NANYANG JUNIOR COLLEGE

JC2 PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION

Higher 1

MATHEMATICS 8865/01

Paper 1 13 September 2017

3 hours

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Pure Mathematics [40 marks]

1 Find the range of values of a such that ax 2  4ax  7a  2 x  2 for all real values of x. [4]

2 The graphs of two functions are shown with the areas of the regions between the curves indicated.

(i) What is the total area between the curves for 0  x  10 ? [1]

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(ii) What is the value of 
0
f ( x)  g ( x) dx ? [3]

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y = f(x)

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3 Given that un is a quadratic polynomial in n and the first three terms are as follows:

u1  3 , u2  1 and u3  5 .

(i) Find un in terms of n. [4]

(ii) Using an algebraic method, find the value of n for which un is greater than 2. [2]

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4 The gradient of a curve y  f  x  at any point  x, y  is given by f '  x   4e1 x  2e32 x .

(i) Find the exact x-coordinate of the stationary point on the curve, leaving your answer in the
form of a ln 2  b where a and b are constants to be determined. [2]

(ii) Given that the curve intersects the x-axis at the point where x  4 find the equation of the
curve, giving your answer in exact form. [3]

(iii) Sketch the graph of y  f  x  , giving the equations of any asymptotes and the coordinates
of the points of intersection with the x- and y-axes. [3]

(iv) Find the equation of the tangent at the point  4, 0  , leaving answer in terms of e. Hence
find the exact area of the region bounded by the curve, the tangent at the point  4, 0  and
the y-axis. [5]

5 NY Press Holdings is an English-language online news media based in Singapore. It is known that
the online news will be taken down after 24 hours. Suppose that the number of viewers (in
thousands) at t th hour after the release of the news is given by
S (t )  50e 0.04t , 0  t  24
(i) Show that the number of viewers (in thousands) in the hour just before the news was taken
down is 19.1. [1]
(ii) What is the total number of viewers for the period of 24 hours? [3]
(iii) State an assumption needed for the model to be valid. [1]

Assume that on the average, the number of viewers per hour is 32,000 and the company receives
50 cents for every viewing. In order to attract more viewings, the company uses an advertising
site. It is known that for each cent spent on advertising, the number of viewings per hour will
increase by 1000.

(iv) Given that the company targets to achieve 50,000 viewings per hour,  how much must the
company spent on advertising in order to achieve its target? Hence state the amount of
revenue (in thousand dollars) per hour. [2]
It is given that the hourly profit achieved by the company after investing x cents on advertising
is $(16000  180 x  10 x 2 ) .

(v) Use differentiation to find the maximum hourly profit (in thousand dollars), proving that it
is maximum. [6]

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Statistics [60 marks]

6 A group of 10 students from various sports CCA are gathered for a photoshoot. The group consists
of 3 basketball players, 4 tennis players and 3 players from other sport. The 10 students are
arranged randomly in a line.

(i) In how many different ways can the 10 people be arranged in a line? [1]
(ii) Find the probability that no 2 basketball players are next to each other? [2]
(iii) The basketball players are all separated. Find the probability that the 4 tennis players are
next to each other. [3]

7 A fixed number, n, of students is observed and the number of those students wearing spectacles is
denoted by S.

(i) State, in context, two assumptions needed for S to be well modelled by a binomial
distribution. [2]

Assume now that S has the distribution B(n, p).

(ii) Given that n  15 and P ( S  0 or S  1)  0.3 , write down an equation for the value of p,
and find this value numerically. Hence find P (2  S  8) . [3]

It is now given that n = 30 and p = 0.7.

(iii) Suppose that there are 50 groups of 30 students being observed, find the probability that the
mean number of students wearing spectacles is at most 20. [3]

8 Two badminton players, Derek and Benjamin, met in a match, and the winner of the game is the
first player to win two sets. The probability that Derek wins a match is p. From the second set
onwards, the probability that he wins a set is
 p times of the previous probability if he wins in the preceding set,
 0.4 if he did not win in the preceding set.

(i) Construct a tree diagram to represent all the possible outcomes. [2]

(ii) Find p if the probability of Derek winning the game is 0.6528. [3]

(iii) Given that p  0.64, find the probability of Derek winning the second set if he wins the
game. [3]

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9 The rate of growth, y, of a particular organism in a laboratory is believed to depend in some way
on the controlled temperature, xC. The table shows the results of 8 experiments.

Experiment 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
 25 28
Temperature, x C. 6 9 11 14 18 22
Rate of growth, y 5 13 15 a 20 24 26 30

The regression line of y on x is given by y = 0.993x +2.11.

(i) Find the value of a, giving your answer to the nearest integer. [2]

(ii) Give a sketch of your scatter diagram for the 8 sets of data, as shown on your calculator.
[2]

(iii) Calculate the product moment correlation coefficient, giving your answer correct to 4
decimal place and comment on its value in relation to your scatter diagram. [2]

(iv) Estimate the temperature in the laboratory when the growth rate of the organism is 18.
Comment on the reliability of this prediction. [2]

(v) Explain why it might be unsuitable to use the equation y on x to estimate how the rate of
growth of the organism when the temperature is 30  C. [1]

10 The owner of AAA Tuition Company which has many centres in Singapore claims that the mean
H1 Mathematics score of their students is 80. A random sample of 50 students from one of the
centres is taken. Their mathematics scores, x, are summarised by
  x  80  40 ,   x  80   450 .
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Find unbiased estimates of the population mean and variance. [3]

(i) Test, at a 5% level of significance, whether the owner has overstated the mean H1
Mathematics score of their students. [4]

(ii) Suppose a teacher in one of the tuition centres now claims that the mean H1 Mathematics
score of a randomly chosen student is not 80. Without carrying out another test, state, with
a reason, whether the conclusion in part (ii) would remain the same. [2]

Another large random sample of n students gives a mean H1 Mathematics score of 78.8. Given
that the population standard deviation of the H1 Mathematics score is now known to be 5, find the
largest value of n to conclude that the owner’s claim is valid at the same level of significance.
[5]

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11 The masses, in kilograms, of the honeydews and durians, sold by a supermarket have independent
normal distributions with means and standard deviations as shown in the following table.
Mean mass Standard deviation
Honeydew 1.8 b
Durian 1.5 0.3

(i) The mass of the honeydews is a random variable denoted by H. It is known that
P( H  2k )  0.95 and P( H  k )  0.25 where k is a constant. Find the value of b. [3]

For the rest of the question, use b = 0.4.

(ii) One honeydew and one durian are chosen at random. Find the probability that the mass of
the honeydew is more than 1.7 kg and the mass of the durian is less than 1.7 kg. [2]

(iii) Three honeydews are chosen at random. Find the probability that one of the honeydews has
mass less than 1.6 kg and one honeydew has mass more than 1.7 kg each. [4]
 

(iv) Find the probability that three times the mass of a randomly chosen durian is within 
0.8kg of the mass of two randomly chosen honeydews. [3]

(v) Honeydews cost $3 per kilogram and durians cost $10 per kilogram. Find the mean and
variance of the cost of two honeydews and hence find the probability that the total cost of
two honeydews and one durian is greater than $28.50.
[3]

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