .
Find the value of .
Write down an expression for .
The graph of meets the line at the point . Find the coordinates of .
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A physical quantity is modelled by , where and are positive constants. Two experimental readings are when , and when .
By taking natural logarithms, show that a graph of against is a straight line.
Use the two readings to find the value of .
Find the value of .
Use the model to estimate when .
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Consider the inequality , where .
Write down the two equations whose intersections can be used to solve the inequality graphically.
Find the -coordinates of the points of intersection.
Hence solve the inequality.
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Let .
State the domain of .
Solve .
Find the maximum value of .
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Let , where . The point lies on the graph of .
Find in exact form.
Write in terms of natural logarithms, and hence find its value.
Find all solutions to .
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Solve the equation , where and .
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The function is defined by , for .
Find the -intercept of the graph of and state the equation of its horizontal asymptote.
Find the -intercept of the graph of .
Find an expression for , stating its domain.
Hence solve .
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The temperature , in degrees Celsius, of a liquid after minutes is modelled by
where and are positive constants. Initially the temperature is . After minutes the temperature is .
(a)(i) Find the value of .
(a)(ii) Show that .
Use and in this part. If you did not obtain this value of , use .
(b)(i) Find the exact time when .
(b)(ii) State the horizontal asymptote of the graph of and explain its meaning in this context.
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Let .
State the domain of .
Show that solving leads to .
If you did not obtain the quadratic in part (a), use .
Solve .
Find the maximum value of .
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Let , where . The point lies on the graph of . A second function is defined by .
Find the value of .
Find .
State the domain of and the equation of its vertical asymptote.
Find the -intercept of the graph of .
Find and hence solve .
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Let , for .
State the range of .
Find .
Solve .
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A cup of soup is left in a room where the temperature is . The temperature of the soup, , minutes after it is left in the room is modelled by
where and are positive constants. Initially the temperature of the soup is , and after minutes its temperature is .

Determine the values of and .
Part (b): Using the model found in part (a):
calculate the temperature of the soup after minutes;
find the time taken for the temperature to reach .
The average temperature of the soup during the first minutes is given by
Calculate this average temperature.
State one limitation of using this model to predict the temperature of the soup after several hours.
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The function is defined by
where is a positive constant. The graph of passes through the point .

Find:
the exact value of ;
the equation of the vertical asymptote of the graph of .
Find the coordinates of the -intercept of the graph of .
The region is bounded by the graph of , the line , and the lines and . Find the area of .
Find an expression for . State its domain.
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The function is defined by
Let be the point of intersection of the graph of with the line .
For the graph of :
write down the equation of the horizontal asymptote;
find the -intercept;
state the range of .
Find and state its domain.
The graphs of and intersect at the point .
Write down the equation that must be solved to find the -coordinate of .
Use your graphic display calculator to find the coordinates of .
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The mass, grams, of a sample of yeast is modelled by
where is measured in hours. The mass is grams initially and grams after hours.

Find:
the value of ;
the value of .
The model can also be written in the form . Find .
Using the model found in part (a):
calculate the mass after hours;
find the time taken for the mass to reach grams.
In a laboratory report, the student writes: "The yeast mass will continue to increase exponentially forever." Comment on this statement in the context of the model.
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A cup of liquid is removed from a heater and placed in a room. Its temperature, degrees Celsius, minutes later is modelled by
The graph shows the cooling curve and its horizontal asymptote.

Given that , find .
Given also that , show that .
Find the time at which the model predicts .
State the physical meaning of the horizontal asymptote in this model.
By taking logarithms, show that a graph of against is a straight line, and state its gradient and vertical intercept.
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The light level, lux, in a greenhouse after automatic shading is activated is modelled by
where is measured in minutes. The graph shows approaching a limiting light level.

