CATHOLIC JUNIOR COLLEGE

General Certificate of Education Advanced Level

Higher 2

MATHEMATICS

9740/02

Paper 2

15 September 2010
3 hours

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Section A: Pure Mathematics [40 marks]

1 Solve algebraically the inequality
2 x 2 4 x 70
1 0 .
x 2 4 x 77
Hence, solve the inequality
2e 2 x 4e x 70
1 0 .
e 2 x 4e x 77

[3]

[2]

2 The equations of the line l1 and the plane p1 are respectively,

1
1 2
1



r 0 1 and r s1 t 1 , where , s, t
1
1 1
0



(i)

Find the acute angle between l1 and p1.

[3]

(ii) A second plane p2 has equation r 1 1 . Given that the two planes p1 and p2


4 x 15
5
intersect at the line l2:
y; z , find the values of and .
2
2

[3]

(iii) The plane p3 with equation 2 x by z 1 is parallel to l2. Find the value of b.
Hence find the distance between l2 and p3.

[4]

3 The functions f and g are defined as follow:

2
,
x
g : x ln( x 3) ,

f :x x

(i)

x \ {0}
x3

[2]

Show that fg does not exist.

Let the function h be defined as follows:

h : x ln( x 3) ,

for x a

(ii) Find the least value of a such that fh exists. Define fh in similar form.

[3]

(iii) Sketch the graph of f, indicating the turning points, asymptotes and axial intercepts, if
any. State the range of f and determine if f -1 exists.

[4]

The function f has an inverse if its domain is restricted to x k . Find the least value of k.

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4 (a) Verify that y = x is a particular solution of the differential equation

dy x 2 y 2

, x, y 0
dx
2 xy

[2]

(b) Show that the substitution y = ux reduces the differential equation

dy x 2 y 2

dx
2 xy
to the differential equation
du 1 u 2
.

x
dx
2u
Hence find the general solution of the differential equation
dy x 2 y 2
.

dx
2 xy

[3]

[4]

(c) Due to a rapid disease outbreak, the population of fish in a river, x (in thousands), is
believed to obey the differential equation
d2x
4ae 2t
dt2
where t is the time in days, and a > 0 is a constant. Given that the entire population of
fish is wiped out by the disease eventually, show that the general solution of the
[3]
differential equation is x ae 2t .
Explain the meaning of a, in the context of the question. Sketch the family of solution
curves of the differential equation for a = 1 and 2.
[2]

Section B: Statistics [60 marks]

5 (a) Tourists visiting an amusement park in Singapore can purchase a day pass. Each day
pass allows one tourist to take any of the 6 designated rides only once.
(i)

How many different ways can the order of the rides be chosen if a tourist goes on
[1]
all 6 rides?

(ii) The attendants in the park keep track of the rides

each tourist has taken by marking on the ticket as
shown in the diagram on the right. Filling in a
square indicates that the tourist has taken that
particular ride. If a tourist can choose to go on a
ride or not, how many different ways can the
ticket be marked?

Amusement Park
Crazy Monkey Swing
Merry Go Bush
A Ride to Heaven
Nightmare to Remember
Round about the Park
Foodie Food

[1]

(iii) If a tourist goes on at least one ride, find how many different selections he can
make?

[1]

(b) From 10 students, including Vera and Daen, a group of 5 students from the
Mathematics Society will be selected to attend an Enrichment Camp. Daen will not
join the group without Vera, but Vera will join the group without Daen. In how many
[4]
ways can the group be formed?
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6 The fish-balls used by a popular noodle stall are supplied by two companies, supplier A
and supplier B. On average, 1 out of 50 fish-balls from supplier A is deformed and 3 out of
100 fish-balls from supplier B are deformed. It is known that the noodle stall gets a
proportion, denoted by p of their fish-balls from supplier A.
(i)

[2]

Represent the situation using a probability tree.

1
(ii) Given that p , show that the probability that a randomly chosen fish-ball from the
3
2
noodle stall is deformed will be
.
75

[1]

(iii) For a general value of p, the probability that a fish-ball is supplied by B given that it is
3(1 p )
[3]
.
deformed is denoted by f( p). Show that f( p )
3 p
Prove by differentiation that f is a decreasing function for 0 p 1 , and explain what
[3]
this statement means in the context of the question.

