ZIMBABWE SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL

General Certificate of Education Ordinary Level

MATHEMATICS 4008/1, 4028/1

PAPER 1

JUNE 2001 SESSION 2 hours 30 minutes

1. (a) Find the sum of 2 days 15 hours and 3 days 21 hours, giving
your answer in days and hours.

(b) Express 345 as a number in base two.

Answer (a) _____ days _____ hours [1]

(b) ____________________ [2]

4. Simplify a2 – b2 + ab – a2
ab + a2 2a3

Answer ________________________ [3]

5. (a) Two similar cylinders have their volumes in the ratio 1:8. write
down the ratio of the areas of their circular surfaces.

(b)

A, B and C are three points on level ground.

The bearing of C from B is 138o and ABC = 92o.

Calculate the bearing of B and A.

Answer (a) ___________________ [1]

(b) ___________________ [2]

2. (a) Write down the number of lines of symmetry for an isosceles

triangle.

(b)
 In the right-angled triangle above, tanθ = 2/ 3.

Find the value of cosθ, leaving your answer in surd form.

Answer (a) ____________________ [1]

(b) ____________________ [2]

3. 1; 3; 8; 21;
2 5 13 34

Study the sequence above.

(a) Write down the nest term in the sequence.

(b) If x/ y is another term in the sequence, find, in terms of x and y,

the term which comes immediately after x/ y.

Answer (a) ____________________ [1]

(b) ____________________ [2]

8. Evaluate

(a) (1/5)-2
(b) – 272/3
 Answer (a) ___________________ [1]

(b) ___________________ [2]

9.

In the diagram, ABE and DCF are parallel straight lines, ABCD is a
parallelogram, DC = 7cm, EC = 8 cm and EĈF = 65o.
Using the information given below where necessary, find

(a) the area of ∆DEC,

(b) the area of parallelogram ABCD.

[sin65o = 0,91; cos65o = 0,42; tan65o = 2,14]

Answer (a) _________________cm2 [2]

(b) _________________cm2 [1]

10.

In the diagram, line l2 and line l2 are parallel.

(a) Find the gradient of line l 2,

(b) Find the equation of line l 2, giving your answer in the form
ax + by = c where a, b and c are integers.

Answer (a) ___________________ [1]

(b) ___________________ [2]

11.
 Write down the three inequalities which define the unshaded region in
the diagram above.

Answer _________________________ [1]

_________________________ [1]

_________________________ [1]

12.

In the diagram, AB = 11cm, BC = 7cm and AC = 6cm.

Calculate the value of cos AĈB, giving your answer as a common
fraction in its lowest terms.
 Answer cos AĈB = _______________ [3]

Solve the simultaneous equations

2x – 3y = 13,
3x + 2y = 0.

Answer x = ______________________

y = ______________________ [3]

14. (a) Estimate, to the nearest whole number, the value of

7,9 x √80,6
1,8 x 3,1

(b) The length of a square is given as 10cm correct to one

significant figure. Find the smallest possible area of the square.

Answer (a) ___________________ [2]

(b) _________________cm21[2]

15. Given that m = 4,8 x 103 and n = 1,2 x 10-3, find, giving your answer
in standard form,
 (a) 5m,
(b) –n2
(c) n/m

Answer (a) ___________________ [1]

(b) ___________________ [1]

(c) ____________________ [2]

16. (a) Explain and simplify

(b) Factorise completely

3x2 – 6x – ax + 2a.

Answer (a) ____________________ [2]

(b) ____________________ [2]

17.
 In the diagram, PA and PB are tangents to the circle centre O. given
that Q is a point on the minor arc AB and that AÔB = 140º, find

(a) OBP,
(b) APB,
(c) AQB.

Answer (a) ___________________ [1]

(b) ___________________ [1]

(c) ___________________ [1]

18. A = (7 -2), B = (-1 2) and M = (-3 -5). Find

(4 -1) (-4 7) (2 6)

(a) AB,
(b) The inverse of M.

Answer (a) ____________________ [2]

(b) ____________________ [2]

19. It is given that a = (11), √17 = 4,123 and √1,7 = 1,304.

Find
(a) √0,17,
 (b) The magnitude of a correct to two significant figures.

Answer (a) ____________________ [2]

(b) ____________________ [2]

20. In a regular polygon of n sides, the size of each interior angle x o, is

given by the formula

x = 180 – 360
n

(a) Make n the subject of the formula,

(b) Calculate the number of sides of a regular polygon whose
interior angle is 150o.
 Answer (a) n = ________________ [2]

(b) ___________________ [2]

21.

The diagram shows ∆ABC and ∆DEF.

(a) On the diagram, draw and label ∆POR, the image of ∆ABC
under a translation of vector (7)
(4).
(b) Describe fully the single transformation that maps ∆ABC onto
∆DEF.

Answer (a) On the diagram. [1]

 (b) ____________________

____________________

____________________ [3]

22. The scale of a map is given as 1:50 000.

(a) Calculate the length of a line on the map that represents a road
6,4 km long.

(b) Calculate the area, in hectares, of a piece of land represented on

the map by an area of 3cm 2.

[1 hectare = 10 000m2]

Answer (a) _________________cm [2]

(b) _________________ha [3]

23. m is directly proportional to n 2 and m = 28 when n = 2

(a) Write down an expression for m in terms of n and a constant k.

(b) Calculate
 (i) the value of k,
(ii) the value of n when m = 63.

Answer (a) ___________________ [1]

(b) (i) k = ________________ [2]

(ii) n = _______ or ______ [2]

24. Given that log216 = 2,334 and log3 = 0,477, find

(a) log2,16,
(b) log6,
(c) log 72.

Answer (a) ____________________ [1]

(b) ____________________ [2]

(c) ____________________ [2]

25. (a) The graph of x + 2y + p = 0 and the graph of 3x + qy = 9

intersect at the point (-2, 3). Find the value of p and the value of
q.

(b) Factorise 4x2 – 12x + 9.

Hence or otherwise solve the equation 4x2 – 12x + 9 = 16.

 Answer (a) p = _________________ [1]

Q = ________________ [1]

(b) ____________________ [2]

x = __________ or _________ [2]

26.

The diagram shows the velocity-time graph of a car during a period of

20 minutes. Find

(a) the retardation during the first 5 minutes,

(b) the distance, in kilometers, traveled at constatnt velocity,
(c) the total distance traveled, in kilometers,
(d) the average velocity, in km/h, during the 20 minutes.
Answer (a) ____________km/h/min [1]

(b) _________________km [2]

(c) _________________km [2]

(d) _______________km/h [3]