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HISSAN – Grade XII b) Evaluate lim

x 0 x .
Pre- Board Examinations 2078 x+1
6. a) Examine the continuity of the function f (x) = 2x + 5 at x = 2.
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b) Find dx when x3 + y3 = 3axy.
Program: Management F.M: 100
Time: 3.00 hrs 1
7. a) Integrate 
 dx .
 x+a- x-a
Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as
practicable. The figures in the margin indicate full marks. b) Find the total revenue function and demand function when the
marginal revenue function for output x is MR = x3 - 3x2 - 4x – 2.
Attempt all the questions:
8. a) Some measurements of income (in Rs.) are made and the results
GROUP A [10 × 2 × 3 = 60]
are 525, 375, 640, 250, 480, 725, 510. Find the coefficient of
1. a) Rewrite |3 – 5x|  2 without using modulus sign. quartile deviation
x
b) If A = {–1, 0, 2, 4, 6} and f : A  R is defined by f (x) = x + 2 , find b) A bag contains 12 white balls, 8 green balls and 5 blue balls. If a
ball is drawn from the bag, what is the probability that the ball
the range of f. drawn is either a white ball or a green ball?
2. a) A firm produced 100 calculator sets during its first year. The 9. a) If 30 men can do a piece of work in 11 days working 9 hours a
total number of calculator sets produced at the end of five years day, how many hours a day have 55 men to work in order to
is 4500. Assume that the production increases uniformly each finish another work thrice as great in 18 days.
year. Estimate the increase in production each year.
b) A merchant buys a watch for Rs.300 and marks it at such a price
b) Sum to n terms of the following series: 5 + 55 + 555 + …. that he may make a profit of 25% after allowing a discount of
3. a) In an entrance test 22 questions are set. In how many ways can 10%. Find his marked price.
a candidate choose 18 questions to answer? 10. a) A student going to Australia for study changed his entire
1 2 amount Rs. 44992 into Australian dollars at the rate of 1
b) If A =  , show that A2 – 2A – 5I = 0, where I and 0 are the Australian dollar equal to Rs. 56.24. He spent 400 Australian
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identity and null matrices respectively. dollars in Australia. On returning to Nepal he changed the
amount left with him and got Rs. 22600, find the new rate of
4. a) Show that the points (–4, 0), (0, 0), (0, 3) are the vertices of a right exchange between Nepal and Australia.
angled triangle.
b) A donor decides to grant to the students of a college an annual
b) Find the equation of the straight line making 9 and 15 as the x- scholarship of Rs. 6,000 for a period of 10 years. What should he
intercept and y-intercept respectively. deposit in the bank with compound interest at 12% p.a., so that
r log 3843 – log 5555
5. a) Find the value of r where log 1 – 100 =
the sum may be sufficient to grant a scholarship? Assume that
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  20 the scholarship is payable to the students at the end of the year.
 GROUP B [8 × 5 = 40]

11. Solve the following equation using Cramer's Rule:

x + y – 2z = 1, 2x – 7z = 3, x + y – z = 5.
12. Find, from the principle, the differential coefficient of x+1.
13. A firm has a demand function P = 108 – 5Q and cost function
C = –12Q + Q2. Find the price at which the profit is maximum. Find
the maximum profit.
14. Find the maximum value of the objective function Z = 6x + 15y,
subject to constraints 4x – 3y  –15, x ≤ 3, y ≥ 5.
15. Find the standard deviation of the following frequency distribution
Marks 20 – 30 30 – 40 40 – 50 50 – 60 60 – 70 70–80
F 8 16 20 32 14 10
16. Dharma, Marma and Karma enter into a partnership. Dharma
invests Rs.25,000 for the whole year, Marma investing Rs.32,000 at
first and then increasing it to Rs.40,000 at the end of 5 months while
Karma invests Rs.40,000 at first but withdraws Rs.5,000 at the end
of 8 months. How should they divide a profit of Rs.61,500 at the
end of the year?
17. The interest on a certain sum due 3 years is Rs.41.50 and the
discount on the same sum for the same time at the same rate is
Rs.40. Find the rate percent p.a.
18. The simple interest on a certain sum for 3 years at 4% p.a. is Rs.240.
Find the compound interest for the same sum at the same rate for
the same time.

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