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Date	November Example question	Marks available	3	Reference code	EXN.2.SL.TZ0.5
Level	Standard Level	Paper	Paper 2	Time zone	Time zone 0
Command term	Hence or otherwise	Question number	5	Adapted from	N/A

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The living accommodation on a university campus is in the shape of a rectangle with sides of length $200 m$ and $300 m$ .

There are three offices for the management of the accommodation set at the points $A$ , $B$ and $C$ . These offices are responsible for all the students in the areas closest to the office. These areas are shown on the Voronoi diagram below. On this coordinate system the positions of $A$ , $B$ and $C$ are $(100, 160)$ , $(100, 40)$ and $(250, 100)$ respectively.

The equation of the perpendicular bisector of $[AC]$ is $5 x - 2 y = 615$ .

The manager of office $C$ believes that he has more than one third of the area of the campus to manage.

Find the area of campus managed by office $C$ .

[3]

Hence or otherwise find the areas managed by offices $A$ and $B$ .

[3]

State a further assumption that must be made in order to use area covered as a measure of whether or not the manager of office $C$ is responsible for more students than the managers of offices $A$ and $B$ .

[1]

A new office is to be built within the triangle formed by $A$ , $B$ and $C$ , at a point as far as possible from the other three offices.

Find the distance of this office from each of the other offices.

[2]

Markscheme

Divides area into two appropriate shapes

For example,

Area of triangle $(\frac{1}{2} \times 200 \times 40 =) 4000 m^{2}$ (A1)

Area of rectangle $(200 \times 97) = 19400 m^{2}$ (A1)

$23400 (m^{2})$ A1

Note: The area can be found using different divisions. Award A1 for any two correct areas found and A1 for the final answer.

[3 marks]

EITHER

$\frac{200 \times 300 - 23400}{2} = 18300 m^{2}$ (M1)A1

$\frac{1}{2} \times 100 \times (203 + 163) = 18300 m^{2}$ (M1)A1

THEN

Area managed by both offices $A$ and $B$ is $18300 m^{2}$ A1

[3 marks]

Density of accommodation/students is uniform R1

[1 mark]

$250 - 163 = 87 (m)$ (M1)A1

Note: M1 is for an attempt to find the distance from the intersection point to one of the offices.

[2 marks]

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

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Diagram not to scale

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