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MATH 122

THARAKA UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE

UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS

FIRST YEAR EXAMINATION FOR THE AWARD OF DEGREE OF


BACHELOR

MATH 122: BASIC MATHEMATICS

STREAMS: P/T TIME: 2 HOURS

DAY/DATE: MONDAY 06/04/2020 8.30 A.M. – 10.30 A.M.


INSTRUCTIONS: Answer question ONE and any other TWO questions

QUESTION ONE (30 MARKS)


(a) Define
(i) Set [1 mark]
(ii) Tautology [1 mark]
(iii) Proposition [1 mark]
(b) Construct a truth table for  ∧  ⟺ ∼  ∨  [4 marks]
(c) Let :  ⟶  where  = {, , , } and  = {, , , }. Determine whether  is a
bisection given that () = , () = , () =  and () =  [4 marks]
(d) Given that  +  is odd. Prove that n is odd [5 marks]
3 2 1
(e) Given that () = . Find () [2 marks]
41

(f) If a club has 20 members, how many different four member committee are possible
[4 marks]
(g) Prove that cos  (tan  − sec ) =  −  [4 marks]
(h) If the third term of a geometric progression is the square of the first term and the fifth
term is 64. Find the first term and common ratio [4 marks]

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QUESTION TWO
(a) Let  = {, , , , , , 6} be a universal set
Set  = {, , },  = {, , 6}. Find
(i) (  ) [2 marks]
(ii)  ∪   [2 marks]
(iii) ( − )  ( − ) [2 marks]

(b) Use mathematical induction to prove that  +  + 5+. . +( − ) =  for all  ∈ 
[5 marks]
(c) Prove that if  is odd, then 3 is odd [5 marks]
(d) Define the terms
(i) Valid argument [2 marks]
(ii) Logical equivalence [2 marks]

QUESTION THREE (20 MARKS)


(a) Given that () =  , () =  +  and ℎ() = ⁄ 
Find
(i) (ℎ) [2 marks]
(ii) (ℎ) [3 marks]
(iii) 1 () [3 marks]
(b) Negate the statement “every student in class has done cat I [2 marks]
(c) Check whether ( ∧ )  ∼  →  ⟷  is a tantology or not [5 marks]
(d) Given that  = , ,  and  = {, , }, show that  ≠  [5 marks]

QUESTION FOUR
(a) With the inverse and converse of the statement, “If you are a registered student, then you
can access library services in campus”. [2 marks]
(b) Determine whether the function () =   from Z to z is one to one. [3 marks]
(c) Find the modulus and conjugate of

= [5 marks]
√4

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(d) Prove that √ is irrational by contradiction [5 marks]


(e) Find the first three terms of the sequence  = ( + ) ,  = √−. Hence find the sum of
the first three terms [5 marks]

QUESTION FIVE (20 MARKS)


(a) List the members of the set  = {: =   −  − 6 = 0} [3 marks]

 (−1)
6 k +1
(b) Evaluate 2k [4 marks]
k =1

(c) In a survey of 60 people, it was found that


25 read the daily nation
26 read the standard
9 read both daily nation and Kenya times
11 read both nation and standard
8 read both standard and Kenya times
3 read all the three newspapers

(i) Fill the correct number of people in a Venn diagram where N, S and T denote the
number of people who read nation, standard and Kenya times newspapers
respectively. [8 marks]
(ii) The number of people that read at least one of the three newspapers [3 marks]
(iii) The number of people who read exactly one of the newspapers [2 marks]

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