Official (Closed), Non-Sensitive MS2125/MS3123/MS4120/MS6140/MS7102

SINGAPORE POLYTECHNIC

2021/2022 SEMESTER ONE MID SEMESTER TEST

BASIC MATHEMATICS Time allowed: 1.5 hrs

1st Year Full-Time

School of Chemical and Life Sciences

DAPC, DBS, DCHE, DFST, DOPT, DPCS

School of Architecture and The Built Environment

DCE

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

DASE, DCPE, DEB, DEEE

School of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering

DARE, DCEP, DME, DMRO

Singapore Maritime Academy

DMR

Instructions:

1. The Singapore Polytechnic Examination rules are to be complied with.

2. This paper consists of 4 printed pages.

3. Answer all the 6 questions.

4. Unless otherwise stated, correct all your decimal answers to two decimal places.

5. Except for sketches, graphs and diagrams, no solutions are to be written in pencil.
Failure to do so will result in loss of marks.

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Useful formulae

I. Laws of Indices II. Algebraic Formulae

Product law a m  a n  a mn

Factoring Formulae
am
Quotient law  a mn
an a 2  b 2   a  b  a  b 

Power law a  m
n
 am n 
a 3  b3   a  b  a 2  ab  b 2 
Product 
a 3  b3   a  b  a 2  ab  b 2 
 ab 
m
raised to a  a mb m
power
Quotient m Quadratic Formula
a am
raised to a   
b bm If ax 2  bx  c  0 , where a, b and c are real and a  0 ,
power
Zero b  b 2  4ac
a 10 then x 
exponent 2a
Negative 1 Binomial Theorem
am 
exponent am If n is a positive integer, then
a  x  a n  n C1a n 1 x  n C 2 a n  2 x 2  n C3 a n 3 x 3 
n
1  xn
Radical vs an  a, n
fractional n!
m where n C r 
exponent r ! n  r  !
 am
n
an

Multiplication n
a n b  n ab
of radicals
n
Division of a a
 n
radicals n
b b

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1. (a) Simplify the following and express your answers in positive exponents.

x7 z3
(i) (3 marks)
x4 z5

2 y 
2
0 3
(ii) z (4 marks)
1

(iii)
x
 
 y
 x4 y2  (5 marks)

(b) Simplify the following, leaving your answer in radical form a b .

21
(i) (3 marks)
7

(ii) 27  2 3 (3 marks)

2. (a) Solve for x given 53 x 1  25 x . (4 marks)

(b) Solve the following radical equations for real x .

(i) 3x  2  2  0 (4 marks)

x2  9
3
(ii) (4 marks)

3. (a) Find in ascending powers of x, the binomial expansion of

of  2  x  . Simplify your answer.
5
(9 marks)

Using your answer in part (a), expand 1  x  2  x  in

5
(b)
ascending powers of x up to and including the x 2 term only. (8 marks)

Given that h  x   x  9 .
2
4.

(a) Evaluate h(5) . (2 marks)

(b) Justify if h   x  is equal to  h  x  . (5 marks)
(c) State the domain and range of h  x  . (6 marks)
(d) Sketch the graph of h( x ) . Label the axes and origin,
and indicate clearly all possible intercepts on axes. (6 marks)

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5. Given that f  x   3  x , g  x   x and p  x   3e x .

(a) State the slope and vertical intercept of the linear function f  x  . (3 marks)
(b) Without sketching the graphs, explain how the graphs of x 1
and x  1 can be obtained from the graph of g  x  . (6 marks)
(c) Find the composite function f  g ( x )  . Hence, find f  g (4)  . (5 marks)
(d) Given that 3  g (t )  f (2 x ) , express t in terms of x. (4 marks)
(e) Sketch the graph of p  x  . Label the axes and origin,
and indicate clearly all possible intercepts on axes. (4 marks)

6. Joshua designed a smart chip that can speed up wireless transfer of data. He went into a
joint partnership with a developer to produce and sell 1800 smart chips and the developer
proposed to sell them at the baseline price of $10 each. Joshua then decided to increase
the selling price of each chip to maximize the money he can collect. He did some research
on similar products and found that for every $1 increase from the baseline price of such
smart chip, the sales of smart chips will drop by 100.

(a) If Joshua increases the selling price of each smart chip by $x from baseline price,
show that the amount of money he can collect is given by the quadratic expression
100 x 2  800 x  18000 .

(b) Joshua plotted the graph of y  100 x 2  800 x  18000 for different x and the graph
is shown below.

Find each of the following. Show your working clearly.

(i) The coordinates of A, where the graph intersects the y-axis.
(ii) The coordinates of B and C, where the graph meets the x-axis.
(iii) The equation of the line of symmetry of the graph.
(iv) The coordinates of the maximum point.

(c) Hence, determine the maximum amount of money that Joshua can collect and the
price at which he should sell each smart chip to collect this amount of money.

(12 marks)
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