Mathematics – I B

Practice Questions for IPE

Long Answer Question:

DIRECTION COSINES AND DIRECTION RATIOS

1. If a ray makes the angles ∝, β, γ and δ with four diagonals of a cube then find
cos2   cos2   cos2   cos2  .
2. Find the angle between the lines whose direction cosines satisfy the equations
l  m  n  0, l 2  m2  n2  0
3. Find the angle between the lines whose direction cosines are given by the
equations 3l  m  5n  0 and 6mn  2nl  5lm  0
4. Find the direction cosines of two lines which are connected by the relations
l  m  n  0 and mn  2nl  2lm  0
5. Find the direction cosines of two lines which are connected by the relations
l  5m  3n  0 and 7l 2  5m2  3n2  0.
6. The vertices of triangle are A(1, 4, 2), B(-2, 1, 2), C(2, 3 -4). Find ∠A,∠B,∠C.

DIFFERENTIATION

dy 1  y2
1. If 1  x  1  y  a( x  y ) then show that
2 2
 .
dx 1  x2
 1  x2  1  x2  dy
2. If y  Tan 1   for 0  x  1, find
 1  x 2  1  x 2  dx

dy
3. If y  xtan x  (sin x)cos x , find .
dx
dy  yx y 1  y x log y 
4. If x y  y x  ab then show that   y x 1 
.
dx  x log x  xy 

5.
2 2 2

If y  x a  x  a log x  a  x then prove that
2 2
 dy
dx
 2 a2  x2

x x
6. If f ( x)  Sin1 and g ( x)  Tan 1 then show that
  x
f '( x)  g '( x) (  x   ).
dy y [1  log x log y ]
7. If xlog y  log x then show that 
dx x log 2 x
dy y ( x log y  y )
8. If x y  y x then show that 
dx x( y log x  x)
 TANGENTS AND NORMALS
1. If the tangent at any point P on the curve xm y n  amn (mn  0) meets the
coordinate axes in A and B then show that AP: BP is a constant.
2 2 2

2. If the tangent at any point on the curve x 3  y 3  a 3 intersects the coordinates

axes in A and B, then show that the length AB is a constant.
3. Show that curves y 2  4( x  1) and y 2  36(9  x) intersect orthogonally.
4. Find the angle between the curves y 2  4x and x2  y 2  5
5. Find the angle between the curves y 2  8x, 4x2  y 2  32
6. Show that the curves 6 x2  5x  2 y  0 and 4 x2  8 y 2  3 touch each other at
1 1
 , 
2 2
7. Show that the equation of tangent at the point ( x1 , y1 ) on the curve
1 1 1
x  y  a is xx1 2
 yy1 2
a 2

8. Find the lengths of sub tangent, sub normal at a point t on the curve
x  a(cos t  t sin t ), y  a(sin t  t cos t )
9. Show that the condition for the orthogonality of the curves ax2  by 2  1 and
1 1 1 1
a1 x 2  b1 y 2  1 is    .
a b a1 b1

MAXIMA AND MINIMA

1. If the curved surface of right circular cylinder inscribed in a sphere of radius ‘r’
is maximum, show the height of the cylinder is 2r.
2. From a rectangular sheet of dimensions 30cm X 80cm, four equal squares of
side x cm are removed at the corners, and the sides are then turned up so as to
form an open rectangular box. Find the value of x, so that the volume of the box
is the greatest.
3. A window is in the shape of a rectangle surmounted by a semicircle. If the
perimeter of the window is 20ft, find the maximum area.
4. A wire of length ' l ' is cut into two parts which are bent respectively in the
form of a square and a circle. What are the lengths of the pieces of the wire
respectively so that the sum of the areas is the least.
5. Find two positive integers whose sum is 16 and the sum of whose square is
minimum.
6. Find the maximum area of the rectangle that can be formed with fixed
perimeter 20.
7. Find two positive integers x and y such that x + y = 60 and xy3 is maximum.
Short Answer Questions:

