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P425/1
PURE
MATHEMATICS
Paper 1
March, 2024
3 HOURS
Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education
PURE MATHEMATICS
Paper 1
3 hours
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES:
- Answer all the eight questions in section A and any five from section B.
- Any additional question (s) answered will not be marked
- All necessary working must be shown clearly
- Begin each answer on a fresh sheet of paper
- Graph paper is provided
- Silent non-programmable scientific calculators and mathematical tables
with a list of formulae may be used.
- In numerical work, take g to be 9.8 ms-2.
Prepared by Sentamu geofrey@0787762458
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SECTION A (40MARKS)
1. Solve cos 3 sin 2 for 00 ≤ θ ≤ 3600 (05 marks)
2. Show that z = 1 is a root of the equation z3 – 5z2+ 9z – 5 = 0.Hence solve the
equation for the other roots. (05 marks)
3. Differentiate x10sinx with respect to x. (05 marks)
x y 2 z 1
4. Find the points of intersection of the line with the plane
5 2 4
3x + 4y + 2z − 25 = 0 (05 marks)
5. The population of a country increases by 2.75% per annum. How long will it
take for the population to triple? (05 marks)
6. Solve the inequality (0.6)–2x< 3.6, correct to two decimal places.
(05 marks)
dy
7. Solve the differential equation 3 y e2 x given that when x = 0, y = 1.
dx
(05 marks)
2
8x
Evaluate 0 x2 4 x 12 correct to 2 decimal places.
dx
8. (05 marks)
SECTION B (60MARKS)
9. The position vectors of points A and B are 𝑶𝑨 = 2𝒊 – 4𝒋– 𝒌 and
OB = 5i – 2j + 3k respectively. The line AB is produced to meet the
plane 𝟐𝒙 + 𝟔𝒚 – 𝟑𝒛 = −𝟓 at a point C.
Find the;
(a) coordinates of C (06 marks)
(b) angle between AB and the plane. (06 marks)
10. (a) Solve 2 sin 2x = 3 cos x, for –1800 x 180°. (04 marks)
(b) Solve sinx – sin 4x = sin2x – sin3x for x (08 marks)
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11. (a) Using calculus of small increments or otherwise, find 98 correct to
one decimal place. (04 marks)
(b) Use Maclaurines theorem to expand ln(1 + ax), where a is a constant.
(1 x)
Hence or otherwise expand
ln up to the term in x3.For
(1 2 x)
what values of x is the expansion valid? (08 marks)
12. (a) Use De Moivres theorem to express tan 5θ in terms of tan θ
(07 marks)
(b) Solve the equation z3 + 1 = 0. (05marks)
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6x 5
13. Determine the nature of the turning points of the curve y x . Sketch
(2 x 1)
the graph of the curve for x = -2 to x = 7. State any asymptotes. (12 marks)
14. (a) A conic section is given by x = 4 cos θ; y = 3 sin θ. Show that the
conic section is an ellipse and determine its eccentricity.
(04 marks)
x2 y 2
(b) Given that the line y = mx + c is a tangent to the ellipse 2 2 1 ,
a b
show that c2 = a2m2 + b2. Hence determine the equations of the
x2 y 2
tangents at the point (-3, 3) to the ellipse 1 (08 marks)
16 9
Find x3e x dx.
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15. (a) (06 marks)
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(b) Use the substitution t = tan x to find 1 sin2 xdx (06 marks)
dR
16. (a) Solve the differential equation e2t t , given that R(0) = 3
dt
(06 marks)
(b) The acceleration of a particle after time t seconds is given by
a = 5 + cos½t. If initially the particle is moving at 1ms -1, find its
velocity after 2π seconds and the distance it would have covered by
then. (06 marks)
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