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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2025 Paper 2 12 b iii Solution by
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The equality must be a first return time: an order starting or would already have stopped at draw two. The only successful four-draw orders are therefore and . Their probabilities under sampling without replacement add toHere . Counting all balanced four-draw orders would include games that have already stopped.
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Success after two draws occurs on the two mutually exclusive events and . With , sampling without replacement gives
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After one draw the two counts are either or and cannot agree. ThereforeThis is the elementary parity restriction behind the first return time interpretation of this game.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2025 Paper 2 11 c iv Solution by
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For the reciprocal Möbius transformation, substitute , and multiply by , which is nonzero on the stipulated domain. This yieldsConsequentlyFor a nondegenerate original circle, says that it passes through the origin, and its image is a straight line. The restriction must be retained: multiplying through does not authorize adding that excluded point. Degenerate choices can give a constant or an identically zero equation instead of a straight line.
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For the translation, expand the products of complex numbers and collect the terms in , , and the constant:It follows thatThe last coefficient is real because .
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There is a single point exactly when the radius is zero:Then forces this unique value of the complex number .
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A squared complex modulus is nonnegative. Conversely, every nonnegative right-hand side of can be attained. The necessary and sufficient condition is therefore
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Completing the square directly with the complex modulus givesFor , this is the circle with centre and radius . Equality gives just the point , and gives the empty locus. In particular, the nondegenerate answer is
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Using the complex conjugate, . The locus is therefore the straight lineIn the complex plane, the quantity is the signed scalar projection of in the direction . Thus the straight line is perpendicular to and passes through . This description uses no separation of into real coordinates.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2025 Paper 1 18 a iii Solution by
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Put . The two linear equations from parts (i) and (ii) give and , so . ThereforeThese formulas include , when and .
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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2025 Paper 1 17 b ii Solution by
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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2025 Paper 1 15 a ii Solution by
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For and , put . This is the standard substitution for a homogeneous first-order differential equation. Since , the equation becomesTaking antiderivatives yields . The explicit general solution is thereforeon any interval where and , with a fixed choice of sign. For a check that does not divide by , set to get and hence .
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Where , the separable differential equation is . Separating and taking antiderivatives gives , for nonzero . Including the zero solution, the explicit general solution ison any interval with . It can also be obtained without dividing by : the product rule gives .
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