1.

A curve has equation

2 3 7 2
y= x − x − 4x + 5
3 2
dy
(a) Find writing your answer in simplest form.
dx
(2)
(b) Hence find the range of values of x for which y is decreasing.
(4)
(Total for Question 1 is 6 marks)
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2. In this question you must show all stages of your working.

Solutions relying on calculator technology are not acceptable.

Using the substitution u = x or otherwise, solve

6x + 7 x – 20 = 0
(4)
(Total for Question 2 is 4 marks)
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3.

Figure 1 is a sketch showing the position of three phone masts, A, B and C.

The masts are identical and their bases are assumed to lie in the same horizontal plane.
From mast C
• mast A is 8.2 km away on a bearing of 072°
• mast B is 15.6 km away on a bearing of 039°
(a) Find the distance between masts A and B, giving your answer in km to one
decimal place.
(3)
An engineer needs to travel from mast A to mast B.
(b) Give a reason why the answer to part (a) is unlikely to be an accurate value for the
distance the engineer travels.
(1)
(Total for Question 3 is 4 marks)
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4. (a) Sketch the curve with equation

k
y= x0
x
where k is a positive constant.
(2)
(b) Hence or otherwise, solve
16
2
x
(3)
(Total for Question 4 is 5 marks)
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5. In this question you must show all stages of your working.
Solutions relying on calculator technology are not acceptable.

The finite region R, shown shaded in Figure 2, is bounded by the curve with equation
y = 4x2 + 3, the y-axis and the line with equation y = 23
Show that the exact area of R is k 5 where k is a rational constant to be found.
(5)
(Total for Question 5 is 5 marks)
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6. The circle C has equation

x 2 + y 2 − 6 x + 10 y + k = 0
where k is a constant.
(a) Find the coordinates of the centre of C.
(2)
Given that C does not cut or touch the x-axis,
(b) find the range of possible values for k.
(3)
(Total for Question 6 is 5 marks)
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7. The distance a particular car can travel in a journey starting with a full tank of fuel
was investigated.
• From a full tank of fuel, 40 litres remained in the car’s fuel tank after the car had
travelled 80 km
• From a full tank of fuel, 25 litres remained in the car’s fuel tank after the car had
travelled 200 km
Using a linear model, with V litres being the volume of fuel remaining in the car’s fuel
tank and d km being the distance the car had travelled,
(a) find an equation linking V with d.
(4)
Given that, on a particular journey
• the fuel tank of the car was initially full
• the car continued until it ran out of fuel
find, according to the model,
(b) (i) the initial volume of fuel that was in the fuel tank of the car,
(ii) the distance that the car travelled on this journey.
(3)
In fact the car travelled 320 km on this journey.
(c) Evaluate the model in light of this information.
(1)
(Total for Question 7 is 8 marks)
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8.

Figure 3 shows a sketch of a curve C and a straight line l.

Given that
• C has equation y = f (x) where f (x) is a quadratic expression in x
• C cuts the x-axis at 0 and 6
• l cuts the y-axis at 60 and intersects C at the point (10, 80)
use inequalities to define the region R shown shaded in Figure 3.
(5)
(Total for Question 8 is 5 marks)
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9. Using the laws of logarithms, solve the equation

2log5 (3x – 2) – log5 x = 2
(5)
(Total for Question 9 is 5 marks)
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10.

3
The line l1 has equation y = x+6
5
The line l2 is perpendicular to l1 and passes through the point B(8,0), as shown in the
sketch in Figure 4.
(a) Show that an equation for line l2 is
5x + 3y = 40
(3)
Given that
• lines l1 and l2 intersect at the point C
• line l1 crosses the x-axis at the point A
(b) find the exact area of triangle ABC, giving your answer as a fully simplified
p
fraction in the form
q
(5)
(Total for Question 10 is 8 marks)
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11. The height, h metres, of a plant, t years after it was first measured, is modelled by
the equation

h = 2.3 − 1.7e−0.2t t t 0

Using the model,

(a) find the height of the plant when it was first measured,
(2)
(b) show that, exactly 4 years after it was first measured, the plant was growing at
approximately 15.3 cm per year.
(3)
According to the model, there is a limit to the height to which this plant can grow.
(c) Deduce the value of this limit.
(1)
(Total for Question 11 is 6 marks)
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12. In this question you must show detailed reasoning.

