GRANDMASTERS CONSULTANCY (GMC)

BRIDGE CUM SKILL BUILDING TRAINING (BSBT)

FOUNDATION COURSE IN STATISTICAL AND QUANTITATIVE REASONING

PRACTICE QUESTIONS
MODULE-IV

1. If f ( x)  x 2  x  1 find the value of f(-2)

a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4

2. Write an equation to represent the function from the following table of values:
X -2 -1 0 1 2
Y -4 -2 0 1 4

a) Y=-2x
b) Y=2x
c) Y=x+1
d) Y=x+2

3. Write an equation to represent the function from the following table of values:

X -2 -1 0 1 2
Y 1 2 3 4 5

a) Y=-2x
b) Y=2x
c) Y=x+1
d) Y=x+3
4. Which one of the following relations is not a function?

a) A
b) B
c) C
d) D

5. A = {-3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3}

f is a function from A to the set of whole numbers as defined in the following table:

X -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3
Y 9 4 1 0 1 4 9
What is the domain of f?
a) The set of integers
b) The set of whole numbers
c) {-3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3}
d) None of these
6. Which one of these graphs does not illustrate a function?

a) A
b) B
c) C
d) D

Fill in the blanks

7. Two sets are said to be -------------if every element contained by first set is contained by
second set and also every elements contained by second set is contained by first set.
8. Graphs of linear function is always ------------
9. Graphs of quadratic function is always ------------

OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS

10. {I is a set of integers lying between -2 and 3} Represent this set in Roster form.
11. Let A and B be two finite sets such that n(A) = 20, n(B) = 28 and n(A ∪ B) = 36, find n(A
∩ B).
12. If n(A - B) = 18, n(A ∪ B) = 70 and n(A ∩ B) = 25, then find n(B).
13. In a group of 60 people, 27 like cold drinks and 42 like hot drinks and each person likes at
least one of the two drinks. How many like both coffee and tea?
14. There are 35 students in art class and 57 students in dance class. Find the number of
students who are either in art class or in dance class.
i) When two classes meet at different hours and 12 students are enrolled in both activities.
ii) When two classes meet at the same hour.
15. In a group of 100 persons, 72 people can speak English and 43 can speak French. How
many can speak English only? How many can speak French only and how many can speak both
English and French?
16. In a competition, a school awarded medals in different categories. 36 medals in dance, 12
medals in dramatics and 18 medals in music. If these medals went to a total of 45 persons and
only 4 persons got medals in all the three categories, how many received medals in exactly two
of these categories?
17. Each student in a class of 40 plays at least one indoor game chess, carrom and scrabble. 18
play chess, 20 play scrabble and 27 play carrom. 7 play chess and scrabble, 12 play scrabble
and carrom and 4 play chess, carrom and scrabble. Find the number of students who play (i)
chess and carrom. (ii) chess, carrom but not scrabble.
18. Write the set of vowels used in the word ‘UNIVERSITY’.
19. If A = {1, 3, 7, 5} and B = {3, 7, 8, 9}. Find union of two set A and B.
20. Let X = {a, e, i, o, u} and Y = {ф}. Find union of two given sets X and Y.
21. If set P = {2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7}, set Q = {0, 3, 6, 9, 12} and set R = {2, 4, 6, 8}. Find union of all
3 sets.
22. If set P = {2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7}, set Q = {0, 3, 6, 9, 12} and set R = {2, 4, 6, 8}. Find
intersection of all 3 sets.
23. If A = {2, 4, 6, 8, 10} and B = {1, 3, 8, 4, 6}. Find intersection of two set A and B.
24. If X = {a, b, c} and Y = {ф}. Find intersection of two given sets X and Y.
25. A = {1, 2, 3} and B = {4, 5, 6}. Find the difference between the two sets: A and B
26. A = {1, 2, 3} and B = {4, 5, 6}. Find the difference between the two sets: B and A
27. Let A = {a, b, c, d, e, f} and B = {b, d, f, g}. Find the difference between the two sets: A
and B
28. Let A = {a, b, c, d, e, f} and B = {b, d, f, g}. Find the difference between the two sets: B
and A
29. If P and Q are two sets such that P ∪ Q has 40 elements, P has 22 elements and Q has 28
elements, how many elements does P ∩ Q have?
30. In a class of 40 students, 15 like to play cricket and football and 20 like to play cricket.
How many like to play football only but not cricket?
31. There is a group of 80 persons who can drive scooter or car or both. Out of these, 35 can
drive scooter and 60 can drive car. Find how many can drive both scooter and car? How many
can drive scooter only? How many can drive car only?
32. It was found that out of 45 girls, 10 joined singing but not dancing and 24 joined singing.
How many joined dancing but not singing? How many joined both?

