NDA 2021 (I), 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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- 1The smallest positive integer for which , where , is
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- 2The value of , satisfying the equation , where , is
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- 3If is the value of the determinant , then what is the value of ( or , or )?
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- 4If are the coefficients in the expansion of , then what is the value of ?
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- 5If and , then what is the value of ?
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- 6The number of integer values of , for which the equation has a solution, is
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- 7If are in GP, then what is the value of ?
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- 8If the roots of the quadratic equation are real, then
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- 9If , then what is the value of ?
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- 10If , where , then what is the modulus of ?
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- 11If and are two matrices such that is of order , then which one of the following is correct?
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- 12How many matrices of different orders are possible with elements comprising all prime numbers less than 30?
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- 13Let , where and are any four different prime numbers less than 20. What is the maximum value of the determinant?
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- 14If and are square matrices of order 2 such that , then which one of the following is correct?
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- 15What is equal to?
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- 16If and is in the second quadrant, then what is the value of ?
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- 17What is the value of ?
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- 18If the determinant , then what is equal to?
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- 19What is the value of ?
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- 20If , then what is equal to?
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- 21The equation has
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- 22What is the value of ?
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- 23A chord subtends an angle 120° at the centre of a unit circle. What is the length of the chord?
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- 24What is equal to?
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- 25What is equal to?
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- 26What is the interior angle of a regular octagon of side length 2 cm?
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- 27If , then what is the value of ?
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- 28A ladder 6 m long reaches a point 6 m below the top of a vertical flagstaff. From the foot of the ladder, the elevation of the top of the flagstaff is 75°. What is the height of the flagstaff?
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- 29The shadow of a tower is found to be metre longer, when the angle of elevation of the sun changes from 60° to 45°. If the height of the tower is m, then what is equal to?
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- 30If , then what is the value of ?
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- 31holds, when
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- 32If , then what is equal to?
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- 33The sides of a triangle are , and . What is the sum of the acute angles of the triangle?
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- 34What is the area of the triangle with sides cm, cm and angle ?
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- 35Consider the following statements: 1. and are equivalent sets. 2. and are equal sets. Which of the above statements is/are correct?
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- 36Consider the following statements: 1. The null set is a subset of every set. 2. Every set is a subset of itself. 3. If a set has 10 elements, then its power set will have 1024 elements. Which of the above statements are correct?
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- 37Let be a relation defined as if and only if , where . How many elements of the form are there in ?
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- 38Consider the following statements: 1. A function , defined by , is one-one as well as onto. 2. A function , defined by , is one-one but not onto. Which of the above statements is/are correct?
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- 39Consider the following in respect of a complex number : 1. . 2. . Which of the above is/are correct?
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- 40Consider the following statements in respect of an arbitrary complex number : 1. The difference of and its conjugate is an imaginary number. 2. The sum of and its conjugate is a real number. Which of the above statements is/are correct?
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- 41What is the modulus of the complex number , where and ?
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- 42If and are the roots of the equation , then which one of the following is correct?
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- 43If one root of is reciprocal of the other, then what is the value of ?
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- 44In how many ways can a team of 5 players be selected from 8 players so as not to include a particular player?
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- 45What is the coefficient of the middle term in the expansion of ?
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- 46What is equal to?
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- 47What is the sum of the coefficients of first and last terms in the expansion of , where is a natural number?
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- 48If the first term of an AP is 2 and the sum of the first five terms is equal to one-fourth of the sum of the next five terms, then what is the sum of the first ten terms?
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- 49Consider the following statements: 1. If each term of a GP is multiplied by same non-zero number, then the resulting sequence is also a GP. 2. If each term of a GP is divided by same non-zero number, then the resulting sequence is also a GP. Which of the above statements is/are correct?
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- 50How many 5-digit prime numbers can be formed using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 if the repetition of digits is not allowed?
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- 51If , then what is equal to?
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- 52If are in AP, then which one of the following is correct?
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- 53The third term of a GP is 3. What is the product of its first five terms?
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- 54The element in the th row and the th column of a determinant of third order is equal to . What is the value of the determinant?
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- 55With the numbers 2, 4, 6, 8, all the possible determinants with these four different elements are constructed. What is the sum of the values of all such determinants?
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- 56What is the radius of the circle ?
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- 57A parallelogram has three consecutive vertices , and . The fourth vertex is
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- 58If the lines and are perpendicular, then which one of the following is correct?
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- 59If , and are in AP, then the straight line will always pass through a fixed point. The fixed point is
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- 60If the image of the point by a line mirror is , then what is the equation of the line mirror?
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- 61Consider the following statements in respect of the points , and : 1. The points lie on a straight line. 2. The points always lie in the first quadrant only for any value of and . Which of the above statements is/are correct?
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- 62What is the acute angle between the lines and ?
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- 63The point of intersection of diagonals of a square is at the origin and one of its vertices is at . What is the equation of the diagonal ?
