IPE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS – MATHS -2A

1.COMPLEX NUMBERS

VERY SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS

1. Find the square roots of 3 + 4i.
2. Find the complex conjugate of (2 + 5i)(-4 + 6i).
3. If z = x + iy and if the point ‘p’ in argand plane represents ‘z’ then describe geometrically the locus of ‘z’
satisfying the equation i) |z – 2 – 3i| = 5 (ii) Im(z2) = 4.
4. Find the multiplicative inverse of (sin , cos ), ii) 5  3i
5. Write the conjugate of complex number of i) (15 + 3i) – (4 – 28i)
6. Simplify i2 + i4 + i6 + ……+ (2n + 1) terms
7.  
Find the polar of the following complex numbers i) 1  3i , ii) ( 7  i 21)
8. If z1 = 1 and z2 =  i then find Arg. (z1. z2) ii) z1 = 1, z2 = i, then find Arg (z1 / z2)
a  ib
9. Find the real and imaginary parts of the complex number .
a  ib
10. Express 1 – i in modulus amplitude form
100
11. If  3 i   299  a  ib  then show that a2 + b2 = 4
 
12. i) If the Arg z1 and Arg z2 are and respectively then find (Arg z1 + Arg z2)
5 3
ii) z1 =  1, z2 = i Arg z1 / z2

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

n
1 i 
14. Find the least positive integer n, satisfying   1
 1 i 
15. If (cos 2+ i sin 2) (cos 2+ i sin 2) = (cos + i sin ) then find the value of .
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SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS
1
1. x + iy = then show that (4x2 – 1) = 0
1  cos   isin 
2. Show that the four points in the argand plane represented by the complex numbers 2 + i, 4 + 3i, 2 + 5i, 3i
are the vertices of a square.
3. Show that the points in the argand diagram represented by the complex numbers 2 + 2i,  2 – 2i,
2 3  2 3i are the vertices of an equilateral triangle.
4. If z = x + iy and if the point P in the Argand plane represents z. Find the locus of z satisfying the equation
z 3 i  4 .
3 3
 1 i   1 i 
5. If      x  iy then find x and y
 1 i  1 i 
x 1 y 1
6. Find the real value of x and y if  i.
3i 3i
 2.De-Moviers Theorem
VERY SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS
 1 
1. If x = cis , then find the value of  x 6  6  .
 x 
2. If A, B, C are angles of a triangle ABC such that x = cis A, y = cis B, z = cis C, then find the value of
xyz.
3. If 1,,2 are the cube roots of unity, then find the value of the following
i) (1 + )3 + (1 + 2)3 ii) (1   + 2)6 + (1  2 + )6 iii) (1   + 2)7 + (1 +   2)7
4. Find the cube roots of 8.
5. Find the value of (-i)1/6.

LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS

 n 
1. If n is an integer then show that (1 + i)2n + (1 – i)2n = 2n + 1 . cos  
 2 
n2
 n 
2. If n is an integer then show that (1 + i)n + (1 – i)n = 2 2 cos  
 4 
  n 
3. If n is an integer then show that (1 + cos  + i sin )n + (1 + cos   i sin )n = 2n 1 cos n   cos  
2  2 
 n 
4. If ,  are the roots of the equation x2 – 2x + 4 = 0 then for any n  N show that  n   n  2 n 1 cos  
 3 
2n
  z 1
5. If n is an integer and z = cis ,     2n  1  , then show that 2n  i tan n
 2 z 1
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3.QUADRATIC EQUATIONS AND EXPRESSIONS
VERY SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS

