ADVANCED MATHEMATICS PROBLEM SOLVERS’ SERIES EXAMS (AMPSSE)

FORM SIX - SERIES 03 2024/2025

142/1 ADVANCED MATHEMATICS 1

Arusha Science Messa s.s Kondoa Girls J.J Mungai s.s

Mudio Islamic s.s Kwemaramba s.s Yemen s.s St. Mary’s Mazinde Juu
Makongoro s.s Alpha Girls Kiwele s.s Msasani Islamic s.s
Tumaini Senior s.s Istiqaama Tanga Chidya s.s Kahororo s.s
Hamamni s.s Nguva s.s Lucas Malia s.s Unyanyembe (JWTZ) s.s
Chamwino s.s Msolwa s.s Mwenge s.s Rugambwa Girls
Vwawa s.s Maswa Girls Algebra Islamic Sem. Ilembo s.s
Faraja Siha Sem. Ileje s.s Dutwa s.s Mambwe s.s
Kigonsera s.s Matema Beach s.s St. Anthony s.s Bagamoyo s.s
Nkasi s.s Ismani s.s Fidel Castro s.s Mtwara Girls
Ridhwaa Seminary Kyela s.s Ruvu s.s Dr. Samia s.s
Gili s.s Imperial s.s Savannah Plains s.s Tagamenda s.s
Mpwapwa s.s Irkisongo Girls Soya s.s Dakama s.s
Sadani s.s Tura s.s An-noor Boys Kilimanjaro Islamic s.s
Mwl. Nyerere s.s Premier Boys Mwanalugali s.s Yohaness s.s
Kibaigwa Girls Peace House s.s Lulumba s.s Kashishi s.s
Kisarawe II Pamoja s.s Same s.s

TIME: 3HRS DATE: 25/09/2024 (08:00 AM)

INSTRUCTIONS

i) This paper consists of Ten (10) Questions

ii) Answer All questions
iii) All work done in answering each question must be shown clearly
iv) NECTA Mathematical tables and Non-programmable Calculators may be used
v) Cellular Phones are not allowed in examination room

AMPSSE SERIES 3/P1

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1. Use a non-programmable scientific calculator to evaluate the following:
(a) 762934  0.215 rad in radian
(b) P 1.23 < z < 2.34 correct to 3 decimal places.
1 4 y2  9 y  8
(c) 5

0  y  2  y  12
dy correct to 4 significant figures.

2. (a) Show that cosh1 x  ln x  x 2  1 

 
(b) Solve the equation 3 cosh 2x  5 cosh x  22

 
(c) Given that y  arctan 3e 2 x , show clearly that
dy

3
dx 5 cosh 2 x  4 sinh 2 x

3. The Kipwiru cement dealer has two godowns at Tandika and Mtongani each with
storage capacity of 100 tonnes and 50 tonnes of cement respectively. The three
customers Chacha, Dumila and Esau placed their orders as 60, 50, and 40 tonnes of
cement respectively. The cost of transporting 1 tonne of cement (in nearest thousands)
from the godowns to each customer is given in the table below:
From  To Tandika Mtongani
Chacha 60 32
Dumila 18 10
Esau 8 21

(a) How should Kipwiru fulfill the orders of its customers at minimum cost?
(b) What is the minimum cost obtained?
(c) If one tonne of cement is sold for 70,000/= at Tandika and 100,000/= at
Mtongoni, calculate the net profit that Kipwiru will get assuming the
transportation cost is upon him.

4. (a) In an examination the percentage marks of the 120 boys are denoted by x and
the percentage mark of the 80 girls are denoted by y . The marks are summarized
by the totals x  7020 , x 2  424320 and y 2  352130 . Calculate the girls’
mean mark given that the standard deviation for all these students is 10.

(b) At company ABC, there are 25 employees. Each employee travels to work every
morning in his or her own car. The distribution of the driving times (in minutes)
from home to work for the employees is shown in the table below.
Driving Times (minutes) Number of Employees
0  t  10 3
10  t  20 10
20  t  30 6
30  t  40 4
40  t  50 2

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 Calculate the following statistical measures
(i) Mean and variance by coding method (use 15 as the assumed mean)
(ii) Mean deviation
(iii) The minimum driving time of the highest 30% of the workers

5. (a) Use the laws of algebra of sets to simplify Ac  Bc  C  B  C    A  C 

(b) If n A  B  C   115 , n A  C   90 and nB  35 . Find n A  C   B 
(c) At Kizimkazi High school there are 1000 students. 675 do Economics, 750 do
Commerce and 125 do Accountancy. All those doing Economics do Commerce
50 take Economics and Accountancy and 100 take Commerce and Accountancy.
Using Venn diagram, calculate number of learners who take
(i) Commerce, but not Accountancy or Economics.
(ii) Commerce but not Accountancy.
(iii) Commerce or Accountancy but not Economics

6. (a) Given the functions f ( x)  x 2  5 and g ( x)  x  11 . Find g  f (3)

x2  3
(b) The function is defined as f x   . Sketch the graph of f x 
x 1

7. (a) Show that the equation x 3  5x  1 , x   has a root  between 2 and 3

(b) Find  1 by Newton-Raphson method using the initial approximation x 0  0.2
correct to six decimal places. Perform three iterations only.

(c) (i) Find the exact value of  sin x dx
0

(ii) Approximate the value of  sin x dx using both the Trapezoidal Rule and
0

Simpson’s Rule with n  6 correct to 4 decimal places.

(iii) Calculate the resulting error for each method in 7(c)(ii)

8. (a) Find the points Q and R which divide the line joining 1,2 and 10,8 into three
equal parts.
(b) Show that the length of the common chord of the circles

x  y  ax  by  c  0 and x  y  bx  ay  c  0 is L 
2 2 2 2 a  b 2  4c
2
(c) Find the equations of the tangents from the point (2,10) to the circle
x 2  y 2  4 x  6 y 104  0 .

9. (a) Find  sinln x  dx

(b) What is the area of the region bounded by y  2 x and the lines x  1, x  1 and
y  0.
(c) Find the volume V of the solid figure generated by rotating the area bounded by
the graphs of y  x 3 and y  x around the x  axis through 60 .
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 dy
if 5x  x sin y  5xy  10
2 3
10. (a) Find
dx
 
(b) If sin   3x  4 xy  2 y , show that x
2 2
y  2 tan 
x y
(c) A horse trough has a triangular cross section of height 25cm and base 30cm, and
it is 200cm long. A horse is drinking steadily, and when the water level is 5cm
below the top it is being lowered at the rate of 1cm min . Find the rate of
consumption.

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