Conventional Questions

Modified Exam Questions (HKCEE 2006 − HKDSE 2018)

1. Ken wants to buy the following items in a shop:
Item Unit price Quantity needed
Candy $18.3 per pack 3 packs
Chocolate $10.3 per bar 5 bars
Potato Chips $8.7 per pack 6 packs
Water $3.5 per bottle 8 bottles
(a) By rounding up the unit price of each item to the nearest dollar, estimate the total
amount that Ken should pay.
(b) If Ken has only $200, does he have enough money to buy all the items needed? Use
the result of (a) to explain your answer.
Public Exam Reference: HKCEE 2008 Paper 1 Q07

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2. Round off 1569.608 to

(a) 2 decimal places,

(b) 3 significant figures,

(c) the nearest integer.

Public Exam Reference: HKCEE 2009 Paper 1 Q04 _

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3. In Figure (a), sector OLMN is a piece of paper. By joining OL and ON together, OLMN is folded to
form a right circular cone A as shown in Figure (b). It is given that OL = 15 cm.

Figure (a) Figure (b)

(a) Find the base radius and the height of A.

(b) Find the volume of A in terms of .

(c) In Figure (c), sector PRST is another piece of paper. By joining PR and PT together, PRST is
folded to form another right circular cone B as shown in Figure (d). It is given that PR = 12
cm. Are A and B similar? Explain your answer.

Figure (c) Figure (d)

Public Exam Reference: HKCEE 2008 Paper 1 Q13

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4. (a) The height and the base radius of an inverted right circular conical container are 24 cm
and 16 cm respectively.

(i) Find the capacity of the circular conical container in terms of .

(ii) Figure (a) shows a frustum which is made by cutting off the lower part of the
container. The height of the frustum is 9 cm. Find the capacity of the frustum in
terms of .

Figure (a) Figure (b)

(b) Figure (b) shows a vessel which is held vertically. The vessel consists of two parts with a
common base: the upper part is the frustum shown in Figure (a) and the lower part is a
right circular cylinder of height 12 cm. Some water is poured into the vessel. The vessel
now contains 2072 cm3 of water.

(i) Find the depth of water in the vessel.

(ii) If a piece of metal of volume 2200 cm3 is then put into the vessel and the metal is
totally immersed in the water, will the water overflow? Explain your answer.

Public Exam Reference: HKCEE 2009 Paper 1 Q13

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5. In Figure (a), ABCDEHGF is a chocolate bar in the form of a right prism. It is given that AB = 1.5
cm, BC = 3.9 cm, CD = 3 cm and CF = 10 cm.

Figure (a)

(a) Find the area of the trapezium ABCD.

(b) Find the volume of the chocolate bar ABCDEHGF.

(c) The planes PQTU and QRST cut the chocolate bar ABCDEHGF into two blocks BPQRSGUT
and ADCRQPUHEFST as shown in Figure (b). PQTU is parallel to the face ADEH and QRST is
parallel to the face CDEF. It is given that PB = 0.5 cm and QR = 1 cm.

Figure (b)

(i) Find the volume of the chocolate bar BPQRSGUT.

(ii) Are the chocolate bar BPQRSGUT and ABCDEHGF similar? Explain your answer.

Public Exam Reference: HKCEE 2010 Paper 1 Q13

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6. In the figure, a trapezium is formed by removing a triangle from a rectangle, where all
the measurements are correct to the nearest cm.
9 cm 5 cm

7 cm

(a) Write down the maximum absolute error of the measurements.

(b) Find the least possible area of the trapezium.
(c) Someone claims that the actual area of the trapezium can be 90 cm2.
Is the claim correct? Explain your answer

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7. (a) If the length of a string is measured as 10 cm correct to the nearest cm, find the
least possible length of the string.
(b) The length of a string is measured as 6.0 m correct to the nearest 0.1 m.
(i) Is it possible that the actual length of this string exceeds 603 cm?
Explain your answer.
(ii) Is it possible to cut this string into 64 pieces of shorter strings, with each
length measured as 10 cm correct to the nearest cm? Explain your answer.

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8. The coordinates of the point A are (5, −3). A is rotated anticlockwise about the
origin O through 90 to B. C is the reflection image of A with respect to the y-axis.
(a) Write down the coordinates of B and C.
(b) Are O, B and C collinear? Explain your answer.
(c) A is translated vertically to D such that BCD = 90. Find the equation of the
straight line passing through C and D. Hence, or otherwise, find the coordinates of
D.

