PART 1,2,3 – PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY, MATHEMATICS

SECTION–I : (Maximum Marks : 80)

This section contains TWENTY questions.
Each question has FOUR options (A), (B),
(C) and (D). Multiple-Choice Questions
(MCQs) of these four options is correct.
For each question, darken the bubble corresponding 3. Following are the marks obtained by 9 students in a
mathematics test 50, 69, 20, 33, 53, 39, 40, 65, 59.
to the correct option in the ORS.
The mean deviation from the median is
For each question, marks will be awarded in one
(A) 9 (B) 10.5
of the following categories :
(C) 12.67 (D) 14.76
Full Marks : +4 If only the bubble
corresponding to the correct option is darkened. Ans. C
Zero Marks : 0 If none of the bubbles is darkened.
Negative Marks : –1 In all other cases
1. The standard deviations for first 10 natural numbers
is
(A) 5.5 (B) 3.87
(C) 2.97 (D) 2.87
Ans. D

2. If the mean of 100 observations is 50 and their

standard deviation is 5, then sum of all the squares
of all the observations is
(A) 50,000 (B) 250000
(C) 252500 (D) 255000
Ans. C

4. The mean deviation of the data, 3, 10, 10, 4, 7, 10, 5

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 from the mean is
(A) 2 (B) 2.57
(C) 3 (D) 3.75
Ans. B

7. If P A B P A B for any two events A and

B then,
(A) P A P B (B) P A P B

(C) P A P B (D) Can not be said

Ans. A

5. If a single letter is selected at random from the word

'PROBABILITY', then the probability that it is vowel
is
1 4
(A) (B)
3 11
2 3
(C) (D)
11 11 n
1 x 1
Ans. B 8. lim is equal to
x 0 x
(A) n (B) 1
(C) –n (D) 0
Ans. A

6. The probability that atleast one of the events A or B

occurs is 0.6. If A and B occurs simultaneously with
probability 0.2, then P A P B is equal to
(A) 0.4 (B) 0.8
(C) 1.2 (D) 1.6
Ans. C
 sec 2 x 2 tan 2x x
lim 11. lim is equal to
9. x tan x 1 is equal to
x 0 3x sin x
4
1
(A) 3 (B) 1 (A) 2 (B)
2
(C) 0 (D) 2
Ans. D 1 1
(C) (D)
2 4
Ans. B

sin x
10. lim is
x 0 x 1 1 x
(A) 2 (B) 0 12. Suppose A1 , A 2 ,......, A 30 are thirty sets each having
(C) 1 (D) –1 5 elements and B1 , B2 ,......, Bn are n sets each with
Ans. C
30 n

3 elements. Let Ai Bj S and each elements

i 1 j 1

of S belongs to exactly 10 of the A i 'S and exactly 9

of the B j 'S then n is equal to
(A) 15 (B) 3
(C) 45 (D) 35
Ans. C

13. Two finite sets having m and n elements. The number

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 of sub–sets of the first set is 112 more than that of Ans. C
the second set. The values of m and n are, A(3,0)
respectively
(A) 4, 7 (B) 7, 4
(C) 8, 5 (D) 8, 4 2x+y=6 x+2y=3 Isoceles
Ans. B 5 5 Triangle
Sol.

B(2,2) x–y=0 C(1,1)

2
16. The image of the point (3,5) in the line
x y 1 0, lies on:
2 2
(A) x 2 y 4 4
2 2
(B) x 4 y 2 16
2 2
(C) x 4 y 4 8
2 2
(D) x 2 y 2 12
Ans. A
14. If M and N are two events, the probability that exactly
Sol. Image of P 3,5 on the line x y 1 0 is
one of them occurs is
(A) P M P N 2P M N x 3 y 5 2 2 5 1
1
1 1 2
(B) P M P N P M N
x 4, y 4
(C) P M P N P M N
Image is 4, 4 which lies on
(D) P M P N 2P M N 2 2
x 2 y 4 4
Ans. A
17. The number of integral values of m so that the
Sol. If M and N are any two events, then abscissa of point of intersection of lines
P M N P M P N P M N 3x 4y 9 and y mx 1 is also an integer, is:
So exactly one of them occurs (A) 1 (B) 2
P M N P M N (C) 3 (D) 0
Ans. B
P M P N 2P M N Sol. 3x 4y 9
15. The intersection of three lines
y mx 1
x y 0, x 2y 3 and 2x y 6 is a:
3x 4mx 4 9
(A) Equilateral triangle
(B) Right angled triangle 3 4m x 5
(C) Isosceles triangle x will be an integer when
(D) Scalene non right angle triangle
3 4m 5, 5,1, 1