The limiting light level is lux and . Find and .
Given that , find .
Find an expression for in terms of , valid for .
Use your expression to find when the light level reaches lux.
student claims that the model predicts the light level will be lux after a sufficiently long finite time. Comment on the student's claim.
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Positive variables and are related by , where and are constants. A graph of against is a straight line passing through the points and .
Find the value of .
Find the value of .
If you did not obtain the values in part (a), use and .
Write the relationship between and explicitly.
Find the value of when .
Show that a graph of against has gradient and find its vertical intercept.
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For , define
By using the substitution , show that solving leads to .
Hence solve .
If you did not solve part (a), use the fact that the solutions of are and .
Show that for all real .
Deduce the value of at which is least, and find this least value.
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Let . Consider the equation
Use the substitution to factorise the resulting quadratic equation in .
Hence write down all real solutions for in terms of .
Use your result from part (a). If you did not obtain it, use the solutions and .
Find if one of the solutions is .
Determine the values of for which the original equation has two distinct positive solutions for .
Determine the values of for which the original equation has exactly one positive solution for .
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The function is defined by
State the equations of the vertical asymptotes of the graph of .
State the range of .
Find an expression for .
Hence find .
Show that .
Deduce the coordinates of the point about which the graph of has rotational symmetry.
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For , define
Show that .
Find in terms of .
If you did not obtain the inverse in part (a), use .
Given that , find .
For , solve .
Explain why the other root of the quadratic in part (b)(ii) is rejected.
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A medicine is eliminated from the bloodstream exponentially. The amount, mg, remaining hours after a dose of mg is given by
The half-life of the medicine is hours. A second dose of mg is taken hours after the first dose.

Find the exact value of .
Calculate:
the amount of medicine in the bloodstream immediately before the second dose;
the amount of medicine in the bloodstream immediately after the second dose.
For , show that the total amount of medicine in the bloodstream is
If you did not obtain the expression in part (c), use . Find the time at which the total amount of medicine reaches mg after the second dose. Hence, state for which times the amount is below mg.
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The hydrogen ion concentration, mol , in a solution is modelled by
where is measured in minutes. The pH of the solution is defined by
At , the pH is . At , the pH is .
Determine:
the value of ;
the value of .
Show that the pH can be written in the form
Using the model:
find the time when the pH first reaches ;
find the hydrogen ion concentration when .
Calculate the average hydrogen ion concentration during the first minutes.
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A chemical indicator is diluted in equal stages. Let be the concentration of hydrogen ions after dilution stages, where
The pH value after stages is defined by
pH | |
|---|---|
0 | 3.40 |
1 | 3.65 |
2 | 3.90 |
3 | 4.15 |
4 | 4.40 |
5 | 4.65 |
6 | 4.90 |
7 | 5.15 |
8 | 5.40 |
9 | 5.65 |
12 | 6.40 |
Write in terms of , and .
Hence explain why is an arithmetic sequence.
The initial pH is and each stage increases the pH by . Find .
Find the least number of dilution stages required for the pH to exceed .
Prove the converse result: if the pH values form an arithmetic sequence, then the concentrations form a geometric sequence.
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A narrow beam of light passes through layers of tinted glass. The intensity after passing through thickness millimetres is modelled by

Given and , find .
Writing for the numerical value of the thickness in millimetres, write the model in the form , and find .
Find the thickness required to reduce the intensity to of its initial value.
Show that the additional thickness needed to reduce the intensity to times its current value, where , is independent of the starting intensity.
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A laboratory colony is expected to increase by in one day if growth is compounded once daily. A researcher compares this with a model where the same nominal daily rate is compounded times per day:
where is measured in days.

Write down the once-daily model .
The continuous model is . Find the percentage by which the continuous model exceeds the once-daily model after one day.
For , find the time taken for the colony to triple.
Find the time taken for the colony to triple under the continuous model.
Show that can be written in the form , and find an expression for . Hence explain why for finite .
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An experiment measures the mass grams of a volatile liquid remaining after minutes. The data are thought to follow an exponential model
A plot of against is provided.

Show that the model can be linearised by plotting against .
State what the gradient and vertical intercept of this line represent.
Using linear regression on the transformed data, the line of best fit is
Write down the exponential model for .
Use the model to estimate the time when the mass first falls below grams.
The measured mass at minutes is grams. Calculate the residual, defined as measured mass minus modelled mass, and interpret its sign.
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The energy released by a seismic event of magnitude is modelled by
where is a positive constant. This question investigates how logarithms are used to compare events.

Let . If the lower-magnitude event has magnitude and the higher-magnitude event has magnitude , show that the ratio of the energy of the higher-magnitude event to that of the lower-magnitude event is .
Calculate the energy ratio for a magnitude difference of .
Find the magnitude of a single event that releases the same energy as events, each of magnitude .
State why the answer is not .
Generalise part (b): find the magnitude of one event equivalent in energy to events, each of magnitude , where .
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For , , consider the equation
where is a real constant.
Let . Express in terms of .
Show that the equation can be written as .
If you did not obtain the quadratic in part (a), use .
Solve the original equation when .
Solve the original equation when .
Determine the values of for which the original equation has real solutions.
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Consider positive real numbers and satisfying the system
Show that the system is equivalent to and .
Hence solve the system.
For parts (b)(i) and (b)(ii), consider the generalized system
where is a real constant.
Show that satisfies .
Determine the values of for which the system has two distinct positive solutions.
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For , define
Show that .
Hence find the maximum value of and the value of at which it occurs.
If you did not obtain the result in part (a), use .
Solve .
Solve .
Let be a real constant. Determine the number of solutions of in the interval .
For a real constant , determine the number of solutions of in , and justify your answer.
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Let
and
The graphs of and intersect at the point .

