SECTION-I : Single Correct Type

1. If the mean of absolute deviations about median of the numbers a, 2a, 3a, ...... 50a is 50 than |a| equals:

(1) 3 (2) 4 (3) 5 (4) 2

2. For two data sets each of size 10, the variances are given as 5 and 6 and the corresponding means are
given to be 2 and 4 respectively, then the variance of combined data set is
11 13 15 19
(1) (2) (3) (4)
2 2 2 2
3. If n(A) = 1000, n(B) = 500 and if n(A  B)  1 and n (A ) = p, then
(1) 500  p  1000 (2) 1001 p 1498 (3) 1000 p  1498 (4)1000p 1499

(3n  4)
4. The value of  is equal to
n 1 n(4n  4).4
n

1 1 1 1
(1) (2) (3) (4)
5 4 25 16
5. Let a, b, c are the positive roots of equation x3 – 9x2 + x –  = 0, then  equal to

(1) 3 (2) 9 (3) 27 (4) 30

6. The sum 1 + 3 + 7 + 15 + 31 + .... to 100 terms is
(A) 2100 – 102 (B) 299 – 101 (C) 2101 – 102 (D) 299 – 102
1
n n
a(bn  1)  , if   
7. The value of   (36 )  c
; where    2 ,
1 1 0 , if   
then the value of (a – b + c) equals [Note : a, c are co-prime numbers]

(A) – 7 (B) 7 (C) – 8 (D) 8

15
1
8. Value of   9r
r 1
2
 15r  4 
is-

15 1 15 15
(1) (2) (3) (4)
49 5 196 22
 2n  1 

cot  
9. Value of S  
 4  is
n 1 3n 1
1 1 1 1
(1) (2) (3) (4)
3 2 12 9 3
10. Let ƒ(x) = ax2 + bx + c, g(x) = ax2 + px + q, both having real roots where a, b, c, p, q  R and b  p. If
their discriminants are equal and ƒ(x) = g(x) has a root , then
(1) will be AM of the roots of ƒ(x) = 0 and g(x) = 0
(2) will be GM of all the roots of ƒ(x) = 0 and g(x) = 0
(3) will be HM of the roots of ƒ(x) = 0 and g(x) = 0
(4) None of these
11. If A1, A2, …. A10 are 10 A.M.'s. G1, G2,….. G10 are 10 G.M.'s inserted between two positive numbers x
5
A r  A11 r
and y whose H.M. is H, then 
r 1 G r .G11 r
is equal to -

10 5
(1) (2) 10H (3) 5H (4)
H H
   
ijk(3i 2 j  ijk)  5 (i  j k )
12. Given S   then S is equal to
i 1 j1 k 1 (i  j)( j  k)(k  i)
3 2 3
5 5 1 5 
(A)   (B)   (C)   (D) None of these
 16   16  2  16 
 0, i j

13. Let A = [aij] be a matrix of order 3 where aij = (i  2 j 3) x, i  j .
 1, i j

If f(x) = det.(A), then which of the following is(are) CORRECT statement(s) ?
1
8
(A)  f (x) dx  3
1
(B) |f(|x|)| is non-differentiable at 2 points

 1 1
dx 2
(C) f(|x|) = k has four distinct solution for k  0,

 (D)
4  f (x)  2 x  1  3
0
1. The variance of 20 observations is5. If each observation is multiplied by2, then the new variance of the
resulting observation is
107
2. Minimum value of 5(sin2x + sin4x + sin6x+...) + 125(cos2x + cos4x + cos6x+.....) + is equal to
2
 n 

to  x ,n I-
 2 
5
3. Let < an> be an infinite G.P. such that arithmetic mean of first three terms = of their geometric mean
3
and the first term of the G.P. is a positive integer satisfying [a1 + a2 + a3] = 4. If the sum of infinite terms

of this G.P. is S then find the value of

3  
3 1 S
? where [.] denotes greatest integer function)
4
4. Let three positive numbers a, b, c (in order) be in HP such that a + c = 8. If < tn> is a geometric progression
6
b b b 2
, t2 = and t3 = c – then if the value of t 7    x (where
y
with common ratio 3 where t1 = a –
2 2 2  3
xy
x, y are prime numbers). Find .
4
tn 1
5. Let t n be a sequence, t1 = 1, and  n  1, t n 1  . If t2019 = , a  N, then a is
1  n.t n 1  2019a
6. Let Ar = r = 1, 2, ….. 29 be arithmetic means between 303 and – 57 where A r> Ar + 1

 S 
r= 1, 2, ….28. If S be the sum of these means, then the value of   Note : [k]
 (A14  12) A r 
min. 
denotes greatest integer less than or equal to and |Ar|min. denotes the minimum value of |Ar|]

 1 1 a
7. If a singular matrix A  [a ij ]22 always commute with B    such that 11  k , then k is
 2 1 a12

2
8. If A is a square matrix of order n such that |adj (adjA)| = | A |P , (where P is a prime number), then n
can not be