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Answers written in the margins will not be marked. 3. Factorize (a) b*+2b-15, (by &b +22°b-154%. (3 marks) 4. The price of 3 sandwiches is equal to the price of 4 cakes. The price of 4 sandwiches and 5 cakes is $186 . Find the price of a sandwich. (3 marks) Answers written in the margins will not be marked. Answers written in the margins will not be marked. to th t PP2-DSE-MATH-CP-1-3 3 Go on to the next page > Page total
Answers written in the margins will not be marked. 5. Consider the compound inequality 5x-3 3x-5> and 3 +x < 14......(*) (a) Solve (*). (b) Write down the smallest integer satisfying (*). (4 marks) 6. Ina shop, the marked price of a shirt is higher than its cost by $100 . The shirt is sold at a discount of 20% on its marked price. After selling the shirt, the percentage profit is 20% . Find the marked price of the shirt. (4 marks) Answers written in the margins will not be marked. PP2-DSE-MATH-CP-1-4 4 Page total Answers written in the margins will not be marked.
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Answers written in the margins will not be marked. 8. InFigure 1, O is the centre of the circle BCDE . ABC and AED are straight lines. A Figure 1 (a) Prove that AABE ~ AADC . (b) If ZCOE=130° and ACOE is a cyclic quadrilateral, find ZAEB . (5 marks) Answers written in the margins will not be marked. Answers written in the margins will not be marked. PP2-DSE-MATH-CP-1-6 6 Page total
Answers written in the margins will not be marked. students during a particular vacation. 9. The table below shows the distribution of the number of hours spent on online games per day by a group of Number of hours 1 2 3 4 5 Number of students 13 12 11 9 5 (a) Write down the mean, the median and the standard deviation of the above distribution. (b) A new student now joins the group. The number of hours spent by him on online games per day during that vacation is 3 . Find the change in the median of the distribution as a result of this. (5 marks) Answers written in the margins will not be marked. PP2-DSE-MATH-CP-1-7 @) on to the next page> Answers written in the margins will not be marked. Page total
Answers written in the margins will not be marked. SECTION A (2) (35 marks) 10. The stem-and-leaf diagram below shows the distribution of the average daily expenses (in dollars) of a group of students last month. Stem ($10) | Leaf ($1) 4 |5 6 7 514 4 5 6 9 6 (0 0 2 5 8 8 711 2 3 3 (a) Find the median and the inter-quartile range of the distribution. (3 marks) (b) The box-and-whisker diagram below shows the distribution of the average daily expenses (in dollars) of the same group of students this month. Average daily 48 62 67 74 78 expenses (dollars) A student Chris claims that at least 25% of the students’ average daily expenses have increased this month. Do you agree? Explain your answer. (3 marks) Answers written in the margins will not be marked. PP2-DSE-MATH-CP-1-8 8 Page total Answers written in the margins will not be marked.
Answers written in the margins will not be marked. 11. The cost $C of making a metal ball is partly constant and partly varies as the cube of the radius » cm of the ball. It is known that when »=2, C=224 and when r=5,C=575. (2) Find the cost of the metal ball when r=10. (4 marks) (b) Someone claims that the cost of a metal ball of radius 6 cm is higher than the total cost of two metal balls each of radius 2 cm? Is the claim correct? Explain your answer. (2 marks) Answers written in the margins will not be marked. Answers written in the margins will not be marked. PP2-DSE-MATH-CP-1-9 9 [ Go on to the next page > Page total
Answers written in the margins will not be marked. 12. A vessel X in the form of a frustum is made by cutting off the lower part of an inverted right circular cone. The vessel X has a height of 8 cm with the radii of the top and the base equal to 15 cm and 9 cm respectively. (a) Find the capacity of the vessel X in terms of 7. (3 marks) (b) Abigger vessel Y is similar to vessel X. The slant edge of vessel Y is of length 12 em. Edwin claims that the capacity of vessel Y is less than 6 000 cm®. Do you agree? Explain your answer. (3 marks) Answers written in the margins will not be marked. PP2-DSE-MATH-CP-1-10 10 Page total Answers written in the margins will not be marked. v, e
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Answers written in the margins will not be marked. 13, The cubic polynomial G(x) is divisible by x — 1. When G(x) is divided by x*>— 1, the remainder is kx — 32 , where k is a constant. (a) Find %. (3 marks) (b) Itis given that x — 3 is a factor of G(x). When G(x) is divided by x, the remainder is —30. Find all the rational roots of the equation G(x) = 0. (5 marks) Answers written in the margins will not be marked. PP2-DSE-MATH-CP-1-12 12 Page total Answers written in the margins will not be marked.
