OMTEX CLASSES ALGEBRA PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION SSC

Q1. Attempt any six of the following sub questions. i. ii. iii. iv. (6 marks) Find the first five terms of the following sequence, whose 'nth ' terms is given: = 4 3. Determine the nature of the roots of the following equation from its discriminant 2 2 + 5 3 = 0. If = 15 and = 5 are the values of the determinants for certain simultaneous equations in x and y, find y. In each of the following experiments, write the sample space S, number of sample point n(S), event A, B and n(A), n(B). A coin is tossed three times. A is the event that head appears once, B is the event that head appears at the most twice. One card is drawn from a well shuffled deck of 52 cards. Find the probability of getting king of red colour. Write the following quadratic equation 2 = 7 10 in standard form 2 + + = 0. If , 3 is the point lying on the graph of the equation 5 + 2 = 4, then find a. 10 marks
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Q2. Attempt any five of the following: i. ii. iii. iv.

For an A.P. if 4 = 12, and = 10, then find its general term. If one root of the quadratic equation 3 2 + 8 = 0 is , then find the value of k. If 12 + 13 = 29, 13 + 12 = 21, Find + . Sachin buys fish from a shop for his aquarium. The shopkeeper takes out one fish at random from a tank containing 5 male fish and 8 female fish. What is the probability that the fish taken out is a male fish? Without actually solving the simultaneous equations given below, decide whether simultaneous equations have unique solution, no solution or infinitely many solutions. 3 + 5 = 16; 4 = 6. What is the probability that an ordinary year has 53 Sundays?

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Q3. Attempt any four of the following: 12 marks i. ii. iii. iv. If in G.P. r = 2 and 8 = 64 then find and 6 . Solve the following equation: 4 3 2 + 2 = 0. Without drawing the graphs, Show that the following equations are of concurrent lines: = 5 3 ; = 4 2; 2 + 3 = 8. How many three digit natural numbers are divisible by 4?

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OMTEX CLASSES ALGEBRA PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION SSC

v. Solve the following simultaneous equations using graphical method. + 2 = 5, = 2 2. 12 marks

Q4. Attempt any three of the following sub questions: i.

The 11th term and 21st term of an A.P. are 16 and 29 respectively then find a. The first term b. The common difference c. The 34th term d. 'n' such that tn = 55. Solve 2 2 +
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In a school, a plantation program was arranged on the occasion of world environment day, on a ground of triangular shape. The trees are to be plant as One plant in the first row, two in the second row, three in the third row and so on. If there are 25 rows then find the total number of plants to be planted. One lottery ticket is drawn at random from a bag containing 20 tickets numbered from 1 to 20. Find the probability that the number on the ticket drawn is divisible by 3 or 5. 20 marks

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Find three consecutive terms in an A.P. Whose sum is 3 and the product of their cubes is 512. In winter the temperature at a hill station from Monday to Friday is in A.P. The sum of the temperatures of Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday is zero and the sum of the temperature of Thursday and Friday is 15. Find the temperature of each of the five days. Solve the following simultaneous equations: 16 2 8 12 + = 1; =7 + + Two fair dice are thrown, find the probability of the events. The sum of the scored on their upper faces is less than 4 or an odd number. The perimeter of an isosceles triangle is 24 cm. The length of its congruent sides is 13 cm less than twice the length of its base. Find the lengths of all sides of the triangle.

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