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MH SET 2021: 26 September, Paper II, Mathematical Sciences

  • Date: 26 September 2021
  • Paper code: SEP30221
  • Series: A
  • Language: Bilingual
  • 48 pages
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                          Mathematical Science
                                     Paper II
Time Allowed : 120 Minutes]                           [Maximum Marks : 200
Note : This Paper contains One Hundred Ninety (190) multiple choice questions
       in THREE (3) sections, each question carrying TWO (2) marks. Attempt
       all questions either from Sections I & II only or from Sections I & III
       only. The OMR sheets with questions attempted from both the Sections viz.
       II & III, will not be assessed.
       Number of questions, sectionwise :
       Section I : Q. Nos. 1 to 10,          Section II : Q. Nos. 11 to 100,
       Section III : Q. Nos. 101 to 190.

              SECTION I                          2.   Let f : R       Q be a non-constant

                                                      increasing function. Then :
1.   Let ( xn ) n   N be a convergent
                                                      (A) f is constant on some interval
     sequence of positive real valued
                                                          [a, b]
     numbers. Which of the following

     statements is true ?                             (B) f is one-one

                                                      (C) f is onto
     (A) Limit of the sequence is positive

                                                      (D) f is not constant on any interval
     (B) Limit of the sequence may be

         negative                                3.   Which of the following is true for a

                                                      complex number z        x iy ?
     (C) There is a subsequence of the
                                                      (A) | x| | y| | z|
         sequence which has positive

         limit                                        (B) | x| | y|      2 | z|


     (D) The limit of every subsequence               (C) | x| | y| | z|

         of the sequence is non-negative              (D) | x| | y| | z|

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4.   The function f : C          C defined by        7.   Suppose P(x, y) denotes the joint
     f ( z)    cos z is :                                 probability mass function of two

     (A) one-one                                          random variables X and Y where :
                                                          P(0, 0) = 0.4, P(0, 1) = 0.2,
     (B) onto
                                                          P(1, 0) = 0.1, P(1, 1) = 0.3.
     (C) bijective
                                                          What is the conditional probability
     (D) bounded                                          of X = 0, given that Y = 1 ?
5.   Let Rn [x] denote the vector space                         1
     of all polynomials over R having                     (A)
                                                                5
     degree       atmost    n.    Then    the
                                                                3
     dimension of Rn [x] is :                             (B)
                                                                5
     (A) n 2
                                                                2
                                                          (C)
     (B) n + 1                                                  5

     (C) n                                                (D) 0

     (D)                                             8.   If 3 balls are randomly drawn from
                                                          a bowl containing 6 white and 5
6.   Let V and V' be finite dimensional
                                                          black balls, what is the probability
     vector spaces over K and let
                                                          that one of the balls is white and
     { 1, ....., n } be a basis of V. If
                                                          other two black ?
     T     L (V, V ') and T is injective, then
     which of the following statements is                        3
                                                          (A)
                                                                11
     FALSE ?
                                                                 4
     (A) T 1, .....,T n      are     linearly             (B)
                                                                11
              independent
                                                                 8
     (B) dim V         dim V'                             (C)
                                                                11
     (C) dim V = dim V'
                                                                 2
                                                          (D)
     (D) Ker T = {0}                                            11
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                                                                SECTION II
9.   Which of the following sets are
                                                   11. Consider the set X of all sequences
     convex sets ?
                                                       (xn) of natural numbers.
     (i)   {( x, y)| y   x}                            Let Y = {(xn)           X : xn = 0 for infinitely
                                                                                             many n},
     (ii) {( x, y)| y | x |}
                                                            Z = {(xn)          X : xn = 0 for infinitely
     (iii) {( x, y)| y   x2 }                                                                many n},
                                                            W = {(xn)          X : xn     0 for finitely
     (A) (i) only                                                                            many n}.

