ST.

PAUL’S COLLEGE
F.4 Mid-year Examination 2018 – 2019
Mathematics – Extended Part

Module 1 (Calculus and Statistics)

Name:

Group: LMW / FBL

Class and Class Number:

Time allowed: 1 hour and 30 minutes

Instructions:

1. Answer ALL questions in the spaces provided.

2. Unless otherwise specified, numerical answer should be either
exact or given to 4 decimal places.
3. The diagrams in this paper are not necessarily drawn to scale.
4. All working must be clearly shown.
5. Marks will be deducted for untidiness and poor presentation.

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Section A (40 marks)
Answer ALL questions in this section.
Write your answers in the spaces provided.

1. (a) Solve 4x + 1 = 83x – 4.

(b) Solve log 2x + log 3 = log (5x + 4).
(4 marks)

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2. Simplify 9a  a
2 4
 a2 and express the answer with the positive index.
(3 marks)

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3. If 5𝑥 = 𝑒 𝑦 , express y in terms of x.
(2 marks)

4. Solve log (6x + 17) = log (2x + 1) + 1.

(3 marks)

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log x x3 + log x 3
x2
5. Simplify 1
, where x > 0, x  1, y > 0 and y  1.
log y
y2 + log y
y 2

(4 marks)

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6. The accumulated number of flu cases N recorded in a clinic after t days can be modelled by
𝑁 = 𝐴 − 𝑘𝑒 −0.01𝑡 (0 ≤ 𝑡 ≤ 60). It is given that the accumulated number of flu cases after 5
days and 10 days are 50 and 90 respectively.
(a) Find the values of A and k. (Give your answers correct to 3 significant figures.)
(b) What is the accumulated number of flu cases after two weeks (Give your answer correct
to the nearest integer.)
(c) At least how long will it take for the accumulated number of flu cases be more than 250?
(Give your answer correct to the nearest integer.)

(6 marks)

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7. After the implementation of the policy prohibiting elephant hunting in a district for t years,
15𝑒 𝑏𝑡
the number of elephants N (in thousands) can be modelled by 𝑁 = 𝑒 𝑏𝑡 +𝑎 (𝑡 ≥ 0), where a

and b are constants.

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(a) Prove that 𝑁 = 𝑎𝑒 −𝑏𝑡 +1.

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(b) Express ln⁡( 𝑁 − 1) as a linear function of t.

(c) It is given that the slope and the intercept on the vertical axis of the graph of the linear
function obtained in (b) are -0.05 and 4.317 respectively. Find the values of a and b.
(Give your answers correct to 2 significant figures if necessary.)
(5 marks)

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8. (a) Expand (4𝑥 − 𝑥 2 )4 in ascending powers of x up to the term 𝑥 6 .

(4𝑥−𝑥 2 )4
(b) Find the coefficient of 𝑥 6 in the expansion of .
2𝑒 4𝑥

(7 marks)

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9. The number N of a kind of bacteria in a specimen t minutes after the start of an experiment
is given by
1 N
t = log 4
k 10 000 − N
where k is a constant.
(a) Find the number of bacteria when the experiment just starts.
(b) 5 minutes after the start of the experiment, the number of bacteria is 8000.
Find the value of k.
(c) When will the number of bacteria reach 9000?
(Give the answers correct to 3 significant figures if necessary.)
(6 marks)

End of Section A

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Section B (30 marks)
Answer ALL questions in this section.
Write your answers in the spaces provided.

10. (a) Prove that 6𝑥 = 𝑒 𝑥𝑙𝑛6 .

(b) Expand (𝑥 + 2)4 .
(c) Hence expand 6𝑥 (𝑥 + 2)4 in ascending powers of x up to 𝑥 3 .
(5 marks)

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11. (a) Express the expansion of (2𝑥 − 2𝑥 2 )𝑛 in ascending powers of x with the
summation notation, where n is a positive integer.
(b) If the 4th term of the expansion is a constant term, find the value of n.
(c) Hence find the coefficient of 𝑥 3 in the expansion.
(5 marks)

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 𝑛(𝑛+1)
12. For any positive integer n, given that 1 + 2 + 3 + ⋯ + 𝑛 = and let P(𝑛) = 2𝑛
2

and Q(𝑛) = 102𝑛+1.

(a) Express P(1) + P(2) + P(3) + ⋯ P(𝑛) in terms of n.
(b) Find the value of n such that log[Q(1)Q(2)Q(3) … Q(𝑛)] = 2400.
(5 marks)

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13. (a) Solve log4 x + log8 2x = .
6
3
(b) Hence, solve log4 2y + log8 8y = .
2
(Give the answer in surd form.)
(7 marks)

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14. A researcher is studying the effectiveness of a new medicine on killing bacteria W. After the
medicine is applied, the population P (in millions) of bacteria W in a specimen can be
𝑛𝑡
5 1000
modelled by 𝑃 = 𝑚 (2) , where m and n are constants and t is the number of
minutes since the medicine is applied. The population of bacteria W in the specimen
is recorded as follows:
t 5 10 15 20 25
P 48.55 43.82 42.31 39.50 36.88

(a) Express lnP as a linear function of t.

(b) It is known that one of the values of P in the above table is incorrect.
(i) Using the graph above to determine which value of P is incorrect.
(ii) By removing the incorrect value of P, estimate the values of m and n.
(Give your answers correct to the nearest integers.)
(c) Can the new medicine kill all the bacteria after 1 day?
(8 marks)

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