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MATH CP
PAPER 1

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HONG KONG DIPLOMA OF SECONDARY EDUCATION EXAMINATION 2018
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MATHEMATICS CompulsoryPart
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7 The marked price of a vase is 30% above its cost. A loss of $ 88 is made by selling the vase at a

discount of 40% on its marked price. Find the marked price of the vase. (5 marks)

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 8. In Figure l, ABCDE is a circle. It is given that AB /l ED . AD and .BE intersect at the point F

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9 Acartravelsfromcity P tocity Q atanaveragespeedof T2kJnlh andthenthecartravelsfromcity p

tocity R atanaveragespeedof 90km/h Itisgiventhatthecartravels 210km in 161 minutes
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 SECTION A(2) (35 marks)

10 The box-and-whisker diagram below shows the distribution of the ages of the clerks in team X of a
company. It is given that the range and the inter-quartile range of this distribution are 43 and 21
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(b) There are five clerks in team l' of the company and three of them are of age 3 8 . It is given that
the range of the ages of the clerks in team Y is 20 . Team X and team / are now combined to
form a section. The manager of the company claims that the range of the ages of the clerks in the
section and the range of the ages of the clerks in team X must be the same. Do you agree?
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I 1 . The following table shows the distribution of the numbers of children of some families:

Number of children 0 I 2 J 4

Number of families k 2 9 6 7

It is given that k is a positive integer.

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 12 Let f(x)=4y1r+l)2 + ax+b , where a and D are constants. It is given that x-3 is a factor
of f(x) When f(x) is dividedby x+2 , the remainder is 2b+165
(a) Find a and b . (3 marks)

(b) Someone claims that the equation f(x) = g has at least one irrational root. Do you agree?
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 l3 In Figure 2, ABCD is a trapezium with IABC = 90o and AB // DC E is a point lying on .BC such
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 14. A right circular cylindrical container of base radius 8 cm and height 64 cm and an inverted right
circular conical vessel of base radius 20 cm and height 60 cm are held vertically. The container is
fully filled with water. The water in the container is now poured into the vessel.

(a) Find the volume of water in the vessel in terms of zr (2 marks)

(b) Find the depth of water in the vessel (4 marks)

(c) Ifa solid metal sphere of radius 14 cm is then put into the vessel and the sphere is totally
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 SECTION B (35 marks)

l5 Aneight-digitphonenumberisformedbyapermutationof 2 ,3, 4, 5, 6,7 ,8 and 9.

(a) How many different eight-digit phone numbers can be formed? (1 mark)

(b) If the first digit and the last digit of an eight-digit phone number are odd numbers, how many
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l6 The 3rd term and the 4th term ofa geometric sequence are 720 and 864 respectively.

(a) Find the lst term of the sequence. (2 marks)

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 t'7 (a) In Figure 3(a), ABCD is a paper card in the shape of a parallelogram. It is given that
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 18 It is given that f(") partly varies as *2 and partly varies as x Suppose that f(2) = 66 and

f(3) = 99 .

(a) Find f(x) . (3 marks)

(b) LetQbethevertexofthegraph of y=f(x) and R bethevertexofthegraphof /=27 -f(x).

(i) Using the method of completing the square, find the coordinates of p .

(ii) Write down the coordinates of R .

(iii) The coordinates of the point S are (56,0) . Let P be the circumcentre of AQRS ,

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 19 Thecoordinatesof thecentreofthecircle C are (8,2) . Denotetheradiusof C by r. Let Z bethe
straightline kx-5y-21=0, where ft isaconstant. Itisgiventhat Z isatangentto C.

(a) Find the equation of C in terms of r . Hence, express 12 in terms of k . (4 marks)

(b) Z passes through the point D(18,39) .

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