IB DP Maths 2 hours 12 questions

Practice Paper 1

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1 Prove that the square of an odd number is always odd.

(4 marks)

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2 (a) Show that the equation 2 sin2 x + 3 cos x = 0 can be written in the form
a cos2 x + b cos x + c = 0 , where a , b and c are integers to be found.

(2 marks)

(b) Hence, or otherwise, solve the equation 2 sin2 x + 3 cos x = 0 for

−180 ° ≤ x ≤ 180 °.

(3 marks)

3 In the expansion of (x + h ) 5, where h ∈ ℝ , the coefficient of the term in x 3 is 320.

Find the possible values of h .

(5 marks)

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4 (a) The diagram below shows part of the graph of y = f (x ) , where f (x ) is the function
defined by

f (x ) = (x 2 — 1) In(x + 3) , x > — 3

Points A , B and C are the three places where the graph intercepts the x -axis.

Find f' (x ) .

(4 marks)

(b) Show that the coordinates of point A are (-2, 0).

(2 marks)

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(c) Find the equation of the tangent to the curve at point A .

(3 marks)

5 The points A, B, C and D form the vertices of a parallelogram with position vectors
abc d
, , and respectively.

Show that the area of the parallelogram is a b b d d a

 × + × + ×  .
 

(4 marks)

6 The following triangle shows triangle ABC, with AB = 3a , BC = a and AC = 7.

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Given that cos ABC = , find the area of the triangle. Give your answer in the form
2
p 3
where p ,q ∈ℝ .
r

(7 marks)

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7 (a) α and β are non-real roots of the equation x 2 + 3kx + 2k + 1 = 0 , where k > 0 is a
constant.

Find α + β and αβ , in terms of k .

(2 marks)

(b) Given that α 2 + β 2 = 3 , show that (α + β ) 2 = 4k + 5 .

(2 marks)

Hence find the value of k .

(c) (3 marks)

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8 (a) Two lines, l and l 2 , are parallel and their vector equations are given below:
1

⎛⎜ 2 ⎞⎟ ⎛⎜ 4 ⎞⎟
⎜⎜ ⎟⎟ ⎜ ⎟⎟
l 1: r 1 = ⎜⎜⎜ 1 ⎟⎟⎟ + λ ⎜⎜⎜⎜ −2 ⎟⎟
⎟⎟
⎝ 10 ⎠ ⎝ 2
⎜ ⎟ ⎜
⎠

⎛⎜ −3 ⎞⎟ ⎛⎜ −2 ⎞⎟
⎜ ⎟⎟ ⎜ ⎟⎟
l 2: r 2 = ⎜⎜⎜⎜ −1 ⎟⎟ + μ ⎜⎜⎜ p ⎟⎟
⎟⎟ ⎜⎜ ⎟⎟
⎝ 0 ⎝ q
⎜
⎠ ⎠

(i) State the values of p and q .

(ii) Show that l and l are not collinear.

1 2

(4 marks)

Find the minimum distance between l and l .

1 2

(b) (5 marks)

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 sin x cos x
9 Use the substitution u = cos x to find ∫ cos2x + 3cos x − 4
dx .

(7 marks)

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10 (a) Consider the function f defined byf (x ) = 3 sin x − 3 , for 0 ≤ x ≤ 3π
The following diagram shows the graph of y = f (x )

The graph of f touches the x-axis at point A as shown. Point B is a local minimum of f .

The shaded region is the area between the graph of y = f (x ) and the x -axis, between
the
points A and B.

Find the x -coordinates of A and B.

(4 marks)

(b) Show that the area of the shaded region is 3 π units2 .

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 (5 marks)

(c) The right cone in the diagram below has a curved surface area of twice the shaded area
in
the previous part of the question.
The cone has a slant height of 3 , base radius r , and height h .

Find the value of r .

(2 marks)

(d) Hence find the volume of the cone.

(4 marks)

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11 (a) A particle is moving in a vertical line and its acceleration, in ms −2 , at time t seconds,
1−v
t ≥ 0 is given by a = − , where v is the velocity in meters per second and v < 1 .
2

The particle starts at a fixed origin O with initial velocity v

o
ms−1 .

By solving a suitable differential equation, show that the particle’s velocity at time t is
t
−
given by v (t ) = 1 − e 2
(1 − v o ) .

(6 marks)

(b) The particle moves down in the negative direction, until its displacement relative to the
origin reaches a minimum. Then the particle changes direction and starts moving up, in a
positive direction.

(i) If the initial velocity of the particle is −3 ms −1 , find the time at which the
minimum displacement of the particle from the origin occurs, giving your
answer in exact form.

(ii) If T is the time in seconds when the displacement reaches its smallest value,
show that T = 2 ln(1 − v o ) .

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 (4 marks)

(c) (i) Find a general expression for the displacement, in terms of t and v .
o
(ii) Combine this general expression with the result from part (b)(ii) to find an
expression for the minimum displacement of the particle in terms of v .
o

(5 marks)

(d) Let v (T − k ) represent the particle’s velocity k seconds before the minimum
displacement and v (T + k ) the particle’s velocity k seconds after the minimum
displacement.

k
(i) Show that v (T − k ) = 1 − e . 2

k
−
(ii) Given that v (T + k ) = 1 − e 2, show that v (T − k ) + v (T + k ) ≥ 0 .

(5 marks)

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12 (a) The diagram below shows the graph of f (x ) = arctan(x ) , x ∈ℝ. The graph has
rotational symmetry of order 2 about the origin.

A different function, g, is described by g (x ) = − arctan(x − 1) , x ∈ℝ.

(i) Describe the sequence of transformations that transforms f (x ) to g (x ) .

(ii) Sketch the graph of g (x ) on the axes above.
(iii) Using your answers to parts (i) and (ii) to help you, describe the relationship

∫0 arctan(x ) dx and ∫0
1 1
between − arctan(x − 1) dx . .

(5 marks)

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 (i) ⎛ p − q ⎞⎟
(b) Prove that arctan p − arctan q = arctan ⎜⎜ ⎟.
⎝ 1 + pq ⎠
⎛ 1 ⎞⎟
(ii) Show that arctan ⎜⎜ 2 ⎟ can be written as arctan(x ) − arctan(x − 1) .
⎝ x −x +1 ⎠

(6 marks)

1
∫0 arctan ⎛⎜⎜⎝ x 2 − x + 1 ⎞⎟⎟⎠ dx , leaving your
1
(c) Using the results from parts (a) and (b), evaluate

answer in exact form.

(7 marks)

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