1. Find the value of ‘m’ the following equations have equal roots x2 – 15 – m (2x – 8) = 0
2. If x2 – 6x + 5 = 0 and x2 – 12x + p = 0 have common root then find ‘p’.
3. Find the nature of the roots of the equation 2x2 – 7x + 10 = 0 without finding the roots.
4. If ,  are the roots of the equation ax2 + bx + c = 0 find the value of the following in terms of a,b,c
 2  2
 2  2
m n p  q  p  q
5. Find the quadratic equation whose roots are i) 3  5i ii) 7  2 5 iii) , iv) ,
n m pq pq
6. Find the maximum (or) minimum of the following expression
i) 12x – x2 – 32 ii) x2 + 5x + 6 iii) x2 – x + 7 iv) 2x + 5 – 3x2
2 2
7. If x – 6x + 5 = 0 and x – 3ax + 35 = 0 have a common root then find the value of ‘a’.
8. If x2 + bx + c = 0 and x2 + cx + b = 0 have a common root then show that b + c + 1 = 0
9. For what values of x, the expression x2 – 5x – 14 is positive

SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS

1 1 1
1. Prove that   does not lies between 1 and 4, if x is real.
3x  1 x  1  3x  1 x  1
x2  x 1
2. Determine the range of the expression 2 .
x  x 1
x2
3. Determine the range of 2
.
2x  3x  6
 x 1
4. If ‘x’ is real, then prove that 2
lies between and 1.
x  5x  9 11
x 2  34x  71
5. Show that none of the values of the function 2 over R lies between 5 and 9.
x  2x  7
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4.THEORY OF EQUATIONS
VERY SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS

1. If 1, 1, are the roots of x3 – 6x2 + 9x – 4 = 0 then find .

2. If 1, -2 and 3 are roots of x3 – 2x2 + ax + 6 = 0 then find ‘a’.
3. If – 1, 2 and  are the roots of 2x3 + x2 – 7x – 6 = 0, then find .
4. Find the algebraic equation whose roots are 3 times the roots of x3 + 2x2 – 4x + 1 = 0
5. If , ,  are the roots of 4x3 – 6x2 + 7x + 3 = 0 then find the value of  +  + .
6. Form the polynomial equation of the degree with roots as given below
i) 1, 1, 3 ii) 0, 0,2, 2, 2, 2

LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS

1. Solve the equation 8x3 – 36x2 – 18x + 81 = 0 given that the roots are in AP.
2. Solve x4 + x3 – 16x2 – 4x + 48 = 0 given that the product of two roots is 6.
3. Find the algebraic equation of degree ‘4’ whose roots are the translates of roots
4x4 + 32x3 + 83x2 + 76x + 21 = 0 by 2. ii) x4 – 5x3 + 7x2 – 17x + 11 = 0 by  2
iii) x5 – 4x4 + 3x2 – 4x + 6 = 0 by  3
4. Solve the equation 3x3 – 4x2 + x + 88 = 0 which has 2  7 has the root.

5.PERMUTATIONS AND COMBINATIONS

VERY SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS

1. i) If nP7 = 42. nP5 find n ii) nP3 = 1320 find n iii) 12Pr = 1320 find r
2. If 56Pr + 6 : 54Pr + 3 = 30800 : 1, find ‘r’.
3. If (n +1)P5 : nP5 = 3 : 2 then find n.
4. Find the number of ways of arranging the letters of the words
(i) INTERMEDIATE (ii) INDEPENDENCE (iii) SINGING
4
5. (i) Prove that 10C3 + 10C6 = 11C4 (ii) If 25C4 + 
r0
29  r 
C3 30 C 4

