Oxford Core 1 2017

MOCK 17(I)
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PAPER 1
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2. This paper consists of THREE sections, A(1), A(2) 15
and B.
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SECTION A(1) (35 marks)
x  2y
1. Make x the subject of the formula = 4x  p. (3 marks)
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a 3b 8
2. Simplify and express your answer with positive indices. (3 marks)
(a 5b  4 )3
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3. Factorize
(a) 7m2 + 27mn  4n2,

(b) 14m  2n  7m2  27mn + 4n2.
(3 marks)

4. The table below shows the distribution of the numbers of pets kept by a group of 32 students. If a
student is randomly selected from the group, the probability that the selected student keeps pet(s)
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is .
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Number of pets 0 1 2 3
Number of students y 13 x 2
(a) Find the values of x and y.
(b) Find the standard deviation of the distribution.

(4 marks)
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5. (a) Round off 308.094 6 to the nearest integer.
(b) Round down 308.094 6 to 2 significant figures.

(c) Round up 308.094 6 to 2 decimal places.
(3 marks)
6. Consider the compound inequality

3x  7
< 2x + 5 or x + 2  0 .................... (*).
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(a) Solve (*).
(b) Find the sum of all the integers which satisfy both (*) and 4x + 13 < 9.
(4 marks)

7. There are two kinds of packages of chocolate (package A and package B) available. Each package A
contains 12 pieces of white chocolate. Each package B contains 20 pieces of dark chocolate. The
number of packages A bought by Hailey is 20% less than the number of packages B bought by her.
She buys 444 pieces of chocolate in total.
(a) Find the total number of packages A and packages B bought by Hailey.
(b) Find the ratio of the number of pieces of white chocolate bought to the number of pieces of
dark chocolate bought.
(5 marks)
8. In a polar coordinate system, the polar coordinates of the points A and B are (h + k , 138) and
(k , 318) respectively, where h > 0 and k > 0.
(a) Let O be the pole. Prove that A, O and B are collinear.
(b) The polar coordinates of the point C are (40 , 228). If the distance between B and C is 41, is
the area of △ABC greater than 360? Explain your answer.
(5 marks)

9. A solid metal sphere is melted and recast into a solid right circular cone of height h1 cm and a solid
right circular cylinder of height h2 cm. The volumes of the circular cone and the circular cylinder are
the same. The base radii of the circular cone and the circular cylinder are both r cm.
(a) Ivan claims that the height of the circular cone is 3 times that of the circular cylinder. Do you
agree? Explain your answer.
(b) If the surface area of the sphere is 576 cm2 and the base radius of the circular cone is 8 cm,
find the height of the circular cone.
(5 marks)
SECTION A(2) (35 marks)
10. The cost $C of organizing a training camp is the sum of two parts. One part varies directly as the
number of participants x and the other part varies directly as the number of instructors y. When
x = 10 and y = 3, C = 4 550; when x = 16 and y = 4, C = 6 760.
(a) Express C in terms of x and y. (3 marks)
(b) If the cost of organizing a training camp is $4 030, find all the possible numbers of
participants and instructors. (3 marks)

11. In Figure 1, ABCD is a parallelogram. E is a point on AD. BD and CE intersect at F.
B C
A E D
Figure 1
(a) Prove that △BCF ~ △DEF. (2 marks)
(b) Suppose BC = 80 cm, BD = 84 cm, DE = 25 cm and CF = 48 cm.

(i) Is △BCF a right-angled triangle? Explain your answer.
(ii) Find the perimeter of ABCD.

(4 marks)
12. Let f(x) = 2x3 + ax2 + bx  6, where a and b are constants. f(x) is divisible by x + 2. The remainder
obtained when f(x) is divided by x  1 is 22 less than the remainder obtained when f(x) is divided by
x + 1.
(a) Find the values of a and b. (3 marks)
(b) Factorize f(x). (2 marks)

g ( x  999)
(c) It is given that = f(x). Someone claims that all the roots of the equation g(x) = 0
1 000
are integers. Do you agree? Explain your answer. (2 marks)
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13. There are 2 017 books in a bookstore. The box-and-whisker diagram below shows the distribution of
the selling prices of the books in the bookstore. It is given that the total selling price of all the books
is $219 468 and the range of the distribution is 4 times the inter-quartile range.
Selling price ($)

a  32 a 105 118 2a
(a) Find the lower quartile and the range of the distribution. (3 marks)
(b) Now, the manager of the bookstore adds 210 new books as shown in the table below:
Type Selling price of each book Number of books
Travel book $92 102
Novel $h 54
Comic book $k 54

It is given that the mean of the selling prices of all the books in the bookstore is at least $108
after 210 new books are added, and k  h  110.
The manager claims that the median of the selling prices of the books is less than $105 after
210 new books are added. Do you agree? Explain your answer.
(4 marks)

