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G.C.E.(O.L.) Support Seminar - 2017

Mathematics I Two hours

Part A
Answer all questions on this paper itself. Each question carries 02 marks.

1. Three men were able to complete exactly half of a certain task in 10 days. How many men are
required to complete the remaining half of the task in 5 days?

2. Simplify: ( 8 − 1
5x x

3. P = {the letters of the word KAMALA}. What is the probability of a letter picked randomly from
the set P being the letter A?

4. Find the common ratio of the geometric progression 5, 15, 45, … .

5. The lengths of the diagonals of a rhombus are 6 cm and 8 cm. Find the length of a side of the
rhombus.

6. Express in logarithm form : 10−2 = 0.01

7. Determine the values of x and y if a2 + a − 12 = (a + x) (a + y).

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8. PQ is the tangent drawn at the point B, to the circle with centre O

in the figure. Determine the magnitude of BOC^ . C

60°
P B Q

9. With the measurement indicated, draw a rough sketch of

two of the faces of the solid right prism in the given figure,
other than the triangular faces.
4 cm 5 cm

12 cm
3 cm

P
10. Find the value of x, based on the information in the figure.
60° N
40°
S

25° x°
L M

11. Find the least common multiple of 3m2n, 2mn2, 4n.

12. If Rajitha took a loan of Rs 1000 at an annual compound interest rate of 10%, determine the total
interest that he has to pay at the end of two years.

13. A portion of the books in a certain library are subject related ε

books, and some of these books are mathematics books. This
relationship is depicted in the given Venn diagram. Describe the A

set (Bʹ ∩ A) in words. B

4 5 3
14. Solve: + =
y y 2

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15. If the curved surface area of a right circular solid cylinder of base circumference 44 cm is 528 cm2,
find its height.

16. The points A, B, C and D lie on the circle in the figure. Determine
the magnitude of ACB^ based on the given information. 140° D

A
17. AB and CD are two vertical pillars located on a horizontal
ground. Indicate on the figure the angle of elevation x with
C
which a person located at C sees A, and the angle of depression
y with which he sees B. (Ignore the height of the person)

B D

18. Solve the inequality 3x + 1 < 7, and write the set of positive integral valued solutions.

19. The four points A, B, C and D lie on the circle with centre O
in the figure. Determine the value of x, based on the given C
information. D 45°
x°

55°
A B
20. Write the equation of the straight line AB, based on the information
in the given figure. y

(3, 6)
B

A
0 x

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21. Find the time it takes in minutes, for 3 of a tank of capacity 1200 litres to be filled with a pipe
4
through which water flows at a rate of 500 litres per minute.

22. Find the value of (x + y) based on the information in the figure. R

40°
y°
P x°
Q

60°

23. A histogram drawn based on the marks obtained by a group of students in a monthly mathematics
test is shown below. What fraction of the total number of students obtained more than 70 marks?
80
Number of students

60

40

20

0 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
Marks

24. A circle with centre O is shown in the figure. Determine the

length of the chord AB based on the given information.
O

12 cm 13 cm

A C D B

25. Sketch the construction line that is necessary to locate D
3 cm C
the point within the given figure, which is 5 cm from
the straight line BC and 4 cm from the point A, and
name this point P. 6 cm

A B
8 cm

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Part B
Answer all questions on this question paper itself. Each question carries 10 marks.

1. From the money allocated by the Department of Agriculture for the cultivation of a certain
1 —2
agri-village, it was decided to allocate —
3 for the cultivation of vegetables, 5 for the cultivation
1
of fruits and — 4 of the remaining amount for the cultivation of spices.
(i) What fraction of the total amount was allocated for the cultivation of vegetables and fruits?

(ii) What fraction of the total amount was allocated for the cultivation of spices?

(iii) If the remaining Rs 45 000 is to be spent on cultivating flowers, how much in total was
allocated for the cultivation of this agri-village?

(iv) It was proposed to add — 2 of the amount that was allocated for the cultivation of fruits
5
to the amount that was allocated for the cultivation of spices. Under this situation, what
percentage of the total amount is allocated for the cultivation of spices?

2.
The figure shows a wall hanging consisting of a sector of a
22 for the value of π &
circle and a trapezium. ^Use —
7 F
(i) What is the radius of the portion which is a sector of
a circle?

D A
E
(ii) Find the arc length of the portion which is a sector
of a circle. 8 cm

C B
7 cm
(iii) If a strip of ribbon is to be fixed around the border of the wall hanging, find the minimum
length of ribbon that is required.

(iv) How much greater is the area of the trapezium shaped portion of the wall hanging than the
triangular portion?

(v) On the given figure, draw with the measurements indicated, the right triangle DEX which
is of area equal to the additional area found in (iv) above, and is such that DE is one of its
sides and X lies on EF produced.

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3. Kamal pays Rs 800 as rates for a quarter on an electrical items shop he owns. The relevant urban
council charges 16% of the annual assessed value of a property as rates.
(i) Find the annual assessed value of the shop.

