K.E.C., Mohan Nagar. Ghaziabad.

MATHEMATICS-IV, KAS-302/402
PUT/University Model Questions

Short Type Questions.

1. Form the partial differential equation from z   x  a  y  b  by eliminating arbitrary constants.

2. Form the P.D.E. by eliminating a and b from z  x 2  a   y 2

 b.

 
3. Form the partial differential equation from z  f x 2  y 2 by eliminating arbitrary function.

4. Form the partial differential equation from z  f  x  ct   g ( x  ct ) by eliminating arbitrary

functions.
5. Solve z  px  qy  1  p 2  q 2 .


6. Solve: D 2  2 DD  D2 z  0 . 
7. Solve  D 2
 D2  p 2  z  0 .

 
8. Show that the equation z xx  2 xz xy  1  y 2 z yy  0 is elliptic for values of x and y in the

region x 2  y 2  1 , parabolic on the boundary and hyperbolic outside the region.

2 z 2 z 2  z
2
9. Classify the equation 1  x 2   x2  2 xy
xy
   y 2  2z  0 .
1  y

10. Write down the two dimensional wave equation.

11. Write down the equation of steady state heat conduction in the rectangular plate.
12. Write the normal equations of the curve y  ax  bx 2 .
13. Write the normal equations of the curve 2 x  ax 2  bx  c by least square method.
14. In y  a  bx,  x  50,  y  80,  xy  1030,  x 2
 750 and n  10, then a  ..., b  ..
15. Define skewness and kurtosis in brief.
16. Find M.G.F. of Binomial distribution.
17. Two events A and B have probabilities 0.25 and 0.50 respectively. The probability that both events
A and B occurs in 0.14. Find the probability that neither A nor B occurs.
18. State the Addition law of probability.
19. State the Multiplication law of probability.
20. What do you mean by random variable?. Explain with suitable example.
21. If the sum of the mean and variance of a Binomial distribution of 5 trials is 9/5, find P( X ≥ 1).
22. Define level of significance and confidence interval.
23. What do you mean by errors in sampling?
a b
24. What is the expected frequencies of 2  2 contingency table .
c d
25. Write a short note on  -test as a test of goodness of fit.
2

26. Characterize the following partial differential equation into elliptic, parabolic and hyperbolic
 2u  2u  2u
equations A  2 B  C  F ( x, y, u, u x , u y ) . Here A, B, C may be functions of x and y.
x 2 xy y 2

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 Type- Long type problems( Section B and Section-C)

Form the partial differential equations from (i) x 2  y 2   z  c   a 2 where a and c are
2
1.


arbitrary constants (ii) f x  y  z , x 2  y 2  z 2  0 . 
Ans. (i) yp  xq  0. (ii)  y  z  p   z  x  q  x  y .
z
2. Solve the partial differential equation x ( y 2  z)p  y(x 2  z)q  z( x 2  y 2 ) where p  and
x
z
q . Ans: ( x 2  y 2  2z, xyz)  0 .
y

 
3. Solve the following by Charpit's method p 2  q 2 y  qz. Ans. z 2  a 2 y 2   ax  b  .
2

 y  ax 
2

4. Solve the following by Charpit's method px  qy  pq. Ans. az  b

2
5. Solve the following PDE (i) (D 2  2DD)z  sin x cos 2y
(ii) (D 2  DD)z  cos 2y(sin x  cos x) (iii) r  2s  t  2( y  x)  sin( x  y)
2 z 2 z 2 z
(iv) (D 2  6DD   9D  2 )z  12 x 2  36 xy (v)   6  y cos x
x 2 xy y 2
1 1
Ans.(i) f 1 ( y)  f 2 ( y  x )  sin( x  2y)  sin( x  2y)
6 10
(ii) f1 ( y)  f 2 ( y  x)  sin( x  2y)  cos(x  2y)  sin( x  2y)  cos(x  2y)
1 1
2 6
x2
(iii) f 1 ( y  x )  xf 2 ( y  x )  x 2 ( y  x )  sin( x  y)
2
(iv) f1 ( y  3x)  xf 2 ( y  3x)  6 x 3 y  x 4 (v) f1 ( y  2 x)  f 2 ( y  3x)  y cos x  sin x .
6. Solve the following linear partial differential equations:
(i) (D  3D  2) 3 z  6e 2 x sin( 3x  y) (ii) (D 2  2DD  D 2  2D  2D)z  sin( x  2y)
(iii) (D 2  D 2  3D  3D)z  xy  e x  2 y
Ans: (i) e 2 x f1 ( y  3x )  xe 2 x f 2 ( y  3x )  x 2 e 2 x tan( y  3x )
1
(ii) f1 ( y  x )  e 2 x f 2 ( y  x )  2 cos(x  2y)  3 sin( x  2y)
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1  x 2 y xy x 2 x 3 2x 
(iii) f1 ( y  x)  e3x f 2 ( y  x)         xe x  2 y
3 2 3 3 6 9 
7. Solve the linear partial differential equation
2 z 2 z 2  z
2
z
x2  4 xy  4 y  6 y  x3 y 4
x 2
xy y 2
y

