Chapter 2
Mathematics
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60 questions set from this chapter. Most repeated first.
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The terminal compound interest on a certain sum in years at the rate of % compound interest is . What is the relation among and ?
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
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Answer
(d)
"Terminal" means quarterly compounding, so the rate per period is and there are periods: amount , and interest is amount minus .
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The semi-annual compound interest on a certain sum m in t years at the rate of r % compound interest is CI. What is the relation among m, t, r and CI ?
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
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Answer
(c)
For half-yearly compounding the rate per period is and the number of periods is , so the amount is . Compound interest is amount minus principal.
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If A and B are the subsets of a universal set U, which of the following notation is used to denote ?
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
Answer
(a)
is the symmetric difference of and , written .
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In a group of 150 people, 120 like to play volleyball and 85 like to play football. If 25 like to play none of the games, then how many people like to play both the games?
(a) 20
(b) 30
(c) 80
(d) 25
Answer
(c) 80
People playing at least one game .
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The policy of bank for same principal, same rate and same time, which of the following policy is more profitable to consumer?
(a) Annual Compound Interest
(b) Semi-Annual Compound Interest
(c) Terminal Compound Interest
(d) Monthly Compound Interest
Answer
(d) Monthly Compound Interest
For the same principal, rate and time, the more often interest is compounded, the larger the amount. Monthly compounding (12 times a year) gives the most interest, so it is most profitable to the depositor.
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The present price of machine is Rs. 800000. If the price of the machine depreciates first year by 10% and then 8% and 5% respectively in the following years, what will be the price of the machine after 3 years?
(a) Rs. 6,29,000
(b) Rs. 6,25,280
(c) 7,29,280
(d) 6,29,280
Answer
(d) Rs. 6,29,280
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The price of a good is Rs. 30000. What will be the cost of good after 3 years at the rate of 10% depreciation?
(a) Rs. 21087
(b) Rs. 21780
(c) Rs. 21870
(d) Rs. 21708
Answer
(c) Rs. 21870
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If I.C. 100 = NRs. 160 and 1 American Dollar = NRs. 120, how many American Dollars are equal to I.C. 7500?
(a) Dollar 100
(b) Dollar 10
(c) Dollar 110
(d) I.C. 100
Answer
(a) Dollar 100
I.C. 7500 .
Dollars .
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Find out the area of triangular surfaces of a square based pyramid, if its area of base is 'z' square unit and total surface area is 'y' square unit.
(a) sq. unit
(b) sq. unit
(c) sq. unit
(d) sq. unit
Answer
(c) sq. unit
Total surface area = base area + area of the triangular faces, so the triangular faces have area .
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In the given figure (an ice-cream cone with a hemisphere on top; slant height of the cone is 25 cm), the slant height of the cone is 25 cm and the sum of the curved surface area is 858 cm. What is the common radius?
(a) 7 cm
(b) 14 cm
(c) 21 cm
(d) 15 cm
Answer
(a) 7 cm
The cone and the hemisphere have curved surface areas and :
Try : . So cm.
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What is the total surface area of square based pyramid having the slant height 10 cm and vertical height 8 cm?
(a) 483 cm
(b) 240 cm
(c) 144 cm
(d) 384 cm
Answer
(d) 384 cm
Slant height and height , so half the base side is cm, giving base side cm.
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Which of the following formula is known as the Heron's formula to calculate area of a triangle?
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
Answer
(d)
Heron's formula gives the area of a triangle with sides and semi-perimeter .
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In the given figure (a triangle with base endpoints marked and a segment drawn from the apex to the base), which segment represents a median of the given triangle?
(a) AB
(b) BC
(c) AC
(d) AD
Answer
(d) AD
A median joins a vertex to the midpoint of the opposite side. AD runs from the apex A to the point D on the base BC, so it is the median; AB and AC are sides and BC is the base.
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If the sum of the first terms of arithmetic series is given by , What is the first term of the series?
(a) 3
(b) 5
(c) 2
(d) 7
Answer
(b) 5
The first term equals .
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The length of a square room is 10 m and height is 6 m. If the per unit cost of painting the four walls of the room is Rs. 400, find the total cost.
(a) Rs. 96000
(b) Rs. 96000
(c) Rs. 69000
(d) Rs. 90600
Answer
(a) Rs. 96000
The room is square with side 10 m, so the four walls have area m.
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What is the volume of cone with radius cm and vertical height cm?
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
Answer
(a)
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The present age of husband and wife is 25 years and 22 years. What will be the product of their ages after 3 years?
(a) 418
(b) 700
(c) 550
(d) 53
Answer
(b) 700
After 3 years the ages are and , and .
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What is sum of the roots of the quadratic equation: ?
(a) 2
(b) 3
(c) 4
(d) 5
Answer
(a) 2
For the sum of roots is . (Check: roots are and , sum .)
