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Half-Yearly Examination, 2011 – 2012

Class
Class Number

MATHEMATICS 3 significant figures.

6. The diagrams in this paper are not

necessarily drawn to scale.

PAPER 1

Question-Answer Book
Teacher’s Use Only

Secondary 2 Date: 12– 1 – 2012 Question No. Max. Marks Marks

Time: 8:30 am – 9:45 am
Section A: Short Questions

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1. Write your class, class number in the spaces 5 8

provided on this cover.
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2. This paper consists of TWO sections, A and B.
Section A and Section B carry 80 marks and 40
marks respectively. 7 10

3. Attempts ALL questions in this paper. Write your 8 11

answer in the spaces provided in this Question-
Answer Book.
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4. Unless otherwise specified, all working must be
Section B: Long Questions
clearly shown.

5. Unless otherwise specified, numerical answers

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Total: 120

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Section A: Short Questions. (80 marks)

1. Find the rates of the following. Express your answers in the units stated in the
(8 marks)
bracket.
(a) Kenny finished the 100 m race in 12.5 seconds. [m/s]

(b) The annual salary of Kate is $174 000. [$/month]

(c) The selling price for 400 g of beef is $11.2. [$/kg]

(d) 0.5 L of water weighs 6.8 kg. (Given:1 L = 1000 cm 3 ) [g/ cm 3 ]

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2. If (6 x  1)(4 x 2  3)  ( Px  Q) x 2  Rx  S , find the values of P, Q,, R and S. (7 marks) Page total

Let S cm 2 be the surface area of a cuboid. Its length, width and height are p cm,
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2q cm and 3r cm respectively.
(a) Express S in terms of p, q and r. (4 marks)

(b) Make r the subject of the formula in (a). (3 marks)

(c) Hence find the value of r if S = 94, p = 5, q = 2. (2 marks)

Find the quotient and remainder of ( 7 x  9 x 3  5)  (3 x  1) . Express

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the answer in descending powers of x. (7 marks)

5.

The above frequency polygon shows the lengths (in cm) of a group of metal bars produced
by a machine.
(a) Complete the table below. (3 marks)

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 Length(cm) 5-9 10-14 15-19 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49
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(b) How many metal bars are there in the group ? (2 marks)
If metal bars of lengths less than 24.5 cm are rejected, how many bars in the group are
(c) (3 marks)
accepted ?

6. Simplify the following expressions:

(a) 2a  4ab (4 marks)

6bc  3c
(b) 2a  3 6  4a (4 marks)

6ab 4b

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7. The thickness of 500 sheets of paper of the same quality is 46.2 mm and
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given that the relative error is .
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(a) Find the percentage error of the thickness of all papers. (Correct your (2 marks)
answer to 3 sig.fig.)
(b) Find the actual range of thickness of all papers. (6 marks)
(c) Find the actual range of thickness of each sheet of paper.(Correct your
answer to 3 sig.fig.) (2 marks)

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8. Simplify the following expressions and express the answers with positive
indices.
(a) x3 ( y 4 )2 (5 marks)
4 3 3
(x y )
(b) 75 w (6 marks)
5 2 w  15 w

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9. (a) Given that 2a = 3b. Find a : b. (2 marks)

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(b) Given that : :  4 : 5 : 6 . Find a : b : c. (7 marks)
a b c
(c) Given that ( x  y ) : ( x  y )  7 : 3 . Find x : y. (3 marks)

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10. (a) Simplify (a  b) 2  (a  b) 2 . (6 marks)

(b) If a + b = 4 and ab = 3, find the value of ( a  b) 2 . (4 marks)

(c) Factorize a 3  a 2 b  ab 2  b 3 . (7 marks)

(d) Using the result of (b) and (c), find the value of a 3  a 2 b  ab 2  b 3 . (3 marks)

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11. x and y are the units digit and the tens digit of a 2-digit number P respectively.
(a) Express P in terms x and y. (2 marks )

(b) Q is another 2-digit number which is formed by reversing the digits of P. Express Q in (2 marks)
terms of x and y.
(c) P is three times the sum of its digits. Find the equation involving x and y. (4 marks)

(d) 45 added to P is equal to Q. Find another equation involving x and y. (4 marks)

(e) By solving the equations in (c) and (d) simultaneously, find the number Q. (8 marks)

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