(ii) The value of a refrigerator that is imported to be sold in this shop is Rs 36 000. Customs
duty of 8% is charged when it is imported. What is the value of the refrigerator after the
customs duty is paid?

(iii) When the refrigerator is sold, a VAT of 12% of the marked price is charged. Amith pays
Rs 50 400 for this refrigerator. What is the marked price of the refrigerator?

4. (a) A mango is drawn randomly from bag A which has 4 ripe mangoes and 1 raw mango of the same
type, shape and size.
(i) Complete the given tree diagram by writing the relevant probabilities.




Drawing from bag A




Ripe

Raw
(ii) There are exactly 6 ripe mangoes of the same type, shape and size as the above mangoes
in bag B. The above randomly drawn mango is placed in bag B and a mango is drawn
randomly from bag B. Extend the tree diagram to include this information and find the
probability of drawing ripe mangoes on both occasions.

(iii) Find the probability of drawing a raw mango on one occasion and a ripe mango on the other
occasion.

(b) Two mangoes are drawn simultaneously from bag C which contains
exactly 3 ripe mangoes and 2 raw mangoes of the above type, size and
shape.
(i) Depict the sample space of this experiment on the given grid.

(ii) In the grid, encircle the event of drawing two ripe mangoes and
find its probability.

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5. The information on the weights lifted by a group of weight lifters during selections to the team for a
competition are given below. (Here, 120 – 140 means 120 ≤ x < 140).

Frequency (Number Cumulative

Weight (kg)
of weight lifters) frequency
120 − 140 3 3
140 − 160 12 ..........
160 − 180 11 ..........
180 − 200 9 35
200 − 220 .......... 40

(i) Fill in the blanks in the table.
(ii) Using the information in the table, draw the cumulative frequency curve on the given
coordinate plane.

Thereby,
(iii) find the median of this frequency distribution.

(iv) If the 25% who have lifted the most weights are selected to the team, what is the minimum
weight that a selected member has lifted?

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Mathematics II Three hours

✽ Answer ten questions, selecting five questions from Part A and five questions from Part B.
✽ Each question carries 10 marks.
✽ The volume of a right circular cone of base radius r and height h is 1 πr2 h .
3
✽ The volume of a sphere of radius r is 4 πr3 .
3

Part A
Answer only five questions.
1. The following table provides information on the number of litres of fuel that was consumed on a certain
day by the vehicles belonging to a certain organization. 5 - 9 means 5 or greater than 5 but less than 9.

Amount of fuel

(litres) 5-9 9 - 13 13 - 17 17 - 21 21 - 25 25 - 29
Number of
5 6 8 12 10 9
vehicles

(i) What is the minimum number of litres of fuel that may have been consumed by a vehicle on
that day?
(ii) Find to the nearest litre, the mean number of litres of fuel required for a day by a vehicle belonging
to this organization.
(iii) During a certain month, it was necessary to use 30 extra vehicles for a special project conducted by
this organization. By assuming that fuel is consumed in the above manner, find the total number of
litres that can be expected to be required by the vehicles for 22 days of that month.
(iv) Suppose that the price of a litre of fuel is Rs 117 and that a 10% discount is given on the price of
fuel during that month. Show that the amount of money that can be expected to be spent on fuel by
this organization during that month does not exceed 3.5 million rupees.
y
2. The graph of a quadratic function drawn on the interval 6

− 4 ≤ x ≤ 2 is shown here. 5
× ×
(i)
Find the value of y when x = − 2.
4

(ii) Write the equation of the axis of symmetry of the graph. 3

(iii)
Express the quadratic function in the form
2
y = (x + a) (x + b).
1
(iv) Write the interval of values of x for which the function
is decreasing and − 4 < y ≤ 0. −4
×
−3 −2 −1 0
×
1 2 x
(v) If the value of √
3 can be obtained from the intersection
−1

point of the line y = mx and the above graph, find the −2

value of m.
× × −3
× −4

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3. Nimal invested Rs 60 000 to buy shares at Rs 25 per share, of a company that pays annual dividends of
Rs 1.50 per share. He was able to sell all the shares at Rs 27 per share after he received the dividends at
the end of the year. His brother states that if he had opened a fixed deposit at a certain financial institution
with the above mentioned Rs 60 000, at the end of the year he would have received Rs 1200 more than the
above total income. What is the annual simple interest rate paid by the above financial institution if this is
true?

4. (a) Each student in a primary grade of a certain school who participated in the annual trip was charged
Rs 200 and each student in a secondary grade was charged twice that amount. Twice the number of
students from the primary grades who participated is equal to half the number of students from the
secondary grades. The amount that was collected from all the students who participated in the trip was
Rs 90 000.
(i) Construct a pair of simultaneous equations by taking the number of primary students
who participated in the trip as x and the number of secondary students as y.
(ii) Solve this pair of simultaneous equations and separately find the number of primary
students and the number of secondary students who participated in the trip.
(iii) To ensure the safety of the students, if for every 10 students in the primary grades one
adult participated in the trip, and if the total amount that was collected for the trip was
Rs 94 000, what is the amount that was charged from an adult?

