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CBSE PROBLEMS
1. Show that the curves x  y 2 and xy  k cut at right angles if 8k 2  1.

2. Find the equation of the tangent to the curve x 2  3 y  3 which is parallel to the line
y  4x  5  0 .

3. For the curve y  4 x 3  2 x 5 , find all the points at which the tangent passes through the
origin.

Examine the applicability of Rolle’s theorem for f x   x  1

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4. in the interval [0, 3].

5. Verify Rolle’s theorem for f x   x 3  7 x 2  16 x  12 in the interval [2, 3]

6. Verify Lagrange’s Mean Value Theorem for the function f x   x 2  2 x  4 on the interval
1,5 .
Find the intervals in which the function f x   x  1 x  3  is increasing or decreasing.
3 3
7.
8. Find the intervals in which the function f x   sin x  cos x in [0, 2] is increasing or
decreasing.
9. Show that the function f x   3 x 5  40 x 3  240 x is always increasing on R.

10. Find the absolute maximum value of f ( x )  2 x 3  3 x 2  12 x  1 on the interval  0, 4 .

11. A right circular cylinder is inscribed in a given cone. Show that the curved surface area of the
cylinder is maximum when the diameter of the cylinder is equal to the radius of the base of
the cone.
12. Show that volume of the greatest cylinder which can be inscribed in a cone of height h and
4
semi-vertical angle  is  h3 tan 2  .
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SINGLE CHOICE CORRECT
2 3
1. A particle moves along the curve y  x  1 . The points on the curve at which
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the y-coordinate is changing twice as fast as the x-coordinate are
 1  5  5  1
(a) 1, ,   1,  (b) 1, ,   1, 
 3  3  3   3
 5  1
(c) 1, ,   1,  (d) none of these
 3  3

2. The side of a square sheet is increasing at the rate of 4 cm per minute. The rate at which
the area is increasing when the side is 8 cm long is
(a) 60 cm 2 / min (b) 66 cm 2 / min (c) 62 cm 2 / min (d) 64 cm 2 / min

3. The radius of a spherical soap bubble is increasing at the rate of 0.2 cm/sec. The rate of
increase of its surface area, when the radius is 7 cm, is
(a) 12.2 cm 2 / sec (b) 11.2 cm 2 / sec (c) 10.2 cm 2 / sec (d) 9.2 cm 2 / sec

4. A man, 2 metres high, walks at a uniform speed of 6 metres per minute away from a lamp
post, 5 metres high. The rate at which the length of his shadow increases is
(a) 1 m / min (b) 2 m / min (c) 4 m / min (d) 3 m / min
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5. Sand is pouring from a pipe at the rate of 12 cm3 / sec . The falling sand forms a cone on
the ground in such a way that the height of the cone is always one-sixth of the radius of the
base. How fast is the height of the sand-cone increasing when the height is 4 cm?
1 1
(a) 48 cm / sec (b) cm / sec (c) 58 cm / sec (d) cm / sec
48 58

6. The volume of metal in a hollow sphere is constant. If the inner radius is increasing at the
rate of 1 cm/sec, then the rate of increase of the outer radius when the radii are 4 cm and 8
cm respectively, is
(a) 0.75 cm/sec (b) 0.25 cm/sec (c) 1 cm/sec (d) 0.50 cm/sec

7. The sum of the intercepts of any tangent to the curve x  y  a upon the co-ordinate
axes is
(a) 2a (b) a (c) a (d) 2a 3 2

8. The line x  y  2 is a tangent to the curve x 2  3  2y at the point

(a) (1, 1) (b) (–1, 1) (c)  3, 0  (d) 3,  3

9. The coordinates of the point on the curve y  x ln x at which the normal is parallel to the line
2 x  2y  3 are

(a) (0, 0) (b) e, e  (c) e 2

, 2e 2  (d) e 2
,  2e 2 
10.  
The normal to the curve y  1  2 x   sin 1 sin 3 x at x = 0 is
x

