Entranc€ Examination: M.Sc.
Mathematics, 2018
Hall Ticket Nrrmber
Time: 2 hours Pa.rt A:25 Marks
Max. Marks: 100 Part B:75 Marks
Instructions
1. Write your Hall Ticket Number in the OMR Answer Sheet given to you. Also write
the Hall Ticket Number in the spac€ provided above.
2. Answers are to be ma^rked on the OMR sheet.
3. Please read the instructions carefully before marking your answers on the OMR answer
sheet.
4. Hand over ihe OMR answer sheet at the end of the examination.
5. The question paper can be taken by the candidate at the end of the examination.
6. No additional sheets will be provided. Rough work can be done in the question paper
itself/space provided at the end of t,he booklet.
7. Calculators are not allowed.
8. There are a total of 50 questions in PAIUT A and PARIT B together.
9. There is a negative marking in PARII A. Each conect answer caries I
mark and each wrong answer caries -0.333 mark. Each question in PARIT
A has only one correct option.
10. There is no negative marking in PARII B. Each correct answer carries 3
ma.rks. In P,A.RT B some questions have more than one correct option.
All the correct options have to be marked in OMR sheet, otherwise zero
marks will be credited.
11. The appropriate answer(s) should be coloured with eiiher a blue or a blark ball point
or a sketch pen. DO NOT USE A PENCIL.
12. lRdenotes the set of real numbers, C the set of complex numbers, Z the set of integers,
Q the set of rational numbers and N the set of all natural numbers.
13. This book contains 1l pages ircluding this page and excluding pages for the rough
work. Please check that your paper has all the pages.
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Part-A
1. Let X c N be a nonempty finite set and Y c Nbe an infinite set. Define,4: {z-gr:
reXand,g€Y).Then
(A) inf(,a) : -oo and sup(A) : e6.
(B) inf(,a) = -co and sup(, ) < oo.
(C) inf(/) > -oo and sup(, ) = 6e.
(D) inf(,a) > -oo and sup(,4) < m.
2. Let X be a nonempty set and -4, B c X. If(AUB) \(,4n8) is a finite set, then
(A) Both A and B are finite sets.
(B) Atleast one of A,B is a finite set.
(C) X is a finite set.
(D) None of the above.
3. Let f ,g:lR'+ R be a polynomials with deg (/) = 5 and deg (g):7.Let A: {r e
R : /(r) : e(r)). Then
(A) lAl < 5.
(B) lAl < 7.
(C) ,4 is ffnite, but lAl can be arbitrarily la,rge.
(D)' ,4 can be finite.
4. Let X be a set with 2rn * 1 elements, where rn > 4. The number of subsets of X
. having at least m + 1 elements is
(A) 2z^+t '
(B) 2z--t'
(c) 22^.
(D) 2- f r.
5. A box contain RED, BLUE and GREEN coloured balls. If all but 18 of the balls are
BLUE, all but 12 of the balls a,re GREEN and all but 24 balls are RED, then which
of the following is true.
(A) Box contains more RED balls than BLUE or GREEN ones.
(B) Box contains more BLUE balls than RED or GR"EEN ones.
(C) Box contains more GREEN balls than R^ED or BLUE ones.
(D) none of the above.
6. Vinod and Binod are t' o students among a group of n students. The number of ways
to allocate n difierent rooms in a line to this group of students so that Vinod and
Binod are not in adjacent rooms is
(A) (n - z)(n - t)!.
(B) z(n - t)!.
(C) (rz - 1)!.
(D) 2(z - z)!.
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7. LexGbe a group and a, b e G such that o(o) : 6, o(b) =2 arLd a3b: ba. Then o(ab)
is
(A) 6.
(B) 8.
(c) 12.
(D) 2.
8. Suppose G is a group and o € G such that order ofr is Z lGl/2. Then
(A) G is cyclic group.
18) If G is abelian, then G is cyclic.
(C) If G is finite, then G is cyclic.
(D) none of the above.
9. Let ,4AB denote the symmetric difierence of two sets: AA,B :: (A \ B) U (B \,4).
Which of the follwing is true?
(A) A n (.BAA) : 0 always holds true.
(B) (.4 u (,448)) n B I B always holds true.
(C) ALB : (Ar B) n (,'4" n B") always holds true.
(D) None of the above is true.
10. Let .4 be a 5x5 real matrix. Suppose 0 is one of eigenvalues of C. Which of the
following statement is true?
(A) System AX :0 has unique solution.
(B) System AX --C ha unique solution for any C.
(C) AX:0 has a non-trivial solution.
(D) none of the above.
11. The order of (123)(1a5) in the permutation group 55 is
(A) 6
(B) 3.
(c) 5.
(D) e.