Write the equation of

33. linear function.

34. Quadratic functions
35. Power Function
36. Polynomial Function
37. Rational functions
38. Exponential Function
39. Logarithmic Function
40. Hari’s electricity company charges her Rs. 0.11 per kWh (kilowatt-hour) of electricity, plus
a basic connection charge of Rs. 15.00 per month. Write a linear function that models his
monthly electricity bill as a function of electricity usage.
41. Amol has a house in pune, but starts a new job in Mumbai. Every Monday, he drives his
car 332 kms from Pune to Mumbai, spends the week in a company apartment, and then drives
back to Mumbai t Pune on Friday. He doesn't use his car for anything else. After 20 weeks of
this, his odometer shows that he has travelled 240,218 kms since he bought the car.Write a
linear model which gives the odometer reading of the car as a function of the number of weeks
since Amol started the new job.

TRUE OR FALSE

42. Let P is a set of counting numbers greater than 12;

the set P in set-builder form is written as :
P = {x : x is a counting number and greater than 12}
43. Let P is a set of counting numbers greater than 12;
the set P in set-builder form is written as :
P = {x | x is a counting number and greater than 12}
44. If a set A = {3, 6, 9, 10, 13, 18}. State whether the following statements are ‘true’ or
‘false’:

(i) 7 ∈ A

(ii) 12 ∉ A

(iii) 13 ∈ A

(iv) 9, 12 ∈ A

(v) 12, 14, 15 ∈ A

 ANSWERS

MULTIPLE CHOICE SINGLE CORRECT

1. (c)
2. (b)
3. (d)
4. (b)
5. (c)
6. (C)

FILL IN THE BLANKS

7. equal
8. Straight line
9. parabola

OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS

10. I = {-1, 0, 1, 2}
11. 12
12. 52
13. 9
14. 80,92
15. 28
16. 3
17. 10,6
18. {U, I, E}
19. A ∪ B = {1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9}
20. X ∪ Y = {a, e, i, o, u}
21. {0,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,12}
22. {6}
23. {4, 6, 8}
24. { }
25. A
26. B
27. {a, c, e}
28. {g)
29. 10
30. 20
31. 45
32. 14
33. linear function.
y=mx+b
34. Quadratic functions
y = a x 2+ b x + c,
35. Power Function
y = a xb
36. Polynomial Function
y = an · x n + an −1 · x n −1 + … + a2 · x 2 + a1 · x + a0
37. Rational functions
ax n  bx  c
y n
px  qx  r
38. Exponential Function
y = a bx
39. Logarithmic Function
y = a ln (x) + b
40. y=0.11x+15
41. Y=664(x−20)

TRUE OR FALSE

42. True
43. True
44.

(i) False

(ii) False

(iii) True

(iv) True

(v) False

ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS FOR PRACTICE-I

1. From a group of 7 men and 6 women, five persons are to be selected to form a
committee so that at least 3 men are there on the committee. In how many ways can it
be done?
a) 756
b) 456
c) 678
d) 789
2. In how many different ways can the letters of the word 'LEADING' be arranged in
such a way that the vowels always come together?
 a) 720
b) 876
c) 234
d) 23
3. In how many different ways can the letters of the word 'CORPORATION' be
arranged so that the vowels always come together?
a) 456
b) 5678
c) 56788
d) 50400

