FACULTY RECRUITMENT

MATHEMATICS
(SAT-R)
(Category – D)
TIME: 1 HOUR TOTAL NO. OF QUESTIONS: 30
MAXIMUM MARKS: 60

INSTRUCTIONS

I. GENERAL
1. This booklet is your Question Paper contains only Objective Type Questions.
2. All the questions are COMPULSORY.
3. Answer of MCQ need to write on the given answer sheet.
4. Separate sheet has been provided for rough work.
5. Blank papers, clip boards, log tables, slide rule, cellular phones, pagers and electronic gadgets, in any form
are not allowed.
6. Write your Name in the space provided at the bottom of this sheet.

II. MARKING SCHEME

 For each correct answer to a question, you receive +2 Marks.
 For questions you omit, you receive no Marks.
 For a wrong answer to a multiple-choice question, you lose -1 Mark.

Name of the Candidate :

Registration Number :

Date of Examination : Centre:

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1. An equilateral triangle is drawn by joining the mid-points of the sides of another equilateral triangle. A
third equilateral triangle is drawn inside the second one joining the midpoints of the sides of the second
equilateral triangle, the process continues infinitely. Find the sum of the perimeters of all the equilateral
triangle, if the side of the largest equilateral triangle is 24 units.
A. 288 units B. 72 units
C. 36 units D. 144 units

 m2   m3 
2. Sum to n terms of the series log  m   log    log  2   .... is:
 n  n 
n n
 mn  1  2  nn  1  2
A. log  n  1  B. log  n  1 
n  m 
n n
 mn  2  m1 n  2
C. log  n  D. log  1  m 
n  n 
3. 10% of salty water contained in a flask was poured out into a beaker. After this, a part of the water
contained in the beaker was vaporised by heating and due to this, the percentage of salt in the beaker
increased M times. If it is known that after the content of the beaker was poured into the flask, the
percentage of salt in the flask increased by x% . Find the original quantity of sea water in the flask.

9 M  1%  9 M  1  x%
A. B.
M 1 M 1

9 M  1.x% 9 M  x%
C. D.
M1 M1
4. If the midpoint of the line joining (3, 4) and (p, 7) is (x0, y0) and lies on the line 2 x  2 y  1  0 , then what
will be the value of p?
17
A. 15 B. 
2
17
C. – 15 D.
2

2x
5. The inverse of the function y  is:
1  2x
 y   1 
A. x  log 2   B. x  log 2  y 
 1y   12 

 1  1 
C. x  log 2  1   D. x  log 2  
 y   1y 

6. Suppose the area of the ABC is 10 3 . Length of segments AC and AB be 5 and 8 respectively. Then the
angle A is (are):
A. 45  or 135  B. 30  or 150 
C. 90  D. 60  or 120 
7. Let f be an odd function defined on real numbers such that f  x   3sin x  4 cos x , for x  0 , then f  x  for
x  0 is:

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A. 3sin x  4 cos x B. 3sin x  4 cos x
C. 3sin x  4 cos x D. 3sin x  4 cos x
8. If the letters of the word ‘ASHOKA’ are written down at randomly, then the chance that all A’s are
consecutive are:
1 1
A. B.
2 3
1 2
C. D.
4 3
E. 57

