AQA A Level Further Maths Paper 3 Discrete June 2023 question paper

The simple-connected graph G is shown below.

The graph G has n faces.

State the value of n

Circle your answer.

2 3 4 5

A student is solving a maximising linear programming problem.

The graph below shows the constraints, feasible region and objective line for the student’s linear programming problem.

Which vertex is the optimal vertex?

Circle your answer.

A B C D

The network below represents a system of water pipes in a geothermal power station.

The numbers on each arc represent the lower and upper capacity for each pipe in gallons per second.

The water is taken from a nearby river at node A The water is then pumped through the system of pipes and passes through one of three treatment facilities at nodes H, I and J before returning to the river.

The senior management at the power station want all of the water to undergo a final quality control check at a new facility before it returns to the river.

Using the language of networks, explain how the network above could be modified to include the new facility.

Find the value of the cut { A, B, C, D, E } { F, G, H, I, J }

Tim, a trainee engineer at the power station, correctly calculates the value of the cut { A, B, C, D, E, F } { G, H, I, J } to be 106 gallons per second.

Tim then claims that the maximum flow through the network of pipes is 106 gallons per second.

Comment on the validity of Tim’s claim.

A student is solving the following linear programming problem.

The student wants to use the simplex algorithm to solve the linear programming problem.

They modify the linear programming problem by introducing the objective function

and the slack variables r and s

State one further modification that must be made to the linear programming problem so that it can be solved using the simplex algorithm.

Complete the initial simplex tableau for the modified linear programming problem.

Hence, perform one iteration of the simplex algorithm.

Explain how the student can tell that the optimal solution to the modified linear programming problem can be determined from the above simplex tableau.

Find the optimal solution of the original linear programming problem.

The gritter truck starts gritting the roads at 7:00 pm and moves with an average speed of 5 metres per second during its journey.

Find the earliest time for the gritter truck to have gritted each road at least once and arrived back at the junction it started from, giving your answer to the nearest minute.

Fully justify your answer.

Explain how a refinement to the council’s requirement, that the gritter truck must start and finish at the same junction, could reduce the time taken to grit all of the roads at least once.

Find the earliest start time and the latest finish time for each activity and write these values on the activity network in Figure 1

Write down the critical path.

On Figure 2 below, draw a cascade diagram (Gantt chart) for the planned building project, assuming that each activity starts as early as possible.

During further planning of the building project, Nova Merit Construction find that activity F is not necessary and they remove it from the project.

Explain the effect removing activity F has on the minimum completion time of the project.

The graph G is shown below.

State, with a reason, whether or not G is simple.

A student states that G is Eulerian.

Explain why the student is correct.

The graph H has 8 vertices with degrees 2, 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 and 4

Comment on whether H is isomorphic to G

The formula v e f 2, where

can be used with graphs which satisfy certain conditions.

Prove that G does not satisfy the conditions for the above formula to apply.

The group (C, ₄) contains the elements 0, 1, 2 and 3

Show that C is a cyclic group.

State the group of symmetries of a regular polygon that is isomorphic to C

The group (V, ) contains the elements (1, 1), (1, 1), (1, 1) and (1, 1)

The binary operation between elements of V is defined by

Find the element in V that is the inverse of (1, 1)

Fully justify your answer.

Determine, with a reason, whether or not C V

The group G has order 16

Rachel claims that as 1, 2, 4, 8 and 16 are the only factors of 16 then, by Lagrange’s theorem, the group G will have exactly 5 distinct subgroups, including the trivial subgroup and G itself.

Comment on the validity of Rachel’s claim.