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B OOKLET N O . T EST C ODE : MMA

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1. Suppose a, b, c > 0 are in geometric progression and ap = bq = cr 6= 1.
Which one of the following is always true?

(A) p, q, r are in geometric progression

(B) p, q, r are in arithmetic progression
(C) p, q, r are in harmonic progression
(D) p = q = r

2. How many complex numbers z are there such that |z + 1| = |z + i| and

|z| = 5?

(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3

3. The number of real roots of the equation

 2 
x +x
2 cos = 2x + 2x is
6

(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D)

4. If a, b, c and d satisfy the equations

a + 7b + 3c + 5d = 16
8a + 4b + 6c + 2d = 16
2a + 6b + 4c + 8d = 16
5a + 3b + 7c + d = 16

Then (a + d)(b + c) equals

(A) 4 (B) 0 (C) 16 (D) 16

5. Let
2

x y , if (x, y) 6= (0, 0)

f (x, y) = x4 + y 2
if (x, y) = (0, 0)

0

Then lim f (x, y)

(x,y)(0,0)

(A) equals 0 (B) equals 1 (C) equals 2 (D) does not exist

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 6. Find the centroid of the triangle whose sides are given by the follow-
ing equations:
4x y = 19
x y = 4
x + 2y = 11

       
11 7 5 7 11 7 7 11
(A) , (B) , (C) , (D) ,
3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3

7. The set of value(s) of for which y(t) = t is a solution to the differ-

ential equation

d2 y dy
t2 2t + 2y = 0 for t > 0 is
dx2 dx

(A) {1} (B) {1, 1} (C) {1, 2} (D) {1, 2}

8. Let g : R R be differentiable with g 0 (x2 ) = x3 for all x > 0 and

g(1) = 1. Then g(4) equals

(A) 64/5 (B) 32/5 (C) 37/5 (D) 67/5

9. Suppose X and Y are two independent random variables both fol-

lowing Poisson distribution with parameter . What is the value of
E(X Y )2 ?

(A) (B) 2 (C) 2 (D) 42

10. If A1 , A2 , . . . , An are independent events with probabilities p1 , p2 , . . . ,

pn respectively, then
n
!
[
P Ai
i=1

equals

n
X n
Y n
Y n
Y
(A) pi (B) pi (C) (1 pi ) (D) 1 (1 pi )
i=1 i=1 i=1 i=1

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11. Ravi asked his neighbor to water a delicate plant while he is away.
Without water, the plant would die with probability 4/5 and with
water it would die with probability 3/20. The probability that Ravis
neighbor would remember to water the plant is 9/10. If the plant
actually died, what is the probability that Ravis neighbor forgot to
water the plant?

(A) 4/5 (B) 27/43 (C) 16/43 (D) 2/25

12. Suppose there are n positive real numbers such that their sum is 20
and the product is strictly greater than 1. What is the maximum pos-
sible value of n?

(A) 18 (B) 19 (C) 20 (D) 21

13. Which one of the following statements is correct regarding the ele-
ments and subsets of the set {1, 2, {1, 2, 3}}?

(A) {1, 2} {1, 2, {1, 2, 3}} (B) {1, 2} {1, 2, {1, 2, 3}}

(C) {1, 2, 3} {1, 2, {1, 2, 3}} (D) 3 {1, 2, {1, 2, 3}}

14. The number of terms independent of x in the binomial expansion of

1 10
 
2
3x + is
x

(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 5

15. The number of positive integers n for which n2 +96 is a perfect square
is

(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 4

16. Suppose a 6 digit number N is formed by rearranging the digits of

the number 123456. If N is divisible by 5, then the set of all possible
remainders when N is divided by 45 is

(A) {30} (B) {15, 30} (C) {0, 15, 30} (D) {0, 5, 15, 30}

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17. The number of positive integers n for which

n3 + (n + 1)3 + (n + 2)3 = (n + 3)3

is

(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3

!
1 2
18. Let A = , and B = A + A2 + A3 + + A50 . Then
0 1

(A) B 2 = I (B) B 2 = 0 (C) B 2 = A (D) B 2 = B

19. Let A be a real 2 2 matrix. If 5 + 3i is an eigenvalue of A, then det(A)

(A) equals 4 (B) equals 8 (C) equals 16

(D) cannot be determined from the given information

20. Let f : (0, ) (0, ) be a strictly decreasing function. Consider


x
f
1+x
h(x) =  .
x
1+f
1+x

Which one of the following is always true?

(A) h is strictly decreasing

(B) h is strictly increasing
(C) h is strictly decreasing at first and then strictly increasing
(D) h is strictly increasing at first and then strictly decreasing

21. Let A = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8}. How many functions f : A A can be

defined such that f (1) < f (2) < f (3)?
     
8 8 8 8 5 8!
(A) (B) 5 (C) 8 (D)
3 3 3 3!

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X an log n
22. The infinite series converges if and only if
n2
n=1

(A) a [1, 1) (B) a (1, 1] (C) a [1, 1] (D) a (, )

Z
2 /2
23. Given that ex dx = 2, what is the value of

Z
|x|1/2 e|x| dx?

(A) 0 (B) (C) 2 (D)

24. Let f : R R be a strictly increasing function. Then which one of the

following is always true?

(A) The limits lim f (x) and lim f (x) exist for all real numbers a
xa+ xa

(B) If f is differentiable at a then f 0 (a) > 0

(C) There cannot be any real number B such that f (x) < B for all
real x

(D) There cannot be any real number L such that f (x) > L for all
real x

25. An integer is said to be a palindrome if it reads the same forward or

backward. For example, the integer 14541 is a 5-digit palindrome and
12345 is not a palindrome.

How many 8 digit palindromes are prime?

(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 11 (D) 19

26. Let x and y be real numbers satisfying 9x2 + 16y 2 = 1. Then (x + y) is

maximum when

(A) y = 9x/16 (B) y = 9x/16 (C) y = 4x/3 (D) y = 4x/3

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27. Consider the function

e|x|
f (x) = , x R.
max{ex , ex }

Then

(A) f is not continuous at some points

(B) f is continuous everywhere, but not differentiable anywhere
(C) f is continuous everywhere, but not differentiable at exactly one
point
(D) f is differentiable everywhere

28. Let A be a square matrix such that A3 = 0, but A2 6= 0. Then which of

the following statements is not necessarily true?

(A) A 6= A2
(B) Eigenvalues of A2 are all zero
(C) rank(A) > rank(A2 )
(D) rank(A) > trace(A)

29. Suppose a is a real number for which all the roots of the equation
x4 2ax2 + x + a2 a = 0 are real. Then

2 3 3
(A) a < (B) a = 0 (C) 0 < a < (D) a
3 4 4

30. A club with n members is organized into four committees so that each
member belongs to exactly two committees and each pair of commit-
tees has exactly one member in common. Then

(A) n = 4
(B) n = 6
(C) n = 8
(D) n cannot be determined from the given information