9. Solve for x : x 3  1  1  x

A. 1  x  0 B. x  1
C. 0x D. Always except (a)
10. Find the value of the logarithmic expression given below:

log 27  log 8  log 1000

log 1.2

where, log 10 2  0.30103 log 10 3  0.4771213

A. 1.77 B. 1.37
C. 2.33 D. 1.49
11. Five boys and three girls are sitting in a row of eight seats. In how many ways can they be seated so that
no girls sit side by side?
A. 36,000 B. 45,000
C. 24,000 D. None of these
12. Probabilities that Rajesh passes in Math, Physics and Chemistry are m, p and c respectively. Of these
subjects, Rajesh has 75% chance of passing in at least one, 50% chance of passing in at least two and 40%
chance of passing in exactly two. Find which of the following in true.
19 27
A. pmc  B. pmc 
20 20
1 1
C. pmc  D. pmc 
20 8
13. The nth term of the series
1 + 4 + 13 + 40 + 121 + 364 + ……… is
1 n
A. 3n  1 B.
2
 3  1
1 n 2n  1
C.
2
 3  1 D.
2
14. Two people started simultaneously form two points A and B towards each other. At the moment the
person who started at A had covered two third of the way, the other person had covered 2 km less than
1
half the total distance. If it is known that when the person who started from B had covered of the way,
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the other person was 3 km short of the midpoint. Find the distance between A and B. (the speed of the
two people were constant.)

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A.  15  3 
17 km B.  15  3 17 km
C. Both A and B D. 3 
17  5 km

15. Find the perimeter of the given figure:

10 cm.
6 cm.

A.  32  3  cm B.  36  6  cm
C.  46  3  cm D.  26  6  cm
16. A boy finds the average of 10 positive integers. Each integer contains two digits. By mistake, the boy
interchanges the digits of one number say ba for ab. Due to this, the average becomes 1.8 less than the
previous one. What was the difference of the two digits a and b?
A. 4 B. 2
C. 6 D. 8
17. A thief was stealing diamonds from a jewellery store. On his way out, he encountered three guards, each
was given half of the existing diamonds and two over it by the thief. In the end, he was left with one
diamond. How many did thief steal?
A. 40 B. 36
C. 42 D. 38
18. In the figure given below P, Q and R are points on a circle with centre O. the tangent to the circle at R
intersects secant PQ at T. If QRT  55 and  QTR  25 , find POQ .

P
Q

O
25 55
T
R
A. 110  B. 100 
C. 90  D. 50 
19. Two small square on a chess board are chosen at random. Find the probability that they have a common
side:
1 1
A. B.
12 18
2 3
C. D.
15 14

20. Solve for x : log 2  9  2 x   10  

log 3  x

A. 0 B. 3

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C. Both A and B D. 0 and 6

21. Find the sum of all the roots of the given function: f  x   x  2  x  2  2
2

A. 4 B. 3
C. 5 D. note possible to find.

22. If log 10 x  log 10 3 x  6 log x 10 then the values of x is:

A. 10 B. 30
C. 100 D. 1000
23. The salary of Raju and Ram is 20% and 30% less than the salary of Saroj respectively. By what percent is
the salary of Raju more than the salary of Ram?
A. 33.33% B. 50%
C. 15.18% D. 14.28%
24. Consider a rectangle ABCD of area 90 units. The points P and Q trisect AB and R bisects CD. The
diagonal AC intersects the line segments PR and QR at M and N respectively. What is the area of the
quadrilateral PQMN?
A. > 9.5 and  10 B. > 10 and  10.5
C. > 10.5 and  11 D. 11 and  11.5
25. The letters of the word HASTE are written in all possible orders and these words are written out as in
dictionary. Then the dictionary rank of the word HEATS is:
A. 52 B. 54
C. 56 D. 58
26. The mean and standard deviation for SAT math scores are shown in the table below for five high school
in a large city. A particular score for each city is also shown

School Mean Standard Deviation Single Score

A 532 24 600
B 485 30 560
C 515 22 561
D 396 26 474
E 479 35 552
Which single score has the highest z-score?
A. 474 in school D B. 552 in school E
C. 560 in school B D. 561 in school C
27. How many numbers are there between 100 and 1000, which have exactly one of their digit as 8?
A. 300 B. 1444
C. 225 D. 729
28. How many real solutions exist for the equation 3x  2 x  1  0 ?
A. 2 B. 3
C. 5 D. 1

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29. A person X has four notes of Rupee 1, 2, 5 and 10 denomination. The number of different sums of money
she can form from them is
A. 16 B. 15
C. 12 D. 8
30. Find the smallest integral x satisfying the inequality:
x5
0
x 2  5x  14
A. x  6 B. x  3
C. x  7 D. None of these

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