APT

EDUCATING INDIA
CA F MAY’21
SUBJECT- MATHS, LR & STATISTICS
TIME- 1 HR MM:50

1.Find the sum of the series :

2 + 7 + 12 + ………. 297 .
(a) 8970 (b) 8870 (c) 7630 (d) 9875

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2. A certain ball when dropped to the ground rebounds to of the height from which it falls;
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it is dropped from a height of 100 metres find the total distance it travels before finally
coming to rest :
(a) 600 m (b) 700 m (c) 900 m (d) 200 m
3. The time by which a sum of money is 8 times of itself if it doubles itself in 15 years.
(a) 42 years (b) 43 years (c) 45 years (d) 46 years
4. What is the rate of simple interest if a sum of money amounts to Rs. 2,784 in 4 years and
Rs. 2,688 in 3 years?
(a) 1% p.a. (b) 4% p.a. (c) 5% p.a. (d) 8% p.a.
5. The future value of an annuity of Rs. 5,000 is made annually for 8 years at interest rate of
9% compounded annually [Given that (1.09)8 = 1.99256] is
(a) Rs. 55,142.22 (b) Rs. 65,142.22 (c) Rs. 65,532.22 (d) Rs. 57,425.22
6. The maximum number of points of inter section of 10 circles will be:
(a) 2 (b) 20 (c) 90 (d) 180
n 1
7. If C r 1 : n C r : n 1C r 1  8 : 3 : 1, then n is equal to:
(a) 20 (b) 16 (c) 10 (d) 15
8. The number of numbers between 1,000 and 10,000, which can be formed by the digits 1,
2, 3, 4, 5, 6 without repetition is:
(a) 720 (b) 180 (c) 360 (d) 540
9. The number of ways in which 4 persons can occupy 9 vacant seats is:
(a) 6048 (b) 3024 (c) 1512 (d) 4536
10. The number of words which can be formed by letters of the word ‘ALLAHABAD’ is :
(a) 7560 (b) 3780 (c) 30240 (d) 15120
11. If 2x  2x 1  4 then x x is equal to :
(a) 7 (b) 3 (c) 27 (d) 9
12.If loga b  loga c  0 then
 (a) b=c (b) b = -c
(c) b=c=1 (d) b and c are reciprocals.
13. What must be added to each term of the ratio 49 : 68, so that it becomes 3 : 4?
(a) 3 (b) 5 (c) 8 (d) 9
14. The students of two classes are in the ratio 5 : 7, if 10 students left from each class, the
remaining students are in the ratio of 4 : 6 then the number of students in each class
is :
(a) 30, 40 (b) 25, 24 (c) 40, 60 (d) 50, 70
15. The value of 2 log x + 2 log x2 + 2 log x3 + …….. + 2 log xn will be :
n(n  1) log x
(a) (b) n(n+1) logx (c) n2 logx (d) None of
2
these
16. The sides of an equilateral triangle are shortened by 12 units, 13 units and 14 units
respectively and a right angled triangle is formed. The side of the equilateral triangle
is :
(a) 17 units (b) 16 units (c) 15 units (d) 18 units

17. The value of 6  6  6  ...... is :

(a) -3 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 4
18. On 1st January every year a person buys National Saving Certificates of value exceeding
that of his last year’s purchase by Rs. 100. After 10 years, he finds that the total value
of the certificates purchased by him is Rs. 54,500. Find the value of certificates
purchased by him in the first year:
(a) Rs. 6,000 (b) Rs. 4,000 (c) Rs. 5,000 (d) Rs. 5,500
19. Find three numbers in G.P. such that their sum is 21, and the sum of their squares is 189:
(a) 5, 7, 9 (b) 3, 7, 11 (c) 3, 6, 12 (d) 4, 8, 9
20. The sum of how many terms of the sequence 256, 128, 64, …………. Is 511.
(a) 8 (b) 9 (c) 7 (d) None of
these

21. For some bivariate data, the following results were obtained for the two variables x and y
:
x  53.2, y  27.9, b yx  1.5, b xy  0.2
The most probable value of y when x = 60 is :
(a) 15.6 (b) 13.4 (c) 19.7 (d) 17.7
22. If the sum of squares of the rank difference in mathematics and physics marks of 10
students is 22, then the coefficient of rank correlation is :
 (a) 0.267 (b) 0.867 (c) 0.92 (d) None
23. Two random variables have the regression lines 3x + 2y = 26 and 6x + y = 31. The
coefficient of correlation between x and y is :
(a) -0.25 (b) 0.5 (c) -0.5 (d) 0.25
24. The coefficient of correlation between X and Y is 0.6. U and V are two variables defined
x 3 y2
as U  ,V  , then the coefficient of correlation between U and V is :
2 3
(a) 0.6 (b) 0.4 (c) 0.8 (d) 1
25. For the following data, the coefficient of rank correlation is:
Rank in Botany : 1 2 3 4 5