Ans. z  g1  yx   xg 2  yx  
2 2 1 3 4
x y .
30
 2u
8. Solve the following equation by method of separation of variables:  e  t cos x , given that
xt
u
u  0 when t  0 and  0 when x  0 . Ans: sin x (1  e  t ) .
t

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 9. Solve the P.D.E. by separation of variables method, u xx  u y  2u , given that

u  0, y   0,

x
u  0, y   1  e 3 y . Ans. u  x, y  
1
2
 
sinh x 2  e3 y sin x.

10. A string is stretched and fastened to two points l apart. Motion is started by displacing the string
x 
in the form y  A sin   from which it is released at time t  0 . Show that the displacement of
 l 
x    ct 
any point at a distance x from one end at time t is given by y  x, t   A sin   cos  .
 l   l 
11. A tightly stretched string with fixed end points x  0 and x  l is initially in a position given by
x
y  y 0 sin 3 . If it is released from this position, find the displacement y ( x, t ) .
l
3 y0 x ct y0 3x 3ct
Ans: sin cos  sin cos
4 l l 4 l l
12. A tightly stretched string with fixed end points x=0 and x= l is initially at rest in its equilibrium
position. If it is set vibrating by giving to each of its points an initial velocity  x  l  x  , find the
displacement of the string at any distance x from one end at any time t.
13. Find the temperature in a bar of length 2 whose ends are kept at zero and lateral surfaces insulated
 2 c 2 t 25 2 c 2t
x 5 x  x l2 5 x
 3sin . Ans. u  x, t   sin  3sin
2
if the initial temperature is sin .e .e l
2 2 l l
0 0
14. An insulated rod of length l has its ends A and B maintained at 0 C and 100 C respectively
until steady state condition prevail. If B is suddenly reduced to 0 0 C and maintained at 0 0 C .
Find the temperature at a distance x from A at time t . Find also the temperature if the change
consists of raising the temperature of A to 20 0 C and reducing that of B to 800 C. Ans
 nc 
2
4 c 2 m 2 2 t
80  1 nx    t 40  1 2mx
u  x, t   20 
60 60
x  sin e l 
 20  x  sin e l2
l  n  2, 4 n l l  m 1 m l
 2u  2u
15. Use the method of separation of variables method to solve the equation   0 subject to
x 2 y 2
 n x 
boundary conditions u  0, y   u  l , y   u  x,0  0 and u  x, a   sin  .
 l 
 n y 
sinh  
 l   n x 
Ans. u  x, y   sin  .
 n a   l 
sinh  
 l 
 2u  2u
16. Solve Laplace Eqn.  0 in a rectangle in the xy plane with
x 2 y 2
ux,0  0, ux, b  0, u0, y   0, ua, y   f  y  parallel to y axis.
ny nx ny
Ans. u  x, y   bn f  y . sin
2 b

b
. sin
b
where bn 
 na  0 b
dy .
b sin h 
 b 
c
17. Use the method of least squares to fit the curve: y  0  c1 x to the following table of values:
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 x 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.5 1 2
y 21 11 7 6 5 6
1.97327
Ans. y   3.28182 x .
x
18. Fit a second degree parabola to the following data by least squares method:

x 1 2 3 4 5
y 1090 1220 1390 1625 1915
Ans. y  27.5 x 2  40.5 x  1024.

19. The following table gives the results of the measurements of train resistance, V is the velocity in
miles per hour, R is the resistance in pounds per ton;

V: 20 40 60 80 100 120

R: 5.5 9.1 14.9 22.8 33.3 46.0

If R is related to V by the relation R  a  bV  cV 2 , find a, b, and c.