7 The occurrences of floods per year at a particular residential area in Singapore follow a
Poisson distribution with mean 4.
(i)

Find the probability that in 4 months, this particular residential area is flooded at least
twice.

[2]

(ii) A random sample of 12 periods of 4 months is taken. Find the probability that in at
most 5 of these 12 periods, this particular residential area is flooded at least twice.

[2]

(iii) Using a suitable approximation, find the probability that in 5 years, this particular
residential area is flooded at least 11 times.

[4]

(iv) In a long term study of the flooding problem in this particular residential area, it is
proposed that the residential area be observed for 40 years. The probability that in at
least n years out of these 40 years, this residential area is flooded at most thrice each
year is found to be less than 0.8. Using a suitable approximation, find the least value
of n.
[4]

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8 The masses of snapper fish and pomfret fish sold by a fishmonger are normally distributed
and independent of each other. The mean mass, standard deviation and selling price of
snapper fish and pomfret fish are given in the following table:

Mean mass in kg
Standard deviation in kg
Selling price per kg in $

Snapper fish Pomfret fish

1
0.6
0.1
0.05
12
7

Find the probability that the

(i)

[2]

total mass of 3 snapper fish and 2 pomfret fish is more than 4.5 kg

(ii) mass of 3 snapper fish exceeds twice the mass of a pomfret fish by more than 1.85 kg.

[2]

(iii) total selling price of a snapper fish and 2 pomfret fish is more than $21.

[2]

A customer buys 15 fish, out of which n are snapper fish and the rest are pomfret fish. The
probability that the customer pays more than $150 is less than 0.7. Find the largest value of
n.

[4]

9 CJC has 800 JC2 students in 2010 as follows:

Boys
Girls
Total

Arts
75
145
220

Science
320
260
580

Total
395
405
800

The Student Council (SC) wishes to conduct a survey on a sample of JC2 students to find
out their preferences for Graduation Night.
(a) Explain how stratified sampling can be used to select a sample of 30 students.
Suggest another set of strata that may be suitable for this survey.

[3]

(b) The amount that a sample of 50 students are willing to pay for Graduation Night can
be summed up as follows:
x 4537, ( x x ) 2 4825.62
Assume that the mean and variance for this sample are good estimators of the
population mean and variance. Another sample of 60 students is surveyed. Find the
probability that the mean of this second sample lies between 90 and 100.

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10 A manufacturer claims that the average length of its metal rods is 14 cm.
(i) A customer complains that the manufacturer understated the average length of its
metal rods. A random sample of 8 metal rods is taken and the length, x cm, of each
metal rod is summarised as follows:
x 113.40, x 2 1607.72

Test, at the 4% significance level, whether the customers complaint is valid. State
any assumptions made in carrying out the test.
Explain, in the context of the question, the meaning of at the 4% significance level.

[4]
[1]

(ii) Another random sample of 9 metal rods with standard deviation 0.200 cm is taken.
What range of values should the mean length of the sample be, in order for the
customers complaint to be not valid, at the 4% significance level? Give your answer
correct to 2 decimal places.

[3]

11 The table below gives the proportion of people (in %) in an occupation earning more than
$5000 and the proportion of university graduates (in %) in that occupation.
Occupation
% of graduates,
x
% earning more
than $5000, y

Teacher

Chemist

Accountant

Lecturer

Engineer

Electrician

Police

Plumber

Taxi
Driver

97

87

75

84

52

36

22

10

66

65

62

45

53

43

33

18

10

A
(i)

Calculate the product moment correlation coefficient between x and y.

(ii) Draw a scatter diagram for the data.

[1]
[1]

One of the values of y appears to be incorrect.

(iii) Indicate the corresponding point on your diagram by labelling it P and explain why
the scatter diagram for the remaining points may be consistent with a model of the
form y a b ln x .

[2]

(iv) Omitting P, calculate the least squares estimates of a and b for the model
y a b ln x .

[2]

(v) Assume that the value of x at P is correct. Estimate the value of y for this value of x.

[1]

(vi) Comment on the use of the model in (iv) in predicting the value of y when x =100.

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