2011/12A.Y.

4th Quarter 3rd Model Exam Mathematics for Prep II(NS)

Instruction:- Solve each of the following questions and choose the best
answer to the problem from the given alternatives.

1. Which one of the following is the distance between points p(p, q) and Q(q, p)?
A. C.
B. D.
2. If the angle between two lines and is 45 and the slope of the line is

, then which one of the following is the slope of the line ?

A. B. 5 C. -5 D.

3. Which one of the following is the equation of line through (8, 3) that is
perpendicular to the line M with equation 4x – y – 5 = 0?
A. x – 4y + 5 = 0 C. x + 4y – 20 = 0
B. 4x – y + 5 = 0 D. x – 4y + 20 = 0
4. Which one of the following is equation a circle passing through the points (4, 1) and
(6, 5) and having its center on the line y = 16-4x.
A. (x + 3) +(y + 4) = 100 C. (x - 3) +(y + 4) =
B. (x - 3) +(y - 4) = 10 D. (x + 3) +(y + 4) =9
5. Which one of the following is equation of the parabola with vertex (0, 0) and focus on
the x –axis that passes through the point (8, 2)
A. y = 2x C. x = 2y
B. x = -2y D. y =
6. What is the length of the major axis of an ellipse with equation
4x + 9y - 32x – 90y + 253 = 0
A. 6 B. 3 C. 4 D. 2
7. Which one of the following is NOT equation of hyperbola?

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 A. 2(y + 2y) – (x - 6x) = 11 C. y - =1

B. (x + 3) -1 = D.

8. What is the simplified form of

A. B. C. D. 1

9. In the expression of partial fraction , which of the

following are values of A, B, C respectively.

A. {1, 2, 3} C. {0, 2, 3}
B. {2, 1, -3} D. {1, 1, -1}

10. Which one of the following is the solution set of ?

A. (- - 2] U (1, 2] C. [-2, 1) U [2, )

B. (1, 2] D. (- 1) U (1, )

11. Which of the following is not vertical asymptote of the function f(x) = ?

A. x = 1 C. x = 2
B. x = -1 D. B and C
12. The equation of a circle with centre at (-1, 2) and tangent to the line y + 1 = 0 is
__________________.
A. (x + 1) + (y – 2) =3 C. (x + 1) + (y – 2) =1
B. (x – 1) + (y + 2) =9 D. (x + 1) + (y – 2) =9

13. dx is equal to ________________.

A. C.

B. D.

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14. The area of the region bounded by the graph of y = x + 1, the x –axis and the
line x = 3 is

A. B. C. 4 D. 12 E.

15. Which one of the following is the modulus of ?

A. B. C. D. E. None

16. The polar form of the complex number Z = is

A. (cos 275 + i sin 275 ) C. (cos 165 + i sin 165 )

B. (cos 15 + i sin 15 ) D. (cos 255 + i sin 255 )

17. The sequence converges to ______________.

A. 0 B. C. -5 D. - E.

18. If A = is symmetric, then which of the following must be the

value of x.

A. x = 3 B. x = 5 C. x = -5 D. x =

19. Which of the following is the value of ‘t’ if the matrix B = is a

scalar matrix.

A. 3 B. C. 3. 5 D. 7

20. If A = and B = then 3A + 2B is ____________.

A. A – B B. O C. A D. B

21. If A is 2 x 2 matrix and /A/ = 3 , then what is the determinant of 2A

A. 3 B. 12 C. 15 D. 20 E. 25
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22. The population of Ethiopia in 2001 E.C was approximately 75 million. If the
population is increasing at a rate of 2% each year, what will the Ethiopian population be
in 2020E.C (in millions)?
A. 75(1+0.02) C. 75(0.02 - 1)
B. 75(0.02) D. 75(1+0.0219)
23. If x, 4x + 3 and 7x + 6 are consecutive terms of a geometric sequence, what is the
value of x?
A. -1 B. 1 C. 0 D. Any real number.

24. For the sequence , what is the sum of the first 99 terms

A. B. – 1 C. 1 D.

25. A ball is dropped from a height of 30m above a flat surface. In each bounce, it
rebounds to 0.1 of the distance it fell. What is the maximum possible horizontal
distance the ball could travel.
A. 50m B. 55.7m C. 20m D. 0m

26. Which one of the following is the glb of the sequence

A. 2 B. C. 1 D. E. -2

27. What is the number of permutation that can made out of the letters of the word
“MATHEMATICS” if the words start with C?

A. B. C. D. 216

28. Which one of the following is False?

A. An upper triangular matrix is with all the above diagonal elements zero
B. A lower triangular matrix is with all the lower diagonal elements are zero.
C. A scalar matrix is with diagonal elements equal to one
D. All

29. In the expansion of , , what is the constant term?

A. 792 B. 729 C. 927 D. None

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30. The mean of a set of four data (a, b, c and d) is 4. What is the standard deviation
of these data if a + b + c + d = 80?
A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4 E. 16
31. From letters D, E, G, F, H how many three letters ‘words” can be formed.
A. 15 B. 30 C. 60 D. 120
32. Let f(x) = ln (x - 3x). then f = ________________.

