TEMASEK JUNIOR COLLEGE, SINGAPORE

Preliminary Examination
Higher 2

MATHEMATICS 9740/02
Paper 2 20 September 2010

Additional Materials: Answer paper 3 hours

Graph paper
List of Formula (MF15)

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 Section A: Pure Mathematics [40 marks]

1 A curve C is represented by the parametric equations

x  t 2  2t , y  t  9t for t  2 .
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Find the equation of the tangent to the curve C which is parallel to the y-axis. [4]

The figure below shows the region R bounded by the curve C and the x-axis.

Show that the curve C intersects the x-axis at the point (15, 0). [1]

Hence find the exact value of the area of R. [4]

2 By sketching the graphs of y  e x and y  2 x  2 on the same diagram, find the number
of roots of the equation e x  2 x  2  0 . [2]

(i) Given that the root  lies in the interval (a, 0), state the largest integer value of a. [1]

A sequence of negative numbers, xn , satisfy the relation

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xn  1  (e xn  2) , for n   .
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(ii) If the sequence converges, show that it converges to  . [2]

It is given that   xn  0 .

(iii) By considering xn 1  xn , and with the aid of the sketch in (i), show that
xn 1  xn . [2]

(iv) Show that xn 1   . [2]

(v) Describe the behaviour of the sequence for the case when   x1  0 . [1]

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 z  3i
3 (a) Find the roots of the equation    0. [4]
 3  i  z

(b) A complex number z satisfies iz  3  5 .

(i) Sketch the locus of the points which represents z in an Argand diagram. [2]

(ii) Find z when z  3 is a minimum. [4]

4 (a)
y y  6x  4

y  f  x
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2 1 x

x  1
The diagram shows the graph of y  f  x  with asymptotes x  1 and y  6 x  4 .
On separate diagrams sketch the graphs of

(i) y  f  x [2]

(ii) y2  f  x  . [2]

 x2  2x  5
(b) The curve C has equation y  .
x 1
2
(i) Describe how the curve with equation y  x  4  can be transformed to C. [3]
x
(ii) State the equations of all the asymptotes of C and hence sketch C. [2]
(You are not required to find the x and y intercepts.)

(iii) By adding a suitable graph to the sketch in (ii), deduce the number of roots of
 x  1    x 2  2 x  5  4   1
2 2

the equation   . [2]

22  x 1 

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 Section B: Statistics [60 marks]

5 Through-Train Junior College (TTJC) has four levels of students: IP1, IP2, JC1 and JC2.
The population breakdown for the year 2010 is as follows:
Level IP1 IP2 JC1 JC2
Number of students 78 70 692 760
Mr Koh wants to find out how students spend their time after lessons. He plans to get
10% of the student population to do a survey. His method of conducting the survey is to
spend one hour each day at the canteen and ask if the students entering the canteen are
willing to do a survey for him. He continues to do that until he obtains the number of
surveys required.

(i) State a flaw in his sampling method. [1]

[1]

Mr Koh’s friend, Mr Toh, suggests he modify his sampling method to collect 40 surveys
from each level instead.

(ii) State the name of this sampling method. [1]

[2]

Mr Koh finally decided to obtain a stratified sample across different levels of students.

(iii) Describe how a sample of size 160 might be obtained. [2]

[2]

6 The time taken, in minutes, for John, a typist, to type 5000 words is normally distributed with
mean 34 and standard deviation 2.1.
John attends a training course to improve his typing speed. After the course, John records the
times he take to type 5000 words on 8 separate occasions, and obtains the following times (in
minutes):

36.5 33.4 27.7 31.5 33.0 34.9 30.7 29.5

Assuming that the initial standard deviation has not changed, test at the 2% level of
significance whether John’s typing speed has improved after the training course. [4]

Explain what is meant by 2% level of significance in the context of the question. [1]

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7 An Extreme Ironing Club consists of 11 members: 6 male and 5 female. It is also known
that 4 of the male members are local while 3 of the female members are foreigners.

(a) Find the number of ways for all 11 members to stand in a row so that no two
foreigners are adjacent. [2]

(b) 4 members are to be chosen to enter a competition. In how many ways can this be
done if:

(i) there are no restrictions, [1]

(ii) there must be at least 1 male member and at least 1 female member, [2]

(iii) there must be at least 1 female member and at least 1 foreign member
(a female member who is a foreigner will satisfy both conditions). [3]

8 Temasek United Football Club (TUFC) is participating in a football competition. 3 points

are awarded for a win, 1 point is awarded for a draw and no points are awarded for a loss.
In this competition, TUFC plays three matches in the first round. Being a good team, it
may be assumed that for any match in the first round, the probability that TUFC wins is
1 1
and the probability that TUFC loses is . All the matches are played independently.
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(i) Find the probability that TUFC draws a match. [1]

(ii) Find the probability that after three games, TUFC has exactly three points. [3]

(iii) To qualify for the second round, TUFC needs to get at least five points. Given that
TUFC does not win the first game, find the probability that they will still qualify for
the second round. [4]

9 The times taken, in seconds, for two swimmers, A and B, to complete a 100-metre
freestyle race are independent and normally distributed with means 48.0 and 47.2 and
standard deviations 0.5 and 0.8 respectively. The two swimmers compete in a 100-
metre race for which the world record is 46.9 seconds.

(i) Show that the probability that at least one of the two swimmers breaks the world
record during the race is 0.363 correct to 3 significant figures. [3]

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(ii) Find the probability of Swimmer B beating Swimmer A. [2]

(iii) If A and B are to meet 20 times for the 100m freestyle race, how many times do
you expect A to beat B? Give your answer correct to the nearest integer. [2]

(iv) Find the probability that the total sum of four randomly chosen timings of A is
more than 4 times a randomly chosen timing of B. [3]

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10 At a stall in a fun-fair, games of chance are played. The probability that a participant
wins a prize in each game is 0.05.

(a) If the stall holder wants the probability of more than 5 prizes to be won on a
particular day to be less than 0.1, find the largest number of games that can be
played on that day. [3]

(b) On another day, N games are played. Using a suitable approximation, find the
probability that prizes are won in at most 5% of the games if :
(i) N = 60, [3]
(ii) N = 200. [3]

(c) The stall is open for 70 days and on each day, 60 games are played. Find the
probability that the average number of prizes won each day is between 2.5 and 3
inclusive. [4]

11 Mary recorded the length of time, y minutes, taken to travel to her office when leaving
home x minutes after 7 am on nine selected mornings. The results are as follows.

x 0 5 10 20 25 30 40 50 60
y 20 23 29 33 35 39 40 48 51

(i) State, giving a reason, which of the least squares regression lines, x on y or y on x,
should be used to express possible relation between x and y. [1]

(ii) Find the equation of the regression line chosen in part (i) and interpret the slope of
your regression line. [3]

(iii) Calculate the product moment correlation coefficient and interpret your value in
the context of this question. [2]

Mary needs to arrive at her office no later than 8.30 am. The number of minutes by
which Mary arrives at her office early, when leaving home x minutes after 7 am, is
denoted by z.

(iv) Write z in terms of x and y. [1]

(v) Estimate, to the nearest minute, the latest time that Mary can leave home without
arriving late at office. [3]
Comment on the reliability of this value. [2]

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