F5 Ma 21-22 Final Exam Paper 1

St.
Stephen’s Girls’ College

Final Examination 2021 – 2022
Form 5 MYCC, WYL, TYL
116 students
Mathematics
Paper I
Time allowed: 2 hour 15 minutes
Question-Answer Paper
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F.5 Mathematics Paper I (Final Examination 2021-2022)
1. Factorize
(a) 6 x 2 − 17 xy + 5 y 2 ,
(b) 6 y − 18x − 6 x 2 + 17 xy − 5 y 2 .
(3 marks)
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2. Simplify and express your answer with positive indices. (3 marks)
(mn5 )(m−2 n3 ) 4

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3. Consider the compound inequality

x −1
 3(4 x − 5) and 7 − x  4 …………… (*).
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Solve (*). (3 marks)

4. A watch is sold at a discount of 30% on its marked price. The selling price of the watch is
$315.
(a) Find the marked price of the watch.
(b) After selling the watch, the percentage profit is 25%. Find the cost of the watch.
(4 marks)

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5. Amy has twice as many surgical masks as Ben. If Amy gives 25 of her surgical masks to Ben,
then the number of surgical masks owned by Ben is 3 times that owned by Amy. Find the total
number of surgical masks owned by Amy and Ben. (4 marks)

6. Solve 4cos2 x = sin x + 4 for 0  x  360 . (5 marks)

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7. (a) Solve x 4 − x 2 − 6 = 0.
(b) Using the result of (a), solve 16 y = 4 y + 6 .
(4 marks)

8. The figure shows the graph of y = −4 x 2 + 12 x − (k + 3). It cuts the
x-axis at two points A and B, and OA : OB = 1 : 5.
(a) Suppose α and β are the roots of −4 x 2 + 12 x − (k + 3) = 0 , where
α < β. Express β in terms of α.
(b) Find the value of k.
(5 marks)

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9. The figure shows the graph of y = 2 x 2 + kx + 18. It

touches the x-axis at one point P(p, 0), where p < 0.
(a) Find the values of k and p.
(b) State the following features of the graph:
(i) Axis of symmetry
(ii) Coordinates of the vertex
(c) It is given that the y-coordinate of a point R is p.
Is it possible that R lies on the graph? Explain
your answer.
(7 marks)

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10. The selling price of each copy of a monthly magazine is $x. The total profit on the sale of the
magazine is $y. It is given that y partly varies directly as x and partly varies directly as the
square of x. When x = 32, y = 76 800. When x = 54, y = 70 200.
(a) Express y in terms of x. (3 marks)
(b) The owner of the magazine originally planned to sell a copy of the magazine at $45. In
view of the pandemic, he decides to lower the selling price of each copy of the
magazine to boost circulation. Is it possible that he still makes the same total profit?
(3 marks)

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11. In Figure 1, a frustum of height h cm is made by cutting off a right circular cone from a solid
right circular cone of base 10 cm and height 6 cm.
h cm 6 cm
10 cm
Figure 1
 25 
Show that the volume of the frustum is  200 − ( 6 − h )   cm3 .
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(a) (4 marks)
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(b) Figure 2 shows a container. The lower part of the container is a cylinder of height
4.5 cm. The upper part has the same shape as the frustum shown in Figure 1 where
h = 4.5. The base radius of the lower cylinder is the same as the lower base radius of the
frustum.
4.5 cm

4.5 cm
Figure 2
If 600 cm of water is now poured into the empty container, will the water overflow?
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Explain your answer. (3 marks)

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12. There are 35 clerks in a company. The box-and-whisker diagram below shows the distribution
of the ages of the clerks in the company. It is given that the range of this distribution is the
double of its inter-quartile range.
Age
20 a 37 51 58
(a) Find a. (3 marks)

(b) Four new clerks of age 18, 24, 25 and 52 now join the company. Find the upper quartile
of the ages of the clerks in the company. (1 mark)

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13. The stem-and-leaf diagram below shows the distribution of the weights (in grams) of the
letters in a bag.
Stem (tens) Leaf (units)

1 1 2 2 2 a
2 3 6 8 8
3 2 4 9
4 b 8 8 8 9
It is given that the inter-quartile range of the above distribution is 34 grams and the mean of
the distribution exceeds 30 grams.
(a) Find the values of a and b. (4 marks)
(b) If four letters are removed from the bag, find the least possible range of the distribution
of the weights of the remaining letters in the bag. (2 marks)

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14. In the figure, ABCD is a circle. AC and BD intersect at E such that ED = EC. DA produced
meets CB produced at F.
(a) Prove that

(i) EA = EB,
(ii) ABD  BAC .
(4 marks)

(b) If AFB = 30 , find ADC .
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(3 marks)

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15. Let f(x) = 2 x3 + mx 2 − 9 x + 18 , where m is a constant. It is given that f(x) is divisible by

2 x2 + x − 6 .
(a) (i) Find the value of m.
(ii) Hence, factorize f(x) completely.
(5 marks)
(b) Let g(x) = f(2x) .
(i) Using (a)(ii), factorize g(x) completely.
(ii) Paul claims that all the roots of equation g(x) = f(x) are non-zero real numbers. Is
the claim correct? Explain your answer.
(4 marks)

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16. A researcher investigated a certain species of frogs for a year. The population of the frogs (y)
after x months can be estimated by y = k (10)a x .
(a) Express log y in terms of a, k and x. (2 marks)
(b) It is given that the graph of log y against x for the linear relation in (a) passes through
(0, 3.2) and (10, 2.2). Find the values of a and k. (3 marks)

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17. A password should contain eight characters. Suppose the password is randomly formed by a
permutation of p, q, r, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7.
(a) How many different passwords can be formed? (2 marks)
(b) Find the probability that the first character is a letter and the last character is a number.
(3 marks)

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18. The figure below shows a circle C passing through the origin with the equation
x 2 + y 2 − 8x + 6 y = 0 . C cuts the x-axis and the y-axis at points A and B respectively.

(a) Find the coordinates of A and B. (2 marks)
(b) The line L1 : y = mx + c1 and L2 : y = mx + c2 are two tangents to the circle C which are
parallel to AB.
(i) Find the value of m.
(ii) Find the values of c1 and c2 .
(6 marks)

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19. In Figure 3, ABCD is a paper card which is in the shape of a kite. The diagonals AC and BD
intersect at E. It is given that AB = AD = 20 cm, CB = CD = 13 cm and AC = 21 cm.
Figure 3
(a) Find the length of DE. (3 marks)


(b) The paper card in Figure 3 is folded along AC such that AB and AD lie on the horizontal
plane as shown in Figure 4. It is given that Q is the mid-point of BD and BAD = 40°.
C
E D
Q
B
A
Q
Figure 4
(i) Find the distance between B and D.

(ii) Let P be a movable point on edge CA. Describe how the length of PQ varies as P
moves from C to A.
(iii) Hence, find the minimum possible area of BPD.
(7 marks)

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3. Consider the compound inequality

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9. The figure shows the graph of y = 2 x 2 + kx + 18. It

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Explain your answer. (3 marks)

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(a) Find a. (3 marks)

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Stem (tens) Leaf (units)

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(a) Prove that

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15. Let f(x) = 2 x3 + mx 2 − 9 x + 18 , where m is a constant. It is given that f(x) is divisible by

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(a) Find the length of DE. (3 marks)

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(i) Find the distance between B and D.

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