Excel Review Center ECE Coaching Course Math Take Home 1
Excel Review Center ECE Coaching Course Math Take Home 1
Find the convolution g f t of f t tu t and that there will be a seat available for every person Find the value of c such that the circles x2 + y2 +
who shows up for the flight? 2x + 2y + 1 = 0 and x2 + y2 + 2x + 2y + c = 0
g t sin t u t Answer: 0 touch each other.
Answer: g f t t sin t Answer: 1
Workers in a factory incur accidents at the rate of
two accidents per week. Calculate the probability The integrating factor of the differential equation
Find the convolution of the Laplace transform of that there will be at most two accidents, (a) x 1 y 2 dy y 1 x 2 dx 0 .
f t tu t and g t sin t u t ? during 1 week, (b) during 2 weeks, (c) in each of
Answer: 1/s2 – 1/(s2 + 1) 2 weeks. Answer: 1/xy
Answer: (a) 0.677, (b) 0.238, (c) 0.458
In solving any problem, odds against A are 4 to 3
Find the convolution of e2t u t and e t u t . and odds in favor of B in solving the same
How many children should a family have so that
Answer: e t e2t with probability 0.95 it has at least a boy and at problem are 7 to 5. The probability that the
least a girl? problem will be solved is
Answer: 6 Answer: 16/21
Find the convolution of e t u t and tu t .
Answer: t 1 e t Suppose that the duration in minutes of long Determine the area enclosed by the curve x2 –
distance telephone conversation follows an 10x + 4y + y2 = 196.
Determine the poles and zeros of the system, Answer: 225
1 x
whose transfer function is given by exponential density function f x e 5 for x >
5 Calculate the area bounded by x = –y2 + 9 and
30 s 6
H s . 0. Find the probability that the duration of a 1
s s 2 4s 13 conversation; x y 2 6y 9 .
2
Answer: Zero: s = 6, Poles: s = 0, –2 + 3i, –2–3i a. Will exceed 5 minutes;
Answer: 128
b. Will be between 5 and 6 minutes;
A die is thrown as long as necessary for an ace or c. Will be less than 3 minutes;
The three vectors (1, 1, –1, 1), (1, –1, 2, –1) and
a 6 to turn up. Given that no ace turned up at the d. Will be less than 6 minutes given that it was
(3, 1, 0, 1) are
first two throws, what is the probability that at greater than 3 minutes. 92
Answer: Linearly dependent
least three throws will be necessary? Answer: a. 0.368, b. 0.248, c. 0.451, d. 0.451
Answer: 16/25 Find the second order Taylor expansion of
In a lottery that sells 3,000 tickets the first lot
wins $1,000, the second $500 and five other lots
Two athletic teams A and B play a series of f x, y sin x 2 1 y about the point 0, .
independent games until one of them wins 4 that come next wins $100 each. What is the 2
games. The probability of each team winning in expected gain of a man who pays 1 dollar to buy Answer: f(x,y) = 1 – (y – /2)2
each game equals to 1/2. Find the probability that a ticket?
the series will end, (a) in at most 6 games, (b) in 6 Answer: –1/3 Find the eigenvectors of the matrix
games given that team A won the first two games. 8 6 2
A die is thrown until the result “ace or even
Answer: (a) 11/16, (b) 1/4
number” appears three times. Find the expected A 6 7 4 using 15
number of throws (a) in one performance of 2 4 3
At the college entrance examination each
candidate is admitted or rejected according to throws, (b) in ten repetitions.
Answer: (a) 9/2, (b) 45 2
whether he has passed or failed the test. Of the Answer: 2
candidates who are really capable, 80% pass the
test; and of the incapable, 25% pass the test. The height of men is normally distributed with 1
Given that 40% of the candidates are really mean 167 cm and standard deviation 3
capable, find the proportion of capable college cm. What is the percentage of the population of A man takes a step forward with probability 0.4
students. men that have height (a) greater than 167 cm, (b) and backward with probability 0.6. Find the
Answer: 68% greater than 170 cm, (c) between 161 cm and 173 probability that at the end of 11 steps, he is just
cm? In a random sample of four men what is the one step away from the starting point.
