(SINGLE CORRECT ANSWER TYPE)

1. Difference between two roots of equation 4 x 4  4 x3  25 x 2  x  6  0 is unity the

difference between other two roots is
A) 2 B) 3 C) 4 D) 5

2. If  ,  ,  are roots of x3  10 x  11  0, then tan 1   tan 1   tan 1  is equal to

 5 3
A) B) C)  D) none of these
4 4 4

P  3 P  4  P  5 

1 1
3. Let   n  1  n  2  ......  n  k   P  k  . Then
n 1
, ,
P  2  P  3 P  4 
are in

A) A.P B) G.P C) H.P D) none of these

4. If x is a natural number, then number of values of x for which x 2  96 is a perfect

square is
A) 3 B) 4 C) 5 D) none of thes

5. The harmonic mean of 1, 2, 3, 4,.........8 is

9
A) greater than 5 B) between and 5
2
16 9 16
C) between and D) less than
5 2 5

6. Number of positive real solutions of equation x5  10 x  35  0 is

A) 0 B) 1 C) 2 D) None of these

7. The equation a0 x n  a1 x n 1  a2 x n2 .....  a n  0 has real roots. If a0  nC0 , a1   nC1 and
a2  nC2 , then the number of real solutions of the equation is

A) 0 B) 1 C) N D) none of these
8. Three numbers in A.P. with common difference ‘d’ are removed from first n natural

43
numbers and average of remaining numbers are found to be . Then ordered
4

pair  n, d  can be
A) (19, 7) B) (19, 2) C) (23, 5) D) (19, 8)

If f  x   x  9 x  24 x  c has three distinct real roots  ,  and  then           

3 2
9.
can be (where [.] represents G.I.F)
A) 6 B) 8 C) 9 D) 10

10. Consider the polynomial equation 1  2 x  3x 2  4 x3  0 . If s be the sum of the distinct

real roots then s lies in the interval
 1  3   3 1
  
1
A)  , 0  B)  11,  C)  ,  D)  0, 
 4   4   4 2   4 

11. The quadratic equation p  x   0 with real coefficients has purely imaginary roots.

Then the equation p  p  x    0 has

A) only purely imaginary roots
B) all real roots
C) two real and two purely imaginary roots
D) neither real nor purely imaginary roots.

Consider the cubic polynomial p  x   x  ax  bx  c . If the equation p  x   0 has

3 2
12.

integral roots such that p  6   3 then possible value of 'a' is

A) 13 B) 15 C) 19 D) 23

1
13. A sequence of numbers An , n  1, 2,3,...... is defined as follows A1  and for each
2

 2n  3 
n  2, An    An 1 then
 2n 
n n
A) A
k 1
k  1, n  1 B) A
k 1
k  1 n  1
 n n
1
C) A
k 1
k  1, n  1 D) A
k 1
k  , n  1
2

14. Let a0 , a1 , a2 ........., an ..... be a sequence of numbers satisfying  3  an 1   6  an   18

n
1
and a0  3 then 
i  0 ai


1 n2 1 n2 1 n2 1 n 2

A)
3
 2  n  3 B)
3
 2  n  3 C)
3
 2  n  3 D)
3
 2  n  3

If f  x   x  3x  1 then the number of roots of f  f  x    0 is

3
15
A) 6 B) 7 C) 8 D) 9

(MULTIPLE CORRECT ANSWER TYPE)

 
16. Let  an  and  bn  be two real sequences such that an  a
k  n 1
2
k and bn   b , then
k  n 1
k

A) a p  a p 1  a p  2 .... is never finite for any p

B) bp  bp 1  bp 2 .... is not finite for any p
C) either all or none of the terms in an are zero
D) either all or none of the terms in bn are zero

17. For a prime number n, 3

n  n2 is a root of a polynomial equation with rational
3

coefficients and least possible degree. The product of all roots of the equation is

A) even B) divisible by n

C) greater than n2 D) less than (n + 1)2

18. The minimum value of a 2  b2  ab as a, b take positive real values is m. Let

a 2  b 2  ab  m . Then 4 is integral multiple of
 1 1 1 1
A) a  b B)  C)  D) a  b
a b a b

19. Let the sum of first n terms of a sequence (with nth term = Tn ) is Sn  3  2n  1, then

A) T1 , T5 , T9 are G.P B) T2 , T4 , T6 are in G.P

C) T2 , T4 , T8 are in G.P D) TT1 , TT2 , TT3 are not in G.P.

20. Let the quantities 1, log y x, log z y and 15log x z be the first four terms of an A.P.
with common difference d. All terms of the A.P being real, then
A) 6d 3  11d 2  6d  16  0
B) xz 3  xy  yz 3  3
C) magnitude of the sum of the first 25 terms of AP is equal to 575
D) 6d 3  11d 2  6d  16  0

Sn  Sn 1
21. If S1  S2  0 and S n1  (n  2,n N) then
2
2 n 1
1
A) S 2 n 1  S 2 n    S1  S 2 
2
S1  2 S2
lt S n 
B) n
3

C) The sequence  S2n  is increasing

D) The sequence  S2n  is neither increasing nor decreasing

8
If f  x   ax  bx  c  1 for x  1  a, b, c  R  and a 2  2b 2 is maximum then
2
22.
3
c 1
A) b  0 B) a  c  1 C) ac  1 D) 
a 2

x x2 xn
23. If f  x   1    ....  , then which of the following is/are correct?
1! 2! n!

