Question 21M.3.HL.TZ0.g.i
| Date | May 2021 | Marks available | [Maximum mark: 2] | Reference code | 21M.3.HL.TZ0.g.i |
| Level | HL | Paper | 3 | Time zone | TZ0 |
| Command term | Calculate | Question number | g.i | Adapted from | N/A |
Table 5 provides information relating to the country of Buranda.
Table 5
Calculate Buranda’s terms of trade index for 2008 and 2018.
[2]
PLEASE NOTE: This question part is not on the syllabus for first teaching 2020/first exams 2022.
2008:
An answer of 97.80 is sufficient for [1].
2018:
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.
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.