Three players P1, P2 and P3 throw a die in that probability that (d) all will have height greater Answer: 0.3679
order and, by the rules of the game, the first one than 170 cm, (e) two will have height smaller
to obtain an ace will be the winner. Find their than the mean (and two bigger than the mean)? 9 3 1 0
probabilities of winning. Answer: (a) 50%, (b) 16%, (c) 95.45%, (d) 3 0 1 6
Answer: 36/91, 30/91, 25/91 0.07%, (e) 37.5% Find the rank of the matrix
1 1 1 1
The Pap test makes a correct diagnosis with A machine produces bolts the length of which (in
0 6 1 9
probability of 95%. Given that the test is positive centimeters) obeys a normal probability law with
Answer: 4
for a lady, what is the probability that she really mean 5 and standard deviation 0.2. A bolt is
has the disease? Assume that one in every 2,000 called defective if its length falls outside the
women, on average, has the disease. interval (4.8, 5.2). sin 3 x
Evaluate the integral of dx
Answer: 19/2018 a. What is the proportion of defective bolts that x
this machine produces? Answer: 3 /4
What is the conditional probability that a hand at b. What is the probability that among ten bolts
poker consists of spades, given that it consists of none will be defective? Given the ellipse 9x2 + 4y2 – 54x – 56y + 241 =
black cards? Answer: a. 0.32, b. 0.0211 0. Find its vertices.
Answer: 9/460 Answer: (3, 10) and (3, 4)
Wronskian of f x x 2 sin x and g x x 2 cos x
A machine normally makes items of which 4% sin mx sin nx
Answer: –x4 lim , where m n is equal to
are defective. Every hour the producer draws a x 0 x
sample of size 10 for inspection. If the sample
The angle between 2i + j – 3k and 3i – 2j – k. Answer: m – n
contains no defective items he does not stop the
Answer: 60o
machine. What is the probability that the machine
Given A = {1, {4}, {2}, 3, 4, 5}, B = {{{1, 4, 5,
will not be stopped when it has started producing
Find the equation of the straight line which passes 3, 1}}}, C = {1, {3}, 2, 1}, D = {1, 1, 3}, E = {1,
items of which 10% are defective?
through the intersection of the straight line 2x – 4, {5}, {3}}, F = {1, 8, {1, 2, 3, 4}}. Calculate
Answer: 0.349
3y +4 = 0 and 3x + 4y + 5 = 0 and is the set (a) B F , (b) C D F
perpendicular to the straight line 6x – 7y + 8 = 0.
One per thousand of a population is subject to Answer: (a) , (b) 1, 2, 3
Answer: 119x + 102y + 205 = 0
certain kinds of accident each year. Given that an
insurance company has insured 5,000 persons
from the population, find the probability that at 3x 2 2x Find the equation of tangent to 16x2 + 9y2 = 144
: whenx 0 at (x1, y1) where x1 = 2 and y1 > 0.
most 2 persons will incur this accident. If f (x) x , what must be
Answer: 0.104 k : whenx 0 2x 5
Answer: y 1
9 12
A certain airline company, having observed that the value of k in order for f(x) to be a continuous
5% of the persons making reservations on a flight function?
Find the equation of the circle whose center lies
do not show up for the flight, sells 100 seats on a Answer: 2
on the line x – 4y = 1 and which passes through
plane that has 95 seats. What is the probability the points (3,7) and (5,5).
Answer: x2 + y2 + 6x + 2y – 90 = 0
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Excel Review Center ECE Coaching Course Math Take Home 1
Find the term independent of x in the expansion likely to be selected). Find the probability that For what real values of is y cos t a solution
1
12 Seat 15 was selected given that Row 20 was
to the equation y '' 9y 0 ?
of x . selected.
x Answer: 1/30 Answer: 3
Answer: 924
The first Newton approximation x1 for a zero f(x) If the mean and variance of binomial variate are
If 5 times the 5th term of an A.P. is equal to the 10 = x3 – 2x with initial approximation x0 = 2. 12 and 4, then the probabilities of the distribution
times the 10th term, find the 15th term of the A.P. Answer: 8/5 are given by the terms in the expansion of
Answer: 0 Answer: (1/3 + 2/3)18
The remainder of 534 when divided by 17 is
Find an estimate of the standard deviation. Answer: 8 If coversine θ is 0.134, find the value of θ.
Income (1000’s Frequency Answer: 60o
Pounds) Find the remainder on dividing 320 by 7
10 i 15 9 Answer: 2 Find the area of a regular pentagon whose side is
15 i 20 16 25 m and apothem is 17.2 m.
