CATHOLIC JUNIOR COLLEGE

General Certificate of Education Advanced Level

Higher 1
JC2 Preliminary Examination

MATHEMATICS 8864/01
Paper 1 26 August 2015
3 hours
Additional Materials: Answer Paper
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8864/01/PRELIMINARY Exam/2015 [Turn over

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Section A: Pure Mathematics [35 marks]

1. Find the range of values of c, where c is a constant, such that y = 3x2 – 4cx – 1 and y = 7x – 4
intersect at most once. [3]

2. Evaluate the following, giving your answers in exact form:

2 1 1 
(a)   e 2 x  e  x  dx [3]
0
4 2 
1  2  5
(b)    ln 3  dx, x  [3]
2 5  2 x
  2

1x
3. The curve C has equation y = x + 2 .
(i) Sketch the graph of C, indicating clearly the equations of any asymptotes and coordinates of
any points of intersection with the axes. [3]
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Given that the gradient of the tangent to C at point P(x, y) is  4 and that the normal to C at P cuts
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the x-axis at Q(– 8 , 0), find, in any order,
(ii) the equation of the normal to C at P, and [3]
(iii) the coordinates of P. [3]

x
4. (i) Sketch, on a single diagram, the graphs of y  ln   and y  x 2  6 x  2 indicating clearly
2
the coordinates of the points of intersection of the two graphs. [2]
x
(ii) Solve the inequality ln    x 2  6 x  2 . [1]
2
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(iii) Hence, or otherwise, solve the inequality ln x   2   2 . [2]
x x
x
(iv) Use your calculator to find the area bounded by the curves y  ln   and y  x 2  6 x  2 ,
2
the line x = 5 and the x-axis where y ≥ 0. [3]

5. In an experiment, an engineer constructs a closed rectangular box with a fixed volume of 1800 cm3
using a special type of elastic material. The box has a base with dimensions 2x cm by 3x cm and
height h cm. The total surface area of the box is S cm2.
3000
(i) Show that S = 12x2 + x . [3]
(ii) Find the value of x for which S is a minimum. [3]
The engineer starts the experiment by changing the value of S.
(iii) Given that S is increasing at a constant rate of 150 cm2 per minute, find the rate of change of x
when h is 30 cm. [3]

Section B: Statistics [60 marks]

6. A private school has 500 Year 1 students, 450 Year 2 students, 485 Year 3 students and 565 Year 4
students. A teacher wants to investigate the effect of social media on students’ study habits. He
decides to survey a random sample of 100 students.
(i) Explain what is meant in this context by the term “a random sample”. [1]
(ii) Describe how a sample of 100 students can be obtained using systematic sampling. [2]
(iii) Give one advantage and one disadvantage of using systematic sampling in this context,
justifying your answers. [2]
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7. A survey was conducted to gather information on the countries students travelled to during the
June holidays. Out of 100 students, 44 travelled to Malaysia, 44 travelled to Indonesia, x travelled
to Thailand and 18 did not travel. Ten students travelled to both Indonesia and Malaysia, twelve
students travelled to both Indonesia and Thailand, and seven students travelled to both Malaysia
and Thailand. Three students travelled to all three countries.
(i) By using a Venn diagram, find x. [3]
One student is selected at random. Let M, I and T be the event that the student travelled to
Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand respectively. Find
(ii) P  M  T  [1]
(iii) P  I  T ' [1]
(iv) P  M ' | T  [2]

8. A bag contains n red balls and three black balls. If a red ball is drawn, it is replaced in the bag.
If a black ball is drawn, it is not replaced in the bag. Two balls are drawn, one after another.
(i) Draw a tree diagram to represent the possible outcomes. [2]
Events A and B are defined as follows:
Event A: Both balls drawn are black,
Event B: Second ball drawn is black.
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(ii) Given P  A  , show that n = 2. [2]
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Using n = 2, find
(iii) P  B  . [1]
(iv) P  A | B  . Deduce that A and B are neither independent nor mutually exclusive. [3]

9. The following table gives the Per Capita Government Expenditure On Health, $g, from each year, t,
between 2005 to 2014 (inclusive).
Year, t 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Per Capita
Government
432 457 498 581 749 758 787 905 1102 1374
Expenditure On
Health, $g
The above data is extracted from http://www.singstat.gov.sg/.
(i) Give a sketch of the scatter diagram for the data, as shown on your calculator. [2]
(ii) Find t and g correct to 1 decimal place, and mark the point ( t , g ) on your scatter diagram
drawn in (i). [1]
(iii) Find the product moment correlation coefficient and comment on its value in the context of
the data. [2]
(iv) Find the equation of the regression line of g on t , in the form g  mt  c , giving the values of
m and c correct to 3 decimal places. Sketch this line on your scatter diagram drawn in (i).
[2]
(v) Use a suitable regression line to estimate the year in which the Per Capita Government
Expenditure On Health is $1400, giving your answer to one decimal place. Comment on the
reliability of your estimate. [3]
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10. A researcher claims that the mean length of a particular species of fish from a pond is 30 cm. To
test this claim, the length, x cm, of a fish is measured for a random sample of 100 fish. The results
  x  30   45   x  30   2680 .
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are summarised by and
(i) Find the unbiased estimates of the population mean and variance. [2]
(ii) Test at the 5% level of significance whether the researcher’s claim is valid. [4]
The same species of fish is bred in a laboratory. The population standard deviation is known to be
3 cm. A random sample of 100 fish is taken from the laboratory and the mean length of this
sample of fish is k cm. A test at the 5% level of significance indicates that the mean length of fish
from the laboratory is greater than 30 cm.
(iii) Find the least value of k to the nearest cm. [4]

11. If a basketball player is successful in shooting a two-point basket, he scores two points. If he is
successful in shooting a three-point basket, he scores three points. A certain basketball player has a
success rate of 0.72 when shooting a two-point basket and a success rate of p when shooting a three-
point basket.
(i) Given that the player’s expected score for shooting 10 two-point baskets is two points higher
31
than his expected score for shooting 10 three-point baskets, show that p = 75 . [1]
Using the value of p found in (i), find the probability that
(ii) the player succeeds in 6 out of 10 two-point baskets and 2 out of 10 three-point baskets. [2]
(iii) the player scores a total of 17 points in 10 two-point baskets and 10 three-point baskets. [3]
In an attempt to improve his basketball skills, the player shoots the two-point basket many times.
(iv) By using a suitable approximation, find the probability that he scores more than 80 points in
50 two-point basket shots. [3]

12. The running speeds, in metres per second, of boys and girls in a school athletics team are modelled
as having independent normal distributions with means and standard deviations as shown below.
Mean speed Standard deviation
Boy 7 1.4
Girl 6 1.7

(i) Find the probability that the total speed of two randomly selected boys is faster than thrice the
speed of a randomly selected girl by at least 2 m s-1. [2]
(ii) Find the probability that three randomly selected boys each has a speed of more than 6.5 m s-1.
[2]
(iii) Find the probability that in a 20-second duration, the difference between the distance covered
by a random boy and the distance covered by a random girl is less than 40 metres. [3]
(iv) A random sample of n girls in the athletics team is taken. Find the least value of n such that the
probability that the sample mean speed of the girls is within 0.6 m s-1 of the population mean
speed of girls is greater than 0.95. [4]

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