General Instructions:

1. This question paper contains five sections A, B, C, D and E. Each section is compulsory.

2. Section - A carries 20 marks weightage, Section - B carries 10 marks weightage, Section -

C carries 18 marks weightage, Section - D carries 20 marks weightage and Section - E
carries 3 case-based with total weightage of 12 marks.

Section – A:

3. It comprises of 20 MCQs of 1 mark each.

Section – B:

4. It comprises of 5 VSA type questions of 2 marks each.

Section – C:

5. It comprises of 6 SA type of questions of 3 marks each.

Section – D:

6. It comprises of 4 LA type of questions of 5 marks each.

Section – E:

7. It has 3 case studies. Each case study comprises of 3 case-based questions, where 2 VSA
type questions are of 1 mark each and 1 SA type question is of 2 marks. Internal choice is
provided in 2 marks question in each case-study.

8. Internal choice is provided in 2 questions in Section - B, 2 questions in Section – C, 2

questions in Section - D. You have to attempt only one of the alternatives in all such
questions.
 Section A

1. Find the value of

a. 2 b. 1 c. 3 d. 4

2. The cost price of type I rice is per kg and that of type II is per kg. if both
type of rice are mixed in the ratio then find th price per kg of the mixed rice.
a. 82 b. 72 c. 87 d. 102
3. A man can swim upstream at and downstream at . Find the speed of
stream and speed of man in still water.
a. 3km/h, 7km/h b. 5km/h, 6km/h c. 8km/h, 7km/h d. 2km/h, 8km/h
4. In a 500m race, A beat B by 37.5m or by 10 second, find the time taken by B to finish the
race.
a. 200 b. 100 c. 300 d. 400
5. If and then
a. > b. < c. ≥ d. none

6. Evaluate

3 5 7 9
a. b. c. d.
2 2 2 2

7. Write the degree of differential equation

a. 2 b. 1 c. 3 d. 4

8. A specific characteristic of a population is known as a

a. A sample b. parameter c. statistic d. mean
9. Which of the following statement is correct
I. The mean of the population is denoted by
II. The population mean is a statistic
b. II only c. both I and II d. none
10. The assumed hypothesis which is tested for rejection considering it to be true is called
a. Null hypothesis b. alternative hypothesis c. simple hypothesis d. true hypothesis
 11. A simple random sample consists of four observation 1,3,5,7. What is the point of
estimate of the population standard deviation ?
a. 2.3 b. 2.58 c. 2.87 d. 3.1
12. The rise in prices before dewali is an example of
a. Seasonal trend b. long term c. sudden d. none
13. Time series analysis helps to
a. Understand the behavior of a variable in the past
b. Predict the future behavior of a variable
c. Plane future operation
d. All the above
14. The present value of a perpetuity of Rs. 750 payable at the beginning of each year, if
money is worth 5% P.A. is
a. 15000 b. 15750 c. 14250 d. none
15. A bond of face value Rs. 1000 matures in 10 years, coupen rate is 6% p.a paid semi
annually. If the present value of bond is 1250 then to maturity is
a. Less than 6% b. more than 6% c. equal to 6% d. none
16. The effective of return, which is equivalent to a declared rate of 12% compounded semi
annually is
a. 11.86 % b. 11.98% c.12.36% d. 12.54%
17. A vehicles coasting Rs. 125000 has scrap value of Rs. 25000. If annual depreciation
charge is 12500 then useful life of the vehical is
a. 4 years b. 6 years c. 8 years d. 10 years
18. A person invested Rs. 180000 in a mutual fund in year 2016. If the value of mutual fund
increased to Rs. 225000 in year 2020 then compound annual growth rate of his
investment is
a. 5.7% b. 10.57% c. 57% d. none of these

For questions 19 and 20, two statements are given – one labelled Assertion(A) and the other
labelled Reason (R). Select the correct answer to these questions from the codes (i), (ii), (iii)
and (iv) as given below:

(i) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of the assertion
(ii) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of the assertion
(iii) A is true, but R is false
(iv) A is false, but R is true
19. Leter
20. Later
Section B
21. A man can row at 8km/h in still water. If speed of current is 2km/h and he takes 4 hours
to row to a place and return back, how far is the place?
 A runs 3 times as fast as B. If A gives B start of 50m, find how far must be the finishing
point on the race course so that A and B reach the goal at the same time?

22. If A= find

Using properties of determinant solve the equation for x

23. At what rate of interest will the present value of a perpetuity of Rs. 300 payable at the
end of each quarter be Rs. 24000?
24. A machine being used by accompany is estimated to have a life of 15 years. At that time
a new machine would cost Rs. 75000 and the scrap of the old machine would yield Rs
9600 only. A sinking fund is created for replacing the machine at the end of its life. What
sum should be retained by the company at the end of every year to accumulate at 6%
P.A ?
25. A manufacture produced nuts and bolts for industrial machinery. It take 1 hour of works
on machine A and 3 hours on machine B to produced a package of nuts, while it takes 3
hours on machine A and 1 hour on machine B to produce a package of bolts. He earn sa
profit of Rs. 2.50 per package on nuts and Rs. 1 per package on bolts. Form an LPP to
maximize his profit, if he operates each machine for at most 12 hours a day.

