Name: Mentor Group:

Mathematics/ Year Two

(Semester II, 2021)
MA2132 Foundation in Math IIB
December Holiday Assignment

1 The table below shows the number of passengers in taxis passing a building
during peak hours.

No of passengers 0 1 2 3 4
No of taxis 6 10 x 12 7

(a) Write down an inequality that must be satisfied by x if the mode is 2 .

(b) Find the possible value of x if the median is 2.5 .
(c) If x  11, find the mean number of passengers in a taxi.

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2 It is given that A   .
2 1 
(a) Find the matrix of A2.
 12 
(b) Find the matrix C if AC    .
 13 

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3 Express in the form of 1  a x  b y where a, b, x and y are
2 3  7
constants.

4 Solve the equation 10 x  6  x  1  8 x  8 .

5 The masses (in kg) of 12 girls in a class are given below (in ascending order).

25 34 39 41 45 50 52 58 x 63 70 75

(i) If the interquartile range is 21 kg, find the value of x .

(ii) Hence, find the standard deviation.
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6 In a fish farm, there were two groups of 100 fishes each. One group was fed with
fish food A and the other with fish food B . The diagram below shows, on the
same axes, the cumulative frequency curve for the lengths of the fishes.

Cumulative
Frequency
100
Fish Food B

Fish Food A
80

60

40

20

0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
Length (cm)

(a) For the fishes which were fed with fish food A , find
(i) the median length;
(ii) the interquartile range;
(iii) the fraction of fishes, in its lowest term, of length greater than 15 cm
but less than or equal to 20.5 cm.
(b) Compare, briefly, the length of the two groups of fishes.

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7 (a) The quadrilateral ABCD is such that AB  2p, BC  q and CD  3p .
(i) What is the special name given to quadrilateral ABCD?
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(ii) Express DA in terms of p and q, giving your answers in its simplest
form.
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(b) Three points P, Q and R are collinear and their coordinates are  4, 6  ,

 1,0  and w  1,4w  2  respectively.

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(i) Find PQ .
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(ii) Express QR as a column vector in terms of w.
(iii) Find the value of w.
(iv) Using the value of w found in (iii), write down the coordinates of T
  0 
if RT   .
 22 

8 The diagram below shows two circles with centres P and Q respectively. The
circles touch at point R. The line TC is a common tangent to the circles at A and B
respectively and PRQ is a straight line. It is known that PA  3 cm, QB  2 cm and
APQ  θ radians.

(i) Show that θ  1.369 .

(ii) Find the perimeter of the shaded region.

T
A
B
3 cm C
2 cm
P R Q
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9 The table below shows information of students in mentor group M16208.

Male Female

Right-Handed 12 7

Left-Handed 3 2

(a) A student from the class is selected at random.

Find, as a fraction in its lowest terms, the probability that the student is
(i) a right-handed male,
(ii) a female.

(b) Two students are selected at random from the class.

Find, as a fraction in its lowest terms, the probability that
(i) neither of them is a right-handed female,
(ii) one is a right-handed and one is a left-handed.

10 (a) Calculate the number of different ways in which the letters of the word
HOLIDAY can be arranged such that

(i) the first letter is I and the last letter is Y,

(ii) the first letter is I or the last letter is Y but not both.

(b) A school has 6 vacancies for an overseas trip. The students who applied
consist of 7 girls and 8 boys. Calculate the number of ways in which the 6
vacancies could be filed if at least 4 girls are to be selected.
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11 The diagram below shows two circles with centres P and Q. The circles intersect
at points A and B. CE and DE are tangents to the circles with centres P and Q at
C and D respectively. The line BE cuts the circle with centre Q at F and the line
DF produced meets CE at G. CAD is a straight line.

Prove that
(i) CBF  GCD  GDC ;
(ii) the points B, C, G and F lie on a circle;
(iii) ED 2  EG  EC .

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