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XAVIER’S COLLEGE – AUTONOMOUS, MUMBAI

FIRST C.I.A. TEST

UID No. ____________ Roll No. _______

Date : 18th ?? Dec 2017 Class : SY - BA/BMM/BMS Duration : 45 mins
SUBJECT : Cross-Faculty Mathematics Max Marks : 20
Course No.
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Instructions : (For the student and the invigilator)

(1) Use of any type of calculator is allowed.
(2) You may get a hand-written paper size no larger than 8 ½ x 11 inches and freely use
it as an aid to answer the paper.
(3) This sheet must be attached to the answer sheet at the beginning of the
examination and may not be detached afterwards.
(4) The invigilator has full right to mark any student found cheating (talking, looking
into someone else’s paper, etc) and the student will be awarded zero marks.
(5) No separate answer sheet will be provided.
(6) In case of doubts, make reasonable assumptions and state them.

I Please mark the correct choice provided – No negative marking (14 marks)
(1) The last digit of 3100 (3 to the power of 100) is

(a) 1 (b) 3 (c) 5 (d) 9 (e) 0

(2) The number 100! (100 factorial) was written out on a piece of paper. However, one of
the digits got erased accidentally and could not be seen. The digit sum of the rest of
the digits was 4. So he erased digit is

(a) 4 (b) 5 (c) 9 (d) 0 (e) Insufficient data to determine

(3) The number of arrangements of the word FACULTY is

(a) 120 (b) 720 (c) 7! (d) 7!/2! (e) none of the previous choices

(4) If the vowels (A and U) in the word FACULTY are to be at the 2 ends, then the
number of arrangements is

(a) 5!/2! (b) 720 (c) 7! (d) 240 (e) none of the previous choices

(5) A haunted house has 6 windows. In how many ways can Georgie the Ghost enter
the house by one window and leave by a different window ?

(a) 36 (b) 30 (c) 12 (d) 11

 (6) For some values of a, b, c and d it is known that x = 2 and x = 3 are solutions (roots)
of the cubic equation ax3 + bx2 + cx + d = 0. It is also known that a cubic has 3
roots. What can we definitely say about the third root.

(a) It is complex (b) It is real (c) the root is the average of the first 2 roots

(7) The smallest number made up of only 4’s and divisible by 99 has ______ digits.

(a) 4 (b) 9 (c) 11 (d) 18 (e) 99

(8) The number of arrangements of the word MISSISSIPPI is

(b) 11! (b) 11! /8! (c) 11!/(4! x 4! x 2!) (d) none of the previous choices

(9) The number of 3 digit even numbers formed using the digits 2,3,4,5,6, 7 where each
digit can be used only once is

(c) 6! (b) 6! /2 (c) 60 (d) 120 (e) none of the previous choices

(10) Let X be the number of prime numbers from 1 to 10. Let Y be the number of
composite numbers from 1 to 10. What is X+Y?

(a) 6 (b) 7 (c) 8 (d) 9 (e) 10

(11) The figure below has 10 equal squares, each of length 3 cm. An ant travels
the outer boundary of this figure starting with X, then goes to Q, then Y, then P and
then continues and completes the loop back to X. The total distance travelled by the
ant is ……… cms.

(a) 16 (b) 32 (c) 48 (d) 60 (e) None of these

(12) What is the angle between the hour hand and the minute hand when the
time is 12:15

(a) 90 degrees (b) 82 ½ degrees (c) 75 degrees (d) None of these.

II Prove that the square root of 2 is an irrational number (6 marks)