(a) y = 0 (b) x + y = 1 (c) x = 0 (d) none of these

11. The length of the normal at the point ‘t’ of the curve x  at  sin t , y  a1  cos t  is
t t 
(a) a sin t (b) 2a sin 3   sec  
2 2
t  t  t
(c) 2a sin  tan  (d) 2a sin 
2
  2 2

12. If the line ax  by  c  0 is a normal to the curve xy  1, then

(a) a, b  R (b) a  0, b  0
(c) a  0, b  0 or a  0, b  0 (d) a  0, b  0

13.  
If the tangent to the curve f  x   x 2 at the point c, f  c  is parallel to the line joining the
   
points a, f  a  and b, f  b  on the curve, then a, c, b are in
(a) H.P. (b) G.P. (c) A.P. (d) none of these

14. Tangents are drawn from the origin to the curve y = sin x. The point of contact lies on
(a) x2  y 2 (b) x2 y 2  x2  y 2 (c) x2 y 2  x2  y 2 (d) none of these

15. The function f ( x)  2 ln  x  2   x 2  4 x  1 increases in the interval

(a) (1, 2) (b) (2, 3) (c) (2, 5) (d) (2, 4)
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16. If a < 0, the function f  x   e ax  e  ax is monotonically decreasing when

(a) x < 0 (b) x > 0 (c) x > 1 (d) x < 1

17. 
The function f  x   2 x  tan 1 x  ln x  1  x 2  is monotonically increasing when
(a) x0 (b) x0 (c) xR (d) none of these
2
18. The interval of increase of the function given by f  x   x  e x  tan is
7
(a)  0,   (b)  , 0  (c) 1,   (d) none of these

19. If y  x 2 e  x , the interval in which y increases is

(a)  ,   (b)  2, 0  (c)  2,   (d)  0, 2 
a sin x  b cos x
20. The function f x   decreases for all x if
c sin x  d cos x
(a) ad  bc  0 (b) ad  bc  0
(c) ab  cd  0 (d) ab  cd  0

21. The length of the longest interval in which the function 3 sin x  4 sin 3 x is increasing, is
  3
(a) (b) (c) (d) 
3 2 2

22. A function is matched against an interval where it is supposed to be increasing, below. Which
of the following pairs is incorrectly matched?
Interval Function
 1
(a)  ,  3 x 2  2x  1
 3
(b)  ,  4  x 3  6x 2  6

(c)  ,   x 3  3x 2  3x  3

(d)  2,   2 x 3  3 x 2  12 x  6

23. If f ( x )  x 3  ax 2  bx  5 sin 2 x be an increasing function on R, then a and b satisfy

(a) a 2  3b  15  0 (b) a 2  3b  15  0
(c) a 2  3b  15  0 (d) a > 0 and b > 0
24. On which of the following intervals is the function x100 + sin x – 1 decreasing?
   
(a)  0,  (b) (0, 1) (c)  ,   (d) none of these
 2 2 

25. Let h( x )  f ( x )  (f ( x ))2  (f ( x ))3 for every real number x. Then

(a) h is increasing whenever f is increasing
(b) h is increasing whenever f is decreasing
(c) h is decreasing whenever f is increasing
(d) nothing can be said
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x x
26. If f ( x )  and g ( x )  , where 0  x  1, then
sin x tan x
(a) both f(x) and g(x) are increasing functions
(b) both f(x) and g(x) are decreasing functions
(c) f(x) is an increasing function
(d) g(x) is an increasing function

27. If f ( x )  x 3  4 x 2  x  2 is monotonically decreasing in the largest possible interval

 2
 2,   , then  
 3
(a) 4 (b) 2 (c) –1 (d) –4

28. Let f '  x   0 and g '  x   0 for all x  R. Then

(a) f  g  x    f  g  x  1  (b) f  g  x  1   f  g  x  1 

(c) g  f  x  1   g  f  x  1  (d) g  f  x    g  f  x  1 

29. Which of the following functions has local maximum at x = 0?

(a) x2 (b)  x 2 (c) x (d)  x
30. The local maximum value of 2 x 3  9 x 2  100 is
(a) 0 (b) 100 (c) 3 (d) 30
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The function f  x    x  k
2
31. assumes its minimum value for x given by
k 1

