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SECTION A(1) [35 marks] 1. Lety ocx. When.x=4, y= 6, Find the value of y when x= 16. B marks) In te figure, G(r , 0) is the centre of the circle. It is given that the circle passes through the origin and its circumference is 227. (a) Find the value of r. (b)_ Find the equation of the circle in the standard form. (3 marks) In the figure, A(0 , 1) and B(4 , 0) are two points in a rectangular coordinate plane. A moving point P(x , y) ‘maintains an equal distance from A and B, Find the equation of the locus of P. ( marks) 15cm ad ic In the figure, A = 55°, B= 98° and BC = 15 em. Find the perimeter of ABC. (Give the answer correct to 3 significant figures.) (4 marks) 5. In the figure, AB= 6.5 em, BC=9 om and ZABC= 50°. (4 marks) (@) Find the length of AC. (b) Find the smallest angle of AABC. (Give the answers correct to 3 significant figures.) cc 65em am —— 6. Find the mean and the standard deviation of each of the following sets of data. @ -1,0,1,2,4,5,5,8, 12 (b) 2.2.cm, 2.7 om, 3.5 cm, 3.9 em, 4.2 em, 5.3 em, 6.5 em, 6.8 em, 8.1 em (Give the answers correct to 3 significant figures if necessary:) (4 marks) 7. The following shows the heights (in em) of 10 young trees. 54.3, 78.6, 83.1, 87.5, 92.7, 93.2, 94.0, 95.8, 97.7, 98.9 (a) Find the range of the heights of the young trees. (b) Find the inter-quartile range of the heights of the young trees. (4 marks) 8. Suppose z varies inversely as (x — 2y). When x = 5 and y= 1, 7= 15. (@)_ Express z in terms of x and y. (b}. Find the value of y when x and (5 marks) a In the figure, G(7 , -1) is the centre of a circle. P(10 , -3) is the mid-point of chord AB and AB = 8. (@) Find the length of GP. Leave the radical sign ‘/”” in the answer. (b) Find the equation of the circle in the standard form. (5 marks) SECTION A(2) [35 marks] 10, According to statistics, the expenses of 5 000 customers in a supermarket are normally distributed with ‘mean $115 and standard deviation $21. (@)_ Find the percentage of customers whose expenses are higher than $157. (b)_ Find the number of customers whose expenses are between $73 and $136, (Assume that in a normal distribution, 68%, 95% and 99.7% of the data lie within one, two and three standard deviations respectively from the mean.) (5 marks) Score ‘The box-and-whisker diagram shows the scores of S1A students in the first English dictation. The range and the inter-quartile range of the scores are 52 and 32 respectively. (a) Find the values of a and b. (b) After a memory training, the students take the second English dictation. The passing score of the second English dictation is 50 and all the students pass the dictation. The teacher claims that at least 25% of the students show improvement in the scores. Do you agree? Explain your answer, (6 marks) 12, It is given that A is a function of B, where 2 < B < 20. A is the sum of two parts. One part varies directly as B and the other part varies directly as the square of B. When B = 5, A = 10 and when B=3,A=12. (a) Express 4 in terms of B, (6) When A > 6, find the range of values of B. (7 marks) 10 13. A(-I1 , 5) and BG , 7) are two points in a rectangular coordinate plane. A point P(x , y) moves such that AP" + BP* = AB’, Denote the locus of P by I (a) Find the equation of (b) Straight line Z is the perpendicular bisector of the line segment AB. (Find the equation of L. (ii) Let be a point on I L and [intersect at two points R and S, Find the greatest possible area of AFRS. (8 marks) n 14. we NS Tm x In the figure, X, Yand Z are three cities. Jack can go ¥ from X by two methods. Method 1: He cycles at an average speed of 12 km/h in the direction N25°W for 50 minutes. Method 2: He takes a bus which travels from X'to Z in a straight line and then travels from Zto Yin a straight line, ‘The bearing of Z from X is N68°E, Xand Z are 12 km apart. (@) Find the distance between ¥ and Z. (©) IfJack chooses method 2 and the required time of method 2 is the same as that of method 1, find the average speed of the bus. (© Find the bearing of Z from ¥. (Give the answers correct to 3 significant figures.) ( marks) SECTION B = [35 marks] 15. The table shows the means and the standard deviations of the scores in a Mathematics test and a History test Mean | Standard deviation Mathematics test | © o History test a 8 The score of Joe in the Mathematics test is 78. (a) Find the standard score of Joe in the Mathematics test. (b) Itis known that Joe performs better in the Mathematics test and his score in the History test is an integer. Find the highest possible score of Joe in the History test. (4 marks) 16, There are 6 multiple-choice questions in a Mathematics test. The table below shows the distribution of the numbers of questions that 30 students answered correctly in the test. Number of questions | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4] 5 | 6 Number of students | 8 | a | 13 | 6 | 5 | ¢ Itis given that the range and the inter-quartile range of the numbers of questions that 30 students answered correctly are 4 and 3 respectively. (a) Find the value of c. (b) Find the possible values of a and b. (6 marks) 17. The cost ($C) of making a model can be divided into two parts. One part is a constant and the other part varies directly as the volume (v em’) of the model, The cost of making a model of volume 12 em’ is $80, and the cost of making a model of volume 15 em’ is $98, (a) Find the cost of making a model of volume 32 em’. (b) There is a larger model which is similar to the model described in (a). Ifthe total surface area of the larger model is 4 times that of the model described in (a), find the cost of making the larger model. (6 marks) 18. Figure 4(a) shows a piece of paper card ABCD in the form of a quadrilateral, where both ZABC and ZADC are obtuse angles. The area of the paper card is 283 cm’, It is given that AB = AD =8 em and CB=CD=7om, D B Figure 4(a) (@) Find the length of AC. GB marks) (b) The paper card in Figure 4(a) is folded along AC such that 4B and AD lie on the horizontal ground as shown in Figure 4(b). Itis given that the angle between the planes ABC and ACD is 80. a Figure 4(b) (Find the distance between B and D on the horizontal ground. Gi) Let xbe the angle between BC and the plane ACD, and be the angle between BD and the plane ACD, Which one of a and fis smaller? Explain your answer. (5 marks) 19. The circle Ci: x7 +)? + px + qy + 4p =0 passes through A(4 , 0) and B(8 , 4), where p and q are constants. Lys the perpendicular bisector of the line segment joining A and B. (a) Find the values of p and . (b)_ Find the equation of Z, (©) Itis given that a(-4 : *) is the circumcentre of AABD, where the coordinates of D are (1, 18). (i) Does D lie inside C;? Explain your answer. ii) Using the result of (b), find the value of &. (iii) Let C; be the circumcircle of A4BD. Find the equation of C> in the standard form. (12 marks) 18 19 END OF PAPER, 20

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