Maths Advanced Level Problem Solving (ALPS-9) - Paper
Maths Advanced Level Problem Solving (ALPS-9) - Paper
Day – 1
1. A business man is expecting two telephone calls. Mr Walia may call any time between 2 p.m and 4 p.m. while
Mr Sharma is equally likely to call any time between 2.30 p.m. and 3.15 p.m. The probability that Mr Walia calls
before Mr Sharma is :
(A) 1/18 (B) 1/6 (C) 1/16 (D) None of these
*2. A bag contains 20 blue marbles, 12 red marbles and some other number of green marbles. If the probability of
1
drawing green marble in one try is then which of the following statements is/are correct? []
y
(A) Number of possible integral values of y is 5 (B) Number of possible integral values of y is 6
(C) Sum of possible integral values of y is 69 (D) Sum of possible integral values of y is 96
(A)
1
5
5i j 7 k (B)
1
5
(5 i 9 j 13 k ) (C) i 4 j 3k (D)
1
29
2i 4 j 3k
x 1 y 1 z 3
8. Projection of line on the plane x + 2y + z = 6; has equation : [, ]
2 1 4
(A) x + 2y + z – 6 = 0 = 9x – 2y – 5z – 8 (B) x + 2y + z + 6 = 0, 9x – 2y + 5z = 4
x 1 y 3 z 1 x3 y 2 z 7
(C) (D)
4 7 10 4 7 10
9. On a rod of length 6 units, lengths 1, 2 units are measured at random, the probability that no points of the measured
lines will coincide is______.
P1 P2 is ____.
(B) If Vector a x, y, z makes equal angles with the vectors b y, 2 z, 3x and (q)
c 2 z, 3x, y and is perpendicular to the vector d 1, 1, 2 with a 2 3 0, e
and the angle between a and the unit vector ĵ is obtuse then x + y – z belongs to
(C) Let ABC be a triangle whose centroid is G orthocentre is H and circumcentre is (r)
origin O. If D is any point in the plane of the triangle such that no three of O, A,
[0, π)
B, C, D are collinear satisfying the relation AD BD CH 3HG HD , then
scalar belongs to
(D)
If a , b , c be three vectors such that a c 1, b 4 and b c 15 if
(s) e, π
b 2c 4a , then belongs to
Day – 2
12. A machine containing n different balls, when switched on, can throw up any number of balls one by one.
The probability of throwing r balls is directly proportional to r. Given that a particular ball is the first ball to pop
up, the probability that machine has thrown up all the balls is :
2 1 2
(A) (B) (C) (D) None of these
n 1 n 1 n
*13. A dice is rolled three times. Let E1 denote the event of getting a number larger than the previous number each time
and E2 denote the event that the numbers (in order) form an increasing AP then: [, ]
1 3 10
(A) P E1 P E2 (B) P E2 E1 (C) P E2 / E1 (D) P E1 P E2
36 10 3
14. If a , b , c , d are on a circle of radius R whose centre is at origin and c a is perpendicular to d b , then
| d a |2 | b c |2 = (AC is diameter) []
2 2 2 2
(A) R (B) R 2 (C) 2R (D) 4R
15. The volume of a right triangular prism ABC A1B1C1 is equal to 3. If the position vectors of the vertices of the base
ABC are A(1, 0, 1) ; B(2,0, 0) and C(0, 1, 0) the position vectors of the vertex A1 can be :
(A) (2, 2, 2) (B) (0, 2, 0) (C) (0, –2, 2) (D) (0, –2, 0)
p1 max | r 2iˆ 3 ˆj |2 , p2 min | r 2iˆ 3 ˆj |2 . A tangent line is drawn to the curve y
8
x2
at the point A with
16. p2 is equal to :
(A) 9 (B) 2 2 1 (C) 6 2 3 (D) 9 4 2
17. p1 p2 is equal to :
(A) 2 (B) 10 (C) 18 (D) 5
19. In a board exam there are two sections each section has 5 questions. As per the given condition a candidate has to
answer any 6 questions out of 10 questions. What is the probability that a student answered 6 questions such that
not more than 4 questions selected from one section?