1 1
m , 2, , 1
2 2
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 So, number of integral values of m is 2 which is true for every value of .
18. In a triangle PQR, the co–ordinates of the points P 20. A ray f light coming from the point (1,2) is reflected
and Q are 2, 4 and 4, 2 respectively. If the at a point A on the x–axis and then passes through
equation of the perpendicular bisector of PR is the point (5,3). The coordinates of the point A are
2x y 2 0, then the centre of the circumcircle (A) 13 / 5,0 (B) 5 / 13,0
of the PQR is:
(C) 7,0 (D) 7,0
(A) 1,0 (B) 2, 2 Ans. A
(C) 0, 2 (D) 1,4 Sol. Let the coordinates of A be a,0 . Then the slope of
Ans. B 3 0
the reflected ray is tan , (say).
5 a
P(–2,4)
2x–y+2=0
2 0
The slope of the icident ray tan
M(1,1) 1 a
Sol.
0 Since tan tan 0
Q (4,–2) R
3 2
Equation of perpendicular bisector of PQ is y x 0
5 a 1 a
Solving with 2x y 2 0 will give (–2,–2)
13 5a 0
19. If the lines joining origin to the points of
intersection of the line fx gy and the curve 13
a
x 2 hxy y 2 gx fy 0 be mutually 5
perpendicular, then
(A) h
(B) g
(C) fg
(D) may have any value
Ans. D
Sol. x 2 hxy y 2 gx fy 0

xf gy
1

Making 2 homogeneous with the help of (1),

gx fx gy fy fx gy
x2 hxy y 2 0

x2 hxy y2 gfx 2 g 2 xy f 2 xy fgy 2 0

gf x 2 gf y 2 xy h f2 g2 0

Lines are if a b 0 or gf gf 0,

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 SD = 1.54
13
Thus the coordinates of A are ,0 . 2. The mean and standard deviation of some data for
5 the time taken to complete a test are calculated with
SECTION-II : (Maximum Marks: 20) the following result:
This section contains TEN questions. Number of observations = 25, mean = 18.2 seconds,
The answer to each question is a NUMERICAL standard deviation = 3.25. Further, another set of 15
VALUE. observations x1 , x 2 , x 3 ,....., x 15 , also in seconds, is
Attempt any FIVE questions out of 10. 15

now available and we have xi 279 and

For each question, enter the correct numerical value i 1

(If the numerical value has more than two decimal 15

places, truncate/round-off the value to TWO x i2 5524. Calculate the standard deviation
i 1
decimal places; e.g. 6.25, 7.00, –0.33, –.30, 30.27,
based on all 40 observation.
–127.30, if answer is 11.36777..... then both 11.36
and 11.37 will be correct) by darken the Ans. 3.87
corresponding bubbles in the ORS. Sol. Given that n1 25, x1 18.2 and 1 3.25
For Example : If answer is –77.25, 5.2 then fill 15 15

the bubbles as follows. and n 2 15, xi 279 and x i2 5524

i 1 i 1

+ – + –
For the first set, we have
0 0 0 0 • 0 0 0 0 0 0 • 0 0
1 1 1 1 • 1 1 1 1 1 1 • 1 1 xi 25 18.2 455
2 2 2 2 • 2 2 2 2 2 2 • 2 2
3 3 3 3 • 3 3 3 3 3 3 • 3 3
4 4 4 4 • 4 4 4 4 4 4 • 4 4 2
x i2 2
5 5 5 5 • 5 5 5 5 5 5 • 5 5 1 18.2
6 6 6 6 • 6 6 6 6 6 6 • 6 6
25
7 7 7 7 • 7 7 7 7 7 7 • 7 7
8 8 8 8 • 8 8 8 8 8 8 • 8 8 2 x i2
9 9 9 9 • 9 9 9 9 9 9 • 9 9 3.25 331.24
25

Answer to each question will be evaluated according x i2

10.5625 331.24
to the following marking scheme: 25
Full Marks : +4 If ONLY the correct numerical
x 2i 25 10.5625 331.24
value is entered as answer.
Zero Marks : 0 In all other cases. 25 341.8025 8545.06
1. If for a distribution For the combined standard deviation of the 40
x 5 3, x 5
2
43 and the total observation, n 40

number of items are 18. Find the standard and x i2 5524 8545.06 14069.06
deviation.
Ans. 1.54 xi 455 279 734
2
Sol. Given that n 18, x 5 3, x 5 43 14069.06 734
2

