DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL KALINGA

MATHEMATICS ASSIGNMENT
CLASS XII
VECTORS
1. Find a vector in the direction of vector 𝑎⃗ 𝚤̂ 2𝚥̂ that has magnitude 7 units.
2. Show that the points A, B and C with position vectors 𝑎⃗ 3𝚤̂ 4𝚥̂ 4𝑘 , 𝑏⃗ 2𝚤̂ 𝚥̂ 𝑘 and
𝑐⃗ 𝚤̂ 3𝚥̂ 5𝑘 respectively from the vertices of a right-angled triangle.
3. Find 𝑎⃗ 𝑏⃗ , if two vectors 𝑎⃗ and 𝑏⃗ are such that |𝑎⃗| 2, 𝑏⃗ 3 and 𝑎⃗ ⋅ 𝑏⃗ 4.
4. Find the area of the parallelogram whose adjacent sides are determined by the vectors 𝑎⃗ 𝚤̂ 𝚥̂ 3𝑘 and
𝑏⃗ 2𝚤̂ 7𝚥̂ 𝑘 .
5. If a unit vector 𝑎⃗ makes angles with 𝚤̂ , with 𝚥̂ and acute angle 𝜃 with 𝑘 , then find 𝜃 and hence, find the
components of 𝑎⃗.
6. Let 𝑎⃗, 𝑏⃗ and 𝑐⃗ be three vectors such that |𝑎⃗| 3, 𝑏⃗ 4, |𝑐⃗| 5 and each one of them being perpendicular to the
sum of other two. Find 𝑎⃗ 𝑏⃗ 𝑐⃗ .
7. Find the value of 𝚤̂ ⋅ 𝚥̂ 𝑘 𝚥̂ ⋅ 𝚤̂ 𝑘 𝑘 ⋅ 𝚤̂ 𝚥̂
8. The scalar product of the vector 𝚤̂ 𝚥̂ 𝑘 with a unit vector along the sum of vectors 2𝚤̂ 4𝚥̂ 5𝑘 and
𝜆𝚤̂ 2𝚥̂ 3𝑘 is equal to one. Find the value of 𝜆.
9. If the sum of two unit vectors is a unit vector, Prove that the magnitude of their difference is √3.
10. If 𝑎⃗ and 𝑏⃗ are position vectors of points A and B respectively, then find the position vector of points of trisection
of AB.
11. Prove that the line segment joining the mid-points of two sides of a triangle is parallel to the third side and equal to
half of it.
12. ABCD is a parallelogram. If the coordinates of A, B, C are 2, 1 , 3,0 and 1, 2 respectively, Find the
coordinate of D.
13. Show that the points A, B, C with position vectors 2𝑎⃗ 3𝑏⃗ 5𝑐⃗, 𝑎⃗ 2𝑏⃗ 3𝑐⃗ and 7𝑎⃗ 𝑐⃗ respectively are
collinear.
14. If a vector makes 𝛼, 𝛽, 𝛾 with 𝑂𝑋, 𝑂𝑌 and 𝑂𝑍 respectively, prove that sin 𝛼 sin 𝛽 sin 𝛾 2.

15. If 𝑎 and 𝑏 are unit vectors inclined at an angle 𝜃, then prove that sin 𝑎 𝑏.

16. If 𝑎⃗ 𝑏⃗ 𝑐⃗ 0, |𝑎⃗| 3, 𝑏⃗ 5, |𝑐⃗| 7, find the angle between 𝑎⃗ and 𝑏⃗.

17. |𝑎⃗| 2, 𝑏⃗ 5, and 𝑎⃗ 𝑏⃗ 8, find 𝑎⃗ ⋅ 𝑏⃗.