20. Volume of tetrahedron whose vertices are the points with position vectors iˆ 6 ˆj 10kˆ, iˆ 3 ˆj 7kˆ, 5iˆ ˆj hkˆ
21. Let for [0, ) such that ( x, y, z) (0, 0, 0) and (iˆ ˆj 3kˆ) x (3iˆ 3 ˆj kˆ) y (4iˆ 5 ˆj ) z ( xiˆ yjˆ 3kˆ),
x yz
then the value of is equal to ______. [, ]
x
Day – 3
23. From 4m + 1 tickets numbered as 1, 2, … 4m + 1. Three tickets are chosen at random. The probability that the
numbers are in A.P. with even common difference is
2(2m 1) 3(2m 1) 3(2m 1)
(A) (B) (C) (D) None of these
3(16m 2 1) 2(16m 2 1) 2(4m 2 1)
*24. One card is missing from a pack of cards. Let A be the event that missing card is a spade. Then two cards are
drawn, and S be the event that they are spades then: [ ]
13
3 C2 11
(A) P A (B) P S / A 51 (C) P A / S (D) P A P A / S
4 C2 50
*26. If a 2iˆ ˆj kˆ, b iˆ 2 ˆj kˆ and c iˆ ˆj 2kˆ be three vectors. A vector in the plane of the b and c whose
2
projection on a is of magnitude is : [ ]
3
(A) 2iˆ 3 ˆj 3kˆ (B) 2iˆ 3 ˆj 3kˆ (C) 2iˆ ˆj 5kˆ (D) 2iˆ ˆj 5kˆ
x 2 y 1 z 3
*27. The coordinate of the points on the line which are at a distance 3 2 from the point (1, 2, 3)
3 2 2
56 43 111 47 42 56
(A) (–2, –1, 3) (B) (2, 2, 4) (C) 17 , 17 , 17 (D) 11 , 11 , 11 []
Passage for Questions 28- 30
x 3 y 2 z 1 x 2 y 3 z 2
Two lines whose equations are and lie in the same plane, then:
2 3 3 2 3
28. The value of sin 1 sin is equal to:
(A) 3 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 4
31. Assume that the birth of a boy or girl to a couple to be equally likely, and exhaustive. For a couple having 6
children, the probability that their “three oldest are boys” is p then the value of 10p.
32. If a , b , c are unit vectors such that a b 0 a c and the angle between b and c is . Then the value of
3
a b a c is ______. [ ]
x 1 y 2 z 3
33. If the distance between the plane Ax 2 y z d and the plane containing the lines and
2 3 4
x 2 y 3 z 4
is 6, then | d | is equal to _____.
3 4 5
34. A bag contains some white and some black balls, all combinations being equally likely. The total number of balls
in the bag is 12. Four balls are drawn at random without replacement. Match the entries in the following two lists.
Column 1 Column 2
(A) The probability that all the four balls are black is equal to (p) 14
33
(B) If the bag contains 10 black and 2 white balls, then the probability (q) 1
that all four balls are black is equal to 5
(C) If all the four balls are black, then the probability that the bag (r) 70
contains 10 black balls is equal to 429
(D) The probability that two balls are black and two are white is equal (s) 13
to 165
(t) None of these
Day – 4
*35. A square is inscribed in a circle. If p1 is the probability that a randomly chosen point of the circle lies within the
square and p2 is the probability that the point lies outside the square, then:
1
(A) p1 p2 (B) p1 p2 (C) p1 p2 (D) p12 p22
3
*36. Let a, b, c be three integers such that a 2 b2 c2 2 . Then for the system of simultaneous equations
x 1 a b c
A y 0 , where A b c a , which of the following statements is/are true?
