PREPARATION QUALIFYING FOR APPLICANTS

FOR JAPANESE GOVERNMENT

(MONBUKAGAKUSHO) SCHOLARSHIPS

EXAMINATION QUESTION

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

MATHEMATICS (B)
MATHEMATICS (B)

Nationality No.

(Please print full name, underlining family name) MARKS

Name

1. Fill in the blanks with the correct answers

(1) Simplify (cos 30o + i sin 30o)3, which i is imajiner number.

(2) The length of the curve (called a cycloid) given by the equations x = a(θ – sin θ),

y = a(θ – cos θ) between θ = 0 and θ = 2π is

(3) Factor of x2 – y2 + x + 3y – 2 are and

(4) Inequalities (1 + 2x – x2)x > 2 (x ≠ 0) , 1 < x <

(5) If 32x = 23y = 5, then x –1 + y –1 = log5

2. Consider u = tan θ

(1) Express tan 3θ in terms of u

2
(2) Given that θ = cos –1 ( ) and 0 < θ < π/2, find the value of tan 3θ
√5
(3) Find the area of the region surrounded by the x-axis and the graph of f(u) = tan u

(1) (2) (3)

3. Four girls, Anty, Bety, Cherry, and Dini, exchange gossip. When Anty hears a rumour, he
tells it to one of the other three without saying who told it to him. He decides whom to tell
by chossing at random amongst the other three, omitting the ones that he knows have
already heard the rumour. When Bety, Cherry and Dini hear a rumour, they behave in
exactly the same way (even if they have already heard it themselves). The rumour stops
being passed round when it is heard by a student who knows that the other three already
have heard it.

(1) Anty starts a rumour and tells it to Cherry. By means of a tree diagram, or otherwise,

the probability that Anty rehears it is

(2) The probability that Bety hears it twice is

(3) The probability that Cherry hears it twice is