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• If pencil is used for diagrams/sketches/graphs it must be dark (HB or B).
• Fill in the boxes at the top of this page with your name, centre number and candidate number.
• Answer all the questions and ensure that your answers to parts of questions are clearly labelled.
• Answer the questions in the spaces provided – there may be more space than you need.
• You should show sufficient working to make your methods clear. Answers without working may
not gain full credit.
• Inexact answers should be given to three significant figures unless otherwise stated.
Information
• A booklet ‘Mathematical Formulae and Statistical Tables’ is provided.
• There are 8 questions in this question paper. The total mark for this paper is 74.
• The marks for each question are shown in brackets – use this as a guide as to how much time to
spend on each question.
• Calculators must not be used for questions marked with a * sign.
Advice
• Read each question carefully before you start to answer it.
• Try to answer every question.
• Check your answers if you have time at the end.
• If you change your mind about an answer, cross it out and put your new answer and any working
underneath.
1. The complex number z is given by
p + 2i
z=
3 + pi
where p is an integer.
(a) Express z in the form a + bi where a and b are real. Give your answer in its simplest form
in terms of p.
(4)
(b) Given that arg(z) = θ, where tan θ = 1 find the possible values of p.
(5)
(Total 9 marks)
2. f(x) = 2x3 – 6x2 – 7x – 4.
(a) Show that f(4) = 0.
(1)
(b) Use algebra to solve f(x) = 0 completely.
(4)
(Total 5 marks)
3. The curve C has polar equation
π
r = 1 + 2 cos θ, 0≤θ ≤ .
2
At the point P on C, the tangent to C is parallel to the initial line.
Given that O is the pole, find the exact length of the line OP.
(Total 7 marks)
4. Find the general solution of the differential equation
dy ln x
x + 5y = , x > 0,
dx x
giving your answer in the form y = f(x).
(Total 8 marks)
5. The line l passes through the point P(2, 1, 3) and is perpendicular to the plane Π whose
vector equation is
r.(i – 2j – k) = 3
Find
(a) a vector equation of the line l,
(2)
(b) the position vector of the point where l meets Π.
(4)
(c) Hence find the perpendicular distance of P from Π.
(2)
(Total 8 marks)
6. z = −8 + (8√3)i
(a) Find the modulus of z and the argument of z.
(3)
Using de Moivre’s theorem,
(b) find z3,
(2)
(c) find the values of w such that w4 = z, giving your answers in the form a + ib,
where a, b ∈ℝ.
(5)
(Total 10 marks)
7. (i) Find, without using a calculator,
∫
1
dx
3 15 + 2 x − x 2
giving your answer as a multiple of π.
(5)
(ii) (a) Show that
e2 x + 9
5 cosh x – 4 sinh x = .
2e x
(3)
(b) Hence, using the substitution u = ex or otherwise, find
∫
1
dx .
5cosh x − 4sinh x
(4)
(Total 12 marks)
8. The differential equation
d2x dx
+6 + 9x = cos 3t, t ≥ 0,
dt 2
dt
describes the motion of a particle along the x-axis.
(a) Find the general solution of this differential equation.
(8)
1
(b) Find the particular solution of this differential equation for which, at t = 0, x =
2
dx
and = 0.
dt
(5)
On the graph of the particular solution defined in part (b), the first turning point for t > 30
is the point A.
(c) Find approximate values for the coordinates of A.
(2)
(Total 15 marks)
TOTAL FOR PAPER: 74 MARKS