A-Level MathematicsYear 2020Q5
19 Turn over Question 5 continued _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ (Total for Question 5 is 10 marks) 20 6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Figure 3 Figure 3 shows a plane shape made up of a regular hexagon with an equilateral triangle joined to each edge and with alternate equilateral triangles shaded. The symmetries of this shape are the rotations and reflections of the plane that preserve the shape and its shading. The symmetries of the shape can be represented by permutations of the six vertices labelled 1 to 6 in Figure 3. The set of these permutations with the operation of composition form a group, G. (a) Describe geometrically the symmetry of the shape represented by the permutation 1 2 3 4 3 4 5 6 5 6 1 2 (2) (b) Write down, in similar two‑line notation, the remaining elements of the group G. (4) (c) Explain why each of the following statements is false, making your reasoning clear. (i) G has a subgroup of order 4 (ii) G is cyclic. (2) Diagram 1, on page 23, shows an unshaded shape with the same outline as the shape in Figure 3. (d) Shade the shape in Diagram 1 in such a way that the group of symmetries of the resulting shaded shape is isomorphic to the cyclic group of order 6 (2) _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________
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Syllabus levelAdvanced Level (A-Level)
SubjectMathematics
Official MarksVariable (2–6 marks)