CONTINUITY

 cos ax  cos bx
 if x  0
1. Show that f ( x)  

x2 where a and b are real constants, is
 1  b2  a 2  if x  0

2
continuous at x  0 .
2. Check the continuity of ‘f’ given by
( x  9) /( x  2 x  3) if 0  x  5 and x  3
2 2
f ( x)   at the point x = 3.
1.5 , if x  3
3. Check the continuity of the following function at 2.
1 2
 2 ( x  4) if 0  x  2

f ( x )  0 if x  2
2  8 x 3 if x  2


k 2 x  k if x  1
4. If ‘f’ given by f ( x)   , is a continuous function on R, then find
2 if x  1
the values of k.
5. Find real constants a, b so that the function f given by
sin x if x  0
 2
x  a if 0  x  1
f ( x)   is continuous on R.
bx  3 if 1  x  3
3 if x  3
DIFFERENTIATION

1. Find the derivative of the following functions from the first principles w.r.to x.
2
i) cos x ii) tan 2x iv) sec3x v) cos(ax) vi) sin 2x vii) x sin x xii) cot x
dy sin 2 (a  y )
2. If sin y  x sin(a  y) , then show that  (a is not a multiple of  )
dx sin a
 1  x2  1 
3. If f ( x)  Tan1   , g ( x)  Tan 1 x then differentiate f ( x) w.r.to g ( x)
 x 
 
dy
4. Find for the functions, x  a(cos t  t sin t ), y  a(sin t  t cos t )
dx
5. If y  a cos x  (b  2 x)sin x , then show that y '' y  4cos x
dy
6. If x  3cos t  2cos3 t, y  3sin t  2sin3 t , then find
dx
  2 x 1  dy
7. If y  sin 1  x 
then find
1  4  dx
TANGENTS AND NORMALS
1. Find the lengths of normal and sub normal at a point on the curve
a x x

y   ea  e a 
2 
2. Find the equations of the tangent and normal to the curve y  x2  4x  2 at
(4, 2)
3. Show that at any point (x, y) on the curve y  be x / a , the length of the sub-
y2
tangent is a constant and the length of the sub normal is
a
4. Find the equation of tangent and normal to the curve xy = 10 at (2, 5).
5. Find the value of ‘K’ so that the length of the sub-normal of any point on the
curve y  a1k xk is a constant
6. Find the lengths of the sub-tangent and subnormal at a point on the curve
x
y  b sin  
a
RATE MEASURE
1. A particle is moving in a straight line so that after t seconds its distance is s (in
cms) from a fixed point on the lines is given by s  f (t )  8t  t 3 . Find
(i)the velocity at time t = 2sec (ii) the initial velocity (iii) acceleration at t = 2sec.
2. The distance –time formula for the motion of a particle along a straight line
S  t 3  9t 2  24t 18 then find when and where the velocity is zero.
3. A point P is moving on the curve y  2 x2 . Then x coordinate of P is increasing
at the rate of 4 units per second. Find the rate at which the y co-ordinate is
increasing when the point is at (2, 8).
4. The volume of a cube is increasing at a rate of 9 cubic centimetres per second.
How fast is the surface area increasing when the length of the edge is 10
centimetres?
3
5. The volume of a cube is increasing at the rate of 8cm / sec. How fast is the
surface area increasing when the length of an edge is 12 cm.
6. A container is the shape of an inverted cone has height 8m and radius 6m at the
top. If it is filled with water at the rate of 2m3/min., how fast is the height of the
water changing when the level is 4m.
Very Short Answers Questions:

3D GEOMETRY
1. Find the centroid of the triangle whose vertices are (5, 4, 6), (1,-1,3) and (4,3,2).
2. Find the coordinates of the vertex ‘C’ of ABC if its centroid is the origin and
the vertices A, B are (1, 1, 1) and (-2, 4, 1) respectively.
3. If (3, 2, -1), (4,1,1) and (6,2,5) are three vertices and (4,2,2) is the centroid of a
tetrahedron, find the fourth vertex.
4. Find the ratio in which YZ- plane divides the joining A (2, 4, 5) and B (3, 5, -4).
Also find the point of intersection.
5. Find X, if the distance between (5,-1, 7) and (x, 5, 1) is 9 units.
6. Find the ratio in which XZ plane divides the lines joining A (-2, 3, 4) and
B (1, 2, 3).