12. The number of subgroups of order 2 in the permutation group ,S3 is
(A) 1.
(B) 3.
(c) 2.
(D) 12.
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13. Which one the following subsets is a subspace of the vector space R3 over the field
R?
(A) {(u,u,tu) l2u + 30 + 4u :0}.
€ IRs
(B) {(2, r.,, u') € 1R3 | 2u + 30 + 4w = 1}.
(C) {(u,o,ri.,) €R3 lu > 0,u > O,tu < 0}.
(D) {(2, u, u) € R3 | a, u, ?, are rational}.
14. The dimension of the vector space Q[.,,/2] over the field Q is
(A) 1
(B) *
(c) 4.
(D) 2.
15. Let V : {(4,x2,xs,ra) € R4 l2r1 * ruz: O,xz - rz - r,4: 0}. A basis for V
(A) {(1, 0, 0, 0), (0, 1, 0, 0), (0, 0, 1, 0), (0, 0, 0, 1)}.
(B) {(1, -?,0, -;), (0,0,1,-1)}.
(C) {(n, -2,0, -2), (2r, -4,0, -4)}.
(D) {(0, 0, 1, -1), (r1, -+, 0, 0)}.
16. In a survey, it is found that 80 students know English, 60 know Ftench,50 krow
German, 30 know English and trtench, 20 know French and German, 15 know English
and German and 10 students know all the tbree languages. How many students know
English only?
(A) 45.
(B) 55.
' (c) 20.
(D) 80.
17. If one of the roots of the quadratic equation 1012 - 29r + (ft + 4) : 0 is the reciprocal
of the other root, then the va.lue of k is
(A) 4
(B) 2e
(c) 6
(D) -3
18 The number of subsets ftom 100 distinct objects containing an odd number of objects
-is
/A\ rl00
- 1
(B) 2ss.
(c) 250.
(D) 250 - 1.
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19. The proportions of those arrangements of the numerals 1,2,. .. ,9 in which all the
multiples of 3 appea,rs consecutively is
(A) 1/2.
(B) 1/6.
(c) | ltz.
(D) 1/36.
20. The rate of convergence of Newton-Raphson rnethod is
(^) 2.
(B) 3.
(c) i.
(D) 1.618.
The Laplace transform of trl2 is
(A) \/;12s3/2
(B) 1/r /s'r'
(c) Jil2sl/2
(D) rGlsl/2
Let /
and g be difierentiable functions such that ft(r) :2g(a) and 9/(r) : -/(r)
and let ?(;r) :
7@)2 - g(r)2. Then ?/(z) is equal to
(A) z(r).
(B) 0.
(q zl@)s(r).
(D) 6.f (r)s(r)
23. If G is an abelian group, then ihe number of conjugacy classes equal to
(A) o(G).
(B) 1
(c) o(G) -o(z(c).
(D) 2.
Let p be a prime and G : {z e C I z is an ztl'-root of 1, for some n € N}. then,
(A) an infinite abelian group but not cyclic.
(B) an infnite cyclic group.
(C) it is a finite cyclic group.
(D) None of these.
25. Let G be a finite group and ff is a subgroup of G of index 2. Then
(A) 11 is norma.l and gz e H for aay 9 € Il.
(B) 11 is normal and 92: e.
(C) If is need not be normal.
(D) None of the aboove.
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Part-B
26. Let (c'") be a sequelce of positive reais converging to 1. Which of the following se_
quences converge to 1?
(l) (rl'").
(s) ("1).
s @y")
(D) (2"" - 1).
27. Let f :lR --+ IR be l@): g"a - 2c5. Then which of the following are true?
(A) / is surjeciive.
(B) / is iniective.
(C) / is uniformly continuous on IR.
(D) / is Lipschitz continuous on [-100, 100].
28. For fr, n. € N, let f",," be a linear map from lRt -+ lR". Which of the following are true
?
(A) T6,7 oT7,6:lR7 -+ R7 can never be injective.
(B) T6,7 oT7,6: lRz -+ lR7 can never be surjective.
(C) 776 o 7'6,7 : lR7 -+ IR7 ca,rr never be injective.
(D) :f7 ,6 o ?i6,7 : IR7 -+ lRz can never be surjective.
29. The greatest common divisor (gcd) of 5a t 3 atd, Tn * 4, for all n e N is
(A) 1.
(B) 5.
(c) n.
' (D) 2.
30. How many three digit numbels are divisible by 6?
(A) 142.
(B) 150.
(c) 148.
(D) r 66.
31. Tbe number o[ diagonals in an z-gon is
(A) "(?t).
(B) z(z - 3).
(c) n(n - t).
(D) "(?3).
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Ir;r i = l= in C. Then it is
(A) 1.
(B) 0.
