Crash Course Programme

Subject : Additional Mathematics

Topic : Algebra, Logarithm & Quadratic Equation

Course Teacher : Imam Hossain

Formulae :

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4.

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5. Quadratic Equation:

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 Factor and remainder theorem

1.[Nov11(11)/P1/Q2/M6]

Answer: f(1)= -19

2.[June11/P1/Q5/M6]

Answer: (ii) x=0.5

3. [Nov10 (13)/Q4/M4]

Answer: k= -10

4. [Nov10(11)/P1/Q4/M5]

Answer: (x+1) (2x+1) (x-7)

5. [Nov10(13)/P1/Q6/M6]

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Answer: x= 2, -4, -
3

6.[Nov11/P2/Q3/M6]

Answer: a=8, b=3, f (-1) =18

7.[Nov2/P2/Q6/M6]

Answer: (i) 7(ii) 200

8.[June10/Q3/M6]

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Answer: (i) b=5-a (ii) 2a-22, a-11

9.[June02/P2/Q4/M6]

Answer: − 2, 3 + 2 2 , 3 − 2 2

10.[June10/P2/Q5/M6]

Answer: x=-2, 0.5, 3

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 Simultaneous Equation

1.[Nov09/P1/Q4/M5]

Answer: x= 4, 2.5 y= 3.5, 3

2.[Nov11/P1/Q2/M5]

−23 −14
Answer: x= 5
, 5; y= 5
, 2

Inequality

1.[Nov05/P1/Q5/M3]

Answer: x<4, x>9

2.[Nov08/P1/Q2/M4]

Answer: x<-1, x>2

3.[Nov11(23)/P2/Q1/M3]

Answer: x<-2.5, x>3

Indices and surds

1. Simplify each of the following surds.

(i) 7 5 × 125 ÷ 2 27 (ii) (2+ 3 )² – (3- 3 )²

175 3
Answer: (i) 18
(ii) 10 3 -5

2. Rationalize the following in its simplest form.

3 −3 5+3 2 3− 2
(i) (ii) +
3 −1 4−2 5 4−2 5

Answer: (i) - 3 (ii)-8-4 5 -2 2 - 10

3. Evaluate

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1 1 1 −2 − 3
1  1  2
(i) 12 3  81 6 162 3 (ii)      243 5
4  576 

Answer: (i) 6 (ii) 18

4. Simplify the following:

20 x + 3  15 2 x + 5  6 2 x −1

Answer: 2 7 .3 6 .5 3 x +8

5. If y = 3 x , express each of the following in terms of y :

1
x+
2 1
x +1
1
(x+2)
(a) 9 x − 27 3 3 (b) 3 x − 9 2 + 27 3

Answers: (a) y 2 − 9 y (b) y

6. Solve the following equation:

(a) 5 x
2
+3
− 252 x = 0 (b) 3 2 x+2 + 81 = 246 3 x ( )
Answers: (a) 1, 3 (b) 3, -1

7. Solve the following simultaneous equations:

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3 x  81 y = 27 , 2 x  8 y =
16

Answer: x= -25, y= 7.

1.[Nov07/P1/Q7/M5]

Answer: x = 2.32

2.[Nov8/P1/Q6/M8]

Answer: (i) t= -0.5, 5 (ii) x= 0.25, 25

3. [June10(11)/P1/Q8/M3]

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Answer: x = 5

4.[Nov7/P1/Q3/M5]

Answer: (i) 2+ 3 (ii) 2 3

5. [June 08/P1/Q1/M3]

Answer: a=-25, b=18

6. [June 10(11)/P1/Q8/M5]

Answer: (i) 2 3 (ii) 5 5 + 11

7.[June11(11)/P1/Q4/M2]

𝟒
Answer: p=1 , q= − 𝟓

8.[Nov11(21)/P2/Q11/M3]

𝟏
Answer: 𝟑

9.[Nov02/P2/Q9/M4]

Answer: 4/5

10.[Nov4/P2/Q2/M4]

Answer: a = 19, b = - 8

11.[Nov 02/P2/Q3/M5]
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Answer: (i) 2 + 3 (ii) 2 3

12.[Nov06/P2/Q9/M4]

Answer: 3-6 5

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 Logarithms

1.[June06/P1/Q9/M4]

1
Answer: y= 9, 81

2.[Nov07/P1/Q7/M4]

Answer: y = 4

3.[Nov11/P1/Q3/M5]

Answer: (i) (ii) x=2, 4

4.[June08/P1/Q8/M6]

𝟏 𝟏
Answer: (i) a = 0.5 (ii) b= (iii) x= 27, y =
𝟑 𝟑

5. [Nov10 (13)/P1/Q5/M5]

𝟗 𝟑
Answer: a= 𝟒 b= 𝟐

6. [Nov11 (13)/P1/Q5/M6]

𝟏
Answer: (i) log p = 3a , log q = a (ii) 𝟑

7.[June11/P2/Q8/M6]

Answer: (i). x= 4.82, y= -0.5

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8. [June09/P2/Q7/M6]

Answer: (i) 4.5 (ii)-9 (iii) 15 (iv) 1.5

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 Nature of Roots

1. Determine the nature of roots of the following equations.

1 1 1
(i) 4x-2-3x² (ii) 𝑥
- 𝑥+1 = 5

Answer: (i) complex (ii) real and different

2. The equation x²+x (2x+p) +3 has equal roots. Find the possible value of P.

Answer: p=  6

3. [Nov09/P1/Q3/M4]

Answer: k= ¼, -1

4. [June10 (11)/P1/Q3/M5]

Answer: k ≤ 2, k ≥10

5. [June5/P1/Q9/M7]

Answer: (i) 0< k< 16/9 (ii)

6. Find the range of values of k for which the equation 3-4k-(k+3)x -x² will be negative for all the

values of x.

Answer: 3 < k < 7

7. Given that (2x-1)² + (2m+3) (2m-3)>0 for all real values of x, find the range of values of m.

Answer: m > 3/2 or m < -3/2

8. [June09/P1/Q4/M5]

Answer: (i) k=2 (ii) x=2, y=7

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9. [June11/12/P1/Q1/M3]

Answer: k = -2

Completing Square

1. Express y = -x²-4x-1 in the form of y = a-(x+b) ², where a and b are constants.

Hence state the maximum value of y and the corresponding value of x.

Sketch the curve y = -x²-4x-1

Answer: y=3-(x+2)², 3,-2

2. Express y = 2x²+4x+17 in the form y = a(x+b)²+c , where a, b and c are constants.

Hence state the minimum Value of y and the value of x at which this occurs.

Sketch the curve y = 2x²+4x+17

Answer: y=2(x+1)²+15, 15,-1

3. [Nov10(11)/P1/Q1/M3]

Answer: (i) a=-12 b=- 4 (ii) -4

4. [June10 (22)/P2/Q12/M10]

Answer: (i) 4 < k < 12 (ii) a=2, b=5/2, c=15/4 (iii) min=15/4, x= - 5/4

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