SD
40 40
2 2 2
x 5 x 5 2
43 3 351.7265 18.35
SD
N N 18 18
351.7265 336.7225 15.004 3.87
2
2.39 0.166 2.39 0.027 1.54 Hence, the required SD 3.87

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3. If A and B are two events associated with a random rationalizing thedenominator, we get
experiment such that P A 0.3, P B 0.2 and
x 2 x 2 3x 2 x 2
P A B 0.1 then the value of P A B is lim
x 2
3x 2 x 2 3x 2 x 2
Ans. 0.2
Sol. Given that: P A 0.3,P B 0.2 x 2 x 2 3x 2 x 2
lim
x 2 3x 2 x 2
P A B 0.1
x 2 x 2 3x 2 x 2
P A B P A P A B lim
x 2 2x 4
0.3 0.1 0.2
4. The probabilities of happening of an event A is 0.5 x 2 x 2 3x 2 x 2
and that of B is 0.3. If A and B are mutually exclusive lim
x 2 2 x 2
events, then the probability of neither A nor B is
Ans. 0.2
x 2 3x 2 x 2
Sol. Given that: P0.5,P B 0.3 lim
x 2 2
and P A B 0 Taking limits, we have

[ A and B are mutually exclusive events] 2 2 6 2 2 2

P A B P A B 2

4 2 2 4 4
1 P A B 8
2 2
1 P A P B 1 0.5 0.3 Hence, the required answer is 8.

1 0.8 0.2 2sin x sin 2x

7. Evaluate: lim
x 0 x3
5. The ratio in which the line 3x 4y 2 0 divides
Ans. 1
the distance between the lines 3x 4y 5 0 and
3x 4y 5 0 is a : b then find a b 2sin x sin 2x
Sol. Given that lim
x 0 x3
Ans. 10
Sol. Distance between 2sin x 2sin x cos x 2sin x 1 cos x
lim 3
lim
3
x 0 x x 0 x3
3x 4y 2 0 & 3x 4y 5 0 is and that
5 2sin x 1 cos x
lim
7 x 0 x x2
between 3x 4y 2 0 & 3x 4y 5 0 is
5
sin x 2sin 2 x / 2
Ratio a : b is 3: 7 lim 2
x 0 x x2
2
x 4
6. Evaluate: lim
x 2 3x 2 x 2 x
sin 2
sin x 2 1
Ans. 8 lim 2 2 2
x 0 x x 4
x2 4 4
Sol. Given that lim
x 2 3x 2 x 2

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 x
2 n M P n P C n M C
sin
sin x 2 1 n M P C
lim 2 2 .
x 0 x x 4
2 180 120 90 70 40 30 50 n M P C

180 160 n M P C
2
x
sin n M P C 20
4 sinx 2
lim lim
x 0 4 x x 0 x 9. Given the family of lines,
2
2
a 2x y 4 b x 2y 3 0. Among the lines
2 sin x of the family, the number of lines situated at a
1.1. 1 1 lim 1
x 0 x distance of 10 form the point M 2, 3 is/are
Hence, the required answer is 1. Ans. 1
8. In a survey of 200 students of a school, it was found Sol. The point of intersection of the two lineas are
that 120 study mathematics, 90 study physics and 70 1, 2
study chemistry, 40 study mathematics and physics,
30 study physics and chemistry, 50 study chemistry P(–1,–2) M(2,–3)
and mathematics and 20 none of these subjects. Find
10
the number of students who study all the three
subjects. Distance PM 10
Ans. 20
Hence the required line is one which passes through
Sol. Total number of student 200 n U 200 1, 2 and is to
Number of students who study mathematics
P.M. 1
120 n M 120
10. If the point (3,4) lies on the locus of the point of
Number of students who study physics intersection of the lines x cos ysin a and
90 n P 90 x sin y cos b, ( is a variable), the point
Number of students who study chemistry (a,b) lies on the line 3x 4y 0 then find the value
70 n C 70 of a b .
Number of students who study mathematics and Ans. 7
physics 40 n M P 40
Sol. x 2 y 2 a 2 b 2 is the locus of point of intersection
Number of students who study physics and of given two lines.
chemistry 30 n P C 30
Since, (3,4) lies on the locus we get a 2 b2 25
Number of students who study chemistry and
3a
mathematics 50 n C M 50 Also, (a,b) lies on 3x 4y 0, we get b
4
Number of students who study none of the subjects
= 20 a,b 4,3 or 4, 3

n M ' P' C' 20

n U n M ' p' C' n M P C

200 20 180
Now
n M P C n M n P n C
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