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(a) 5 (b) 3 (c) (d) 2
2
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32. The minimum value of a sec x  b cos ecx , 0  a  b , 0  x  is
2
a  b 2/3 
3/2
(a) a  b (b) a 2/3  b 2/3 (c) 2/3
(d) none of these

x
33. The minimum value of , x  0 is
ln x
1
(a) e (b) (c) 0 (d) does not exist
e

The local maximum value of the function f  x    x  2  x  35

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34. is
(a) 0 (b) 1 (c) –1 (d) does not exist

The critical point/s of the function f  x    x  2  2 x  1

2/3
35. is/are
1
(a) 1 and 2 (b) 1 and  (c) 1 and 2 (d) 1
2

36. The point of inflexion to the curve y  x1/3 is

(a) 1,1 (b)  0, 0  (c)  1, 1 (d) none of these
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37. The set of all values of ‘a’ for which the function
 x x
f ( x)  (a 2  3a  2)  cos 2  sin 2    a  1 x  sin1 does not possess critical points is
 4 4
(a) (1, ) (b) (0, 1)  (1, 4) (c) (–2, 4) (d) (1, 3)  (3, 5)

1 
38. The value of ‘a’ for which the function f  x   a sin x  sin 3 x has an extremum at x  is
3 3
(a) 1 (b) –1 (c) 0 (d) 2
39. A differentiable function f(x) has a relative minimum at x = 0. The function
y = f(x) + ax + b has a relative minimum at x = 0 for
(a) all a and b (b) all b and a = 0
(c) all b > 0 (d) all a > 0

 x , 0 x 2
40. If f  x    , then at x = 0, f has
1, x0
(a) a local maximum (b) no local maximum
(c) a local minimum (d) no extremum

| x  1 |   , x  1
41. If f ( x )   has a local minimum at x = 1, then  max 
2x  3 , x 1
(a) 4 (b) 5 (c) 6 (d) none of these

42. If f ' ( x )  ( x  a ) 2n ( x  b ) 2 p 1 , where n and p are positive integers, then

(a) x = a is a point of minimum
(b) x = a is a point of maximum
(c) x = a is neither a point of maximum nor a point of minimum
(d) nothing can be said

43. The population pt  of 1000 bacteria introduced into a medium changes according to the
1000t
relation pt   1000  . The maximum size of this bacterial population is
100  t 2
(a) 1100 (b) 1250 (c) 1050 (d) 5250

44.  
The number of values of x where the function f x   cos x  cos 2 x attains its maximum is
(a) 0 (b) 1 (c) 2 (d) infinite

45. Let f ( x)  ( x  1) p ( x  2) q , where p and q are integers such that p > 1, q > 1. Each critical
point of f(x) is a point of extremum when
(a) p  3, q  4 (b) p  5, q  7
(c) p  2, q  3 (d) p  2, q  4

46. If the function f ( x )  x 3  3(a  7)x 2  3(a 2  9)x  1 has a positive point of maximum, then
 29 
(a) a  ( ,  3)  (3,  ) (b) a  ( ,  3)   3, 
 7 
 29 
(c) a  (, 7) (d) a    , 
 7 
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47. The least value of f  x   x 3  12 x 2  45 x in  0, 7  is

(a) 0 (b) 50 (c) 45 (d) 54

48. The greatest value of f ( x )  ( x  1)1/ 3  ( x  1)1/ 3 on [0, 1] is

1
(a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d)
3
2 3
49. The minimum value of 2 ( x 3 )  27 is
(a) 227 (b) 2 (c) 1 (d) none of these
x2
 1
50. The maximum value of   is
x
1 1 2 1

(a) e 2e (b) e e (c) ee (d) e 2e

51. If xy  4 and x  0 , then the maximum value of x  16 y is

(a) 8 (b) 8 (c) 16 (d) 16

n2
52. The largest term in the sequence a n  is given by
n 3  200
529 8 49
(a) (b) (c) (d) none of these
49 89 543

