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Aqa MPC4 W QP Jan10

The document is an exam paper for an A-level mathematics exam. It contains 9 multi-part questions testing a range of mathematics topics including algebra, trigonometry, calculus and vectors. Students are required to show working where necessary and give numerical answers to an appropriate degree of accuracy.

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General Certificate of Education

Advanced Level Examination


January 2010

Mathematics

MPC4

Unit Pure Core 4


Tuesday 19 January 2010

9.00 am to 10.30 am

For this paper you must have:


*
an 8-page answer book
*
the blue AQA booklet of formulae and statistical tables.
You may use a graphics calculator.

Time allowed
*
1 hour 30 minutes
Instructions
*
Use black ink or black ball-point pen. Pencil should only be used for drawing.
*
Write the information required on the front of your answer book. The Examining Body for
this paper is AQA. The Paper Reference is MPC4.
*
Answer all questions.
*
Show all necessary working; otherwise marks for method may be lost.
Information
*
The marks for questions are shown in brackets.
*
The maximum mark for this paper is 75.
Advice
*
Unless stated otherwise, you may quote formulae, without proof, from the booklet.

P21993/Jan10/MPC4 6/6/6/

MPC4

Answer all questions.

1 The polynomial f x is defined by f x 15x 3 19x 2  4 .


(a)

(i) Find f 1 .

(1 mark)

(ii) Show that 5x  2 is a factor of f x .

(2 marks)

(b) Simplify
15x 2  6x
f x
giving your answer in a fully factorised form.

(5 marks)

p
(a) Express cos x 3 sin x in the form R cosx  a , where R > 0 and 0 < a < . Give
2
your value of a, in radians, to three decimal places.
(3 marks)
(b)

(i) Hence write down the minimum value of cos x 3 sin x .

(1 mark)

(ii) Find the value of x in the interval 0 4 x 4 2p at which this minimum occurs,
giving your answer, in radians, to three decimal places.
(2 marks)
(c) Solve the equation cos x 3 sin x 2 in the interval 0 4 x 4 2p , giving all solutions,
in radians, to three decimal places.
(4 marks)

(a)

1

(i) Find the binomial expansion of 1 x

up to and including the term in x 2 .


(2 marks)

 1

3
3
up to and including the term
(ii) Hence find the binomial expansion of 1 4 x
in x 2 .

(2 marks)

r
3 256
 a bx cx 2 for small values of x, stating the values of
(b) Hence show that
4 3x
the constants a, b and c.
(3 marks)

P21993/Jan10/MPC4

10x 2 8
A
B
can be written in the form 2

, where A
x 15x  1
x 1 5x  1
and B are constants.

4 The expression

(a) Find the values of A and B.

(b) Hence find

(4 marks)

10x 2 8
dx .
x 15x  1

(4 marks)

5 A curve is defined by the equation


x 2 xy e y
Find the gradient at the point 1, 0 on this curve.

(a)

(i) Express sin 2y and cos 2y in terms of sin y and cos y .


(ii) Given that 0 < y <
of cos 2y .

(5 marks)

(2 marks)

p
3
24
and cos y , show that sin 2y
and find the value
2
5
25
(2 marks)

(b) A curve has parametric equations


x 3 sin 2y, y 4 cos 2y
(i) Find

dy
in terms of y .
dx

(ii) At the point P on the curve, cos y


tangent to the curve at the point P.

7 Solve the differential equation

(3 marks)
3
p
and 0 < y < . Find an equation of the
5
2
(3 marks)

x
dy 1
p
cos
, given that y 1 when x .
3
2
dx y

Write your answer in the form y 2 f x .

(6 marks)

Turn over for the next question

P21993/Jan10/MPC4

Turn over

8 The points A, B and C have coordinates 2, 1, 5 , 0, 5, 9 and 9, 2, 3


respectively.
2
3
2
3
2
1
The line l has equation r 4 1 5 l 4 3 5 .
5
2
(a) Verify that the point B lies on the line l.

(2 marks)

!
(b) Find the vector BC .

(2 marks)

!
!
(c) The point D is such that AD 2BC .
(i) Show that D has coordinates 20, 7, 19 .

(2 marks)

(ii) The point P lies on l where l p . The line PD is perpendicular to l. Find the
value of p.
(5 marks)

9 A botanist is investigating the rate of growth of a certain species of toadstool. She observes
that a particular toadstool of this type has a height of 57 millimetres at a time 12 hours after
it begins to grow.


1 t
She proposes the model h A 1  e 4 , where A is a constant, for the height
h millimetres of the toadstool, t hours after it begins to grow.
(a) Use this model to:
(i) find the height of the toadstool when t 0 ;
(ii) show that A 60 , correct to two significant figures.


1 t

(b) Use the model h 60 1  e

(1 mark)
(2 marks)


to:

(i) show that the time T hours for the toadstool to grow to a height of 48 millimetres
is given by
T a ln b
where a and b are integers;
(ii) show that

dh
h
15  ;
4
dt

(3 marks)
(3 marks)

(iii) find the height of the toadstool when it is growing at a rate of 13 millimetres
per hour.
(1 mark)
END OF QUESTIONS
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P21993/Jan10/MPC4

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