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MATHEMATICAL SCIENCE
PAPER – III

Note : This paper contains seventy-five (75) objective type questions. Each question
carries two (2) marks. All questions are compulsory.

4. The sum of the series

1.
n

l i m

n 

( n ! )

is
3 3 . 5 3 . 5 . 7

1



. . .

(A) 1 (B) 0 4 4 . 8 4 . 8 . 1 2

(C) + (D) e 2

(A) e
(B) 3
2. The function f : 3

3 defined by
(C) #

x s i n



, x  0
(D)

is
f ( x ) 

 


0 , x  0

(A) continuous everywhere



5.



 

l o g d x

 

(B) continuous only at x = 0

 

(C) not continuous at x = 0

(D) differentiable at x = 0
(A)

"

3. Which one of the following series is

convergent ? (B)



!

(C)

(A)
2 n  5


 





3 n  1

 

n  1

(D)

(B)
 
1 . 3 . 5 . . . ( 2 n  1 )



6. Let f(x, y) = y2 + 4xy + 3x2 + x3. Then



2 . 4 . 6 . . . ( 2 n )

 

n  1

(A) (0, 0) is a saddle point of f
1

(C)

n 
1

(B) (0, 0) is a minimum point of f

n  1

(C) (0, 0) is a maximum point of f

n

(D) (D) is a maximum point of f

1

2
4


,

l o g n

3 3

( l o g n )

n  2

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7. Let f : 32 3. Then which one of the

10. The infimum, liminf, limsup and
following statements is true ? supremum of the sequence

(A) If f is continuous at a point, then f 

2 
1

, i f n i s o d d

has partial derivatives at that point

n

x 

(B) If f has partial derivatives at a point,

1

3  , i f n i s e v e n

then f is continuous at that point

 n

are respectively
(C) If f has partial derivatives at a point, (A) 1, 1, 3, 3
then f is differentiable at that point (B) 2, 2, 3, 3
(D) If f is differentiable at a point, then f
(C) , 3, 2, 1
 !

has partial derivatives at that point "

(D) 1, 2, 3,
 !

8. If , , , then the
x z

"

y z x y

v

u
w

x z

11. Let T : 33 3 3 be a linear mapping

Jacobian defined by T (a, b, c) = (0, a, b). Then

 
u , v , w

 
J

KerT2 is equal to
 

x , y , z

 

(A) 0 (A) {(x, y, z) | z = y = 0 }

(B) 2 (B) {(x, y, z) | x = y = z }
(C) 4 (C) {(x, y, z) | x = 0 }
(D) 6 (D) {(x, y, z) | x

0}

12. Let V be the vector space of all

9. Let X be an infinite set. For x, y X, define
polynomials with real coefficients of

degree 2. Let f(x) = x – 1, g(x) = x + 1,

h(x) = x2 – 1 and j(x) = x2 + 1. Then

1 , i f x  y

d ( x , y ) 

{f(x), g(x), h(x), j(x)} is

0 , i f x  y

Then which subsets of X are compact in (A) linearly independent

the metric space (X, d) ? (B) linearly dependent because
(A) All subsets of X f(x) g(x) = h(x)
(C) linearly dependent because
(B) All finite subsets of X
f(x) – g(x) + j(x) = h(x)
(C) Only empty set (D) linearly dependent because
(D) Only the set X f(x) g(x) + 2 = j(x)

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13. If U and V are two vector spaces over the 16. Let a and b be two positive real numbers.
same field F, U is finite dimensional and Then the number of real eigen values of
if T : U V is a linear transformation,

then Rank (T) + Nullity (T) =

= 

the matrix is
 





>

 

(A) dim V
(A) 0
(B) dim U
(B) 1
(C) dim V + dim U
(C) 2
(D) dim V. dim U
(D) a + b

14. In the ring of Gaussian integers 9 [i],

which one of the following statements is 17. Which one of the following functions is
not true ? not analytic ?

