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Date May 2021 Marks available [Maximum mark: 2] Reference code 21M.3.HL.TZ0.2g.i
Level HL Paper 3 Time zone TZ0
Command term Calculate Question number g.i Adapted from N/A
g.i.
[Maximum mark: 2]
21M.3.HL.TZ0.2g.i

Table 5 provides information relating to the country of Buranda.

Table 5

(g.i)

Calculate Buranda’s terms of trade index for 2008 and 2018.

[2]

Markscheme

PLEASE NOTE: This question part is not on the syllabus for first teaching 2020/first exams 2022.

 

2008:

106.5108.9×100=97.80

An answer of 97.80 is sufficient for [1].

2018:

107.2124.3×100=86.24

An answer of 86.24 is sufficient for [1].

NB Candidates who make a similar rounding error/misplace the decimal point/do not multiply by 100 on both calculations should be penalized once only.

Examiners report

Although many candidates were able to perform the appropriate division, it was common for the index to be expressed as decimal fraction, often expressed to 3 decimal places. Lower-achieving responses divided the 2019 data by the 2018 data or subtracted one element from another. 

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