Refer to the data set below, the number of patient Answer: 1075 m2
20 i 25 22
visits per week at a chiropractor’s office over a
25 i 30 8 A trough of water is 8 meters deep and its ends
ten-week period. Number of patients per week
30 i 35 5 (75 86 87 90 94 102 105 109 110 120) are in the shape of isosceles triangles whose
Answer: 5617 Calculate the (a) first quartile, (b) third quartile, width is 5 meters and height is 2 meters. If water
(c) interquartile range (IQR) of the data. is being pumped in at a constant rate of 6
Find the square root of 12 – 6i. Answer: (a) 87, (b) 109, (c) 22 m3/sec. At what rate is the height of the water
Answer: –3.856 + 0.842i changing when the water has a height of 120 cm?
What is the area in sq. m of the zone of a Answer: 0.25 m/s
Find a unit vector normal to the plane of vectors spherical segment having a volume of 1470.265
A = 3i – 2j + 4k and B = i + j – 2k. cu. m if the diameter of the sphere is 30 m? For the plane curve y = 4x3/2, find the curvature
2j k Answer: 565.5 m2 function.
Answer: 3
5 Answer:
For which values of parameter a, the vectors (1, a, x 1 36x
3/2
The average value of the function f(x) = sin(x) – Find the general solution of the differential
x on the interval 0, . Answer: 26 equation x 3 y ''' x 2 y '' 2xy ' 2y x 3 .
Answer: –0.93418 1
Find the volume obtained if the region bounded Answer: y c1x c 2 x ln x c3 x 2 x 3
4
A certain auditorium has 30 rows of seats. Row 1 by y = x2 and y = 2x is rotated about the x-axis?
has 11 seats, while Row 2 has 12 seats, Row 3 Answer: 13.4
As the tide changes, the water level in a bay
has 13 seats, and so on to the back of the varies sinusoidally. At high tide today at 8 AM,
auditorium where Row 30 has 40 seats. A door Find the inflection points of f(x) = (x – 2)ex.
Answer: x = 0 the water level was 15 feet; at low tide, 6 hours
prize is to be given away by randomly selecting a later at 2 PM, it was 3 feet. How fast, in feet per
row (with equal probability of selecting any of hour, was the water level dropping at noon today?
the 30 rows) and then randomly selecting a seat
within that row (with each seat in the row equally
Answer: 156 Answer: Im(Z) = 0 Solve for the particular solution to the Ricatti
4 1
If X is a binomial variate with p = 1/5, for the equation y ' 2 y y 2
Forces F1, F2, F3 of magnitudes 5, 3, 1 units t t
experiment of 50 trials, then the standard respectively, act in the directions 6i + 2j + 3k, 3i
deviation is equal to 2
– 2j + 6k, 2i – 3j – 6k respectively on a particle. If Answer: y
Answer: 2 2 t
the particle is displaced from the point (2,-1,-3) to
the point (5,-1,1) find the work done by the
1
If 3x 2 y y3z 2 ,grad at (1,- 2,- 1) is equal to resultant force. Solve the IVP y ' y y 2 , y(1) = 1, t > 0.
Answer: 231 t
Answer: – (12i + 9j + 16k) Answer: y = 2t/(t2 + 1)
Find the difference of the area of the square The constant forces 2i – 5j + 6k, –i + 2j – k and 2i
+ 7j act on a particle which is displaced from A restricted access lake is stocked with 400 fish.
inscribed in a semi-circle having a radius of 15 m. It is estimated that the lake will be able to hold
The base of the square lies on the diameter of the position 4i – 3j – 2k to position 6i + j – 3k. Find
the total work done. 10,000 fish. The number of fish tripled in the first
semi-circle. year. Assuming that the fish population follows a
Answer: 173.5 cm2 Answer: 17 N
logistic model and that 10,000 is the limiting
It is given that the event A and B are such that population, find the length of time needed for the
Find the number of hours for 25 people to sweep
1 1 2 fish population to reach 5,000.
and polish the floors of a building if the P A , P A B , P B A . P B = Answer: 2.68 years
supervisor notes that it takes 4 hours for 20 4 2 3
people to do the job. Answer: 1/3
Find the Laplace transform of
Answer: 3.2 hours
What is the angle in degrees between an g t e3t cos 6t e3t cos 6t
The number of integers that satisfy the inequality asymptote of the hyperbolax2 – 4y2 – 2x – 63 = 0 1 s s3
x2 + 48 < 16x is and the x-axis? Answer:
s 3 s 2 36 s 32 36
Answer: 7 Answer: 26.6o
A parabola with a vertical axis has its vertex at The divergence of the vector field (x – y)i + (y – Find the Laplace transform of f t t cosh 3t
the origin and passes through point (7,7). The x)j + (x + y + z)k is Answer: (s2 + 9)/(s2 – 9)2
parabola intersects line y = 6 at two points. The Answer: 3
length of the segment joining these points is 3
Answer: 13 If today is Monday, and 1234 days passed, what Find the Laplace transform of g t t 2
day will it be?
|2x – 1| = 4x + 5 has how many numbers in its Answer: Wednesday 3
Answer: 5
solution set?
