Class

Reg No

Candidate Name ____________________________________________

FAJAR SECONDARY SCHOOL

2005 PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION
SECONDARY 4 EXP/ 5 NORMAL (A)

MATHEMATICS
PAPER 1

4017/1

12 September 2005

2 hours

Additional Materials:
Geometrical Instruments

READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST

Write your name, class and register number on all the work you hand in.
Write in dark blue or black pen on both sides of the paper.
You may use a soft pencil for any diagrams or graphs.
Do not use staples, paper clips, highlighters, glue or correction fluids.
Answer all the questions.
The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part
question.
If working is needed for any question, it must be shown in the space below that
question. Omission of essential working will result in loss of marks.
The total number of marks for this paper is 80.
NEITHER ELECTRONIC CALCULATORS NOR MATHEMATICAL TABLES MAY
BE USED IN THIS PAPER.

This question paper consists of 14 printed pages

1. (a) Subtract 280 metres from 2.8 kilometres. Give your answer in kilometres.
(b) Find the decimal number which is exactly halfway between 1.3 and 2.4.

Answer: (a) _______________ km [1]

(b) __________________ [1]
__________________________________________________________________
2. Evaluate
(a) 3 5 ! 2 5 .
1
(b) 1.79 + 2 .
8

Answer: (a) __________________ [1]

(b) __________________ [1]
__________________________________________________________________
3. Express 5.5%
(a) as a decimal.
(b) as a fraction in its simplest form.

Answer: (a) _________________ [1]

(b) _________________ [1]

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4. (a) Write down the next two terms in the sequence 91, 87 , 84, 80 , 77,
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2

(b) Write down an expression, in terms of n, for the nth term of the sequence
1, 5, 9, 13, 17, ............... .

Answer: (a) _________, _________ [1]

(b) Tn = _______________ [1]
__________________________________________________________________
5. (a) Factorize x + 4x 12.
(b) Given that x = 3 is a solution of the equation ax3 + x2 = 45. Find the value of
the unknown a.

Answer: (a) __________________ [1]

(b) a = _______________ [1]
__________________________________________________________________
6. (a) Find the lowest common multiple of 14, 20 and 30.
(b) Three robots, Amy, Ben and Charles are running around the field. The timings
for the three of them to complete one round are 30, 20 and 14 minutes
respectively. They started off together at 7.05a.m. Assuming that they can run
non-stop, when will they run side by side again?

Answer: (a) __________________ [1]

(b) __________________ [1]

7. In the diagram, PQR is a straight line,

PQ = 3 cm, PS = 4 cm and SP Q = 90.

Write down
(a) tan PSQ ,

4 cm

(b) cos RQ S .
P

3 cm

Answer: (a) __________________ [1]

(b) __________________ [1]
__________________________________________________________________
8. Expressed as the product of prime factors,
9295 = 5 11 132

and

1573 = 112 13

Use these results to find

(a) the highest common factor of 9295 and 1573.
(b) the smallest integer, h, such that 9295h is a perfect square.
(c) the smallest integer, n, such that 1573n is a multiple of 9295.

Answer: (a) __________________ [1]

(b) h = _______________ [1]
(c) n = _______________ [1]

9.

(a) If the bearing of A from B is 240, what is the bearing of B from A?

(b) Find all integers which satisfy both
3x + 9 0

and

x > 6.

Answer: (a) _________________ [1]

(b) __________________ [1]
__________________________________________________________________
10. (a) y is inversely proportional to x2. It is known that y = 16 for a particular value
of x. Find the value of y when this value of x is doubled.
(b) Express 2.9 10 4 grams in kilograms. Give your answer in standard form.

Answer: (a) __________________ [2]

(b) _______________ kg [1]

11. Find the values of a, b and c when

(a) 64 = 2a 4,
(b) 81b = 3,
(c) 0.00009 = 9c.