6. If C3 + C5 = Cr then find r (ii) C2t + 1 = C3t – 5 then find t (iii) nC21 = nC27 then find 50Cn.
9 9 10 17 17

7. Find the value of 10C5 + 2.10C4 + 10C3

8. If the number of ways of forming a committee of 5 members 6 men and 3 ladies.

SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS

1. If the letters of the word MASTER are permitted in all possible ways and the words thus formed are
arranged in the dictionary order then find the rank of the words (i) MASTER (ii) REMAST
2. Find the number of 4 digit numbers that can be formed using the digits (i) 1,2,3,4,5,6 when repetition is
not allowed (ii) 1,2,4,5,7,8 when repetition is not allowed (iii) 1,3,5,7,9 when repetition is not allowed
(iv) 1,2,4,5,6 when repetition is not allowed
3. Find the number of 5 letters words that can be formed using the letters of the word CONSIDER. How
many of them begin with ‘C’, how many of them end with ‘R’, how many of them begin with ‘C’ and end
with ‘R’.
4. Find the letters of the word ‘PRISON’ are permuted in all possible ways and the words thus formed are
arranged in dictionary order. Then find the rank of the word PRISON.
5. Find the sum of all 4 digit numbers that can be formed using digits 0,2,4,7,8 without repetition.
6. Find the number of different chains that can be prepared using (i) 7 different coloured beads. (ii) 6 different
coloured beads.
4
7. Simplify 34C5 + 
r0
38 r 
C4
4
C4   
25 29  r 
8. Prove that C3  30 C 4
r 0
9. Find the number of ways of selecting 11 members cricket team from 7 batsmen, 6 bowlers and 2 wicket-
keepers, so that the team contains 2 wicket-keepers and atleast 4 bowlers.
10. 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.
11. Prove that 3  r  n.n 3 C r  3.n 3 C r 1  3.n 3 Cr 2  n 3 C r 3  n C r .
12. Find the number of ways of arranged the letters of the word a4b3c5 in its expanded term.
13. A man has 4 sons and there are 5 schools within his reach in how many ways can he admit his sons in the
schools so that no two of them will be in the same school.

6.BINOMIAL THEOREM
VERY SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS

1. If 22Cr is the largest binomial coefficient in the expansion of (1 + x)22 find the value of 13Cr.
2. Prove that C0 + 2C1 + 4.C2 + 8.C3 + …+ 2n.Cn = 3n.
3. Find the number of terms in the expansion of (2x + 3y + z)7.
4. Find the set of values of x for which (i) (2 + 3x)-2/3 is valid (ii) (3 – 4x)3/4 is valid (iii) (5 + x)3/2 is valid
5. If (1 + x + x2)n = a0 + a1x + a2x2 + …. + a2nx2n then find the value of a0 + a1 + a2 +…. + a2n = 3n
6. Find the sum of lost 20 coefficients in the expansion of (1 + x)39.

LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS

1.3 1.3.5 1.3.5.7
1. If x =    ... , then prove that 9x2 + 24x = 11
3.6 3.6.9 3.6.9.12
1 1.3 1.3.5
2. Find the sum of the series 1     ......
3 3.6 3.6.9
4 4.6 4.6.8
3. If t =    ...... then prove that 9t = 16.
5 5.10 5.10.15
5 5.7 5.7.9
4. If x =    ...... , then find the value of x2 + 4x.
 2! 3  3! 3  4! 33
2

3 3.5 3.5.7
5. Find the sum of the infinite series    ......
4 4.8 4.8.12
4 4.7 4.7.10
6. Find the sum of the infinite series 1     ......
5 5.10 5.10.15
7. If the coefficients of 4 consecutive terms in the expansion of (1 + x)n are a1, a2, a3, a4 respectively then
a1 a3 2a 2
show that  
a1  a 2 a 3  a 4 a 2  a 3
8. If the 2 , 3rd and 4th terms in the expansion of (a + x)n are respectively 240, 720, 1080, find a, x, n.
nd

9. If 36, 84, 126 are three successive binomial co-efficient in the expansion of (1 + x)n then find n.
10. If the coefficient of rth, (r + 1)th, (r + 2)nd terms in the expansion of (1 + x)n are in AP then show that
n2 – (4r + 1)n + 4r2 – 2 = 0
11. If the coefficient of x9, x10, x11 in the expansion of (1 + x)n are in AP then prove that n2 – 41n + 398 = 0.

