MATLAB Computing Tools for Mathematics - MCQs

1. Which command is used to clear all variables from the workspace?

a) reset

b) clear all

c) clc

d) remove

Answer: b

2. What does the ':' operator do in MATLAB?

a) Creates a range

b) Assigns value

c) Defines function

d) Terminates loop

Answer: a

3. Which of the following is used to perform element-wise multiplication in MATLAB?

a) *

b) .*

c) &

d) /

Answer: b

4. What is the output of length([2 4 6 8])?

a) 4

b) 2

c) 1

d) 3

Answer: a
5. Which command plots a graph in MATLAB?

a) draw()

b) figure()

c) plot()

d) graph()

Answer: c

6. Which command is used to solve symbolic equations?

a) solve()

b) roots()

c) equation()

d) symsolve()

Answer: a

7. What will eye(3) return?

a) A 3x3 matrix of zeros

b) A 3x3 matrix of ones

c) A 3x3 identity matrix

d) A scalar value

Answer: c

8. Which function is used to find the determinant of a matrix?

a) inv()

b) det()

c) deter()

d) solve()

Answer: b

9. What does the size(A) function return?

b) Dimensions of matrix A

c) Data type of A

d) None

Answer: b

10. Which command is used to create a row vector from 1 to 10 with step size 2?

a) 1:10:2

b) 1,2,10

c) 1:2:10

d) 1 to 10 by 2

Answer: c

11. Which of the following is used to generate random numbers in MATLAB?

a) rand()

b) random()

c) rng()

d) generate()

Answer: a

12. Which function returns the inverse of a matrix?

a) inv()

b) det()

c) inverse()

d) rev()

Answer: a

13. What will zeros(2,3) return?

a) A 3x2 zero matrix

c) A 2x2 matrix with zeros

d) A scalar 0

Answer: b

14. In MATLAB, the operator '^' is used for:

a) Division

b) Square root

c) Exponentiation (power)

d) Multiplication

Answer: c

15. Which keyword is used to define a function in MATLAB?

a) func

b) define

c) function

d) script

Answer: c

16. How to comment a single line in MATLAB?

a) //

b) #

c) --

d) %

Answer: d

17. What does the ':' operator do in MATLAB?

a) Creates a range

b) Assigns value
c) Defines function

d) Terminates loop

Answer: a

18. What does the ':' operator do in MATLAB?

a) Creates a range

b) Assigns value

c) Defines function

d) Terminates loop

Answer: a

19. What does the ':' operator do in MATLAB?

a) Creates a range

b) Assigns value

c) Defines function

d) Terminates loop

Answer: a

20. What does the ':' operator do in MATLAB?

a) Creates a range

b) Assigns value

c) Defines function

d) Terminates loop

Answer: a

21. What does the ':' operator do in MATLAB?

a) Creates a range

b) Assigns value

c) Defines function
d) Terminates loop

Answer: a

22. What does the ':' operator do in MATLAB?

a) Creates a range

b) Assigns value

c) Defines function

d) Terminates loop

Answer: a

23. What does the ':' operator do in MATLAB?

a) Creates a range

b) Assigns value

c) Defines function

d) Terminates loop

Answer: a

24. What does the ':' operator do in MATLAB?

a) Creates a range

b) Assigns value

c) Defines function

d) Terminates loop

Answer: a

25. What does the ':' operator do in MATLAB?

a) Creates a range

b) Assigns value

c) Defines function

d) Terminates loop
Answer: a

26. What does the ':' operator do in MATLAB?

a) Creates a range

b) Assigns value

c) Defines function

d) Terminates loop

Answer: a

27. What does the ':' operator do in MATLAB?

a) Creates a range

b) Assigns value

c) Defines function

d) Terminates loop

Answer: a

28. What does the ':' operator do in MATLAB?

a) Creates a range

b) Assigns value

c) Defines function

d) Terminates loop

Answer: a

29. What does the ':' operator do in MATLAB?

a) Creates a range

b) Assigns value

c) Defines function

d) Terminates loop

Answer: a
30. What does the ':' operator do in MATLAB?

a) Creates a range

b) Assigns value

c) Defines function

d) Terminates loop

Answer: a

31. What does the ':' operator do in MATLAB?

a) Creates a range

b) Assigns value

c) Defines function

d) Terminates loop

Answer: a

32. What does the ':' operator do in MATLAB?

a) Creates a range

b) Assigns value

c) Defines function

d) Terminates loop

Answer: a

33. What does the ':' operator do in MATLAB?

a) Creates a range

b) Assigns value

c) Defines function

d) Terminates loop

Answer: a

34. What does the ':' operator do in MATLAB?

b) Assigns value

c) Defines function

d) Terminates loop

Answer: a

35. What does the ':' operator do in MATLAB?

a) Creates a range

b) Assigns value

c) Defines function

d) Terminates loop

Answer: a

36. What does the ':' operator do in MATLAB?

a) Creates a range

b) Assigns value

c) Defines function

d) Terminates loop

Answer: a

37. What does the ':' operator do in MATLAB?

a) Creates a range

b) Assigns value

c) Defines function

d) Terminates loop

Answer: a

38. What does the ':' operator do in MATLAB?

a) Creates a range
b) Assigns value

c) Defines function

d) Terminates loop

Answer: a

39. What does the ':' operator do in MATLAB?

a) Creates a range

b) Assigns value

c) Defines function

d) Terminates loop

Answer: a

40. What does the ':' operator do in MATLAB?

a) Creates a range

b) Assigns value

c) Defines function

d) Terminates loop

Answer: a

41. What does the ':' operator do in MATLAB?

a) Creates a range

b) Assigns value

c) Defines function

d) Terminates loop

Answer: a

42. What does the ':' operator do in MATLAB?

a) Creates a range

b) Assigns value
c) Defines function

d) Terminates loop

Answer: a

43. What does the ':' operator do in MATLAB?

a) Creates a range

b) Assigns value

c) Defines function

d) Terminates loop

Answer: a

44. What does the ':' operator do in MATLAB?

a) Creates a range

b) Assigns value

c) Defines function

d) Terminates loop

Answer: a

45. What does the ':' operator do in MATLAB?

a) Creates a range

b) Assigns value

c) Defines function

d) Terminates loop

Answer: a

46. What does the ':' operator do in MATLAB?

a) Creates a range

b) Assigns value

c) Defines function
d) Terminates loop

Answer: a

47. What does the ':' operator do in MATLAB?

a) Creates a range

b) Assigns value

c) Defines function

d) Terminates loop

Answer: a

48. What does the ':' operator do in MATLAB?

a) Creates a range

b) Assigns value

c) Defines function

d) Terminates loop

Answer: a

49. What does the ':' operator do in MATLAB?

a) Creates a range

b) Assigns value

c) Defines function

d) Terminates loop

Answer: a

50. What does the ':' operator do in MATLAB?

a) Creates a range

b) Assigns value

c) Defines function

d) Terminates loop
Answer: a

51. What does the ':' operator do in MATLAB?

a) Creates a range

b) Assigns value

c) Defines function

d) Terminates loop

Answer: a