THE PLANE

1. Find the angle between the planes x  2 y  2 z  5  0 and 3x  3 y  2 z  8  0

2. Find the angle between the planes 2 x  y  z  6 and x  y  2 z  7
3. Find the equation of the plane whose intercepts on X, Y, Z- axes are 1, 2, 4
respectively.
4. Find the intercepts of the plane 4 x  3 y  2 z  2  0 on the coordinate axes.
5. Find the direction cosines of the normal to the plane x  2 y  2z  4  0
6. Reduce the equation x  2 y  3z  6  0 of the plane in to the normal form.
7. Find the equation of the plane passing through the point (1, 1, 1) and parallel
to the plane x  2 y  3z  7  0 .
8. Find the equation of the plane passing through the point (-2, 1, 3) and having
(3,-5, 4) as direction ratio of its normal.

LIMITS
 1  x 1 
1. Find lim  
x 0  x
 
 3x  1 
2. Find lim  .
x 0
 1  x 1 
 ex 1 
3. Compute lim  
x 0
 1  x 1 
a x 1
4. Compute lim (a  0, b  0, b  1)
x 0 b x  1

cos ax  cos bx 
5. Find lim  
x 0
 x2 
6. Find lim cos x
x 
 
2 x 
 2
 1  cos 2mx
7. Compute Lt (m, n  Z )
x 0 sin 2 nx
11x3  3x  4
8. Find lim
x  13 x 3  5 x 2  7

sin( x  1)
9. Evaluate Lt
x 1 x2 1
3
1 x  3 1 x
10. Compute lim
x 0 x
x2
11. Find lim  1
x 2 x2
2 x 
12. show that lim   x  1  3
x 0
 x 
8 x  3x
13. find lim
x  3 x  2x
e3 x  e3
14. Compute Lt
x 0 x
e3 x  1
15. Compute Lt
x 0 x
Tan( x  a)
16. Compute L im
x a x2  a2
e7 x  1
17. Compute lim
x 0 x

DIFFERENTIATION

1. If y  axn1  bx n then prove that x2 y  n(n  1) y

2. If y  sec  
tan x then find
dy
dx
.

If f ( x )  7 x 3 x
( x  0). then find f '( x) .
3
3.
e y
4.  
If x  tan e  y , then show that
dy

dx 1  x 2
5. If f ( x)  log(sec x  tan x) , then find f '( x) .

  dy
1 3 2
6. If y  cot x , then find
dx
7. If f ( x)  x 2 log x( x  0) then find f '( x)
2 x

1  1  dy
8. If y  sec  2  find
 2x 1  dx
1  2 x  dy
9. If y  sin  2  then find
 1 x  dx
 dy
10. If x  a cos3 t , y  a sin3 t then find
dx
11. Differentiate f ( x) with respect to g ( x) if f ( x)  e x , g ( x)  x
12. If y  aenx  benx then prove that y ''  n2 y
13. If f ( x)  1  x  x2  ......  x100 then find f '(1)
2x  3 dy
14. If y  then find
4x  5 dx
15. Find the derivative of the function f ( x)  ( x2  3)(4x3  1)
d2y h 2  ab
16. If ax  2hxy  by  1 then prove that
2 2

dx 2 (hx  by )3

ERRORS AND APPROXIMATIONS

1. Find y and dy if y  x2  3x  6 . When x=10, x  0.01
2. Find y and dy if y  x 2  x , at x=10, x  0.1
3. Find y and dy if y  cos x, x  60 and x  1
4. Find the approximate value of 82
5. (i) If the increase in the side of a square is 4%. The find the approximate
percentage of increase in the area of square.
(ii) If the increase in the side of a square is 2%. The find the approximate
percentage of increase in the area of square.
6. Find y and dy if y  5x2  6x  6 . When x=2, x  0.001

ROLLE’S AND LAGRANGE’S THEOREMS

1. State Rolle’s theorem
2. Let f ( x)  ( x 1)( x  2)( x  3) . Prove that there is more than one ‘c’ in (1, 3) such
that f '(c)  0 .
3. Verify Rolle’s theorem for the function f ( x)  x2  4 in  3,3
4. Find the value of ‘c’ from Rolle’s theorem for the function f ( x)  x2 1 on  1,1
5. Verify Rolle’s theorem for the function f ( x)  x( x  3)e x / 2 on  3, 0
6. Verify Rolle’s theorem for the function f ( x)  x2  5x  6 on  3,8

INCREASING & DECREASING FUNCTIONS

1. Define strictly increasing and strictly decreasing function on interval.