ST JOSEPH’S COLLEGE

S6 Mathematics Extended Part

Module 1(Calculus and Statistics)
Mock Examination
Question-Answer Book

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Name: _______________________

Class: 6D ( )

Date: 10th March, 2022

Time: 0815-1045
(2 hours and 30 minutes)

This paper must be answered in English

INSTRUCTIONS

1. This paper consists of Section A and Section B.

2. Answer ALL questions in Section A and B. Write your answers in the spaces provided in this
Question-Answer Book. Do not write in the margins. Answers written in the margins will not be
marked.

3. There are 20 pages. The words End of Paper can be found in page 19. You can use page 19 as the
supplementary answer sheet. Extra graph paper and supplementary answer sheets will be supplied on
request. Write your name on each sheet, and fasten them with string INSIDE the book.

4. Unless otherwise specified, all working must be clearly shown.

5. Unless otherwise specified, numerical answers must be either exact or correct to 4 decimal places.

6. The diagrams in this paper are not necessarily drawn to scale.

7. No extra time will be given to candidates for writing down their name after the ‘Time is up’
announcement.

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Section A: (50 marks)
1. A and B are two events. Suppose that P(A) = 0.6, P(B) = 0.55 and P(A | B) = 0.4, where A and B are
the complementary events of A and B respectively.
(a) Find P(A  B).
(b) Are A and B independent? Explain your answer.
(c) Let C be an event such that P(C) = 0.25 and P(B  C) = 0.65. Are B and C mutually exclusive?
Explain your answer.
(6 marks)

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2. Let X be a discrete random variable with probability distribution as shown in the following table.
x 2 a 5 8 10
P(X = x) 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3
It is given that Var(2X + 1) = 36.16 and a is a positive integer. (6 marks)
(a) Find Var(X).
(b) Find the value of a.
(c) Find E(3 − 𝑋 ).

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3. On each day, the probability that David goes to restaurant A for breakfast is 0.45. If David goes to
restaurant A for breakfast on a certain day, then the probability that he spends more than $40 for
breakfast on that day is 0.8. Let 𝐵 be the event David goes to restaurant for breakfast and 𝑆 be the
event he spends more than $40 for breakfast.

(a) Find the probability that David goes to restaurant A for breakfast at least twice in a certain
week.

(b) Find the probability that David spends more than $40 in restaurant A for breakfast at least twice
in a certain week.

(c) Given that David goes to restaurant A for breakfast at least twice in a certain week, find the
probability that he spends more than $40 in restaurant A for breakfast at least twice in that
week. (6 marks)

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4. In a random sample of 80 bus drivers, it is found that 33 of them are wearing glasses.
(a) Find a 95% confidence interval for the actual proportion of bus drivers who are wearing glasses.
(b) What is the minimum sample size required if the maximum error of the estimated proportion is
less than 0.02? (7 marks)

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5. a) Let 𝑎 be a constant. Expand 𝑒 in ascending powers of 𝑥 as far as the term in 𝑥 .
( )
b) If the coefficient of 𝑥 in the expansion of is −1, find the value(s) of 𝑎. (6 marks)

ex
6. Let y = 3
, where x  2.
x  3x  6

dy
(a) Find .
dx

(b) Can the value of y be less than 0.8? Explain your answer.

(6 marks)

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7. Let 𝑓(𝑥) be a function such that 𝑓 (𝑥) = , where 𝑘 is a constant.
The straight line 32𝑥 − 35𝑦 + 73 = 0 touches the curve 𝑦 = 𝑓(𝑥) at the point 𝐴. It is given that
the 𝑥 −coordinate of 𝐴 is 1. Find
(a) 𝑘 ,
(b) 𝑓(𝑥) (7 marks)

8. Define 𝑓(𝑥) = for all real numbers x.

√
(a) Prove that f (x) is increasing.
(b) Find lim f ( x) .
x

(c) Find the area of the region bounded by the graph of y = f (x), the x-axis and the y-axis.

(6 marks)

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Section B: (50 marks)
9. The weights (in g) of eggs produced by a farm follow a normal distribution with a mean of  g and
a standard deviation of 5 g.