z 0 c a b
(A) The probability that the system of equations has unique solution is 1/2
(B) The number of triplets (a, b, c) for which of the system of equations has infinitely many solutions is 6
(C) If a = 0, the number of ordered pairs (b, c) for which the system of equations has no solution is 2
(D) The number of elements in the range of ab bc ca is 2
*37. Three points having position vectors a , b and c will be collinear if : [ ]
(A) a b ( )c (B) [a b c ] 0
(C) a b b c c a 0 (D) ac b
*38. The vector along the bisector of the angle between the two vectors 2iˆ 2 ˆj kˆ and iˆ 2 ˆj 2kˆ having magnitude
of 2 units is: [ ]
(A)
2
10
3iˆ kˆ (B)
1
26
iˆ 4iˆ 3kˆ (C) 2
26
iˆ 4iˆ 3 kˆ (D)
26
1
iˆ 4iˆ 3 kˆ
x y z x 2 y 1 z 2
*39. The equations of the lines of shortest distance between the lines and are:
2 3 1 3 5 2
x 62 / 3 y 31 z 31/ 3
(A) 3( x 21) 3 y 92 3z 32 (B)
1/ 3 1/ 3 1/ 3
x 21 y 92 / 3 z 32 / 3 x 2 y 3 z 1
(C) (D)
1/ 3 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/ 3
Passage for Questions 40- 41
Consider the tetrahedron formed by the planes y z 0, z x 0, x y 0, x y z a.
40. The direction cosines of the shortest distance lie between the planes y z 0 and z x 0 is:
1 1 1 1 1 1
(A) , , (B) , ,
2 2 2 6 6 6
1 1 1
(C) , , (D) None of these
3 3 3
41. The shortest distance between any two opposite edges of the tetrahedron is:
2 1 1
(A) a (B) a (C) a (D) None of these
6 6 3
42. Two fair dice are thrown till outcome is 12. The probability that one has to do 20 throws for this is______.
43. Given that the vectors a , b and c (no two of them are collinear). Further if (a b ) is collinear with c , (b c ) is
collinear with a and | a || b || c | 2. Then the value of | a b b c c a | is _____. [ ]
x 4 y 3 z 1 x 1 y 1 z 10
44. If the distance of point of intersection of lines and from (1, 4, 7) is
1 4 7 2 3 8
2
, then is equal to ______.
13
Day – 5
*46. A student appears for tests I, II, and III. The student is successful if he passes either in tests I and II or tests I and
1
III. The probabilities of the student passing in tests I, II, III are p, q and , respectively. If the probability that the
2
1
student is successful is , then: (Assuming his performance in tests are independent).
2
(A) p = 1, q = 0 (B) p = 2/3, q = 1/2
(C) p = 3/5, q = 2/3 (D) There are infinitely many values of p and q
*47. Sixteen players S1 , S2 , …., S16 play in a tournament. They are divided into eight pairs at random. From each
pair, a winner is decided on the basis of a game played between the two players of the pair. Assume that all the
players are of equal strength then:
(A) The probability that the player S1 is among the eight winners is 1/2
(B) The probability that the player S1 is among the eight winners is 1/4
(C) The probability that exactly one of the two players S1 and S2 is among the eight winners is 8/15
(D) The probability that exactly one of the two players S1 and S2 is among the eight winners is 7/15
*48. If a , b , c and d are any four vectors, then (a b ) (c d ) is a vector: [ ]
(A) Perpendicular to a , b , c and d
(B) Along the line of intersection of two planes, one containing a , b other containing c , d
(C) Equally inclined to both a b and c d
(D) None of these
(C) 2 6 2 iˆ 2
3 6 2 ˆj (D) None of these
54. Direction of the ant’s resultant displacement after first three steps is :
3 3 2 3 3 2 3 3 2
(A) tanθ (B) tanθ (C) tanθ (D) None of these
43 2 43 2 43 2
*55. The equation of planes bisecting the angle between the planes 2 x y 2 z 3 0 and 3x 2 y 6 z 8 0 is / are:
(A) 5 x y 4 z 45 0 (B) 5x y 4 z 3 0 []
(C) 23 x 13 y 32 z 45 0 (D) 23 x 13 y 32 z 5 0
56. The probability of randomly drawing five cards from a deck that has exactly one Ace is______. []
57. Let a iˆ ˆj, b iˆ 2 ˆj 2kˆ, c iˆ ˆj kˆ and d 2iˆ ˆj kˆ, then the shortest distance between the lines
1
r a tb and r c pd is k, then the value of is _____.
k2
58. MATCH THE FOLLOWING :
Column 1 Column 2
(A) x 1 y 3 z 4 (p) 4
Let image of the line in the plane 2x – y + z + 3 = 0 be L.
