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SECTION A (50 marks).

Answer ALL questions in this section.

QUESTION A1 (5 marks)

Simplify the following expression. Remove any negative exponents.

(10 a b )
−1 4 −3 −2

( 5a b c )
2 −1 −2 2

QUESTION A2 (5 marks)

Simplify the following expression.

(4 x 4
)2
y − 6 z10
(27 −1
x−7 y 2 z )
3

QUESTION A3 (5 marks)

Solve the equation 3x = (81)(91− x ).

QUESTION A4 (5 marks)

Solve the equation 4 log x 4 + log x 64 − log4 256 = 1.

QUESTION A5 (5 marks)

In a city, airport A handles 50% of all airline traffic and airports B and C handle 30% and 20%
respectively. The detection rates of weapons at the three airports are 0.9, 0.5 and 0.4
respectively. If a passenger at one of the airports is found to be carrying a weapon through the
boarding gate, what is the probability that the passenger is using airport A?

QUESTION A6 (5 marks)

In a university cafeteria, 50% of the students choose French fries as their side dish whereas
60% choose salad as their side dish. If 20% of those who ordered French fries did not choose
the other side dish, find the probability that two students chosen at random,
(a) both choose neither of these two side dishes.
(2 marks)
(b) both choose these two side dishes.
(3 marks)

QUESTION A7 (5 marks)

(a) In a certain university, 52% of all students take a statistics class, 23% take a
computing course and 7% take both. Find the probability that the students take at least
one of the statistics or computing.
(2 marks)

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(b) If P(B|A) = 1 6 and P(A) = 2 7 , Find P(A∩B).

(3 marks)

QUESTION A8 (5 marks)

(a) The specified data set is 12, 14, 2, 11, 10, 13, 2, 1, 8, 3. Find the mode of this data set.
(2 marks)
(b) The sample of ages (in months) of 18 children at a day care is as follows:
36, 42, 18, 32, 22, 22, 25, 29, 30, 31, 19, 24, 35, 29, 26, 36, 24, 28
Find the median age of the children.
(3 marks)

QUESTION A9 (5 marks)

The following data are 10 measurements of the same quantity under the same condition by
observer A. Find the standard deviation of the data.

8.116 8.125 8.125 8.129 8.130 8.137 8.137 8.141 8.136 8.146

QUESTION A10 (5 marks)

(a) Find the mean for the following scores.

4.2, 3.2, 5.4, 3.2, 6.2, 5.7, 4.4
(3 marks)
(b) The table shows the distribution of the fat content of 40 pieces of food. Determine the
modal class.
Marks 10 – 19 20 – 29 30 – 39 40 – 49 50 –59
Frequency 5 7 9 8 3
(2 marks)

SECTION B (50 marks)

Answer ALL questions in this section.

QUESTION B1 (10 marks)

(a) Simplify the following expression, eliminate any negative exponents in your answer.
x −2 ( x 2 y 4 )
5/2

−1 4
 ( x 4/2 y −3 )
x y
(5 marks)
x
(b) Given that log a x = p and log a y = q , express log a in term of p and q.
y2
(5 marks)

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QUESTION B2 (20 marks)

(a) A manufacturer of widgets has four assembly lines A, B, C and D. The

percentages of output produced by the lines are 30%, 20%, 35% and 15%
respectively, and the percentages of defective units they produce are 6%, 3% 2% and
5%.
(i) Represent the above information in a tree diagram.
(4 marks)
(ii) If a widget is selected at random from the stock, if the widget is defective, what
is the probability that the widget came from the assembly line C?
(4 marks)
(b) The table below shows the counts of projects undertaken by AT&T and IBM.

AT&T IBM Total

Telecommunication 40 10 50
Computers 20 30 50
Total 60 40 100

Find the probability that a randomly selected project is undertaken by IBM given that
it is Telecommunication project?
(3 marks)
(c) Let A denote the event that a new car requires engine work under warranty and Let B
denote the event that the car requires transmission work under warranty. Suppose P(A)
= 0.1, P(B) = 0.02 and P(A  B) = 0.01. Find the probability that the car,
(i) needs work on either the engine, the transmission, or both.
(4 marks)
(ii) needs work on neither the engine nor the transmission.
(2 marks)
(iii) needs work on the engine but not on the transmission.
(3 marks)
QUESTION B2 (20 marks)

(a) 50 APU Foundation School students are weighed and their masses are recorded in the
following table. Calculate
Mass (kg) Number of Students
25 – 29 3
30 – 34 7
35 – 39 18
40 – 44 24
45 – 49 24
50 – 54 14
55 – 59 10

(i) the mean.

(3 marks)
(ii) the standard deviation.
(5 marks)

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(iii) Estimate the 75th percentile.

(5 marks)
(b) 30 learners were asked in a survey to say how many hours they spent watching TV in
a week. Their answers (correct to the nearest hour) are given below.

12 20 13 15 22 3 6 24 20 15
9 12 5 6 8 30 7 12 14 25
2 6 12 20 20 18 3 18 8 9

(i) Construct a frequency distribution table of the above data using equal width
class interval 1–10, 11–20 etc.,
(3 marks)
(ii) Based on the table in part (i), draw a histogram to represent the distribution.
(4 marks)

Formulae: Exponential and logarithm

am  an = am + n loga (xy) = loga x + loga y

am  an = am – n x
loga ( ) = loga x – loga y
(am)n = amn y
(ab)n = anbn
1 log a x n = n log a x
a-n = n loga a = 1
a
m loga 1 = 0
a n = n a m = (n a ) m log c b
log a b =
a0 = 1 log c a

Formulae: Probability
(a) P( A  B) = P( A) + P( B) − P( A  B)
(b) P( A) = 1 − P( A)
P( A  B)
(c) P( A | B) =
P( B)

P( Ai )P(B | Ai )
(d) P( Ai | B) =
P( A1 )P(B | A1 ) + P( A2 )P(B | A2 ) + ... + P( An ) P(B | An )

Formulae: Statistics
x1 + x2 + ... + xn
(a) Mean (single data) =
N

Mean (grouped/ungrouped with frequency) =

 fx
f

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n 
 − Fm−1 
(b) Median = Lm +  2   Cm
 fm 
 
 

 D1 
(c) Mode = L +    C
 1
D + D2 

(d) Standard Deviation (population – single data)

Standard Deviation (population – grouped/ungrouped with frequency)

Standard Deviation (sample – single data)

Standard Deviation (sample – grouped/ungrouped with frequency)

Percentile location/class, L p = (n + 1)
P
(e)
100

(f) Percentile =

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