(a) A random sample of 10 eggs produced by the farm is selected and their weights (in g) are
recorded as follows:

61.9 57.8 66.3 64.1 65.2 67.9 60.7 64.2 59.3 62.6

(i) Find the sample mean.

(ii) Find a 90% confidence interval for .

(4 marks)

(b) The owner of the farm plans to select another random sample of k eggs from the farm such that
the probability that the mean weight of the k eggs differs by less than 1 g from  g is greater
than 0.7540. Find the minimum value of k. (3 marks)

(c) Suppose that  = 63.2. 10 eggs are randomly selected one by one from the farm to put into a
packet, and their weights are recorded. If there are at least 9 eggs weighing greater than 65.2 g
in the packet, the packet of eggs is said to be premium.

(i) Find the probability that at least 5 out of the first 6 eggs selected weigh greater than 65.2g

(ii) Given that in the packet, at least 5 out of the first 6 eggs selected weigh greater than 65.2
g, find the probability that the packet of eggs is premium.

(5 marks)

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10. In a jewellery shop, the number of lucky draw chances obtained by a customer follows a Poisson
distribution with a mean of 2. The probability distribution of the discount offered in each lucky draw
chance is shown in the following table:

Discount $0 $50 $100

Probability 0.5 0.3 0.2

For customers who cannot obtain any lucky draw chances, they do not enjoy any discounts.

(a) Find the probability that a customer obtains 2 lucky draw chances and enjoys a total discount of
exactly $200. (2 marks)

(b) If a customer obtains 3 lucky draw chances, find the probability that the customer enjoys a total
discount of exactly $200. (2 marks)

(c) Given that a customer obtains at most 4 lucky draw chances, find the probability that the
customer enjoys a total discount of exactly $200. (3 marks)

(d) Show that the probability that a customer does not enjoy any discounts is . (3 marks)

(e) Given that a customer does not enjoy any discounts, find the probability that the customer
obtains at least 3 lucky draw chances. (3 marks)

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11. The rate of change of the amount of alloys (in tonnes/month) produced by a new factory is given by

f(t) = (t + 1) ln (t + 2),

where t ( 0) is the number of months elapsed since the factory starts to operate. It is given that
A tonnes of alloys have been produced by the factory from t = 1 to t = 11. Let A1 be the estimate of A
by using the trapezoidal rule with 5 sub-intervals.

(a) (i) Find A1.

d2
(ii) Find [ f (t )] .
dt 2
(5 marks)

(b) In order to estimate A, Ricky models the rate of change of the amount of alloys (in
tonnes/month) produced by the factory by
(2t  3)[ln (t 2  3t  5)]3
g(t) = ,
t 2  3t  5

where t ( 0) is the number of months elapsed since the factory starts to operate. Let A2 tonnes
be the total amount of alloys produced by the factory from t = 1 to t = 11 using this model.

(i) Find A2.

(ii) Ricky claims that the percentage error of his estimation of A is less than 4.5%. Do you
agree? Explain your answer.

(7 marks)

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12. In a study, the population P (in million) of a city can be modelled by
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P= ,
1  a 5bt
where a and b are constants and t ( 0) is the number of years elapsed since the start of the study.

5 
(a) Express ln 1 as a linear function of t. (2 marks)
 P 

(b) It is given that the intercepts on the vertical axis and the horizontal axis of the graph of the linear
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function obtained in (a) are ln 32 and respectively.
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(i) Find a and b.

dP d 2P
(ii) Find and .
dt dt 2
(iii) Estimate the population of the city after a very long time.
(7 marks)
P
3
(c) The study models the weight (W units) of waste disposal of the city by W =   . Flora
2
claims that the rate of change of the weight of waste disposal exceeds 3.8 units per year when
dP
attains its greatest value. Is the claim correct? Explain your answer. (4 marks)
dt

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 Area under the Standard Normal Curve
An entry in the table is the proportion of the area under the entire curve which is between z = 0 and a positive value of z. Areas
for negative values of z are obtained by symmetry.

