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    This document contains a mathematics mock exam for the Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education. It has two sections, with Section A containing 6 multiple choice questions worth 40 marks total. Section B contains 5 longer form questions worth 60 marks total, covering topics like plane geometry, trigonometry, calculus, and coordinate geometry. Students are instructed to answer all of Section A and choose 5 questions from Section B to answer.

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    This document contains a mathematics mock exam for the Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education. It has two sections, with Section A containing 6 multiple choice questions worth 40 marks total. Section B contains 5 longer form questions worth 60 marks total, covering topics like plane geometry, trigonometry, calculus, and coordinate geometry. Students are instructed to answer all of Section A and choose 5 questions from Section B to answer.

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    Mathematics
    Paper 1
    3 hrs

    UGANDA DAVANCED CERTIFICATE OF EDUCATION


    MOCK EXAMINATIONS 2009
    PURE MATHEMATICS
    PAPER 1
    3HOURS

    Instructions
     Answer all questions in section A and any five from section B
     Show clearly the method on the answer sheet

    SECTION A (40 MARKS)

    1. By row reducing to echelon form, solve the simultaneous equation below:


    3x  2 y  4 z  5
    x  3 y  2 z  1
    2 x  y  3z  9

    dy 1
    2. Given that: X  2at (t  1) and y=2at2, show that  (2t  1) 3
    dx a

    3. Find the square root of: -8 – 6i

    4
    4. Solve for  : cot  + tan  = for 00    3600
    3

    5. If  and  are roots of the equation ax2 + bx + c = 0, show that


    b 2  4ac
      
    a

    6. The tenth term of an arithmetical progression is 26 and the twelveth term is 56.
    Find
    i) the first term and the common difference

    1
    ii) the sum of the first 60 terms

    Prove that: 2 tan 1 x  sin 1 


    2x 
    7. 
     1 x 

    4
    sin 2 x
    8. Evaluate the integral:  1  cos
    0
    2
    x
    dx giving your answer correct to 3.S.F.

    SECTION B (60 MARKS)

    9. a) Find the equation of the plane through the three points A(1,1,1) B(1,2,3)
    and C(3,2,-1).

    b) Determine the coordinates of intersection of the plane in (a) above and


    1   1
    the line with the equation r   2     2 
     
     2 3 
       
    c) Find the angle between the plane and the line.

    Sin      sin  1
    10. a) Show that  tan 
    Cos      Cos 2
    b) Solve the equation: tanx + 3cotx = 5secx for 00  x  3600
    a 2  b2  c 2
    c) Prove that in any triangle ABC, 2 2 2  tan B cot C
    a b c

    2x  3
    11. Sketch the curve: y 
    x  2x  3
    2

    p q 
    12. a) Given that z   and Arg  z   , | z | = 7
    2  i 1  3i 2
    Determine the values of p and q

     cos  9  sin  9 
    4

    b) Without using tables or calculators evaluate:


     cos  9  i sin  9 
    5

    2
    x2  5x  2
    13. a) Express into partial fraction and hence evaluate
    ( x  1) 2 ( x  1)
    3 x2  5x  2
    2  x  12  x  1dx
    6
    b) Calculate the area enclosed by the curve y   3 and the line
    x 1
    y + 3x = 9

    14. a) Given that y  ae2 x sin( x   ) where a and  are constants. Verify that
    d2y dy
    2
     4  5y  0
    dx dx
    b) Use calculus to find an approximate value for the cube root of 8.24.

     6 x  4 2
    c) Differentiate with respect to x and simplify your answer.
    2x  3

     
    5
    15. a) Expand 2 x
    in ascending powers of x. Use your expansion to find
    2
    an approximate value for (1.99)5 correct to 4sf.

    b) Use Maclaurins theorem to expand loge(1+2x) in ascending powers of x


    up to and including the term in x4. Hence find the value for
     
    log e 3 correct to 2 places of decimals.
    2

    16. a) A straight line makes intercepts of k on the x – axis and h on the y- axis.
    The line passes through (-1, -3/2) and the product hk = -5. Determine the
    equation of the line.

    b) (i) P(at12, 2at1) and Q(at22, 2at2) are points on the parabola y2 =
    4ax. Derive the equation of the chord PQ in the form
    2x-(t1+ t2)y + 2at1t2= 0. Hence or otherwise, find in terms of t, the
    equation of the normal to the parabola at the point (at2, 2at).

    (ii) The normal to the parabola y2 = 4ax at the point (at2, 2at) cuts
    the x-axis at Q. R is the mid-point of PQ. As t varies, find the
    Cartesian equation of the locus of R.

    END

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