SECTION A (56 Marks)
Answer ALL questions in this section. ALL working for each question must be shown clearly.
1. (a) Simplify
(i) (AUB)'n A
(ii) (A- B)UA (4 marks)
(b) In a class of twenty pupils, there are twelve who study English but not History, four who study
History but not English and one who study neither English nor History. How many pupils
study History? (3 marks)
2. (a) Given the three points A (4, 0), B(O, 2) and C(-2, -2), show that AB=BC.
(b) A square ABCD is formed where A, B and C are points given in 2. (a) above and D is the fourth
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point whose coordinates are not known. Calculate the coordinates of D. (4 /2 marks)
3. (a) (i) Prove that (1 - cos A) (1 + sec A) = sin A tan A.
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( ii) Eliminate8 if, Ll 1,
d /
1-
�-
x=4 sec8
y=4 tan8 (4 marks)
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(b) Given that f(x)= 2x + 1 and g(x) = x - 2, show that the composition function is not
commutative. (3 marks)
4. (a) Given that y sinx - cosx ,
sinx + COSX
fmd gy
dx (4 marks)
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(b) Differentiate 4x y + x + xy 0. (3 marks)
5. Find:
(4 marks)
(3 marks)
6. (a) The displacement vector �maps A(3, -2) on to B(-1, 3) and .!2 maps A on to C(4, 5).
Find �+ ]2.,
(4 marks)
(b) Show that the vector 3i + 2j - k is at right angles to the straight line
r =(i + 7j + 2k) + s(2i - 5j - 4k). (3 marks)
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7. (a) (i) Find the value of 15!
12! 3!
(ii) How many arrangements can be made of the letters in the word �RO(PNG? (2112 marks)
(b) (i) Write down the statement which is true among the following:
• If P2 = 0, then P = 0
• IfPQ = 0, then P = 0 or Q = 0.
• If P = 0 or Q = 0, then PQ = 0.
(ii) Solve the following by the matrix methods:
2x 5 + y ·""\._·'-'1""--
' ' J
-y-- -1
=
1 j- ....\::
3 + 2� + 3x = 0
8. (a) In a geometrical progression, the sum of the second and third terms is 6, and the sum of the third
and fourth terms is -12. Find the first term and the common ratio. (4 marks)
(b) Obtain the first four terms in the expansion of [ -�
1 6 (3 marks)
SECTION B ( 44 Marks)
Answer any FOUR (4) questions from this sectimi. ALL workings for each question answered
must be shown clearly.
9. In the following data, the lengths of 40 leaves are recorded to the nearest millimeters:
138 164 150 132 144 125 149 157
146 158 140 147 136 148 152 144
168 126 138 176 163 119 154 165
146 173 142 147 135 153 140 135
161 145 135 142 150 156 145 128
(a) Construct a frequency distribution with class intervals 118- 126, 127- 135, 136- 144 etc.
-\ ( .1� -:-
IJ. (3 marks)
� ,_..,. (b) Determine the mean length using the formula
�-·
b-'�- -
---:::- X A+ Hd ,
<'/
=
\ N
' J(
·,
I)
�)' ,{ l )4 \ �
.� where A = assumed mean
-;1 y_/ , d = the deviation of any class mark from the assumed mean.
N = total frequency. (4 marks)
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'1,
l (c) Calculate the median for the lengths of the leaves. (4 marks)
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7 1 7 -�iY�f!J\
7 l \i.._;i
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10. (a) Two [Link] A and B are such that P(A) = 1, P(B) = 1 and P(A/B) = 1.
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/ Evaluate:
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(i) P(A nB)
(ii) P(AUB)
(iii) P(A' n B' ).
Another event C is such that A and C are independent, and
P(A n C) = l, P(BUC) = 1.
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Show that B and C are mutually exclusive.
(b) Two balls are taken out at random from a bag containing 6 red and 2 blue balls. Find the
probability that just one ball is blue. (21/2 marks)
; 1. (a) Verify that (pAq)� (pvq) is a tautology. (6 marks)
L (b) Let p be" Juma reads Daily News."
Let q be"Juma reads Mzalendo"
let r be "Juma reads Nipashe"
Give a verbal sentence which describes each of the following:
(i) (p v q)" � r
(ii) (p"q) v � (p"r)
(iii) � (p"� r) (3 marks)
(c) Construct a compound statement that corresponds to this network.
r ----S ----' (2 marks)
12. (a) Find the smallest root of the equation x2 - 4x + 2 = 0 by using the
algorithm X0 + 1 = 1 (x/ + 2) starting with X0 = 0.5. Calculate x1 and x2 only. (9 marks)
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(b) If you were told to continue the algorithm in (a) above when would you stop the iterations?
(2 marks)
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13. (a) If z = 3 - i express z + 1 in the form a + bi, where a and b are real. (3 marks)
z
(b) If z x + yi and z is the conjugate of z, fmd the values of x
= and y such that
1 + 2. 1 + i.
\ __/
z
-z =
( 4 marks)
(c) Given that 2 + 3i is a root of the equation z
3 - 6z2 + 21z - 26 = 0, fmd the other roots.
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(4 marks)
04. (a) The radius r of a circle is 5 em. Find the increase in the area A of the circle when the radius
(4 marks)
t expands by 0.01 em.
I (b) A particle P moves in a straight line such that its distance S m from a fixed point 0 at time t s is
given by S(t) = 9 f - 2 e. What is the velocity and acceleration of a particle P when t == 3 s?
Find also the distance of P from 0 when t = 4 s and show that it is then moving towards 0.
(7 marks)
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') "
t\�(-1_0
- -J--'\
\'\.._)
b
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u
-t\'t t-r")
4 (2.-'L-(L� -n)
r l'l -<>) � �
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