LUI CHEUNG KWONG LUTHERAN COLLEGE

F.5 MATHEMATICS (PAPER 1)

MID-TERM EXAMINATION (2020-2021)

TIME ALLOWED : 90 MINUTES

DATE : 12-1-2021
MARK : 80

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CLASS : F. 5 _______
NAME : _____________________ CLASS NO. : ________

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. This paper consists of TWO sections. Attempt ALL questions in this paper.
2. You should write your answers in the spaces provided in this Question-Answer
Book. Supplementary answer sheets will be supplied on request.
3. Unless otherwise specified, all working must be clearly shown.
4. Unless otherwise specified, numerical answers should be either exact or correct to
3 significant figures.
5. The diagrams in this paper are not necessarily drawn to scale.

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Section A (50 marks)
3 2 −2
(a b )
1. Simplify a9 and express your answer with positive indices. (3 marks)

2. Factorize
2
(a) 2 a −13 a−7 ,
2
(b) 2 a −13 a−7 +4 ab+2 b .
(3 marks)

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3. (a) Round off 472.8205 to the nearest hundred.
(b) Round up 472.8205 to 2 significant figures.
(c) Round down 472.8205 to 3 decimal places. (3 marks)

4. David is the owner of a shop. The cost of a camera in the shop is $2250. David sold it to Kenny
and made a profit of 8%.
(a) Find the selling price of the camera.
(b) Kenny was given a 10% discount when buying the camera from David. What was the
marked price of the camera?
(4 marks)

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5. Consider the compound inequality
x
+2>2 x−1
2 or 3x – 2  x – 1 ……… (*)
(a) Solve (*).
(b) Write down the greatest integer satisfying (*).
(4 marks)

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6. In figure 1, O is the centre of the circle and DB is the diameter of the circle. DAC = 65°
and ABD = 32°. Find x and y.
(5
marks)

Figure 1

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7. In figure 2, ABCD is a quadrilateral with AB = AD = 5 cm, BC = 7 cm, CD = 8 cm and
ABC = 85°. Find

Figure 2

(a) the length of AC,

(b) the area of the quadrilateral ABCD.
(6 marks)

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8. 2 identical metal solid right pyramids with a square base of side X cm is melted and recast into
75 identical smaller solid right pyramids with height 8 cm and a square base of side x cm.
(a) It is given that the base area of the larger pyramid is 16 times of the base area of the
smaller pyramid. Find
(i) X : x.
(ii) the height of the larger pyramid.
(b) Peter claimed that the smaller pyramid and the larger pyramid are similar solids. Do you
agree? Explain your answer.
(7 marks)

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9. Let g( x )=x −x −11 x +c , where c is a constant. When g( x) is divided by x + 1, the
remainder is 12.
(a) Is x + 3 a factor of g( x) ? Explain your answer.
(b) David claims that all the roots of the equation g( x)=0 are real. Do you agree? Explain
your answer.
(7 marks)

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10. Consider f (x )=−x −6 x+k and g( x)=kx−k . The equation f (x )=g( x ) has real root(s).
(a) Find the range of values of k.
(b) (i) If f (k )>g( k) , find the range of values of k.
(ii) Find the maximum integral value of k satisfying both (a) and (b)(i).
(8 marks)

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SECTION B (30 marks)

11. In figure 3, BC and BD are tangents to the circle at A and E respectively. O is the centre of the
circle and AOD is a straight line.

Figure 3

(a) Show that △ABD ~ △EOD. (3 marks)

(b) If AB = 3 cm and DE = 2 cm, find
(i) the lengths of BE and AD,
(ii) the radius of the circle.
(6 marks)

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12. After a hot-air balloon has crashed in a forest, the Fire Service Department carries out a rescue
operation. As shown in Figure 4, the searching region is a triangle XYZ, where XY =12 km
and XZ=8 km . The compass bearing of Z from X is N22W and Y is due west of X.

Figure 4

Figure 4

(a) Find (i) the area of △XYZ,

(ii) the length of YZ.
(5 marks)
(b) Assume that the balloon has crashed at the position Q. It is given that the compass
bearings of Q from X and Y are N32W and N54E respectively. Two fire service teams
are ordered to reach Q from X and Y at the speeds of 20 km/h and 25 km/h respectively.
Which team (team from X or team from Y) will arrive at the position of the balloon
earlier? Explain your answer.
(5 marks)

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13. In Figure 5(a), ABCD is a paper card. The diagonals AC and BD intersect at E and they are
perpendicular to each other. It is given that AB = AD = 7 cm, CB = CD = 5 cm and AC = 8 cm.

Figure 5(a)
(a) Find DE. (3 marks)
(b) The paper card in Figure 5(a) is folded along AC such that AB and AD lie on the horizontal
plane as shown in Figure 5(b). The distance between B and D on the horizontal plane is
4 cm.

Figure 5(b)

(i) Find the angle between the plane ABC and the plane ADC.
(ii) Let P be a moving point on edge AC. Describe how the value of cos∠BPD varies
when P moves from A to C. Explain your answer.
(8 marks)

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