IFYHM002 Maths

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IFYHM002 - Mathematics
End of Semester 1 Test
2016-17

Test Session Time Allowed

Semester One 2 Hours 10 minutes
(including 10 minutes reading time)

INSTRUCTIONS TO STUDENTS
SECTION A Answer ALL questions. This section carries 40 marks.

SECTION B Answer 4 questions ONLY. This section carries 60 marks.

The marks for each question are indicated in square brackets [ ].

 Answers must not be written during the first 10 minutes.

 A formula booklet and graph paper will be provided.
 An approved calculator may be used in the test.
 Show ALL workings in your answer booklet.
 Test materials must not be removed from the room.

DO NOT OPEN THIS QUESTION PAPER UNTIL INSTRUCTED BY THE

INVIGILATOR

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Section A
Answer ALL questions. This section carries 40 marks.

Question A1

Solve the simultaneous equations 4 16

6 15
[4]

Question A2

Three letters are selected, one after the other with no replacement, from the word
SEVENTEEN.

Find the probability that all three letters are ‘E’. [3]

Question A3

The function is defined as 8 11 20.

Divide by 4 and hence factorise completely. [4]

Question A4

A arithmetic progression is defined as 8, 15, 22, .....

The term is 344.

Find the value of . [3]

Question A5

Write the expression

1 3
5log 2 log 256 log 4
2 2

in its simplest form which must contain no logarithms.

Each stage of your working must be clearly shown. [4]

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Question A6

Solve the equation cos 2 0.788 for 0 360°

Show all of your working. [5]

Question A7

A curve has equation ln .

Write down and find its value when 0.6

Give your answer to 3 significant figures.

[5]
In this question, 1 mark will be awarded for the correct use of significant figures.

Question A8

The equation 2 1 1 has a gradient of 17 when 2.

Find the value of . [4]

Question A9

Find in its simplest form

1
.
2 [3]

Question A10

Find the value of

2 .
[5]
All working must be shown. Even the correct answer with no working will score
no marks.

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Section B
Answer 4 questions ONLY. This section carries 60
marks.

Question B1

a) i. When 3 3 4 is divided by 2 , the remainder is

6 .
[3]
Use the Remainder Theorem to write down a quadratic equation in .

ii. Solve your equation to find the two possible values of . [2]

b) i. Solve the inequality 8. [1]

ii. Solve the inequality 9 0. [3]

[1]
iii. List the integers which satisfy neither 8 nor 9 0.

c) i. Point lies at 11, 17 and point lies at 19, 7 .

Find the equation of the line which passes through the mid-point of
and is perpendicular to the line . [4]

ii. Confirm that the line you found in part i passes through the origin. [1]

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Question B2

a) B

0.35
B’

B
3

A’

2 0.3
B’

The tree diagram above shows the probabilities of two events A and B.

i. Write down the value of . [1]

ii. The probability of both A and B occurring is 0.315 [3]

Find the value of and write down the value of .

iii. Find the value of . [2]

Part b) is on the next page.

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Question B2 – (continued)
b)

NOT TO SCALE

23 cm

26 cm

√745 cm

Figure 1

Figure 1 shows acute-angled triangle with

23 cm, 26 cm, √745 cm, and angle .
i.
Find the value of cos , giving your answer in the form where and [3]
are integers. You must show each stage of your working.

ii. Without working out the size of , show that the exact value of
sin is . All working must be shown. [2]

iii. Find the size of angle . [2]

iv. Find the area of triangle . [2]

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Question B3

a) An arithmetic series has common difference 8 and the sum of the first
98 terms is 5390.
[3]
i. Find the first term.

ii. Explain why 100 is not a term in this series. [1]

b) Another series is defined by

2048 0.5

i. Write down the first four terms. [1]

The sum of the series is 2047.5

ii. Find the value of . [4]

iii. If this series continues indefinitely, find the sum to infinity. [2]

c) The coefficient of the term in the expansion of 5 is 20 times larger

than the coefficient of the term.

Find the value of . [4]

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Question B4

a) i. An outbreak of chicken pox occurs in a city and a survey is carried out

on the number of cases each day. The number of people, , who have
developed chicken pox days after the survey began is given by the
formula

1000

where is a constant.

After 12 days, there are 3321 people who have chicken pox.

Show that 0.1

You must show each stage of your working. [3]

ii. Using the formula, how many people will be expected to have chicken
pox after 20 days? [2]

iii. Find an expression for and hence find its value when 15. [3]

iv. Explain what your answer to part iii means. [2]

b) In this part, all working must be clearly shown. Even a correct

answer will score no marks if there is no working present.

Solve the equations

i. [2]

5 328

ii. log 8 6 log 1 2 [3]

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Question B5

cm

3 cm

2 cm
Figure 2

Figure 2 shows a solid piece of wood in the shape of a cuboid. It is 3 cm

long, 2 cm wide and cm tall.

The total surface area is 2025 cm2.

a) Express in terms of . [2]

b) Show that the volume of the piece of wood, , is given by

[3]
1215 7.2

c) Use to find the value of which gives the maximum value of . [5]

d) Confirm that your value of gives a maximum. [3]

e) Find the maximum volume of the piece of wood. [2]

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Question B6

NOT TO SCALE

10

4, 24

Figure 3

Figure 3 shows the curve 10 and the line which is a normal to

the curve at the point 4, 24 . Line meets the curve again at the point
, . The line , which passes through point , is also shown.

a) Find the equation of the line . Give your answer in the form . [4]

b) Show that 6 and write down the value of . You must show all of your
[4]
working.

c) Find the area, which is shaded on the diagram, that is bounded by the curve [7]
10 , the axis, the line and the line . All working must
be shown.

This is the end of the test.

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