Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus

Second Semester 2018-2019

Quiz-1(Open Book)

Course No: MATH F112 Max. Marks: 44

Course Title: Mathematics-II Duration: 45 min.
Date: Feb, 17, 2019 Day: Sunday

INSTRUCTIONS:(1) Each question is of 4 marks. (2) Each question is provided with 4 alternative
answers, out of which only one is correct. (3) Write the correct choice A, B, C or D in the table
given in this question paper with pen only and submit it to the invigilator. Do not encircle ( ) or
tick X on your answers at question itself which is invalid. (4) Answering with pencil and overwriting
will be treated invalid. (5) No rough work should be done on the question paper.

Student’s Name ID No. Section No.

Write answers in this table

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 Q11

D B B C B D A B A C A

For Evaluator’s use only

No. of Correct No. of Incorrect Marks
Ans Ans Awarded

Recheck request:

1. Which of the following is true?

(A) Planes passing through the origin are only subspaces of R3 .
√
(B) S = {(4t − 5s, 3t + s, s2 + t2 − 2st : t, s ∈ R} is a subspace of R3 .
(C) The smallest subspace of R3 containing {(3, 0, 0), (0, 0, −2), (5, 0, 4)} is R3 itself.
(D) None of these.

2. A basis for the subspace S = {(x, y, z) ∈ R3 : x + 2y + z = 0} of R3 is

(A) {(−2, 1, 0), (4, −2, 0)} (B) {(−2, 1, 0), (−1, 0, 1)}
(C) {(0, 1, −2), (−2, 0, 2), (0, 0, 0)} (D) none of these

3. Let S = {1 − 2x + x2 , x − x2 }, a subset of P2 , then span(S) =

(A) {p ∈ P2 : p0 (1) = 0} (B) {p ∈ P2 : p(1) = 0}
(C) {p ∈ P2 : p(0) = 0} (D) none of these
 4. The linear system 4x − 2y = b1 , −2x + y = b2 (where b1 and b2 are constants) is consistent, if
(A) 2b1 + b2 = 0 (B) 2b1 − b2 = 0 (C) b1 + 2b2 = 0 (D) none of these

5. If the vectors u, v, w form a basis for R3 then, the set {au + bv + cw, bu + cv + aw, cu + av + bw}
is a basis for R3 for (a, b, c) =
(A) (0, 1, −1) (B) (1, 1, −1) (C) (2, 0, −2) (D) none of these

6. Along with the polynomials 1 − x2 , 2 + 3x − 5x2 which of the following form a basis for P2 ?
(A) 2 + 5x − 7x2 (B) 6 − x − 5x2 (C) −1 + 3x − 2x2 (D) none of these

7. Let A be a matrix of order m × n. The homogeneous system AX = 0 has non-trivial solution, if

(A) m < n (B) m > n (C) m = n (D) none of these

8. Let V be the set of all functions f : R → R. If P is the set of all constant functions,
Q = {f ∈ V : lim f (x) = 3}, R = {f ∈ V : f (1) = 1} and S = {f ∈ V : f (0) = 0}, then
x→∞
which of P, Q, R and S are subspaces of V ?
(A) P, Q, R & S (B) P & S only (C) P, Q & S (D) P & Q only

9. Which of the following sets form a vector space under usual vector addition and scalar multipli-
cation?
(A) {(x1 , x2 , x3 , x4 ) ∈ R4 : x1 + x2 = 0} (B) {(x1 , x2 , x3 , x4 ) ∈ R4 : 2x1 + 3x2 = 1}
(C) {(x1 , x2 , x3 , x4 ) ∈ R4 : x1 ≤ x2 } (D) {(x1 , x2 , x3 , x4 ) ∈ R4 : x1 > 0}

10. Let V be the set of all square matrices of order 5 with real entries. If W = {A ∈ V : AT = A},
then the dimension of W is
(A) 10 (B) 20 (C) 15 (D) none of these

        
1 −1 0 a 1 0 a 1
11. A value of a for which the subset , , , , of M2×2 is
0 a 1 −1 0 −1 −1 0
linearly independent, is
(A) a = 1 (B) a = 0 (C) a = −3 (D) none of these