Ans. a=4.35, b=0.00241, and c=0.0028705.

20. Obtain the moment generating function of the random variable x having probability distribution
 x, for 0  x  1 
 
F ( x)  2  x, for 1  x  2  . Also determine mean  1 ,  2 and variance  2 .
0, 
 elsewhere 
x
21. Find the moment generating function of the discrete Poisson distribution given by P  x   e 

x
. Also find first and second moments about mean.
22. Find the moment generating function of the continuous distribution given by
1  x 
2

1  
 
f  x  e 2 ,    x  .
 2
23. In a partially destroyed laboratory record, only the lines of regression of y on x and x on y are
available as 4 x  5 y  33  0 , 20 x  9 y  107 respectively. Calculate x , y and the coefficient
of co-relation between x and y. If Variance of x=9 then find the standard deviation of y
1  r 2  x y
24. If  is the angle between the two regression lines, show that tan   . Also If the
r  x2   y2
coefficient of correlation between two variables x and y is 0.5 and the acute angle between their
1
lines of regression is tan 1 (3 / 5) , show that  x   y.
2
25. The regression lines of y on x and x on y are respectively y  ax  b and x  cy  d . Show that
y a bc  d ad  b
 ,x  and , y  .
x c 1  ac 1  ac
26. In a certain distribution, the first four moments about a point are -1.5, 17, -30 and 108. Calculate
the moments about mean, 1and  2 ; and state whether the distribution is leptokurtic or platykurtic
?
27. The following table represents the height of a batch of 100 students. Calculate skewness and
kurtosis.
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 Height(in 59 61 63 65 67 69 71 73 75
cm)
No. of 0 2 6 20 40 20 8 2 2
Students
28. Psychological tests of intelligence and of engineering ability were applied to 10 students. Here a
record of ungrouped data showing intelligence ratio (I.R.) and engineering ratio (E.R.). Calculate
the co-efficient of correlation.

Student A B C D E F G H I J
I.R. 105 104 102 101 100 99 98 96 93 92
E.R. 101 103 100 98 95 96 104 92 97 94
Ans. 0.59.

29. A can hit a target 3 times in 5 shots, B 2 times in 5 shots and C 3 times in 4 shots. They fire a
volley. What is the probability that (i) two shots hit, (ii) atleast two shots hit?
Ans. (i) 0.45 (ii) 0.63.
30. In a bolt factory, machines A, B and C manufacture 25%, 35% and 40% of the total. Of their
output 5%, 4% and 2% are defective bolts. A bolt is drawn at random from the product and is
found to be defective. What are the probabilities that it was manufactured by machines A, B or C?
Ans.25/69; 28/69 ; 16/69.
31. There are three bags : first containing 1 white, 2 red, 3green balls; second 2 white, 3 red, 1 green
balls and third 3 white, 1 red, 2 green balls. Two balls are drawn from a bag chosen at random.
These are found to be one white and one red. Find the probability that the balls so drawn came
from second bag. Ans.6/11.
32. A random variable X has the following probability function:

x 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

p(x) 0 k 2k 2k 3k k2 2k2 7k 2  k

(i)Find the value of k (ii) Evaluate P(X< 6), P( X  6 ) (iii) P(0<X<5).

Ans.(i) 1/10 (ii) 81/100; 19/100 (iii)4/5.

33. The probability density p(x) of a continuous random variable is given by

x
p( x)  y0e ,    x  .

Prove that y0  1/ 2 . Find mean and variance of the distribution. Ans.0.2.

34. The frequency function of a continuous random variable is given by

f ( x)  y0 x(2  x), 0  x  2.

Find the value of y0 , mean and variance of x. Ans.3/4; 1; 1/5.

35. The probability that a pen manufactured by a company will be defective is 1/10. If 12 such pens
are manufactured, find the probability that (a) Exactly two will be defective. (b) at least two will
be defective. (c) none will be defective. Ans.(a) 0.2301 (b) 0.3412 (c) 0.2833.
36. Fit the binomial distribution to the following frequency distribution:

x: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6

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 f: 13 25 52 58 32 16 4

Ans. 200  0.554  0.446  .

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37. Fit a Poisson distribution to the set of observations:

x 0 1 2 3 4

f 122 60 15 2 1

 0.5
r

Ans. P(x  r)  200 e0.5 where r  0,1, 2,3, 4.

r!
Theoretical frequencies are 121, 61, 15, 2, and 0.

