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SECTION A (50 marks).

Answer ALL questions in this section.

QUESTION A1 (5 marks)

Solve 9x − 27 x+1 = 0 .
2

QUESTION A2 (5 marks)

Simplify the following expression, eliminate any negative exponents in your answer.
x −2 ( x 2 y 4 )
5/2

 ( x 4/2 y −3 )
x −1 y 4

QUESTION A3 (5 marks)

Solve log3 x + log 2 512 − log 4 64 = 5 .

QUESTION A4 (5 marks)

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Given that log x 2 = a and log x 3 = b , write log x in term of a and b.
9x2

QUESTION A5 (5 marks)
2 3
Events C and D are mutually exclusive such that P(C) = and P(D) = . Find
5 10
(a) P( C )
(2 marks)
(b) P(C  D)
(3 marks)

QUESTION A6 (5 marks)
1
The probability that a school bus is late on any day is . Calculate the probability that for
10
two days in a row, the bus is
(a) late twice.
(2 marks)
(b) late once.
(3 marks)

QUESTION A7 (5 marks)

A total of 28% of students in university joined Science club, 7% joined Engineering club, and
5% joined both Science and Engineering club. Find probability that a student joined neither
Science nor Engineering club.

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QUESTION A8 (5 marks)

Find the interquartile range for data set below.

7, 11, 5, 9, 4, 10, 12, 8, 15, 5, 9, 8

QUESTION A9 (5 marks)

A company manufactures screws, which are sold in packages. For a sample of forty
packages, the following numbers of screws were found in the packages.

Number of screws Number of packages

18 4
19 9
20 15
21 10
22 2
(a) Construct a cumulative frequency table.
(2 marks)
(b) Find the median.
(3 marks)

QUESTION A10 (5 marks)

Find the population standard deviation of table below.

x 10 11 12 13 14
f 2 6 12 14 13

SECTION B (50 marks)

Answer ALL questions in this section.

QUESTION B1 (25 marks)

(a) Shoppers at a mall will spin a wheel to get some prizes based on the number shown
by the wheel below.

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Find probability of choosing

(i) an odd number
(2 marks)
(ii) 1 or 5
(2 marks)
(b) It is forecasted that there is a 40% chance of raining on Tuesday and a 60% chance of
raining on Wednesday. It is expected that the chance of raining on both days is 35%.
(i) Determine the probability that it will rain on either Tuesday or Wednesday.
(3 marks)
(ii) Find the probability of not raining on Tuesday.
(2 marks)
(c) Two red balls and and three black balls are put in an urn. At each stage one of the
balls is randomly chosen, its color is noted, and it is then returned to the urn. If two
balls are randomly chosen from the urn, find probability that
(i) the second ball is red
(3 marks)
(ii) the balls are from different colors
(3 marks)
(d) There are two factories that produce airconds. Each aircond produced at factory A is
defective with probability 0.05, whereas each one produced at factory B is defective
with probability 0.01. Suppose you purchase an aircond, which is equally likely from
either factory A or factory B.
(i) Draw a tree diagram based on the information above.
(6 marks)
(ii) Given that the aircond is defective, find probability that it is purchased from
factory A.
(4 marks)

QUESTION B2 (25 marks)

Table below recorded the frequency of patients admitted to hospital according to their ages.
Class f
50 – 59 2
60 – 69 5
70 – 79 12
80 - 89 58
90 - 99 25
(a) Based on the data shown above, complete the following table.
Class Frequency Class midpoint
fx fx2
interval f x
50 – 59 2
60 – 69 5
70 – 79 12
80 - 89 58
90 - 99 25
TOTAL

(6 marks)

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(b) Hence, calculate the values of the followings:

(i) Mean,
(3 marks)
(ii) Mode,
(4 marks)
(iii) Median,
(4 marks)
(iv) Sample standard deviation, s.
(4 marks)
(v) 15th percentile
(4 marks)

Formulae: Probability
(a) P( A  B) = P( A) + P( B) − P( A  B)
(b) P( A) = 1 − P( A)
P( A  B)
(c) P( A | B) =
P( B)

P( Ai )P(B | Ai )
(d) P( Ai | B) =
P( A1 )P(B | A1 ) + P( A2 )P(B | A2 ) + ... + P( An ) P(B | An )
Formulae: Statistics
x1 + x2 + ... + xn
(a) Mean (single data) =
N

Mean (grouped/ungrouped with frequency) =

 fx
f
n 
 − Fm−1 
(b) Median = Lm +  2   Cm
 fm 
 
 

 D1 
(c) Mode = L +    C
 D1 + D2 
(d) Standard Deviation (population – single data)

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Standard Deviation (population – grouped/ungrouped with frequency)

Standard Deviation (sample – single data)

Standard Deviation (population – grouped/ungrouped with frequency)

Percentile location/class, L p = (n + 1)
P
(e)
100

(f) Percentile =

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