CLASS XI-CASE STUDY PROBLEMS

In an office three employees Vinay, Sonia and lqbal process incoming copies of a certain form. Vinay
1)
processes 50% of the forms and Sonia processes 20% and lqbal 30%. Vinay has an error rate of 0.06, Sonia
0.04 and lqbal 0.03

ii)
Findthe total probability of committing an error in processing theform
he manager of the company wants to do a quality check. During inspection he selects form at random
from thedays output of processes forms. If the form selected at random has an error, find the probability
that the form is NOT processed by Vinay.

2) In a village there are three mohallas A,B,C. In A, 60% farmers believe in new technology of agriculture,
while in B 70% and in C, 80%. A farmer is selected at random from village.
i) Find the total probability that a farmer believe in new technology of agriculture.
i) District agriculture officer selects a farmer at random in village and he found that selected farmer believe in
new technology of agriculture. Find the probability that the farmer belongs to mohalla B

3) A rectangular hall is to be developed for a meeting of farmers in an agriculture college to aware them for
new technique in cultivation. It is given that the floor has a fixed perimeter P.
Ifx and y represents the length and breadth ofthe rectangular region, find the area function A in terms of x
) Find the critical point of the function A
ii) Use first derivative test to find the length x and breadth y of rectangular hall that maximize its area. (0OR)
Use second derivative test to find the length x and breadth y ofrectangular hall that maximize its area.

4) There are two shops named Lila general store and Mina general store. In Lila general store 30 tin pure
mustard oil, 40 tin adulterated mustard oil while in Mina general store 50 tin pure mustard oil and 60 tin
adulterated oil are there. Subhash Babu wants to purchase one tin oil from any shop selecting at random.
Find the total probability of purchasing adulterated mustard oil if shop and tin of oil are selected at random.
ii) Subhash Babu wants to know quality of mustard oil. Before purchasing he selected first, a shop at random
and then selected a tin of mustard oil at random. If the tin selected at random has adulterated oil, find the
probability that the selected tin is of Lila general store.

S) On the request of villagers, a construction agency designs a tank with the help of an architect. Tank consists
of rectangular base with rectangular sides, open at the top so that its depth is 2m and volume is 8 m3
i) Ifx and y represent the length and breadth of its rectangular base if the construction of
tank cost Rs. 70 per
sq.metre and Rs. 45 per square meter for sides, then express cost function C as a function ofx
i) Find the critical point C
ii) Find the interval in which C is strictly
increasing/decreasing (OR)
For minimizing the cost
C, i) find the values of x and y ii) find the minimum cost
6) After observing attendance register of class 12, the class teacher comes on
conclusion that 30% students have
100% attendance and 70% students are irregular to attend class. When he
observed previous year result, he
found that 70% of at students who have 100% attendance attain distinction
marks while 10% irregular
students attain distinction marks. At the end of the year, one student is
chosen at random from the class
Find the total probability of the selected student having distinction
marks.
ii) If in random selection, selected student has distinction
marks, what is the probability that the student is
irregular?

7) A helicopter of enemy is flying along the curve represented by x*+7. A soldier

shoot down the helicopter when it is nearest to him. placed at (3,7) wants to
If (x1, y1) represents the position
of the helicopter on the curvey =x* +7, when the distance D from the
soldier at (3,7) is minimum. Find the relation between X1,
ii) Express the distance Das a function of x1
y1
ii) Find the interval in which
the function Dis
strictly increasing/ strictly
For the function
D, find the point of locál minima and local maximum
decreasing. (OR)
value of D
8) Hardik Pandya in a cricket match hit a six. The ball follows the parabolic path given by function
fx) = -mx?+x+8, 0Sxs10, meR.

i) Is this function differentiable in (0,10) i) If 6 is the critical point, find the value of m.
i) Find the intervals in which the function is strictly
Find the local maximum and minimum values and absolute
increasing/strictly decreasing? (OR)
maximum and absolute minimum values of f
 The fuel cost for running a train is proportional to the square of the speed
9 generated in km per hour. The fuel cost is Rs.48 per hour at speed 16km per hour and fixed charges amount

to Rs. 1200 per hour.

ifC is the total costfor running the train D km, express C as a function of v
Find the critical point for C Sin

ii) Use first derivative testtofind the value of for which Cis minimum
v (OR)
Usesecond derivative test find the point of locat minimum and local maximum
cost if the distanceis 100km
,

10) i) Find the domain ofsin (2x-1) i) Find the domain of cos (2x-1)
11) An insurance company believes that people can be divided into two classes, those who are accident prone
and those who are not. The companys statistis show that an accident-prone will have an accident at
sometime within at fixed one year period with probability 0.6, whereas this pYobability is 0.2 for a person who
is not accident prone. The company knows that 20% of the population is accident prone.
) What is the probability that a new policyholder will have an accident within a year of purchasing a policy?
i) Suppose that a new policy holder has an accident within a year of purchasing policy, what is the probability
that he or she is accident prone?