3 5 2
A plane 7x + By + Cz + D = 0 is such that it contains the line L and perpendicular
BC D
to the plane 2x – y + z + 3 = 0 then value of is
10
(B) ABC is a triangle where A(2,3,5); B(1,3,2) and C(λ,5,μ). If the median (q) 3
through A is equally inclined to the axes then value of μ λ 1 is
(C) Length of projection of line segment joining P(1,2,0) and Q(1, 1,2) on (r) 7
2x y 2z 4 is 2
(D) If A(a, b, c) is any point on plane 3x 2 y z 7, then the least value of (s) 6
a b c is
2 2 2 11
(t) None of these
Day – 6
*59. The letters of the word PROBABILITY are written down at random in a row. Let E1 denote the event that two I, s
are together and E2 denote the event that two B’s are together, then: []
3 2 18 1
(A) P E1 P E2 (B) P E1 E2 (C) P E1 E2 (D) P E1 / E2
11 55 55 5
*60. A and B are two independent events. The probability that both A and B occur is 1/6 and the probability that neither
of them occurs is 1/3. Then the probability of the occurrence of A may be:
(A) 1/2 (B) 1/3 (C) 1/4 (D) 2/3
*61. a and b are two unit vectors inclined at an angle ( [0, ]) to each other and | a b | 1 then can lie in :
2 2 5 2 5
(A) , (B) , ,
(C) (D) , .
3 3 3 2 3 6 3 7
*62. Let the position vectors of the points A, B, C be a iˆ 2 ˆj 3kˆ, b iˆ ˆj 8kˆ and c 4iˆ 4 ˆj 6kˆ
respectively, then: [ ]
(A) ABC is equilateral (B) ABC is right angled
(C) | b c |2 | c a |2 2 | a b |2 (D) | b c |2 | c a |2 | a b |2
65. If the interior and exterior bisectors of the angle A of a triangle ABC meet the base BC at D and E, then :
(A) 2BC BD BE (B) BC 2 BD BE
2 1 1
(C) (D) None of these
BC BD BE
66. If ABC be a triangle of sides a, b, c with position vectors of A, B, C as a , b and c respectively, then the position
vector of its incentre is :
(a b c ) a b b c c a
(A) (B)
3 a 2 b2 c2
aa bb cc
(C) (D) None of these
abc
67. ABC is a triangle. AD, AD’ are internal and external bisectors of angle A, meeting BC at D and D’ respectively. A’
is the mid-point of DD’ and B’, C’ are similar points on CA and AB. Then A’, B’, C’
(A) Lie on a plane (B) Form an equilateral triangle.
(C) Form an isosceles triangle (D) None of these
68. The equation of the plane parallel to plane x y 2 z 5 at a distance 6 units from this plane is / are:
(A) x y 2 z 11 0 (B) x y 2 z 11 []
(C) x y 2z 1 0 (D) x y 2z 1 0
Passage for Questions 69 - 73
A conic section is obtained by the intersection of two inverted cones (having same vertex) with a plane. If a plane passes
through the vertex, then its intersection with the cones either represents a pair of straight lines or a point depending upon
whether it intersects the cones or not. If plane does not pass through vertex, then section may be hyperbola or circle
depending upon whether plane is parallel to axis of the cone or perpendicular to it. If it has any other inclination, then
intersection of plane and cone gives an ellipse.
69. If a variable point P moves such that the line passing through P and Q (0, 0, 2) makes an angle 60º with z-axis,
then locus of P is :
(A) x2 y 2 3( z 2)2 0 (B) x2 y 2 3( z 2)2 0
(C) x2 y 2 3( z 2)2 0 (D) x2 y 2 3( z 2)2 0
70. The locus of intersection of locus of P with the plane x y z 1 is :
(A) a pair of straight lines (B) a hyperbola
(C) a circle (D) an ellipse
74. An ordinary deck of 52 playing cards is randomly divided into 4 groups of 13 cards each. The probability that each
group has exactly 1 jack?