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Table of contents
1. Assignment
2. Instructions to Students
3. Section A
3.1. Question 1
3.2. Question 2
3.3. Question 3
3.4. Question 4
3.5. Question 5
3.6. Question 6
3.7. Question 7

1. Assignment

Faculty: Information Technology

Module Code: ITMCA1

Module Name: Maths for Computing

Content Writer: Jennifer Mafemba

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Internal Moderation: Community of Practice

Copy Editor: Kyle Keens

Total Marks: 100

Submission Week: Week 6

This module is presented on NQF level [5].

5% will be deducted from the student’s assignment mark for each calendar day the assignment is
submitted late, up to a maximum of three calendar days. The penalty will be based on the official
campus submission date.

Assignments submitted later than three calendar days after the deadline or not submitted will get
0%. [1]

This is an individual assignment.

This assignment contributes 40% towards the final mark.

[1] Under no circumstances will assignments be accepted for marking after the assignments of other students have been marked
and returned to the students.

2. Instructions to Students

1. Please ensure that your answer file (where applicable) is named as follows before submission: Module Code –
Assessment Type – Campus Name – Student Number.
2. Remember to keep a copy of all submitted assignments.
3. All work must be typed.
4. Please note that you will be evaluated on your writing skills in all your assignments.
5. All work must be submitted through Turnitin. The full originality report will be automatically generated and available
for the lecturer to assess. Negative marking will be applied if you are found guilty of plagiarism, poor writing skills, or if
you have applied incorrect or insufficient referencing. (See the "instructions to students" book activity before this
activity where the application of negative marking is explained.)
6. You are not allowed to offer your work for sale or to purchase the work of other students. This includes the use of
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various group members will result in an inflated similarity index on Turnitin.

3. Section A

Section A

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3.1. Question 1

Question 1 15 Marks

1.1 Find all the points having an x -coordinate of whose distance from the point (3, −2) is 10 .

(5 Marks)

1.2 If (3, b) is a point on the graph 3x − 2y = 17 , calculate the value of b?

(4 Marks)

1.3 In a computer graphics application, the coordinates of objects are tracked on a 2D interface for
display purposes. Two graphical elements are positioned at coordinates (−6.5, 7.1) and (−10.5, 9.3) on
the design grid.

a. Calculate the distance between these two points to determine how far apart the elements
are placed on the interface.

(4 Marks)

b. If both elements are animated to move 3 units right and 2 units down, what will be their
new coordinates?

(2 Marks)

End of Question 1

3.2. Question 2

Question 2 8 Marks

2.1 An arithmetic sequence has first term a1 = 7 and fourth term a4 = 22. How many terms of this
sequence must be added to get 3,402?

(4 Marks)

2.2 A technology company is tracking the growth of data packets processed by a server each minute. In
the first minute, 5 packets are processed. In the second minute, the number increases to 20, and by the
third minute, it reaches 80. The number of packets continues to grow in this geometric pattern.

Determine in which minute the server processes 20 480 data packets.

(4 Marks)

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End of Question 2

3.3. Question 3

Question 3 6 Marks

3.1 The vector v has initial position P = (−4, −1) and terminal point Q = (4, −6) . Find the
position vector of v.

(2 Marks)

3.2 In a computer network simulation, two signal paths are represented by direction vectors. The first
signal travels along vector v = -5i + 7j , and the second follows vector w = -6i – 4j. Understanding the angle
between these vectors helps in analysing the routing efficiency and potential interference between
signals.

Calculate the angle between the two signal paths represented by vectors v and w. Show all your
calculations.

(4 Marks)

End of Question 3

3.4. Question 4

Question 4 18 Marks

4.1 Find functions f and g so that f ∘ g = T given that T (x) =

√ 10x+10
.