(A)
1 ,
i
are the only units (A) f(z) = sin z

(B) f(z) = 1 + z + z10

(B) 1 + i is irreducible
(C) f(z) = ez
(C) 2 + 3i is irreducible

(D) 17 is irreducible (D) f(z) = z

18. For the function f (z) = , the point

z
s i n z

15. The roots of the equation !

x18 + 4x14 + 3x + 10
0 (mod 21) are z = 0 is

(A) 3, 12, 14, 18 (A) a pole of order 3

(B) 2, 4, 8, 10 (B) a pole of order 2

(C) 5, 10, 17, 19 (C) an essential singularity

(D) 3, 5, 7, 11 (D) a removable singularity

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19. The residue of the function 22. If a is an element of a group G, the order
of a is n and p is relatively prime to n,
!

then the order of ap is

at z = is
z

f ( z ) 

z
1

(A) 1
(A) 0
(B) pn
(B) 1
(C) n
(C) i
(D) np
(D) – 1

23. A common solution for the system of

20. If i =

, then = ii congruences

x

2 (mod 3)

 2 k

(A) { e
2

k

}

x

3 (mod 5)




x

2 (mod 7) is
 2 k 



(B)
3

 

(A) 5
{ e k

}

 2 k

(B) 8
(C) { e
3

k

}

(C) 58

(D) 23


 

 2 k 



(D)
2

 

{ e k

}

21. The equation |z – 1| + |z + 1| = 3, where z 24. If is Euler's -function and

(n)

2
is a complex number, represents (mod 4), then n =

(A) an ellipse (A) 49

(B) a circle (B) 60

(C) a straight line (C) 125

(D) a hyperbola (D) 169

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25. If F, K, L are fields such that L is a finite 28. The remainder when 750007 is divided by
23 is
extension of F and K is a subfield of L
which contains F, then (A) 22

(A) [L : F] | [K : F] (B) 4

(B) [K : F] | [L : F] (C) 7

(C) [L : F] | [L : K] (D) 8

(D) [L : K] | [K : F]
29. The order of a 2-Sylow subgroup in the
symmetric group S6 is

26. If the polynomial x4 + 1 over F is an (A) 16

irreducible polynomial, then F = (B) 8

(A) 92 (C) 4

(B) " (D) 32

(C) 913

(D) Q 30. Which one of the following statements is

true ?

(A) 3 in the lower limit topology is

27. If 3 denotes the field of real numbers, then connected

is a field isomorphic to

[ x ]

( x
1 )
(B) If A is any proper subset of 3 in the
standard topology, then BdA =

(A) 3
(C) 3 in the finite complement topology
(B) "
is not a Hausdorff space
(C) 3 (x)
(D) 3 in the standard topology is not
(D) " (x)
path connected

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31. Let be the dictionary order topology on

34. The smallest positive integer for which
3 × 3 and be the product topology on



3d × 3 , where 3d denotes 3 in the , holds is

 E

 



 

discrete topology. Then which one of the 

  E

following statements is true ?

(A) 3
(A)




(B)

and



are not comparable (B) 4

(C)

is strictly finer than



(C) 2
(D)



is strictly finer than

(D) 8

32. If A is a subset of a topological space X, 35. Let G be a cyclic group of order 10. Then
which one of the following statements is the number of elements of order 5 is
not true ?
(A) BdA = (A) 4
)   :
) 

(B) Int A

BdA



(B) 2

(C) )
= Int A

BdA (C) 5
(D) BdA = if and only if A is both open

(D) 1
and closed

36. Which one of the following are the

33. Which one of the following statements is integral curves of the differential
not true ? equations ?
(A) If X is connected, then for every non
empty proper subset A of X, BdA 

d x d y d z

  ?

(B) The union of connected spaces that c y
b z a z
b x b x
a y

have a point in common is

connected (A) straight lines
(C) The image of a connected space
(B) circles
under a continuous map is
connected (C) parabolas
(D) Every connected space is path
connected (D) ellipses

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37. If n is the smallest integer such that 40. Suppose u(x, y) satisfies Laplace's
equation in 32 and u = x on the
, where is Euler's -function,
 ( n ) 1

 K


unit circle. Then at the origin

n 4

then n = (A) u 

(A) 210 (B) u attains a finite minimum

(B) 2310 (C) u attains a finite maximum
(C) 105 (D) u = 0
(D) 385

41. The surface satisfying

 K

38. If y = x is a solution of the differential

! N O

 O

containing two lines y = 0 = u and y = 1 = u is

equation , then the
@ O

@ O

N  N  O


@ N

@ N

! ! !

second linearly independent solution of (A) u =

 

N O N



 O  

the differential equation is



 