     (B) (i) and (ii) only                             Then which of the following sets is
                                                       countable ?
     (C) (i) and (iii) only                            (A) Y

     (D) (ii) and (iii) only                           (B) Z
                                                       (C) W
10. Which of the following statement(s)
                                                       (D) Complement of Z in X
     is/are true for an LP problem ?
                                                   12. Which of the following real numbers
     (I)   The set of all feasible solutions           x, the inequality (1 x)n 1 nx
                                                       holds for all n N ?
           to an LP problem is a convex
                                                       (A) x    R
           set.
                                                       (B) x [ 4, 4]
     (II) Every hyperplane is a convex                 (C) x    ( 1,       )
           set.                                        (D) x    (      ,       4]   [0,   )

     (A) Both are true                             13. How many solutions are there for the
                                                       equation cos x e x 0 ?
     (B) Only (I) is true                              (A) No solution

     (C) Only (II) is true                             (B) Finitely many solutions
                                                       (C) Countably infinite solutions
     (D) Neither (I) nor (II) is true
                                                       (D) Uncountably many solutions
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14. Which of the following statements            16. Which of the following Mobius
    holds for a function f : [0, 1]   R ?            transformations maps the unit disc

    (A) If f is of bounded variation, then           onto the right half plane ?

        f is Riemann integrable                                   z i
                                                     (A) f ( z)
                                                                  z i
    (B) If f is of bounded variation, then
                                                                  z 1
        it is uniformly continuous                   (B) f ( z)
                                                                  z 1
    (C) If f is bounded, then it is of
                                                                  1 z
                                                     (C) f ( z)
        bounded variation                                         1 z

    (D) If f is uniformly continuous,                                 1 z
                                                     (D) f ( z)   i
        then it is of bounded variation
                                                                      1 z

                                                 17. Let S be the set of zeros of a non-
15. Consider the following statements :
                                                     zero entire function. Then the set
    (a) Every non-empty open subset of
                                                     S is :
        R is uncountable.
                                                     (A) non-empty open
    (b) Every connected subset of R                  (B) infinite and bounded
        containing at least two elements             (C) closed
        is uncountable.                              (D) uncountable

    Then :                                       18. If f     u iv is analytic on C, then
                                                     which of the following is FALSE ?
    (A) Only (a) is true
                                                     (A) u, v are harmonic
    (B) Only (b) is true
                                                     (B) u2, v2 are harmonic
    (C) Both (a) and (b) are true                    (C) u + v is harmonic
    (D) Both (a) and (b) are false                   (D) uv is harmonic

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19. Let f be analytic on C               {0} and let             21. Let G be a finite group and H, H'
     1,   2 : [0, 1]            C   {0} be defined
                                                                     be two subgroups of G. Then :
    by    1 (t)     e2 it and        2 (t)      10 e2 it .

    Suppose            I1           f ( z) dz       and              (A) H       H'   #H        #H'
                                1


     I2         f ( z) dz                                            (B) H       H'   [G : H]    [G : H ']
                            .
            2

                                                                     (C) H       H'   aH   bH' for some
    Then :

    (A) I1 = I2                                                           a, b    G

    (B) I1 = 10I2
                                                                     (D) H       H'   both H and H' are
                   1
    (C) I1           I
                  10 2                                                    normal in G

    (D) There is no relation between
                                                                 22. Let I be the ideal in the polynomial
          I1 and I2
                                                                     ring Z 4 [X] generated by the
                                                   cot z
20. Consider the function f ( z)                         .           polynomial 1 + 2X. Then :
                                                     z
    Then :
                                                                     (A) I is a prime ideal
    (A) f has a simple pole at z = 0
                                                                     (B) I is a maximal ideal
    (B) f has a removable singularity at
          z = 0
                                                                     (C) I is a proper ideal which is not
    (C) f       has    uncountably                many
                                                                          a prime ideal
          singularities

    (D) the residue of f at z = 0 is 1                               (D) I is a unit ideal

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                                               25. Which of the following is an integral
23. In the group S3, there are exactly :
                                                   domain but not a field ?