18. Consider two points P and Q with position vectors 𝑂𝑃⃗ 3𝑎⃗ 2𝑏⃗ and 𝑂𝑄⃗ 𝑎⃗ 𝑏⃗. Find the position vector of a
point R which divides the line joining P and Q in the ratio 2: 1, (i) internally and (ii) externally.
19. Find a unit vector perpendicular to each of the vectors 𝑎⃗ 𝑏⃗ and 𝑎⃗ 𝑏⃗ where 𝑎⃗ 𝚤̂ 𝚥̂ 𝑘 , 𝑏⃗ 𝚤̂ 2𝚥̂ 3𝑘 .
20. Show that the vectors 2𝚤̂ 𝚥̂ 𝑘 , 𝚤̂ 3𝚥̂ 5𝑘 and 3𝚤̂ 4𝚥̂ 4𝑘 form the vertices of a right angled triangle.
21. Find a unit vector parallel to the vector 2𝑎⃗ 𝑏⃗ 3𝑐⃗ , where 𝑎⃗ 𝚤̂ 𝚥̂ 𝑘, 𝑏⃗ 2𝚤̂ 𝚥̂ 3𝑘 , and 𝑐⃗ 𝚤̂ 2𝚥̂ 𝑘.
22. Find the projection of 𝑏⃗ 𝑐⃗ on 𝑎⃗, where 𝑎⃗ 𝚤̂ 2𝚥̂ 𝑘 , 𝑏⃗ 𝚤̂ 3𝚥̂ 𝑘, and 𝑐⃗ 𝚤̂ 𝑘?
23. Express the vector 𝑎⃗ 5𝚤̂ 2𝚥̂ 5𝑘 as sum of two vectors such that one is parallel to vector 𝑏⃗ 3𝚤̂ 𝑘 and the
other is perpendicular to 𝑏⃗ ?
24. If 𝑎⃗ 𝚤̂ 4𝚥̂ 2𝑘, 𝑏⃗ 3𝚤̂ 2𝚥̂ 7𝑘 , and 𝑐⃗ 2𝚤̂ 𝚥̂ 4𝑘. Find a vector 𝑝⃗ which is perpendicular to both 𝑎⃗ and
𝑏⃗ and 𝑝⃗ ⋅ 𝑐⃗ 18.
 THREE DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRY
1. Write the direction cosines of a line equally inclined to the three coordinate axes?

2. Find the points on the line at a distance of 5 units from the point 1,3,3 .

3. If a line makes angles 90°, 135°, 45° with the 𝑥, 𝑦 and 𝑧 axes respectively, find its direction cosines.

4. If a line makes angles 90° and 60° respectively with the positive directions of x and y axes, find the angle which it
makes with the positive direction of z-axis.

5. Write the vector equations of the following lines and hence determine the distance between them
and .

6. Find the equation of a line parallel to 𝑥-axis and passing through the origin.

7. Find the coordinates of the point, where the line through 5,1,6 and 3,4,1 cross the 𝑌𝑍 plane?

8. Show that the lines and are coplanar.

9. Find the foot of the perpendicular from 1,6,3 on the line .

10. Find the direction cosines of 𝑥, 𝑦 and 𝑧-axis.

11. Find the value of 𝜆, so that the lines and are at right angles. Also, find whether
the lines are intersecting or not.

12. A line passes through the point with position vector 2 𝚤̂ 𝚥̂ 4𝑘 and is in the direction of the vector 𝚤̂ 𝚥̂ 2𝑘.
Find the equation of the line in cartesian form.

13. Find the equation of the line which passes through the point 1, 2, 3 and is parallel to the vector 3𝚤̂ 2𝚥̂ 2𝑘 .

14. Find the value of 𝑝 so that the lines and are at right angles.

15. Find the shortest distance between the lines whose vector equations are: 𝑟⃗ 1 𝑡 𝚤̂ 𝑡 2 𝚥̂ 3 2𝑡 𝑘 and
𝑟⃗ 𝑠 1 𝚤̂ 2𝑠 1 𝚥̂ 2𝑠 1 𝑘 .

16. Find the shortest distance between the following lines :

→ ∧ ∧ ∧ ∧ ∧ ∧ → ∧ ∧ ∧ ∧ ∧ ∧
𝑟 (𝑖 2𝑗 𝑘) 𝜆(𝑖 𝑗 𝑘 ) and 𝑟 (2𝑖 𝑗 𝑘) 𝜇(2𝑖 𝑗 2𝑘) .

17. Find the shortest distance between the lines and .

18. A line with direction ratios 〈2, 2, 1〉 intersects the lines and at the points P and
Q respectively. Find the length and the equation of the intercept PQ.
 PROBABILITY
1. State whether the following is the probability distribution of a random variable or not 7:
X –1 0 1 2
P(X) 0.6 0.1 0.2 0.1
2. If a discrete random variable X has the following probability distribution:

X 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
P(X) k 2k 2k 3k k2 2k2 7k2+k
Find the value of k.

3. How many times must a man toss a fair coin so that the probability of having at least one head is more than 80% ?

4. Two cards are drawn successively without replacement from a well shuffled pack of 52 cards. Find the probability
distribution of number of spades?

