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GCE Examinations
Advanced Subsidiary
Core Mathematics C4
Paper A
Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
Instructions and Information
Candidates may use any calculator EXCEPT those with the facility for symbolic
algebra, differentiation and / or integration.
Full marks may be obtained for answers to ALL questions.
Mathematical formulae and statistical tables are available.
This paper has seven questions.
Advice to Candidates
You must show sufficient working to make your methods clear to an examiner.
Answers without working may gain no credit.
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1.
dy
in terms of x and y.
dx
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2.
f (x) =
3
, | x | < 1.
1 x
(a)
(2)
(b)
(3)
(1)
Find, to 1 significant figure, the percentage error in your answer to part (c).
(2)
(c)
(d)
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3.
(3)
(b)
show that the point B with coordinates (25, 1, 11) also lies on l.
(2)
(4)
(d)
(2)
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3.
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During a chemical reaction, a compound is being made from two other substances.
At time t hours after the start of the reaction, x g of the compound has been produced.
Assuming that x = 0 initially, and that
dx
= 2(x 6)(x 3),
dt
(a)
(10)
(b)
(2)
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y = 4 x 2 ex
2
Figure 1
1
(a)
Use the trapezium rule with four intervals of equal width to estimate the area
of the shaded region.
(5)
(b)
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6.
(a)
Find
(b)
x2
dx.
x +1
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(4)
(8)
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1
2
Figure 2
Figure 2 shows the curve with parametric equations
1
2
(a)
(b)
(2)
y = 2x + 1.
(5)
The shaded region is bounded by the curve, the coordinate axes and the line x =
(c)
k cos t dt,
(4)
(3)
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(d)
1
2
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7.
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