(2 Marks)

4.2 Given the functions f (x) = 3x − 2 and g(x) = 1

2x−1
. Find:

a. f (x) − g(x)

(3 Marks)

b. f (x)g(x)

(2 Marks)

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f (x)
c. g(x)

(3 Marks)

4.3 Use the graphs of f (x) and g(x) to evaluate the following:

a. g(f (−2))

(1 Mark)

b. g(f (−3))

(1 Mark)

c. f (g(−4))

(1 Mark)

d. f (g(0))

(1 Mark)

4.4 A natural gas company operating in South Africa agrees to pay a property owner R5,000 for the right
to drill on his land for natural gas, plus R0.10 for each thousand cubic metres of gas extracted from the
property.

a. Express the amount of money the property owner will receive as a function of the amount
of gas extracted from the land.

(2 Marks)

b. If 50,000 cubic meters of gas is extracted, how much will the landowner receive in
total?

(2 Marks)

End of Question 4

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3.5. Question 5

Question 5 25 Marks

5.1 Evaluate the limit of each of the following functions (if they exist).

a. lim

(4 Marks)

b. \lim_{x \to -\frac{7}{2}} \frac{6x^2 + 5x - 56}{2x + 7}

(3 Marks)

c. \lim_{x \to \infty} \frac{-3x^{10} - 70x^5 + x^3}{33x^{10} + 200x^8 - 1000x^4}

(3 Marks)

d. \lim_{t \to -\infty} \frac{3t^2 + 5t}{(t - 2)(3 - 2t)}

(4 Marks)

5.2 A software development company has released a new cloud-based data backup service. The
growth in the number of subscribed users over time is approximated by the function

S(x) = 1000 - 800e^{-x}

where S(x) represents the number of users and x denotes the number of years since the service
was launched.

a. Determine the number of users at the time of the service launch (when x=0 .

(2 Marks)

b. Calculate the number of years required for the number of users to reach 500

(4 Marks)

c. Evaluate whether the number of users will ever reach exactly 1 000. Justify your answer.

(3 Marks)

d. Is there a limit on the number of users for this service? If so, what is it?

(2 Marks)

End of Question 5

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3.6. Question 6

Question 6 20 Marks

6.1 A software development company, CodeCore Solutions, knows that a newly deployed
software module has a probability of 0.037 of containing a critical bug. If four modules are selected
at random for quality assurance testing during the course of a workday, what is the probability that
none of the modules contain a critical bug?

(2 Marks)

6.2 A particular rapid test for COVID-19 has a 0.7% chance of producing a false positive result -
indicating that a person has COVID-19 when they are actually not infected. If 60 individuals who are
COVID-negative are tested, what is the probability of obtaining at least one false positive result?

(4 Marks)

6.3 The final scores for an Introduction to Cybersecurity course are normally distributed with a mean of
70 and a standard deviation of 12. The lecturer decides to award a Distinction to the top 15% of the
class based on final exam scores. What is the minimum score a student must obtain on the final
exam to earn a Distinction? Round your answer to the nearest integer.

(4 Marks)

6.4 An IT department is monitoring the download times (in seconds) for a large software update on
employee laptops. The download times are normally distributed with a mean of 120 seconds and a
standard deviation of 15 seconds. This information helps the department evaluate network performance
and identify potential issues in slower machines.

a. What is the probability that a randomly selected laptop downloads the update in more
than 135 seconds?

(3 Marks)

b. What is the probability that the download takes less than 100 seconds?

(2 Marks)

c. What is the probability that the download time is between 110 and 130 seconds? Round your
answers to four decimal places.

(5 Marks)

End of Question 6

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3.7. Question 7

Question 7 8 Marks

In a cloud service, the function \( l(w) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{w^2 - 1}} \) models the latency time (in milliseconds)
of the system as the number of active users, \( w \) , increases. To assess how quickly the latency changes
as more users connect, the rate of change is required.

a. Using the limit definition of the derivative, calculate the rate of change of the latency
function, \( l(w) \) at \( w=5 \).

(6 Marks)

b. How does the latency change with respect to the number of active users at this point?

(2 Marks)

End of Question 7

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