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    FOR EDEXCEL

    GCE Examinations
    Advanced Subsidiary

    Core Mathematics C4
    Paper J
    Time: 1 hour 30 minutes

    Instructions and Information


    Candidates may use any calculator EXCEPT those with the facility for symbolic
    algebra, differentiation and / or integration.
    Full marks may be obtained for answers to ALL questions.
    Mathematical formulae and statistical tables are available.
    This paper has eight questions.

    Advice to Candidates
    You must show sufficient working to make your methods clear to an examiner.
    Answers without working may gain no credit.

    Written by Shaun Armstrong


     Solomon Press

    These sheets may be copied for use solely by the purchaser’s institute.

    © Science Exam Papers


    1. The region bounded by the curve y = x2 − 2x and the x-axis is rotated through
    2π radians about the x-axis.

    Find the volume of the solid formed, giving your answer in terms of π. (6)

    1
    2. Use the substitution u = 1 − x 2 to find
    1
    ∫ 1− x
    1
    2
    dx. (6)

    3. A curve has the equation

    2 sin 2x − tan y = 0.
    dy
    (a) Find an expression for in its simplest form in terms of x and y. (5)
    dx

    (b) Show that the tangent to the curve at the point ( π , π ) has the equation
    6 3

    y= 1
    2
    x+ π. (3)
    4

    4. y
    B

    O A x

    Figure 1

    Figure 1 shows the curve with parametric equations

    x = a t , y = at(1 − t), t ≥ 0,

    where a is a positive constant.


    dy
    (a) Find in terms of t. (3)
    dx
    The curve meets the x-axis at the origin, O, and at the point A. The tangent to the
    curve at A meets the y-axis at the point B as shown.

    (b) Show that the area of triangle OAB is a2. (6)

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    5. The gradient at any point (x, y) on a curve is proportional to y.

    Given that the curve passes through the point with coordinates (0, 4),

    (a) show that the equation of the curve can be written in the form

    2 y = kx + 4,

    where k is a positive constant. (5)

    Given also that the curve passes through the point with coordinates (2, 9),

    (b) find the equation of the curve in the form y = f(x). (4)

    6.

    60°

    Figure 2

    Figure 2 shows a vertical cross-section of a vase.

    The inside of the vase is in the shape of a right-circular cone with the angle between
    the sides in the cross-section being 60°. When the depth of water in the vase is h cm,
    the volume of water in the vase is V cm3.

    (a) Show that V = 1


    9
    πh3. (3)

    The vase is initially empty and water is poured in at a constant rate of 120 cm3 s−1.

    (b) Find, to 2 decimal places, the rate at which h is increasing

    (i) when h = 6,

    (ii) after water has been poured in for 8 seconds. (7)

    Turn over

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     −4   −3 
       
    7. Relative to a fixed origin, the points A and B have position vectors  1  and  6 
     3 1
       
    respectively.

    (a) Find a vector equation for the line l1 which passes through A and B. (2)

    The line l2 has vector equation

     3 2
       
    r =  −7  + µ  −3  .
     9 1
       

    (b) Show that lines l1 and l2 do not intersect. (5)

    (c) Find the position vector of the point C on l2 such that ∠ABC = 90°. (6)

    x(3x − 7)
    8. f (x) = , | x | < 13 .
    (1 − x)(1 − 3x)

    (a) Find the values of the constants A, B and C such that

    B C
    f(x) = A + + . (4)
    1 − x 1 − 3x

    (b) Evaluate
    1

    ∫0 f(x) dx,
    4

    giving your answer in the form p + ln q, where p and q are rational. (5)

    (c) Find the series expansion of f(x) in ascending powers of x up to and including
    the term in x3, simplifying each coefficient. (5)

    END

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