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Edexcel GCE
Core Mathematics C4
Gold Level (Hardest) G4
Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
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Mathematical Formulae (Green)
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There are 8 questions in this question paper. The total mark for this paper is 75.
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You must show sufficient working to make your methods clear to the Examiner. Answers
without working may gain no credit.
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1.
(a) Find
x e dx .
2 x
(5)
(b) Hence find the exact value of
1 2 x
0 x e dx .
(2)
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2.
2x
(2 x + 1) 2 dx.
0
1
(6)
June 2007
3.
Figure 2
Figure 2 shows a right circular cylindrical metal rod which is expanding as it is heated. After
t seconds the radius of the rod is x cm and the length of the rod is 5x cm.
The cross-sectional area of the rod is increasing at the constant rate of 0.032 cm2 s1.
(a) Find
dx
when the radius of the rod is 2 cm, giving your answer to 3 significant figures.
dt
(4)
(b) Find the rate of increase of the volume of the rod when x = 2.
(4)
June 2008
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4.
x
(i) Find ln dx .
2
(4)
2
(ii) Find the exact value of sin 2 x dx .
(5)
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5.
9x + 6
dx , x > 0.
(a) Find
x
(2)
(b) Given that y = 8 at x =1, solve the differential equation
1
(9 x + 6) y 3
dy
=
x
dx
giving your answer in the form y 2 = g(x).
(6)
January 2010
f() = 4 cos2 3sin2
6.
(a) Show that f() =
1
7
+ cos 2.
2
2
(3)
2
(b) Hence, using calculus, find the exact value of f ( ) d .
0
(7)
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7.
Relative to a fixed origin O, the point A has position vector (8i + 13j 2k), the point B has
position vector (10i + 14j 4k), and the point C has position vector (9i + 9j + 6k).
The line l passes through the points A and B.
(a) Find a vector equation for the line l.
(3)
(b) Find CB .
(2)
(c) Find the size of the acute angle between the line segment CB and the line l, giving your
answer in degrees to 1 decimal place.
(3)
(d) Find the shortest distance from the point C to the line l.
(3)
The point X lies on l. Given that the vector CX is perpendicular to l,
(e) find the area of the triangle CXB, giving your answer to 3 significant figures.
(3)
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8.
Liquid is pouring into a large vertical circular cylinder at a constant rate of 1600 cm3s1 and is
leaking out of a hole in the base, at a rate proportional to the square root of the height of the
liquid already in the cylinder. The area of the circular cross section of the cylinder is 4000 cm2.
(a) Show that at time t seconds, the height h cm of liquid in the cylinder satisfies the differential
equation
dh
= 0.4 kh,
dt
where k is a positive constant.
(3)
When h = 25, water is leaking out of the hole at 400 cm3s1.
(b) Show that k = 0.02.
(1)
(c) Separate the variables of the differential equation
dh
= 0.4 0.02h
dt
to show that the time taken to fill the cylinder from empty to a height of 100 cm is given by
100
50
dh .
0 20 h
(2)
Using the substitution h = (20 x)2, or otherwise,
100
50
dh .
(d) find the exact value of
0 20 h
(6)
(e) Hence find the time taken to fill the cylinder from empty to a height of 100 cm, giving your
answer in minutes and seconds to the nearest second.
(1)
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Question
Number
Scheme
Marks
du
u = x2
= 2x
st
nd
x
d
2 x
x e dx , 1 Application:
, 2 Application:
dv = e x v = e x
dx
du
u =x dx =1
dv = e x v = e x
dx
1. (a)
2 x
x 2 e x xe x {dx} , > 0
x e 2 xe dx
2 x
x 2 e x 2 xe x {dx}
M1
A1 oe
)
x
= x e 2 xe e dx
or for M1
K xe {dx} K xe e {dx}
= x 2 e x 2( xe x e x ) {+ c}
Ax 2 e x Bxe x C e x
M1
A1
(5)
{ x e
2 x
(b)
2( xe x e x )
(1 e
2 1
1
0
2(1e1 e1 ) ) ( 02 e0 2(0e0 e0 ) )
way round.
e 2 cso A1 oe
(2)
[7]
= e2
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Ax 2 e x Bxe x Ce x , A 0 , B 0 M1
and C 0 and subtracts the correct
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Question
Number
Scheme
1
2.