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Answers written in the margins will not be marked. 14. The equation of the circle Cisx?+»* — 8x— 6y — 75 =0 . Denote the centre of C by G and the origin by O. (@) Find OG. (3 marks) (b) Does O lie inside circle C ? Explain your answer. (2 marks) (c) Let Q beamoving point in the same rectangular coordinate plane such that OQ = GQ . Suppose that the locus of O cuts C at the points 4 and B . Find the perimeter of the quadrilateral OAGB . (4 marks) Answers written in the margins will not be marked. PP2-DSE-MATH-CP-1-14 14 Page total Answers written in the margins will not be marked.
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Answers written in the margins will not be marked. SECTION B (35 marks) 15. Abagcontains 1 red pen, 5 blue pens and 6 green pens. 4 pens are randomly selected. (a) Find the probability that 2 blue pens and 2 green pens are selected. (2 marks) (b) Find the probability that the number of blue pens and the number of green pens selected are different. (2 marks) Answers written in the margins will not be marked. Answers written in the margins will not be marked. PP2-DSE-MATH-CP-1-16 16 Page total
Answers written in the margins will not be marked. 16. Let f(x)=5x*~20kx +22k*+ 4, where k is a non-zero constant. (@) Using the method of completing the square, express, in terms of % , the coordinates of the vertex of the graph of y=f(x). (2 marks) (b) On the same rectangular coordinate system, denote the vertex of the graph of y = f(x) and the vertex of the graph y =5 f(x +4) by U and V respectively. Let S be a point lying on UV such that the area of AOUV is four times the area of AOQUS, where O is the origin. Express in terms of &, the coordinates of S. (3 marks) Answers written in the margins will not be marked. Answers written in the margins will not be marked. t PP2-DSE-MATH-CP-1-17 17 Go on (o the nex pa&> Page total
Answers written in the margins will not be marked. 17. Let k be areal constant. The roots of the equation x> +kx—18=0 are « and B, where a > f . (a) Find ¢ — f interms of k. ' (3 marks) (b) The 1st term, the 2nd term and the 3rd term of an arithmetic sequence are k,a — f and k+ 8 respectively. Find the least value of » such that the sum of the fist » terms of the sequence is greater than 3 x 10°. (4 marks) Answers written in the margins will not be marked. PP2-DSE-MATH-CP-1-18 18 Page total Answers written in the margins will not be marked.
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Answers written in the margins will not be marked. 18. Figure 2(a) shows two similar triangles 4BE and ACD with AB=AE=34cm, BC=ED=17 cm and CD =48 cm. When AACD is folded along BE, AABE and BCDE form two of the faces of the pyramid ABCDE shown in Figure 2(b), where 4D =AC=40cm. 17cm_~ € B / 34 cm A 48 cm 34 e 4 40 cm D E\ 17 cm Figure 2(a) D Figure 2(b) (a) Find the angle between the faces ABE and BCDE in the pyramid. (4 marks) (b) Find the angle between AE and the face BCDE in the pyramid. (3 marks) Answers written in the margins will not be marked. PP2-DSE-MATH-CP-1-20 20 Page total Answers written in the margins will not be marked.
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