2014-DSE

MATH CP
PAPER 1
LONGMAN MATHEMATICS SERIES
Candidate Number
HONG KONG DIPLOMA OF SECONDARY EDUCATION EXAMINATION 2014
Class
MOCK PAPER
Class Number
MATHEMATICS Compulsory Part
PAPER 1
Question-Answer book

Time allowed : 2 hours 15 minutes

This paper must be answered in English

INSTRUCTIONS

1. After the announcement of the start of the

examination, you should first write your Candidate
Number, Class and Class Number in the spaces
provided.

2. This paper consists of THREE sections, A(1), A(2)

and B.

3. Do not write in the margins. Answers written in the

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4. Unless otherwise specified, all working must be

clearly shown.

5. Unless otherwise specified, numerical answers should

be either exact or correct to 3 significant figures.

6. The diagrams in this paper are not necessarily drawn

to scale.

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 SECTION A(1) (35 marks)
( x 2 y 3 ) 3
1. Simplify and express your answer with positive indices. (3 marks)
( x3 y)2
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y  2x
2. Make x the subject of the formula 1  3y . (3 marks)
2

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 3. Factorize
(a) 6p2 + 7pq – 3q2,
(b) 6p2 + 7pq – 3q2 – 6p – 9q.
(3 marks)
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4. The marked price of a watch is $8400. It is known that the marked price of the watch
is 40% above the cost.
(a) Find the cost of the watch.
(b) Gloria claims that there will be no loss or gain if the watch is sold at a discount
of 40%. Do you agree? Explain your answer.
(4 marks)

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 5. The price of a can of green tea is $5 and the price of a can of lemon tea is $6. David
used $93 to buy a total of 17 cans of green tea and lemon tea. Find the number of cans
of green tea David bought. (4 marks)
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6. (a) Solve the following inequalities:
3x 1 x
  or 3x + 15 > 0
7 3 2
(b) Write down the smallest positive integer satisfying the inequalities
3x 1 x
  or 3x + 15 > 0.
7 3 2
(4 marks)

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 7. The following table shows the distribution of the number of app(s) bought by a group
of customers from the Internet in a certain month.

Number of app(s) 1 2 3 4 5
Number of customers 4 18 10 6 2

(a) Find the median and the inter-quartile range of the above distribution.
(b) Suppose the number of apps bought by one of the customers is wrongly recorded
and the number of apps he actually bought is 8. What is the maximum possible
value of the inter-quartile range?
(4 marks)
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 8.

Figure 1


Figure 1 shows a semi-circle ABCD, where AD is the diameter. It is given that

AB  BC . If BDC = 32, find BCD. (5 marks)

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 9. In a polar coordinate system, the polar coordinates of the points A, B and C are
(56, 75), (33, 165) and (42, 345) respectively.
(a) Find the area of △ABC.
(b) Is BAC a right angle? Explain your answer.
(5 marks)
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 SECTION A(2) (35 marks)

10. In a company, the profit of selling magazines is $P. It is given that P is the sum of
two parts, first part varies directly as the number of magazines printed n and the other
part varies directly as the square of n. When n = 3000, P = 11 325 and when n = 6000,
P = 45 150.
(a) Find the profit when 5500 magazines are printed. (4 marks)
(b) If the profit is $64 980, find the number of magazines printed. (2 marks)
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 11. The following stem-and-leaf diagram shows the best records (in seconds) of
eight athletes of an athletic team in a 100 m race training.

Stem (units) Leaf (tenth)

11 2 3 5 5 6
12 2 5 6

(a) Find the mean and the range of the records. (2 marks)
(b) After the training, two athletes whose best records in the 100 m race are the
slowest leave the team. Three new athletes are recruited to join the team and
their best records in a 100 m race are taken. The coach of the team finds that the
mean of the best records of all the nine athletes in the team in the 100 m race is
the same as the mean found in (a). Assume that the best records of the original
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six athletes remain unchanged and that all the times recorded are correct to
1 decimal place.
(i) Find the mean of the best records of the three new athletes.
(ii) If the range of the best records of all the nine athletes in the team in the
100 m race is also the same as the range found in (a), suggest two sets of
possible best records of the three new athletes.
(4 marks)

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 12. Let f(x) = x3  6x2 + 14x + k, where k is a constant. It is given that the remainder is
45 when f(x) is divided by x + 1.
(a) Find the quotient when f(x) is divided by x – 4. (3 marks)
(b) Figure 2 shows two rectangles. David claims that there are more than one value
of x such that the area of the shaded region is 28 cm2. Do you agree? Explain
your answer.

