2009 H2 Maths A Level Examination Paper 1

Qn/ No Topic Set 1 System of linear equations, Inequalities 2 Definite integration 3 Method of Differences Answers (i) un = 1.5n2 8.5n + 17 (ii) {n + : n 11}

(i) A = 2. (ii) [ + ] (iii) 4 Piecewise and periodic functions, (i) 11 (ii) Area under curve

5 Mathematical Induction, Sigma Notation 6 Conics, Graphs of Rational Functions, Solution of equations

(iii) 36 1 n(2n + 1)(7n + 1) 6 (i)

(ii) 0.515 or 2.45 7 Maclaurins series, Binomial expansion 8 AP and GP (i) f(0) = e, f (0) = 0, f (0) = e, e x2 (ii) a = , b =

(i) S = 356.3 < 357 (ii) 272.26, 10 (iii) a =16.8 cm, d = d = 0.491 9 nth root of a complex number, Loci (i) z = 21/14 e, k = 0, 1, 2, 3 of complex numbers (ii)

(iii) Since z = 0 satisfies the equation | z z1 | = | z z2 |, the locus passes through the origin,

10 Lines and Planes

11 Applications of Differentiation, Techniques of Integration, Volumes of Revolution

Perpendicular bisector added to Argand diagram in (ii) y = x tan (i) 70.9 (ii) r = + (iii) Substitute x = , y = 1 , z = into the equation of p3 satisfies the equation and is independent of k. xy+1=0 (i)

(ii) (,e1/2 ) and ( , e1/2 ) (iii) [1 e ]; (iv) 1 e4 (v) 0.363

2009 H2 Maths A Level Examination Paper 2

Qn /N o Topic Set 1 Parametric equations, Tangents and Normal

Answers (i)

2 Vectors

3 Functions

4 Differential Equations

(ii) y = 2x 12 (iii) (3, 18) (i) (12, 4, 6) (ii) = 0 (iii) c =;| a c | is the length of the projection of the vector a on OP (iv) 28 ; | a p | is the area of the parallelogram formed by the vectors a and p; 98 (i) f 1(x) = ; f 2(x) = x; Range of f 2 = \{ } (ii) Rg Df since a 0; fg does not exist (ii) x = 0 or (i) n = 5t2 t3 + ct + 100

(ii) n = 150 50e0.02t; the population increases to a limit of 150 000 The manager is free to choose anyone convenient to 5 Sampling methods fulfill his quota of say, 50 male cinemagoers and 50 female cinemagoers. Disadvantage: Sample obtained is biased 6 Correlation and Regression (i)

(ii) A linear model may not be appropriate since the time could not continue to decrease linearly (iii) A quadratic model would eventually lead to an increase in the predicted time (iv) ln t = 34.853 0.016128x, 3 min 41.4 sec; prediction is not reliable since x = 2010 is outside the range of the data values (extrapolation) 7 Probability (i) 0.035 (ii) f (p) = > 0 for all 0 p 100 since (0.02p + 3)2 is always positive It is more likely to find a randomly chosen component that is faulty that was supplied by A when a larger proportion of components were bought from A (i) 6720 (ii) 5040 (iii) 192 (iv) 480 (i) 25 (ii) 0.2035 (iii) 0.0707

8 Permutation and Combination 9 Normal Distribution, Sampling Distribution

10 Hypothesis Testing

11 Binomial distribution and approximation to Poisson and Normal distributions

(iv) The thicknesses of all textbooks are independent of one another (i) 9.6, 0.81 (ii) pvalue = 0.219 > 0.05, do not reject H0 ; The Central Limit Theorem does not apply in this case since the sample size 9 is small (iii) Carry out a Ztest (i) Two assumptions are: the colours of the n cars are independent of one another the probability of a car being red is constant (ii) 0.3464 (iii) 0.0391 (iv) 0.1517; Since n = 240 > 50, np = 4.8 < 5 (v) (1 p)20 + 20p(1 p)19 = 0.2; 0.142