Q) e-t
(D) e-dt.
Let G be an abelian group with the identity e. Which one of the following statements
a.re true.
(A) II : {r e G lorder of z is odd} is a subgroup of G.
(B) ff : {r e G lorder of z is even} u {e} is a subgroup of G.
(C) Every subgroup of G is normal.
(D) G is cyclic.
Let p be a prime number. Consider the group
sL(2,2e) -- €z,andaa-ac: t\
{(a I )1".r'".,
t, I
under the matrix multiplication. Then the order = ( 0 l) ""t',u,1^
(A) *.
(B) i,.
(c) 1.
(D) p-1.
In the ring Zs[Xl, the element 4X2 + 6X + 3 is
(A) a nilpotent.
(B) a unit.
(C) an idempotent.
(D) a zero-divisor.
Suppose that Q : 226 i 226 is an automorphism such that /(5) : 5. Then the number
of possibilities for {(1) is
(A) 4.
(B) r.
(c) 5.
(D) 20.
37. Let X Y be subspaces of finite dinensioual vector space V. Ler X +Y =
and
{a + yln Q X,A eY}. The dimension of the subspace X + y is always equal to
(A) din(x + r) : 41rn11'; + dim(Y) - dim(x n r).
(B) dim(X + r) : dim(x) + dim(r).
(c) digl(x +Y) : m6*161*1x),din(Y)).
(D) dim(x +v): dinx(x) + din(Y) +diE(Xnv).
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38. A number is selected ftom {1,2, . . . 100} if every outcome is equally likely, the proba-
bility that the selected number is a prime number given that it is odd is
(^) u4.
(B) 12125.
(c) 1./3.
(D) 14125
39. The nullity of n x n matrix a.ll of whose terms are 1 is
(A) 1.
(B)
".
(C) z-1.
(D) n-2.
40. The proportion of 2 x 2 nonsingular matrices whose terms are either 0 or 1 is
(^) L12.
(B) Ll4.
(c) 1/8.
(D) 1/16.
47. The ralue of lim",-* j(t + | + .+ j; is
(A) 0.
(B) 1.
(c) *.
(D) e.
42. Suppose G is a finite group and If is a subgroup of G. If [G : H] : 2, then which of
the following statements are true?
(A) If z€ H and.gy'H,thenxyeH.
(B) It x I H and s / H,then zy-r € I{.
(C) If rl Ha ,y/.H,thenry e H.
(D) boih (b) and (c) are true.
43. Let 53 be the permutation group on {1,2,3}. Then there exists a non-trivlal group
homomorphism /
: 53 ---+ ,S3 such that
(A) Kernel f: {(rz),e}.
(B) Kernel / : {(tz3), (t3z),e}.
(C) Kernel / can contains (123), (12).
(D) None of the above.
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44. Let T : V ---+ W be a linear transformation, then
(A) iIuyuz,'..a" are linear independent then ?(u1),7(u2) . ,1:(a") are linear in-
dependent.
(B) lf T(a1),T(uz) ,T(u") a.re linear independent, !,her' uLa2, . url are linear in-
dependent.
(C) T(ut),T(uz),... ,f @") a.re linea.r independent if 7 is onto.
(D) None of these.
45. The solution ol yt +y : aya is given by
(A) v-3: x+l+ce3'.
(B) Y3: a+l+ce3''
(c) v-s: r+tr+ce-I'
(D) vt: r+I+ce-s".
46. The function f(") : l"lp, 0 <p < 1 is
(A) not Lipschiiz at n: 0.
(B) Lipschitz at r:0 with Lipschitz constant 1.
(C) Lipschitz at r:0.
(D) Differentiable at t = 0.
47. The iniiial value problem # = r3/2 (t), r(0) :0 has
(A) irnique solution.
(B) two solutions.
(C) infinitely many solutions.
(D) none of these.
48. If u is a function of o, y and z satisfies ihe partial difiereniial equation
Eu 0u+ 0u
fu - ?)
dx
+ Q - r)
au
lr' a)d;-- o.
Then the general solution is of the form
(A) u : /(o + g+ z,x2 + y2 + z2).
(B) u = l@a + yz I zr,x2 + y2 + z2)
(C) u: f(ryz,x2 + a2 + 22)
(D) z=/(c *y+2.x2y2221
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49. The complete integral of the equation
(P+ q)(z - sP - Yq) : t'
A,
whelep:ffi,q:6rs
(A) z:ar+by+ js.
(B) z: ar +by + js.
(C) z:m-fu+h
(D) none of these.
50. The orthogonal trajectories of the family of rectangular hyperbolas y -- qfr is
(A)y2-12:c.
(B) y2 +a2: c.
(C) n2Y2 : s.
"u' 4 -- c
{Dr
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