2022-DSE

MATH CP
PAPER 1
LONGMAN MATHEMATICS SERIES
Candidate Number
HONG KONG DIPLOMA OF SECONDARY EDUCATION EXAMINATION 2022
Class
MOCK PAPER
Class Number
MATHEMATICS Compulsory Part
PAPER 1
Question-Answer book

Time allowed : 2 hours 15 minutes

This paper must be answered in English

INSTRUCTIONS

1. After the announcement of the start of the examination,

you should first write your Candidate Number, Class
and Class Number in the spaces provided.

2. This paper consists of THREE sections, A(1), A(2) and

B.

3. Do not write in the margins. Answers written in the

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4. Unless otherwise specified, all working must be clearly

shown.

5. Unless otherwise specified, numerical answers should

be either exact or correct to 3 significant figures.

6. The diagrams in this paper are not necessarily drawn

to scale.

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 SECTION A(1) (35 marks)

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1. Simplify and express your answer with positive indices. (3 marks)
( p q) ( pq 4 )−2
2 3

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1 2 3
2. Make v the subject of the formula + = . (3 marks)
u v f

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 3. Factorize

(a) m2 + 3mn − 28n2 ,

(b) 3m + 21n − m2 − 3mn + 28n 2 . (3 marks)

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y
4. (a) Find the range of values of y which satisfy 2 − 6( y + 2)  1 or −2 y − 10  .
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(b) Write down the greatest integer satisfying the inequalities in (a).
(4 marks)

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 5. There are certain numbers of male and female in a business company. If 4 males join
the company and 8 females leave the company, the ratio of the number of males to the
number of females is 1 : 2. If 2 males leave the company and 2 females join the
company, the ratio of the number of males to the number of females is 1 : 4. Find the
total number of employees in the company originally.

(4 marks)

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6. The marked price of textbook A is 24% less than the marked price of textbook B. Both
textbook A and textbook B are sold at a discount of 10% on its marked price. The
difference in the selling prices of textbook A and textbook B is $64.8. Find the marked
price of textbook A.

(4 marks)

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 7. The coordinates of the points A, B and C are (–4, –1), (–9, 11) and (9, –1)
respectively.
(a) Prove that △ABC is an isosceles triangle.
(b) Find the equation of the axis of symmetry of △ABC.
(4 marks)

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 8. In Figure 1, BDC is a straight line. AC and DE intersect at the point F. It is given that
AC ⊥ DE and AC is the angle bisector of  DAE.

Figure 1
(a) Prove that △AFD  △AFE.
(b) It is given that AD is a median of △ABC and AE = DC. Is △ABC a right-

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angled triangle? Explain your answer.

(5 marks)

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 9. The pie chart below shows the distribution of the numbers of siblings of a group of
students. It is known that the probability of a randomly selected student from the
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group has less than 2 siblings is equal to .
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Distribution of the numbers of siblings of a group of students

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(a) Find k.
(b) Find the minimum number of students in the group.
(c) Write down the mean of the distribution.
(5 marks)

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 SECTION A(2) (35 marks)

10. The cost for a company to produce a batch of n electronic components is $C. C is
partly constant and partly varies as the cube root of n. When n = 8000, C = 20 000 and
when n = 27 000, C = 23 000.

(a) Find the cost if the company wish to produce a batch of 125 000 electronic
component. (4 marks)

(b) Someone claims that the total cost of producing three batches of 125 000
components is at least double the cost of producing a batch of 729 000
components. Is the claim correct? Explain your answer. (2 marks)

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 11. A decoration is made up of two parts. The upper part is a right circular cone of base
radius r cm and height h cm. The lower part is a hemisphere of radius r cm. It is given
that the ratio of the volume of the hemisphere to the volume of the right circular cone
is 1 : 2. Originally, the decoration is held vertically. The lower part of the decoration is
full of liquid and there is no liquid in the upper part of the decoration.
(a) Express h in terms of r. (2 marks)
(b) The decoration is now inverted and is held vertically so that all the liquid flows
into the right circular cone. Given that r = 2, find the depth of the liquid in the
right circular cone. (4 marks)