Answer: 1 If a and b are two unit vectors inclined at an angle 4s 2
and are such that a + b is a unit vector, then is 3
A circular table is tangent to two adjacent walls equal to Find the Laplace transform of f t 10t 2
of a room as shown in the figure. Point N is 10 Answer: 2 /3 3
inches from one wall and 5 inches from the other 3
Answer: 10 2 5
wall. What is the area of the circular table?
If v, w, x, y, and z are consecutive integers whose 4s 2
Answer: 625
zv
sum is 0, then what is the value of ?
A sphere with a 10-cm diameter sits in a cone so yv Find the Laplace transform of f t tg ' t
that the point of tangency is 12 cm up the cone’s Answer: 0
Answer: G s sG ' s
edge from the vertex. How much liquid can be
under the sphere if the liquid and sphere just Find the differential equation of x 2 y3 Cx 4 0
touch one another? Interval or a range of values used to estimate the
Answer: 93.08 cm3 dy x 2 y3
2 parameter. This estimate may or may not contain
Answer: 2x 3y 4 0
dx x the value of the parameter being estimated.
Write in rectangular coordinates form Answer: Interval estimate of a parameter
r 6 tan sec Find the orthogonal trajectories of y Csin x .
A specific numerical value estimate of a
Answer: x2 = 6y Answer: y 2ln cos x C1 parameter.
Answer: Point estimate. The best point estimate
11
of the population mean is the sample mean.
First three terms in expansion of 1 2x 3 2 are The half–life of radium is 1600 years. If a sample
initially contain 50 g, how long will it be until it
Answer: 1 – 11x3 + (99/2)x6 + … The probability that the interval estimate will
contains 45 g?
contain the parameter.
Answer: 243.2 years
Find the area, if it exists, of the region above the Answer: Confidence level of an estimate of a
4 parameter
x-axis, between the curve y and its A tank contains a salt water solution consisting
1 x2 initially of 20 kg of salt dissolved into 10 L of
A parameter of a specific interval estimate
asymptotes. water. Fresh water is being poured into the tank at
determined by using data obtained from a sample
Answer: 4 a rate of 3 L/min and the solution, kept uniform
and by using the specific confidence level of the
by stirring, is flowing out at 2 L/min. Find the
estimate.
Take a semicircle with a rectangle on its amount of salt in the tank after 5 minutes.
Answer: Confidence interval
diameter. If the perimeter of the figure is 20 feet, Answer: 8.89 kg
find the radius of the semicircle in order that its Three common confidence level used.
area may be maximum. Solve y’’ + 5y’ + 6y = 0.
Answer: 90%, 95%, 99%
Answer: 2.8 Answer: y c1e3x c2e2x
The margin of error for a sample of size n is Inverse Laplace transform of 1/(s + 5) at t = 0.5
1 Answer: 0.082
Answer:
n
Inverse Laplace transform of 1/(s + 2)2 at t = 0.2 Answer: 288
Answer: 0.134
The president of a large university wishes to The length of diameter AB is a two digit integer.
estimate the average age of the students presently Reversing the digits gives the length of a
enrolled. From past studies, the standard 1
Inverse Laplace transform 2
at t = 0.2 perpendicular chord CD. The distance from their
deviation is known to be 2 years. A sample of 50 s 2 s 1 intersection point H to the center O is a positive
students is selected, and the mean is found to be Answer: 0.0055395 rational number. Determine the length of AB.
23.2 years. Find the 95% confidence interval of
the population mean. Find the Laplace transform of the second
Answer: between 22.6 and 23.8 years old
derivative of f t sin 2 t .
A survey of 30 adults found that the mean age of Answer: 2s/(s2 + 4)
a person’s primary vehicle is 5.6 years. Assuming
the standard deviation of the population is 0.8 Find the Laplace transform of the second
year, find the 99% confidence interval of the derivative of f t t sin at Answer: 65
population mean.