x2
z 1 
A( z )  0 e 2
dx
2
z .00 .01 .02 .03 .04 .05 .06 .07 .08 .09

0.0 .0000 .0040 .0080 .0120 .0160 .0199 .0239 .0279 .0319 .0359
0.1 .0398 .0438 .0478 .0517 .0557 .0596 .0636 .0675 .0714 .0753
0.2 .0793 .0832 .0871 .0910 .0948 .0987 .1026 .1064 .1103 .1141
0.3 .1179 .1217 .1255 .1293 .1331 .1368 .1406 .1443 .1480 .1517
0.4 .1554 .1591 .1628 .1664 .1700 .1736 .1772 .1808 .1844 .1879

0.5 .1915 .1950 .1985 .2019 .2054 .2088 .2123 .2157 .2190 .2224
0.6 .2257 .2291 .2324 .2357 .2389 .2422 .2454 .2486 .2517 .2549
0.7 .2580 .2611 .2642 .2673 .2704 .2734 .2764 .2794 .2823 .2852
0.8 .2881 .2910 .2939 .2967 .2995 .3023 .3051 .3078 .3106 .3133
0.9 .3159 .3186 .3212 .3238 .3264 .3289 .3315 .3340 .3365 .3389

1.0 .3413 .3438 .3461 .3485 .3508 .3531 .3554 .3577 .3599 .3621
1.1 .3643 .3665 .3686 .3708 .3729 .3749 .3770 .3790 .3810 .3830
1.2 .3849 .3869 .3888 .3907 .3925 .3944 .3962 .3980 .3997 .4015
1.3 .4032 .4049 .4066 .4082 .4099 .4115 .4131 .4147 .4162 .4177
1.4 .4192 .4207 .4222 .4236 .4251 .4265 .4279 .4292 .4306 .4319

1.5 .4332 .4345 .4357 .4370 .4382 .4394 .4406 .4418 .4429 .4441
1.6 .4452 .4463 .4474 .4484 .4495 .4505 .4515 .4525 .4535 .4545
1.7 .4554 .4564 .4573 .4582 .4591 .4599 .4608 .4616 .4625 .4633
1.8 .4641 .4649 .4656 .4664 .4671 .4678 .4686 .4693 .4699 .4706
1.9 .4713 .4719 .4726 .4732 .4738 .4744 .4750 .4756 .4761 .4767

2.0 .4772 .4778 .4783 .4788 .4793 .4798 .4803 .4808 .4812 .4817
2.1 .4821 .4826 .4830 .4834 .4838 .4842 .4846 .4850 .4854 .4857
2.2 .4861 .4864 .4868 .4871 .4875 .4878 .4881 .4884 .4887 .4890
2.3 .4893 .4896 .4898 .4901 .4904 .4906 .4909 .4911 .4913 .4916
2.4 .4918 .4920 .4922 .4925 .4927 .4929 .4931 .4932 .4934 .4936

2.5 .4938 .4940 .4941 .4943 .4945 .4946 .4948 .4949 .4951 .4952
2.6 .4953 .4955 .4956 .4957 .4959 .4960 .4961 .4962 .4963 .4964
2.7 .4965 .4966 .4967 .4968 .4969 .4970 .4971 .4972 .4973 .4974
2.8 .4974 .4975 .4976 .4977 .4977 .4978 .4979 .4979 .4980 .4981
2.9 .4981 .4982 .4982 .4983 .4984 .4984 .4985 .4985 .4986 .4986

3.0 .4987 .4987 .4987 .4988 .4988 .4989 .4989 .4989 .4990 .4990
3.1 .4990 .4991 .4991 .4991 .4992 .4992 .4992 .4992 .4993 .4993
3.2 .4993 .4993 .4994 .4994 .4994 .4994 .4994 .4995 .4995 .4995
3.3 .4995 .4995 .4995 .4996 .4996 .4996 .4996 .4996 .4996 .4997
3.4 .4997 .4997 .4997 .4997 .4997 .4997 .4997 .4997 .4997 .4998

3.5 .4998 .4998 .4998 .4998 .4998 .4998 .4998 .4998 .4998 .4998

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