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- 64If any point on a hyperbola is , then what is the eccentricity of the hyperbola?
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- 65Consider the following with regard to eccentricity of a conic section: 1. for circle. 2. for parabola. 3. for ellipse. Which of the above are correct?
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- 66What is the angle between the two lines having direction ratios and ?
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- 67If , , are the direction cosines of the line , then what is equal to?
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- 68What is the projection of the line segment joining and on -axis?
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- 69What is the number of possible values of for which the line joining the points and also passes through the point ?
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- 70The foot of the perpendicular drawn from the origin to the plane is
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- 71A vector is equally inclined to both and axes. If the magnitude of the vector is 2 units, then what are the values of and respectively?
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- 72Consider the following statements in respect of a vector , where : 1. is perpendicular to . 2. is perpendicular to . Which of the above statements is/are correct?
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- 73If and are two vectors such that , then which one of the following is correct?
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- 74If , and are coplanar, then what is equal to?
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- 75Consider the following statements: 1. The cross product of two unit vectors is always a unit vector. 2. The dot product of two unit vectors is always unity. 3. The magnitude of sum of two unit vectors is always greater than the magnitude of their difference. Which of the above statements are correct?
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- 76If , then what is the value of ?
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- 77A particle starts from origin with a velocity (in m/s) given by the equation . The time (in second) taken by the particle to traverse a distance of 24 m is
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- 78What is equal to?
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- 79What is equal to?
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- 80If , then what is equal to?
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- 81What is the area bounded by , and the -axis?
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- 82The curve has the maximum slope at
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- 83A 24 cm long wire is bent to form a triangle with one of the angles as 60°. What is the altitude of the triangle having the greatest possible area?
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- 84If , then which one of the following is correct?
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- 85What is equal to?
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- 86What is equal to?
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- 87If and , then what is the maximum value of ?
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- 88What is the derivative of with respect to at ?
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- 89If and , then what is at equal to?
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- 90What is the maximum value of ?
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- 91What is the derivative of with respect to ?
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- 92If a differentiable function satisfies , then what is equal to?
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- 93If the function is continuous, then what is the value of ?
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- 94Consider the following statements in respect of the function : 1. increases in the interval . 2. decreases in the interval . Which of the above statements is/are correct?
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- 95What is the domain of the function ?
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- 96If the general solution of a differential equation is , where is an arbitrary constant, then what is the order of the differential equation?
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- 97What is the degree of the following differential equation?
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- 98Which one of the following differential equations has the general solution ?
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- 99What is the solution of the following differential equation?
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- 100What is equal to?
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- 101Consider the following measures of central tendency for a set of numbers: 1. Arithmetic mean. 2. Geometric mean. Which of the above uses/use all the data?
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- 102The numbers of Science, Arts and Commerce graduates working in a company are 30, 70 and 50 respectively. If these figures are represented by a pie chart, then what is the angle corresponding to Science graduates?
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- 103For a histogram based on a frequency distribution with unequal class intervals, the frequency of a class should be proportional to
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- 104The coefficient of correlation is independent of
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- 105The following table gives the frequency distribution of number of peas per pea pod of 198 pods:What is the median of this distribution?
Number of peas 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Frequency 4 33 76 50 26 8 1 Tap an option to check your answer.
- 106If is the mean of observations , where is any real number, then what is the mean of ?
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- 107What is the sum of deviations of the variate values 73, 85, 92, 105, 120 from their mean?
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- 108Let be the HM and be the GM of two positive numbers and . If , then which one of the following is correct?
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- 109If the mean of a frequency distribution is 100 and the coefficient of variation is 45%, then what is the value of the variance?
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- 110Let two events and be such that and . Which one of the following is correct?
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- 111For which of the following sets of numbers do the mean, median and mode have the same value?
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- 112The mean of 12 observations is 75. If two observations are discarded, then the mean of the remaining observations is 65. What is the mean of the discarded observations?
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- 113If is one of the roots of the equation , then what is its other root?
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- 114The geometric mean of a set of observations is computed as 10. The geometric mean obtained when each observation is replaced by is
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- 115If , and , then which of the following is/are correct? 1. and are independent events. 2. and are mutually exclusive events.
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- 116The average of a set of 15 observations is recorded, but later it is found that for one observation, the digit in the tens place was wrongly recorded as 8 instead of 3. After correcting the observation, the average is
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- 117A coin is tossed twice. If and denote occurrence of head on first toss and second toss respectively, then what is equal to?
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- 118In a binomial distribution, the mean is and variance is . What is the probability that random variable ?
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- 119If the mode of the scores 10, 12, 13, 15, 15, 13, 12, 10, is 15, then what is the value of ?
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- 120If and are two events such that and , then consider the following statements: 1. The minimum value of is . 2. The maximum value of is . Which of the above statements is/are correct?
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