ZIMBABWE SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL

General Certificate of Education Ordinary Level

MATHEMATICS 9187/1

NOVEMBER 2001 SESSION 2 hours 30 minutes

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Section A [64 marks]

Answer all the questions in this section.

1. (a) Linda spend 3/5 of her pocket money and had $20 left. Find the
amount of money she had at first. [3]

(b)

The diagram above represents a rectangular garden 9 m long and 7 m

wide with a path 50 cm wide. Calculate the area of the path giving the
answer in square metres. [4]

(c) Express 54 minutes as a percentage of 2 hours. [2]

(d) A shop sells a packet of biscuits for $23,46 making a profit of 15% on
the cost price. Calculate the cost price. [3]
2. (a) Write down

(i) the factors of x2 – 4,

(ii) the factors of x2 + 4x + 4,

(iii) the L.C.M of x2 – 4 and x2 + 4x + 4. [3]

(b) Solve the equation 9/a + 18 = 0. [2]

(c) Express 1/s + 1/t + 1/st as a single fraction. [2]

(d) A formula that can be used for changing degrees Fahrenheit (F)
to degrees centigrade (C) is

C = 5F – 160.
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(i) Calculate the value of C when F = 95.

(ii) Make F the subject of this formula. [4]

3.

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1n the diagram, PS = 4,8 cm, SQ = 12 cm, SQR = 36,7º and QRS = 90º.

Calculate

(a) the length of QR, [2]

(b) the length of PR, [3]

(c) the size of the angle marked yº, [2]

(d) the area of the triangle PSQ. [2]

4. A municipal swimming pool is 12 m long, 5 m wide and 1,5 m deep.

(a) Calculate the total internal surface area of the pool. [2]

(b) The municipality employs Harry to paint the pool. One litre of
paint covers 3 m2. the paint is sold in 5 litre tins at $850 per tin.

Calculate

(i) the number of tins required,

(ii) the cost of the paint. [5]
 (c) Harry is paid $432 for painting the pool. Calculate his rate of
pay per hour, if he takes 3 days, working 8 hours a day. [2]
(d) The pool is then filled water to a depth of 1,25 m. calculate the
volume, in litres, of water in the pool [3]

5. (a) P is the point (6; 3) and Q is the point (2; 6).

Calculate
→
(i) PQ
→
(ii) │PQ│. [3]

(b) Given that A = (3 1) and B = (0 -2)

(1 -3) (2 -6),

Calculate

(i) A + B, [2]

(ii) AB, [2]

(iii) the inverse of B, [2]

(iv) the value of K, given that

A2 = (10 0) and A6 = K (1 0)
( 0 10) (0 1). [2]

6. Answer the whole of this question on a sheet of plain paper.

Use ruler and compass only for all constructions and show clearly all
the construction lines and arcs.

William is walking straight across a field towards a vertical flagpole.

He observes that when he is at point A, the angle of elevation of T, the
top of the flagpole, is 30º and when he is at point B, on the same side
of the flagpole as A, the angle of elevation of T is 45º. The distance
between A and B is 20 metres.
(a) Using a scale of 1 cm to represent 4m, construct a single
diagram to show the relative positions of A, B and T. [5]
(b) Using a suitable construction on the same diagram, find the
height of the flagpole. [4]
 Section B [36 marks]

Answer three questions in this section.

7. (a) Given the two equations

3x + 2y = 9 and

2x + 3y = 16, find

(i) the value of x + y by adding the two equations,

(ii) the value of x – y by subtracting the two equations

hence, or otherwise, solve the equations for x and y. [4]

(b)

In the diagram, ABCD is a trapezium in which AB is parallel to

DC and ABC = 90º.

(i) Given that AB = (x + 4) cm, DC = (3x – 2) cm and BC =

(x – 3) cm, find the terms of x, an expression for the area
of the trapezium.
(ii) Given that the area of the trapezium 16 cm2, form an
equation in x and show that it reduces to 2x2 – 5x – 19 =
0.
 (iii) Solve this equation and hence find the length of BC
correct to 1 decimal place. [8]

8. (a) In a group of five boys, three play soccer and two play hockey.

(i) One boy is chosen at random, write down the probability

that he is a soccer player.
(ii) Two boys are chosen at random, calculate the probability
that one plays soccer and the other plays hockey. [4]

(b) Answer the whole of this question on a sheet of graph paper.

Two variables P and Q are connected by a law of the form P =

KQ, where k is a constant. The table below shows
corresponding values of P and Q.
P 0 3 6
Q 0 5 10

(i) Using a scale of 2 cm to represent 1 unit on both axes,

with P along the horizontal axis and Q along the vertical
axis, draw a graph to show the relationship between P
and Q. [2]

(ii) Use the graph to find the value of

(a) k,
(b) Q when P = 4. [2]

(iii) Calculate the value of P when Q = 30. [2]

9. (a)

In the diagram, AB is a diameter of the circle, centre O. TA is the

tangent at A and TAC = 2xº. Find, in terms of x,

(i) CBO,
(ii) COA,
(iii) ACO,
(iv) COB. [4]

(b)
 (a) Calculate the value of p and the value of q.
(b) Using a scale of 2 cm to represent 1 unit on the x –
axis of y = 12 + 5x – 2x2 for -2 ≤ x ≤ 5.
(c) Use the graph to

(i) solve the equation 4 + 5x – 2x2 = 0,

(ii) find the gradient of the curve when x = 3
(iii) find the area bounded by the curve y = 1
the x – axis, the y – axis and the line x

11.

(d) ∆ A4 B4 C4 (not shown in the diagram) is the image of ∆ ABC

under a shear with invariant line y = 0. Given that A4 is the
point (4; 1), write down
 (i) the shear factor,
(ii) the matrix that represents this transformation. [3]

12.

In this question take π to be 22/7.

A large solid cone is cut into two parts by a plane parallel to its horizontal
circular base, the upper part being a small solid cone.

The figure above represents the solid, with V the vertex, AB the base
diameter and VO the perpendicular height of the large cone. DC is the base
diameter and VP the perpendicular height of the smaller cone.

Given that AO = OB = 14cm, VO = 10,5cm and VP = 3cm,

Calculate

(a) DP, [3]

(b) DA, [3]

(c) the ratio of the volume of the smaller cone to the volume of the larger
cone, giving the answer as a fraction in its lowest terms. [3]

(d) the curved surface area of the smaller cone. [3]

[Volume of a cone = 1/3πr2h. curved surface area of a cone = πrl.]