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200 is obtained when subtracted 42 from the double of the square of a natural number, what is the natural number?
(a) 7
(b) 9
(c) 11
(d) 13
Answer
(c) 11
(natural number, so the negative root is rejected).
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If 3 is added to the numerator of a fraction, the value of the fraction becomes 1 and when 3 is added to the denominator of the fraction, the value of fraction becomes . What is the fraction?
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
Answer
(c)
Let the fraction be . Then , and .
Check: and .
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What is the value of m in ""?
(a) 0
(b) 1
(c)
(d) 5
Answer
(c)
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If and are the two polynomial which have no common factors except 1. What is the L.C.M.?
(a)
(b)
(c) 1
(d)
Answer
(d)
Since and have no common factor other than 1, their H.C.F. is 1. Using , the L.C.M. is .
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In the given figure, ABCD is a parallelogram with AD parallel to BE (B, C, E on one line, with E beyond C), and the area of parallelogram ABCD is 100 sq. cm. What is the area of triangle ABE?
(a) 50 sq. cm
(b) 100 sq. cm
(c) 200 sq. cm
(d) 40 sq. cm
Answer
(a) 50 sq. cm
The triangle and the parallelogram stand on the same base and lie between the same parallel lines, so the triangle has half the area of the parallelogram:
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Which of the following statements is true?
(a) Rhombus is a square.
(b) Parallelogram is a rectangle.
(c) Rectangle is a parallelogram.
(d) All squares are not Rectangle.
Answer
(c) Rectangle is a parallelogram.
A rectangle has both pairs of opposite sides parallel and equal, so it is a parallelogram. The other statements are false: a rhombus need not have right angles, a parallelogram need not have right angles, and every square is a rectangle.
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If then A and B are:
(a) Supplementary
(b) Complementary
(c) Adjacent
(d) All of the above
Answer
(b) Complementary
Two angles whose sum is are complementary. A sum of would make them supplementary.
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In the given figure, ABCD is a square and EBCF a parallelogram. If AB = 4 cm, what is the area of parallelogram EBCF?
(a) 32 cm
(b) 16 cm
(c) 20 cm
(d) 10 cm
Answer
(b) 16 cm
The square ABCD and the parallelogram EBCF have the same base BC and lie between the same parallels, so their areas are equal:
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In the given figure, O is the center of circle. If TAN is tangent then, what is the value of ?
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
Answer
(c)
The radius OA is perpendicular to the tangent TAN at A, so . In triangle OAN the angle sum is , hence
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What is the value of x in given figure? (A square ABCD is inscribed in a circle with centre O; x is the angle between the diagonal AC and the side from A.)
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
Answer
(b)
The diagonal AC of a square bisects the right angle at A, so .
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A fair dice is rolled. What is the probability of getting a number greater than 4?
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
Answer
(b)
Numbers greater than 4 on a die are 5 and 6, so there are 2 favourable outcomes out of 6:
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In a continuous series, if and , what is the value of mean?
(a) 12
(b) 20
(c) 8
(d) 15
Answer
(c) 8
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What is the value of x in given figure? (Right-angled figure: A and B are 2 m apart vertically, with B and C at the bottom, AD = 18 m horizontal and DE perpendicular to AD at D, total height of E above the base 20 m; x is the angle at A between AD and AE.)
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
Answer
(a)
The height of E above A is m and the horizontal distance AD is 18 m, so
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What is the Volume of a Cylinder with radius K and vertical height Y ?
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
Answer
(a)
Volume of a cylinder = base area height = . With and this gives . The factor belongs to a cone.
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If 20, x, y, z, 40 are arithmetic sequence then what is the value of y ?
(a) 25
(b) 60
(c) 35
(d) 30
Answer
(d) 30
is the middle (third) term of the five terms, so it is the mean of the first and last:
Check: the common difference is , giving 20, 25, 30, 35, 40.
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In which term is 65 ?
(a) 10
(b) 11
(c) 12
(d) 13
Answer
(d) 13
Here , , so . Setting gives .
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If 11 is subtracted from the square of a number the result is 38. Find the number.
(a)
(b) 7
(c)
(d)
Answer
(c)
Both and satisfy the condition, since .
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The present ages of mother and daughter are 45 years and 15 years respectively. What will be the sum of their ages after 10 years?
(a) 50
(b) 60
(c) 70
(d) 80
Answer
(d) 80
After 10 years, mother is and daughter is . Sum years.
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Which one is a quadratic equation in which the values of y are 2 and ?
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
Answer
(c)
Roots and : sum , product . The equation is , i.e. .
Check: .
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What is the value of ?
(a)
(b)
(c) 3
(d) 2
Answer
(a)
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If , what is the value of x ?
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
Answer
(d)
so .
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and are two polynomials. If there is no common factor to both the polynomials, what will be their lowest common factor (L.C.M.)?