Rank in Chemistry : 2 3 1 5 4

(a) 0.93 (b) 0.4 (c) 0.6 (d) None

26. The overall percentage of failure in a certain examination is 0.30. What is the probability
that out of a group of 6 candidates at least 4 passed the examination?
(a) 0.74 (b) 0.71 (c) 0.59 (d) 0.67
27. A manufacturer, who produces medicine bottles, finds that 0.1% of the bottles are
defective. The bottles are packed in boxes containing 500 bottles. A drug manufacturer
buys 100 boxes from the producer of bottles. Using Poisson distribution, find how many
boxes will contains at least two defectives:
(a) 7 (b) 13 (c) 9 (d) 11
28. The number of methods of fitting the normal curve is:
(a) 4 (b) 3 (c) 2 (d) 1
29. Suppose that weather records show that on an average 5 out of 31 days in October are
rainy days is :
(a) 0.4403 (b) 0.2403 (c) 0.3403 (d) None
30. If 5% of the families in Kolkata do not use gas as a fuel, what will be the probability of
selecting 10 families in a random sample of 100 families who do not use gas as fuel?
[Given : e5 = 0.0067]
(a) 0.038 (b) 0.028 (c) 0.048 (d) 0.018
31. For a set of 100 observations, taking assumed mean as 4, the sum of the deviations
is -11 cm, and the sum of the squares of these deviations is 257 cm2 . The coefficient
of variation is:
(a) 41.13% (b) 42.13% (c) 40.13% (d) None
32. If the A.M. and H.M. for two numbers are 5 and 3.2 respectively then the G.M. will be:
(a) 4.05 (b) 16 (c) 4 (d) 4.10
33. ……….. are used for measuring central tendency, dispersion and skewness:
(a) Median (b) Deciles (c) Percentiles (d) Quartiles
34. Which of the following companies A or B is more consistent so far as the payment of
dividend is concerned?
Dividend paid by A: 5 9 6 12 15 10 8 10

Dividend paid by B: 4 8 7 15 18 9 6 6

(a) A (b) B (c) Both A & B (d) Neither A

nor B
35. What is the coefficient of range for the following distribution?
Class Interval: 10-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59

Frequency : 11 25 16 7 3

(a) 22 (b) 50 (c) 75.82 (d) 72.46

36. Among the examinees in an examination 30%, 35% and 45% failed in Statistics, in
Mathematics and in at least one of the subjects respectively. An examinee is selected
at random. Find the probability that he failed in Mathematics only:
(a) 0.245 (b) 0.25 (c) 0.254 (d) 0.55
37. An article consists of two parts A and B. The manufacturing process of each part is
such that probability of defect in A is 0.08 and that B is 0.05. What is the probability
that the assembled product will not have any defect?
(a) 0.934 (b) 0.864 (c) 0.85 (d) 0.874
38. Daily demand for calculators is having the following probability distribution:
Demand : 1 2 3 4 5 6

Probability: 0.10 0.15 0.20 0.25 0.18 0.12

Determine the variance of the demand.

(a) 2.54 (b) 2.93 (c) 2.22 (d) 2.19
39. If 10 men, among whom are A and B, stand in a row, what is the probability that there
will be exactly 3 men between A and B?
(a) 11/15 (b) 4/15 (c) 1/15 (d) 2/15
40. The probability of an event can assume any value between:
 (a) 0 and 1 (b) –1 and 0 (c) –1 and 1 (d) None of
these

41. Pointing to a photograph a man said, “I have no brother or sister but that man’s father is
my father’s son.” Whose photograph was it?
(a) His son’s (b) His own
(c) His father’s (d) His nephew’s
42. A is father of C and D is son of B. E is brother of A. If C is sister of D, how is B related to
E?
(a) Brother-in-law (b) Sister-in-law
(c) Husband (d) Daughter
43. If South-East becomes North and South becomes North-East and all the rest directions
are changed in the same manner, the what will be the direction for West?
(a) North-East (b) North-West (c) South-East (d) South-
West
44. I walk 30 meters in North-West direction from my house and then 30 meters in South-west
direction. After this I walk 30 meters in South-East direction. Now, I turn to my house,
in what direction am I going?
(a) North-East (b) North-West (c) South-East (d) South-
West
45. Mohan was facing east. He walked 4 km forward and then after turning to his right walked
3 km. Again he turned to his right and walked 4 km. After this he turned back. Which
direction was he facing at that time?
(a) East (b) West (c) North (d) South

46. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z .
In the alphabet given above, which is 13th letter to the left of 8th letter from your right?
(a) E (b) F (c) U (d) H
47. There are two letters in the word ‘SCIENTIFIC’ such that the number of letters between
them is the same as the number of letters between them in the alphabet. The letter
which comes later in the alphabet is your answer. If no such pair of letters is possible,
then your answer is ‘X’.
(a) E (b) C (c) I (d) X
Six friends are sitting in a circle and are facing the center of the circle. Deepa is between
Prakash and Pankaj. Priti is between Mukesh and Lalit. Prakash and Mukesh are
opposite to each other.
48. Who is sitting right to Prakash?
 (a) Mukesh (b) Deepa
(c) Pankaj (d) Lalit
49. Who is just right to Pankaj?
(a) Deepa (b) Lalit
(c) Prakash (d) Priti
50. Who are the neighbours of Mukesh?
(a) Prakash and Deepa (b) Deepa and Priti
(c) Priti and Pankaj (d) Lalit and Priti