3000 DSE

MATH-EP
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xEmerqld – Mathematics Castle
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HONG KONG DIPLOMA OF SECONDARY
EDUCATION MOCK EXAMINATION MOCK 0 Sample
MATHEMATICS Extended Part Question Mark(s) Full
Module 1 (Calculus and Statistics) number Got Marks
Question-Answer Book 1 6
Time allowed : 2 hours and 30 minutes 2 6
This paper must be answered in English
otherwise you will be screwed 3 6
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1. After the announcement of the start of the
Examination, you should first write you 5 5
Candidate number and name in the spaces 6 6
provided.
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2. This paper consists of TWO sections,
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A and B , each sections carry 50 marks.
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3. Do not write in the margins. Answer written
in the margins will not be marked. 10 13
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4. Unless otherwise specified, all working must
be clearly shown. 12 14

5. Unless otherwise specified, numerical

answers should be either exact or correct
to 4 decimal places.

6. The diagrams in the paper are not

necessarily drawn to scale.
Calculus part 50
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Section A Section B

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SECTION A (50 marks)
x
x e
1. (a) Expand x+
in ascending powers of x as far as the term in x3 . (3 marks)
e x

kx
kx e
kx +
(b) Consider the expansion of where k ≠ 0 , which the powers of x are in
e kx
ascending powers. Hanky claims that the second term of the expansion must be
positive. Is he correct? Explain your answer. (3 marks)

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2. Number of mock papers that produced by xEmerqld can be modelled by

20 √ 2t
M ( t )=
√ 2t 2 +t
where t is the number of months elapsed since xEmerqld learned how to edit.

(a) Show that number of mock papers produced by xEmerqld is increasing. (3 marks)

(b) Will the number of mock papers produced by xEmerqld exceed 20 ? Explain your
answer. (3 marks)

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3. Let f ( x )=x 3 −8 x 2 +7 . Denote that A and B are the local maximum and local minimum
points of the graph y = f (x) .

(a) Find the slope of AB . (3 marks)

(b) Let P be a point such that the slope of tangent to the graph of y = f (x) at P is
perpendicular to AB . Adora claims that x-coordinate of P must be positive. Do
you agree? Explain your answer. (3 marks)

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4. (a) Let g ( x )= x x . By considering ln g ( x ) , find g ' ( x ) . (3 marks)

(b) Find the area bounded by the curve y=e x x (1+ln x ) , straight lines
2 3
x −5 x+ 4=0 and straight line −x+ y−2=0 . (4 marks)
e

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5. The table below shows the probability distribution of a discrete random variable X , where
p is a constant.

x 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
P(X = x) p 2p 3p 4p 5p 6p 7p 8p 9p 10p

(a) Find p . (2 marks)

( )
3
nX +n + p
(b) Daniel claims that Var =E(nX ) . Do you agree? Explain your
√n
answer. (3 marks)

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6. X and Y are two events. It is given that P ( X ∪Y =0.56) , P(Y | X) = 0.25 and
P(X | Y) = 0.2 . Let P(X) = x and P(Y) = y , denote X’ and Y’ as the complementary
event of X and Y respectively.

(a) Show that 5x = 4y , hence find the value of x and y . (4 marks)

(b) Are X' and Y mutually exclusive events? Explain your answer. (2 marks)

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7. In Hanky’s drawer, there are 30 M1 mock papers. It is known that the probability that a
mock paper is graded as 5** is 0.2 . Now Kevin is picking up his papers one by one from
Hanky’s drawer. Let X be the number of M1 mock papers which graded as 5** .

(a) Find the variance of X . (1 mark)

(b) Find the probability such that only half of the number of papers graded as 5** .
(2 marks)

(c) Given that if Hanky failed to achieve 5** in a certain paper. The probability that
this paper is graded as 5* and 5 are 0.6 and 0.3 respectively. Find the
probability such that 10% of the papers achieved 5** and at least two of them
achieved below 5* . (4 marks)

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8. There are 55000 candidates in 2019 M1 mock examination. The following stem and leaf
diagram shows the some performance of a group of candidates. Suppose the scores achieved
by the candidates are normally distributed.

Stem (tens) Leaf (units)

0 5
1 2 8
2 3 6 7
4 4
5 3 9 9
7 1 2 4
8 2 9
9 5

(a) Write down the variance of the group of candidates. (1 mark)

(b) Find the sample variance. (2 marks)

(c) Find the approximate 84% confidence interval for the mean score. (4 marks)

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SECTION B (50 marks)

9. The rate of change of game performance (measured in PP) of Kevin and Daniel are K’(t)
and A’(t) respectively after t months (where t ≥ 0). It is known that formula can be
modelled by

103(43 t+23)
K ' ( t )=50 ln (t 3 +1) and A ' ( t )= .
23t−2

Suppose their performance reports will be generated after a year. The greater the PP , the
better the performance. And their initial performance are 10 PP .

