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EDUCATION MOCK EXAMINATION MOCK 1
MATHEMATICS Extended Part Question Mark(s) Full
Module 1 (Calculus and Statistics) number Got Marks
Question-Answer Book 1 6
Time allowed : 2 hours and 30 minutes 2 6
This paper must be answered in English
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1. After the announcement of the start of the
Examination, you should first write you 5 6
Candidate number and name in the spaces 6 6
provided.
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2. This paper consists of TWO sections,
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A and B , each sections carry 50 marks.
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3. Do not write in the margins. Answer written
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4. Unless otherwise specified, all working must
be clearly shown. 12 13

5. Unless otherwise specified, numerical

answers should be either exact or correct
to 4 decimal places.

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SECTION A (50 marks)

1. The table below shows the probability distribution of a discrete random variable X , where
c is a constant.

x c 3 5 6
P(X = x) c c 0.47 0.13

Given that E ( X )=3.77 .

(a) Find the value of c . (2 marks)

(b) Is it possible such that E(nX −9)=Var (nX −9) ? Explain your answer. (4 marks)

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2. 75% of the members of a club house are adults and the rest are children. 75% of the adults
and 60% of the children are male. Half of the adult males, one third of the adult females and
80% of children of each sex use the swimming pool at the club.

(a) Suppose a member is selected at random from the club house.

(i) Find the probability that the member chosen uses the swimming pool.
(2 marks)

(ii) It is known that the one chosen uses the swimming pool. Find the probability
that this member is male. (2 marks)

(b) Find the probability that a male user of the swimming pool is child. (2 marks)

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3. Given that A and B are events. A’ and B’ are complementary events of A and B
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respectively. It is known that P ( A)= and P ( B∣A' )= .
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(a) Are A’ and B’ mutually exclusive events? Explain your answer. (4 marks)

(b) Suppose A and B are mutually exclusive events, find

(i) P ( B) , (1 mark)

(ii) P ( A∣B ' ) . (1 mark)

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4. It is known that the amount of gold (measured in kg) in the caves is normally distributed.
Some speleologist investigated 25 caves, and the following shows the amount of the gold
in different caves.

78 67 66 80 32 50 60 55 53 63
29 94 82 73 66 53 55 50 56 57
47 57 60 62 66

Let μ kg be the population mean amount of the gold in the caves.

(a) Estimate μ . (1 mark)

(b) Find the probability such that the mean amount of gold in 25 caves exceed 70 kg.
(3 marks)

(c) Is 55 lies inside the approximate 90% confidence interval for μ ? Explain your
answer. (3 marks)

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5. A researcher put 20 bacteria into a medium. The rate of change of the number of bacteria
d P 600 t 600
can be modelled by = 2 − +300 e−0.2t , where P is the number of bacteria and
dt t +9 t +3
t hours is the time elapsed since the bacteria has been put into the medium.

(a) Express P in terms of t . (3 marks)

(b) Find the number of bacteria in the medium after a long period of time. (3 marks)

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6. A 13 meters plank is resting against the wall. The bottom is initially 12 meters away from
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the wall. We push the bottom of the plank towards the wall at a rate of m/s .
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(a) How far is the bottom of the plank from the wall 28 seconds after we start pushing?
Explain your answer. (2 marks)

(b) How fast is the top of the plank moving up the wall 28 seconds after we start
pushing? Explain your answer. (4 marks)

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7. Let f ( x )=24(e ax −ax) where a is a positive constant.

(a) Express f ( x ) in ascending powers of x as far as the term in x3 . (2 marks)

(b) It is possible such that f ( x )( x−1)7 =−24+168 x−516 x 2 +928 x 3 + terms that
have higher power of x ? Explain your answer. (4 marks)

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8. Let A=−3 xe x .

dA d2 A dn A
(a) Find and . Hence express in terms of x and n where n is a
dx d x2 d xn
positive integer. (3 marks)

d 30 A
(b) Given that f ( x )= 30 . The equation of the curve Γ is y=f ( x ) . Denote the
dx

(
tangent to the curve Γ at x = –2 as L . Does the point −1 ,−
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e ) lies on both
curve L and Γ ? Explain your answer. (4 marks)

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SECTION B (50 marks)

9. Denote X as the number of customers enters the bowling centre in each hour. It is know
that X follows the Poisson distribution and the standard deviation of X is 2 . Suppose the
number of people who enters in each hour is independent.