2x
dx , with substitution u = 2 x
(2 x + 1)2
du
= 2 x.ln 2
dx
Marks
dx
1
=
x
du 2 .ln 2
2x
1
dx =
(2 x + 1)2
ln 2
du
dx
du
dx
= u.ln 2
1
u
du
dx
= 2 x.ln 2 or
( )
or
1
du
(u + 1)2
= ln 2
(u + 1)
1
du
B1
M1
where k is constant
(u + 1)2
1 1
=
+c
ln 2 (u + 1)
(u + 1)
a(u + 1)1
1.(u + 1)
M1
A1
2x
1 1
dx =
2
x
ln 2 (u + 1) 1
(2 + 1)
1
ln 2
1 1
3 2
1
6ln 2
1
6ln2
or
1
ln 4
1
ln8
or
1
2ln2
1
3n2
A1 aef
[6]
2x
1 1
dx =
x
2
ln 2 (2 x + 1) 0
(2 + 1)
1 1 1
ln 2 3 2
1
6 ln 2
1
6ln2
or
1
ln 4
1
ln8
or
1
2ln2
1
3ln2
A1 aef
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3.
dA
= 0.032
dt
B1
dA
2
= 2 x
A = x
dx
dx dA dA
=
=
dt
dt
dx
When x = 2cm ,
Hence,
( 0.032 )
B1
0.016
; =
2 x x
1
M1
dx 0.016
=
dt
2
dx
= 0.002546479... (cm s-1)
dt
A1 cso (4)
=
V =
x 2 (5 x) 5 x 3
(b)
B1
dV
= 15 x 2
dx
B1 ft
0.016
dV dV dx
=
= 15 x 2 .
; {= 0.24 x}
dt
dx dt
x
dV
dt
= 0.48 (cm3 s 1 )
0.24(2)
When x = 2cm=
,
M1
A1 (4)
(8 marks)
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Question
Number
4. (i)
Scheme
=
ln ( 2x ) dx
) dx
ln (=
x
2
Marks
du 12 1
==
dx 2x x
=
v x
ln ( 2x )
u =
x
1.ln ( 2 ) dx
v
d=
1
dx
Use of integration by
parts formula in the M1
correct direction.
Correct expression. A1
x ln ( 2x ) x. 1x dx
An attempt to multiply x by
a candidates ax or bx1 or 1x . dM1
= x ln ( 2x ) 1 dx
= x ln ( 2x ) x + c
(ii)
sin 2 x dx
Consideration of double
M1
angle formula for cos 2x
1 cos 2 x
1
=
dx
2
2
(1 cos 2 x ) dx
Integrating to give
ax b sin 2 x ; a , b 0
1
2
=
x 12 sin 2 x
2
4
1
2
1
2
( 2 0) ( 4 12 )
sin(2 )
( 2 )
1
1
=
+ 12 ) =+
2(4
8
4
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dM1
ddM1
4 and subtracts the correct
way round.
1
2
( 4 + 12 )
A1 aef ,
cso
Candidate must collect
[5]
their term and constant
term together for A1
No fluked answers, hence
cso.
9 marks
or
+ 14 or
+ 82
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Question
Number
Q5
Scheme
(a)
Marks
9 x + 6=
dx 9 + dx
x
x
=
9 x + 6 ln x ( +C )
1
9 x + 6 dx
13 d y =
x
y
1
9x + 6
y 3 d y = x dx
(b)
y3
M1
A1
(2)
B1
=
9 x + 6 ln x ( +C )
ky 3 =
their ( a )
3 23
y =
9 x + 6 ln x ( +C )
2
ft their ( a )
2
3
y = 8, x =1
3 32
8 = 9 + 61n 1 + C
2
C = 3
2
2
y 3 = ( 9 x + 6 ln x 3)
3
y 2 =( 6 x + 4 ln x 2 )
M1
A1ft
M1
A1
( = 8 (3x + 2 ln x 1) )
3
A1
(6)
[8]
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Question
Number
6.
