DAY —— 09 SEAT NUMBER

2024 III 02 1100 (E)

J-866

MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS (88)

(COMMERCE)

Time : 3 Hrs. (12 Pages) Max. Marks : 80

General Instructions :

(i) All questions are compulsory.

(ii) There are 6 questions divided into two sections.
(iii) Write answers of Section-I and Section-II in the same
answer book.
(iv) Use of logarithmic tables is allowed. Use of calculator is
not allowed.
(v) For L.P.P. graph paper is not necessary. Only rough sketch
of graph is expected.
(vi) Start answer to each question on a new page.
(vii) For each multiple choice type of question, it is mandatory
to write the correct answer along with its alphabetical
letter eg. (a) ................../ (b) ................/ (c) ...................../
(d) ................ No mark(s) shall be given if ‘‘ONLY’’ the
correct answer or the alphabet of the correct answer is
written. Only the first attempt will be considered for
evaluation.

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 SECTION - I
Q. 1. (A) Select and write the correct answer of the following multiple [12]
choice type of questions (1 mark each) : (6)
(i) Which of the following is not a statement?
(a) Smoking is injurious to health
(b) 2 + 2 = 4
(c) 2 is the only even prime number
(d) Come here
(ii) If x + y + z = 3, x + 2y + 3z = 4, x + 4y + 9z = 6 then
(y, z) = _____.
(a) (–1, 0) (b) (1, 0)
(c) (1, –1) (d) (–1, 1)

dy
(iii) If y , then ?
dx

2 x
(a) (b)
x x

(c) (d)
ex ex

(iv) The value of is _____.

(a) 2 1 (b)
(c) (d)

(v) _____.

x x
(a) (b)
x x
x
(c) (d) x x c
x
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 (vi) The differential equation of is :

d 2y
(a) (b)
dx 2 dx 2

d 2y
(c) (d)
dx 2 dx 2
(B) State whether the following statements are true or false
(1 mark each) : (3)

(i)

(ii) For

(iii) Order and degree of a differential equation are

always positive integers.

(C) Fill in the following blanks (1 mark each) : (3)

(i) The slope of tangent at any point (a, b) is called as
______.

(ii) If and f (1) then

x
x2
_____.
2
(iii) A solution of differential equation which can be
obtained from the general solution by giving particular
values to the arbitrary constants is called _____
solution.

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Q. 2. (A) Attempt any TWO of the following questions (3 marks
each) : (6) [14]
(i) Examine whether the following statement pattern is
tautology, a contradiction or a contingency.
 
dy
(ii) Find if,
dx

(iii) If then find

(B) Attempt any TWO of the following questions (4 marks

each) : (8)
(i) Consider the following statements
(a) If D is dog, then D is very good.
(b) If D is very good, then D is dog.
(c) If D is not very good, then D is not a dog.
(d) If D is not a dog, then D is not very good.
Identify the pairs of statements having the same
meaning. Justify.
(ii) Determine the minimum value of the function :
.
(iii) Find the area of the regions bounded by the line
the X-axis and the lines x and x .

Q. 3. (A) Attempt any TWO of the following questions (3 marks each): (6) [14]
dy
(i) Find if
dx
(ii) If f and f
find f ( x).
(iii) Obtain the differential equation whose general solution
is

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 (B) Attempt any ONE of the following questions (4 marks each): (4)

(i) Find the inverse of by adjoint method.

(ii) The consumption expenditure Ec of a person with

income x, is given by . Find
average propensity to consume (APC), marginal
propensity to consume (MPC) when his income is
` 200. Also find his marginal propensity to save (MPS).
(C) Attempt any ONE of the following questions (Activity)
(4 marks each): (4)
(i) Complete the following activity :

dx

dx
2
x

(ii) The rate of growth of population is proportional to the

number of inhabitants. If the population doubles in 25 years
and the present population is 1,00,000, when will the city
have population 4,00,000?
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 Solution : Let 'P' be the population at time 't'.
Since rate of growth of population is proportional to the
no. of inhabitants :
dP
dt
dP
Differential equation can be written as
dt
where k is constant of proportionality.
dP
P
On integrating we get
.....(i)

(i) When t P
from (i)
log 1,00,000
c

log .....(ii)

(ii) When
as population doubles in 25 years
from (ii)
k

P
t

(iii) when P

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 t

SECTION - II
Q. 4. (A) Select and write the correct answer of the following multiple [12]
choice type of questions (1 mark each) : (6)
(i) The difference between face value and present worth
is called _____.
(a) Banker's discount
(b) True discount
(c) Banker's gain
(d) Cash value
(ii) In an ordinary annuity, payments or receipts occur at
_____.
(a) beginning of each period
(b) end of each period
(c) mid of each period
(d) quarterly basis
(iii) bxy and b yx are _____.
(a) Independent of change of origin and scale
(b) Independent of change of origin but not of scale
(c) Independent of change of scale but not of origin
(d) Affected by change of origin and scale

