N. T.

Heung Yee Kuk Yuen Long District Secondary School

Mid-Sessional Examination 2016/17
S.3 Mathematics (Paper 1)
Question-Answer Book /180
Exam. Date: 8th January 2017 Exam. Time: 8:45 a.m.－10:30 a.m. Duration: 1 hr 45 mins

Class: S.3 ____ Name: _____________________ Class No.: _________ Maximum mark: 180

INSTRUCTIONS

1. DO NOT TURN OVER THIS PAPER UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO SO. Look for the words

‘END OF PAPER’ after the last question.

2. This paper consists of TWO sections A and B.

3. Attempt ALL questions. Write your answers in the spaces provided in this Question-Answer Book.

4. Unless otherwise specified, all working must be clearly shown.

5. Unless otherwise specified, numerical answers should be either exact or correct to 3 significant figures.

6. Express all answers in their SIMPLEST FORMS.

7. The diagrams are not necessarily drawn to scale.

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Section A: Short Questions (80 marks)
1. (a) Factorize (2m  5)( 3  m) + 2m. (3 marks)

(b) Factorize 36a3  108ba2  81ab2. (3 marks)

2. Simplify the following expressions and express the answers with positive indices.
[where x  0 and y  0]
x6 y−2
(a) . (4 marks)
7−2 𝑦 −3
2 3
x6 y−3 7
(b) (7−1 𝑦 −2 ) ÷ (− 𝑥𝑦 0 ) . (7 marks)

3. Without using calculator, find the value of [(0.0032 × 106 )2 + (68000 × 10−1 )(3.2 × 103 )] ÷ (2 × 10−3 ) and
express your answer in scientific notation. (5 marks)

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4. Patrick deposited $20 000 in a bank at an interest rate of 5.2% p.a. for 1 year.
(a) Find the simple interest. (3 marks)
(b) Suppose the interest is compounded weekly. Find the compound interest,
correct to the nearest dollar. (Take 1 year  52 weeks.) (5 marks)

5. In a city, the numbers of blood donations in 2005 and 2006 were 26 000 and 27 040 respectively.
(a) Find the growth factor of the number of blood donations from 2005 to 2006. (2 marks)
(b) If the number of blood donations increase at a constant rate from 2005 to 2012, find the percentage
increase of the number of blood donations from 2005 to 2012, correct to the nearest integer.
(5 marks)

6. (a) (i) Solve the inequality 2(4  3x)  x  14  5x. (4 marks)

4 x  1 3x  2
(ii) Solve the inequality   0 and represent the solution graphically. (6 marks)
3 4
(b) Write down a positive integer that satisfy both inequalities in (a)(i) and (a)(ii). (1 mark)

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7. The following table shows the numbers of children in some families in a town.

Number of children 0 1 2 3 4
Number of families 12 16 13 6 3
If a family is randomly selected,
(a) find the probability of selecting a family with more than 2 children. (3 marks)
(b) Find the expected number of children in a family. (3 marks)
(c) If 725 families are selected randomly in the same town,
estimate the number of family with only one child in this selection. (2 marks)

8. Given seven numbers :

10, 8, 2, 6, 7, 1, 8
Find the mean, median, mode and 1st quartile ( Q1 ). (5 marks)

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9 . The cumulative frequency polygon shows the marks of students in a Chinese test.

(a) Write down the median ( Q2 ), 25th percentile ( P25 ) and 3rd quartile ( Q3 ) of the marks.
(3marks)
(b) Students get 55 marks or above will be awarded grade A.
Find the percentage of students getting grade A. (3marks)

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10. The length and the width of a wooden board are measured as 87 cm and 86 cm respectively, correct to
the nearest cm.
(a) Find the maximum absolute error of the measurements. (2 marks)
(b) Find the lower limit and upper limit of the actual width of the board. (3 marks)
(c) Find the least possible area of the board. (2 marks)
(d) Find the range of the actual area of the board. (3 marks)

11. Prove that (sin   cos )2  1 – 2 cos sin . (3 marks)

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Section B: Structural Questions (100 marks)
12. (a) Factorize
(i) 27x3  8y3. (2 marks)
(ii) 54x2y  24y3. (3 marks)
(iii) 9a2 + 24ab + 16b2 (2 marks)
(b) Hence, factorize 27x3 + 54x2y  32y3. (5 marks)

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13. The following figure shows a polar coordinate plane.

