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Core Mathematics C3: GCE Examinations Advanced Subsidiary

This document is a past exam paper for the GCE Advanced Subsidiary Core Mathematics C3 exam. It contains 7 questions testing a variety of calculus, trigonometry, and function skills. Candidates are advised to show their working and that full marks can be obtained by answering all questions correctly. The questions cover topics like simplifying expressions, proving trigonometric identities, solving equations, finding derivatives, graphing functions, and modeling exponential decay.

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Core Mathematics C3: GCE Examinations Advanced Subsidiary

This document is a past exam paper for the GCE Advanced Subsidiary Core Mathematics C3 exam. It contains 7 questions testing a variety of calculus, trigonometry, and function skills. Candidates are advised to show their working and that full marks can be obtained by answering all questions correctly. The questions cover topics like simplifying expressions, proving trigonometric identities, solving equations, finding derivatives, graphing functions, and modeling exponential decay.

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FOR EDEXCEL

GCE Examinations Advanced Subsidiary

Core Mathematics C3
Paper E Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
Instructions and Information
Candidates may use any calculator EXCEPT those with the facility for symbolic algebra, differentiation and / or integration. Full marks may be obtained for answers to ALL questions. Mathematical formulae and statistical tables are available. This paper has seven questions.

Advice to Candidates
You must show sufficient working to make your methods clear to an examiner. Answers without working may gain no credit.

Written by Shaun Armstrong

Solomon Press These sheets may be copied for use solely by the purchasers institute.

1.

Express

2 x3 + x 2 x2 x2 4 2x2 5x 3 as a single fraction in its simplest form. Prove that, for cos x 0, sin 2x tan x tan x cos 2x. (b) Hence, or otherwise, solve the equation sin 2x tan x = 2 cos 2x, for x in the interval 0 x 180. f(x) = x2 + 5x 2 sec x, x , < x < .
2 2

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2.

(a)

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3.

(a)

Show that the equation f(x) = 0 has a root in the interval [1, 1.5].

(2)

A more accurate estimate of this root is to be found using iterations of the form xn + 1 = arccos g(xn). (b) Find a suitable form for g(x) and use this formula with x0 = 1.25 to find x1, x2, x3 and x4. Give the value of x4 to 3 decimal places.
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The curve y = f(x) has a stationary point at P. (c)


4.

Show that the x-coordinate of P is 1.0535 correct to 5 significant figures. Differentiate each of the following with respect to x and simplify your answers. (i) (ii) 1 cos x x3 ln x

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(a)

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(b)

Given that x= y +1 , 3 2y
dy in terms of y. dx

find and simplify an expression for

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5.

(a)

Express

3 sin + cos in the form R sin ( + ) where R > 0


2

and 0 < < . (b) (c) State the maximum value of 3 sin + cos and the smallest positive value of for which this maximum value occurs. Solve the equation 3 sin + cos + 3 = 0,

(4)

(3)

for in the interval , giving your answers in terms of .


6.

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The function f is defined by f(x) 3 x2, x , x 0. (a) (b) (c) State the range of f. Sketch the graphs of y = f(x) and y = f 1(x) on the same diagram. Find an expression for f 1(x) and state its domain.
(1) (3) (4)

The function g is defined by g(x) (d) (e) Evaluate fg(3). Solve the equation f 1(x) = g(x).
(3) Turn over
8 , x , x 3. 3 x

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7.

T 18 12

10

60 70
Figure 1

120

Figure 1 shows a graph of the temperature of a room, T C, at time t minutes. The temperature is controlled by a thermostat such that when the temperature falls to 12C, a heater is turned on until the temperature reaches 18C. The room then cools until the temperature again falls to 12C. For t in the interval 10 t 60, T is given by T = 5 + Aekt, where A and k are constants. Given that T = 18 when t = 10 and that T = 12 when t = 60, (a) (b) show that k = 0.0124 to 3 significant figures and find the value of A, find the rate at which the temperature of the room is decreasing when t = 20.
(6) (4)

The temperature again reaches 18C when t = 70 and the graph for 70 t 120 is a translation of the graph for 10 t 60. (c) Find the value of the constant B such that for 70 t 120 T = 5 + Bekt.
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