Scheme
(a)
Marks
=
f ( ) 4 cos 2 3sin 2
1 1
1 1
= 4 + cos 2 3 cos 2
2 2
2 2
1 7
=
+ cos 2
2 2
M1 M1
A1
(3)
cso
(b)
1
1
sin 2 d
sin 2
2
2
1
1
= sin 2 + cos 2
2
4
1 2 7
7
+ sin 2 + cos 2
f ( ) d =
4
4
8
2 d
=
cos
M1 A1
A1
M1 A1
...
2
7
7
2= + 0 0 + 0 +
0
8
8
16
2 7
=
16 4
M1
A1
(7)
[10]
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7.
2
or BA= 1
2
10 8 2
AB = OB OA = 14 13 = 1
4 2 2
(a)
10
2
14 + 1
4
2
8
2
=
r
=
r 13 + 1 or
2
2
(b)
accept equivalents
10 9 1
CB = OB OC = 14 9 = 5
4 6 10
CB
=
(1
+ 52 + ( 10 )= (126 ) =( 3 14 11.2 )
2
M1
M1 A1ft (3)
1
or BC = 5
10
awrt 11.2
M1 A1 (2)
CB. AB = CB AB cos
(c)
( )( 2 + 5 + 20 ) = 126 9 cos
cos =
M1 A1
3
36.7
14
awrt 36.7
A1
(3)
(d)
126
d
C
(e)
d
= sin
126
=
d 3 5 ( 6.7 )
M1 A1ft
awrt 6.7
BX 2 = BC 2 d 2 = 126 45 = 81
CBX =
A1
(3)
M1
1
1
27 5
BX d = 9 3 5 =
( 30.2 )
2
2
2
M1 A1 (3)
(14 marks)
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Question
Number
Scheme
dV
=
1600 c h
dt
8. (a)
(V=
4000h )
dh dh dV
=
=
dt dV dt
Either,
or
Marks
dV
=
1600 k h ,
dt
dV
= 4000
dh
dV
dt
dV
dh
dh 1600 c h 1600 c h
=
=
=
0.4 k h
dt
4000
4000 4000
Convincing proof of
dh 1600 k h 1600 k h
=
=
=
0.4 k h
dt
4000
4000 4000
or
M1
dh
dt
A1 AG
[3]
(b)
dV
= 400
dt
=
k
From above;
c
80
= = 0.02 as required
4000 4000
B1 AG
[1]
dh
=0.4 k h
dt
dh
0.4 k
dh
0.4 k
= dt
and
dt on either
M1 oe
100
1
0.02
time required =
dh
0.02
0
0.4 0.02 h
time required =
100
50
dh
20 h
Correct proof A1 AG
[2]
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Question
Number
Scheme
8. (d)
100
50
dh
20 h
h (20 x) 2
with substitution =
dh
= 2(20 x)(1) or
dx
h = (20 x) 2
50
dh =
20 h
dh
=
2(20 x)
dx
Correct
dh
dx
B1 aef
h = 20 x x = 20 h
20 x
dx or
x
M1
20 x
dx
20 (20 x)
where is a constant
50
. 2(20 x) dx
x
x 20
x dx
20
100 1
x dx
= 100
=
Marks
=
100 ( x 20ln x )
x ln x ; , 0
100 x 2000ln x
( +c )
M1
A1
change limits: =
when h 0=
then x 20
and
when h 100
=
=
then x 10
or
100
50
=
dh
20 h
[100 x 2000ln x ] 20
50
d=
h
20 h
100 20 h 2000ln 20 h
100
=
=
=
10
100
2000ln 2 1000
A1 aef
[6]
(e)
6 minutes, 26 seconds B1
[1]
13 marks
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Question 1
This question was generally well answered with about 73% of candidates gaining at least 5 of the
7 marks available and about 44% of candidates gaining all 7 marks. Almost all candidates
attempted this question with about 13% of them unable to gain any marks.
