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 SECTION A(1) (35 marks)

1. Simplify and express your answer with positive indices. (3 marks)

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2. Simplify (3 marks)

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3. Factorize
(a)
(b)

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(3 marks)

4. In a group, the ratio of the number of boys to the number of girls is 17 : 8. If 10 boys and
10 girls leave the group, then the ratio of the number of boys to the number of girls is 5 : 2 .
Find the original number of boys in the group.
(4 marks)

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 5. The marked price of a handbag is $1100. It is given that the marked price of the handbag is
37.5% higher than the cost.
(a) Find the cost of the handbag.
(b) After selling the handbag, the percentage profit is 10%. Find the selling price of the
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handbag.
(4 marks)

6. Consider the compound inequality

and …… (*)

(a) Solve (*).

(b) Write down the least integer satisfying (*).
(4 marks)

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7. The table below shows the distribution of the numbers of lateness of a group of students in a
month. It is given that m is a positive integer.

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Number of lateness 0 1 2 3 4
Number of students 10 m 4 2 5
The mean of the distribution is 1.5.
(a) Find the value of m.
(b) If a student is randomly selected from the group, find the probability that the number
of lateness of this student is less than the median of the distribution.
(4 marks)

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 8. In the figure, O is the centre of the circle ABCDE. BD intersects OC and EC at points F and
G respectively. It is given that BD  EC and BAE = 116°.
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(a) Find DEC.
(b) Suppose that OC // ED and OC = 9 cm. Is the perimeter of the sector OCE more than
40 cm? Explain your answer.
(6 marks)

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9. The capacity of a can of soft drink is measured as 375 mL, correct to the nearest mL.
(a) Find the least possible capacity of the can of soft drink.
(b) Somebody claims that the total capacity of 119 cans of soft drink can be measured as

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45.0 L correct to the nearest 0.1 L. Do you agree? Explain your answer.
(4 marks)

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 SECTION A(2) (35 marks)

10. It is given that f (x) is the sum of two parts, one part is a constant and the other part varies as
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x2. Suppose that f (5) = 131 and f (10) = 506.
(a) Find f (x). (3 marks)

(b) Let O be the origin. The graph of y = f (x) passes through A(a, 26) and intersects the y-
axis at a point B. Find the area of △OAB. (3 marks)

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11. The stem-and-leaf diagram below shows the distribution of the weights (in kg) of the players
in a basketball team.
Stem (tens) Leaf (units)

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4 0 3 6 6 8
5 0 2 2 2 7 8
6 0 4 4 b 9
7 1 2 3 4
It is given that the difference between the range and the inter-quartile range of the above
distribution is 14 kg.
(a) Find b. (3 marks)
(b) A player whose weight is less than 48 kg now joins the team. It is found that the inter-
quartile range of the distribution of the weights is increased by 1.5 kg. Find the weight
of the player. (3 marks)

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 12. The slant height and the base radius of a solid right circular cone are 51 cm and 24 cm
respectively. The circular cone is divided into three parts by two planes which are parallel to
its base. The heights of the three parts are equal. Express, in terms of ,
(a) the curved surface area of the middle part of the circular cone, (3 marks)
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(b) the volume of the middle part of the circular cone. (3 marks)

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13. The cubic polynomial f (x) is divisible by x – 2. When f (x) is divided by x2 – 4, the remainder is
kx – 12, where k is a constant.
(a) Find k. (3 marks)
(b) It is given that when f (x) is divided by x, the remainder is 20. When f (x) is divided by
x + 3, the remainder is –40. Someone claims that all the roots of the equation f (x) = 0
are integers. Is the claim correct? Explain your answer. (5 marks)

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 14. The coordinates of the points E and F are and respectively. Let P be a
moving point in the rectangular coordinate plane such that EP = FP. Denote the locus of P
by .
(a) (i) Describe the geometric relationship between  and the line segment EF.
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(ii) Find the equation of . (3 marks)
(b) The coordinates of the point G are (5, 9). H is a point lying on  such that FG  FH.
(i) Find the coordinates of H.
(ii) Let C be the circle passing through F, G and H. Someone claims that E lies
outside C. Do you agree? Explain your answer.
(6 marks)

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 SECTION B (35 marks)

15. A box contains 6 red balls and 3 yellow balls. If 4 balls are randomly drawn from the box at

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the same time,

(a) find the probability that at least 2 yellow balls are drawn, (2 marks)

(b) find the probability that the number of red balls drawn is more than the number of
yellow balls drawn. (2 marks)

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 16. The first term of a geometric sequence is 8 and the sum of the second term and the third term
of the sequence is 30. It is given that all terms of the sequence are positive.

(a) Find the common ratio of the sequence. (2 marks)

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(b) Find the least value of n such that the sum of the first n terms of the sequence is greater
than 2.4 × 1012. (3 marks)

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 17. Let f (x) = 3x2 – 18kx + 260, where k is a real constant. Let P be the vertex of the graph of
y = f (x).

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(a) Using the method of completing the square, express, in terms of k, the coordinates
of P. (2 marks)

(b) Let Q be the vertex of the graph of y = f (x + 8). R is a point on the same rectangular
coordinate system such that the coordinates of the circumcentre of △PQR are .
(i) Find k.
(ii) If P is the orthocentre of △PQR, find the coordinates of R.
(4 marks)

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 18. (a) In the figure, the slope of the straight line L1 is and the x-intercept of the straight

line L2 is 1200. L1 and L2 intersect at the point (200, 400). The shaded region
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(including the boundary) represents the solution of a system of inequalities. Find the
system of inequalities.

(4 marks)
(b) A pharmaceutical factory produces two types of supplement pills, X and Y. Each bottle
of pill X requires 12 units of mineral P and 4 units of mineral Q while each bottle of
pill Y requires 9 units of mineral P and 10 units of mineral Q. On a certain day, there
are 6000 units of mineral P and 4800 units of mineral Q in the factory. The profits for
producing a bottle of pill X and a bottle of pill Y are $80 and $140 respectively. The
manager claims that the total profit can exceed $75 000 on that day. Do you agree?
Explain your answer. (4 marks)

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 19. (a) In Figure 1(a), ABCD is a paper card in the form of a quadrilateral. It is given that
ABC = 120°, AB = AD = 11 cm and BC = CD = 24 cm.
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Find AC and CAB. (4 marks)
(b) The paper card in Figure 1(a) is folded along AC such that AB and AD lie on the
horizontal ground as shown in Figure 1(b). It is given that the angle between the plane
ABC and the horizontal ground is 40°.

(i) Find the shortest distance from C to the horizontal ground.

(ii) Find the volume of the tetrahedron ABDC.
(iii) Someone claims that the angle between CD and the plane ABC is at most 15°.
Do you agree? Explain your answer
(8 marks)

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