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GARDEN CITY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, KUMASI.

Faculty of Business Studies
Department of Managerial Science &
Department of Accounting and Finance
End of Frist Semester Examination
MTH 102: QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUES II

April, 2016 TWO AND HALF HOURS

INDEX NUMBER:………………………………………………………

Instructions:
 Answer ALL Questions.

 Please make sure you have all 3 pages of questions.

 Write your Index Number boldly in the space provided on this page and every other sheet.

 Programmable and Graphing Calculators are NOT ALLOWED for this work.
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1. Differentiate the following functions with respect to x

y   cos x  sin x 
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a. 4
1
y  x
b. 2 x 4
y  x 2 sin  1x 
c. 4
ln  5 x 
y
d. 3x  5 4
y  tan  2 x 
e. 4

2. A bottled water manufacturer determines that the demand function for he bottled water is
p  10000 x where x is the demand for bottles water at a given price p. The cost for
c  x   100 x  1000 x  10000
producing x bottles of water is given by the cost function .

a. Find the total revenue function. 5

b. Find The marginal cost as x=50 . 5

c. What is the marginal revenue at x=50? 5

d. Explain the result in c. 5

3. The number of hours spent per week viewing TV, Y and the number of years of
education, X, were recorded for 10 randomly selected individuals. The results are given in the
Table Below.

X Y
12 10
14 9
11 15
16 8
16 5
18 4
12 20
20 4
10 16
12 15

S S S
a. Find xx , yy and xy . 7
b. Find the equation of the line of best fit. 8
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c. Use the regression model to predict the number of hours spent per week viewing TV
given that an individual has 15 years of education. 5
4a. Define the following in relation to probability.

i. Probability 3
ii. Experiment 3
iii. Mutually exclusive event 3

b. If events A and B are such that they are independent and P ( A )=0.3 and P ( B )=0.5 . Find
P ( A ∩ B ) and P ( A ∪ B ) . 5

b. X and Y are two events such that P ( X /Y )=0.4 P ( Y ) =0.25 and P ( X )=0.2. Find
P ( Y / X ) , P ( Y ∩ X ) ∧P ( Y ∪ X ) . 6

5a. The probability that a man hits a target is 0.4 and that of his son and daughter are 0.3 and
0.1 respectively. If the all fire together, find the probability that at least one shot hits the
target. 4
b. What is the number of different ways a man can get dressed if he has 9 different shirts
and 3 pair of trousers? 4
c. In how many ways can a family of 11 sit round a circular if the man and wife must sit
next to each other? 4
d. Find the number of ways in which a committee of 4 can be chosen from 9 boys and 5
girls if it must consist of 1 boy and 3 girls.
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e. What is the number of permutations of the word MULTIPLICATION? 4

E. Mensah-Eduful