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Total No. of Questions - 24 Regd

Total No. of Printed Pages - 4 No.

Part - III
MATHEMATICS, Paper - I(A)
(English Version)
Time : 3 Hours] [Max. Marks : 75

Note : This question paper consists of three Sections - A, B and C.

SECTION - A 10x 2 = 20

I. Very Short Answer Type questions :

(i) Answer ALL questions.
(ii) Each question carries TWO marks.

1. If (a + ib)2 =x+ iy, find x2 + y2,

2. If the Arg ~, and Arg z are and respectively, then find

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(Arg z, + Arg z,).

3. If A, B, C are angles of a triangle such that x =Cis A, y =Cis B,

z =Cis C, then find the value of xyz.

4. For what values of xthe expression -5x- 14 is positive ?

value
If a, B, y are the roots of 4x - 6x2 +7x+3 = 0, then find the
d

5.
of aß + By+ ya..

6. If(n +1lP; : "P, =3:2, then find n.

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7. Bind the number of ways of arranging
INTERMEDIATE.

8 Rindthe set E of the values of x for which the binomialexpansion of

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(3- 4x)4isvalid.

Bind the mean deviation from the median of the following discrete
data:
6, 7, 10, 12, 13, 4, 12, 16

random is left handed

10. The probability that a person chosen .at 87543
(in hand writing) is 0.1. What is the probability that in a group of
10people, there is one who is left handed ?

SECTION - B 5 x4 = 20

II. Short Answer Type questions :

(1) Attempt ANY FIVE questions.
(ii) Each question carries FOUR marks.

11. Show that the four points in the Argand plane represented by the
complex numbers 2 + i, 4 + 3i, 2 + 5i, 3iare the vertices of a square.

x+2
12.- Determine the range of the expression
2x+3x +6

13. If the letters of the word PRISON are permuted in all possible ways
and the words thus formed are arranged in dictionary order, find
the rank of the word PRISON.

14. Find the number of ways of forming a committee of 5 members out

of 6 Indians and 5 Americans so that always the Indians will be in
majority in the committee.

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 15. Resolve into partial fractions.
b)lx- nto
(x- a) (x- c)

16. A, B, Care three horses in a race. The probability of A to win the

race is twice that of B, and probability of B is twice that of C. What
are the probabilities of A, B and C to win the race ?

17. Aspeaks truth in 75% of the cases and B in 80% cases. What is the
probability that their statements about an incident do not match ?

SECTION -C 5 x7 =35
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III. Long Answer Type questions:
Answer ANY FIVE questions.
(ii) Each question carries SEVEN marks.

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18. If nis an integer, then show that (1 + ij2n (1 - ij2n = 2n+1 COS

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19. Find the polynomial equation whose roots are the trenslates
those of the equation - 4x* + 3 - 4x+ 6= 0 by -3.

of (1 + n
20. If the coefficients of 4 consecutive terms in the expansion
then show that
are a,, ag, ag, a respectively,
ag 2a2
+ ag ag + ag ag t ag

1·3,13-5, 1:3·5-7 then prove that 9x+ 24x= 11.

21. If x= 3-6 + 36-9 .
36-912

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 data :
22. Find the mean deviation about the mean for the following
5 7 10 35

10 6 8 2
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balls as follows:
23. The boxes numbered I. IIII contains the
White Black Red
I 1 2 3

2 1 1

III 4 5 3
drawn from it. If the ball
One box is randomly selected and a ball is
II.
is red, then find the probability that it is from box

-2 1 2 3
24. -3
1 1 1 1 1
P(X = x) 1 1
3 9

is the probability distribution of a random variable X. Find the

variance of X.