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EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL OF ZAMBIA : ‘ Examination for General Certificate of Education Ordinary Level Mathematics 4024/2 Paper 2 Thursday 27 JULY 2017 ‘Adsgons str: ‘Sia ecrnClastr Clear fen protarale) Geonetcalisiumens ‘Soph papa (sheesh Pah poper(! shee) Time: 2 hours 30 minutes Instructions to Candidates Write your name, centre number and candidate number in the spaces provided on.the Answer Booklet. Write your answers and working in the Answer Booklet provided. Ifyou use more than one Answer Booklet, fasten the Answer Booklets together. ‘Omission of essential working will result in loss of marks. There are twelve (12) questions in this paper. Section A Answer all questions. ‘ Section B Answer any four questions. Silent non programmable Calculators may be used. Cell phones are not allowed in the examination room. Information for Candidates ‘The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part question. The total marks for this paper is 100. If the degree of accuracy is not specified in the question, and if the answer is not exact, give the answer to three significant figures. Give answers in degrees to one decirral place. (SECZIGCEROTTINA This question paper consists of 9 printed pages Page 2 of 9 Mathematical Formulae 1 ALGEBRA ‘Quadratic Equation 2 SERIES Geometrie Progression 3 4 STATISTICS ‘Mean and standard deviation ‘Ungrouped data 3 z Mee (@)= 2%, sp= [Pat }- Ee? } Grouped data axa ‘Mean (=) = ZF sp pa Mothematiestaczarr2017 Page 3 of 9 Section A (52 Marks) Answer all questions in this section. he 1 @)_—_ Given that matrix K = ( Ai find @ the determinant of K, 2 @ thwinverseof K. 2 (b) Solve the equation 3z"~ 7z— 1, giving your answers correct to 2 decimal places. [5] oa 2 @ — Simplity =. 2 an (©) The first three terms of a geometric progression are 6+ n, 10+n and 15 +n. Find @ — thevalue ofn, 2 (i) the common ratio, @ (i) the sum of the first 6 terms of this sequence. BI 3 (a) In a box of 10 bulbs, 3 are faulty. If two bulbs are drawn at random one after the i. other, find the probability that (@ _ dothare good, 2] Gi) one is faulty and the other is good. BI (b) ‘The Venn diagram below shows tourist attractions visited by students in a certain week, ‘Vietria Fels Mambilira Falls iS (SZ ey conga Falls @ Find the value of y, if7 students visited Mambilima Falls only. 2 (ii) How many students visited (@) Victoria Falls but not Gonya Falls, w (b) two tourist attractions only, w (© one tourist attraction only? w ‘Mathematiosi4024/2/2017 [Turn over Page 4 of 9 4G) Express —2-2_ ase single fraction in its simplest form. BI Se-2 x43 (6) Bvatuate [Gx"+2) ae. BI 5 (a) @_Constmet triangle POR in which PQ is 9em, angle POR = 60° and QR= 10cm. ie) (iH) Measure and write the length of PR. a (©) Onyour diagram, draw the locus of points within triangle PQR which are @ 3cm from PQ, a Gi) Jom from R, m1 (il) equidistant from P and R. PI (© ApointM, within triangle PQR, is such that itis nearer to R than P, less than or equal to 7em from R and less than or equal to 3em from PQ. Shade the region in which M must lie, Ry 6 (2) Inthe diagram below, OABC is a parallelogram in which OA =a and AB —2b. OB and AC intersect at. E is the midpoint of CD. 2» o c ‘Express in terms of a and/or b. o & o wo & 2 a) B. 2 Mothematinl4024722017 Page 5 of 9 (b) The program below is given in the form of a flow chart. Start Enter a, Irl<17, ‘Write a pseudo code corresponding to the flow chart program above. fey Mathematicsiozazi2017 [Turn over Page 6 of 9 4 Section B [ 48 marks] Answer any four questions in this section Each question in this section carries 12 marks Answer the whole of this question on a sheet of graph paper. Using a scale of 1cm to represent 1 unit on each axis, draw x andy axes for ~6

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