CAIE A Level 9709

Mathematics 2024 · Oct/Nov

25 Questions Q&A Available

Questions & Model Answers 25 Qs

Short Answer 1 mark

At a college, the students choose exactly one of tennis, hockey or netball to play. The table shows the numbers of students in Year 1 and Year 2 at the college playing each of these sports. Tennis Hockey Netball Year 1 16 22 12 Year 2 24 18 28 One student is chosen at random from the 120 students. Events X and N are defined as follows: X: the student is in Year 1 N: the student plays netball.

Q1(a)

Short Answer 1 mark

Find ().XNP

Q1(b)

Short Answer 1 mark

Find ().NXP

Q1(c)

Short Answer 1 mark

Determine whether or not X and N are independent events. [1] One of the students who plays netball takes 8 shots at goal. On each shot, the probability that she will succeed is 0.15, independently of all other shots.

Q1(d)

Short Answer 1 mark

Find the probability that she succeeds on fewer than 3 of these shots. [3], ,

Q2(a)

Short Answer 1 mark

Find the number of different arrangements of the 9 letters in the word ALGEBRAIC.

Q2(b)

Short Answer 1 mark

Find the number of dif ferent arrangements of the 9 letters in the word ALGEBRAIC in which there are no more than two letters between the two As. [3], ,

Short Answer 1 mark

A fair coin and an ordinary fair six-sided dice are thrown at the same time. The random variable X is defined as follows. · If the coin shows a tail, X is twice the score on the dice. · If the coin shows a head, X is the score on the dice if the score is even and X is 0 otherwise.

Q3(a)

Short Answer 3 marks

Draw up the probability distribution table for X.

Q3(b)

Short Answer 1 mark

Find ()XarV . [3], ,

Short Answer 1 mark

The heights, in metres, of white pine trees are normally distributed with mean 19.8 and standard deviation 2.4 . In a certain forest there are 450 white pine trees.

Q4(a)

Short Answer 1 mark

How many of these trees would you expect to have height less than 18.2 metres? [4] The heights, in metres, of red pine trees are normally distributed with mean 23.4 and standard deviation v. It is known that 26% of red pine trees have height greater than 25.5 metres.

Q4(b)

Short Answer 1 mark

Find the value of v. [3], ,

Short Answer 1 mark

In a class of 21 students, there are 10 violinists, 6 guitarists and 5 pianists. A group of 7 is to be chosen from these 21 students. The group will consist of 4 violinists, 2 guitarists and 1 pianist.

Q5(a)

Short Answer 1 mark

In how many ways can the group of 7 be chosen? [2] On another occasion a group of 5 will be chosen from the 21 students. The group must contain at least 2 violinists, at least 1 guitarist and at most 1 pianist.

Q5(b)

Short Answer 1 mark

In how many ways can the group of 5 be chosen? [4], ,

Short Answer 1 mark

Teams of 15 runners took part in a charity run last Saturday . The times taken, in minutes, to complete the course by the runners from the Falcons and the runners from the Kites are shown in the table. Kites 324040454748525458595960616365

Q6(a)

Structured 4 marks

Draw a back-to-back stem-and-leaf diagram to represent this information, with the Falcons on the left-hand side.

Q6(b)

Short Answer 1 mark

Find the median and the interquartile range of the times for the Falcons. [3] , , Let x and y denote the times, in minutes, of a runner from the Falcons and a runner from the Kites respectively. It is given that x792=/ , 504x43 =/ , y783=/ , .223y42

Q6(c)

Short Answer 1 mark

Find the mean and the standard deviation of the times taken by all 30 runners from the two teams. [3], ,

Short Answer 1 mark

In a game, players attempt to score a goal by kicking a ball into a net. The probability that Leno scores a goal is 0.4 on any attemp t, independently of all other attempts. The random variable X denotes the number of attempts that it takes Leno to score a goal.

Q7(a)

Short Answer 1 mark

Find ()X5P=.

Q7(b)

Short Answer 2 marks

Find ()X37PGG .

Q7(c)

Short Answer 1 mark

Find the probability that Leno scores his second goal on or before his 5th attempt. [3], , Leno has 75 attempts to score a goal.

Q7(d)

Short Answer 1 mark

Use a suitable approximation to find the probability that Leno scores more than 28 goals but fewer than 35 goals. [5], , Additional page If you use the following page to complete the answer to any question, the question number must be clearly shown. Permission to reproduce items where third-party owned material protected by copyright is included has been sought and cleared where possible. Every reasonable ef fort has been made by the publisher (UCLES) to trace copyright holders, but if any items requiring clearance have unwittingly been included, the publisher will be pleased to make amends at the earliest possible opportunity. To avoid the issue of disclosure of answer-related information to candidates, all copyright acknowledgements are reproduced online in the Cambridge Assessment International Education Copyright Acknowledgements Booklet. This is produced for each series of examinations and is freely available to download at www.cambridgeinternational.org after the live examination series. Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES), which is a department of the University of Cambridge. * 0000008000012 *, ,

Paper Details

Board	CAIE
Level	A Level
Subject	Mathematics
Code	`9709`
Year	2024
Session	Oct/Nov
Q&A	25 questions

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