Year 12 · WACE / Mathematics Applications
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Topics in the resource inventory
- The statistical investigation process and describing association in percentaged two-way tables
- Scatterplots, direction-form-strength, the correlation coefficient r and the coefficient of determination
- Fitting and interpreting the least-squares line, residual plots, interpolation and extrapolation
- Association versus causation: coincidence, confounding and common response
- Arithmetic sequences: recursion, nth-term rules and linear growth and decay
- Geometric sequences: recursion, nth-term rules and exponential growth and decay
- First-order linear recurrence relations, long-term behaviour and steady state
- Graphs, digraphs and networks: terminology, adjacency matrices and multi-stage matrices
- Planar graphs, faces and Euler's formula v + f − e = 2
- Walks, trails, paths, cycles, shortest paths, Eulerian and Hamiltonian graphs
- Time series plots: trend, seasonality, irregular fluctuations and outliers
- Smoothing a time series with simple moving averages
- Seasonal indices by the average percentage method, deseasonalising and predicting from the trend line
- Compound interest loans and investments: recurrence relations and the effective annual rate
- Solving compound interest and depreciation problems with the finance solver
- Reducing balance loans: recurrence models, repayments and time to repay
- Annuities and perpetuities: recurrence models and finance-solver problems
- Trees, spanning trees, Prim's algorithm and minimum connector problems
- Project networks, forward and backward scanning, critical paths and float
- Maximum flow-minimum cut and assignment problems with the Hungarian algorithm
Resource inventory inspected 4 November 2026. The main ATARMAXXING study platform is separate from tutoring. Topic labels show what was found, not a guarantee of complete curriculum coverage or tutor availability.
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