Introduction to Machine Learning (In Tamil)

Prof.Arun Rajkumar,IITM
TA: Arun Prakash, IITM POD

1 Prerequisite
Hello learners, Welcome to the course. This is primarily an Introductory level course.
Hence basic math knowledge covered in a typical school curriculum is presumed. Though
there is no strict prerequisite to the course, answering the questions listed below under
different topics might help you during the course. This assignment is just for an illustrative
purpose and it will not be evaluated. The points for each question denote the relative
difficulty level of the question. Any additional math concepts will be covered at the required
level in the course. Happy (Machine) learning!

2 Functions:
1. (1 point) Which of the following functions represent a line in 2D coordinate system?
A. y = 10x + 2
B. y = x2 + 2x + 1
C. y = 5 − x
D. y = sin(x)

2. (1 point) What is the slope of the function y = 2x3 + 4x2 − x − 1 at the point x = 1.5?
A. 24.5
B. 13.25
C. 1.5
D. 0

3. (1 point) The minimum value for the functions y1 = x2 + 5 and y2 = (x + 5)2 occurs
at?
A. (x = 0, x = 5),respectively
B. (x = 5, x = −5),respectively
C. (x = 0, x = −5),respectively

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D. (x = 5, x = 5),respectively
4. (1 point) Consider two functions f (x) = 2x2 + x and g(x) = x + 3. What is the value
of f (g(−2))?
A. 8
B. 6
C. -6
D. 4
5. (1 point) Which of the following are the roots of the function f (x) = 12x2 + 11x − 5?
A. ( 21 , 14 )
B. ( 53 , 34 )
C. ( 31 , − 45 )
D. ( 23 , − 41 )

3 Geometry:
1. (1 point) The (Euclidean) distance between two points x1 = (1, 0) and x2 = (1, 10) is?
A. −10
B. 10
C. 100
D. −100
2. (1 point) How many number of lines can pass through the point x1 = (−1, 8) ?
A. 1
B. 8
C. ∞
D. 0
3. (1 point) Is the point (1, 10) on the line y = 10x + 1 ?
A. Yes
B. No
4. (1 point) Are the vectors (1, 4) and (0.5, 2) parallel?
A. Yes
B. No
5. (1 point) Are the vectors (1, 1) and (−0.5, 0.5) perpendicular?
A. Yes
B. No
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4 Matrix (Linear Algebra):

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1 0 −1
1. (1 point) Multiply the matrix A = and the vector x = −1.
1 1 1
1
 
1 2
2. (2 points) Check whether the matrix A = has an inverse or not. If it has an
−1 2
inverse,then find it.

3. (2 points) Do the lines give by x+2y = 1 and −x+2y = 1 intersect at some point?.Represent
the equations in a matrix form and find the answer by solving the matrix.

5 Probability and Statistics:

1. (1 point) Suppose a six sided fair die is rolled.What is the probability of getting a number
6?. What is the probability that the number is 6 given that the outcome is even?
A. ( 61 , 13 ), respectively
B. ( 12 , 12 ), respectively
C. ( 31 , 16 ), respectively
D. ( 12 , 13 ), respectively

2. (2 points) Suppose a pair of dice is rolled.What is the probability that the sum of the
dice is 8 given that the first die value is less than or equals to 4?
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A. 12
5
B. 36
2
C. 18
1
D. 8

3. (1 point) A fair two sided coin is tossed. Are the events H and T independent?
A. Yes
B. No

4. (2 points) A factory has two machines I and II. Machine I produces 40% of items of the
output and Machine II produces 60% of the items. Further 4% of items produced by
Machine I are defective and 5% produced by Machine II are defective. An item is drawn
at random. If the drawn item is defective, find the probability that it was produced by
Machine II.
15
A. 23
4
B. 10
6
C. 10
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D. 100

5. (1 point) Compute the mean of the sequence x(n) = n! for n = 0, 1, 2, 3 · · · 7.

A. 739.125
B. 739.25
C. 5914
D. 5040