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Final Exam Model Paper 2
Full marks: 75Time: 3 hours
All questions are compulsory.
A full practice run of the Grade 9 final exam in Optional Mathematics: 75 marks in 3 hours, 17 questions, every one compulsory, in three groups. Group A is one question of 11 multiple-choice items; groups B and C have questions of two to four parts, with the marks of each part in brackets. Show your working on paper as in the exam hall, then tap your choice in group A, open each other part's answer and give yourself the marks its scheme allows. You need graph paper for Question 10.
A practice paper by Science Playground, made to CDC’s Specification Grid 2082, Optional Mathematics, Grades 9–10. Not an official CDC or exam board paper; the real Grade 9 final exam may differ.
Write your answers on paper first. Then open each answer and its marking scheme, and give yourself one mark for each point you got. In multiple choice, your first choice counts.
Paper to print (PDF, 5 pages) Answer key and marking scheme
Group AObjective questions11 marks
Question 1
11 × 1 = 11Choose the correct option for each of the following questions.
What is the rationalizing factor of ?
Pick an answer to see why.
What is the remainder when is divided by (x − 2)?
Pick an answer to see why.
Which of these is equal to 1 radian?
Pick an answer to see why.
What is the value of ?
Pick an answer to see why.
Which of these is not a trigonometric identity?
Pick an answer to see why.
An enlargement with center O and scale factor −1 has the same effect as which transformation?
Pick an answer to see why.
What is the x-intercept of the line 2x − 3y = 12?
Pick an answer to see why.
What is the slope of the line through (x₁, y₁) and (x₂, y₂)?
Pick an answer to see why.
A vector starts at the point (1, 2). Where does it end?
Pick an answer to see why.
The lower and upper quartiles of a set of data are 20 and 50. What is its quartile deviation?
Pick an answer to see why.
The nth term of a sequence is . What does it head for as n → ∞?
Pick an answer to see why.
Group BWithin one content area40 marks
Question 2
4 marksIn the set A = {1, 2, 3}, the relation “is less than or equal to” is
Define a reflexive relation.
Answer
A relation R in a set A is reflexive if every element of A is related to itself: (x, x) ∈ R for every x ∈ A.
Marking scheme
- (x, x) ∈ R for every element x of the set.
Yasmin says that R is both reflexive and symmetric. Check both, and say whether she is right.
Answer
Reflexive: (1, 1), (2, 2) and (3, 3) are all in R, so it is reflexive ✓.
Symmetric: (1, 2) ∈ R but (2, 1) ∉ R (2 is not less than or equal to 1), so it is not symmetric.
She is only half right: R is reflexive but not symmetric.
Marking scheme
- Reflexive, since (1, 1), (2, 2), (3, 3) ∈ R.
- Not symmetric, since (1, 2) ∈ R but (2, 1) ∉ R; so she is only partly right.
Write the inverse relation , and say in words what it means.
Answer
Swap each pair: . It is the relation “is greater than or equal to”.
Marking scheme
- written correctly (“is greater than or equal to”).
Question 3
3 marksBhim writes two matrices and tells his friends that they are equal:
Is M a symmetric matrix? Give a reason.
Answer
Yes. It is square, and the elements on either side of the main diagonal are equal: . So M is its own mirror image in the main diagonal, whatever a is.
Marking scheme
- Symmetric, since .
If M = N, what type of matrix is N − M? Give a reason.
Answer
Equal matrices have equal corresponding elements, so every element of N − M is 0: N − M is the zero (null) matrix .
Marking scheme
- A zero matrix, since corresponding elements are equal.
Find the values of a and b.
Answer
Corresponding elements: a + 1 = 5, so a = 4; b − 2 = 4, so b = 6.
Marking scheme
- a = 4 and b = 6.
Question 4
3 marksA rectangular vegetable plot in a school garden is meters long.
Write the rationalizing factor of .
Answer
Marking scheme
- .
Rationalize the denominator and simplify the length. About how long is the plot?
Answer
With and : about 4.47 + 3.46 = 7.94 m.
Marking scheme
- Top and bottom multiplied by , the denominator 5 − 3 = 2.
- m (about 7.94 m).
Question 5
2 marksA trigonometric expression is given.
Use to write as a trigonometric ratio of an acute angle, and find its value.
Answer
Marking scheme
- .
Find the angle between −90° and 0° whose tangent is equal to .
Answer
tan (−θ) = − tan θ, so . The angle is −45°.
Marking scheme
- −45°, since .
Question 6
4 marksA trigonometric expression is given.
Write in terms of sin θ and cos θ.
Answer
Marking scheme
- .
Write the value of .
Answer
Marking scheme
Prove that .
Answer
Proved.
Marking scheme
- and used.
- Simplified to .
Question 7
3 marksThe roof of a house in Jumla rises 7 dm for every 24 dm along the ground. It makes an angle θ with the ground, so .
Find the values of sin θ and cos θ.