Section C

26. If the matrix is skew symmetric, find the value of

27. Determine the interval in which the function is strictly increasing or strictly

decreasing, where

28. Evaluate the integral

29. The demand function for a commodity is . Find the consumers surplus at the
equilibrium price
 The demand and supply function are and respectively. Find the
consumers surplus and producer’s surplus at equilibrium price.
30. A company sets a side a sum of Rs. 1000 at the end of each year in a sinking fund so that
at the end of 10 years, it would amount to a balance sufficient to replace the machinery.
Assuming that the cost of machinery remains constant at the end of 10 years and that
money on 5% p.a. compound interest, find the cost of the machinery.
31. Mister Bharati wishes to purchase a flat for Rs.6000000 with a down payment of Rs
1000000 and balance in equal monthly payment for 20 years. If bank charges 7.5% p.a.
compounded monthly, calculate the EMI. Given ( )
Section D

32. If , find . Hence solve the system of equation

2𝑥−3𝑦+5𝑧 , ,
2
x
33. A product ca be manufacture at a total cost C ( x )= + 100 x + 40 , where x is the number
100
x
of units produced. The price at which each unit can be sold is given by p ( x ) =200− .
400
Determine the production level x at which the profit is maximum. What is the price per
unit and total profit at this level of production?
a. ¿
50
b. For a monopolist product, the demand function is p= and average cost
√x
2000
function AC =0.5+ . Find the profit maximizing level of output. At this level
x
show that the marginal revenue and marginal cost are equal.

34. A traffic engineer records the number of bicycle riders that use a particular cycle track.
He records that an average of 3.2 bicycle rider uses the cycle track every hour. Given that
the number of by cycle that use the cycle track follow the poison distribution, what is the
probability that
a. 2 or less bicycle rider will use the cycle track within an hour?
b. b. 3 or more bicycle rider will use the cycle track within an hour? Also write the
mean expectation and variance for the random variable X

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 The monthly salaries of 500 employees of a company are normally distributed with mean
Rs. 10000 and standard deviation Rs. 15000. How many employees have salaries
a. Less that 8000
b. More than Rs 13000
c. Between Rs. 9000 and Rs. 14500
35. A furniture dealer deals in only two items chairs and tables. He has Rs. 50000 to invest
and a space to store at most 35 items. A chair cost him Rs 1000 and table cost him Rs.
2000. The dealer earns a profit of Rs 150 and Rs.250 on a chair and a table respectively.
Formulate the above problems as an LPP to maximize the profit and solve it graphically.
Section E
36. An overhead water tank has three pipes A, B and C attached to it (as shown in figure
(II)). The inlet pipes A and B can fill the empty tank independently in 15 hours and 12
hours respectively. The outlet pipe C alone can empty a full tank in 20 hours. Based on
the above information, answer the following questions. Show steps to support your
answers.
a. For a routine cleaning of the tank, the tank needs to be emptied. If pipes A and B
are closed at the time when the tank is filled to two-fifth of its total capacity, how
long will pipe C take to empty the tank completely? 1
b. How long will it take for the empty tank to fill completely, if all the three pipes
are opened simultaneously? 1
c. On a given day, pipes A, B and C are opened (in order) at 5 am, 8 am and 9 am
respectively, to fill the empty tank. In how many hours will the tank be filled
completely?
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Given that the tank is half-full, only pipe C is opened at 6 AM, to empty the tank.
After closing the pipe C and an hour’s cleaning time, tank is filled completely by
pipe A and B together. What is the total time taken in the whole process?
37. let X be the random variable which count the number of hour of student of class XII
studies. X has a probability distribution P( X ) of the following form

{
k ,if X=0
P ( x ) = 2 k , if X=1 w h ere k is any constant
3 k , if X=2
0 ,ot h erwise

Based on above information answer the following question

a. What is the value of k
b. Find the value of P ( X ≤2 )
c. Find the value of P ( X ≥2 ) Or find t h e value of P ( 0≤ X < 4 )
38. The following data shows the percentage of rural, urban and sub urban Indians who have
a high speed in ternate connection at home.
Year Rural Urban Sub urban
2001 3 9 9
2002 6 18 17
2003 9 21 23
2004 16 29 29
2005 24 38 40

Based on the above information answer the following question

a. Write the straight line trend by the method of least square for the rural Indians?
b. Write the straight line trend by the method of least square for the urban Indians?
c. What is the forecast for the year 2006 for urban group using trend equation ?
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What is the forecast for the year 2006 for rural group using trend equation?