(A) x–1
(B) u =
O

(B) x2



& = N

(C) x–2 (C) u = sinx.cosy

(D) xn,n 9+

(D) no such surface exists

39. The partial differential equation of the set

of all right circular cones whose axes 
 

 
!

coincide with z-axis is




42. Let A = ,B= .

  ! "







! " ' & %

   

(A)

z
z

x  y

x
y

Consider the following statements

P1 : The matrix A has a LU decomposition
(B)

z
z

P2 : The matrix B has no LU decomposition.

y  x

x
y

Which one of the following statements is

true ?
(C)

z
z

(A) Both P1 and P2 are true

x  y

x
y

(B) Only P1 is true

(C) Only P2 is true
(D)

z
z

y  x

x
y

(D) Neither P1 nor P2 is true

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43. A solution of the Volterra integral equation

46. The sequence
 
1 1

A  , 1  , n  

 

n n

x3 = is


converges to which one of the following ?



 N
J  O  J  @ J

(A) [0, 1)
(A) y(x) = 0
(B) y(x) = 3 (B) (0, 1]

(C) y(x) = 2 (C) (0, 1)

(D) y(x) = 1
(D) [0, 1]

44. For what values of m and n do the

transformation equations 47. If X 1 , X 2,...,X n are independent and
Q = qm cos np identically distributed Bernoulli random
variables taking values 0 and 1
P = qm sin np with probabilities ½ each and if
represent a canonical transformation ? Y n = X 1 + ...+ Xn , which one of the
following is correct ?
(A) m = ,n=1


(A) E(Yn) > V(Yn)

(B) m = 1, n = 2
(B) E(Yn) < V(Yn)
(C) m = ,n=2


(C) E(Yn) = V(Yn)

(D) m = n = 1 (D) E2(Yn) = V(Yn)

45. Extremals of
48. In a linear programming problem with four


constraints and six variables which of the

following is equal to the maximum
 z  z



    2 z f ( x , y ) d x d y

 

number of basic solutions ?

 x  y





 

are solutions of (A) 4

(A) Laplace equation
(B) 10
(B) Poisson's equation
(C) 24
(C) Wave equation
(D) 15
(D) Biharmonic equation

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49. In the principle of ordinary least squares, 52. If random variable X has variance V(X)
which one of the following is true ? finite, which one of the following is true ?
(A) The sum of squares of deviations
from actual observations is (A)


2
: 
 -  :      8  :  

maximized
"

(B) The sum of squares of absolute

(B)


deviations from actual values is

2
: 
 -  :      8  :  

minimized
(C) The sum of squares of deviations (C)
!

2
: 
 -  :      8  :  

from actual values is minimized "

(D) The sum of squares of absolute

(D)
%

deviations from estimated values is

2
: 
 -  :      8  :  

&

minimized
53. If

is the characteristic function of a

50. The distribution of points scored by 100 random variable X, which one of the
students in a competition is known to be following is not a characteristic function ?
normal with mean 55.5 and standard
(A)
deviation 3.6. What is the percentage of

students scoring at least 55.5 points ? (B)

(A) 50
(B) 60 (C)

!

(C) 40
(D)
(D) 70

54. If P(Xn = 1) = = 1 – P (Xn = 0), n 1,

1

51. If f(x) = , 0 < x < 1, and 0

"

  
N 

otherwise, is the probability density which of the following is equal to

function of a random variable X, then
what is E(X) ? P ( l i m s u p X

n

1 )
?
(A) log 4
n 

(A) 0
(B) 1
(B)
l o g 4

(C)


(C)

log 4

(D)

(D)


l o g 4

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58. What is E(X) equal to if X has Beta (m, n)

55. If P(X = k) = , k = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, which of distribution ?
k

 5

the following is equal to E(X | X > 1) ? (A) mn

(A) 3
(B)
m n

(B) 45 m
n

(C)
" #

(C)
m
n

 "

m n

(D)
" #

(D)
m

 $

m
n

56. If (X, Y) has joint probability density

function f(x, y) = 8xy, 0 < x < 1, 0 < y < x
59. If X and Y are independent and
and 0 elsewhere, which one of the
identically distributed Poisson random
following is equal to E(X) ?
variables, which one of the following is
(A) the conditional distribution of X, given


X+Y?
#

(B) (A) Poisson

#

(B) Binomial
(C) (C) Multinomial
!

