AKR ACADEMY SCHOOL CBSE

MATH-AUG’19-3 HOURS-80 MARKS-CLASS 12

General Instructions:
All questions are compulsory.

This question paper contains 36 questions.

Questions 1 – 20 in Section A are very short-solution type questions carrying 1 mark

each.

Questions 21 – 26 in Section B are short-solution type questions carrying 2 marks each.

Questions 27 – 32 in Section C are long-solution I type questions carrying 4 marks each.

Questions 33 – 36 in Section D are long-solution II type questions carrying 6 marks

each.

Section A
1) An urn contains 5 red and 2 black balls. Two balls are randomly drawn. Let X represents the
number of black balls. What are the possible values of X? Is X a random variable.

2) Find the value of: tan‒1√3 ‒ cot‒1 (‒√3).

3) Write the value of tan (2tan-1(1/5)).

4)

a)10 b)11 c)14 d)15

5)

a) b) c) d)

6)
7)

A) B) C) D)

8)

a b c d
9) If A and B are symmetric matrices of the same order, then (AB-BA) is :
 a) a null matrix b) a symmetric matrix c) a skew-symmetric matrix d) a unit matrix.

10)

a 20 sq units. b 25 sq units. c 30 sq units. d 60 sq units.

11)

a 0. b 1. c 2. d 3.

12)
a 0. b 1. c 7. d 9.

13) a 0. b 12 cos2x – 10 sin2x. c 12 sin2x – 10 cos2x – 2.

d 10 sin2x.

14)

a 1. b c d

15) In order to get at least once a head with probability ≥ 0.9, the number of times a coin needs to
be tossed is a)3. b) 4. c)5. D)none

16) If P(A) = 0.4, P(B) = 0.8 and P(A B) = 0.8, then the value of P(B/A) is equal to
a)0.2. b)0.4. c)0.8. d)1.0.
17) A fair die rolled once. Three events are defined as A = {1, 3, 6}, B = {3, 5} and C = {1, 3, 5, 6}.
The probability P{(A u B)/C} is given by
a.) 3/4. b.) 4/7. c.) 3/7. d.) 1/4.
18) Tickets numbered from 1 to 20 are mixed together and then a ticket is drawn at random. The
probability that the ticket has a number which is a multiple of 5 is
a 4. b 8. c 12. d 16.

19) In drawing 15 cards from a well shuffled pack of cards, the exhaustive number of cases are

a) 26C15. B) 26C10. C) 52C15. D) 52C10.

20)A coin is tossed and then a die is thrown. The probability of obtaining a 6 on the die when coin
shows head is a 1/2. b 1/6. c 1/12. d 1/24.
Section B
 21)Show that .

22)

𝑎 𝑎−𝑏
23) Find the value: tan−1 𝑏 − tan−1 𝑎+𝑏

24) A black and a red die are rolled together. Find the conditional probability of obtaining the sum
8, given that the red die in number less than 4.

6 1  5
25) Express the matrix A =  2  5 4  as a sum of symmetric and skew-symmetric matrices.
  3 3  1
8
26) Solve for x: tan-1(x + 1) + tan-1(x – 1) = 𝑡𝑎𝑛−1 31.
Section C
27)

28) A man is known to speak truth 3 out of 4 times. He throws a die and reports that it is a six.
Find the probability that it is actually a six.

29) Two cards are drawn simultaneously (or successively without replacement) from a well
shuffled pack of 52 cards. Find the mean, variance and standard deviation of the number of kings.

30) In answering a question on a multiple choice test, a student either knows the answer or
guesses. Let 3/4 be the probability that he knows the answer and 1/4 be the probability that he
guesses. Assuming that a student who guesses at the answer will be correct with probability 1/4 .
What is the probability that the student knows the answer given that he answered it correctly?
31) Using integration find the area of the region given by:
{(x,y) : 0 ≤ y ≤ x2 , 0 ≤ y ≤x+1, 0≤ x ≤2}
32) Using integration, find the area bounded by the line: x + 2y = 2, y –x =1 and 2x + y = 7.
Section D
2 3 3 1 1 1 3 1 2
33)Solve the system using matrices:    10 ;    10 ;    13 .
x y z x y z x y z
34)Find the area of the region: {(x,y) : y2 ≤ 4x , 4x2 + 4y2 ≤ 9}

x x2 1  x3
35) If x ≠y z and y y 2 1  y 3  0, show that xyz = -1
z z2 1 z3
0 1 2 
36) By using elementary transformations, find the inverse of A = 1 2 3
3 1 1