7. PARTIAL FRACTIONS
I. Short Answer Questions
x2  3 2x 2  3x  4
1. 2.
 x  2  x 2  1  x  1  x 2  2
x4 x3
3. 4.
x 2

 4  x  1  x  a  x  b  x  c 
2x  3
5.
5  x  2  2x  1

1 2x  3 x2  2x  6
6. (i) (ii) (iii)
2
( x  1) ( x  2) ( x  1)3 ( x  2)3
2x  3 x2
(iv) (v)
( x  1)( x  3) ( x  1)( x  2)
8. MEASURES OF DISPERSION (STATISTICS)
VERY SHORT ANSWERS
1. (i) Find the mean deviation from the mean of the following discrete data 6,7,10,12,13,4,12,16,54,44
(ii) Find the mean deviation from the mean of the following discrete data 3,6,10,4,9,10
2. Find the mean deviation about the median for the following data: 4,6,9,3,10,13,2
3. Define range for an ungrouped data and also find the range of the given data 38, 70, 48, 40, 42, 55, 63,
46, 46, 54, 44
4. The variance of 20 observation is 5. If each of the observation is multiplied by 2, find the variance of the
resulting observations.
5. The coefficient of variation of two distributions are 60 and 70 and their standard deviations are 21 and
16 respectively. Find their arithmetic means.

LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS

1. Calculate the variance and standard deviation of the following continuous frequency distribution
Class Interval 30 – 40 40 – 50 50 – 60 60 – 70 70 – 80 80 – 90 90 – 100

Frequency 3 7 12 15 8 3 2

2. Calculate the variance and standard deviation for the following discreate frequency distribution:

x i 4 8 11 17 20 24 32

fi 3 5 9 5 4 3 1

3. Find the mean deviation about mean for following data:

x i 10 11 12 13

fi 3 12 18 12
 (ii)
xi 5 7 9 10 12 15

fi 8 6 2 2 2 6

4. Find the mean deviation from the mean of the following data, using the step deviation method
Marks 0 – 10 10 – 20 20 – 30 30 – 40 40 – 50 50 – 60 60 – 70

No. of 6 5 8 15 7 6 3
Students

5. Find the mean deviation about the mean for the following data

6. Find the mean deviation from the mean for the following continuous frequency distribution

7. An analysis of monthly wages paid to the workers of two forms A and B belonging to the same industry
gives the following data

Which firm A or B has greater variability in individual wage, which firm has larger wage bill.
9.PROBABILITY
SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS
1. A, B, C are 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 probabilities of A, B and C to win the race.
2. (i) If A and B be independent events with P  A   0.6,P  B   0.7 then compute.

(a) P  A  B  (b) P  A  B  (c) P  B/A  (d) P  A c  Bc  (ii) A and B are

events with P  A   0.5 , P  B   0.4 and P  A  B  0.3 . Find the probability that (i) A does not
occur (ii) neither A nor B occurs.
(iii) If A and B are independent events with P(A)=0.2, P(B) = 0.5 then find
(a) P(A/B) (b) P(B/A) (c) P  A  B  (d) P  A  B 
3. If A, B, C are three independent events of an experiment such that
1 1 1

P A  Bc  Cc   4
 8
 
4

,P A c  Bc  Cc  ,P A c  Bc  Cc  , then find P  A  ,P  B  and P  C 
4. A speaks truth in 75% of the cases and B in 80% cases. What is the probability that their statements
about an incident do not match.
2 5
5. The probability for a contractor to get a road contract is and to get a building contract is . The
3 9
4
probability to get atleast one contract is . Find the probability that he gets both the contracts.
5
6. A bag contains 12 two rupee coins 7 one rupee coins and 4 half a rupee coins. If three coins are selected
at random, then find the probability that
(i) the sum of three coins is maximum
(ii) the sum of three coins is minimum
(iii) each coin is of different value
7. If A and B are two events with P  A  B   0.65, P  A  B   0.15. Then find the value of

 
P A P B . 
8. The probabilities of three events A, B, C are such that P  A   0.3, P  B   0.4, P  C   0.8,
P  A  B   0.09, P  A  C   0.28, P  A  B  C   0.08 and P  A  B  C   0.75 .

