Set 1 Questions

1. Solve the equation cos 2 x cos 50 for 0 x 360 .

2. Solve the equation sin x 3 cos x for 0 x 2 , giving both answers in terms of

3. Use the identity sin 2 x cos 2 x 1 to help solve the equation 2 cos 2 x sin x 2 0 , giving
all five roots over the interval 0 x 360 .

4. Solve the equation 3 sin 2 x 5 cos x 1 0 for 0 x 2 , giving each of the two roots in
radians to two decimal places.

Answers
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2. ________________________________
3. ________________________________
4. ________________________________

Set 2 Questions
1. Find

x if loga x 3loga 4 12 loga 25 loga 20 .

2. Use logarithms to help solve the exponential equation 5 x 1 31 , giving your answer
correct to three decimal places.
3. The first three terms in a geometric progression are 25, 30 and 36. Find the position
of the first term in this sequence to exceed one million.
4. By first reducing to a quadratic, find the two roots of the equation 3 2 x 8(3 x ) 7 0 .
Give the decimal root correct to two decimal places.

Answers
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2. ________________________________
3. ________________________________
4. ________________________________

Set 3 Questions

1. Find the equation of the normal to the curve y 243 x at the point where x 8 .
2
2. Find the coordinates of the stationary point on the curve y x

16
.
x

3. Find the coordinates of the stationary point on the curve y x( x 3) .

4. Find the x-coordinate of the maximum point on the curve y 1

3 4

.
x x3

Answers
1. ________________________________
2. ________________________________
3. ________________________________
4. ________________________________

Set 4 Questions

1.

5.5

8.5

10

f ( x)

8.1

14.5

19.3

22.5

24.1

Use the trapezium rule with the values given in this table to estimate the area
enclosed between the curve y f ( x) , the x-axis, and the lines x 4 and x 10 .
2. Use the trapezium rule with 5 ordinates (4 intervals) to estimate the value of
2

20

(3 x) dx . Give your final answer correct to three significant figures.

1

3. Use the trapezium rule with 4 ordinates (3 intervals) to estimate the value of
10

log10 x dx . Give your final answer correct to three significant figures.

4

4. Use the trapezium rule with 5 ordinates (4 intervals)

to estimate the shaded area shown here.

y 8 x x 2 15
x

Answers
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2. ________________________________
3. ________________________________
4. ________________________________

Set 5 Questions

1. Expand (1 2 x) 6 in ascending powers of x.

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2. Find the full binomial expansion of (3 1x ) .

3. Find the value of the coefficient of x 4 in the binomial expansion of ( 2 3x) 6 .

4. Find the coefficient of x 9 in the expansion of (7 2 x)[4 x]10 .

Answers
1. ________________________________
2. ________________________________
3. ________________________________
4. ________________________________

Set 6 Questions
r

1. The sector shown opposite has an area of 250cm 2, and an arc

length of 20cm. Find its perimeter.

2.

12cm

The diagram here shows a sector of a circle.

Find the area of the shaded segment, giving your final
answer correct to three significant figures.

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3. The diagram here shows a sector of a circle. By first finding
angle (in radians!), calculate the area of the shaded segment.
Give your final answer correct to three significant figures.

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4. The sector shown here has a total perimeter of 65cm.
By first finding its radius, calculate its area.

0.6c

Answers
1. ________________________________
2. ________________________________
3. ________________________________
4. ________________________________

Set 7 Questions

15

30cm

1. Find the sum of the first 30 terms of the arithmetic series 3 + 10 + 17 + ..

2. Find

30

(200 5k ) .
k 1

3. Find the sum of all the odd numbers between 500 and 1000.
4. The 8th term of an arithmetic series is 46. The sum of the first 8 terms is 200. Find
the 1st term and the common difference.

Answers
1. ________________________________
2. ________________________________
3. ________________________________
4. ________________________________

Set 8 Questions

1. Evaluate

6
1

5
dx
x2

2. For a certain curve, it is known that

dy
8
1 5 . Given that the curve passes through
dx
x

the point (-1, 0), find its equation.

3. Find

(1 3 x)
dx .
x
4

4. Find the area of the shaded region shown in this sketch.

(You will first need to find the x-coordinate at point A)

16
x
x3

4
x

Answers
1. ________________________________
2. ________________________________
3. ________________________________
4. ________________________________

Set 9 Questions

1. Find the sum of the first ten terms of the geometric series 512 + 384 + 288 + .. .
Give your final answer here correct to one decimal place.
2. The sum to infinity of a geometric series is 3 times the first term. Find the common
ratio.
3. Find

18 ( 23 ) k .
k 1

4. Find the least number of terms required for the sum of the geometric series
100 + 90 + 81 + . . . to first exceed 997.

Answers
1. ________________________________
2. ________________________________
3. ________________________________
4. ________________________________

Set 10 Questions


1. Write down the transformations required to obtain the graph y 2 sin( x 6 ) , from

the graph y sin x .

2. By first completing the square, write down the transformations needed to obtain the
curve y x 2 10 x 22 , from the curve y x 2 .
3. Write down the transformations required to obtain the curve y 5 2 x 1 , from the
curve y 5 x .
4. The curve y f ( x) is stretched in the x-direction with scale factor 3, then
reflected in the x-axis. Write down, in terms of f ( x) , its new equation.

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