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 (iv) Dorbish-Bowley's Price Index Number is given by
_____.
pq p q
p q pq
(a)
2
pq p q
p q pq
(b)
2
pq pq
p q p q
(c)
2
p q p q
pq pq
(d)
2
(v) Objective function of L.P.P. is _____.
(a) a constraint
(b) a function to be maximised or minimised
(c) a relation between the decision variables
(d) a feasible region
(vi) To use the Hungarian method, a profit maximization
assignment problem requires _____.
(a) Converting all profits to opportunity losses
(b) A dummy person or job
(c) Matrix expansion
(d) Finding the maximum number of lines to cover
all the zeros in the reduced matrix.

(B) State whether the following statements are true or false (3)
(1 mark each) :
(i) Broker is an agent who gives a guarantee to seller that
the buyer will pay the selling price of goods.
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 p q
(ii) is the Value Index Number by simple
pq
aggregate method.
(iii) The optimum value of the objective function of L.P.P.
occurs at the center of the feasible region.

(C) Fill in the blanks (1 mark each) : (3)

(i) The banker's discount is always _____ than the true
discount.
(ii) The cost of living index number using Weighted Relative
Method is given by _____.
(iii) The time interval between starting the first job and
completing the last job including the idle time (if any)
in a particular order by the given set of machines is
called _____.

Q. 5. (A) Attempt any TWO of the following questions (3 marks each) : (6) [14]
(i) Deepak's salary was increased from ` 4,000 to ` 5,000.
The sales being the same, due to reduction in the rate
of commission from 3% to 2%, his income remains
unchanged. Find his sales.
(ii) For a bivariate data, the regression co-efficient of Y on
X is 0.4 and the regression co-efficient of X on Y is 0.9.
Find the value of variance of Y if variance of X is 9.
(iii) The following table shows the index of industrial
production for the period from 1976 to 1985, using
the year 1976 as the base year. Obtain the trend values
for the following data using 4 yearly centered moving
averages :
Years 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985
Index 0 2 3 3 2 4 5 6 7 10

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 (B) Attempt any TWO of the following questions (4 marks each) : (8)
(i) If for the following data, Walsh's Price Index Number
i s 15 0, f i n d ' x' :

Commodity Base Year Current Year

Price Quantity Price Quantity
p0 q0 p1 q1
A 5 3 10 3
B x 4 16 9
C 15 5 23 5
D 10 2 26 8

(ii) A toy manufacturing company produces five types of

toys. Each toy has to go through three machines A, B
and C in the order ABC. The time required in hours
for each process is given in the following table :
Type 1 2 3 4 5
Machine A 16 20 12 14 22
Machine B 10 12 4 6 8
Machine C 8 18 16 12 10
Find the total elapsed time and also find idle time for
machine B.
(iii) A 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 (a) k (b) P X (c) P X

Q. 6. (A) Attempt any TWO of the following questions (3 marks each) : (6) [14]
(i) The building is insured for 75% of its value. The annual
premium at 0.70 percent amounts to ` 2,625. If the
building is damaged to the extent of 60% due to fire,
how much can be claimed under the policy?

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 (ii) Three new machines M1, M2, M3 are to be installed in
a machine shop. There are four vacant places A, B, C,
D. Due to limited space, machine M2 can not be placed
at B. The cost matrix (in hundred `) is as follows :
Machine Places
A B C D
M1 13 10 12 11
M2 15 – 13 20
M3 5 7 10 6

Determine the optimum assignment schedule and find

the minimum cost.
(iii) The eggs are drawn successively with replacement from
a lot containing 10% defective eggs. Find the
probability that there is at least one defective egg in the
lot of 10 eggs.
(B) Attempt any ONE of the following questions (4 marks each) : (4)
(i) Following table shows the all India infant mortality rates
(per '000) for years 1980 to 2010 :

Year 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010

IMR 10 7 5 4 3 1 0
Fit the trend line to the above data by the method of
least squares.
(ii) Minimize : z x y
Subject to : ,
,
,

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 (C) Attempt any ONE of the following questions (Activity) (4)
(4 marks each) :
(i) For a bivariate data x y V X y
and r
Estimate y when x
Solution : Line of regression of Y on X is

When x
Y
Y
Y

(ii) If X  P (m ) with then find the

mean and P X

Given e
Solution : Since

1!

P X

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