NDA 2018 (II), Paper I, Mathematics question paper
120 questions · 300 marks · 150 minutes · +2.5 per correct answer, -0.83 per wrong one
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- 1What is the value of equal to?
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- 2If an infinite GP has the first term x and the sum 5, then which one of the following is correct?
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- 3Consider the following expressions: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Which of the above are rational expressions?
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- 4A square matrix A is called orthogonal if (where A' is the transpose of A)
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- 5If A, B and C are subsets of a Universal set, then which one of the following is correct? (where A' is the complement of A)
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- 6Let x be the number of integers lying between 2999 and 8001 which have at least two digits equal. Then x is equal to
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- 7The sum of the series is equal to
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- Consider the information given below and answer the two (02) items that follow: A survey was conducted among 300 students. It was found that 125 students like to play cricket, 145 students like to play football and 90 students like to play tennis. 32 students like to play exactly two games out of the three games.8How many students like to play all the three games?
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- 9How many students like to play exactly only one game?
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- 10If and are the roots of the quadratic equation , then the quadratic expression where has
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- 11What is the coefficient of the middle term in the binomial expansion of ?
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- 12For a square matrix A, which of the following properties hold? 1. 2. 3. where is a scalar Select the correct answer using the code given below:
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- 13Which one of the following factors does the expansion of the determinant contain?
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- 14What is the adjoint of the matrix ?
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- 15What is the value of , where ?
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- 16There are 17 cricket players, out of which 5 players can bowl. In how many ways can a team of 11 players be selected so as to include 3 bowlers?
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- 17What is the value of ?
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- 18If A and B are two invertible square matrices of same order, then what is equal to?
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- 19If , then one of the solutions of is
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- 20What should be the value of x so that the matrix does have an inverse?
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- 21The system of equations , and
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- 22Which one of the following is correct in respect of the cube roots of unity?
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- 23If u, v and w (all positive) are the , and terms of a GP, then the determinant of the matrix is
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- 24Let the coefficient of the middle term of the binomial expansion of be and those of two middle terms of the binomial expansion of be and . Which one of the following relations is correct?
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- 25Let , and S be the subset of , defined by . Which one of the following is correct?
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- 26Let be the term of an AP for . If for some distinct positive integers m and n we have and , then what is equal to?
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- 27Suppose f(x) is such a quadratic expression that it is positive for all real x. If , then for any real x
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- 28Consider the following in respect of matrices A, B and C of same order: 1. 2. 3. where A' is the transpose of the matrix A. Which of the above are correct?
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- 29The sum of the binary numbers , and is the binary number . What are the values of x and y?
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- 30Let matrix B be the adjoint of a square matrix A, be the identity matrix of same order as A. If is the determinant of the matrix A, then what is AB equal to?
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- 31If and , then what is the value of x to the nearest tenth?
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- 32The total number of 5-digit numbers that can be composed of distinct digits from 0 to 9 is
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- 33What is the determinant of the matrix ?
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- 34If A, B and C are the angles of a triangle and , then which one of the following is correct?
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- 35Consider the following in respect of matrices A and B of same order: 1. 2. where I is the identity matrix and O is the null matrix. Which of the above is/are correct?
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- 36What is equal to?
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- 37If , and are in AP, where , then what is the value of ?
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- 38If , then what is equal to?
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- 39A balloon is directly above one end of a bridge. The angle of depression of the other end of the bridge from the balloon is 48°. If the height of the balloon above the bridge is 122 m, then what is the length of the bridge?
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- 40A is an angle in the fourth quadrant. It satisfies the trigonometric equation . Which one of the following is a value of A?
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- 41The top of a hill observed from the top and bottom of a building of height h is at angles of elevation and respectively. What is the height of the hill?
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- 42What is/are the solution(s) of the trigonometric equation , where ?
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- 43If , then what is the value of ?
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- 44If and are the roots of the quadratic equation , then what is the value of ?
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- 45Consider the following values of x: 1. 8 2. 3. 4. Which of the above values of x is/are the solution(s) of the equation ?
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- 46If the second term of a GP is 2 and the sum of its infinite terms is 8, then the GP is
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- 47If a, b, c are in AP or GP or HP, then is equal to
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- 48What is the sum of all three-digit numbers that can be formed using all the digits 3, 4 and 5, when repetition of digits is allowed?
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- 49The ratio of roots of the equations and are equal. If and are respective discriminants, then what is equal to?
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- 50If , then for all real , which one of the following is correct?
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- 51The equation of a circle whose end points of a diameter are and is
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- 52The second degree equation represents
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- 53The angle between the two lines and is given by . What is equal to?
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- 54Consider the following statements: 1. The distance between the lines and is . 2. The distance between the lines and is . 3. The distance between the lines and is . Which of the above statements are correct?
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- 55What is the equation of straight line passing through the point of intersection of the lines and , and parallel to the line ?
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- 56What is the distance of the point from the plane ?
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- 57Coordinates of the points O, P, Q and R are respectively , , and . Let L, M, N and K be points on the sides OR, OP, PQ and QR respectively such that LMNK is a parallelogram whose two adjacent sides LK and LM are each of length . What are the values of m and n respectively?
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- 58The line is given by
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- 59Consider the following statements: 1. The angle between the planes and is . 2. The distance between the planes and is . Which of the above statements is/are correct?