Solutions relying entirely on calculator technology are not acceptable.

(a) Show that the equation

4 tan x = 5cos x
can be written as
5sin2 x + 4sin x − 5 = 0
(3)
(b) Hence solve, for 0 < x ≤ 360°
4 tan x = 5cos x
giving your answers to one decimal place.
(4)
(c) Hence find the number of solutions of the equation
4 tan 3x = 5cos3x
in the interval 0 < x ≤ 1800°, explaining briefly the reason for your answer.
(2)
(Total for Question 12 is 9 marks)
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13. Relative to a fixed origin O
• point A has position vector 10i − 3j
• point B has position vector –8i + 9j
• point C has position vector –2i + pj where p is a constant
→
(a) Find AB
(2)
→
(b) Find AB giving your answer as a fully simplified surd.
(2)
Given that points A, B and C lie on a straight line,
(c) (i) find the value of p,
(ii) state the ratio of the area of triangle AOC to the area of triangle AOB.
(3)
(Total for Question 13 is 7 marks)
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14. Find, in simplest form, the coefficient of x5 in the expansion of

6
 1 
( 2


)
5 + 8x  3 − x 
2 
(5)
(Total for Question 14 is 5 marks)
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15. In this question you must show detailed reasoning.

Solutions relying on calculator technology are not acceptable.

The curve C1 has equation y = 8 – 10x + 6x2 – x3

The curve C2 has equation y = x2 – 12x + 14
(a) Verify that when x = 1 the curves C1 and C2 intersect.
(2)
The curves also intersect when x = k.
Given that k < 0
(b) use algebra to find the exact value of k.
(5)
(Total for Question 15 is 7 marks)
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16. A curve has equation y = f (x), x ≥ 0
Given that
• f  (x) = 4x + a x + b, where a and b are constants
• the curve has a stationary point at (4, 3)
• the curve meets the y-axis at −5
find f (x), giving your answer in simplest form.
(6)
(Total for Question 16 is 6 marks)
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17. In this question p and q are positive integers with q > p

Statement 1: q3 – p3 is never a multiple of 5
(a) Show, by means of a counter example, that Statement 1 is not true.
(1)
Statement 2: When p and q are consecutive even integers q3 – p3 is a multiple of 8
(b) Prove, using algebra, that Statement 2 is true.
(4)
(Total for Question 17 is 5 marks)
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TOTAL FOR PAPER IS 100 MARKS
1. The histogram and its frequency polygon below give information about the weights, in
grams, of 50 plums.

(a) Show that an estimate for the mean weight of the 50 plums is 63.72 grams.
(2)
(b) Calculate an estimate for the standard deviation of the 50 plums.
(2)
Later it was discovered that the scales used to weigh the plums were broken.
Each plum actually weighs 5 grams less than originally thought.
(c) State the effect this will have on the estimate of the standard deviation in part (b).
Give a reason for your answer.
(1)
(Total for Question 1 is 5 marks)
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2. Fred and Nadine are investigating whether there is a linear relationship between Daily
Mean Pressure, p hPa, and Daily Mean Air Temperature, t °C, in Beijing using the 2015
data from the large data set.
Fred randomly selects one month from the data set and draws the scatter diagram in
Figure 1 using the data from that month.
The scale has been left off the horizontal axis.

(a) Describe the correlation shown in Figure 1.