Figure 2 (4 marks)
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 13.

Figure 3(a) Figure 3(b)

(a) Figure 3(a) shows a container of height 8 cm which is in the shape of a frustum.
The container is made by cutting off a right circular cone with a base
circumference of 24 cm from a hollow circular cone with a base circumference
of 36 cm. The container is fully filled with water. Find the volume of the water
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in the container in terms of .
(3 marks)
(b) A solid sphere is placed inside the container as shown in Figure 3(b). It is known
that the radius of the sphere is equal to the height of the container.
(i) Find the volume of the sphere.
(ii) Alvin claims that the ratio of the volume of the water remaining in the
container to the volume of the water which flowed out is greater than 2 : 1.
Do you agree? Explain your answer.
(4 marks)

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 14. H(2, 0) is a fixed point on the rectangular coordinate plane. P is a moving point on the
same coordinate plane such that it always maintains a fixed distance 5 units from H.
Denote the locus of P by .
(a) (i) Describe the geometric relationship between  and H.
(ii) Find the equation of .
(3 marks)
(b)  cuts the x-axis at A(a, 0) and B(b, 0), where a < b, and cuts the positive y-axis
at C. A straight line L1 passes through A and C, while another straight line L2
passes through B and C.
(i) Gerald claims that L1 is perpendicular to L2. Do you agree? Explain your
answer.
(ii) A straight line L3 passes through the origin O and intersects L2 at D such
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that OD  BC. Find the ratio of the area of △OBD to the area of
quadrilateral OACD.
(6 marks)

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 Section B (35 marks)

15. The mean and the variance of the scores obtained by a group of students in a quiz are
 and v respectively. Two of the students, Salina and Amy, got 50 and 36 in the quiz
respectively and their standard scores are 2 and –1.5 respectively.
(a) Find  and v. (2 marks)
(b) As the overall result is not satisfactory, the teacher adjusts the score of each of
the students such that the mean of the scores is 50. Suggest a method to the
teacher and describe the change of the variance of scores due to the adjustment.
(2 marks)
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 16. There are 10 students in a group. 5 students are randomly selected to form a
committee. The committee consists of 1 chairman, 1 vice-chairman and 3 committee
members.
(a) How many different committees can be formed? (2 marks)
(b) If David is a student in the group, find the probability that he is one of the
committee members. (2 marks)
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 17. Let f(x) = ax2 + x + b, where a and b are real numbers. It is given that the roots of
1 3 1 3
f(x) = 0 are  i and  i.
2 2 2 2
(a) Find a and b. (3 marks)
(b) The graph of y = g(x) is obtained by translating the graph of y = f(x) leftwards by
2 units and upwards by 2 units. Edmond claims that the vertex of the graph of
y = g(x) lies in quadrant I of the rectangular coordinate plane. Do you agree?
Explain your answer. (4 marks)
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 18. Figure 4(a) shows a piece of triangular paper card ABC with AB = 15 cm and
BC = AC = 10 cm. Let M be the mid-point of AB. The triangular paper card is then
folded along CM such that AC and BC lie on the horizontal ground as shown in
Figure 4(b). It is given that AMB = 90 in Figure 4(b).

Figure 4(a) Figure 4(b)

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(a) Find the area of △ABC on the horizontal ground. (3 marks)
(b) By considering the volume of the tetrahedron MABC, find the shortest distance
from M to the horizontal ground. (2 marks)
(c) Is the angle between the plane AMB and the horizontal ground greater than the
angle between the plane BMC and the horizontal ground? Explain your answer.
(3 marks)

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 19. In January 2014, Potato Game Shop starts selling TV game A and the profit of selling
TV game A is $90 000 in that month. It is found that the profit of selling TV game A
decreases by r% each month and that the profit of selling TV game A in March 2014
is $59 049.
(a) (i) Find r.
(ii) Find the total profit of selling TV game A in 2014.
(4 marks)
(b) Potato Game Shop starts selling TV game B in June 2014. The profit of selling
TV game B decreases by 10% each month. It is given that the profit of selling
TV game B is $70 000 in June 2014.
(i) Will the total profit of selling TV game B exceed $500 000? Explain your
answer.
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(ii) The manager of Potato Game Shop claims that the profit of selling TV
game A exceeds that of TV game B in September 2014. Do you agree?
Explain your answer.
(iii) The shop plans to launch a new promotion package when the total profit of
selling TV game A and TV game B since January 2014 exceeds
$1 000 000. In which month will the new promotion package be launched?
(8 marks)

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