Find the coordinates of .
Let .
Find .
Hence justify that the graphs of and intersect exactly once.
If you did not obtain the -coordinate of , use . Find the area enclosed by the graphs of and and the -axis.
Find the value of for which the vertical distance between the two graphs is greatest on the interval .
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An experiment suggests that two positive variables and are related by a power model
where and are positive constants. The following table gives four measurements.
x | y |
|---|---|
2 | 10.7 |
3 | 18.5 |
5 | 36.9 |
8 | 69.6 |
By taking natural logarithms, show that a graph of against should be a straight line. State the gradient and vertical intercept in terms of and .
least-squares linear regression of on using the four measurements gives
Use this regression equation to determine:
the value of ;
the value of ;
the model for in terms of .
Use the model to estimate the value of when .
student claims that doubling will double . Use the model to comment on this claim.
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The function is defined by

For the graph of :
state the equation of the horizontal asymptote as ;
find the range of .
Find an expression for and state its domain.
The graph of intersects the line at the point .
Show that the -coordinate of satisfies
Hence find the coordinates of .
Find the area between the graph of and its horizontal asymptote from to .
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A patient receives repeated doses of a medicine. Immediately after each dose, mg is added to the amount already in the bloodstream. Between doses, the amount decreases exponentially with decay constant per hour. Doses are taken every hours.
Let be the amount of medicine in the bloodstream, in mg, immediately after the th dose.
Assume that there is no medicine in the bloodstream immediately before the first dose.
Find:
the amount immediately before the second dose;
the value of .
Show that
If you did not obtain the recurrence in part (b), use .
Find .
Write down the limiting value of as .
In the long term, find the amount of medicine in the bloodstream immediately before a dose is taken.
safety guideline states that the amount immediately after a dose should remain below mg. According to this model, determine whether the guideline will be met in the long term.
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This question investigates intersections of the exponential graph with the line , where . The diagram shows the line and several graphs of for different values of .

Suppose that is tangent to at . Show that .
Hence find the value of for which the graph is tangent to the line.
For , use your GDC to find the two intersection points of and .
Determine the number of intersections of and for all . If you did not obtain in part (a), use this value.
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This question investigates the intersections of and the family of straight lines , where .

Show that if is tangent to , then the point of tangency has -coordinate .
Hence find the corresponding value of .
For , use your GDC to find the two solutions of .
Explain why there are no negative solutions for any .
Determine the number of solutions of for all . If you did not obtain in part (a), use this value.
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For a real parameter , define
This question investigates fixed points of , that is, solutions of .

For , use your GDC to find the fixed points of .
For , show that is a fixed point.
Show that fixed points of are solutions of .
Find the minimum value of for .
Hence determine the number of fixed points of for all real values of . If you did not obtain the minimum value , use this value.
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Let , , and define
where and . This question investigates the possible values of .

Use the change-of-base formula to show that if , then .
State the possible values of .
Solve in terms of .
Determine all possible values of .
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For a positive constant , consider the equation
For part (a), let . For parts (b) to (d), is an arbitrary positive constant.
For :
write down the equation to be solved;
use your graphic display calculator to find all solutions.
Let .
Show that the stationary point of occurs at
Show that the value of at this stationary point is
Use part (b) to determine the values of for which the equation has two distinct real solutions.
Describe what happens when .
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For , define
The graph of is used to model a quantity that depends on the product of two positive factors whose sum is .

State the domain of and write as a single logarithm.
Find the maximum value of .
Let be a real constant. Determine the values of for which the equation has exactly two solutions.
For , solve .
If you did not obtain the solutions in part (d), use and . Find the area under the graph of between these two solutions.
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After a short injection, the concentration of a tracer in a bloodstream is modelled by
where is measured in minutes and . The graph shows a single peak in concentration.

Given that , find .
Explain why .
Show that the time of maximum concentration satisfies
Hence find the time and value of the maximum concentration. If you did not obtain the equation in part (b)(i), use it here.
Use your GDC to find the time interval during which .
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