A) f  x  does not have repeated roots.

B) If n is even, f  x  does not have roots

 C) If n is odd, f  x  has only one root

D) If n is even, f  x  can have all roots real.

(PARAGRAPH TYPE)

Paragraph-I
xn  yn  z n
Let us define an   n  N where a1  0 ,If xy  yz  zx  p, then x,y,z are roots
n

of u 3  pu  a3  0 .Which can be used to calculate a4 a5 .....

24. Which of the following is not correct

p2
A) a2  2a4 C) a5  pa3 D) a3  xyz
2
B) a4 
2

a2 a5
25. is equal to
a7
1
A) 3 B) 1 C) D) none of these
3

26. lim a n
n 

A) is 0 B) may or may not exist

C) is 1 D) is equal to a1  a 2  a 3  ......

Paragraph-II
Let an  n2  n  n  1, bn  an 1  an , cn  bn 1  b n , d n  cn 1  cn .... and so on.....
n 2

zn  yn 1  yn  n  N .

27. y2  z2 , y3  z3 , y4  z4 are in
A) A.P B) G.P C) H.P D) A.G.P

28. x1 , y1 , z1 are in
 A) A.P B) G.P C) H.P D) A.G.P

(INTEGER ANSWER TYPE)

29. ai, bi, ci Î R+ " i Î N. a1 = b1 = 1 and bn = anbn – 1 – 2 for n > 1. If nlim bn  5 and ci  1
 ai

then twice of (c1 + c1c2 + c1c2c3 ….. ¥) is equal to _____

30. If the roots of x 4  ax 3  bx 2  cx  d are real and positive, then the minimum value of

 a  b  c
is______
2 d

31. If x 3  3 x 2  x  4  0 and ax3  bx 2  cx  5  0 have one root common, if a, b, c  Q,

b2
then the value of  is________
ac

32. Roots of equation x3  3x 2  2 x  1  0 are  ,  ,  and roots of equation

3b  c  d
ax 3  bx 2  cx  d  0 are    ,    ,    , then
2 2 2 2 2 2
is equal to_________
a


1
33. Let
1  3x  2x 2
 a x
r 0
r
r
for x close to zero, then a3 – a2 is

34. Number of positive integers n such that nx 4  4 x  3  0 for some real x is

Let p, q be real numbers such that p 2  q  q 2  p. Then least value of 8 p  8q   10 is

2
35.
(where [.]is G.I.F)
 b
36. If the equation x3  ax 2  bx  216  0 has three real roots in G.P, then is equal to
a

37. If a and b are distinct positive integers and the quadratic equations

 a  1 x 2   a 2  2  x   a 2  2a   0 and  b  1 x 2   b 2  2  x   b 2  2b   0 have a common

root then ab=

38. Let f  x  be a monic polynomial with integer coefficients. Let a, b, c, d be four

distinct integers such that f  a   f  b   f  c   f  d   5, then the number of integral

values of k for which f  k   8 is

39.  
If x is real, then the maximum value of y  2  3  x  x  x  4 is k, then k–10=
2

The number of real roots of  x  3   x  5  16 is

4 4
40.

1 1 1 1 1
let S    ........  S where    0,90  then
0
41. 0 . If
0 0
sin 8 sin16 sin 32 0
sin 8192 sin 

(Matrix Matching Type)

42.
Column-I Column-II
A) a P) 4
If the numbers,  3  3  ,   ,  9  9  from an A.P, then
1 x 1 x x x

2

possible value(s) of ‘a’ is/are  x  R 

B) A geometric progression consists of an even number of Q) 10
terms. If the sum of all the terms is 5 times the sum of
terms occupy the odd place then its common ratio is
C) For an increasing G.P a1 , a2 , a3 .......an a6  4a4 ; a9  a7  192 . If R) 7
 n

a
i 4
i  1016 then ‘n’ equals

D) Number of positive integral ordered pairs of (a, b) such that S) 11

6, a, b are in harmonical progression is,

43. Match the following

Column-I Column-II
A) If x  x  a  0 has integral roots and
2
P) 2
a  N , then ‘a’ can be equal to
B) If the equation ax 2  2bx  4c  16 has no Q) 12
real roots and a  c  b  4, then integral
value of c can be equal to
C) If the equation x 2  2bx  9b  14  0 has R) 3
only negative roots, then integral values
of ‘b’ can be
D) If N be the number of solutions of the S) 20

equation x  x  6  x  2, then the value

2

of N is

(KEY)

1. D 2. A 3. D 4. B 5. D
6. A 7. B 8. B 9. B 10. C
11. D 12. A 13. C 14. C 15. B
16. CD 17. ABCD 18. AC 19. BD 20. BCD
21. ABC 22. ABD 23. ABC 24. C 25. B
26. B 27. D 28. A 29. 3 30. 7
31. 9 32. 4 33 8 34 1 35 8
36. 6 37. 8 38. 0 39 3 40. 2
A-QS A-PQS
B-P B-QS
41. 4 42. 43. 44. 45
C-Q C-PQS
D-R D-R