Ca Foundation Math
Ca Foundation Math
Ca Foundation Math
QUESTIONS
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1. On simplification would reduces to1+𝑍 𝑎 −𝑏 +𝑍 𝑎 −𝑐 1+𝑍 𝑏−𝑐 +𝑍 𝑏−𝑎 would reduces to
1+ 𝑍 𝑐−𝑎 +𝑍 𝑐−𝑏
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a) b) c) 1 d) 0
𝑍2 𝑎+𝑏+𝑐 𝑍 𝑎 +𝑏 +𝑐
2. For any three consecutive integers x y z the equation log (1+xz) - 2logy = 0 is
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4. If 𝑎𝑝 = 𝑏 𝑞 = 𝑐 𝑟 = 𝑑 𝑠 and ab = cd then the value of +𝑞 −𝑟 −𝑥 reduces to
𝑝
𝑎
𝑥𝑏 𝑥𝑐 𝑏 𝑥𝑎 𝑐
5. Show that X X reduces to
𝑥𝑐 𝑥𝑎 𝑥𝑏
7. Solve 𝑥 3 – 5𝑥 2 +2x +24=0 given that two of its roots being in the ratio of 3:4
2 −3
−3 −1 3
8. x 1 0
−1 0 2
3 1
14 −6 14 −6 14 −6 −14 −6
a) b) c) d)
4 −5 4 5 −4 5 4 5
6 10
9. if 𝐴 =
3 5
(a) Is a singular matrix (b) Non-singular matrix (c) Identity
matrix (d) Symmetric matrix
5 𝑥
10. If 𝐴 = = and 𝐴 = 𝐴𝑇 , then
𝑦 0
11. The rules and regulations demand that the employer should employ not more than 5
experienced hands to 1 fresh one and this fact can be expressed as
12. A company borrows Rs 10,000 on condition to repay it with compound interest at 5% p.a.
by annual installments of Rs 1000 each. The number of years by which the debt will be clear is
(a) 14.2 years (b) 10 years (c) 12 years (d) none of these
13. A man deposited Rs. 8, 000 in a bank for 3 years at 5% per annum compound interest, after
3 years he will get
(a) Rs. 9,000 (b) Rs.8, 800 (c) Rs. 9,200 (d) Rs. 9261
15. A man purchased a house valued at Rs 3,00,000. He paid Rs 2,00,000 at the time of
purchase and agreed to pay the balance with interest at 12% per annum compounded half
yearly in 20 equal half yearly installments. If the first installment is paid after six months from
the date of purchase then the amount of each installment is [Given log 10.6 = 1.0253 and log
31.19 = 1.494]
(a) 14.28 years (b) 14 years (c) 12 years (d) none of these
17. A person bought a house paying Rs 20,000 cash down and Rs 4,000 at the end of each year
for 25 yrs. at 5% p.a. C.I. The cash down price is
18. A person has 8 friends. The number of ways in which he may invite one or more of them to
a dinner is.
20. Find the number of ways in which an arrangement of 4 letters can be made from the word
`MATHEMATICS’.
21. The sum of all natural numbers from 100 to 300 which are exactly divisible by 4 and 5 is
22. If 𝑆𝑛 the sum of first n terms in a series is given by 2𝑛2 + 3n the series is in ______.
23. Find three numbers in A.P. whose sum is 6 and the sum of whose square is 44
24. The numbers x, 8, y are in G.P. and the numbers x, y, –8 are in A.P. The values of x, y
are___________.
25. Out of 1000 students 658 failed in the aggregate, 166 in the aggregate and in group-I 434 in
aggregate and in group-II, 372 in group-I, 590 in group-II and 126 in both the groups.
27.As per question No.(25) how many failed in group-I but not in the aggregate?
28.As per question No.(25) how many failed in group-II but not in group-I?
29.As per question No.(25) how many failed in aggregate or group-II but not in group-I?
30.As per question No.(25) how many failed in aggregate but not in group-I and group-II?
(a) -243(3𝑥 + 4)−4 (b) 243(3𝑥 + 4)−4 (c) -243(4𝑥 + 3)−4 (d) None
33. If RAMAN is written as 12325 and DINESH as 675489 how HAMAM is written?
35. I n a certain code ‘256’ means ‘you are good’, ‘637’ means ‘we are bad’ and ‘358’ means
‘good and bad’. Which of the following represents ‘and’ in that code?
36. You go North, turn right, then right again and then go to the left. In which direction are you
now?
37. Roy walks 2 km to East, then turns North-West and walks 3 km. Then he turns South and
walks 5 km. Then again he turns West and walks 2 km. Finally he turns North and walks6 km. In
which direction, is he from the starting point?
38. Five boys A, B, C, F, E, are sitting in a park in a circle. A is facing South-West, D is facing
South-East, B and E are right opposite A and D respectively and C is equidistant between D and
B. Which direction is C facing?
Directions (No: 39-43): Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions.
A to H are seated in straight line facing North. C sits fourth left of G. D sits second to right of G.
Only two people sit between D and A. B and F are immediate neighbours of each other. B is not
an immediate neighbour of A. H is not neighbour of D.
39. Who amongst the following sits exactly in the middle of the persons who sit fifth from the
left and the person who sit sixth from the right?
41. Which of the following represents persons seated at the two extreme ends of the line?
(a) Third to the left (b) Immediate right (c) Second to right (d)
Fourth to left
44. There are eight books kept one over the other. Two books are on Organisation Behaviour,
two books on TQM, three books on Industrial Relations and one book is on Economics.