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d) 1
Answer
(c)
When two polynomials have no common factor (their H.C.F. is 1), their L.C.M. is the product: .
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Find the value of :
(a) 2
(b) 3
(c) 4
(d) 5
Answer
(a) 2
Try : , which matches.
Check others: gives , and larger values are bigger still, so .
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In the given figure, the height of the pole including the lamp AF = 19.6 m and the height of the man CE = 1.6 m. If the angle of elevation is when a person looks at the top of the lamp, what is the distance between the person and the lamp post?
(a) 1.6 m
(b) 18 m
(c) 19.6 m
(d) 21.2 m
Answer
(b) 18 m
The eye level is at the man's height m, so the lamp top is m above the eye. With elevation :
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In the given figure, and square PQRS are standing on the same base and between the same parallel lines SR and PT. If PS = 4 cm, what is the area of ?
(a) 4 cm
(b) 8 cm
(c) 16 cm
(d) 32 cm
Answer
(b) 8 cm
Square PQRS has side cm, and has base cm and height cm (the distance between the parallel lines).
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In the given figure, the area of the is 108 cm and AB = 18 cm. What is the height of the parallelogram ABCD ?
(a) 9 cm
(b) 6 cm
(c) 12 cm
(d) 18 cm
Answer
(c) 12 cm
and parallelogram ABCD stand on the same base AB between the same parallels, so they have the same height .
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In the given figure (a circle through P, Q, R, S with a tangent at R), which angle is equal to the ?
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
Answer
(d)
PQRS is a cyclic quadrilateral, and is an exterior angle at R (T on the extension of SR). An exterior angle of a cyclic quadrilateral equals the interior opposite angle, which is .
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ABCD is a circle in the given figure where AB = BC. What is the value of ?
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
Answer
(d)
Since AB = BC, the angles subtended by these equal chords in the circle are equal. The exterior angle of the cyclic quadrilateral ABCD equals the interior opposite angle, which works out to .
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In a continuous series, mean and , find the number of observations.
(a) 6
(b) 7
(c) 8
(d) 9
Answer
(b) 7
Since ,
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What is the measure of central tendency that divides the given data into two equal parts keeping the given data either ascending or descending order.
(a) Mean
(b) Mode
(c) Quartile
(d) Median
Answer
(d) Median
The median is the middle value of data arranged in order, dividing it into two equal parts.
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The first quartile is calculated by the formula ............ in a continuous data.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
Answer
(a)
The first quartile lies in the class containing the -th item; is its lower limit, the cumulative frequency before it, its frequency and its class width.
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If three children are born in a family, what is the probability that all three children are not daughters?
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
Answer
(d)
Total outcomes . The only outcome with all three daughters is 1. So
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A and B are two mutually exclusive events with and . What is the value of ?
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
Answer
(d)
For mutually exclusive events, .
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If , then, What is the maximum value of ?
(a) 10
(b) 80
(c) 90
(d) 170
Answer
(b) 80
. The maximum occurs when .
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If , , , then What is the value of ?
(a) 300
(b) 700
(c) 400
(d) 600
Answer
None of the listed options equals 100, so the question has no correct option as printed. (For reference: .)
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A sum of money amounts Rs. 14520 in 2 years and 15972 in 3 years at certain compound interest. What is the rate of compound interest?
(a) 12 %
(b) 10%
(c) 15%
(d) 11%
Answer
(b) 10%
The amount in the third year divided by the amount in the second year is :
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If the cost is depreciated at the rate of 20% per annum, the cost of motorcycle is 175000. Find the price of the motorcycle after 3 years.
(a) Rs. 102400
(b) Rs. 300000
(c) Rs. 89600
(d) Rs. 75000
Answer
(c) Rs. 89600
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If the population of a village becomes nine times in 2 years, find the population growth rate.
(a) 100%
(b) 200%
(c) 300%
(d) 900%
Answer
(b) 200%
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According to the exchange rate of a day, US 129.36
(b) 134
(d) $ 134.64
Answer
(d) Rs. 134.64
Devaluing the Nepali rupee by 2% makes a dollar cost 2% more rupees: per US $1.
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The base side and slant height of a square based pyramid is cm and cm respectively. What is the real height of the pyramid?
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
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Answer
(c)
The base side is , so the distance from the centre of the base to the midpoint of a side is . In the right triangle formed by the height , this distance and the slant height : .
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The base side and slant height of a square based pyramid is 16 cm and 10 cm respectively. What is the volume of the pyramid?
(a) 853.33 cm
(b) 512 cm
(c) 2560 cm
(d) 1536 cm
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Answer
(b) 512 cm
Half the base side is cm, so the height is cm.
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If area of the base of the cylinder is 154 cm, Height is 15 cm. What is the total surface area of cylinder?
(a) 968 cm
(b) 528 cm
(c) 308 cm
(d) 616 cm
Answer
(a) 968 cm
cm.
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