12) A man is asked to construct an open topped box by removing equal squares from each corner of a 3m by 8m
rectangular sheet of aluminium and folding up the sides.
If he removes equal squares from each corner of length x m, express the volume as a function of x
i) Find the critical point of V
ii) Use the first derivative test, to find the value x that maximize the volume V {OR)
Use the second derivative test, to find the value of x that maximize the volume V

13) In a construction job, the probabilities are 13/20 that there will be strike, 4/5 that the job will be completed
on time if there is no strike and 8/25 that the construction job will be completed on time if there is a strike
If job is completed in time, then what is the probability that there is strike during construction?
i) If job is completed in time, then what is the probability that there is no strike during construction?

14) A teacher decided to donate some money to students of a class If there were 8 students less, every one
Would have got Rs. 10 more. If there were 16 students more, every one would have got Rs. 10 less.
If number of students in class is x and he has decided to donate Rs. Y to each student, write the above
information as a system of linear equation

15) An aeroplane can carry a maximum of 200 passengers. A profit of Rs. 400 is made on each executive class
ticket and a profit of Rs. 300 is made on each economy class ticket. The airline reserves at least 20 seats for
executive class. However at least 4 times as many passenger prefer to travel by economy class than by
executive class
Ifx tickets of executive class and y tickets of economy class be sold, then formulate LPP for the above
given information 11) State whether the given inequations in (i) is bounded or unbounded.

16) A company manufactures cars with petrol engines. The specific model of the car manufactured form the
company has mileage 30km/litre.
i) Ifx is the number of litres of petrol and y is the distance travelled by the car, then write y in terms of x
i) State whetherf: N->N given by f{x)= 30x is one-one and onto. Give reasons
State whether f: R->R given by f(x) = x* is many-one
ii)
17) Acakestore makes two types of cakes. First kind of cake requires 200 g of flour and 25g of fat and second
type of cake requires 100g of flour and 50g of fat.
i) If the bakery makes x cakes of first type and y cakes of second type and it can use maximum 5kg of flour,
then write the constraint for this.
If the total number of cakes made by bakety is represented by Z, write the valüe of Zin terms of x and y
i) Find the maximum number of total cakes which can be made by bakery, assuming that there is no shortage
of ingredients used in making the cakes.

18) The floor of the elevator (lift) whose circular edge is given by x +y'= 4 and the straight edge (line) is y =0
i) Write the length of each vertical strip of the region between the curve and the line.
Write the length of each horizontal strip of the region between the curve and the
line in the I quadrant.
ii Write the area of a vertical strip between the curve and the line
Find the area of the region of the floor of the lift of the building.
19) A student designs a cube with each side of length a units, and name it.
i) Write the co-ordinates of F li) Find the dc's of the line AF
ii) Find the dr's of CD v)if Lm,n are the de's of any line P+ m2 +n2 = ?

20) In a camp of 50
participants, 30 are well trained in MPPT(maximum power point tracking) while remaining all
are not wel.trained in MPPT.
The probability of being well
participant is selected from camp at random. trained participant in remaining 20is,2/3. One
What is the total
probability of randomly selected well trained participant in MPPT from camp?
ii) If selected
participant is well trained in MPPT, then find the probability that the participant belongs
to first group of 30

21) A boy designs a pizza by cutting it with a knife on a card board. If

pizza is circular in shape which is
represented, by the equation x + y 4 and edge of knife represents a straight line given byxX=V3y
=

Find the point of intersection B of the line and

pizza
Find the area of the piece OAB
ii) Find the area of the semi circular
shape of pizza
iv) Find the area of the whole pizza

