P425/2

Applied mathematics
Paper 2
3Hours

Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education

APPLIED MATHEMATICS
(P425/2)
TIME: 3HOURS

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
 Attempt all the questions in section A and five from section B.
 All working must be shown clearly
 Begin each answer on a fresh sheet of paper.
 In numerical working g= 9.8ms-2.
 No paper should be given for rough work.
 Mathematical tables with list of formulae and squared paper are provided.
 Silent non programmable calculator may be used.
SECTION A (40MARKS)
1. Show graphically that the equation x=cos x −3 has a root between x = -4
and x = -3. (05 marks)
2. Study the figure below and answer the questions that follow.

x 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7

Inx 0.3365 0.4055 0.4700 0.5306

Estimate the values of;

(a) In1.8
(b) e0.4102 (05 marks)
3. The table below shows grades scored by 8 students in two subjects, chemistry
and physics.

Chemistr D2 C5 D2 C5 C4 C3 D2 D1
y

Physics D1 C4 D1 C5 D2 C3 C5 C3

Calculate the spearman’s rank correlation coefficient and comment on your

results at 5% level of significance. (05 marks)

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 4. A boy is to swim across a river which is 0.5km wide from point A to point B.
A is directly opposite B. The river is flowing at a speed of 2ms-1. If the boy
can swim at a speed of 4ms-1 in still water, find the;
(i) resultant speed of the boy,
(ii) time taken by the boy to cross the river (05marks)
5. The radius and height of a cylinder was measured and found to be 5cm and
10cm with errors  0.2cm and  0.5cm respectively. Find the percentage
error made in the calculation of volume of the cylinder. (05 marks)
6. Given that x=12.7654 , y =13.80 . State the maximum possible errors in X and
Y. determine the maximum value, minimum value and hence the interval in
( x+ y )
the expression (05 marks)
xy
^ F y j acts on a body of mass 0.5 kg ,if F =( 10+3 t 2 ) N∧¿
7. A force ( F )=F x i+ x

F y =¿. Determine the:

(i) Velocity at t=2 s
(ii) Hence from (i) the kinetic energy (05
marks)
8. X is a discrete random variable such that;
P ( X ≤ x )=k ( x+1 ) ; for x=1 ,2 , 3 , 4
Find the; (i) value of the constant k (02marks)
(ii) E( X ) (03 marks)

SECTION B (60MARKS)
9. The table below shows the distribution of mass of a group of animals in a
park.
Mass (kg) Frequency
21 - 10
25 - 20
30 - 15
35 - 30
40 - 30
50 - 45
65 - 5
75 - 0
(a) Calculate the mean and mode (06 marks)
(b) Draw a cumulative frequency curve and use it to find the semi interquartile
range (6marks)
10. (a) Use numerical integration of the trapezium type with seven ordinates to
1
∫ xe
−x
dx
estimate the value of 0 correct to 4 significant figures. (06 marks)
(c) Determine the percentage error in the value in (a) above. (06 marks)

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 11. At 12:00 noon the position vector (r) and velocity vector (v) for two objects P
and Q are as follows

Objects Position Vector (r) Velocity vector (v)

() ()
5 2
−1
P r p = − 3 km v p= 5 km ℎr
4 3

( ) ( )
7 −3
−1
Q r q = − 5 km v q= −5 km ℎr
−2 4

(i) Find the position vector of P relative to Q at any time in hours.

(ii) Show that if the velocities remain constant, a collision between P and
Q will occur and find the time of collision.
(iii) Find the position of collision. (12marks)

12. (a) Show that the Newton Raphson’s formula for approximating the natural
logarithm of the cube root of a number N is given by

xn ! 
1
3

3 xn  1  Ne 3 x n

(06 marks)
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(c) Taking xo = 1, Use your formula in (a) above to find the In 25 . Correct
your answer to 3 decimal places. (06
marks)
13. A particle starts from rest at a point (2,0,0) and moves such that its
acceleration at any time t¿ 0 is given by a= (16cos4t i + 8sin2t j + (sin t -
2sin2t)k)
Find the a) speed at t= π /4 (6marks)
b) distance from the origin when t= π /4 ( 6marks)

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