ADVANCED MATHEMATICS 2

SAMPLE QUESTION PAPER

Section A
Answer all questions in this section
1. (a) To avoid accusation of sexism in a college class equally populated by male and female students,
the professor flips a fair coin to decide whether to call upon a male or female student to answer a
question directed to the class. The professor will call upon a female student if a tail occurs.
Suppose the professor does this 1000 times during the semester:
(i) What is the probability that he calls upon a female student at least 530 times?
(ii) What is the probability that he calls upon a female student at most 480 times?
(iii) What is the probability that he calls upon a female student exactly 510 times?
(b) MENSA is an organization whose members posses IQs in the top 2% of the population.
(i) If IQs are normally distributed, with mean 100 and standard deviation of 16, what is the
minimum IQ required for admission to MENSA?
(ii) If three individuals are chosen at random from the general population, what is the probability
that all three satisfy the minimum requirement for MENSA?
(c) Suppose that the height  X  in inches, of a 25-years old man is a normal random variable with
mean   70 inches. If ( ) what is the standard deviation of this random
normal variable?
(d) The probability of winning a match for team A is 0.6 . Find the probability of winning 3 matches
out of 5 matches.

2. (a) Give alternative arrangement of the following circuit, so that the new circuit has minimum
switches only.

P Q P’

P’ Q R

P Q R

P Q’ R

(b) Let P: She is beautiful, Q: She is clever. Write the verbal form of .
 (c) Construct the truth table of the following statement: “If I will marry and
get children then I will be happy if and only if I will have got children.”
(d) Show that the compound statement ( ) ( ) is fallacy.

 1   1  1
3. (a) (i) Given that T   i    j   k and

 t 1   t   t 
2

 1  1
N   2 i    j  1  t k , find T  N  .
d
 t 1  t  dt
(ii) If the position vectors of A and B are i  3 j  7 k and 5i  2 j  4k respectively, the find AB.
(iii) Given that a  2i  j  2k and b  i  2 j  3k , the find 2a  3b  a  .
(b) (i) If vectors 4i  11 j  mk and 7i  2 j  6k and i  5 j  4k are coplanar,
the find the value of m.
(ii) Forces of magnitude 5 and 3 units acting in the directions 6i  2 j  3k
and 3i  2 j  6k respectively cat on a particle which is displaced from the point 2,2,1 to
the point 4,3,1 . Find the work done by the forces.
(c) (i) Find the angle between the vectors a  b  and a  b  , if
a  2i  j  3k and b  3i  j  2k .
(ii) If 2i  3 j  5k , b  mi  nj  12k and a  b  0 , then find the value of
m and n.
1
(d) (i) If the projection of the vector xi  j  k on vector 2i  j  5k is ,
30
then find the value of x,
(ii) The sum of the vectors 3i  2 j  4k , pi  5 j  3k and 6i  2 j  7 k is
10i  qj  6k . Find the values of p and q.

4. (a) (i) Find the value of the real number p such that p  2  3i 1  5i  is an imaginary
number.
(ii) Find the values of the real numbers x and y such that 4x  iy   2 y  3ix  53  2i  ,
1 4  5i
(iii) Find the values of x and y such that  .
x  iy 6  3i
(b) (i) The complex number 3  2i is a root of the quadratic equation
z 2  5  2i z  a  bi  0 , where a and b are real. Find the values of a
and b.
(ii) Find the square roots of the complex number 7  24i .
(c) (i) Sketch on an Argand diagram the loci given by z  1  2i   5 and
 z  5  i  z  3  5i
,
(ii) Show that these loci intersect at the point  2  2i .
z      
(d) Find 1 , given that z1  2 cos  i sin  and z 2  3 cos  i sin  .
z2  3 3  6 6

SECTION B
Answer any two questions from this section
5. (a) Prove that;
(i) tan A  cot A  sec 2 A  cosec 2 A ,
2

 
(ii) 2 cos    cos  3 sin  .
 3
(b) (i) Express 2 sin   cos  in the form R sin     where and 0 0    90 0 ,
giving the exact value of R and the value of  correct to 2 decimal places.
(ii) Hence solve the equation 2 sin   cos  2 for 0 0    360 0 .
(c) Using t-formula show that sin 2   cos 2   1 ,
 3  cos  4t 2  2
(d) If t  tan , show that  2 where a, b, and c are integers to be
2 3  sin  at  bt  c
found. Then find the values of a, b and c.

6. (a) (i) The expression 2 x 3  5 x 2  16 x  k has remainder of  6 when

divided by x  4 . Find the value of k.
(ii) The polynomial x 3  ax 2  2 , where a is constant, is denoted by px  .
When px  is divided by  x  1 the remainder is one more than when px  is divide by
x  2 . Find the value of a.
(b) Find the values of the constants A, B, C and D, given that
5 x  11x  7 x  3
3 2
B C D
 A   ,
xx  1 x x  1 x  12
2

7
 9 x 1  7 1 
(c) Find the value of x, for which the 6th term in the expansion of 2 log2  0.2 log 3x 1 1 
 2 2

is 84.
x  4 2 x 2x
(d) Prove that 2 x x  4 2 x  5x  44  x 2 .
2x 2x x  4
7. (a) The spread of disease occurs at a rate proportional to the product of the number of people
infected and the number of not infected. Initially 50 out of a population of 1050 are infected and
the disease is spreading at a rate of 10 cases per day.
dN N 1050  N 
(i) If N is the number of infected people after t days, show that  .
dt 5000
(ii) Solve the differential equation in (i) above to find the number of people infected after t days.
(iii) How long will it take for 250 people to be infected?
(iv) How many people will be infected after 15 days?
2 xy x 2 3 y 2
(b) (i) Show that the substitution y  xz transforms the differential equation   into
dx dy dy
dz 1  z 2
the differential equation x  ,
dx 2z
2 xy x 2 3 y 2
(ii) Hence solve the general solution to the differential equation   giving y 2 in
dx dy dy
terms of x.
d2y dy
(c) Solve the differential equation 2
 6  9 y  5e 3 x .
dx dx
(d) Form a differential equation whose solution is given by y  Ae 6 x  Be 3 x .

8. (a) A rectangular hyperbola H has Cartesian equation xy  64 . The line l with equation
x  2 y  36  0 intersects the curve at the points P and Q.
(i) Find the coordinates of P and Q.
(ii) Find the equation of the perpendicular bisector of PQ in the form ax  by  c  0 .
(b) The point P, with x-ordinate 2, lies on the rectangular hyperbola H with equation xy  8 . Find:
(i) The equation of the tangent, T, to the hyperbola H at the point P in the form ax  by  c  0
where a, b and c are constants.
(ii) Equation of the normal, N, to the hyperbola H at the point P in the form ax  by  c  0
where a, b and c are constants.
(c) The point P with coordinates 75,30 lies on the parabola C with equation y 2  12 x . Find the
equation of the tangent to the parabola C at the point P, giving your answer in the form
y  mx  c , where m and c are constants.
(d) The point A4,8 lies on the parabola C with equation y 2  4ax . Find the equation of the normal
to the given parabola in the form ax  by  c  0 where a, b and c are real constants.

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