Lim En Jie's answer to Irah Athirah's Secondary 4 A Maths Singapore question.

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Lim En Jie
Lim En Jie's answer
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Ah my year’s paper. There’s a lot of logical reasoning/visualising behind a lot of questions in 2015 as I recall. Part (I) is rather simple just draw the graph without modulus and then flip the negative Y area to the positive Y area. Part (II) theres 2 methods to solve can either use algebra and compare or the draw in the line y=3x-1 and then you can see that it cuts the “reflected line” but not the original line since the gradient diverges from y=2x-4 (3>2 so Line with M3 will not meet line with M2 where M is gradient) so can just equate y=3x-1 to y=-2x+4 which is the eqn of the “reflected line”. Part (III) is based a lot on visualisation and logical reasoning; you need to understand how you can get 2 intersections and how there’ll only be 1 intersection. Only if the gradient “converges” with y=2x-4 will you get 2 intersection which means you need a gradient less than 2 so that it meets the graph. However if you have a gradient of 0.5, you will see that the y=0.5x-1 only cuts (2,0) and nothing else which is why M must be bigger than 0.5 but smaller than 2. Remember to write in set notation as that’s what the question asks.
Eric Nicholas K
Eric Nicholas K
4 years ago
Quite detailed, but at the same time part iii is a little messy and explanations can definitely be improved.

Irah, I will show you how the graph looks like in Desmos. Sadly this forum app does not allow me to post moving images to show you how the lines change. Wait for my post.