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 12. The cubic polynomial f ( x) is divisible by x 2 + x − 1 . When f ( x) is divided by
x + 7 , the remainder is −123 . When f ( x) is divided by x − 3 , the remainder is
297 .
(a) Find the quotient when f ( x) is divided by x 2 + x − 1 . (3 marks)
(b) Someone claims that the equation f ( x) = 0 has more than 1 positive root. Is
the claim correct? Explain your answer. (3 marks)

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 13. The stem-and-leaf diagram below shows the distribution of the time (in minutes)
spent on lunch by 6A students on a specific day.
Stem (10 minutes) Leaf (1 minute)
0 8 9
1 2 a a a 7
2 0 1 3 5 6 8
3 0 2 b 8
4 3 8 9
It is given that the median of the above distribution is greater than the mode by
9 minutes.
(a) Find a. (2 marks)
(b) It is given that the difference between the range and the inter-quartile range of

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the distribution is less than 22 minutes. Find

(i) the possible value(s) of b,
(ii) the greatest possible standard deviation of the distribution.
(5 marks)

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 14. The coordinates of points A and B are (14, 20) and (–6, 0) respectively, where AB is a
diameter of circle C. Denote the centre of C by G.
(a) Find the equation of C. (3 marks)
(b) There is a straight line L1 that passes through A and B, and another horizontal
line L2 with equation y = k , where k > 6. If the area bounded by L1, L2 and the
y-axis is 200, find the value of k. (3 marks)
(c) Let P be a moving point in the rectangular coordinate plane such that the
perpendicular distance from P to y = k is equal to the distance between P and
G. Denote the locus of P by  . Find the equation of  . (4 marks)

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 Section B (35 marks)
15. 11 gentlemen and 9 ladies joined a competition. At the beginning, 5 participants are
randomly selected to form a team.

(a) How many different teams can be formed? (1 mark)

(b) Find the probability that there are more gentlemen than ladies in the team.
(2 marks)

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 16. In Figure 2, A, B and C are points lying on a circle. AB is a diameter of the circle. AD
is the tangent to the circle at A such that BCD is a straight line.

Figure 2
(a) Show that △ABC ~ △DBA. (2 marks)
(b) Suppose that AB = 20 cm and CD = 9 cm.
(i) Find the length of BC.

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(ii) Let T and U be points on AD and AB respectively such that TU // DB. If

area of △ATU : area of TDBU = 1:8, find the perimeter of △ATU.
(4 marks)

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 17. Let G (n) be the nth term of a geometric sequence. The sum of the first 3 terms of
the sequence is 1701 and the sum of the first 6 terms of the sequence is 1638.

(a) Find the first term of the sequence. (2 marks)

(b) Suppose that P(n) = G (2n − 1) for any positive integer n. Find the least value
of m such that log9 ( P(1) P(2)...P(m))  −100 . (5 marks)

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 18. In Figure 3(a), the diagonals of cardboard ABCD intersect at E. It is given that
AB = AD = 6 cm , BC = DC = 10 cm and ABD = 35 .

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Figure 3(a)
(a) Find BCD .

(2 marks)

(b) The cardboard ABCD in Figure 3(a) is folded along BD such that A is
vertically above the line EC. Two extra triangular cardboards are placed to
form the tetrahedron ABCD as shown in Figure 3(b). It is given that the
volume of the tetrahedron ABCD is 45 cm3.

Figure 3(b)
(i) Does the angle between △ABD and △BCD exceed 60°? Explain your
answer.

(ii) Find the total surface area of the tetrahedron ABCD.

(5 marks)

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 19. Let f ( x) = x2 − 8kx − 6 x + 16k 2 + 22k + 5 , where k is a constant. Let M be the vertex
of the graph of y = f ( x) .

(a) Using the method of completing the square, express the coordinates of M in
terms of k. (2 marks)
(b) Let N be the vertex of the graph of y = − f ( x − 6) .
(i) Write down the coordinates of N in terms of k.
(ii) Let P be a moving point in the rectangular coordinate plane such that P is
the orthocentre of △PMN. Denote the locus of P by  . Express the
equation of  in terms of k.
(iii) If MUNV is a square, express the equation of UV in terms of k.
(iv) Someone claims that the area of the square MUNV cannot be less than
18 square units. Do you agree? Explain your answer.

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(10 marks)

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