53. If f x   x 2  2bx  2c 2 and g x    x 2  2cx  b 2 such that min . f x   max .g x  , then the
relation between b and c is
(a) no real value of b and c (b) 0  c  b 2
(c) | c |  | b | 2 (d) | c |  | b | 2

54. The difference between the greatest and least values of the function f  x   sin 2 x  x on
  
  2 , 2  is

3 2 3 2  3 
(a) (b)  (c)  (d) 
2 2 6 2 3
55. If a 2 x 4  b 2 y 4  c 6 , then the maximum value of xy is
c3 c3 c3 c3
(a) (b) (c) (d)
2ab 2ab ab ab
56. The point on the curve x 2  2 y which is nearest to the point  0,5  is

(a) 2 2, 4  (b)  0, 0  (c)  2, 2  (d) none of these

57. The absolute minimum value of f ( x )  cos x  10 x  3 x 2  x 3 , x  [2, 3] , is

(a) –12 (b) –15 (c) –18 (d) none of these
58. 20 is divided into two parts so that the product of the cube of one quantity and the square of
the other quantity is maximum. The parts are
(a) 10, 10 (b) 16, 4 (c) 15, 5 (d) 12, 8
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59. The ratio between the height of a right circular cone of maximum volume inscribed in a given
sphere and the diameter of the sphere is
(a) 2 : 3 (b) 3 : 4 (c) 1 : 3 (d) 1 : 4

60. A wire of length p is cut into two parts. A circle and a square are formed with the help of
these parts. The sum of the areas of the circle and the square is minimum if the ratio of the
side of the square and the diameter of the circle is
(a) 2 : 1 (b) 1 : 2 (c) 1 : 1 (d) none of these

61. Kamal has x children by his first wife. Ritu has (x + 1) children by her first husband. They
marry and have children of their own. The whole family has 24 children. Assuming that two
children of the same parents do not fight, the maximum possible number of fights that can
take place is
(a) 190 (b) 191 (c) 200 (d) 526

62. If the function f  x   x3  6 x 2  ax  b defined on 1,3 satisfies the Rolle's theorem for
2 3 1
c , then
3
(a) a  11, b  6 (b) a  11, b  6 (c) a  11, b  R (d) none of these

63.
(a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 2 (d) 1

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64. Let f x  satisfy all the conditions of mean value theorem in [0, 2]. If f 0   0 and f x  
2
for all x, in [0, 2], then
(a) f x   2 (b) f x   1

(c) f x   2 x (d) f x   3 for at least one x in [0, 2]

f b   f a  1
65. In the mean value theorem  f c  , if a  0, b  and f x   x x  1x  2 , then
ba 2
the value of c is
15 21
(a) 1 (b) 1 15 (c) 1 (d) 1 21
6 6

66. In [0, 1], Lagrange’s mean value theorem is NOT applicable to

 1 1
 2  x , x  sin x

2 , x0
(a) f x    2 (b) f x    x
 1  x  , x
1  1 , x 0
 2  2

(c) f x   x x (d) f x   x
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 x  ln x , x  0
67. Let f x    . Rolle’s theorem is applicable to f for x  [0, 1] if  is equal to
 0 , x 0
1
(a) –2 (b) –1 (c) 0 (d)
2

a0 a1 a2 a
68. If    ...  n1  an  0 , then the function
n  1 n n 1 2
f ( x )  a0 x n  a1x n 1  a2 x n 2  ......  a n in (0, 1) has
(a) at least one zero (b) at most one zero
(c) only 3 zeros (d) only 2 zeros

69. Let f : R  R be a twice differentiable function such that f 1  1 , f  2   4 and f  3  9 .

Which of the following is true?
(a) f  x   2 for at least one x  (1, 3) .
(b) There exists at least one value of x  2, 3  such that f x   f x   5 .
(c) There exists at least one value of x  0, 2 such that f x   3 .
(d) f x   2 for all x  (0, 1] .