Answer: (a) a = ______________ [1]

(b) b = ______________ [1]
(c) c = ______________ [1]
__________________________________________________________________
12. Given that a > 0, sketch the following graphs.

y=

a
x

y=

[2]
!a
x2

13. The diagram shows the graph of y = 4(x-1)2 +16.

(a) Write down the coordinates of the turning point A.

(b) Find the coordinates of points B, C and D.

A
B

Answer: (a) A(_______,_______) [1]

(b) B(_______,_______)
C(_______,_______)
D(_______,_______)[4]
__________________________________________________________________
14. (a) Factorize fully 9p2r r + 18p2s 2s.
(b) Solve the simultaneous
4x 3y = 11,
5x 2y =

3
.
2

Answer: (a) _________________________ [3]

(b) x = ________, y = __________ [3]

15. A lorry miniature is made from a scale of 1: 20.

(a) If the diameter of a miniatures wheel is 2.5cm, what is the actual diameter of
the wheel of a lorry? Leave your answer in metres.
(b) The windscreen of the lorry has a surface area of 1.5m2. Find the windscreen
surface area of the miniature. Leave your answer in square centimetres.
(c) The lorry can load 80m3 of sand. How much sand can the miniature load?
Leave your answer in cubic metres.

Answer: (a) ________________ m [1]

(b) ______________ cm2 [2]
(c) _______________ m3 [2]
__________________________________________________________________
16. (a) Two unbiased dice are thrown.
Find, in its simplest fractional form, the probability that the sum of the
numbers is even and less than 10.
(b) A point is chosen at random inside the circle. Find, in its simplest fractional
form, the probability that this point lands in the major sector.

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Answer: (a) ________________ [2]
(b) ________________ [2]

17. The ordered stem-and-leaf diagram below records the height, in centimetres, of 40
students of a secondary school.
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15

16

17

18

19

(a) Write down the modal height.

(b) Find the median height.
(c) What is the percentage of students having a height of at least 182cm?

Answer: (a) _______________ cm [1]

(b) _______________ cm [2]
(c) _______________ % [2]

18. In triangle ABD, BF is parallel to CE.

A

F
E

B
C

(a) Prove that there are two similar triangles.

Answer (a) ______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
__________________________________________________

[2]

(b) If C is the mid-point of BD,

find the ratio area of CDE : area of trapezium BCEF.

Answer: (b) ________: ________ [2]

_____________________________________________________________________
19. (a) (i)
(ii)

Factorise mn + mp.
Hence evaluate 5.982736 811 + 5.982736 189.

(b) Solve the equation 9(x 1) = 2 (3x 4).

Answer: (a) (i) ________________ [1]

(ii) ________________ [1]
(b) x = _______________ [2]

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20. The diagram below shows a velocity-time graph of a moving vehicle over 10
minutes. Sketch the corresponding distance-time graph below. Mark the distance
travelled on the axis clearly.

[3]

Velocity (m/min)

10

10

Time (min)

Distance (m)

Time (min)

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& 10 #
21. Given that BC = $$ !! and CD = $$ !! .
% '1"
% ' 5"

(a) Express BD as a column vector.

(b) Find the value of BD .
(c) ABCD is a parallelogram. The point B is labelled below. Draw and label
clearly the parallelogram in the Cartesian plane below.

[3]

Answer: (a)

BD = ______________ [1]

(b) BD = __________ units [1]

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22.

(a) Triangle A is mapped onto triangle B with a shear factor 1 along the y-axis.
Draw the y-axis.

[2]

(b) Describe fully the single transformation that maps triangle B onto triangle C.

Answer (b) ___________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________ [3]

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23. In triangle ABC, AB = 10cm, BC = 8cm and AC = 5cm.

(a) Using ruler and compasses only, draw triangle ABC.
(b) Using ruler and compasses only, draw the locus of all points within the
triangle that are
(i)

2cm from AB,

(ii) equidistant from A and B.

(c) The point S, is such that it is always 2cm from AB and S is equidistant from A
and B. Label S.
(d) The region R, lies within the triangle ABC. Points in R are
I

more than 2cm from AB,

II

nearer to A then B.

Shade the region R.

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