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9. In the figure, QS is an altitude of the triangle PQR. It cuts the x-axis at H.
y

Q(2, 3)

H
x
P(–3, 0) O

S
R(2, –2)

(a) Find the slope of PR.

(b) Find the equation of QS.
(c) (i) Find the coordinates of H.
(ii) Is H the orthocentre of PQR? Explain your answer.

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10. The coordinates of the points A and B are (0, –1) and (2, 3) respectively.
It is given that L is a perpendicular bisector of AB.
(a) (i) Find the equation of L.
(ii) Suppose that H is a point lying on L. Denote the y-coordinate of H by h. Let Q
be the circle which is centred at H and passes through A and B. Prove that the
equation of Q is x2 + y2 – (6 – 4h)x – 2hy – 2h – 1 = 0.
(b) The coordinates of the point C are (11, –4). Using (a)(ii), or otherwise, find the area
of the circle passing A, B and C in terms of .
Public Exam Reference: HKDSE 2015 Paper 1 Q14

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11. In the figure, AB = AC and BAC = 40.
A

40

B C

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(a) Find AB : BC .
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(b) Let D be a point on BC such that AD is the angle bisector of BAC. Is AD a
diameter of the circle? Explain your answer.
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12. In the figure, a circle passes through A, I and C, where I is the incentre of ABC. D is a
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point on the circle such that AC = CD . It is given that ABC = 56.

D A

I 56 B

(a) Find ADC.

(b) Is ACD equal to ABC? Explain your answer.
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13. The scores of the members of Team A in a game are shown as follows:

27 28 28 32 32 32 35 36 42

42 47 52 54 58 63 67 75 77

(a) Write down the median and the mode of the scores of the members of Team A.

(b) The stem-and-leaf diagram below shows the distribution of the scores of the members of
Team B. It is given that the range of this distribution is 48.
Stem (tens) Leaf (units)

3 h 2 3 4

4 1 4

5 2

6 0 9

7 3 7 k

(i) Find h and k.

(ii) From each team, a member is randomly selected as the representative of that team.
The two representatives can join a competition when the difference of their scores
does not exceed 40. Find the probability that these two representatives cannot join
the competition.

Public Exam Reference: HKDSE 2013 Paper 1 Q10

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14. Figure (a) shows a solid metal right cylinder of base radius 36 cm and height 108
cm.

108 cm

36 cm

Figure (a) Figure (b)

(a) Find the volume of the cylinder in terms of .

(b) A hemispherical vessel of radius 45 cm is held vertically on a horizontal surface.
The vessel is fully filled water.
(i) Find the volume of the water in terms of .
(ii) The cylinder is now held vertically in the vessel as shown in Figure (b).
Someone claims that the volume of the water remaining in the vessel is more
than 0.08 m3. Do you agree? Explain your answer

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15. Peter and Mary play a game consisting of two rounds. In the first round, Peter and
Mary takes turns to flip three fair coins. The player who first gets three heads in one turn
wins the first round. Peter and Mary play the first round until one of them wins. Mary
throws the coins first.
(a) Find the probability that Mary wins the first round of the game.
(b) In the second round of the game, balls are dropped one by one into a box containing
9 cells arranged as shown in the figure. When a ball dropped into the box, it falls
randomly in one of the cells. Each cell can hold at most three balls.

When two cells are connected by a face, they are adjacent cells.
The player of this round adopts one of the following options.
Option 1: Two balls are dropped one by one into the box. If the two balls fall into
the same cell, the player gets 9 tokens. If the two balls fall into two
adjacent cells, the player gets 3 tokens. Otherwise, the player gets no
tokens.
Option 2: Three balls are dropped one by one into the box. If the three balls fall
into the same cell, the player gets 81 tokens. If the three balls fall into
three cells in the same row or in the same column, the player gets 9
tokens. If the three balls fall into two adjacent cells, the player gets 3
tokens. Otherwise, the player gets no tokens.
(i) If the player of the second round adopts Option 1, find the expected number of
tokens got.
(ii) Which option should the player of the second round adopt in order to maximise
the expected number of tokens got? Explain your answer.
(iii) It is given that the winner of the first round adopts the option which can
maximise the expected number of tokens got in the second round, and the other
player adopts another option in the second round. Peter claims that the
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probability of Mary getting no tokens in the game is less than . Do you
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agree? Explain your answer.
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