Counting from the top, the second, fifth and sixth books are on Industrial Relations. Two books
on Industrial Relations are between two books on TQM. One book of Industrial Relations is
between two books on Organizational Behaviour while the book above the book of Economics
is a book of TQM. Which book is the last book from the top?
45. Pointing to a photograph Vikas said “She is the daughter of my grandfather’s only son”. How
is the related to Vikas in the photograph?
46. Rahul and Robin are brothers. Promod is Rohin’s father. Sheela is Pramod’s sister. Prema is
Promod’s niece. Shubha is Sheela’s grand-daughter. How is Rahul related to Shubha?
(b) A is sister of B
49. Sita is the niece of Ashok. Ashok’s mother is Lakshmi. Kalyani is Lakhshmi’s mother.
Kalyani’s husband is Gopal. Parvathi is the mother-in-law of Gopal. How is Sita related to Gopal?
50. Given that: A is the mother of B.C is the son of A.D is the brother of E.E is the daughter of B.
Who is grandmother of D?
Each of the following questions contains two statements followed by two conclusions
numbered I and II. You have to consider the two statements to be true, even if they seen to be
at variance at the commonly known facts. You have to decide which of the given conclusions
definitely follows from the given statements. Give answer (a) if only I follows; (b) if only
conclusion II follows; (c) if either I or II follows; (d) if neither I nor II follows and (e) if both I and
II follow.
51. Statement:
i. No man is a lion.
ii.Ram is a man.
Conclusions:
Conclusions:
(a) SUITER
(b)VIOUER
(c) WALKER
(d) SUFFER
56. The number of ways in which 8 examination papers be arranged so that the best and worst
papers never come together
(a) 8! -2× 7!
(b) 8! -7!
(c) 8!
(d) 7!
58. Find the three numbers in G.P, whose sum is 19 and product is 216.
𝑝 𝑟 𝑝−𝑟
59. If 𝑞 =𝑠 =𝑞−𝑠 the process is called
(a) Subtrahendo
(b)Componendo
(c) Alternendo
PART-B STATISTICS
2. For overlapping class-intervals the class limit & class boundary are
(a) class width (b) class boundary (c) class limit (d)
class frequency
4. Age of a person is
(a) An attribute
(d) A variable.
5. The UCB is
(a) An upper limit to UCL
7. For open-end classification, which of the following is the best measure of central tendency?
8. For the following incomplete distribution of marks of 100 pupils, median mark is known to be
32.
No. of Students: 10 – 25 30 – 10
9. What is the value of mean and median for the following data:
No. of Students: 10 18 32 26 14 10
(a) 30 and 28
(b) 29 and 30
10. The coefficient of mean deviation about mean for the first 9 natural numbers is
11. The mean and SD for a group of 100 observations are 65 and 7.03 respectively. If 60 of
these observations have mean and SD as 70 and 3 respectively, what is the SD for the group
comprising 40 observations?
12. For a moderately skewed distribution, which of the following relationship holds?
13. Which measures of dispersions is not affected by the presence of extreme observations?
(a)Economics
(b)Business management
(c)Commerce and industry
(d)All these
x: 1 2 4 6 8
P: k 2k 3k 3k k
The variance of x is
18. For a group of students, 30 %, 40% and 50% failed in Physics , Chemistry and at least one of
the two subjects respectively. If an examinee is selected at random, what is the probability that
he passed in Physics if it is known that he failed in Chemistry?
(a) P (A)
(b) P (ABC)
(c) P (A’BC)
20. If an unbiased die is rolled once, the odds in favour of getting a point which is a multiple of 3
is
22. If the weekly wages of 5000 workers in a factory follows normal distribution with mean and
SD as Rs 700 and Rs 50 respectively, what is the expected number of workers with wages
between Rs 660 and Rs 720?
23. For a normal distribution with mean as 500 and SD as 120, what is the value of k so that the
interval [500, k] covers 40.32 per cent area of the normal curve? Given (1.30) =0.9032.
27. The two lines of regression are given by8x + 10y = 25 and 16x + 5y = 12 respectively .If the
variance of x is 25, what is the standard deviation of y?
28. The following data relate to the heights of 10 pairs of fathers and sons:
(175, 173), (172, 172), (167, 171), (168, 171), (172, 173), (171, 170), (174, 173), (176, 175) (169,
170), (170, 173)
(a) y = 100 + 5x
29. While computing rank correlation coefficient between profit and investment for the last
6years of a company the difference in rank for a year was taken 3 instead of 4. What is the
rectified rank correlation coefficient if it is known that the original value of rank correlation
coefficient was 0.4?
30. For 10 pairs of observations, No. of concurrent deviations was found to be 4. What is the
value of the coefficient of concurrent deviation?
34. During a certain period the cost of living index number goes up from 110 to 200 and the
salary of a worker is also raised from Rs 330 to Rs 500. The worker does not get really gain.
Then the real wages decreased by :
35. The average price of certain commodities in 1980 was ` 60 and the average price of the
same commodities in 1982 was ` 120. Therefore, the increase in 1982 on the basis of 1980 was
100%. 80. The decrease in 1980 with 1982 as base is: using 1982, comment on the above
statement is :
(a) The total sum of the values of a given year multiplied by the sum of the values of the base
year.
(b) The total sum of the values of a given year Divided by the sum of the values of the
base year.
(c) The total sum of the values of a given year plus by the sum of the values of the base year.
(b) Graph
(a) Y = T + S + C + I
(b) Y = TSCI
(c) Y= a + bx
(d) y = a + bx + C x 2
40. The unsystematic sequence which follows irregular pattern of variations is called: