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RIVER VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL

2010 Year 6 Preliminary Examinations
Higher 2

MATHEMATICS 9740/01
Paper 1 14 September 2010
3 hours
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1 A shampoo manufacturing company produces shampoo that comes in three different sizes
of bottles (small, medium and large). The amount of plastic required to manufacture the
bottles, and the profit made from the sale of each bottle of shampoo are shown in the
table below:

Small Medium Large

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Volume of shampoo (cm ) 200 450 600
Amount of plastic (cm2) 150 335 475
Profit ($) per unit sold 2.50 3.80 4.20

On a particular round of production, the volume of shampoo and the amount of plastic
used were 370700cm3 and 280400cm2 respectively. When all the bottles of shampoo from
this round of production were sold, the profit made from the sale of the medium bottles
was twice the total profit made from the sale of the small and large bottles. Determine the
number of each size of shampoo produced and state an assumption made about the bottles
manufactured. [6]

2 The complex number z satisfies the relations iz  1  i and z  z *  2 .

(i) Illustrate both of these relations on a single Argand diagram. [3]

(ii) Find the greatest and least possible values of arg ( z  1  i) , giving your answers in
radians correct to 3 decimal places. [3]

3 Given that  is sufficiently small for  3 and higher powers of  to be neglected,

4  cos 
express as a quadratic expression in  .
2  tan 
[4]

π 9 11π 55π 2
By letting   , show that 3   . [2]
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d
4 (i) Find
dx
 sin 1 x 2  . [1]

5
  x 
(ii) Evaluate the integral
 1
ln  tan 1    dx numerically.
  10  
[1]

(iii) Given that 0  k  1 and

k 5
  x 
 0
x 2 sin 1 x 2 dx 
 1
ln  tan 1    dx ,
  10  


x4
show that dx  ak 3 sin 1 k 2  b , where a and b are constants to be
0 1 x 4

determined. [4]

n2
5 The sequence of numbers u1 , u2 , u3 , is given by u1  2 and un 1  for all
nun
positive
integers.

(i) By writing down the terms u2 and u3 , make a conjecture for un in terms of n .
[2]
(ii) Prove your conjecture by mathematical induction. [4]

(iii) Write down the limit of unun 1 as n tends to infinity.

[1]

Verify that r  r  1  (r  r  1)(r  r  1).

4 2 2 2
6 (i) [1]

1 1
(ii) By considering  2 , show that
r  r 1
2
r  r 1

r
r 1 1 
 1  2  . [4]
r 1
4
 r 1
2
2  N  N 1 


r
(iii) Evaluate 
r 2 r  r2 1
4 . [2]

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ax 2  bx  c
7 The diagram below shows a sketch of the graph of y  where a , b , c and
xd
d are constants. The asymptotes, also shown in the diagram, are x  2 and y  x  4 .

4
2 O x
4

(i) Write down the value of d and find the values of a and b . [4]

(ii) Given that the curve passes through the point  0 , 4.5  , find the value of c . [1]

By sketching the graph of  x  4   y 2  k 2 , determine the range of values of k

2
(iii)
2
 ax 2  bx  c 
such that the equation  x  4   
2
  k , where a , b , c and d are
2

 xd 
the values found above, has at least one negative root. [3]

8 (i) Solve the equation

( z  2)3  8 ,

giving the roots in the form rei  2 , where r  0 and  π    π . [4]

(ii) Express ( z  2)3  8 as a product of three linear factors. [2]

(iii) Hence, find the values of the real numbers a and b in the equation z 2  az  b  0
where the roots are the complex numbers found in (i). [2]

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(iv) Explain why the roots in (i) lie on a circle centre (2,0) and radius 2. [1]

3π 3π
9 It is given that f  x   ln  1  sin x  , where  x .
8 8

(i) Show that (1  sin x)f   x   cos x . [1]

(ii) By further differentiation of this result, find the Maclaurin series for f  x  , up to
and including the term in x3 . Hence, write down the equation of the tangent of
y  f  x  at x  0 . [5]

Denote the Maclaurin series of f  x  in (ii) by g  x  .

(iii) On the same diagram, sketch the graphs of y  f  x  and y  g  x  for

3π 3π
 x .
8 8
[2]

3π 3π
(iv) Find, for  x , the set of values of x for which the value of g  x  is
8 8
within 0.05 of the value of f  x  .
[2]

10 (a) Given that the first, third and fourth terms of an arithmetic progression are three
consecutive terms of a geometric progression, and that the sum of the first twenty
even-numbered terms of the arithmetic progression is 960, find the common
difference of the arithmetic progression. [4]

(b) Annie puts $x on 1 January 2010 into a bank account which pays compound
interest at a rate of 3% per month on the last day of each month. On the first day
of each subsequent month, she puts in an amount which is $x more than the
amount she puts in the previous month. For example, she puts in $x on 1 January,
$2x on 1 February and so on.

(i) Show that the amount of money in the bank account on the last day of
103x
March is $ 103(1.03)3  112  . [4]
9 

(ii) Find the least integer value of x so that the amount of interest earned for
the first three months of the year 2010 exceeds $100. [2]

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11 The lines l1 and l2 meet at P. The line l3 lies on the same plane containing l1 and l2 , and
is perpendicular to l1 . Given that l1 and l2 are parallel to the vectors a and b respectively,
 ab 
show that l3 is parallel to the vector b   2  a . [3]
 a 
 

The lines l1 and l2 have equations r  3i  5 j  2k  t  4i  j  2k  and

r  3i  5 j  2k  s  8i  4 j  3k  respectively. The line l3 lies on the plane containing l1
and l2 and is perpendicular to l1 . Given that the three lines intersect, find the equation of
l3 . Find also the acute angle between l2 and l3 . [3]

The plane 1 contains the lines l1 , l2 and l3 , and the plane  2 has equation
5
kx  2 y  4 z  9 . Given that 1 is parallel to  2 , show that k  . Hence, find the exact
2
distance between the two planes. [6]

2
y
12 (i) Sketch the graph of 3
.
 4 x 2 2

[2]

(ii) The region R is bounded by the curve, the axes and the line x  3 . Using the
substitution x  2 cos  , find the exact area of R. [5]

(iii) Find the exact volume of revolution when R is rotated completely about the
y-axis. [6]

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RIVER VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL

2010 Year 6 Preliminary Examinations
Higher 2

MATHEMATICS 9740/01
Paper 1 14 September 2010

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