A significant minority of candidates performed integration by parts the wrong way round in part
1 3 x
1 3 x
1 3 x
(a) to give
xe
x e dx and proceeded by attempting to integrate
x e . Some
3
3
3
candidates failed to realise that integration by parts was required and wrote down answers such as
1 2
x
1 3 x
or applied the product rule of
x e + c. Few candidates integrated e x to give e 2
3
differentiation to give x 2 e x + 2 xe x . The majority of candidates, however, were able to apply the
first stage of integration by parts to give x 2 e x 2 x e x dx. Many candidates realised that they
needed to apply integration by parts for a second time in order to find
2 xe dx , or in some cases
x
xe dx . Those that failed to realise that a second application of integrating by parts was required
x
either integrated to give the final answer as a two term expression or just removed the integral
sign. A significant number of candidates did not organise their solution effectively, and made a
bracketing error which often led to a sign error leading to the final incorrect answer of
x 2 e x 2 xe x 2e x + c.
In part (b), candidates with an incorrect sign in the final term of their integrated expression often
proceeded to use the limits correctly to obtain an incorrect answer of 3e + 2. Errors in part (b)
included not substituting the limit of 0 correctly into their integrated expression; incorrectly
dealing with double negatives; evaluating 2e0 as 1 or failing to evaluate e0 . Most candidates who
scored full marks in part (a), achieved the correct answer of e 2 in part (b).
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Question 3
At the outset, a significant minority of candidates struggled to extract some or all of the information from
the question. These candidates were unable to write down the rate at which this cross-sectional area was
increasing, ddAt = 0.032; or the cross-sectional area of the cylinder A = x 2 and its derivative ddAx = 2 x
; or the volume of the cylinder V = 5 x 3 and its derivative
dV
dx
= 15 x 2 .
In part (a), some candidates wrote down the volume V of the cylinder as their cross-sectional area A.
Another popular error at this stage was for candidates to find the curved surface area or the total surface
area of a cylinder and write down either A = 10 x 2 or A = 12 x 2 respectively. At this stage many of
these candidates were able to set up a correct equation to find ddxt and usually divided 0.032 by their
dA
dx
and
substituted x = 2 into their expression to gain 2 out of the 4 marks available. Another error frequently
dV
dV dx
is rather more straight-forward to use than the one in part (a). Some candidates
=
dt
dx dt
struggled by introducing an extra variable r in addition to x and obtained a volume expression such as
V = r 2 (5 x). Many of these candidates did not realise that r x and were then unable to correctly
differentiate their expression for V. Other candidates incorrectly wrote down the volume as
V = 2 x 2 (5 x). Another common error was for candidates to state a correct V, correctly find ddVx , then
substitute x = 2 to arrive at a final answer of approximately 188.5.
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About 10% of candidates were able to produce a fully correct solution to this question.
Question 4
It was clear to examiners that a significant proportion of candidates found part (i) unfamiliar and thereby
struggled to answer this part. Weaker candidates confused the integral of ln x with the differential of
ln x. It was therefore common for these candidates to write down the integral of ln x as 1x , or the integral
of ln ( 2x ) as either
2
x
2
x
or
1
2x
available in this part. Some candidates decided from the outset to rewrite ln ( 2x ) as 'ln x ln 2 ' , and
proceeded to integrate each term and were usually more successful with integrating ln x than ln 2. It is
pleasing to report that a few determined candidates were able to produce correct solutions by using a
method of integration by substitution. They proceeded by either using the substitution as u = 2x or
u = ln ( 2x ) .
A significant minority of candidates omitted the constant of integration in their answer to part (i) and were
penalised by losing the final accuracy mark in this part.
In part (ii), the majority of candidates realised that they needed to consider the identity
cos 2 x 1 2sin 2 x and so gained the first method mark. Some candidates misquoted this formula or
incorrectly rearranged it. A majority of candidates were then able to integrate
1
2
(1 cos 2x ) , substitute
Question 5
Part (a) of this question proved awkward for many. The integral can be carried out simply by
decomposition, using techniques available in module C1. It was not unusual to see integration by
parts attempted. This method will work if it is known how to integrate ln x , but this requires a
further integration by parts and complicates the question unnecessarily. In part (b), most could
1
separate the variables correctly but the integration of 1 , again a C1 topic, was frequently
y3
incorrect.