4. Out of 7 consonants and 4 vowels, how many words of 3 consonants and 2 vowels can
be formed?
a) 23455
b) 56778888
c) 567
d) 25200
5. In how many ways can the letters of the word 'LEADER' be arranged?
a) 360
b) 124
c) 345
d) 678
6. In a group of 6 boys and 4 girls, four children are to be selected. In how many
different ways can they be selected such that at least one boy should be there?
a) 4356
b) 209
c) 453
d) 234
7. How many 3-digit numbers can be formed from the digits 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 9, which are
divisible by 5 and none of the digits is repeated?
a) 19
b) 20
c) 21
d) 22
8. In how many ways a committee, consisting of 5 men and 6 women can be formed
from 8 men and 10 women?
a) 34566
b) 1234
c) 11760
d) 5678
9. A box contains 2 white balls, 3 black balls and 4 red balls. In how many ways can 3
balls be drawn from the box, if at least one black ball is to be included in the draw?
a) 64
b) 128
c) 32
d) 8
10. In how many different ways can the letters of the word 'DETAIL' be arranged in
such a way that the vowels occupy only the odd positions?
a) 34
b) 35
c) 36
d) 45
11. In how many ways can a group of 5 men and 2 women be made out of a total of 7 men
and 3 women
a) 63
b) 45
c) 67
d) 78
12. How many 4-letter words with or without meaning, can be formed out of the letters of
the word, 'LOGARITHMS', if repetition of letters is not allowed?
a) 5040
b) 1020
c) 2345
d) 8090
13. In how many different ways can the letters of the word 'MATHEMATICS' be
arranged so that the vowels always come together?
a) 120960
b) 567899
c) 123456
d) 789000
14. In how many different ways can the letters of the word 'OPTICAL' be arranged so
that the vowels always come together?
a) 720
b) 234
c) 567
d) 890
15. How many permutations of 3 different digits are there, chosen from the ten digits 0 to
9 inclusive?
a) 720
b) 567
c) 789
 d) 890
16. How many permutations of 4 different letters are there, chosen from the twenty six
letters of the alphabet?
a) 123456
b) 23456
c) 358800
d) 56789
17. How many different committees of 5 people can be chosen from 10 people?
a) 252
b) 250
c) 251
d) 253
18. Jones is the Chairman of a committee. In how many ways can a committee of 5 be
chosen from 10 people given that Jones must be one of them?
a) 126
b) 146
c) 156
d) 176
19. A password consists of two letters of the alphabet followed by three digits chosen
from 0 to 9. Repeats are allowed. How many different possible passwords are there?
a) 676000
b) 567000
c) 675000
d) 456000
20. 16 teams enter a competition. They are divided up into four Pools (A, B, C and D) of
four teams each.
Every team plays one match against the other teams in its Pool.
After the Pool matches are completed:
• the winner of Pool A plays the second placed team of Pool B
• the winner of Pool B plays the second placed team of Pool A
• the winner of Pool C plays the second placed team of Pool D
• the winner of Pool D plays the second placed team of Pool C

The winners of these four matches then play semi-finals, and the winners of the semi-
finals play in the final.

How many matches are played altogether?

a) 23
b) 31
c) 32
d) 63
 Answers
1. (a)
2. (a)
3. (d)
4. (d)
5. (a)
6. (b)
7. (b)
8. (c)
9. (a)
10. (c)
11. (a)
12. (a)
13. (a)
14. (a)
15. (a)
16. (c)
17. (a)
18. (a)
19. (a)
20. (b)

ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS FOR PRACTICE-II

EVALUATE

1. 4!
2. 5! * 5!
3. 3!*0!
4. 4!/0!
5. 6!/(2!*4!)

SIMPLIFY

6. (n + 2)! / n!
7. (2n + 2)! / 2n!
8. (n - 1)! / (n + 1)!
9. (10! / 5!) / 10
10. (n + 1)! / n!
 11. Eight athletes take part in a 400 m race. In how many different ways can all 8 places in the
race be arranged?
12. Three different letters, denoted A, B, and C, lie within a box. An individual will draw from
the box three times. How many different ways can the letters be drawn?
13. How many different ways can five sports teams be ranked?

ANSWERS

1. 24
2. 14400
3. 6
4. 24
5. 15
6. (n+1)(n+2)
7. (2n + 1) * (2n + 2)
8. 1 / [ n * (n + 1) ]
9. 3024
10. n+1
11. 40320
12. 6
13. 120