REFRESHER MATH 1 9.

What is the coordinate of the

vertices of the ellipse 9x^2 + 4y^2 -
8y + 32=0
1. If f(2)=12 and f'=-3 find the ANS. (0,4), (0,-2)
function f at 2.02.
ANS. 11.94
10. Which is not an abscissa of a
critical point of the function 0.25x^4
2. If a number is 10!, the equivalent + (2/3)x^3 - 2.5x^2 - 6x + 14.
value is 3628800 having trailing zeros ANS. -2
of 2. Find the number of trailing zeros
if a number is 2019!.
ANS. 502 11. What is the Wronskian of ex , e2x ,
and e3x
ANS. 2e6X
2 2
∂u ∂u
3. Determine the PDE of 3 2
−4 2 = 0
x y
12. First derivative of y = x^x for x >
ANS. Hyperbolic 0
ANS. Y' = (ln x + 1)(x^x)
4. Solve for the trigonometric function
of the cos^3(x)?
13. Suppose you have 3 coins in your
ANS. (1/4)(cos3x + 3cosx) pocket, 1 is a fair coin and 2 are two-
headed coins. 1 coin is drawn at random
and tossed. Given that it lands heads,
5. Given a={1,2,4}. Find the what is the probability that it is a
cardinality of a two-headed coin?
ANS. 3 ANS. 4/5

6. Three angles have a ratio of 4:3:2, 14. Maclaurin series of arctan(x)

the first and third angles are
supplementary. What are the measures of ANS. x – x3/3 + x5/5
the angles?
ANS. 120, 90, 60 15. An unfair coin has the property
that when flipped four times, it has
the same probability of turning up 2
7. Find the determinant of the given heads and 2 tails (in any order) as 3
matrix heads and 1 tail (in any order). What
is the probability of getting a head in
|2 14 3 1| any one flip?
|1 5 -1 3| ANS. 3/5
|1 -2 2 -3|
|3 -4 -3 -4| 16. Given an equation x²+y²=8², find
ANS. 326 the volume of solid of revolution if it
is revolved around a line x=10.
ANS. 1280π²
8. What parameter does not change when
converted from rectangular to
cylindrical? 17. Find the arc length of y = (2/3)
ANS. z (1+x2)^2/3 for 0 ≤ x ≤ 3
ANS. 21
18. Which of the following is the | 2 -3 0|
function of B\A?
27. Find the laplace transform of
ANS. B\(A^B) 2(e^[3t])(sinh(3t)
ANS. 6/(s^2-6s)
19. A cylinder of radius r and height h
is formed in such a way that if either
r or h is increased by x units, the 28. What are the eigenvalues of
amount of volume increased would be the |2 2 |
same.
|5 -1|
ANS. x = (r^2-2hr)/h
ANS. -3, 4

20. What is the minimum value of

x^2+y^2 given (x+5)^2 + (y-12)^2 29. What is the value of i=√(-1) in
argand diagram?
ANS. 183-26sqrt(14)
ANS. (0,1)

21. Find x in the inequality x^2-

5x+6>=0. 30. Solve log(2+3i)
ANS. x=<2 and x=>3 ANS. 0.56 + 0.43i

22. What is the equivalent of (1-i)^4? 31. P(A) = 1/2 , P(B) = 1/3, P(A∩B) =
1/4, Find P(BC|AC)
ANS. -4
ANS. 5/6

23. In a certain math contest there

were a total of 72 trophies bought for 32. What is the sum of the roots of
a price of -99.9-. What was the cost of quadratic equation 4X^2-56X+15
each trophy?
ANS. 14
ANS. 11.11

33. Given an area of a rectangle with

24. If P(A) = 1/2, P(B) = 1/3 and P(A dimensions 24x16. A uniform width x is
intersection of B ) = 1/4. What is P(A| placed outside so that the area
B)? doubles. Find x
ANS. 3/4 ANS. 4

25. Find the z-transform of f(x) = 34. If P(A) =0.7, P(B) =0.6, P(AUB)
(1/2)x(-1/3)x u[n] =0.5. What is P(AB^c)?
1 ANS. 0.20
2 z (z− )
2
ANS:
1 1
( z− )(z + ) 35. Find K for the following
2 3 differential equation to be exact.
(y^3+kxy^4-2x)dx + (3xy^2
+20x^2y^3)dy=0
26. Which of the following matrices are
skew-symmetric? ANS. k=10

ANS. D. | 0 1 -2|
|-1 0 3|