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THE HONGKONG government GÁZETTE, 14TH FEBRUARY, 1891.
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2. Comment on :-- -After a fruitless search all the lost money was found except a pair of boots.
3. Tea exports from China and opium exports from India have of late fallen off very much. Explain the causes, and further state what effect a farther decline of these exports will have upon Hongkong.
4. Comment on be and is in the following:--
(a.) If he be honest let him prove his honesty.
(b.) If he is honest let him be acquitted.
5. A simple method to mutiply by eleven (11) is (in the case of two figures say,) to put the sum of the two given figures between the said two figures and that gives the product. E.g. 34 x 11. Add the two figures together (3+4=7) and put the 7 in between the two figures (374). Explain this.
6. The answer to a simple Proportion sum is 9s. The third term is 12s., and the first term 1 ton;
what is the second term ?
7. Give a short account of any one thing worthy of note that has taken place in the Colony within
the last three years.
8. A Railway is contemplated from Canton to some point on the mainland opposite Hongkong:-
Say what benefits you think are likely to accrue therefrom; and what effect it will have on the local steamers.
9. Copy down the following and then correct it, putting the lines sufficiently far apart to allow the
corrections to be made above each line :-
'During the night preceeding the day on which the battle fought, the soldiers of that regement was compelled to lay on the ground, for it was to dark to procede to the nearest town; and as the ground is so damp their lims were so stiff that some could not raise in the morning, and had to be lift up.
CLASS I A.--ALGEBRA.
9-12.
a
3x2 + 12x+9
с
1. B. Simplify3 + 5x3 +6
and 6+
d+e
2. B. Solve (a).
543 3x-7
3
2
5 - 10.
(b). 4.8x-
·72x-'05
5
1·6x+8.9.
3. Two shepherds owning a flock of sheep agree to divide its value; A takes 72 sheep, and B takes
92 sheep and pays A £35. Required the value of a sheep.
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4. Divide 46 into two parts, such that if one part be divided by 7 and the other by 3, the sum of the
quotients shall be 10.
5. Multiply + 2ax + x2
x(a-x)
a2
by
a(a+x) a2-2ax + x2
Divide
x2 2a2
x2
6a2 4+ by
x За
2a X
6. Find the square root of a1--æ3 + +4x-2+
4
4
7. Find the cube root of æo· ·9x+33x1 - 63x2 + 66x2 - 36x + 8.
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8. Solve 4 (x2 − 1 )—4x — 1.
(2x-3)2=8x.
9. Find two numbers such that their sum may be 39, and the sum of their cubes 17,199.
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10. Shew that
√10+ √20+ √ 40 − √ 5 – √80
√5(1+ √2).
1. A. The first term of a series being 2, and the fifth term 7, find how many terms must be taken
that the sum may be 63.
2. A. Given log. 2301030 and log. 3477121; find the logarithms of '05 and 54.
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