(a) (i) Write down the polar coordinates of A and B.

(ii) Find AOB. (4 marks)

(b) Let C(4, x) and D be two different points on the polar coordinate plane, where x  330 and
C, O and D are collinear. OA  CD and OB  2OD.
(i) Write down the value of x.
(ii) Write down all possible coordinates of D.
(iii) Take the coordinates of D which make CD the longest.
(1) What is the area of ACD?
(2) Peter claims that the area of OBC is twice that of OBD. Do you agree? Explain your
answer. (10 marks)

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14. In the current financial year of a city, the amount of salaries tax charged for a citizen is calculated
according to the following rules:

Net chargeable income ($) Rate

On the first 40 000 6%
On the next 40 000 12%
On the next 40 000 19%
Remainder 27%

(1) Net chargeable income = Annual income – Basic allowance

(2) Basic allowance of a single citizen is $ 135 000

(a) Let $P ( P >120000) be the annual income of a citizen. If the citizen has to pay salaries tax
not less than $0.22P, express the amount of salaries tax payable for the citizen in terms of P.
Hence find the least annual income of the citizen. (6 marks)

(b) The annual income of Amy is$ 335 000.

(i) Find the salaries tax payable. (5 marks)

(ii) In order to pay her salaries tax, Amy begins to save money 12 months before the due day of paying
salaries tax. A deposit of $9 000 is saved in a bank on the first day of the 1st, the 4th, the 7th and
the 10th month at an interest rate of 4% per annum, compounded quarterly. There are totally 4
deposits. Will Amy have enough money to pay her salaries tax on the due day? Explain your
answer. (5 marks)

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15. The back-to-back stem-and-leaf diagram below shows the distribution of the weights (in kg) of two
groups of students, A and B.

Group A Group B
Leaf (units) Stem (tens) Leaf (units)
9 8 4 a 8
8 6 5 5 2 5 0 0 3 4 8 9
4 3 0 6 0 1 8 b

(a) Find the mean, mode and median of the weights of the students in group A. (5 marks)

(b) It is given that the mean of the weights of the students in group B is the same as the mean of the
weights of all students in the two groups.

(i) Find the mean of the weights of the students in group B.

(3 marks)
(ii) Rachel claims that the difference between the weights of the heaviest students and the
lightest students in group B must be less than 25 kg. Do you agree? Explain your answer.
(7 marks)
(iii) A scientist wants to find the weighted mean of weights of students in group A with the weight
as shown in the following table. Find the weighted mean, correct your answer to 3 significant
figures. (2 marks)
Student’s weight (kg) 40-49 50-59 60-69
Weight of weighted mean 1 2 3

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16. The figure shows a square board, where M and N are the mid-points of AD and AB respectively.
A dart is thrown and hits the board. Suppose a dart lands on the board randomly and it will not land on
the boundaries.

(a) Find the probability of hitting region I. (3 marks) A M D

(b) Find the probability of hitting region IV. (3 marks)
(c) The following table shows the prizes of hitting different
regions. I III
Region I II III IV
Prize $3 $5 $5 $10 N IV
Find the expected value of the prize of the game. If $7 is
needed to play the game once, is it worthy to play the game?
II
(5 marks)

B C

17. Dick wants to join the golf club. The Golden club membership costs $350 per person and $26 will be
charged for each hour of playing time. The Silver club membership costs $200 per person and $40 will
be charged for each hour, in integer, of playing time. Let x be the number of hours that Dick plans to
play.

(a) Express the amount Dick has to pay, in terms of x, if he joins

(i) the Golden club membership, (1 mark)
(ii) the Silver club membership. (1 mark)
(b) At least how many hours should Dick play so that it costs less to join the Golden club membership
than Silver Club membership? (5 marks)

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18. The sum of the digits of a two-digit number is 8 and the value of this two-digit number is less than 40.
Let x be the units digit of the two-digit number.
(a) Find the smallest possible value of x. (9 marks)
(b) Find all the possible values of this two-digit number. (5 marks)

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19. The following pie chart shows the distribution of the costs of making a cupboard.

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

(b) Suppose the costs of wood and metal both increase by 15%, the cost of labour increases by 10%,
the cost of sundry decreases by 20% and the cost of making a cupboard remains unchanged.
(i) Find the percentage change in the cost of paint, correct to 3 significant figures. (4 marks)
(ii) Find the new cost of paint if the new cost of labour is $178.2. (3 marks)

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