A. B. C. D.

33. Let f(x) = 5x + 10, x 3

2x - 5, x>3
What is the derivative of f at a = 2

A. 5 B. 8 C. 13 D. Does not exist

34. What is the maximum area of a triangle which is inscribed in a circle of radius 2
units and one of in side passing through the center of the circle?
A. 2 sq. units C. 4п sq. units
B. 4 sq. units D. 8 sq. units
35. A bag contains 3 fresh and 5 spoiled oranges of equal size. If three oranges are to
be drawn at random from the bag. What is the probability that at least one of the
oranges is fresh?

A. B. C. D.

36. In the expansion of what is the fourth term?

A. 80x C. - 40x
B. 10x D. -80x

37. Let f: R R be continuous function such that f(1) = and f The

value of

A. B. 3 C. D. Can not be determined

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38. Roads are often designed with parabolic surfaces to allow rain to drain off. A particular
road that is 32 meters wide is 0.4m high at the center than it is on the side. Assuming that the
origin is at the center of the road, the equation of the parabola that models the road surface is:
A. x = -1.6y C. y = -0.8 x

B. y = D. x + 8y = 0

39. Suppose f is a real valued function such that f(x) is continuous. Which of the
following is necessarily true about f?
A. The graph of f does not have a horizontal asymptote
B. F attains both maximum and minimum in a closed interval of the form [a, b] in its
domain
C. f has a critical point in its domain
D. f is increasing and decreasing in its domain.
40. Suppose that at time t 0 the position of a particle moving along the x –axis is x
= (t – 4) during what time interval does the particle move to the left?

A. [0, 3] B. [4, ) C. [0, ] D. [ , 4]

41. The greatest lower bound of the sequence { -1.4, -1.44, -1.444, …} equal to

A. B. C. –1.4 D. -1.5

42. What is the area of the region enclosed by the graphs of y = x - x and y = 2x in
square units?

A. B. C. D.

43. The standard equation of the circle with center at (-3, 1) and tangent to the circle
(x – 1) = 1 is
A. (x + 3) + (y – 1) =4 C. (x – 3) + (y + 1) = 16
B. (x + 3) + (y – 1) = 25 D. (x + 3) + (y – 1) = 16

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 44. A librarian would like to arrange 15 books in a row. A better method she has to
use to find the number of all possible ways is
A. Principle of combination C. Product rule

B. Principle of permutation D. Sum Rule

45. Two six faced fair dice are thrown once. What is the probability that the
difference of the two numbers shown up is 1?

A. B. C. D.

FOR NS
46. Which of the following is the solution set of sin 2x = cos 2x on [0, ]?

A. C.

B. D.

47. A motion is called rigid if.

A. It sends lines into liens
B. It sends points into points
C. it preserves distance
D. it sends line segments into line segments.
48. Which is the image of the point (-2, 1) after it has been rotated -30 , about (4, -
1)?
A. (-3 , ) C. (-1-3 , 2-3 )
B. (5-3 ,2+ ) D. (-7 - 3 , 3+ )

49. If the cosine of the angle between the vectors 2i + kj and ki + j is . Then the

value (s) of k:
A. -1 and -2 C. 1 and 2

B. 2 and -1 D. 1 and -2

50. Which one of the following is not true?

A. sin (-x) = -sin (x) C. cos (-x) = cos (x)
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 B. tan (-x) = tan (x) D. None

51. If = 2.25 then cos is equal to

A. B. C. D.

52. 2 cot x - = _________________.

A. Cscx B. –tan x C. cot x-1 D. cos x + 1

53. The point on the x-axis which is equidistant from (1, 2, 3) and (-2, 6, 9) is

A. (-6, 0, 0) C.

B. (107, 0, 0) D.

54. Let p 1 is neither prime nor composite

q Walia Ibex is found in North America
r 63 is a prime number.
Then what is the truth value of the compound statement
[(p r) (q p)] (p q)?
A. True B. False C. True or False D. unknown
55. Which of he following arguments is valid?
A. Father praises me only if I can be proud of my self. Either I do well in the exam
or I can’t be proud of my self. I did not do well in the exam. Therefore, father did
not praise me.
B. q p, q ├ p
C. q p, p, r q├r
D. p q, r q, q ├ r p
56. A translation T transforms a point p(1, -1) into the point Q(3, 2). If a line , whose
parametric equation is given by (x, y) = (2, -1) + t (1, 1) for all t , is translated by T.
What is the image of ?
A. x – y – 2 = 0 C. x + y – 4 = 0
B. x + y + 2 = 0 D. x – y + 4 = 0
57. Suppose that a triangle h as vertices A(1, 2), B(3, 4) and C(2, 5) on the plane. What
is the interior angle of the triangle at vertex B?
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 A. 45 B. 60 C. 90 D. 120
58. The value of m and n for which the line (m + 2n – 3) x + 92m – n + 1) y + 6m + 9 = 0 is
parallel to the x-axis and has a y-intercept -3?
A. n = 7 and m = -2 C. m = 1 and n = -1
B. m = 7 and n = -2 D. m = -1 and n = 1
59. The solution set of in the interval [0, 2, ] is:

A. C.

B. D.

60. Cos - sin is equal to

A. B. C. D. 1

Set by Mesfin B. and Berhanu D.