Answer
In a right-angled triangle with perpendicular 7 and base 24, the hypotenuse is . So
Marking scheme
- The hypotenuse 25 and .
- .
Find the value of 25( sin θ + cos θ).
Answer
Marking scheme
Question 8
3 marksA straight irrigation canal on a farm map passes through the point (3, 4) and cuts off equal intercepts on the two axes.
Write the double-intercept form of the equation of a straight line.
Answer
, where a is the x-intercept and b the y-intercept.
Marking scheme
- .
Find the equation of the canal.
Answer
The intercepts are equal, b = a: , that is, x + y = a. It passes through (3, 4): 3 + 4 = a, so a = 7.
The canal is x + y = 7 (x + y − 7 = 0).
Marking scheme
- x + y = a with (3, 4) put in: a = 7.
- x + y = 7.
Question 9
4 marksOn a plan (1 unit = 1 m), a lamp is at A(0, 3) and the ground is the X-axis.
A point P moves so that it is always as far from the lamp A as from the ground. Find the equation of its locus.
Answer
Let P(x, y). Its distance from the X-axis is |y|, so PA = |y|:
Marking scheme
- set up and squared.
- .
In what ratio does the X-axis divide the line segment joining C(2, −3) and D(5, 6)? Find the point of division.
Answer
Let it divide CD in the ratio m₁:m₂. On the X-axis y = 0:
Then . The ratio is 1 : 2, at the point (3, 0).
Marking scheme
- The ratio 1 : 2 from y = 0.
- The point (3, 0).
Question 10
4 marksTriangle ABC has vertices A(1, −1), B(4, 0) and C(2, 1). It is reflected in the line y = 2.
Write the image of a point (x, y) under a reflection in the line y = b.
Answer
P(x, y) → P′(x, 2b − y)
Marking scheme
- (x, y) → (x, 2b − y).
Find the coordinates of A′, B′ and C′.
Answer
Here b = 2, so (x, y) → (x, 4 − y): A′(1, 5), B′(4, 4), C′(2, 3).
Marking scheme
- A′(1, 5), B′(4, 4), C′(2, 3).
Draw △ABC and its image on the same graph.
Answer
Each vertex and its image are the same distance from y = 2, on opposite sides.
Marking scheme
- △ABC plotted and labelled.
- △A′B′C′ plotted and labelled, with the line y = 2.
Question 11
3 marksThe graph shows a vector m.
Write m in column vector form.
Answer
It goes from (−1, −2) to (3, 1): .
Marking scheme
- .
Find the unit vector in the direction of m.
Answer
, so .
Marking scheme
- .
Kushal says that −m has the same magnitude and the same direction as m, because the minus sign only changes the numbers. Is he right? Give a reason.
Answer
No. has the same magnitude, 5, but points the opposite way: it is the negative vector of m, from (3, 1) back to (−1, −2).
Marking scheme
- Same magnitude but opposite direction.
Question 12
3 marksA survey of 30 households in a ward of Lalitpur counted the children in each.
| Number of children (x) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of households (f) | 3 | 8 | 13 | 4 | 2 |
Write the formula for the position of the first quartile (Q₁) in a discrete series.
Answer
item, where .
Marking scheme
- item.
Find the first quartile.
Answer
| x | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| f | 3 | 8 | 13 | 4 | 2 |
| c.f. | 3 | 11 | 24 | 28 | 30 |
. The c.f. just greater than 7.75 is 11, for x = 1: Q₁ = 1 child.
Marking scheme
- The 7.75th item, Q₁ = 1.
Sneha says: “The number of children goes from 0 to 4, so the upper quartile must be 3, three-quarters of the way along.” Is she right? Give a reason.
Answer
No. Q₃ is the th item; the c.f. just greater than that is 24, for x = 2, so Q₃ = 2. Quartiles divide the households into four equal groups by count, so they depend on the frequencies, not on where the values sit between the smallest and the largest.
Marking scheme
- No: Q₃ is the 23.25th item, which is 2; quartiles depend on the frequencies.
Question 13
4 marksA function is given.
What is meant by ?
Answer
x takes values closer and closer to 3 from the right, greater than 3 (3.1, 3.01, 3.001, …), never equal to 3.
Marking scheme
- x approaches 3 from values greater than 3.
Lakpa says that f(x) and g(x) = x + 3 are the same function, because . Is he right? Give a reason.
Answer
No. They agree for every x except 3, but has no value while g(3) = 6. A function is fixed by its domain as well as its rule, and 3 is not in the domain of f: its graph is the line y = x + 3 with a hole at (3, 6).
Marking scheme
- No: f has no value at x = 3 (0/0), while g(3) = 6.
Complete the table and find .
| x | 2.9 | 2.99 | 2.999 | 3.001 | 3.01 | 3.1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| f(x) |
Answer
| x | 2.9 | 2.99 | 2.999 | 3.001 | 3.01 | 3.1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| f(x) | 5.9 | 5.99 | 5.999 | 6.001 | 6.01 | 6.1 |
From both sides f(x) heads for 6: .
