SING YIN SECONDARY SCHOOL

FINAL EXAMINATION (2013 – 2014)

MATHEMATICS EXTENDED PART
MODULE 1 (CALCULUS AND STATISTICS)
FORM 4 TIME ALLOWED: 1 HR 30 MIN.

TOTAL MARKS: 60

Answer ALL questions.

All working must be clearly shown.
Unless otherwise specified, numerical answers should be either exact or correct to 4 decimal places.
Page 3 should be handed in with the Answer Book after the examination.

2x2  7 x  4
1. Find lim .
x  4 x 2  x  12

(3 marks)

d
2. (a) Find [ln x 3 ] .
dx

d
(b) Find [ln x x ] .
dx

(5 marks)

1 8
3. Determine whether the expansion of ( x 2  ) consists of
2x

(a) a constant term,

(b) an x7 term.
In each part, find the term if it exists.
(5 marks)

d2y dy
4. It is given that y  log 3 (2 x  3) . Show that (2 x  3) 2
2 0.
dx dx
(4 marks)
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5. Consider the curve C: y  ( x)(2 x ) . Find the equation of the tangent to the curve at x = 2.
(4 marks)

6. Given that f (x) is a differentiable function, f (2)  3 and f ' (2)  1 . Find the values of the
derivatives at each of the following given values of x.
(a) If g ( x)  ln[ f ( x)] , find g ' (2) .

x3
(b) If h( x)  , find h' (2) .
f ( x)
(5 marks)

7. A radioactive material decays and its mass M (in g) after t days is given as
M  ke at , where k and a are constants.
It is given that the initial mass of the radioactive material is 8.5 g and its mass is 7.26 g after one week.
(a) Find the mass of the radioactive material after 20 days.
(b) It is given that the radioactive material can be considered as “safe” when it is less than 1 mg.
After how many days will it be considered as “safe”? Correct the answer to the nearest
integer.
(5 marks)

u
2 dy
8. It is given that y  e2 and u  8  . Find .
x4 dx x 5

(6 marks)

1
9. (a) Expand (t  ) 3 in descending power of t.
t

(b) Express (ekx  e  kx )3 in ascending powers of x up to the term in x2.

(c) Suppose the coefficient of x2 in the result of (b) is 3. Find all possible values of k.
(6 marks)

r (r n  1)
10. It is given that r  r 2  r 3  ...  r n  .
r 1

(1  x)101  x  1
(a) Show that (1  x)  (1  x) 2  (1  x)3  ...  (1  x)100  .
x

(1  x)101  x  1
(b) Find the coefficient of x 2 in .
x
(c) By considering the coefficient of x 2 in (1  x) m , where m is a positive integer and m  2 ,
and using the above results, find C22  C23  C24  ...  C2100 .
(8 marks)
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11. After the beginning of an observation for x days, the number y (in hundred) of bacteria in a sample
can be modeled by
y  10(1  ae bx ) , where a and b are positive constants and x  0 .
The values of y when x = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 were recorded as follows:
x 1 2 3 4 5
y 2.53 3.33 5.03 6.02 6.67
(a) Let u  aebx .
(i) Express ln u as a linear function of x.
(ii) Express u in terms of y.
(b) Later, it is known that one of the values of y in the above table was not correctly recorded.
(i) By plotting a suitable straight line on the graph paper below, determine which value of
y is incorrectly recorded.
(ii) By neglecting the incorrect value of y, find a, b and the time x when there are 900
bacteria. Correct your answer to 1 decimal place.
(9 marks)
ln u

0 1 2 3 4 5 x

−0.2

−0.4

−0.6

−0.8

−1.0

−1.2

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