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PURE MATHEMATICS
Paper 1
Jul. / Aug. 2018
3 hours

SECONDARY MATHEMATICS TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION

SMATA JOINT MOCK EXAMINATIONS 2018

Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education
PURE MATHEMATICS
Paper 1

3 hours

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES:

Answer all the eight questions in Section A and five questions from
Section B.

Any additional question(s) answered will not be marked.

All working must be shown clearly.

Begin each answer on a fresh sheet of paper.

Graph paper is provided.

Silent, non-programmable scientific calculators and mathematical tables

with a list of formulae may be used.

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 SECTION A: (40 MARKS)
Answer all questions in this Section.
1. Solve the equation 3 cos 4  7 cos 2   0 for 0 0    180 0 . (05 marks)

2. Find the solution set for which log 2 x  log x 4  1 . (05 marks)

x3
3. Integrate with respect to x. (05 marks)
1  x2

4. The points P, Q and R have position vectors 2 a  5 b , 5 a  b and

11 a  7 b respectively. Show that P, Q and R are collinear and state
the ratio PQ : QR . (05 marks)

dy
5. Given that y  5 2 x sin 2x , find . (05 marks)
dx
6. Using Maclaurin’s theorem, expand y  x  ln 1  x  as far as the
term in x 3 . (05 marks)
7. Determine the equation of the circle with centre at 1 , 5 and has a
tangent passing through the points A  1 , 2 and B 0 ,  2  .

(05 marks)
8. By eliminating the constants A and B, form a differential equation
for which y  A e 3 t  B e  2 t is a solution. (05 marks)

SECTION B: (60 MARKS)

Answer only five questions in this section.
4x 2  5x  11
9. (a) Express in partial fractions. (07 marks)
x  1x 2  4

4 4x 2  5x  11
(b) Evaluate 1 x 1x 2  4
dx . (05 marks)

10. (a) Express 10 sin x cos x  12 cos 2x in the form R sin2 x  . Hence
find the maximum value of 10 sin x cos x  12 cos 2x . (06 marks)

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 (b) Prove that in any triangle ABC,
(i) a  b cos C  c cos B
BC A
(ii) a sin  b  c  cos . (06 marks)
2 2
11. (a) Solve the simultaneous equations. (06 marks)

2 a  3 b  c  10
a  4b  2c  3  0
5a  2 b  c  7

(b) Given that the equations y 3  2 y  4  0 and y 2  y  c  0 have a

common root, show that c 3  4c 2  14 c  20  0 . (06 marks)

12. (a) Calculate the perpendicular distance from the point

1 ,  2 , 3 from the line with equation r  2 i  3 j  k  t 2 i  j  2 k 
(05 marks)
(b) Determine the equation of a plane through the point
1 ,  3 , 2 and contains the vectors i  3 j  3 k and  i  3 j  2 k .
(07 mark)
2x
13. (a) Find the turning points to the curve y  . Distinguish
2  x 2
between the turning points.
2x
(b) Sketch the graph of the curve y  . (12 marks)
2  x 2
14. (a) A geometric progression has the first term 10 and sum to
infinity of 12.5. How many terms of the progression are
needed to make a sum which exceeds 10? (06 marks)
1 1 1 n
(b) Prove by induction that   ...   .
3 5 5  7 2n  12n  3 3 2n  3
(06 marks)

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15. (a) Show that the curve y 2  8y   4 x represents a parabola.
Sketch the parabola and state its focus. (06 marks)

(b) The points Pat 2 , 2at  and QaT 2 , 2aT  lie on the parabola with
equation y 2  4ax . Determine the locus of the mid-point of
the line segment PQ, for when t T  2a . (06 marks)

dy
16. (a) Solve the equation x  y  x e 2 x . (05 marks)
dx

(b) The rate at which the temperature of a body placed in an oven

increases at any instant is proportional to the amount by which
the temperature of the oven exceeds the temperature of the
body at that instant. The temperature of the oven is 120 0 C .
Given that the temperature of the body rises from 50 0 C to 80 0 C
in 6 minutes, how long does the temperature of the body take
to rise from 90 0 C to 99 0 C ? (07 marks)

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