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PROVIDENCE CLUSTER MOCK EXAMINATION

2019 MSCE MOCK EXAMINATION

MATHEMATICS
Subject Number: M131/II

Friday, 5th April Time Allowed: 2 hours 30 mins

8:00 – 10:30am

PAPER II
(100 Marks)

Instructions
1. This paper contains 18 pages. Question Tick if Do not
number answered write in
Please check.
these
2. There are three sections in this columns
paper; A, B, and C. 1
2
3. Answer six questions in all (two
3
questions from each section). 4
Each question carries 20 marks. 5
4. The total mark for the paper is 6
120. 7

5. Write your answers in the spaces 8

9
provided.
10
6. In the table provided on this
11
page, tick against the number of
the question you have answered.

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SECTIONA (55 marks)

There are six questions in this section. Answer all the questions in the spaces provided.

1. a. Factorise completely 1 – (1 + 2y + y2)

(3marks)

8 2
b. Without using a calculator or four-figure tables, simplify ,
98  3 2

giving your answer in its simplest term.

(4marks)

2. a. Figure 1 shows a circle AYBX centre O. XY cuts AB at C such that

angle ACY = 90o.

Fig 1
A

X O C Y
8 9

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B
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If OC = 8cm and CY = 9cm, calculate the length of AB.

(5marks)

2. (Continued)

Tp n  k
b. Make p the subject of the formula Q 
k  pn

(4marks)

3. a. Figure 2 is a parabola in the form y  ax 2  bx  c where a, b and c are

constants.
y

-1 0 x
1 2

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3. (Continued)

b. (i) Find the equation of the parabola in the form y  ax 2  bx  c .

(5marks)

(ii) Find the equation of the line of symmetry.

(1mark)

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3. (Continued)

c. Factorise the expression b 2  5b , and hence express the following as a single

4 15 3
fraction in its simplest form  2  .
b  5 b  5b b

(3marks)

d. Given that f ( p) 
p2 1
and g ( p) 
 p 2  12 p  4 . If f(p) = g(p), find the
p 1 p2 1
value of p.

(3marks)

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4. a. Solve the simultaneous equations:

x  y 1
x 2  2 xy  y 2  4

(6marks)

b. The expression 2 x 3  ax 2  bx  6 is exactly divisible by x  1 and leaves a remainder

of 9 when divided by x  2 . Find the values of a and b.

(5marks)

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5. a. Figure 3 is a sketch of a parallelogram with vertices K(-2,-4), L(-5,-2), M(2,1)

and N(-5,-2).
L(-5, -2) M(2, 1)

K(-2, -4) N

Fig 3

Use the vector method to find the coordinates of N.

(4marks)

b. A point K(m, 5) has been translated to point K´(2m, m). Find the coordinates of
the translation vector T if m = -5.

(3marks)

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6. a. Given thatµ = {1,3,4,5,7,9,10,12,16,17,19,23,25,32,34,36,45,47}, set A and

B are subsets of µ such that A = {c: 3≤ c ≤ 32} and B = {d:d is a prime number}.
Find A´  B´.

(4marks)

6. (Continued)

b. Draw a circle centre O with radius 2.5cm. Construct another circle radius
3.5cmpassing through point O. Label its centre C. Label one of the intersection
points of the two circles B. Construct a tangent to the circle centre O at point B and
produce it to meet the circle centre C at M. Measure and state the value of angle
BMC.

(5marks)

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SECTION B (45 marks)

There are five questions in this section. Answer any three questions in the spaces provided.

7. a. Given that the graphs of - 3a  1x  8  y and 3 y  x  12 are parallel. Find the
value of a.

(5marks)

b. James is seen running at t = 0 seconds at a speed of 9 m/s. She then underwent a

deceleration of 1.5 m/s for 2 seconds because of a slippery path. She maintains this
new speed for the next 8 seconds after which she accelerates for 3 seconds to a
speed of 10 m/s.
(i) Use a scale of 1 cm to represent 1 unit on both axes to draw the speed-time
graph of James’ motion on the graph paper provided. (6marks)

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7. b. (Continued)

(ii) Calculate the acceleration James underwent in the last 3 seconds.

(4marks)

8. a. Angella wants to buy x metres of low quality cloth at K300 per metre and y
metres of high quality cloth at K600 per metre. She decided to:

- buy at most a total of 1500 metres of cloth

- spend at least a total sum of K120 000

(i) Write down two inequalities in x and y in addition to x ≥ 0 and y ≥ 0.

(ii) Using a scale of 2 cm to represent 300 units on both axes, draw on the graph
paper provided, the region which represents the four inequalities.

(iii) Angella will make a profit of K10 per metre on cheaper cloth and K30 per
metre on expensive cloth. How many metres of cloth of each type must she
buy to get the maximum profit?

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8. (Continued)

(10marks)

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8. (Continued)

b. iven table 1 are marks of two students X and Y.

Student X 81 63 72 75 59
Student Y 55 71 m 90 67

Table 1

Given that their mean marks are equal, calculate the missing mark m of the
student Y.

(5marks)

9. a. Solve the equation 2(32 x )  8(3 x )  6  0

(6marks)

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9. (Continued)

b. In figure 4, ABDC and CDHK are horizontal and vertical rectangles

respectively. Angle CAK = 340 and angle CBK = 480.

H K

D C
o
o
y cm 48
34 xcm
A
B

Fig 4

If BC = x cm and AC = y cm, express CK in terms of:

(i) x

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(ii) y

(iii) calculate the value of angle CAB

(9marks)

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10. a. A bag contains 4 black, 3 red and 5 white marbles. Two marbles are drawn from
the bag without replacement.
(i) Draw a tree diagram to show the probabilities.

(ii) Find the probability that they are both of the same colour.

(ii) they are of different colour.

(9marks)

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10. (Continued)

b. In figure 5, triangles DEF and DRS are similar, RS = 2cm, EF = 3cm and area of
the triangle DEF = 10 cm2.
D

R S
2cm

E F
3cm

Fig 5

If area of triangle DRS = y cm2, calculate the value of y.

(6 marks)

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11. a. Table 2 shows some of the values for equation y  x 3  2 x 2  5x  6 .

(i) Complete the table.

x -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4
y -24 0 8 0 0 18
(2marks)

(ii) Using a scale of 2cm to represent 1 unit on the x - axis and 2 cm to

represent 5 units on the y-axis, draw the graph of y  x 3  2 x 2  5x  6 .

(8marks)

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7n  3n 2
b. The sum of n terms of an Arithmetic progression is . Find the common
2
difference.

END OF QUESTION PAPER

NB: This paper contains 18 printed pages.

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