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Math Applications HL Paper 2 (May 2024, TZ2)

  1. [Maximum mark: 15]

The following diagram shows a model of the side view of a water slide. All lengths are measured in metres.

Figure region page 6
Figure region from page 6

The curved edge of the slide is modelled by
f(x)=14x2+2xf(x) = -\frac{1}{4}x^{2} + 2x for 0x40 \le x \le 4.

The remainder of the slide is modelled by
g(x)={4,4x54874x7,5x12g(x) = \begin{cases} 4, & 4 \le x \le 5 \\ \frac{48}{7} - \frac{4x}{7}, & 5 \le x \le 12 \end{cases}

(a) Use the trapezoidal rule with an interval width of 1 to calculate the approximate area under the model of the slide in the interval 0x40 \le x \le 4. [5]

(b) Find (14x2+2x)dx\int \bigl(-\frac{1}{4}x^{2} + 2x\bigr)\,dx. [3]

(c) Calculate the exact area under the entire model of the slide, for 0x120 \le x \le 12. [4]

(d) Find the percentage error in the total area under the entire model of the slide when using the approximate value from part (a). [3]