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- 60Consider the following statements: Statement I: If the line segment joining the points P(m, n) and Q(r, s) subtends an angle at the origin, then . Statement II: In any triangle ABC, it is true that . Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above two statements?
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- 61What is the area of the triangle with vertices ?
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- 62If y-axis touches the circle , then the normal at this point intersects the circle at the point
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- 63Let . holds if and only if
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- 64If , then what is equal to?
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- 65A unit vector perpendicular to each of the vectors and is
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- 66If and , then what is the value of ?
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- 67Let and be three mutually perpendicular vectors each of unit magnitude. If , and , then which one of the following is correct?
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- 68What is equal to?
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- 69A spacecraft located at is subjected to a force by firing a rocket. The spacecraft is subjected to a moment of magnitude
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- 70In a triangle ABC, if taken in order, consider the following statements: 1. 2. 3. 4. How many of the above statements are correct?
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- 71Let the slope of the curve be . Then the value of in the interval is
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- 72If defines a function on , then what is its domain?
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- 73Consider the function . Which one of the following is correct in respect of the function?
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- 74For the function , which one of the following is correct?
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- 75If the function is continuous at each point in its domain, then what is the value of f(0)?
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- 76If , then what is equal to?
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- 77If , then what is equal to?
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- 78Which one of the following is correct in respect of the function ?
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- 79What is equal to?
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- 80A function is defined by the equation where . What is the range of the function?
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- 81What is equal to, where is the greatest integer function?
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- 82What is equal to?
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- 83What is equal to?
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- 84What is equal to?
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- 85What is equal to?
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- 86In which one of the following intervals is the function decreasing?
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- 87The differential equation of the family of curves , where p, q are arbitrary constants, is
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- 88The equation of the curve passing through the point which satisfies , is
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- 89What is the order of the differential equation whose solution is , where a, b, c and d are arbitrary constants?
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- 90What is the solution of the differential equation ?
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- 91If and , then what is equal to?
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- 92If , then which one of the following is correct?
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- 93A flower-bed in the form of a sector has been fenced by a wire of 40 m length. If the flower-bed has the greatest possible area, then what is the radius of the sector?
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- 94What is the minimum value of , where ?
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- 95If , then what is the value of at ?
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- 96What is equal to, where ?
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- 97What is equal to?
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- 98Let and , where and . Then what is equal to?
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- 99What is the solution of the differential equation ?
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- 100What is equal to?
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- 101If two dice are thrown and at least one of the dice shows 5, then the probability that the sum is 10 or more is
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- 102The correlation coefficient computed from a set of 30 observations is 0.8. Then the percentage of variation not explained by linear regression is
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- 103The average age of a combined group of men and women is 25 years. If the average age of the group of men is 26 years and that of the group of women is 21 years, then the percentage of men and women in the group is respectively
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- 104If is the harmonic mean of and , and is the arithmetic mean of and , then which of the following is/are correct? 1. 2. Select the correct answer using the code given below:
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- 105Let A, B and C be three mutually exclusive and exhaustive events associated with a random experiment. If and , then P(A) is equal to
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- 106In a bolt factory, machines X, Y, Z manufacture bolts that are respectively 25%, 35% and 40% of the factory's total output. The machines X, Y, Z respectively produce 2%, 4% and 5% defective bolts. A bolt is drawn at random from the product and is found to be defective. What is the probability that it was manufactured by machine X?
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- 1078 coins are tossed simultaneously. The probability of getting at least 6 heads is
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- 108Three groups of children contain 3 girls and 1 boy; 2 girls and 2 boys; 1 girl and 3 boys. One child is selected at random from each group. The probability that the three selected consist of 1 girl and 2 boys is
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- 109Consider the following statements: 1. If 10 is added to each entry on a list, then the average increases by 10. 2. If 10 is added to each entry on a list, then the standard deviation increases by 10. 3. If each entry on a list is doubled, then the average doubles. Which of the above statements are correct?
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- 110The variance of 25 observations is 4. If 2 is added to each observation, then the new variance of the resulting observations is
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- 111If are the values of two variables X and Y with geometric means P and Q respectively, then the geometric mean of is
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- 112If the probability of simultaneous occurrence of two events A and B is p and the probability that exactly one of A, B occurs is q, then which of the following is/are correct? 1. 2. Select the correct answer using the code given below:
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- 113If the regression coefficient of Y on X is , and the correlation coefficient between X and Y is , then the regression coefficient of X on Y would be
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- 114The set of bivariate observations are such that all the values are distinct and all the observations fall on a straight line with non-zero slope. Then the possible values of the correlation coefficient between x and y are
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- 115Two integers x and y are chosen with replacement from the set . The probability that is
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- 116An analysis of monthly wages paid to the workers in two firms A and B belonging to the same industry gives the following result: Number of workers: Firm A = 500, Firm B = 600; Average monthly wage: Firm A = ₹1860, Firm B = ₹1750; Variance of distribution of wages: Firm A = 81, Firm B = 100. The average of monthly wage and variance of distribution of wages of all the workers in the firms A and B taken together are
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- 117Three dice having digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 on their faces are marked I, II and III and rolled. Let x, y and z represent the number on die-I, die-II and die-III respectively. What is the number of possible outcomes such that ?
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- 118Which one of the following can be obtained from an ogive?
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- 119In any discrete series (when all values are not same), if x represents mean deviation about mean and y represents standard deviation, then which one of the following is correct?
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- 120In which one of the following cases would you expect to get a negative correlation?
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