006-ASL. 18S HONG KONG EXAMINATIONS AND ASSESSMENT AUTHORITY HONG KONG ADVANCED LEVEL EXAMINATION 2008 MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS AS-LEVEL 8.30 am - 11.30 am (3 hours) This paper must be answered in English 1. This paper consists of Section A and Section B 2, Answer ALL questions in Section A, using the AL(E) answer book. 3, Answer any FOUR questions in Section B, using the AL(C) answer book. 4. Unless otherwise specified, all working must be clearly shown. 5. Unless otherwise specified, numerical answers should be either exact or given 10 4 decimal places. OsesuRTER RENE Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority AAlIRights Reserved 2008, 2006-AS-M & S-1 1SECTION A (40 marks) Answer ALL questions in this section. Write your answers in the AL(E) answer book. 1. (@__Thecoefficents of x and x? inthe binomial expansion of ( “)" a are and 1h a 24 1 isa positive integer. respectively, where @ is a non-zero constant and (Find the values of @ and (i) State the range of values of x for which the binomial expansion of (2) is vai (b) Using the results of (a), or otherwise, (i) write down the binomial expansion of (9+x)" in ascending powers of x as far as the term in x? ; (ii) state the range of values of x for which the binomial expansion of (9+x)° is valid. (6 marks) 2. After adding a chemical into a bottle of solution, the temperature S(t) of the surface of the bottle can be modelled by SE =204 e415, where S(t) ismeasured in *C, (20) isthe time measured in seconds after the chemical has been added and is a positive constant. Itis given that S()= S09) (a) Find the exact value of 4. (b) Will the temperature of the surface of the bottle get higher than 90°C ? Explain your answer. (6 marks) 2006-AS-M & S-2 2 2006-AS-M & S-3 3 ‘The rate of change of the amount of water in litres flowing into a tank can be modelled by 300 “(ae ” tO where 1(0) is the time measured in minutes. (2) Using the trapezoidal rule with 5 sub-intervals, estimate the total amount of water flowing into the tank from ¢=1 to ¢=11 tO © Fins SS (©) Determine whether the estimate in (a) is an over-estimate or under-estimate (7 marks) ‘The stem-and-leaf diagram below shows the distribution of the numbers of books read by 24 students of a school in the first term: ‘Stem (tens) | Leaf (units) 4°67 22356788 9 3455789 0 0 I 2 3 (a) Find the median and the interquartile range of the numbers of books read. (©) The librarian of the school ran a reading award scheme in the second term, ‘The following table shows some statistics of the distribution of the numbers of books read by these 24 students in the second term: Minimum [Lower quarile| Median [Upper quarile| Maximum cen [eee 35 a 16 () Draw two box-and-whisker diagrams of the same scale to compare the numbers of books read by these students in the first term and in the second term. (i) The librarian claims that not less than 50% of these students read at least 5 more books in the second term than that in the first term, Do you agree? Explain your answer. (7 marks) Goonto the na pageA and B are two events. Suppose that P(AB)=0.2 and PLA|B')=0.5 , where B’ is the complementary event of B. Let P(B)=6, where b<1 (2) Express P(4MB') and P(A) interms of b () If 4 and B are independent events, find the value(s) of & (7 marks) ‘A teacher, Susan, built up a performance assessment scheme in which het 100 students were awarded merit points according to their test scores. She also used a normal distribution and a Poisson distribution to model the test scores and the merit points of the students respectively (see the following table). Expected number of stidents Test score (| Mert Ose egnaPet "Normal Poisson distribution | distribution 30ex<150| 0 2 | 1465 24.66 [iso