Answer: between 5.2 and 6.0 years 2as3 In the adjoining figure, two circles with radii 6
Answer: 2
s 2
a2 and 8 are drawn with their centers 12 units apart.
The college president asks the statistics teacher to At P, one of the points of intersection, a line is
estimate the average age of the students at their t
drawn in such a way that the chords QP and PR
college. How large a sample is necessary? The Find the Laplace transform of 32d have equal length. P is the midpoint of QR. Find
0
statistics teacher would like to be 99% confident the square of the length of QP.
Answer: 3!/s4
that the estimate should be accurate within 1 year.
From a previous study, the standard deviation of
t
the ages is known to be 3 years. Find the Laplace transform of 2 cos 2 d
0
Answer: 60
Answer: 2/(s2 + 4)
What are the three properties of a good estimator? Answer: 130
Answer: unbiased, consistent and relatively z 1
Given F z , residue at (a) z = 0, (b) z =
efficient 4z3 z
A point P is chosen in the interior of triangle
1/2, (c) z = –1/2 is
ABC such that when lines are drawn through P
What is the maximum error of estimate? Answer: (a) –1, (b) 3/4, (c) 1/4
parallel to the sides of triangle ABC, the resulting
Answer: Margin of error smaller triangles t1, t2 and t3 in the figure, have
2 area 4, 9 and 49 respectively. Find the area of
Confidence interval can be calculated using the d z i
lim triangle ABC.
z i dz 2 2
1 z
formula
Answer: x z critical value Answer: i/4
n
maximum error of estimate the triangle is rotated about the other leg, the
Answer: 2 i volume of the cone produced is 1920 cm3. What
An estimate that is based on the variances within
is the length of the hypotenuse of the triangle?
the samples. An estimate of the variance whether dz
where (a) z = ei where 0 , (b) z = Answer: 26 cm
or not the null hypothesis is true. z2
Answer: Mean Square Error (MSE)
t + 0i where 1 t 2 . An ellipse has foci at (9, 20) and (49, 55) in the
Answer: (a) –2, (b) 1/2 xy – plane and is tangent to the x – axis. What is
The estimate is based on the variance of the
the length of its major axis?
sample means. An estimate of the variance if the
Answer: 85
null hypothesis is true.
log z dz where z = ei and 0
Answer: Mean Square Between (MSB)
Three 12 cm x 12 cm squares are each cut into
Answer: 2i
two pieces A and B, as shown in the first figure
If the null hypothesis is (a) true, (b) false then
below, by joining the midpoints of two adjacent
Answer: (a) MSE and MSB should be about the Determine the radius of convergence of sides. These six pieces are than attached to a
same value, (b) MSB is larger than MSE n
2 n regular hexagon, as shown in the second figure,
x 3 . so as to fold into a polyhedron. What is the
Mean square error can be calculated using the n 1
n 0
volume of this polyhedron?
formula Answer: 1/2
Answer: MSE
si 2 Find the radius of convergence of the power
a
n xn
series 1
Given the following data below, compute the n 0 2 1 n 2 1
n
y'' 1 y2 y ' y 0
Answer: Legendre’s equation
A matrix with all entries zero. Answer: Van der Pol equation
Answer: Zero matrix p x y' ' q x r x y 0 (involving a
Partial DE
The differential equation in the form of parameter ) Au xx 2Bu xy Cu yy F x, y, u, u x , u y is
y ' P x y 2 Q x y R x is called a/an Answer: Sturm – Liouville equation
hyperbolic if
Answer: Ricatti equation Answer: AC B2 0 or 2B 4AC 0
2
f z u x, y iv x, y should satisfy what type
The second order differential equation of equation to be analytic. (example is Wave equation)
x 2 y" Axy ' By 0 (with A and B are Answer: Cauchy – Riemann equations
Partial DE
constants) is called u x v y and u y v x
Answer: Euler – Cauchy equation Au xx 2Bu xy Cu yy F x, y, u, u x , u y is
u2
u 2
T parabolic if
The equation y" p x y q x y 0 is c2 2 , c Answer: AC B2 0 or 2B 4AC 0
2
t 2 x
Answer: Second order linear homogeneous Answer: One dimensional wave equation (example is Heat equation)
y '' o 2 y y3 0 A B C A B A C
x 2 y '' x 2 n n 1 y 0
Answer: Duffing equation A B C A B A C
Answer: Ricatti equation
Answer: Distributive Laws
yu xx u yy 0