Weakness in algebra sometimes caused those who could otherwise complete the question to lose
6 x + 4 ln x 2 to y 2 =( 6 x + 4 ln x 2 ) .
the last mark as they could not proceed from y 3 =
2
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Question 6
Candidates tended either to get part (a) fully correct or make no progress at all. Of those who
were successful, most replaced the cos 2 and sin 2 directly with the appropriate double angle
formula. However many good answers were seen which worked successfully via 7 cos 2 3 or
4 7 sin 2 .
Part (b) proved demanding and there were candidates who did not understand the notation
f ( ) . Some just integrated f ( ) and others thought that f ( ) meant that the argument 2
1
7
+ cos . A few candidates started by
2
2
writing f ( ) d = f ( ) d , treating as a constant. Another error seen several times was
) d
f (=
7
1
2
+ cos 2 d .
2
2
Many candidates correctly identified that integration by parts was necessary and most of these
were able to demonstrate a complete method of solving the problem. However there were many
errors of detail, the correct manipulation of the negative signs that occur in both integrating by
parts and in integrating trigonometric functions proving particularly difficult. Only about 15% of
candidates completed the question correctly.
Question 7
This proved the most demanding question on the paper. Nearly all candidates could make some
progress with the first three parts but, although there were many, often lengthy attempts, success
with part (d) and (e) was uncommon. Part (a) was quite well answered, most finding AB or BA
and writing down OA+AB, or an equivalent. An equation does, however need an equals sign and
a subject and many lost the final A mark in this part by omitting the r = from, say,
r = 8i + 13 j 2k + ( 2i + j 2k ) . In part (b), those who realised that a magnitude or length was
required were usually successful. In part (c), nearly all candidates knew how to evaluate a scalar
product and obtain an equation in cos , and so gain the method marks, but the vectors chosen
were not always the right ones and a few candidates gave the obtuse angle. Few made any real
progress with parts (d) and (e). As has been stated in previous reports, a clear diagram helps a
candidate to appraise the situation and choose a suitable method. In this case, given the earlier
parts of the question, vector methods, although possible, are not really appropriate to these parts,
which are best solved using elementary trigonometry and Pythagoras theorem. Those who did
attempt vector methods were often very unclear which vectors were perpendicular to each other
and, even the minority who were successful, often wasted valuable time which sometimes led to
poor attempts at question 8. It was particularly surprising to see quite a large number of solutions
attempting to find a vector, CX say, perpendicular to l, which never used the coordinates or the
position vector of C.
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Question 8
This proved by far the most difficult question on the paper and discriminated well for those candidates
who were above the grade A threshold for this paper. Only a few candidates were able to score above 8 or
9 marks on this question.
Many fudged answers were seen in part (a). A more rigorous approach using the chain rule of
dh dh dV
dV
dV
=
dh
0.4 = 0.02
0.4 k
50
50
Despite struggling with the previous three parts, a majority of candidates were able to attempt part (d),
although only a few candidates were able to produce the correct final exact answer. A majority of
dh
candidates who attempted this part managed to correctly obtain = 2 x 40 and then use this and the
dx
given substitution to write down an integral in x. At this point a significant number of candidates were
20
x 10
. The
into an expression of the form k 1
x
converted limits x = 10 and x = 20, caused an added problem for those candidates who progressed
further, with a significant number of candidates incorrectly applying x = 10 as their lower limit and
x = 20 as their upper limit.
A time of 6 minutes 26 seconds was rarity in part (e).
Max
score
7
6
8
9
8
10
14
13
75
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Modal
score
7
Mean
%
69
35
36
50
54
44
41
27
43
ALL
A*
4.83
2.09
2.89
4.50
4.28
4.38
5.75
3.50
32.22
6.81
9.04
6.31
3.51
4.90
6.53
6.10
6.25
8.24
5.79
47.63
5.42
1.66
2.22
4.29
3.27
3.83
5.36
2.58
28.63
4.11
0.88
1.12
2.57
2.02
2.06
3.73
1.05
17.54
2.74
0.46
0.56
2.15
1.15
1.03
2.46
0.69
11.24
19
1.62
0.20
0.27
0.50
0.45
0.44
1.55
0.31
5.34
0.74
0.09
0.12
0.18
0.29
0.17
0.89
0.15
2.63
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