Mock exam Mathematics for Business Engineers II – April 22, 2022

Name and first name: ..........................................................................................................................

Answers to the multiple choice questions

ˆ Put your answers to the multiple choice questions in the table below.
ˆ A correction for guessing is applied: 1.25 points are added for a correct answer, 0 points
if you leave it blank and 1/3 of 1.25 points are subtracted for an incorrect answer. You
cannot score less than 0/5 on the multiple choice questions in total.

Question 1 Question 2

Good luck!

OPEN QUESTIONS (2 × 3.75 points = 7.5 points)

1. At a large festival there are constantly 1000 employees active. To make sure that these
employees stay motivated, they regularly switch to another activity. There are three
activities, namely security, sales and cleaning. From past experience, the organiser knows
exactly how many employees must be doing every activity at any point in time. Hence,
the organisation uses every half hour the following table to determine how the employees
switch activity, since this way the requirements are approximated in the best way.

from
security sales cleaning
to
security 0.4 0.3 0.2
sales 0.1 0.4 0.1
cleaning 0.5 0.3 0.7

The numbers in the first column mean that every half hour, the employees doing security
switch to another activity as follows: 4 out of 10 keep on doing security, 1 out of 10 switch
to sales and 5 out of 10 switch to cleaning. At the start of the festival 500 employees
start doing security, 400 start doing sales and 100 start cleaning.

(a) Calculate how many employees are doing security once the festival is running a bit
more than one hour.
(b) Calculate how many employees are cleaning on the long run. You can approximate
this number by assuming that the festival lasts infinitely long.

Remark: If the number of employees for a certain activity is not a multiple of 10 a

rounded number of employees switch position. Hence, possibly you also have to round
your answer(s).
 2. In R3 , with coordinates (x, y, z), denote L : R3 → R3 the rotation over 30◦ about the
z-axis. The rotation takes√place counter-clockwise, seen from a “top view perspective”,
for instance, L(1, 0, 0) = ( 23 , 12 , 0).

(a) Give the matrix representation of L with respect to the standard basis of R3 .
(b) Calculate L(1, 2, 3).
(c) If P is the plane with equation 3x + 3y − 2z = 3 in R3 , what is the equation of the
plane L(P )?

Remark: You may assume that L is a linear map and you do not need to prove this.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS (2 × 1.25 points =

2.5 points)
1. A sequence (xn )n∈N satisfies x0 = x1 = 0 and the difference equation
∀n ∈ N : xn+2 − 4xn+1 + 3xn = 8α(n + 1),
with α a real parameter. What is x2022 ?

(A) x2022 = α(32022 + 8 185 059)

(B) x2022 = α(32023 + 8 185 059)
(C) x2022 = α(32022 − 8 185 059)
(D) x2022 = α(32023 − 8 185 059)

2. Three variables, x, y and z, satisfy the relation (x−1)z 2 = yz −2xy. At a certain moment
x and y both have the value 1. If x increases at that moment, while y stays constant,
what can you decide on about the behaviour of z at that moment?
(A) z increases.
(B) z does not change.
(C) z decreases.
(D) It is not possible to draw a conclusion based on this information.