(b) Find the values of x and y if 2

1 ( −1
0 )( 3 1
− 2 4 ) ( =
8
y
x
1 )

D
5. (a) A, B, C and D in the figure are four points on a horizontal
plane. A,B and C lie on the same straight line. Moreover,
^
AB = 15 m and DAB = 28° 20ʹ.
A B C
(i) Copy the given figure and include the above data in it.
(ii) Calculate the length of BD to the nearest metre.
^
(iii) Calculate the magnitude of BDC if the shortest distance from B to CD is 3 m.

(b) Starting from point P, Kamal travels 15 km on a bearing of 045° and arrives at point Q. From Q he
travels 40 km due South and arrives at point R. Draw a scale diagram such that 1 cm represents 5 km
and using it, find the distance from P to R.

6. The figure depicts a right triangular wooden plank PQR. The right P

triangular portion PST is cut off and discarded. The length of SP

is a units. ST is 3 units longer than SP and SQ is twice the length S T
of SP. The length of QR is 3a + 9 units. The area of the portion
which is remaining after the piece PST is discarded is 28 square
units. By constructing a quadratic equation and solving it, show that
Q R
SP = √ 37 − 3 units and also show that the area of the portion that
2
is cut off and discarded is greater than 3 square units. (Use 6.08 for
the value of √
37 .)

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Part B
Answer only five questions.

7. To light up a carnival grounds, small light bulbs have been fixed in several frames consisting of metal
pipes. In each of these frames, the bulbs are fixed in the pipes in a reducing pattern such that there are 84
bulbs in the first pipe, 78 bulbs in the second pipe, 72 bulbs in the third pipe etc., with 6 bulbs in the last
pipe.
(i) In one of these frames, how many pipes are there in which light bulbs are fixed?
(ii) There are 10 such frames in this carnival grounds. Would 20 boxes consisting of 315 light bulbs
each have been sufficient for the above purpose? Give reasons for your answer.
(iii) It has been proposed to fix another pipe between every two existing pipes in each frame to fix more
bulbs. With reasons, indicate the difference between the number of light bulbs in two consecutive
pipes under this situation, if the number of bulbs in the first and last rows remain the same, and the
number of bulbs in these pipes are decreasing in an arithmetic progression.

8. Use only a straight edge with a cm/mm scale and a pair of compasses to do the following
constructions.
^
(i) Construct the triangle ABC such that AB = 6 cm, ABC = 90° and BC = 4.4 cm.
(ii) Construct the circle that touches the side AB produced, the side AC produced and the side BC.
(iii) Mark the point E on AB produced such that BE = 8 cm.
(iv) Construct the other tangent that can be drawn to the circle from E.
(v) If the point at which the tangent constructed in (iv) above meets AC produced is D, what is the
name given to the circle in relation to the triangle ADE?
C
9. In the triangle ABC shown in the figure, CD is the perpendicular
bisector of AB and AF is the perpendicular bisector of BC. The
straight line through B drawn parallel to AF meets CD produced F
at G. Moreover, AF and CD intersect at E.
E
Show that,
(i) ADE Δ ≡ DGB Δ A B
D
(ii) 2EF = AE
(iii) DE = 1 CG G
4
(iv) AE = 4ED , using equiangular triangles.
2 2

10. The height of a solid right circular metal cone is three times its base radius. This cone is melted and 9
identical solid metal spheres of diameter a centimetres each are made without wastage of metal. Show
that the radius of the cone is given by the expression 3√
1.5 a and using the logarithms table, find the
value of the radius to the nearest centimetre when a = 2.58 centimetres.

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11. The information gathered regarding the language skills of those who work in a factory in which there
are foreign employees too is given below.
While there are 8 employees who speak Tamil, 60 employees who speak English and 25 employees who
speak Sinhala, everyone who speaks Tamil also speaks English. Moreover, no employee speaks both
Sinhala and Tamil.

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(i) Copy the given Venn diagram, name the three sets, and include
the above information in it.
(ii) If there are 22 employees who speak exactly two of these three
languages, how many speak both Sinhala and English?

(iii) If there are 68 employees who do not speak Tamil, how many do
not speak any one of these three languages?
(iv) The management informs the employees that all those who speak only Sinhala have to learn
English. In a survey done 6 months later, it is found that everyone who speaks Sinhala also
speaks English. Draw a new Venn diagram to depict this change and name the three sets.

12. (a) By means of a figure, illustrate the theorem related to the angle that a tangent to a circle makes with
a chord drawn from the point of contact.

(b) The tangent drawn at the point A to the circle with B

O
centre O in the figure, and the diameter BOC • E
produced, meet at D. Moreover, AE is the C

perpendicular drawn from A to BC. Show that AC

^ A D
is the angle bisector of EAD.

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