    (A) 2 elements satisfying x3 = e and           (A) Z 10
                                                   (B) Z 31
         3 elements satisfying x2 = e
                                                   (C) R[x]

    (B) 3 elements satisfying x3 = e and           (D) C(x)

                                                                      1 1
         4 elements satisfying x2 = e          26. A35 if A =               is :
                                                                      0 1

    (C) 2 elements satisfying x3 = e and                 1 70
                                                   (A)
                                                         0 1
         4 elements satisfying x2 = e
                                                         1 35
                                                   (B)
                                                         0 1
    (D) 3 elements satisfying x3 = e and
                                                         2 35
         3 elements satisfying x2 = e              (C)
                                                         0 2

24. Let G be a cyclic group of order 20.                 35 35
                                                   (D)
                                                         0 35
    Then the number of elements of G
                                               27. Let W be the vector space of real
    of order 10 is :                               skew symmetric n × n matrices.
                                                   Then the dimension of W =
    (A) 10
                                                   (A) n 2
                                                   (B) n2 – n
    (B) 4
                                                         n2       n
                                                   (C)
    (C) 6                                                     2

                                                         n2       n
    (D) 2                                          (D)
                                                              2

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28. If A is a real 3 × 3 matrix, which         30. Let W be the subspace of R4 given
                                                   by :
    of the following statements can not

    be true about A ?                                     x1
                                                          x2           x1    2 x2    3 x3       4 x4   0
    (A) Minimum          polynomial   =           W
                                                          x3           x1       x2   x3     0
        characteristic polynomial                         x4                                               !

    (B) A has at least one complex eigen           Then W " is generated by :
        value
                                                          1        0                 0
    (C) Minimum       polynomial      of                  0        1                 0
                                                   (A)    0 ,      0        and      1
        A = x2 – 1
                                                          0        0                 0
    (D) Minimum       polynomial      of

        A = x2 + 1                                        1                  1
                                                          2                  1
                 1   0    0                        (B)    3       and        1
29. Matrix A     0   1    1   is :                        4                  0
                 0    1 1

                                                              1                 1
    (A) Diagonalizable over R                                 2                 1
                                                   (C)        3    and          1
    (B) Triangulable over R but not
                                                              4                 0
        diagonalizable over R

                                                          0                 0
    (C) Triangulable over C but not
                                                          0                 0
        diagonalizable over C                      (D)    1       and       0
                                                          0                 1
    (D) Diagonalizable over C

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31. The partial differential equation
                                                               33. If $ 1 and $ 2 are two linearly
    obtained by eliminating arbitrary
                                                                   independent solutions of y " ay         0,
    constants from
                                                                   where a is a constant, on an interval
                  z       ae bx sin by
                                                                   I. Then which of the following
    is :                                                           statements about the Wronskin

        #2 z          #z                                           W($1 $ 2 ) ( x) is true ?
    (A)                          0
        # y2          #x
                                                                   (A) W($1 , $ 2 ) ( x)      is a constant

        #2 z          #2 z                                              function
    (B)                          0
        # y2          #x 2
                                                                   (B) W($1 $ 2 ) ( x) is a monotonically

        #2 z              #2 z                                          increasing function
    (C)               x              0
        #y 2              #x 2                                     (C) W($1 $ 2 ) ( x) is a monotonically

        #2 z              #z                                            decreasing function
    (D)               x              0
        #y 2              #x
                                                                   (D) W($1 $ 2 ) ( x)     0 for all x I
32. The solution of the linear partial                         34. A solution of the differential
    differential equation
                                                                   equation
           #2 z            #2 z          #2 z                                    xy '    2y
                      2                         0
           #x 2           #y#x           #y 2
                                                                   passing through (1, 2), also passes
    is :
                                                                   through :
    (A) z      $1 ( x          y) $ 2 ( x       y)
                                                                   (A) (2, 1)
    (B) z      $1 ( x          y) x$2 ( x           y)
                                                                   (B) (2, 4)
    (C) z      $1 ( x          y) x$2 ( x           y)
                                                                   (C) (2, 8)
    (D) z      $1 ( x          y) x2$ 2 ( x          y)            (D) (2, 16)

