ACHIEVERS’ ACADEMY

Time : 90 mins MM. 40

General Instructions :
1. This question paper contains three sections – A, B and C. Each part is compulsory.
2. Section - A has 20 MCQs, attempt any 16 out of 20.
3. Section - B has 20 MCQs, attempt any 16 out of 20
4. Section - C has 10 MCQs, attempt any 08 out of 10.
5. There is no negative marking.
6. All questions carry equal marks.
SECTION — A
In this section, attempt any 16 questions out of questions 1-20. Each question is of 1 mark weightage.
1. If A = {x : x is a positive multiple of 3 less than 100} and B = {y : y is a prime number less than 20}. Then n(A) + n(B)
is equal to :
(a) 34 (b) 31 (c) 33 (d) 41
b
2. If 3(7 7i ) i (7 7i ) a ib, then is equal to :
a
(a) 2 (b) 1 (c) 3 (d) –1
3. The number of terms in the A.P. 20, 25, 30, ......, 100 are :
(a) 16 (b) 17 (c) 18 (d) 19

x3 8
4. Evaluate : lim
x 2 x 2

(a) 10 (b) 11 (c) 12 (d) 13

5. The equation of the line parallel to x-axis and passing through the point (–3, 5) is :
(a) x = –3 (b) y = –3 (c) x = 5 (d) y = 5
6. Variance of the data 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 17 is 23.33. Then variance of 4, 8, 10, 12, 16, 34 will be :
(a) 23.33 (b) 46.66 (c) 93.32 (d) None of these
1 1
7. If f ( x) x3 , then f ( x) f is :
x3 x
(a) 0 (b) 1 (c) 2 (d) not defined
15 8
8. If Z 5i 6i , then Z is equal to :
(a) –6 – 5i (b) – 6 + 5i (c) 6 – 5i (d) 6 + 5i
9. If A = {x : x ∈ N, x is a factor of 6} and B = {x : x ∈ N, x is a factor of 8}, then A ∩ B is equal to :
(a) {1, 2, 3} (b) {1, 2, 4} (c) {2} (d) None of these
10. The distance of the point (–3, –5) from the line 3x – 4y – 26 = 0 is :

3 2
(a) (b) (c) 3 (d) None of these
5 5

2 1
11. The value of lim is equal to :
x 1 1 x2 x 1
1 1 1
(a) (b) (c) (d) 1
2 3 4
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12. The average of first 5 natural numbers is :
(a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 4
13. If (a – 2, 2b + 1) = (b –1, a + 2), then values of a and b are :
(a) a = 2, b = 3 (b) a = 2, b = 2 (c) a = 3, b = 2 (d) a = 3, b = 3
14. If an denotes the nth term of the series 2 + 3 + 6 + 11 + 18 + ...., then a50 is :
(a) 492 – 1 (b) 492 + 1 (c) 502 + 1 (d) 492 + 2
4
4 1
15. Value of (1 i ) 1 is :
i

(a) 2 (b) 4 (c) 16 (d) 64

16. If A and B are two sets, then A ∩ (A ∪ B) is equals to :
(a) φ (b) A (c) B (d) A ∩ B
17. The distance between the lines 3x + 4y = 9 and 6x + 8y = 15 is :

3 7 2 3
(a) (b) (c) (d)
10 10 25 25

e x e5
18. lim is equal to :
x 5 x 5

(a) e2 (b) e3 (c) e4 (d) e5

19. Let A B {( a, b) : b 3a 2} . If (2, y) belongs to A × B, then value of y is :
4 3
(a) (b) –1 (c) 4 (d)
3 4
20. Consider the following data 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. If 2 is added to each number, then standard deviation of the
numbers so obtained is :
(a) 2.55 (b) 2.87 (c) 6.5 (d) 8.25
SECTION — B
In this section, attempt any 16 questions out of the questions 21-40. Each question is of 1 mark weightage.
(1 i )(2 i )
21. If z (3 i )
, then | z | is equal to :

(a) 0 (b) 1 (c) 2 (d) 3

22. If A = {1, 2} and B = {3, 4, 5}, then the number of non-empty relations from B to A is :
(a) 64 (b) 32 (c) 31 (d) 63
n
23. If x is the mean of n observations x1, x2, x3, ...., xn, then the value of ( xi x ) is :
i 1

(a) –1 (b) 1 (c) 0 (d) None of these

24. If A and G are arithmetic and geometric means between any two different positive real numbers, then :
(a) A ≥ G (b) A ≤ G (c) A > G (d) A < G
25. Which of the following is not correct?
(a) N ⊂ R (b) N ⊂ Q (c) Q ⊂ R (d) N ⊂ T
26. The points A (x, 4), B (3, –2) and C (4, –5) are collinear, then the value of x is :
(a) 1 (b) 2 (c) –1 (d) 0