70. For any quadratic function px 2  qx  r over [a, a  h] , the value of c  a, a  h  in
Lagrange’s Mean Value Theorem is
(a) dependent on p, q, r
(b) independent of p but depends upon q, r
(c) independent of p, q but depends upon r
(d) independent of p, q, r

ONE OR MORE THAN ONE CHOICE CORRECT

1. The interval/s of decrease of the function

f ( x)  x 2 ln 27  6 x ln 27  (3 x 2  18 x  24) ln( x 2  6 x  8) is
 1   1 
(a)  , 3  1   (b)  4, 3  1  
 3e   3e 
 
 1   1 
(c)  3, 4  1   (d)  3, 4  1  
 3e   3e 
 
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 1 
2. If f x  =  x   , x  0 is a decreasing function, then x 
 x
1  1 4
(a) (0, 1) (b)  , 1 (c)  ,  (d) [0, 1]
 2  3 3

If f x   tan 1 sin x  cos x  is an increasing function, then x 

3
3.
      
(a)  0,  (b)  0,  (c)   ,  (d) none of these
 4  2  4 4
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4. Let a cubic polynomial function f x  have local maximum at x = –1, f  1  2, f  3  18

and f x  has a minimum at x = 0. Then
(a) the distance between (–1, 2) and a, f a  ( ' a' denotes the point where the function
has local max/min) is 2 5
(b) the function decreases in the interval 1, 2 5  
(c) the function increases in the interval 1, 2 5  
(d) the function decreases in the interval  1, 1
5. Let f be differentiable for all x. If f (1)  2 and f ( x )  2 for all x  [1, 6], then
(a) f (6)  8 (b) f (6)  8
(c) f (6)  5 (d) f (6)  5
6. If Q( x )  f ( x )  f (1  x ) and f ( x )  0, 0  x  1, then
1  1 
(a) Q increases in  ,1 (b) Q decreases in  ,1
2  2 
 1  1
(c) Q decreases in  0,  (d) Q increases in  0, 
 2  2

7. If f ( x )  (1  x 2 )(1  2 x 2 ) , x   1,1 , then

3
(a) the greatest value of f (x ) is 1 (b) the greatest value of f (x ) is
8
(c) the least value of f (x ) is 0 (d) the least value of f (x ) is –1

8. The families of curve defined by the equations y  ax, y 2  x 2  c 2 are perpendicular for
(a) a = 2, c = 4 (b) a = –2, c = 3
(c) a = 3, c = 2 (d) a = 3, c = –2
9. Let m and n be odd integers such that 0 < m < n. Let f ( x )  x m / n for x  R. Then
(a) f is differentiable everywhere
(b) f (0) doesn’t exist
(c) f increases on (0, ) and decreases on (–, 0)
(d) f increases on R
10. If the function y  f (x ) is represented parametrically as x  t 3  5t 2  20t  7 ,
y  4t 3  3t 2  18t  3 , 2  t  2 , then
(a) y max  12 (b) y max  14
67 69
(c) y min   (d) y min  
4 4
11. A function f  x  is defined in the interval [1, 4) as follows:
 ln[ x] , 1  x  3
f  x   . The graph of the function f x 
 ln x , 3  x  4
(a) is broken at two points
(b) is broken at exactly one point
(c) does not have a definite tangent at two points
(d) does not have a definite tangent at more than two points
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If f x   x  1 x  2 e x , then f x  has
2 3
12.
(a) a local maximum at x = 1 (b) a point of inflexion at x = 1
(c) a local minimum at x = 2 (d) a point of inflexion at x = 2
13. Let f x   a5 x 5  a 4 x 4  a 3 x 3  a 2 x 2  a1 x , where ai' s are real and f x   0 has a positive
root  0 . Then
(a) f x   0 has a root  1 such that 0   1   0
(b) f x   0 has at least two real roots
(c) f x   0 has at least one real root
(d) f x  does not exist at x = 0
1
14. If f x   ax 3  bx 2  cx has relative extrema at x  1, 5 and  f x  dx  6 , then
1
(a) a  1 (b) b  9 (c) c  15 (d) a 1
MATCH THE FOLLOWING
Note: Each statement in column - I has one or more than one match in column – II.
1.