5. Bag I contains 3 red and 4 black balls and Bag II contains 4 red and 5 black balls. One ball is transferred from Bag
I to Bag II and then a ball is drawn from Bag II. The ball so drawn is found to be red in colour. Find the probability
that the transferred ball is black.

6. A bag contains 4 balls. Two balls are drawn at random and are found to be white. What is the probability that all
balls are white?

7. Suppose that 5% of men and 0.25% of women have grey hair. A grey-haired person is selected at random. What is
the probability of this person being male? Assume that there are equal number of males and females?

8. A speaks the truth 8 times out of 10 times. A die is tossed. He reports that it was 5. What is the probability that it
was actually 5?

9. An insurance company insured 2000 scooters and 3000 motor cycles. The probability of an accident involving a
scooter is 0.01 and that of a motor cycle is 0.02. An insured vehicle met with an accident. Find the probability that
accident vehicle was a motor cycle?

10. A card from a pack of 52 cards is lost. From the remaining cards of the pack, two cards are drawn and are found to
the both diamonds. Find the probability of lost card being a diamond?

11. A die is thrown twice and the sum of the numbers appearing is observed to be 6. What is the conditional probability
that the number 4 has appeared at least once?

12. Assume that each born child is equally likely to be a boy or a girl. If a family has two children, what is the conditional
probability that both are girls given that at least one is a girl.
13. If A and B are two independent events. Show that the probability of occurrence of at least one of A and B is given
by: 1 𝑃 𝐴 ⋅ 𝑃 𝐵 .

14. Probability of solving specific problem independently by A and B are and respectively. If both try to solve the
problem independently, find the probability that the problem is solved.

15. An um contains 5 red and 5 black balls. A ball is drawn at random, its colour is noted and is returned to the urn.
Moreover, 2 additional balls of the same colour drawn are put in the urn and then a ball is drawn at random. What
is the probability that the second ball is red.

16. Two cards are drawn simultaneously (or successively without replacement) from a well shuffled pack of 52 cards
Find the mean. variance and standard deviation of the number of kings.
17. In an examination, 20 questions of true-false type are asked. Suppose a student tosses a fair coin to determine his
answer lo each question. If the coin falls heads, he answers 'true', if it falls tails, he answers 'false'. Find the
probability that he answers at least 12 questions correctly.
18. A die is thrown again and again until three sixes are obtained. Find the probability of obtaining the third six in the
sixth throw of the die.

19. If 𝑃 𝐴 ,𝑃 𝐵 and 𝑃 𝐴 ∩ 𝐵 , find 𝑃 𝐴 ∩ 𝐵 and 𝑃 𝐵 | 𝐴 .

20. The probability that a certain person will buy a shirt is 0.2, the probability that he will buy a trouser is 0.3 and the
probability that he will buy a shirt given that he buys a trouser is 0.4. Find the probability that he will buy both a
shirt and a trouser. Find also the probability that he will buy a trouser given that he buys a shirt.

21. A can solve 90% of the problem given in a book and B can solve 70%. What is the probability that at least one of
them will solve the problem, selected at random from the book?
22. Three persons A, B, C throw a die in succession till one gets a 'six' and wins the game. Find their respective
probabilities of winning, if A begins.
23. A man is known to speak truth 3 out of 4 times. He throws a die and reports that it is a six. Find the probability that
it is actually a six.
24. An urn contains 4 white and 3 red balls. Find the probability distribution of the number of red balls in a random
draw of three balls.
25. Grandfather gave a puzzle to Harish and Ria. The probability of solving the puzzle independently by Harish and
Ria are and respectively. Based on the information answer the following questions:

(i) Find the probability that puzzle solved by Harish but not by Ria.
(ii) Find the probability that both solved the puzzle.
(iii) Find the probability that puzzle is solved.
(iv) Find the probability that exactly one of them solved the puzzle.
(v) Find the probability that none of them solved the puzzle.
26. If in recent years in a desert, there is rain only in 5 days each year. Also, it is given that it actually rains, the
weatherman forecasts rain 90% of the time. When it doesn’t rain, he incorrectly forecasts rain 10% of the time.
A person has birthday party tomorrow in that desert. Based on the information answer the following questions:
(i) If an ordinary year is considered, what is the probability that it rains on the birthday?
(ii) What is the probability that it does not rain on birthday?
(iii) What is the probability that weatherman predicts correctly?
(iv) What is the probability that it will rain on birthday if the weatherman predicts rain for tomorrow?
(v) What is the probability that it will not rain on birthday if the weatherman predicts rain for tomorrow?