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27. lim 2 is equal to :
x 1 2x 7x 5
1 1 1 1
(a) (b) (c) (d)
3 3 5 5
28. The value of ( 1) 4 n 1 , n N is :
(a) –1 (b) 1 (c) –i (d) i
29. A survey shows that 73% of the Indians like apples, whereas 65% like oranges. What percent of Indians like both apples
and oranges?
(a) 8% (b) 65% (c) 38% (d) None of these
30. Which term of the sequence 3, 3, 3 3, .... is 729 ?
(a) 6 (b) 16 (c) 9 (d) 12

| x 5|
, x 5
31. If f ( x ) x 5 then left hand limit of f (x) at x = 5 is equal to :
0 , x 5
(a) –1 (b) 0 (c) 1 (d) 2
32. If a line joining the points (–2, 6) and (4, 8) is perpendicular to the line joining the points (8, 12) and (x, 24), then the
value of x is :
(a) 3 (b) 4 (c) –4 (d) 2
x
33. The range of the function f ( x) is :
1 x2
1 1
(a) (–∞, ∞) (b) [–1, 1] (c) , (d) [ 2, 2]
2 2
34. The mean deviation of the data 1, 3, 7, 9, 10, 12 from the mean is :
19 21 17 10
(a) (b) (c) (d)
6 6 6 3
x
1 i
35. If 1, then n N is :
1 i
(a) x = 2n + 1 (b) x = 4n (c) x = 2n (d) 4n + 1
36. The co-ordinates of the circumcentre of the triangle whose vertices are (0, 0), (4, 0) and (0, –6) is :
(a) (0, 0) (b) (4, 0) (c) (2, –3) (d) (0, –6)

37. The value of 91/3 91/9 91/27 ..... is :

(a) 1 (b) 3 (c) 9 (d) None
log ( x 1)
38. lim is equal to :
x 2 x 2
1
(a) 0 (b) –1 (c) (d) 1
2
39. If n (U ) 50, n( A) 28 and n(B) = 30, then the greatest value of n (A ∪ B) is :
(a) 58 (b) 50 (c) 30 (d) 28
40. The mean deviation of the data 2, 7, 9, 11, 15, 16 from the median is :
(a) 6 (b) 5 (c) 4 (d) 3

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 SECTION - C

In this section, attempt any 8 questions. Each question is of 1 mark weightage. Questions 46-50 are based on a Case-
Study.
41. The equation of the line containing the point (4, –5) and parallel to the line joining the points (3, 7) and (–2, 4) is :
(a) 3x – 5y – 37 = 0 (b) 5x + 3y + 27 = 0 (c) 3x – 5y + 27 = 0 (d) 3x – 5y + 37 = 0
4x 5 , x 2
42. Let f ( x ) . If lim f ( x ) exists, then the value of a is :
x a , x 2 x 2

(a) 0 (b) 1 (c) –1 (d) 5

43. If A be the set of letters in the word ‘POOR’, then the number of elements in power set of A is :
(a) 16 (b) 8 (c) 4 (d) 2
44. Range of the real function f ( x ) 1 | x 2 | is :
(a) (–∞, 1) (b) (–∞, –1) (c) (–∞, –1] (d) (–∞, 1]

45. Value of ( 1 3) 2 ( 1 3) 2 is :
(a) – 4 i (b) 4i (c) –4 (d) 4
Case-Study
An auditorium has 20 seats in the first row, 24 seats in the second row and 28 seats in the third row and so on.
Based on the above information answer the following questions.
46. How many seats are there in the 16th row?
(a) 76 (b) 80 (c) 84 (d) 88
47. In the last row of the auditorium these are 116 seats. How many rows are there in the auditorium?
(a) 23 (b) 24 (c) 25 (d) 26
48. What is the total number of seats in the auditorium?
(a) 1640 (b) 1660 (c) 1680 (d) 1700
49. The hall was full on last Saturday for a show, how much were the total collections (in `) for the day, if a ticket was for
`200 ?
(a) 3,28,000 (b) 3,32,000 (c) 3,36,000 (d) 3,40,000
50. If one seat is added in first row, two seats in second row, three seats in third row and so on, then the total number of seats
in auditorium is :
(a) 2025 (b) 2000 (c) 1975 (d) 1950

ACHIEVERS’ ACADEMY (XI Core Term-1) ANSWERS

1. (d) 2. (a) 3. (b) 4. (c) 5. (d) 6. (c) 7. (a) 8. (b)
9. (d) 10. (c) 11. (a) 12. (b) 13. (c) 14. (d) 15. (c) 16. (b)
17. (a) 18. (d) 19. (c) 20. (b) 21. (b) 22. (d) 23. (c) 24. (c)
25. (d) 26. (a) 27. (b) 28. (c) 29. (c) 30. (d) 31. (a) 32. (b)
33. (c) 34. (d) 35. (b) 36. (c) 37. (b) 38. (d) 39. (b) 40. (c)
41. (a) 42. (c) 43. (b) 44. (d) 45. (c) 46. (b) 47. (c) 48. (d)
49. (d) 50. (a)

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