P425/1

PURE MATHEMATICS
Paper 1
July/Aug. 2017
3 hours.

Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education

MOCK EXAMINATIONS
Pure Mathematics
Paper 1
3 hours

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES:
Answer all the eight questions in Section A and any five from Section B.
Any additional question(s) answered will not be marked.
All necessary working must be shown clearly.
Begin each answer on a fresh sheet of paper.
Graph paper is provided.
Silent non – programmable scientific calculators and Mathematical tables with a list of
formulae may be used.

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 SECTION A: (40 marks)

Attempt all questions in this section.

1. Solve the simultaneous equations below;

x +3 y+ 2 z=−13

2 x−6 y +3 z=32
3 x−4 y−z=12 (05 marks)

2. A line 2 x – y+ 3=0 touches a circle whose centre is (−4 , 5). Determine the equation
of this circle. (05 marks)

3. (π )
Show that ec 2 x −tan 2 x=tan 4 −x . (05 marks)

4. Evaluate;
5

∫ x √ ( x −1 ) dx. (05 marks)

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5. Find the square root of 17−12 √2 and simplify it as far as possible. (05 marks)

6. Differentiate e kx from first principles. (05 marks)

7. Find the Cartesian equation of plane passing through the midpoint of AB with
A(−1, 2 ,−5)and B(3 , 0 ,−1)which is perpendicular to the line
x−1 y +7 6−Z
= = . (05 marks)
2 −3 8

8. Solve the differential equation below;

dy π
− y tanx=cosx , given that y=0 at x= . (05 marks)
dx 2

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 SECTION B: (60 marks)
Answer any five questions from this section. All questions carry equal marks.

9. (a) The roots to aquadratic equations ax 2 +bx +c=0 are in a ratio

(3 b) :(ac), show that 3 b3 =( ac+3 b)2. (05 marks)

(b) The roots to aquadratic equation 2 x 2+ x−4=0 are ∝ and β , form aquadratic

( ) (
∝−1 β−1
)
2 2
∝ β
equation whose roots are + and 2 + 2 .
β−4 ∝−4 ∝ β ∝β
(07 marks)

10. (a) Use De – moivre’s theory to show that

16 sin θ=sin5 θ−5 sin 3 θ+10 Sinθ . (05 marks)
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(b) Prove that 3 i+ 2 is a root to the equation

Z −5 Z +18 Z −17 Z +13=0, and hence find all other roots to this equation.
4 3 2

(07 marks)

11. (a) P, Q and R are vertices of a triangle with position vectors 5 i+ 7 j−9 k ,
7 i+6 j+2 k and 11i+3 j+k respectively. Using vectors prove that
PQR is right angled and hence find its area. (05 marks)

(b) A perpendicular from a point Q(3 ,−2 ,10) meets the line

()()
8 4
r = −1 + λ 3 at N , find the;
7 −2

(i) coordinates of N ,
(ii) perpendicular distance of Q from the line above. (07 marks)

12. (a) Solve for θ if cos θ+ cos 3 θ+cos 5 θ=0 and 0 o ≤ θ ≤180 o.
(05 marks)
(b) If A , B and C are angles of a triangle prove that;

( ) ( ) ( )
2
1 A 1 B 1 C ( a+ b+c )
cos2 + cos2 + cos 2 = . (07 marks)
a 2 b 2 c 2 4 abc

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13. (a) Find ∫ √ x (6−x)dx . (06 marks)
5x
cos 2 x e
(b) Differentiate with respect to x . (06 marks)
¿(1−x)

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14. (a) Use maclaurin theory to expand ( 1−3 x +5 x 2 ) upto the third non zero
term. (05 marks)

(b) Expand
√(1−2 x
1+2 x )
estimate √ 7 correct to three decimal places.
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as far as to the term containing x 3 and hence using x= 16 ,
(07 marks)

15. The parametric coordinate of a curve is ( 4 Cosθ ,3 Sinθ ).

(a) Show that the curve represents an ellipse and hence determine its
eccentricity. (04 marks)

(b) Find the equations of tangents to the ellipse in (a) above which passes
through a point (−3 , 3 ). (08 marks)

16. Water which has been heated to temperature of 99 o C cools in an experimental room
which is at a constant temperature of 25o C at a rate which is proportional to the
excess temperature. It was placed in the room at 2 : 30Pm and its temperature at
2 : 31 Pm was 90 o C .

(a) Form a differential equation and solve it. (06 marks)

(b) Determine the temperature of water in the next two minutes. (03 marks)

(c) Find the time at which the temperature of water is 43 o C . (04 marks)

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