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35. The differential equation obtained             37. A company management and the
    by eliminating arbitrary constants                 labour unions are negotiating a new
    from the expression y aebx is :                    three year settlement. Each of these
                             2                         has 4 strategies mentioned below :
         d2 y           dy
    (A) y 2                          0                 (I) : Hard and aggressive bargaining.
         dx             dx
                                                       (II) : Reasoning and logical approach.
            d2 y        dy                             (III) : Legalistic strategy.
    (B) y           x            0
            dx2         dx                             (IV) : Conciliatory approach.
                                                       The cost to the company are given
                                 2
        d2 y          dy                               for every pair of strategy choice.
    (C)            xy                0
        dx2           dx
                                                                    Company Strategies
         d2 y     dy                                                   I  II III IV
    (D)     2
               xy     0
         dx       dx
                                                       Labour       I    20 15 12       35
36. Assign the programmers U, V, W to                  Union        II   25 14 8        10
    the programmes I, II, III in such way              Strategies III 40 2        10    5
    that the total computer time is
                                                                    IV   –5 4     11    0
    minimum. The estimated computer
    time required by the programmers                   Then the value of the game is :
    to execute the programmes is given                 (A) 12
    in the table.                                      (B) –5
                                                       (C) 0
                             Programmers               (D) 2
                             U   V  W              38. Consider the following LP problem.
                        I 120 100        80            Max    Z = 6x1 – 4x2
   Programmes II 80 90 110                             Subject to the constraints :
              III 110 140 120                                  2x1 + 4x2    4
                                                               4x1 + 8x2    16
    The optimal assignment is :                                    x1, x2   0.
    (A) I   W , II   V , III U                         Then L.P. has :
    (B) I   V , II U , III W                           (A) Infeasible solution
    (C) I U , II     W , III  V                        (B) Unbounded solution
    (D) Optimal assignment cannot be                   (C) Basic feasible solution
         done                                          (D) Feasible solution

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39. Consider the LP problem :                   41. Consider the function
    Max    Z = x1 – x2 + 3x3
    Subject to the constraints :                         f : [0, 1] % [0, 1]            R
        x1 + x2 + x3     10                         defined as :
        2x1 – x2 – x3     2
        2x1 – 2x2 – 3x3      6 and                       f ( x, y)      1 if either x or y is
                    x1, x2, x3   0.                                       irrational
    Then the dual of the above LP                                       0 otherwise
    problem is :
    Min W : py1 + qy2 + ry3                         Then                    f   is :
    Subject to the constraints :                            [0,1] % [0,1]

            ay1 + by2 + cy3     1                   (A) 0
              y1 – y2 – 2y3     –1
              y1 – y2 – 3y3     3 and               (B) 1
                  y1, y2, y3    0
                                                    (C) Undefined
    where the values of p, q, r, a, b, c
    are :                                           (D) 2
    (A) p = 10, q = 2, r = – 6, a = –1,
                                                42. Consider the function f : R 2                  R
        b = 2, c = –2
    (B) p = 10, q = 2, r = 6, a = 1,                given      by           f ( x, y)   x2   y2   4y .
        b = 2, c = 2                                Then in a neighbourhood of (0, 0) :
    (C) p = 10, q = –2, r = –6, a = –1,
                                                    (A) x variable can be expressed as
        b = –2, c = 2
                                                        a function of y
    (D) p = –10, q = 2, r = 6, a = –1,
        b = –2, c = 2                               (B) y variable can be expressed as
40. The number of basic variables in an                 a function of x
    (m × n) transportation table are :
                                                    (C) none of x and y be expressed as
    (A) m + n – 1                                       a function of other variable
    (B) m + n + 1
                                                    (D) both x and y can be expressed
    (C) mn                                              as a function of the other
    (D) m + n                                           variable

