Belilios Public School

Yearly Examination, 2014-2015

MATHEMATICS
PAPER 1
Question-Answer Book
Secondary 3 Time Allowed: 1hours
Maximum Marks: 105

Name : ___________________________ Class : ___________ Class Number: ________

INSTRUCTIONS

1. After the announcement of the start of the examination, you should first write your Name, Class and
Class Number in the spaces provided on Page 1.

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

3. Attempt ALL questions in this paper. 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.

4. Graph paper and supplementary answer sheets will be supplied on request. Write your Name, Class,
Class Number and question number on each sheet, and fasten them with a paper clip INSIDE this book.

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

6. Unless otherwise specified, numerical answers should be either exact or correct to 3 significant figures.

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

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Section A1 (35 marks)
1. Two fair dice are thrown in a game. If the sum of the two numbers thrown is 6, $30 will be gained;
otherwise, $4 will be gained. Find
(a) the probability of the sum of the two numbers is 6;
(b) the expected gain of the game. (4 marks)

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2. Simplify  4ab 1  and express your answer with positive indices.

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(3 marks)
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3. In the figure on the right, VABCD is a right pyramid with a rectangular base,
ABCD. VE is the height of the pyramid. (4 marks)
(a) Name the projection of line segment VB on plane ABCD.
(b) Name the angle between line segment VB and plane ABCD. D C
(c) Name the projection of line segment VC on plane VDB.
E
(d) Name the angle between line segment VC and plane VDB.
A B

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4. Draw the orthographic views of the following solid on grid paper. (Suppose there are no hidden parts in
the figure.) (3 marks)
top

front view side view top view

front
side
5. The figure on the right shows a lock with password consisting of 4 digits. Charlie
forgets the password. He tries 4-digit numbers randomly for the password.
(a) Find the probability that he can open the lock in one trial.
(b) If he remembers that the password is a multiple of 80, find the probability that he
can open the lock in one trial.
(c) Charlie would like to buy another lock with a higher security. The password of the new lock
consists of 3 digits only but the owner can set any hexadecimal number from 0 to F for each digit.
Show whether the new lock has a higher security by finding the probability of getting the correct
password in one trial for this new lock. (6 marks)

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6. The figure on the right shows a parallelogram, PQRS. Its diagonals

intersect at M.
(a) Find the coordinates of M.
(b) Write down the coordinates of P and R. (5 marks)

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7. The student union had held joint-school Christmas party for 3 years. In the second year, the number of
participants dropped by 20% to 440. In the third year, the number of participants increased by 5%.
(a) (i) Find the number of participants in the third year.
(ii) Find the number of participants in the first year.
(b) Mary claims that the overall percentage change in the number of participants in these 3 years is
-15%. Do you agree with her? Explain your answer. (6 marks)

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9(1  x)
8. (a) Solve  2x .
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(b) Find the smallest possible integer x that satisfies the inequality in (a).
(c) If x is smaller than 8, how many integral values of x satisfies the inequality in (a)? (4 marks)

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Section A2 (35 marks)

9. The figure below shows a kite ABCD, where AB  AD and BC  DC .

A
(x  y  1) cm (3x  2y  9) cm

B D

(2x  2y) cm (x  3y  3) cm

(a) Find x and y. (4 marks)

(b) Find the perimeter of ABCD. (2 marks)

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10. The following table shows the number of goals of 40 football players last year.
No. of goals 1–5 6 – 10 11 – 15 16 – 20 21 – 25 26 – 30 31 – 35 36 – 40
No. of players 2 x 9 4 7 x 6 8
(a) Find the modal class of the number of goals of these 40 players last year. (3 marks)
(b) Find the mean number of goals of these 40 players last year. (3 marks)
(c) Compare the averages in (a) and (b), which one better reflects the central tendency of the number
of goals of these 40 players last year? Explain your answer briefly. (1 mark)

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11. The figure shows a regular pyramid VABCD with a square base
ABCD. All its lateral faces are equilateral triangles.
(a) Assume x cm is the length of a side of the square base.
Express the length of VN in terms of x. (2 marks)
(b) Find the length of the side of the square base. (2 marks)
(c) Find the volume of the pyramid. (2 marks)
(Leave your answers in surd form if necessary.)

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12. The figure on the right shows △ ABC. D, E and F are the mid-points of AB, BC
and AC respectively.
(a) Prove that △ ABC ~ △ EFD. (3 marks)
(b) It is given that G is a point on BC and AG intersects DF at M.
(i) Show that M is the mid-point of AG.
(ii) If G is the mid-point of BE, find DM : MF. (6 marks)

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13. In a firework display above the Victoria Harbour, the

angle of elevation from point A in Tsim Sha Tsui is 30º
and the angle of elevation from point B on a boat is E
50º. The firework is 100 m vertically above point C on
another boat, and points A, B and C lie on a straight
line.
(a) Find the distance between A and D. (2 marks)
(b) Find the distance between B and C. (2 marks)
(c) The firework falls from point D to E at a speed of 7.5 m/s and disappears at point E after 5
seconds. Find ∠DBE. (3 marks)
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Section B (35 marks)

14. Figure A shows a right frustum. Figure B shows solid X which is composed of a right frustum and a
hemisphere.
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X

Y
4 cm
D M A

9 cm 8 cm

C N B

Figure A Figure B Figure C

(a) Find the volume of the frustum in Figure A. (4 marks)

(b) If the frustum in the upper part of solid X as shown in Figure B is the same as that in Figure A,
(i) find the volume of solid X;
(ii) find the total surface area of solid X. (7 marks)
(Express your answers in terms of .)

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15. In the figure, the four vertices of a quadrilateral ABCD are y

A(k,k-1), B(0,3), C(-2,2) and D(-1,0). It is given that CB // DA
and DA cuts the y-axis at point E. B
(a) Find the coordinates of A. (3 marks) C
A
(b) John claims that CD  AD . Do you agree with him?
Explain your answer. (2 marks) E
x
(c) Find the area of the quadrilateral ABCD. (4 marks) D O
(d) (i) Find DE : EA.
(ii) Find the ratio of area of △CDE to that of △ ABE. (4 marks)

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16. In the figure, Tower A and Tower B are situated at points A and B respectively. The compass
bearing of point A from a park, P is S60°W and that of point B is S20°E. The distances between the
two towers and the park are 300 m and 200 m respectively.

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300 m
200 m

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B

(a) Find the distance between points A and B. (5 marks)

(b) Find the compass bearing of point A from point B. (3 marks)
(c) If Mable is at the observation deck of tower A, which is 50 m from the ground while Nick is at the
observation deck of tower B, which is 40 m from the ground, find the angle of depression of Nick
from Mable. (Assume that the heights of Mable and Nick are negligible.) (3 marks)

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