American University of Beirut Time: 2 hrs

Mathematics Department
Spring Semester 2018-2019
Math 204 Final Exam

Name : _______________________ ID#: _________________________

Circle your problem solving section number below:

 Instructor : Mrs Maha Itani-Hatab

Sec 1 : M @ 9 :00 Sec 2 : M @ 3 :00 Sec 3 : M @ 4 :00
Sec 4: M @ 10:00 Sec 5 : M @ 12 :00 Sec 6: M @ 1 :00
 Instructor : Ms. Joumana Tannous
Sec 7: W @ 1 :00 Sec 8 : W @ 3 :00 Sec 9 : W @ 4 :00

 Instructor : Ms. Najwa Fuleihan

Sec 10: T @ 8 :00 Sec 11 : T @ 9:30 Sec 12: T @ 11 :00

 Answer table for Part I

1 6 11 16

2 7 12 17

3 8 13 18

4 9 14 19

5 10 15 20

Grade of Part I
# of correct answers : -----------------------
50%
# of wrong answers : -------------------------

Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Grade of Part II Final Grade

50%
 Part I : 20 multiple choice questions with 2.5 points for each correct answer

Circle the correct answer then, copy your answers as a, b, c or d on the table provided on page 1:

 3 0 2 1 
 
 0 2 0 0 
1. The determinant of the matrix A = 
0 0 1 0  is equal to……
 
 
 0 0 0 2 

a. 0 b. 5 c.12 d. – 12
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3  2 1
 
2. Given the matrix A =  0 6 4  ,if aij is the cofactor of aij then 7 a 22  
 2a32
4 2 1
 
a.  31 b. 31 c.  17 d. 17
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f ( x, y)  e x 4
2 3
y
3. If , then

a. 3xf x  2 yf y b. 2 xf x  3 yf y c. fx  fy d. xf x  yf y

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 2 3  1
 
4. Given the matrix A    1 1 0  the second row of A  2 A T is…
 2 2  1
 

a. 0 2  3 b. 1 2  2 c. 6 4  3 d. 5 3 4
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5. If A is a 4  5 matrix, B is a  5  3 matrix ,C is a 3 4  matrix , and I is the identity

matrix , then ABIC is :

a. a  4  3 matrix b. undefined

c. the identity matrix I d. a 4  4 matrix

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6. Given the function f ( x )  x  3(2 ) then f 6  ( x)  is…

2 3x

a. 2732 x (ln 3)6 b. 2632 x (ln 3)6 c. 37 23 x (ln 2)6 d. 36 23 x (ln 2)6
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 7. In a certain hospital 15 % of the patients having heart attacks are women. Suppose that
6 patients who had heart attacks are randomly selected, then the probability that exactly
4 are men is:
a. 0.176 b. 0.0617 c. 0.3241 d. 0.2458
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  3 3  1 3
Given the two matrices A=   and C    , then
 2 0    2 4 
1
8. C  ....
  3
 1  3 2 
   2   4  3   1  3
a.  2 2  b.   c.  
d.  
    2  1   2 
4 
 1 1    
 2  1 
 2 

9. (AC)T=

 3 3   3 3   3  2   3  1
a.   b.   c.   d.  
 0 6   2 6   3 6   3 6 
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In sample of 150 students, 60 students are sophomores, 50 are juniors and 40 are seniors.
80% of the junior students have computers, 70% of the sophomore students have computers,
and only 5 % of the senior students don’t have computers. If one student is selected at random
from this group, then:

10. the probability that the student selected doesn’t have a computer is
a. 0.8 b. 0.6 c. 0.7 d. 0.2

11. the probability that the student selected has a computer knowing that he is not senior is:

a. 0.745 b. 0.5467 c. 0.25 d. 0.867

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P3
12. 6 C6  4
 6 6C 3
2

a. 89 b. 93 c. 116 d. 109
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13. In how many ways can a teacher choose from a class of 18 students a group of 11 students to
work on project A and a group of 5 students to work on project B ?

a. 18 P 11  7 P 5 b. 18 C117 C5 c. 18 C1118 C5 d. 18 P 11 18 P 5

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 A company produces many types of soft drinks, including Orange Cola. The filling machines
are adjusted to pour a net amount of soda in the can that has a normal distribution with a mean
of 12 g and a standard deviation of 0.05 g.

14. What is the probability that a randomly selected can of Orange Cola contains between 11.99 g
and 12.032 g.of soda?

a. 0.4207 b. 0.2743 c. 0.4646 d. 0.3182

15. What is the probability that a randomly selected can of Orange Cola contains less than 11.99 g

a. 0.4207 b. 0.2743 c. 0.4646 d. 0.3182

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 1 2
16. Let I be the identity matrix of order 2 and A=   ,then A  2I=
 1 2

  3 1   3  2   3 2  4 2 
a.   b.   c.   d.  
 2 0  2 1  1 0  1  1
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17. In how many ways can a grocer display 5 different soft drink cans on a shelf ?

a. 5 b. 5 C5 c. 5! d. P
5 1

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 dx 
ln x
18.
e
2
a. 32 b. 16 c. 6 d. 12
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19. In how many ways can a grocer display 5 Pepsi cola cans,3 Seven up cans and 2 iced tea
cans on ashelf ?
10!
a. 10 C5 10 C3 10 C2 b. 10! c. d. 5!3! 2!
5!3!2!
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20. Given y  2 x  y (1)  3 ,then :
x
a. y  x 2  ln x  2 b. y  x 2  ln x  3

c. y  x 2  ln x  2 d. y  x 2  ln x  3
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 Part II ( 50%) Answer each of the following questions, explain and show your work

 x1  2 x2  x3  5

1. Given the system of equations AX=B ,  x2  3x3  1
( 6 %) 3x  5 x  x  0
 1 2 3

a. Use the Gaussian method to find A 1 , where A is the matrix of coefficients.

b. Use A 1 to solve the given system..

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( 6 %) 2. If P(A/ B)  0.8 , P(B/ A )  0.75 , P(A)  0.6 and P( B)  0.5 ,find:
a. P( A  B)

b. P(A B)

1 3 1

3. Suppose that  f ( x) dx  1 and  f ( x) dx  6 ,find   f ( x)  2 x  dx

2 2 3
( 4 %)

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 4. Determine the nature of the critical points of the function f ( x, y )  x 2  y 3  10 x  3 y 2  5 .

( 6 %)

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 5. Use logarithmic differentiation to find the derivatives of the following functions:
y  ( x 3  6 x)e
x
a.
( 3 %)

( x 2  5) 4 (3 x  2) e5 x 3
b. y 
( x 2  3)

( 3 %)

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(5 %) 6. Given the following figure:
x3
a. Find the coordinates of the points of intersection between the two curves f ( x)  x
3
x
and g( x) 
3

b. Set the definite integral or the combination of definite integrals that give the area of the shaded
region .

x2
7. Find the area of the region enclosed by the curves y  , y  x and y  1
4
(5 %)

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 8. Evaluate each of the following integrals:

(12 %) x3
a.  3  x4 
dx =

 5  ln x 
3

b.  x
dx =

5 x
3
c.  x
dx =

2 x  ln x3
d.  x dx

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1 C 6 C 11 A 16 C

2 D 7 A 12 D 17 C

3 A 8 B 13 B 18 B

4 D 9 C 14 D 19 C

5 D 10 D 15 A 20 A

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