14. Let k be a constant. Circle C passes through points Q(6 , 6) and R(0 , 6k). The coordinates of G
are (0 , k) and G is the centre of C. It is given that G lies on the positive y-axis.
(a) Find the coordinates of G. (2 marks)
(b) Find the equation of C. (2 marks)

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(c) S is a point on C such that the slope of RS is  . Let P be a moving point in the rectangular
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coordinate plane such that P maintains an equal distance from R and S. Denote the locus of P
by .
(i) Find the equation of  .
(ii) Suppose  and C intersect at M and N, where N lies on the minor arc RS. Without
finding the coordinates of S, find RSN.
(5 marks)

SECTION B (35 marks)
15. In a game, the score and the standard score of Billy are 13 and 1.5 respectively. It is given that the
mean and the standard deviation of the scores in the game are x and 2 respectively.
(a) Find the value of x. (2 marks)

(b) Now, 3 more people join the game. Their scores are p, p + 1 and p + 5. The mean of the scores
in the game remains unchanged. Among these 3 people, how many of them have negative
standard scores? (2 marks)

16. S1, S2, S3, … are squares, while C1, C2, C3, … are cubes. The area of S1 is 25 cm2. For any positive
integer m, the area of Sm + 1 is greater than the area of Sm by log 9 cm2 and the area of a face of Cm is
equal to the area of Sm.
(a) Find the sum of the areas of squares S1, S2, S3, …, Sn in terms of n and log 3. (2 marks)
(b) Find the greatest value of k such that the total surface area of k distinct cubes
C1, C2, C3, …, Ck is smaller than 4.5 m2. (3 marks)
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17. Let k > . The graph of y = f(x) is obtained by reducing the graph of y = 4x2 + 16kx + 16k2 + 4k  2
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to of the original along the y-axis.
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(a) Express f(x) in terms of k. (1 mark)
(b) Using the method of completing the square and the result of (a), express the coordinates of the
vertex of the graph of y = f(x) in terms of k. (2 marks)
(c) The graph of y = g(x) is obtained by first reflecting the graph of y = f(x) in the x-axis and then
translating to the right by 4k units. Denote the origin, the vertex of the graph of y = f(x) and
the vertex of the graph of y = g(x) by O, P and Q respectively. Suppose R is a point lying in
quadrant I and G is the centroid of △PQR. Someone claims that OR passes through G. Do
you agree? Explain your answer. (3 marks)

18. (a) 8 people are randomly arranged to stand in 2 rows to take a photograph. The number of
people in the front row is 5. Find the number of ways of arrangements that can be made if
2 particular people do not stand in the same row. (2 marks)
(b) In a basketball shooting game, Eric and Jason take turns to make shots until one of them
makes a successful shot. The one who first makes a successful shot wins the game. Eric
makes a shot first. Assume that the probabilities that Eric and Jason make successful shots are
0.3 and 0.4 respectively, and the outcomes of their shots are independent.
(i) Find the probability that Eric wins the game.

(ii) Eric, Jason and 6 other people are randomly arranged to stand in 2 rows to take a
photograph. The number of people in the front row is 5. Find the probability that the
winner and the loser of the above game stand in the front row and the back row
respectively with Eric standing in the middle of one of the rows.
(6 marks)

19. Figure 2(a) shows a triangular paper card ACE, where AE  CE, AE = 20 cm and AC = 52 cm. B and
D are the points on AC and CE respectively such that BD  CE and AB : BC = 3 : 1.
A
C D E
Figure 2(a)
(a) Find the lengths of AB and BC. (3 marks)
(b) Shirley folds the triangular paper card ACE along BD such that ED and DC lie on the
horizontal ground as shown in Figure 2(b). Then she puts another triangular paper card fixed
at the points A, B and C, where ACB = 77. AB and ED are produced to meet at F.
A

E
B
D
F C
Figure 2(b)
Consider Figure 2(b).
(i) Find the length of AC.

(ii) Is the sum of the areas of △BCF and △CDF less than 168.5 cm2? Explain your
answer.
(iii) Let P be a point on the horizontal ground such that APE is the angle between the
plane ABC and the horizontal ground. Shirley claims that P lies on CF. Do you agree?
Explain your answer.
(9 marks)

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MOCK 17(I)

Marker No. Examiner No.

MATHEMATICS Compulsory Part

5. Unless otherwise specified, all working must be

6. Unless otherwise specified, numerical answers

7. The diagrams in this paper are not necessarily

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(a) 7m2 + 27mn  4n2,

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(a) Find the values of x and y.

(b) Find the standard deviation of the distribution.

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(b) Round down 308.094 6 to 2 significant figures.

6. Consider the compound inequality

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(a) Prove that △BCF ~ △DEF. (2 marks)

(b) Suppose BC = 80 cm, BD = 84 cm, DE = 25 cm and CF = 48 cm.

(ii) Find the perimeter of ABCD.

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(a) Find the values of a and b. (3 marks)

(b) Factorize f(x). (2 marks)

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Selling price ($)

Type Selling price of each book Number of books

Travel book $92 102

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(b) Find the equation of C. (2 marks)

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

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