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Date May 2021 Marks available 2 Reference code 21M.1.AHL.TZ1.16
Level Additional Higher Level Paper Paper 1 Time zone Time zone 1
Command term Find Question number 16 Adapted from N/A

Question

An ant is walking along the edges of a wire frame in the shape of a triangular prism.

The vertices and edges of this frame can be represented by the graph below.

Write down the adjacency matrix, M, for this graph.

[3]
a.

Find the number of ways that the ant can start at the vertex A, and walk along exactly 6 edges to return to A.

[2]
b.

Markscheme

M=011100101010110001100011010101001110           A1A1A1

 

Note: Award A1 for each two correct rows. 

 

[3 marks]

a.

calculating M6            (M1)

143           A1

 

[2 marks]

b.

Examiners report

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Syllabus sections

Topic 3—Geometry and trigonometry » AHL 3.15—Adjacency matrices and tables
Topic 3—Geometry and trigonometry

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