(1)
Nadine chooses to use all of the data for Beijing from 2015 and draws the scatter diagram
in Figure 2.
She uses the same scales as Fred.
 (b) Explain, in context, what Nadine can infer about the relationship between p and t
using the information shown in Figure 2.
(1)
(c) Using your knowledge of the large data set, state a value of p for which interpolation
can be used with Figure 2 to predict a value of t.
(1)
(d) Using your knowledge of the large data set, explain why it is not meaningful to look
for a linear relationship between Daily Mean Wind Speed (Beaufort Conversion)
and Daily Mean Air Temperature in Beijing in 2015.
(1)
(Total for Question 2 is 4 marks)
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3. In an after-school club, students can choose to take part in Art, Music, both or neither.
There are 45 students that attend the after-school club. Of these
• 25 students take part in Art
• 12 students take part in both Art and Music
• the number of students that take part in Music is x
(a) Find the range of possible values of x
(2)
One of the 45 students is selected at random.
Event A is the event that the student selected takes part in Art.
Event M is the event that the student selected takes part in Music.
(b) Determine whether or not it is possible for the events A and M to be independent.
(4)
(Total for Question 3 is 6 marks)
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4. Past information shows that 25% of adults in a large population have a
particular allergy.
Rylan believes that the proportion that has the allergy differs from 25%
He takes a random sample of 50 adults from the population.
Rylan carries out a test of the null hypothesis H0: p = 0.25 using a 5% level of
significance.
(a) Write down the alternative hypothesis for Rylan’s test.
(1)
(b) Find the critical region for this test.
You should state the probability associated with each tail, which should be as close
to 2.5% as possible.
(4)
(c) State the actual probability of incorrectly rejecting H0 for this test.
(1)
Rylan finds that 10 of the adults in his sample have the allergy.
(d) State the conclusion of Rylan’s hypothesis test.
(1)
(Total for Question 4 is 7 marks)
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5. Julia selects 3 letters at random, one at a time without replacement, from the word
VARIANCE
The discrete random variable X represents the number of times she selects a letter A.
(a) Find the complete probability distribution of X.
(5)
Yuki selects 10 letters at random, one at a time with replacement, from the word
DEVIATION
(b) Find the probability that he selects the letter E at least 4 times.
(3)
(Total for Question 5 is 8 marks)
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TOTAL FOR STATISTICS IS 30 MARKS
1.

Two children, Pat (P) and Sam (S), run a race along a straight horizontal track.
Both children start from rest at the same time and cross the finish line at the same time.
In a model of the motion:
Pat accelerates at a constant rate from rest for 5 s until reaching a speed of 4 m s–1 and
then maintains a constant speed of 4 m s–1 until crossing the finish line.
Sam accelerates at a constant rate of 1 m s–2 from rest until reaching a speed of X m s–1
and then maintains a constant speed of X m s–1 until crossing the finish line.
Both children take 27.5 s to complete the race.
The velocity-time graphs shown in Figure 1 describe the model of the motion of each
child from the instant they start to the instant they cross the finish line together.
Using the model,
(a) explain why the areas under the two graphs are equal,
(1)
(b) find the acceleration of Pat during the first 5 seconds,
(1)
(c) find, in metres, the length of the race,
(2)
(d) find the value of X, giving your answer to 3 significant figures.
(4)
(Total for Question 1 is 8 marks)
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2. A small stone is projected vertically upwards with speed 39.2 m s–1 from a point O.
The stone is modelled as a particle moving freely under gravity from when it is
projected until it hits the ground 10 s later.
Using the model, find
(a) the height of O above the ground,
(3)
(b) the total length of time for which the speed of the stone is less than or equal
to 24.5 m s–1
(3)
(c) State one refinement that could be made to the model that would make your answer
to part (a) more accurate.
(1)
(Total for Question 2 is 7 marks)
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3. In this question you must show all stages of your working.

Solutions relying entirely on calculator technology are not acceptable.

A fixed point O lies on a straight line.

A particle P moves along the straight line such that at time t seconds, t ≥ 0, after
passing through O, the velocity of P, v m s–1, is modelled as
v = 15 – t 2 – 2t
(a) Verify that P comes to instantaneous rest when t = 3
(1)
(b) Find the magnitude of the acceleration of P when t = 3
(3)
(c) Find the total distance travelled by P in the interval 0 ≤ t ≤ 4
(4)
(Total for Question 3 is 8 marks)
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4.

A car of mass 1200 kg is towing a trailer of mass 400 kg along a straight horizontal road
using a tow rope, as shown in Figure 2.
The rope is horizontal and parallel to the direction of motion of the car.
• The resistance to motion of the car is modelled as a constant force of magnitude
2R newtons
• The resistance to motion of the trailer is modelled as a constant force of magnitude
R newtons
• The rope is modelled as being light and inextensible
• The acceleration of the car is modelled as a m s–2
The driving force of the engine of the car is 7400 N and the tension in the tow rope
is 2400 N.
Using the model,
(a) find the value of a
(5)
In a refined model, the rope is modelled as having mass and the acceleration of the car
is found to be a1 m s–2

(b) State how the value of a1 compares with the value of a

(1)
(c) State one limitation of the model used for the resistance to motion of the car.
(1)
(Total for Question 4 is 7 marks)
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TOTAL FOR MECHANICS IS 30 MARKS