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RIVER VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL

2010 Year 6 Preliminary Examinations
Higher 2

MATHEMATICS 9740/02
Paper 2 15 September 2010
3 hours
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Section A: Pure Mathematics [40 marks]

1 The diagram shows the graph of y = f(x). The curve passes through the origin O, the
points A(–3a, 2) and B(–a, –2), where 0  a  1 .
y

xa
A(3a, 2)

0
x

B(a, 2)

Sketch on separate clearly labelled diagrams, the graphs of

1 
(a) y  f  x  1 ; [4]
2 

(b) y  f '( x) . [2]

 
2 Points O, A and B are such that OA  i  2 j  3k and OB  4i  j .

(i) Use vector product to find the exact area of the triangle OAB. [2]

(ii) A point P on line AB

is such that AP : AB = 2 : 3. Given that point Q lies on OP
produced, show that OQ  c(3i  k ) , for some constant c. [2]

(iii) Given also that triangle AQB has a right angle at Q, find the value of c. [3]

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3 The curve C has parametric equations

x  2t  t 2 , y  (1  t ) 2 ,

where t   .

(a) Find the range of values of t for which C is decreasing. [3]

(b) Find the equation of the normal to the curve at t  2 . Determine if the normal
meets C again. [4]

4 A long cylindrical metal bar is submerged into iced water. A researcher claims that the
rate at which the length, l cm, of the bar is shrinking at any time t seconds is proportional
to the volume of the bar at that instant, assuming that the cross-sectional area of the bar
remains constant during the shrinking process.

Formulate and integrate a differential equation to show that l  Ae kt , where A and k are
constants. State the range of values of A and of k.
[5]

Given that the initial length of the bar is L, sketch a graph to show the relation between l
and t. Comment on the suitability of the claim by the researcher.
[3]

It is later found that l and t are related by the equation l  B  Le kt , where B is some
constant. Given that l = 0.5L when t = T, show that the length of the bar when t = 3T, is

given by B  
0.5L  B 
3

. [2]
L2

5 The functions f and g are defined by

f : x  2 x3  1, x  0,
g : x  ln( x  a ), xa.

(i) Give a reason why f -1 exists. Hence find f -1 ( x) and state the domain of f -1 . [3]

(ii) Only one of the composite functions fg and gf exists. State the greatest possible
value of a such that this composite function exists and using this value of a, give a
definition of this composite function. Write down the range of the composite
function. Explain why the other composite function does not exist. [5]

(iii) By sketching suitable graphs or otherwise, find the set of values of x such that
f -1f ( x)  ff -1 ( x) . [2]

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Section B: Statistics [60 marks]

6 Research has shown that 5 out of 8 students of a particular school make use of the
school’s e-learning portal. Three random samples of 40 students are chosen. Using a
suitable approximation, find the probability that more than 80 students make use of the
school’s e-learning portal. [3]

7 The sales of movie tickets sales are known to be high during the weekend, low during the
beginning of the week (i.e. Monday and Tuesday) and somewhat moderate at midweek. A
sample of 50 is to be chosen from 350 days of a year of movie ticket sales to estimate the
ticket sales per day.

Describe how the sample could be chosen using systematic random sampling. [2]

Describe any disadvantage of using systematic sampling and explain briefly whether it
would be more appropriate to use stratified sampling instead. [2]

8 A group of 10 students consisting of 6 males and 4 females are seated at a round table
with chairs of different colours for lunch. Find the number of arrangements such that all
the female students are seated together. [3]

After lunch, the same group of 10 students bought tickets to attend a concert. If the tickets
are for a particular row of 10 adjacent seats, find the number of possible seating
arrangement when

(i) the first and last seats are occupied by the same gender, [3]

(ii) four particular students did not turn up for the concert. [1]

9 The average daily sales at a small food store is estimated to be $452.80. The daily sales,
$x, over a period of 12 days is summarized by

 ( x  450)  622.8 and  ( x  450)2  78798 .

(i) Test, at 1% significance level, whether the food store has underestimated its
average daily sales. State an assumption you made about the data. [6]

(ii) Suppose in a test at 5% significance level, it is found that there is significant

evidence of an increase in average daily sales. Using only this information, and

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giving a reason, discuss whether there is significant evidence at 5% significance

level that the average daily sales has changed. [2]

10 (a) A student threw a fair die four times and recorded the number obtained for each
throw. Find the probability that

(i) at least two of the four numbers obtained are the same, [2]

(ii) exactly two of the four numbers obtained are the same given that the
number 6 appeared at least once. [4]

1 7 4
(b) Events A and B are such that P( B)  , P( A  B)  and P( B A)  . Find
2 20 7
the probability P( A) . [3]

11 An experiment was conducted to verify how the radiation intensity x from a radioactive
source varies with time t. The following data were obtained from a particular source.

x 1 4 6 8 9 10 12 15
t 15.3 6.9 4.4 2.7 2.1 1.7 1.0 0.49

(i) Plot a scatter diagram for the above data. [1]

(ii) Calculate the product moment correlation coefficient for the above data and
comment on it, in relation to your scatter diagram in (i). [2]

(iii) Calculate the equation of the least square regression line of x on t. Give a practical
interpretation of the coefficient of t. [2]

(iv) The variable y is defined by y = ln x. For the variables y and t, calculate the
product moment correlation coefficient and hence compare the suitability of this
logarithmic model and the linear model in (iii). [2]

(v) Use an appropriate regression line to give the best estimate that you can of the
time when x = 10. [2]

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12 The two most common types of disciplinary offences in a particular boy school is keeping
long hair and failure to wear the school badge. The mean number of disciplinary offences
recorded per day involving long hair is 1.12. Assuming that each school week consists of
five school days, the mean number of disciplinary offences recorded per school week
involving failure to wear the school badge is 4.2. The number of cases for each
disciplinary offence is assumed to have an independent Poisson distribution.

(i) Find the probability that at most 9 cases of disciplinary offence are recorded in a
given school week. [3]

(ii) In a school week in which there are more than 7 cases of disciplinary offence
involving long hair, find the probability that at most 9 cases of disciplinary
offence are recorded. [3]

(iii) Calculate the probability that on a Thursday in a particular school week, it is the
third day in the school week in which the discipline master caught at least 4
students having long hair in a day. (You may assume that Monday is the first day
of school for a school week.) [3]

(iv) Explain why the Poisson distribution may not be a good model for the number of
disciplinary cases involving long hair, in a school year. [1]

13 A farm in Kranji rears chickens and ducks for sale to the local market.

(a) The mass of a randomly chosen chicken has mean 2.5 kg and standard deviation
0.4 kg. If the probability that the mean mass of a large sample of n chickens is
greater than 2.45 kg exceeds 0.95, find the least value of n. [3]

(b) The variable X denotes the mass, in kg, of a randomly chosen duck which is
normally distributed with mean 2.7 and standard deviation  . The ducks are sold
at $4 per kg.

50
(i) Given that P( X  2.5)  P( X  2.9) , show that the value of  is
107
0.424, correct to 3 significant figures. [2]

(ii) A housewife brings $50 to the farm. Calculate the probability that she has
less than $27.50 after buying 2 ducks. [3]

(iii) A sample of 4 ducks is randomly chosen. Calculate the probability that the
most expensive duck costs less than $11. [2]

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2010 Year 6 Preliminary Examinations
Higher 2

MATHEMATICS 9740/02
Paper 2 15 September 2010

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