Column I Column II

4 x  x  ln  a  3a  3 , 0  x  3
3 2

I. If f ( x)   has
 x  18, x3 A. a  1 only
a local minimum at x = 3, then
ax
II. If f ( x )  has a local maximum at
( x  1)( x  4) B. a  (–, –1]  [1, )
 2, 1 , then
III. If f ( x )  cos x  a 2 x  b is an increasing function C. a  ( , 1]  [2,  )
for all x, then
x2 y2
IV. If the curves   1 and y 2  16 x intersect
a2 4 D. a=± 2
at right angles, then

f x   x  2 x  3n x  4n x  5n

n1
2. 2 3 4

Column I Column II
I. n1, n 3  odd; n 2 , n 4  even, then f x  has A. minimum at 2
II. n1, n 2  odd; n 3 , n 4  even, then f x  has B. maximum at 3
III. n1, n 4  odd; n 2 , n 3  even, then f x  has C. minimum at 4
IV. n 2 , n 4  odd; n1, n 3  even, then f x  has D. minimum at 5
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LINKED COMPREHENSION TYPE

If f x   0 or f x   0 , then the function is monotonically increasing or decreasing and if

f x   0 or f x   0 , then its derivative is increasing or decreasing.
1. A continuous and differentiable function is such that it always lies above any of its tangent.
Then
(a) f x   0, f x   0 (b) f x   0, f x   0
(c) f x   0, f x   0 (d) none of these
2. If f x   0 and x1, x 2 are any two different points in the domain of f x  , then
 x  x2  f x1   f x 2   x  x 2  f x 1   f x 2 
(a) f  1  (b) f  1 
 2  2  2  2
 x  x2  f x 1   f x 2 
(c) f  1  (d) none of these
 2  2
3. If f x   0 and f x1  1   x 2   f x1   1   f x 2  , where x1, x 2 are distinct elements
of domain, then
(a)   R (b)   1
(c) 0    1 (d) 0    1

ANSWERS
CBSE PROBLEMS

2. y  4 x  13 3. (0, 0), (1, 2), (–1, –2)

8
4. Not differentiable at x = 1, not applicable 5. c 
3

6. c3

7. increasing if x > 1 and decreasing if x < 1

 5  5
8. increasing: 0  x  and  x  2 , decreasing:  x 
4 4 4 4

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SINGLE CHOICE CORRECT

1. (c) 2. (d) 3. (b) 4. (c) 5. (b)

6. (b) 7. (c) 8. (a) 9. (d) 10. (c)

11. (c) 12. (c) 13. (c) 14. (b) 15. (b)

16. (a) 17. (c) 18. (b) 19. (d) 20. (a)

21. (a) 22. (a) 23. (c) 24. (d) 25. (a)

26. (c) 27. (a) 28. (a) 29. (b) 30. (b)

31. (b) 32. (c) 33. (a) 34. (a) 35. (a)

36. (b) 37. (b) 38. (d) 39. (b) 40. (a)

41. (b) 42. (c) 43. (c) 44. (b) 45. (d)

46. (b) 47. (a) 48. (b) 49. (c) 50. (a)

51. (d) 52. (c) 53. (d) 54. (d) 55. (b)

56. (a) 57. (b) 58. (d) 59. (a) 60. (c)

61. (b) 62. (c) 63. (b) 64. (b) 65. (c)

66. (a) 67. (d) 68. (a) 69. (a) 70. (d)

71. (a)

ONE OR MORE THAN ONE CHOICE CORRECT

1.(a, b) 2. (a, b) 3. (a, c) 4. (a, c, d) 5. (b, c)

6. (b, d) 7. (b, c) 8. (a, b, c, d) 9. (b, d) 10. (b, d)

11. (a, c) 12. (a, d) 13. (a, b, c) 14. (a, b)

MATCH THE FOLLOWING

1. I-(C), II-(A), III-(B), IV-(D)

2. I-(B), (D), II-(C), (D) III-(B), IV-(A)

LINKED COMPREHENSION TYPE

1. (b) 2. (b) 3. (c)