(a) By using trapezoidal rule with six sub-intervals, to estimate the final performance of
Kevin. (3 marks)

(b) Does the actual final performance of Kevin greater than the estimated one in (a)?
Explain your answer. (3 marks)

(c) The person who get the greater performance will receive a scholarship. Find
the final performance of Daniel and determine whether Kevin can get the
scholarship. (5 marks)

(d) State why Kevin got disadvantage of getting a scholarship if reports generated much
earlier. (1 mark)

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10. Miss Lai studied that the number of pieces of M1 homework (in hundred) N copied by
Kevin in senior form by
2
23t
N= kt
32+ae

where a and k are constants and t (t ≥ 0) is the time elapsed (measured in month) since
the start of senior form.

(a) Express ln ( 23t 2

N
−32 ) as a linear function of t . (2 marks)

(b) It is known that the graph of linear function obtained in (a) passes through (0 , ln 0.3)
and (2 , 1 + ln 0.3).
x x
Suppose 8.92 is the root of equation 29440+276 e 2 −69 x e 2 =0 .

(i) Express N in terms of t . (2 marks)

(ii) When will the number of pieces of M1 homework copied by Kevin is the
greatest? Explain your answer. Hence find the corresponding number of
pieces of M1 homework copied by Kevin at that time and correct it to the
nearest integer. (4 marks)

(iii) Is the number of pieces of homework that copied by Kevin in each month
keep decreasing after 9 months? Explain your answer. (1 mark)

(iv) Hanky claims that after a long period of time, the number of pieces of M1
homework that copied by Kevin will equal the amount that he copy when he
starts his senior form. Do you agree? Explain your answer. (4 marks)

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11. The number of times that Hanky raged on a game follows a Poisson distribution. The mean
number of times that Hanky raged is M in half an hour. Given the probability that Hanky
raged twice in half an hour is 25% greater than that he raged once in half an hour. Suppose
each time he raged is independent to the other time he raged.

(a) Find M . (2 marks)

(b) It is known that he will smashes his keyboard if he raged more than 3 times in half
an hour. Find the probability that he smashes his keyboard in a certain half an hour.
(2 marks)

(c) Hanky is now playing a game which last for two hours. Given that he will throws his
frying pans off the window if he smashes his keyboard 2 times. And he will knocks
his table if he raged 7 times.

(i) Find the probability that he will throws his frying pans off the window once
during he is playing. (3 marks)

(ii) Find the probability that he knocks his table once during he is playing.
(2 marks)

(iii) Is it possible for Hanky to throw his frying pans off the window and knocks
his table at the same time in first half period of gaming? Explain your answer.
(2 marks)

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12. For preparing 2019 Mathematics examination. Hanky did many papers. The scores he got in
paper I (denote as A) and number of questions he answer correctly in paper II (denote as
B) both follows a normal distribution. Suppose mean of A and B are a and b
respectively. And variance of A and B are 100 and 25 respectively.

(a) A random sample of 25 pieces of paper I is picked up, and the scores are recorded
as follows:

105 105 105 105 105 103 103 103 102 99

99 98 97 97 97 96 96 94 92 87
85 83 80 72 71

(i) Find an unbiased estimate for a . (1 mark)

(ii) Later on, his friend James found that the actual value of a is rounded off the
value in (a)(i) to nearest integer. Another sample with same number of pieces
of paper I is also picked up. Find the probability such that the mean of this
sample is 3-digits. (3 marks)

(b) To obtained 5** in Mathematics, the minimum required scores of Paper I and
number of questions required to answer correctly in Paper II are 97 and 42
respectively. A piece of Paper I and a piece of Paper II are randomly selected among
the papers that did by Hanky. The probability that these two papers can obtain a final
grade of 5** is 0.26634517 .

(i) Find b . (3 marks)

(ii) n pairs of Paper I and Paper II are selected randomly and it is inspected one
by one. Find the value of n if the least probability that none of them are
below 5** is 4.55×10−11 . (2 marks)

(c) A probability of the certain selected pairs of Paper I and Paper II ‘s results become
the results in real examination is 0.73 .

(i) Find the probability that Hanky achieve 5** in final examination. (3 marks)

(ii) Given that he scored at least 97 in paper I of real examination. Does the
probability such that he can achieve 5** increased 40% ? Explain your
answer. (2 marks)

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