Show that P  B  C  lies in the interval 0.21, 0.46

9. If A, B, C are three events then show that the
P  A  B  C   P  A   P B   P C   P  A  B   P B  C   P C  A   P  A  B  C 

10. In a committee of 25 members each member is proficient either in mathematics or in statistics or in both.
If 19 of these are proficient in mathematics, 16 in statistics, find the probability that a person selected
from the committee is proficient in both.
11. A fair die is rolled consider events A={1,3,5} B={2,3} C={2,3,4,5} find P  A  B  , P(AUB), P(A/B),
P(B/A), P(A/C), P(C/A), P(B/C), P(C/B).

LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS

1. Three boxes numbered I, II, III contain the balls as follows.

One box is randomly selected and a ball is drawn from it. If the ball is red then find the probability that it
is from box II.
2. Three Urns have the following composition of balls
Urn I: 1 white, 2 black, Urn II: 2 white, 1 black, Urn III: 2 white, 2 black
One of the Urns is selected at random and a ball is drawn, It turns out to be white. Find the probability
that it came from urn III.
3. Three boxes B1, B2 and B3 contains balls with different colours as shown below
 Box White Black Red

B1 2 1 2

B2 3 2 4

B3 4 3 2

A die is thrown, B1 is chosen if either 1 or 2 turns up. B2 is chosen if 3 or 4 turns up and B3 is chosen if 5
or 6 turns up. Having choosen a box in this way, a ball is choosen at random from this box. If the ball
drawn is found to be red, find the probability that it is drawn from box B2
4. A, B, C are 3 newspapers from a city. 20% of the population read A, 16% read B,14% read C, 8% read
both A and B, 5% read both A and C, 4% read both B and C and 2% read all the three. Find the
percentage of the population who read at least one newspaper.
5. State and prove addition theorem on probability.
6. Define conditional probability. State and prove the multiplication theorem on probability.
7. State and prove Baye’s theorem.
8. In a box containing 15 bulbs, 5 are defective. If 5 bulbs are selected at random from the box. Find the
probability of the event that
(i) none of them is defective
(ii) only one of them is defective
(iv) atleast one of them is defective.

10. RANDOM VARIABLES & PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS

VERY SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS
1. The mean and variance of binomial distribution are 4 and 3 respectively. Find P  X  1
2. A poisson variable satisfies P  X  1  P  X  2  find P  X  5 
3. If the mean and variance of a binomial variable X are 2.4 and 1.44 respectively, find P 1  X  4 
4. For a binomial distribution with mean 6 and variance 2, find the first two terms of the distribution
ck
5. The range of a random variable X is 1,2,3,.......... and P  X  k   ;  k  1,2,3,....... .
k!
Find the value of c and P  0  X  3  .
6. The probability that a person chosen at random is left handed (in handwriting) is 0.1. What is the
probability that in a group of 10 people, there is one who is left handed?
7. On an average, rain falls on 12 days in every 30 days. F find the probability that, rain will fall on just 3
days of a given week.

8. If X is a random variable with probability distribution P  X  k  

 k  1 C , k  0,1,2,........... then find
2k
C.
x
2
9. Find the constant ‘c’ so that P  x   c   , x  1,2,3,4,...... is the p.d.f of a discrete random variable X.
3
 LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS
1. A random variable X has the following probability distribution.

Find (i) k (ii) mean (iii) variance of X

2. A random variable X has the following probability distribution.

Find (i) k (ii) the mean of X (iii) P  0  X  5 

3. A random variable X has the following probability distribution

Find ‘k’, mean and variance of X.

4. One in 9 ships is likely to be wrecked, when they are set on sail. When 6 ships are on sail find the
probability for (i) atleast one will arrive safely (ii) exactly three will arrive safely.
5. The range of a random variable X is {0,1,2} and given that
P  X  0   3c3 , P  X  1  4c  10c 2 , P  X  2  5c  1 , find (i) the value of c

(ii) P  X  1 ,P 1  X  2  and P  0  X  3 
6. In the experiment of tossing a coin ‘n’ times, if times, if the variable X denotes the number of heads and
P  X  4  , P  X  5  and P  X  6  are in A.P., then find ‘n’.