Sample Paper-Mathematics

Mathematics

1. Find the number of solutions of the equation:

cos2 + 2cos - 8 = 0

A) Exactly two solutions

 z 1  
2. What is the locus of the point z satisfying the condition arg   ?
 z 1  3
A) A parabola
B) A circle
C) Pair of straight line
D) An ellipse

3. If z is a complex number, then 3z - 1 = 3z - 2 represents:

A) Y-axis
B) A circle
C) X-axis
D) A line parallel to y-axis

4. If A = {x : x = n2, n = 1, 2, 3}, then the number of subsets of A is:

A) 16
B) 15
C) 4
D) 8

5. Find the domain of f ( x)  2  2 x  x 2 .

A) [-3, 3]
B) [-1-3, -1+3]
C) [-3, 3]
D) [-3 – 2, 3 + 2]

x x
6. Find the period of the function f ( x )  3sin  4 cos .
3 4
A) 6
B) 24
C) 8
D) 2

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7. If the sum of 40 arithmetic mean between two numbers is 120, then the sum of 50 arithmetic mean
between them is equal to:

A) 130
B) 160
C) 140
D) 150

8. What is the next term in the following sequence?

1, 2, 4, 7, 11,…..

A) 17
B) 16
C) 15
D) 14

9. Number of diagonals of a convex hexagon is:

A) 3
B) 6
C) 9
D) 12

 3
10. Find the value of tan tan .
8 8

A) 0
B) 1
C) 1/2
D) 3

11. What is the minimum value of 3cos x + 4sin x + 8?

A) 5
B) 9
C) 7
D) 3

sin x n
12. lim m
x  0 sin x
, n  m  0, is equal to:

A) 1
B) 0
C) m/n
D) n/m

x2
13. lim
x0 x

A) Is equal to 1
B) Is equal to -1
C) Is equal to 0
D) Does not exist

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x2 x100
14. If f  x  1 x   .....  , then is equal to:
2 100

A) 1/100
B) 100
C) 0
D) 99

1 1
15. If P  A  B   , P  A'  B '   , P  A   p & P  B   2 p , then what is the value of p?
2 3

A) 1/3
B) 4/9
C) 1/9
D) 7/18

16. Three digit numbers are formed using the digits 0, 2, 4, 6, 8. Out of these numbers, a number is chosen
at random. Find the probability that this number has the same digits.

A) 1/25
B) 1/16
C) 16/25
D) 1/645

17. There are two bookcases A and B. A contains 2 Hindi and 3 Kannada books and B contains 4 Hindi and
5 Kannada books. One book is taken random from one of the bookcases and is found to be Kannada. Find
the probability that it was from bookcase B.

A) 25/52
B) 52/25
C) 1/52
D) 1

18. The points (4, 7, 8), (2, 3, 4) & (-1, 2, 1) are the three vertices of a parallelogram. Find the fourth
vertex of the parallelogram.

A) (1, 2,-5)
B) (1, 6, 5)
C) (1,-2, 5)
D) (-1, 2, 5)

 
19. If a  2i  j  k &  is the angle between the vectors a & z-axis, then find the value of cos.

A) 1/6
B) 5/12
C) 5/6
D) 1/3

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        
20. a , b , c are the three vectors such that a  b  c  0, a  1, b  2, c  3 , then what is the value of
     
a .b b . c c .a ?

A) 0
B) -7
C) 7
D) 1

 2 3
21. The sum of  5 7  and its multiplicative inverse is:
 

4 6 
A)  
10 14 
0 0
B)  
0 0
0 2 
C)  
 2 0
 5 0 
D)  
 0 5 

5 8 10   2 5 12 
   
22. If A  5 2 1 and B  3 10 13 , then find A  B .
   
6 9 12   4 9 5 

5 8 10 
A)
5 2 1 

6 9 12 
74 195 214 
B)
 20 54 91 

87 228 249 
0 89 10 
C)
0 2 1 

6 228 12 
7 13 22 
D)
8 12 14 

10 18 17 

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A) 4
B) 7
C) ±4√3
D) ±3√4

1
dy  y  3
24. Find the solution of   .
dx  x 
2 2
A) x3  y 3  c
1 1
3 3
B) x y c
2 2
C) y3  x3  c
1 1
3 3
D) y x c

25. Find position function at t=0, s=3, if an insect is moving with the velocity along a
straight line.

A)

B)

C)

D)

26. Solution of the differential equation xdy  ydx  y 2  xdy  ydx  is:
x
A)  xy  c
y
x
B)  xy  c
y
y
C)  xy  c
x
y
D)  xy  0
x

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x2 y 2
27. The radius of the circle passing through the foci of the ellipse   1 and having its centre (0, 3)
16 9
is:

A) 4
B) 3
C) 12
D) 7/2

28. The equation mx  y  2  3m  0, m  R represents which of the following family?

A) Lines through (2, 3)

29. If the straight line x + y + 1 = 0 is changed into the form x cos હ + y sin હ = p, then હ =?

A) ð / 4
B) 3ð / 4
C) 5ð / 4
D) 7ð / 4

30. A pair of dice is rolled. Find P (A/B) if,

A: 2 appears on atleast one die.

A) 1/12
B) 1/36
C) 1/6
D) 2/5

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