Marking scheme
- The table filled and the limit 6.
Why can't the limit be found just by putting x = 3 in f(x)?
Answer
Putting x = 3 gives , an indeterminate form, so f(3) has no value. The limit asks what f(x) heads for near 3, which is why it is found from values on both sides.
Marking scheme
- x = 3 gives , which is indeterminate.
Group CAcross content areas24 marks
Question 14
6 marksA point P divides the line segment joining A(−2, 6) and B(4, 0) internally in the ratio k:1, where k > 0.
Show that the coordinates of P are .
Answer
By the section formula with m₁ = k, m₂ = 1:
Marking scheme
- .
- .
What point does P head for as k → ∞?
Answer
and . So P heads for (4, 0), the point B: the larger the first part of the ratio, the closer P is to B. (For k = 100, P is about (3.94, 0.06).)
Marking scheme
- P heads for (4, 0), that is, B.
Find the equation of the line AB.
Answer
In double-intercept form: the line through B(4, 0) with slope meets the Y-axis at y = 4, so , that is, x + y = 4. Check with A: −2 + 6 = 4 ✓.
Marking scheme
- x + y = 4.
For , write the coordinates of P with rational denominators, and show that P lies on AB.
Answer
Multiply top and bottom by , since :
Then ✓, so P lies on AB. (P is about (1.51, 2.49).)
Marking scheme
- and , the denominators rationalized.
- x + y = 4, so P is on AB.
Question 15
6 marksA school's maths club makes a data set from the function on the domain A = {−2, −1, 0, 1, 2}: its five outputs.
Write f as a set of ordered pairs and write its range.
Answer
Marking scheme
- f as the five ordered pairs.
- Range {0, 1, 4}.
Taken as a function from A to B = {0, 1, 2, 3, 4}, is f onto? Give a reason.
Answer
No, it is into. Its range {0, 1, 4} is not the whole co-domain B: 2 and 3 have no pre-image (no whole number in A squares to 2 or 3).
Marking scheme
- Into, not onto, since 2 and 3 in B have no pre-image.
Find the standard deviation of the five outputs 4, 1, 0, 1, 4.
Answer
.
| X | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| d = X − X | 2 | −1 | −2 | −1 | 2 |
| 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 |
Marking scheme
- The mean, 2.
- .
- .
Question 16
6 marksA potter's wheel in Bhaktapur has a radius of 21 cm. In one second it turns through . (Take .)
Convert into degrees and into radians.
Answer
Marking scheme
- 135°.
- radians.
How far does a point on the rim travel in one second? Through how many degrees does the wheel turn while a point on its rim travels 66 cm?
Answer
For 66 cm: radians, which is π radians, 180°: half a turn.
Marking scheme
- 49.5 cm in one second.
- radians = 180°.
Sujata says that and are equal, because the number is the same. Is she right? Give a reason.
Answer
No. , so , but . They are different angles, measured in different units.
Marking scheme
- No: , while .
The wheel keeps turning at the same speed for t seconds. Does the distance a point on its rim has travelled have a limit as t → ∞? Give a reason.
Answer
No. The distance is 49.5t cm, which grows past any number we name as t grows without bound: it tends to infinity, and infinity is not a number, so there is no limit.
Marking scheme
- No: 49.5t → ∞, so it heads for no number.
Question 17
6 marksPasang turns △ABC with A(1, 2), B(3, 2), C(3, 5) about a fixed point, and gets △A′B′C′ with A′(0, 1), B′(0, 3), C′(−3, 3).
Pasang says: “A rotation changes the direction of a side but not its length.” Check this with AB and A′B′.
Answer
and : both have magnitude 2, but one points right and the other up. He is right: the vectors are not equal, though their magnitudes are.
Marking scheme
- , : same magnitude, different direction, so he is right.
Find BC and B′C′ and their magnitudes.
Answer
|BC| = 3 and |B′C′| = 3.
Marking scheme
- and .
- Both magnitudes 3.
Find the center, the angle and the direction of the rotation.
Answer
Not about the origin: +90° about O would send A(1, 2) to (−2, 1), not (0, 1).
The center is as far from each point as from its image, so it lies on the locus of points equidistant from A and A', and from B and B'. For P(x, y):
Adding: 4x = 4, x = 1, y = 1. The center is (1, 1).
The angle: from the center, A is 1 unit up, (0, 1), and A' is 1 unit left, (−1, 0): a quarter turn anticlockwise. So the rotation is +90° (anticlockwise) about (1, 1). Check with the rule (x, y) → (−(y − 1) + 1, (x − 1) + 1) = (2 − y, x): C(3, 5) → (−3, 3) = C′ ✓.
Marking scheme
- The center found from equal distances (or by the rule about a point): (1, 1).
- The angle 90°.
- The direction anticlockwise (+90°), checked with a vertex.
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