(a) Find the probability such that exactly 12 people enter the bowling centre in three
consecutive hours. (2 marks)

(b) Find the probability such that there at least 3 people enter the bowling centre in
three consecutive hours. (2 marks)

(c) Suppose the bowling centre opens at 8:00 am. Excluding the admin named Hanky,
the bowling centre is completely empty. Denote Y as the number of customers
leaves the bowling centre in each hour. Hanky found that Y also follows the Poisson
distribution. Suppose Hanky will not leave the bowling centre in the entire period of
time. Given that the probability such that there are 5 people in the bowling centre
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before 9:00 am is 7
. The bowling centre will close at 11:00 am.
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(i) Find the mean of Y . (2 marks)

(ii) Given that there are only 3 customers entered the bowling centre and all of
them entered before 9:00 am and there are 2 people only right after 10:00
am . (3 marks)

(iii) Given there are only 3 customers entered the bowling centre and all of them
entered at the same time. Suppose no one entered during the middle hour
period. Find the probability such that there are 2 people staying in the centre
during the entire period of last hour. Express your answer in 3 significant
figures. (3 marks)

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10. The volume of a bottle of energy drink Mountain Dew follows a normal distribution. In the
bottle, the label shows that the volume of each bottle should be exactly the mean volume. It
is known that there are 15.87% of the bottle which the volume is more than 338 mL and
there are 10.56% of the bottle which the volume is below 320 mL .

(a) Find the mean and standard deviation of the volume of the bottle. (3 marks)

(b) Paul claims that he get some of the bottle with the volume 330 mL . Is it true?
Explain your answer. (2 marks)

(c) Find the maximum volume, such that more than 30% of the bottle below it.
(2 marks)

(d) Now all the bottles are poured in a box and they are inspected one by one, the
volume below the value that found on (c) is classified as unacceptable .

(i) Find the probability such that the second unacceptable bottle is found in
tenth inspection. (2 marks)

(ii) If the probability of first unacceptable bottle is found after the tenth
inspection exceed 0.02 . Find the least extra number of bottle need to be
inspected. (4 marks)

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11. Given f ( x )=−5 ln ( x +3) , g ( x )= and h ( x )= ( x−2)( x−8) . Let F be
x+3 8
the area of region bounded by the axes, vertical line x = 10 , curve y=f ( x ) and
y=h ( x ) . Let G be the area of region bounded by the axes, vertical line x = 10 , curve
y=g ( x ) and y=h ( x ) .

(a) By using 5 sub-intervals, estimate the value of F . (4 marks)

(b) Find the value of G . (5 marks)

(c) Ceci claims that F must greater than G . Is she correct? Explain your answer.
(3 marks)

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12. Daniel found that the total weight W kg of Kevin can be modelled by
2t
−W 0 +2 +(584 ln 2)t
W= +300
4 ln 2

where t (0≤t≤50) is number of months elapsed in the observation. And W 0 is the

weight of Kevin’s belly as known as the part of his total weight. Given that ln W 0 partly
varies as t and partly constant. Daniel plots the graph of ln W 0 against t and he
discovered it passes through the point (10 , 16 ln 2) and intersects the vertical axis at ln 64 .

(a) Write down the type of relation between ln W 0 and t . (1 mark)

(b) Express W 0 in terms of t . (3 marks)

dW
(c) Find . (2 marks)
dt

(d) Does the maximum weight exist? Explain your answer. Find the maximum weight
and correct it to 3 significant figures if it is exist. (4 marks)

(e) Paul claims that the maximum weight and maximum rate of change of weight
occurred at the same time. Do you agree? Explain your answer. (3 marks)

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