954/2 STPM

MATHEMATICS (T)

PAPER 2
One and a half hours

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TRIAL EXAMINATION 2018
SECOND SEMESTER
MALAYSIA HIGHER SCHOOL CERTIFICATE

Instruction to candidates:

DO NOT OPEN THIS QUESTION PAPER UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO SO.

Answer all questions in Section A and one question only in Section B. Answers may be
written in either English or Bahasa Malaysia.

All necessary working should be shown clearly.

Scientific calculators may be used. Programmable and graphic display calculators are
prohibited.

A list of mathematical formulae is provided on page 4 of this question paper.

Prepared by: Checked by: Verified by: Approved by:

……………. ……………. ……………. …………….

Loo Siaw Choon Sii Ai Sian Andrew Janwari Fu Yung Yung
Subject teacher Subject teacher Head of Sc and Mates Unit 6th Form Senior Assistant

This question paper consists of 4 printed pages.

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Section A [45 marks]

Answer all questions in this section.

1. The function f is defined by


 3e  p, x0
x



f  x    x 2  4 x  5, 0  x  1

 x 1
 , x 1
 x 1
(a) Find the value of p such that f is continuous for x  1. [3 marks]
(b) Determine whether f is continuous at x  1. [4 marks]

2. A curve has parametric equations

   
x  sin t , y  sin  t  ,   t 
 6 2 2

Find an equation of the tangent to the curve at the point where t  . [6 marks]
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3. Sketch on the same axes the curves y  6  e x and y  5e x . Find the coordinates of the
points of intersection. Calculate the area of the region bounded by the curves. Calculate the
volume of the solid formed when the region is rotated through 2 radians about the x-axis.
[8 marks]

dy x4
4. Find the integrating factor for the differential equation x  2 y  2 . Hence, find the
dx x 1
general solution for the differential equation. Given that y  1 when x  1, solve the
differential equation. [9 marks]

dy
5. Given that y  1  8e x , show that y  4e x . [2 marks]
dx
By further differentiation of this result, or otherwise, show that Maclaurin’s series for y in
4 10 2 14 3
ascending powers of x is 3  x  x  x  ... [6 marks]
3 27 243

6. Show that the equation e x  x  3  0 has a real root between x  0 and x  1. Given that
x0  0.8 as an initial approximation, use an appropriate iterative formula, find the root correct
to three decimal places. [7 marks]

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Section B [15 marks]

Answer one question only in this section.

x 3
7. The equation of a curve is given by f  x   .
 x  2 x  1
(a) Find lim f  x  and state all the asymptotes. [3 marks]
x 

(b) Find the coordinates of the stationary points on the curve and determine their nature.
Sketch the curve. [9 marks]
(c) Determine the set of values of k such that the equation x  3  k  x  2 x  1 does not
have any real root. [3 marks]

d
8. Under certain conditions, the rate of cooling, of an object varies with the difference between
dt
the temperature  of the object and the room temperature 0 . Write a differential equation that
describes the rate of the cooling of this object. [2 marks]
Given that the room temperature is 20.
(a) Find the general solution of the differential equation. [4 marks]
(b)  
It takes twelve minutes for the object to cool down from 100 to 50 , find the time it takes
to cool down from 50 to 25. [7 marks]
(c) Sketch the temperature-time graph of the object. [2 marks]

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MATHEMATICAL FORMULAE

Differentiation

𝑑 1
(sin−1 𝑥) =
𝑑𝑥 √1 − 𝑥 2
𝑑 1
(cos−1 𝑥) = −
𝑑𝑥 √1 − 𝑥 2
𝑑 1
(tan−1 𝑥) =
𝑑𝑥 1 + 𝑥2

Integration
𝑓 ′ (𝑥)
∫ 𝑑𝑥 = ln|𝑓(𝑥)| + 𝑐
𝑓(𝑥)
𝑑𝑣 𝑑𝑢
∫𝑢 𝑑𝑥 = 𝑢𝑣 − ∫ 𝑣 𝑑𝑥
𝑑𝑥 𝑑𝑥

Maclaurin series
𝑥2 𝑥𝑟
𝑒𝑥 = 1 + 𝑥 + + ⋯+ + ⋯
2! 𝑟!
𝑥2 𝑥3 𝑥𝑟
ln(1 + 𝑥) = 𝑥 − + − ⋯ + (−1)𝑟+1 + ⋯ , −1 < 𝑥 ≤ 1
2 3 𝑟
𝑥3 𝑥5 𝑥 2𝑟+1
sin 𝑥 = 𝑥 − + − ⋯ + (−1)𝑟 +⋯
3! 5! (2𝑟 + 1)!
𝑥2 𝑥4 𝑥 2𝑟
cos 𝑥 = 1 − + − ⋯ + (−1)𝑟 +⋯
2! 4! (2𝑟)!

Numerical methods

Newton-Raphson method
𝑓(𝑥𝑛 )
𝑥𝑛+1 = 𝑥𝑛 − , 𝑛 = 0, 1, 2, 3, ⋯
𝑓 ′ (𝑥𝑛 )

Trapezium rule
𝑏
1 𝑏−𝑎
∫ 𝑦 𝑑𝑥 ≈ ℎ[𝑦0 + 2(𝑦1 + 𝑦2 + ⋯ + 𝑦𝑛−1 ) + 𝑦𝑛 ], ℎ=
𝑎 2 𝑛

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