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Question

A king rules a small mountain kingdom which is in the form of a square of length 4 kilometres. The square is described by the co-ordinate system  0 x 4 , 0 y 4 .

The king has four adult children, each of which has a luxury palace located at the points ( 1 , 1 ) , ( 3 , 1 ) , ( 1 , 3 ) , ( 3 , 3 ) . Each child owns all the land that is nearer their palace than any other palace.

The king has a fifth (youngest) child who is now just growing up. He installs her in a new palace situated at point (2, 2). The rule about ownership of land is then reapplied.

Sketch a Voronoi diagram to represent this information.

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a.

Sketch a new Voronoi diagram to represent this new situation.

[2]
b.

State what the shape of the land, owned by the youngest child, is.

[1]
c.

Find the area of the youngest child’s land.

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d.

Find how much land an older child has lost.

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e.

State, with a reason, if all five children now own an equal amount of land.

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f.

Markscheme

  A2

[2 marks]

a.

 A2

[2 marks]

b.

By symmetry a square      A1

[1 mark]

c.

Distance from (2, 2) to (1, 3) is  1 2 + 1 2 = 2         M1A1

So length of youngest child’s square is  2 2 2 = 2 and thus area is 2.        M1A1

[4 marks]

d.

By symmetry each older child must lose 2 4 = 1 2       A1

[1 mark]

e.

No, youngest child has less as each older child has 2 × 2 1 2 = 3 1 2       A1R1

[2 marks]

f.

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Syllabus sections

Topic 3—Geometry and trigonometry » SL 3.6—Voronoi diagrams
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