2
38. Show that in a Poisson distribution with unit mean, mean deviation about mean is   times the
e
standard deviation.
39. A car-hire firm has two cars which it hires out day by day. The number of demands for a car on
each day is distributed as a Poisson distribution with mean 1.5. Calculate the proportion of days (i)
on which there is no demand, (ii) on which demand is refused. ( e1.5  0.2231 ). Ans.0.2231;
0.1913.
40. If X is a normal variate with mean 30 and S.D. 5, find the probabilities that (i) 26  X  40, (ii)
X  45, and (iii) X  30  5. Ans. (i) 0.7653; (ii) 0.0014; (iii) 0.3174
41. In Normal distribution, 31% of the items are under 45 and 8% are above 64. Find the mean and
1
1 t  x2
standard deviation of the distribution. It is given that if f (t ) 
2 e0
2
dx then f(0.5)=0.19

and f(1.4)=0.42. Ans.   10 and  =50.

42. In a test of 2000 electric bulbs, it was found that the life of a particular make, was normally
distributed with an average life of 2040 hours and S.D. of 60 hours. Estimate the number of bulbs
likely to be burn for (a) more than 2150 hours, (b) less than 1950 hours and (c) more than 1920
hours and but less than 2160 hours. Ans. (a) 67 (b) 184 (c) 1909 nearly.
4
43. Prove that for a normal distribution, mean deviation from the mean equals to of the standard
5
deviation approximately.
44. Fit a Poisson distribution to the following data and test for its goodness of fit at level of
significance 0.05.

x: 0 1 2 3 4

f: 419 352 154 56 19

45. Using  -test, find out whether there is any association between income level and type of the
2

schooling:

Income Public School Govt. School

low 200 400
high 1000 400
Given that .05  3.84 for one degree of freedom.
2

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 46. A machine is producing bolts of which a certain fraction is defective. A random sample of 400 is
taken from a large batch and is found to contain 30 defective bolts. Does this indicate that the
proportion of defectives is larger than that claimed by the manufacturer where the manufacturer
claims that only 5% of his product are defective. Find 95% confidence limits of the proportion of
defective bolts in batch.
47. Two independent samples of sizes 7 and 9 have the following values:

Sample 10 12 10 13 14 11 10
A
Sample 10 13 15 12 10 14 11 12 11
B
Test whether the difference between the mean is significant. [t .01(14)=2.98]
48. Two independent sample of sizes 7 and 6 had the following values:
Sample A 28 30 32 33 31 29 34
Sample B 29 30 30 24 27 28
Examine whether the samples have been drawn from normal population having the same variance.
49. To test the effectiveness of inoculation against cholera, the following table was obtained:
Attacked Not Attacked Total
Inoculated 30 160 190
Not inoculated 140 460 600
Total 170 620 790
( The figures represent the number of persons.) Use  -test to defend or refute the statement that
2

the inoculation prevents attack from cholera. (Given that .05

2
 3.84 for one degree of freedom.)
50. An IT company wants to appoint an effective trainer to improve the performance of their
engineers. Four groups of 7, 8, 10 and 11 engineers from total 36 engineers were given 5 days
training by 4 trainers. Score were awarded to the engineers at the end of the training on their skills.
Let us examine the preference of one trainer over other three trainers. Given that   0.05 i.e. at
5% level of significance the value of F(3,32)  3.29.
Trainers T1 T2 T3 T4
Training scores of 17 15 18 16
the engineers 12 16 12 12
18 18 16 18
15 17 18 15
11 15 13 13
13 14 19 11
12 16 12 14
17 15 17
13 12
14 15
11

51. Random samples drawn from two countries gave the following data relating to the heights of adult
males:
Country A Country B
Mean height(in inches) 67.42 67.25
Standard Deviation 2.58 2.50
Number in samples 1000 1200
(i) Is the difference between the means significant? (ii) Is the difference between the standard
deviations significant?
52. Two samples of sodium vapour bulbs were tested for length of life and the following results were
got:
Size Sample Mean Sample S.D.
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 Type-I 8 1234 hrs 36 hrs
Type-II 7 1036 hrs 40 hrs
Is the difference in the means significance to generalise that Type-I is superior to Type-II
regarding length of life?

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