(D) Compound Poisson

(D)
"

60. Given that X has Binomial distribution

57. What is the moment generating function
of uniform random variable over (0, 1) ? with parameters n and and


P(x = 4) = P(x = 5), which one of the

(A)
A N F  J 


J
following is true ?
(A) n = 7
(B)

A N F  J 

J
(B) n = 8
(C) exp(t) – 1 (C) n = 9
(D) 1 – exp(t) (D) n = 10

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61. If X 1, X 2,..., Xn are independent and
identically distributed uniform (0, 1)
random variables, what is the limit in
distribution of n(max.{X1,...,Xn} –1) ?
(A) Normal (0, 1)
(B) Chi-square
(C) Fréchet
(D) Weibull
62. If Y1, Y2, Y3 denote the order statistics
from a random sample of size three from
standard exponential distribution, with
reference to Y3 – Y2 and Y2 , which of the
following is true ?
(A) They are correlated
(B) They are identically distributed
(C) Both have Gamma distribution
(D) They are independent
64. Which one of the following is true for a
'two-person zero-sum' game ?
(A) the two persons have equal gains
(B) the gain of one player is equal to
the loss of the other
(C) the gain of one player is equal to
zero
(D) nothing can be said about gain and
loss of the two persons
65. In a design of experiment with 5 factors
each considered at 2 levels, the key block
is given as : (I), BC, DE, BCDE, ABD, ACD,
ABE, ACE. Which one of the following
gives the confounded interactions ?
(A) ABC, ACE, BCDE
(B) ADE, ABCD, BCE
(C) ACE, ABD, BCDE

63. What is the value of the objective function (D) ABC, ADE, DCBE
at an optimal solution of the linear
programming problem ?
66. In a 23 – factorial experiment, principal
Minimize x1 + x2 blocks of replicates 1 and 2 respectively
consist of {(I), A, BC, ABC} and {ABC, AC,
subject to x1 – x2 = – 5 B, (l) }. What are the confounded interaction
effects in the two replicates respectively ?
x1

0, x2

0?
(A) ABC and AB
(A) 5
(B) – 5 (B) BC and AB

(C) 10 (C) AB and BC

(D) 0 (D) BC and AC

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67. What is the error degrees of freedom in 70. Which of the following is the moment
an RBD with 4 blocks, 6 treatments and estimator of if X has gamma distribution

when one missing value is estimated ?

with E(X) = and V(X) = ?
(A) 14





(B) 15
(C) 23 (A)
5

(D) 24
:

(B)
5

68. What is Yates' coefficient of association :

in a 2 × 2 contingency table ?

(A) (C)
= @  > ?

= @
> ?

(B)
=
?

(D)
>
@

(C)

N 

71. Which of the following is the MLE of

(D)
N 

P(X1 1), given that {X1, X2,...,Xn} is a

random sample from the probability

69. Which of the following is the coefficient
density function f(x ; )= exp ,
N

 


of mean square contingency ?








x > 0 and 0 otherwise ?

(A)
 

(A) exp



:

(B) (B) 1 – exp



:

 

(C) exp

 

(C)



 

N 

(D) 1 – exp


 

(D)
N 



 

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72. Which of the following is the MVUE of

74. What is a necessary and sufficient
from a random sample {X1, X2, X3, X4} condition for

A
: 

to have
from uniform (0, ) ?

:   

(m) -distribution, given that X has a

(A) #

min. {X1, X2, X3, X4} p-variate normal distribution with mean
"

vector , non-singular variance-

covariance matrix and m = trace (A ) ?

(B) #

max. {X1, X2, X3, X4}

(A) A A=A
"

(C) "

#
min. {X1, X2, X3, X4} (B) A

=A

(C)

A=A
(D) {X1 + X2 + X3 + X4}


"

(D)

A

=

73. What is the distribution of 75. Which of the following is a sufficient

:
! :  :
:
if (X1, X2, X3, X4) has statistic for , given that {X1, X2, ..., Xn} is

a random sample from the probability

 ! "

a 4 – variate normal distribution ?

density function f(x ; ) =




, 0 < x < 1,
(A) Wishart

N

and 0 otherwise ?
(B) 4-variate normal X
. . .
X

(A)
 n

(C) Hotelling's T2 n

(D) Chi-square
n

(B)
:

i
1

(C) max. {X1,...,Xn}

(D) min. {X1,...,Xn}

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