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THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA NATIONAL EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL ADVANCED CERTIFICATE OF SECONDARY EDUCATION EXAMIN 142/2 ADVANCED MATHEMATICS 2 (For Both School and Private Candidates) ‘Time: 3 Hours Monday 13 May 2002 p.m. Instructions 1, This paper consists of sStions A and B 2. Answer ALL questins in ection A snd any FOUR (6) questions from section B. 3. Allnecessary steps in enswering each question must be shown clearly. a ifeestncs wath temoataalariifice 5, Mathematical bles, mathematical formulae, slide rules and woprogresiinsble pocket_ calealators may be used. ' 66, Cellular phones are not allowed in the examination room 17.” Write your Examination Number on every page of your sxswer bookiet. ‘Thi poper consiite of 5 . printed pi i @ e @ @ co) @ @) o @ SECTION A (60 Marks) Answer ALL questions in this section showing ALL necessary steps and answers Use four figure tables to find the value of. AS en 3 ve cane, (04 masks) ‘By using a non programmable scientific calculator, find the value in (2) correct 10'signficant figures. (2 marks) Given that Sy = (p->9) -¥(-¢->-B) and S: = ~(-4->-p) 4p) (02% masks) vse truth tables to find whether or not S; is equivalent 10 So, ‘Write the statement (pq) +(~q-+-p) using the connective ~ end v, and prepare a tr table for the resulting disjunction, (03% marks) ‘Two carves y = 2x?—3 andy = x°— Sx+3 intersect at two points. P is one of them and is in the fourth quadtant. Find the tangent of the acute angle between these curves atthe point P. (03 marks), A point Q moves such that its distance from the point (5, 3) is equal to twice its distance from the line x = 2. Find the equation of te locus (03 marks) sin80~ sin 600830 Prove th —Sin80sinGleos3®__ aso 7 cos 26.cos @ —sin 3¢sin 40 (03 marks) Solve the equation Scosx - 2sinx =2 for-180° < x < 180° using the substitution t = tnx (03 mars) The fst tm ofa geome ret 7 ands oon ras. Find eat mumbo of terms 0 tha the series can have ts sum exezeding 550 (2 marks) Express the seies [+4474 10+ 13-+-- +298 in the form 5° £0) (02 marks) wherem = 1,2, ‘Use the method of induction to prove that S027"! = 2" (02 marks) ‘The four points A(-2, -1), B(4, 3), Ctx, y) and DOO, -4) are the vertices of parslielogram ABCD. Find the values of x and y. (02 marks) ® @ ‘Two straight lines L, and L; are drawn in the xy plane as show in the diegram below IAM. where m, and m, are the gradients of Ly and L Prove that @ = tan am nape (Wat tic dnsagh ented wncaeilndteny oem ait es ((04 macks) 1. ee tohypstlic beta oad f— 2 (06: x? (x? +4)? 8. The heights in cm of 70 pupils in # certain class were distributed as follows: Tig 120-129 130-139 140-149 150-159 1 160-165. 170-179 a 7 oot ‘ia ee (©) Fade vane oty ime) (osm (©) Compute the variance and mean of the dats, (O itis greater than 4,000 (i) itis between 2000 and 6000 and divisible by $? (@) Four digit numbers are formed from the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 6, 9 without repeating e digit. Hol ‘many different numbers will be formed? ©) One fous digit number in 9 (e) is chosen at random, whet is the probebilty thet: (02 marks) (04 marks) 10. (6) Given that a = 1+3iisa root of the equation 2*—(p +23)2+9(1+i) = 0 snd thatp and q are real numbers, determine the valuse of p and a, (3 meds) (©) Hzis e complex number, find the locus represented by the equation qs SECTION (40 Marks) Answer FOUR (4) questions from this section showing all necessary steps and answers, 11, (@) Find the point of intersection ofthe line G marks) with the plane 2x—y +22 =5 (b) Given the vectors: (Find the values of m, n andrif the egetraic sum of the vectors is a null vector. Gi) Using the results in (9) calculate the area of the plane formed by vectors # aad b. (ii) Find the volume of the parsllelopiped 2s 2 function of m, n and r whose sides are the vectors given above. (07 marks) (3 -2 -2 12, (@) themanix A = B 3-1) verity that dot = det A®. (@ mucis) 1-1 3 (©) Find the adjoint of the matrix in (a) and use it to solve the following system of equations: 3x-2y-22 xt3y-2=9 x-ytho4 (07 mats) 13. (@)_ Define the coordinates of (1,y) in polar form and use i to waite the following ¢quations in ost simplified polar form: @ G-aP +o =F (i) mxtty+e (®) Transform equations () and (ji) below into cartesian coordinates and compiete them 2s ‘instructed: , (04% masks) @ P=4r05844-= 0 end show that it has a uniqué solution, @ sin’? + 8 c0s%@ = 4 and verify that the curve is lines passing through the origin. 14, (@) Starting from te definition of the hypesbotic function cash x, ‘show that coch (m+ 1}x—cash (m= ff = 2aink mx wing ¢ kypecbolic function eubetittion, (©) Find the coordinates of the muni point of the cateuary y = = coch~. 18. (©) Find: @ fact ae (03 masks)’ “(04 masts) (05 mates) (©) The ares under esuaight lin y = 2x bounded by x aris, x = 1 end x —)is rotated sbout the x els, @ ” Skeich and identify the nature of the solid generated. (Find the equation of the volume so formed as fiction of 16. ()' Simpllty ) px-p+q) @ pars) (05 mais) (04 marks) (©) Write the converse end construct the truth table of the contrapositive of the conditional erga (C2 mais) (©) Test the validity of the argument whose premises are p-¥(~p->q), q—-p and p and whose conclusion is ~9, (04 marks)

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