Advanced Level Applied MATHEMATICS
Advanced Level Applied MATHEMATICS
STATISTICS/PROBABILITY:
1. Box A contains 4 red and 5 blue pens, while box B contains 4 red and 4 blue pens.
It is known that box A is three times likely to be selected as box B. A box is selected
at random and two pens are drawn from it without replacement.
5. (a) The weights of ball bearings are normally distributed with mean 25gram and
standard deviation 4 grams. If a random sample of 16 ball bearings is taken, find
the;
(i) Probability that the mean of the sample is between 24.12 grams and 26.73
grams.
(ii) Interquartile range.
(c) A random sample of 120 girls taken from a normally distributed population of
girls school gave a mean age of 16.5 and variance of 18. Determine the 97%
confidence interval for the mean age of all the school girls.
8. Two smooth inclined planes meet at right angles, the inclination of one to the
horizontal being 30° and the other being 60°. Bodies of masses 2kg and 4kg lie on
the respective planes, and the two masses are joined by a light inextensible string
passing over a smooth fixed pulley at the intersection of the planes.
(i) If the masses are released from rest, find the acceleration of the
masses and tension of the string.
(ii) If the surface with 4kg mass experiences a frictional force of 0.25N,
find the new acceleration of the masses when the system is set from
rest.
9. (a) A pump draws water from a tank and issues it at a speed of 8 ms-1 from the end
of a pipe of cross-sectional area of 0.01m2 situated 10m above the level from which
the water is drawn. Find the rate at which the pump is working (take density of
water = 1000kgm-3)
(i) magnitude of the resultant of the forces and the angle made by the resultant with
AD.
(ii) sum of the moments of the forces about A
(iii) distance from A of the point where the line of action of the resultant of the
forces cuts DA produced.
(iv) equation of the line of action of the resultant.
14. (a) A smooth bead of mass 0.2 kg is threaded on a smooth circular wire of radius r
metres which is held in a vertical plane. If the bead is projected from the lowest
NUMERICAL METHODS:
15. (a) Give X = 12.6955
16. a) A school canteen started its operation with a capital of 2 million shillings. At the
end of a certain term its profits in soft drinks and foodstuff were 0.2 million and
0.45 million respectively. There were possible errors of 6.5% and 8.2% in the sales
17. Show that the Newton – Raphson formula for solving the transcendental equation
1
xn cos xn sin xn
sin x 12 0 is given by xn 1 2
cos xn
Show also that one of the roots of the equation lies between 0.5 and 2. Hence find
the root to two decimal places.
1
18. (a) Use the trapezium rule with 6 ordinates to find 0
2
1 cos x
dx correct to three
decimal places.
(b) Calculate the percentage error made in the approximation in (a) above.
19. Two iterative formulae A and B shown below are used to solve the equation f(x)
=0. Only one of these re-arrangements provides a formula which converges to the
root.
A B
1 3x n 1
x n 1 ( x n3 1) x n 1
3 x n2
(i) Determine the equation whose root is being sought.
(ii) Starting with x 0 0.2 , use the most suitable formula to find the root of the
equation f(x) =0 correct to 2 decimal places.
STOP
PRINT: N, START
Is
NO
YES
READ: N,
(i) Re-arrange the elements to form a logical flow chat. State the purpose of the flow
chart.
(ii) Perform a dry run of your flow chart, taking N= 187.42 and x 0 3.0 . Give your
answer correct to three decimal places.
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