Part (a): Given two cubic functions $g(x)$ and $h(x)$ of the form $ax^3+bx^2+cx+d$, give an expression for the function $f(x)$, where $f(x)=g(x)-2h(x)$. 

Part (b): Solve $f(x)=0$.

Given two cubic functions $g(x)$ and $h(x)$ of the form $ax^3+bx^2+cx+d$, solve the equation $g(x)=2h(x)$, giving all possible solutions for $x$. 

Given a cubic expression and a linear factor, calculate the remaining quadratic factor.

Calculating two unknown coefficients of a cubic expression when given two of the expression's linear factors.

A quadratic and a graph of it is given. A tangent is also sketched. The equation of the tangent line is asked for.

Two questions testing the application of the Sine Rule when given two angles and a side. In this question, the triangle is always acute.

A question testing the application of the Cosine Rule when given two sides and an angle. In this question, the triangle is always obtuse and both of the given side lengths are adjacent to the given angle (which is the obtuse angle).

Find the equation of a straight line which has a given gradient $m$ and passes through the given point $(a,b)$.

What is the value of the expression given a choice of n?

English sentences which are propositions are given and for each the appropriate proposition  involving quantifiers is to be chosen. 

Example of an explore mode question. Student is given a 3x3 matrix and is asked to find the characteristic polynomial and eigenvalues, and then eigenvectors for each eigenvalue. The part asking for eigenvectors can be repeated as often as the student wants, to be used for different eigenvalues.

Assessed: calculating characteristic polynomial and eigenvectors.

Feature: any correct eigenvalue will be recognised by the marking algorithm, even multiples of the obvious one(s) (which can be read off from the reduced row echelon form)

Randomisation: Not randomised, just using particular matrices. I am still working on how to randomise this for 3x3; a randomised 2x2 version exists. I have several different versions for 3x3 (not all published yet), so I could make a random choice between these in a test.

The implementation uses linear algebra functions such as "find reduced echelon form" or "find kernel of a reduced echelon form", from the extension "linalg2".

Two questions testing the application of the Cosine Rule when given two sides and an angle. In these questions, the triangle is always acute and both of the given side lengths are adjacent to the given angle.

Compute the experimental probability of a particular score on a die given a sample of throws, and compare it with the theoretical probability.

The last part asks what you expect to happen to the experimental probability as the sample size increases.

Calculate the distance between two points along the surface of a sphere using the cosine rule of spherical trigonometry. Context is two places on the surface of the Earth, using latitude and longitude.

The question is randomised so that the numerical values for Latitude for A and B will be positive and different (10-25 and 40-70 degrees). As will the values for Longitude (5-25 and 50-75). The question statement specifies both points are North in latitude, but one East and one West longitude, This means that students need to deal with angles across the prime meridian, but not the equator.

Students first calculate the side of the spherical triangle in degrees, then in part b they convert the degrees to kilometers. Part a will be marked as correct if in the range true answer +-1degree, as long as the answer is given to 4 decimal places. This allows for students to make the mistake of rounding too much during the calculation steps.

Apply the quadratic formula to find the roots of a given equation. The quadratic formula is given in the steps if the student requires it.

Students are given an exponential equation and asked to evaluate it at two points.

The constants in the exponential are randomised.

Given vectors $\boldsymbol{v}$ and $\boldsymbol{w}$, find their inner product.

Given vectors $\boldsymbol{v}$ and $\boldsymbol{w}$, find their inner product.

Example of an explore mode question. Student is given a 2x2 matrix with eigenvalues and eigenvectors, and is asked to decide if the matrix is invertible. If yes, second and third parts are offered where the student should give the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the inverse matrix.

Assessed: remembering link between 0 eigenvalue and invertibility. Remembering link between eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrix and its inverse.

Randomisation: a random true/false for invertibility is created, and the eigenvalues a and b are randomised (condition: two different evalues, and a=0 iff invertibility is false), and a random invertible 2x2 matrix with determinant 1 or -1 is created (via random elementary row operations) to change base from diag(a,b) to the matrix for the question. Determinant 1 or -1 ensures that we keep integer entries.

The implementation uses linear algebra functions such as "find reduced echelon form" or "find kernel of a reduced echelon form", from the extension "linalg2".

Used for LANTITE preparation (Australia). NA = Number & Algebra strand. SP = Statistics & Probability strand. Students read the annual hours worked from the chart and calculate the weekly hours given the number of weeks annual leave. There are 7 different versions of this question.

Given some random finite subsets of the natural numbers, perform set operations $\cap,\;\cup$ and complement.

This question assesses learners' ability to:

- construct a confidence interval for a proportion given corresponding summarised data;

- predict the sample size required to limit the margin of error to a given value.

Used for LANTITE preparation (Australia). NA = Number & Algebra strand. Students are given a ratio, and the total number of dancers. They must calculate the number of girls (the larger share). The ratio, and total number are randomly generated.

Used for LANTITE preparation (Australia). NA = Number & Algebra strand. Students need to read the speed of the given object from the table, then convert from m/s to km/h. There are 7 objects, and hence 7 different possible questions.

Used for LANTITE preparation (Australia). NA = Number & Algebra strand. Students are given a height (in cm) and weight (kg), then need to calculate the BMI given the formula (first converting height to m), then determine the weight range from the table. Weight and height are randomised.

Used for LANTITE preparation (Australia). MG = Measurement & Geometry strand. NC = Non Calculator. The start time for Period 1 (randomised) and the end time for Period 2 (randomised) are given, and students are asked to find the middle of those two times. 

Out of three options, you need to choose the best pokemon type to use to defeat a given pokemon type.

Info is taken from https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-12-21-pokemon-go-type-chart-effectiveness-weaknesses  

Icons are taken from https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Main_Page

Consider a binary tree with $2^n$ nodes.

We give generators for the isomorphisms of the tree: at each non-leaf vertex, swap the branches descending from that node.

• What is the action of a given word?
• Write a word which produces the required isomorphism
• Which generators commute?
• What is the order of each generator?
• Write one of the (non-root) generators in terms of the others.
• Which permutations of the leaves are possible?
• What is the order of the group of isomorphisms?
• What is the order of the quotient group obtained by identifying all the leaves of one branch?

The student is given a number in base 10 and asked to write it in a given base, between 2 and 16. The number has at most 3 digits in the other base.

Until it's possible to derive the expected answer for a part in the marking algorithm (see the issue tracker), this question has "show expected answer" turned off, because it just shows the base 10 number.

Given th original formula the student enters the transformed formula