22) Two groups A and B are competing for the position the Board of directors of
on
corporatien
probabilities that A and B will win are 3/5 and 2/5 respectively. Further if group A Tke of a
wins the probability
introducing a new product is 7/10 and 3/10, if B wins.
If new product is introduced, then find the
probability that group A wins
ii) If new product ia introduced, then find the
probability that group B wins
23) A student designs a boat with triangular sail on the walls and the three edges(lines) at the triangular sail are
given by the equations x=0, y =
0 and y+2x-4 0 respectively.
Find the length of each vertical strip of the sail
i) Find the point of intersection of the edges y+2x-4=0 and
y 0 =
y+2x-4 0
ii) Find the length of each horizontal strip of the sail
iv) Find the area of the triangular sail
Y=0
24) In a survey of school, it is found that 4% of boys and 1% of girs are winners in a sport. Further 60% of the
students in theschool are girls, A student is selected at random from the school
and is found to be winner in the sport, find the probability that the selected student is girl
ii) and is found to be winner in the sport, find the probability that the selected student is boy.
25) Astudent designs an open air honeybee nest on the branch of a tree, whose plane figure is parabolic and the
branch of tree is given by a straight line.
i) Find the point of intersection of the parabola and the straight ime
ii) Find the length of each horizontal strip of the bounded region
ii) Write the length of each vertical strip of the bounded region
iv) Find the area of the region bounded by the parabola x* = 4y and the line y =4
26) Toconserve water for emergency needs in a village, an open tank with a square base from a sheet of metal
which has been donated by a company, from the account of social welfare account. The area of metal sheet
donated is to be least and water to be stored is 4000 m3.
i) If x.y and h represent the sides of the base and height of the tank respectively, then find area A of metal
sheet used,
i) Find the area of metal sheet in ternms of x only. Find the least area of metal sheet used?
ii) Area of metal sheet used is least then what will the length of side of base?
27) On testing, the probabilitythat a person is diagnosed correctly, when a person is actuallysuffering froma
disease is 0.99. The proba bility that the doctor diagnoses incorrectly that a person is suffering from the disease
is 0.001. In a Certain city it was deducted that there is 0.001 chance that a person suffer from the disease.
!fthe population of the cityis 200,000, how many persons are expectd to suffer from the disease
What is the probability that a person is diagnosed correctly forthe disease?
ii) What is the probability that a person actually has the disease, when he is diagnosed to have it?
28) A soldier is sitting at the place representing the point (3,2) and notices on enemy jet. He notices the path and
Calculates it to be a parabola symmetrical to the y-axis and vertex of the parabola is at point (0,2) with path
represented by y = x+a
i) find the value of a in path i) find the distance of jet from any point on path, at a given time, from soldier.
) Find the expression for distance in terms of x only
iv) find the value of x such that the distance between jet and soldier is least.
 29) Three friends A, B and C are givena situation by the companyto find the correct solution. A's, B's and C's
chance of finding the correct solution are 1 out of 3; 2 out of 7 and 3 out of 8 respectively.
find the probability that exactly one of them will find a correct solution
) find the probability that problem can't be solved, when all the threetry.
i) find the probability of C solving a situation.
iv) find the probability that correct solution to the situation is arrived
30) Afactory has three machines X,Y and Z producing 1000, 2000 and 3000 bolts per day respéctively.
The machine X produces 1%, Y produces 1.5% and Z produces 2% defetive items.
i) Find the conditional probability that defective item is produced given that it was produced by Y
i) Find the probability that Z produced the' product which was defective
i) find the total probability of defect in process of producing bolt
iv) Find the aum of the probabilities that X, Y and Z produced bolts.
31) The windows of a newly constructed building are in the form of a rectangle surmounted by an equilateral
triangle. The perimeter of each window is 40m.
i) if x and y represent length and breadth of a rectangle then find the relation between x and
y
i) find the area of the rectangular region A in terms of x
ii) for what values of x follow area A will be maximum?
Y
iv) find the whole area of the window.
32) Three friends A, B and C are given a rectangular sheet of sides 45cm and 24cm and
form an open box by cutting
the Squares of equal
length from all the four corners and folding up the flaps.
i) if a square of side x cm is cut from all corners, find length, breadth and
i) find the volume of the box in terms of x height of box in terms of x
i) find the value ofx for which volume is maximum
iv) find the maximum volume of the box
33) In a competitive examination, a student guesses or copies or knows the answer to a multiple choice question
with four choices each.
i) if the probability that a student makes a guess is 1/3 and that he
copies the answer is 1/6. What is the
probability that he knows the answer?
i) If answer is correct, what is the probability that he
guesses it?
i) what is the conditional probability that his answer is correct and
he know it?
iv) what is the probability that he copied it given that his
answer is correct.
34) Suppose there are 4 men, 4 women and
The recommend daily amount
4 children in family Aand 2 men,2 women and 2 children in family B.
of calories is 240o fora man, 1900 for a woman, 1800 for a child and 45 grams of
proteins a man, 55 grams for a woman and 33 grams for children.
i) find the requirement of calories and proteins for
ii) what is requirement of calories of family A
in each person matrix form

35) The government of a state, which has mostly hilly area decided to have
Hill having plane area and space for 10000 persons to sit at a time. adventurous playground on the top of
After survey, it was decided to have
rectangular playground with a semicircular parking at one end of
perimeter of the field is measured as 1000 m playground only as is less. The space total
i) find the relation between x and i) find the area of
ii) find the value of x for which sports ground has the sports ground in terms of x
maximum area
iv) find the maximum area of the sports field alone.
36) It was found in
survey that out
of 200 people suveyed in a
city 50 help the needy on regular
contribute to PM relief fund and the rest basis, 120
the
help0 through NGO's. A person is selected who is in
probabilities of help through regular
persons on basis from
the need of a help,
and 0.10 respectively, PM relief fund and through NGO's are 0.15,0.06
i) find the probability of a help
through NG0's?
ii) find the probability that
the needy person received the help.
ii) find the probability of
helping the needy through PM's relief fund
3) i) what does rectangle enclosed by a circle means?
i) If a rectangle
of sides x and y is inscribed in a circle of
radius r, then
relation between x, y and r
a establish
ii) find the area of a rectangle in terms of x
iv) find the maximum area where only.
employees can sit and work or enjoy.
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