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43. Consider the function f : R 2         R2           46. Let f : C      C be a non-constant
    defined as f ( x, y)    ( x2   y2 , 2 xy) .            analytic such that | f ( z)| | z| for
                                   1                       | z| 2019 . Then which of the
    Then the image of the ball B(P, ) ,
                                   2                       following is false ?
    where P = (1, 0) is the centre and                     (A) f maps a line onto a circle
     1                                                     (B) f is one-one
       is radius, is :
     2                                                     (C) f is onto
    (A) a closed set                                       (D) f '( z)   0 for all z C
    (B) an open set                                    47. Let L|K be an algebraic field
    (C) neither open nor closed set                        extension and ' : L         L be a
    (D) an unbounded set                                   K-algebra homomorphism. Then :
44. Let f be a non-constant entire                         (A) ' is bijective
    function. Then which of the                            (B) ' is injective, but not surjective
    following is impossible ?                              (C) ' is surjective, but not injective
    (A) f (C)       C                                      (D) ' is neither injective nor

    (B) f (C)                                                   surjective
                    C {0}
                                                       48. The number of linear factors of the
    (C) f (C)       C
                                                           polynomial X 16 1 in R [X] is :
    (D) f (C) & R
                                                           (A) 0
45. Consider the following statements :                    (B) 1
    (a) | esin z
                   | does not assume its                   (C) 2
         maximum value in C.                               (D) 4
    (b) |sin(e z )| does not assume its                49. The number of irreducible quadratic
        minimum value in C.                                factors of the polynomial X8 + 1 in
    Then :                                                 R [X] is :
    (A) Only (a) is true                                   (A) 4
    (B) Only (b) is true                                   (B) 3
    (C) Both (a) and (b) are true                          (C) 2
    (D) Both (a) and (b) are false                         (D) 1
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50. Let X be a metric space and                             53. Let G be a group of order n, p a
    Y, Z ( X such that Y ) Z $ . Then :                         prime such that p|n. Then :
    (A) d(Y, Z) > 0                                             (A) every Sylow p-subgroup of G is
    (B) d(Y, Z) > 0 if Y and Z are closed                           normal in G
    (C) d(Y, Z) > 0 if Y or Z is compact
                                                                (B) every Sylow p-subgroup of G is
    (D) d(Y, Z) > 0 if one of Y or Z is
                                                                    abelian
         compact and the other is closed
         in X                                                   (C) the number of Sylow p-sub-
51. Let f , g : R    R be defined by                                groups of G is equal to the index

                      1                          1                  of N(P) in G, where N(P) is the
     f ( x)     sin       and   g ( x)   x sin     .                normaliser of         any   Sylow
                      x                          x
    Then :                                                          p-subgroup P of G
    (A) f and g are of bounded variation                        (D) the number of Sylow p-sub-
    (B) f is of bounded variation, but                              groups of G is equal to the index
              g is not of bounded variation                         of P in G, where P is any Sylow
    (C) g is of bounded variation, but                              p-subgroup of G
              f is not of bounded variation                 54. The number of elements of order
    (D) neither f nor g is of bounded                           3 in the direct product of groups
              variation
                                                                Z9 × Z3 is :
52. Let X, Y be metric spaces and
                                                                (A) 6
     f :X        Y be a surjective continuous
    map. Then :                                                 (B) 8
    (A) f maps open sets in X to open                           (C) 9
              sets in Y                                         (D) 18
    (B) f maps closed sets in X to closed                   55. The field Q ( 2, 3, 5) is not equal
              sets in Y                                         to :
    (C) f maps dense subsets of X to
                                                                (A) Q ( 30)
              dense subsets of Y
                                                                (B) Q ( 2      3     5)
    (D) f maps nowhere dense subsets
              of X to nowhere dense subsets                     (C) Q ( 2      3, 5)
              of Y                                              (D) Q ( 2      3 –   5)
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56. Let X and Y be Banach spaces with               58. Let X be the space of all continuous
     . 1 and . 2 respectively denoting
    their norms. Let T : X    Y be a                    complex valued functions on [0, 1]
    bijective bounded linear map. If
                                                        with inner product
      x 3    Tx 2 and     y 4   x 1,
    where Tx y , for all x X and                                                    1

     y Y . Then :                                                    + f, g *           f ( t) g(t) dt .
                                                                                    0
    (A)    . 3 and       . 4 are norms and
          complete                                      Let     T:X             X       be defined by
    (B)    . 3 is a complete norm and                    T( f )(t)     t eit f (t) . Then :
           . 4 is not a norm
                                                        (A) T is self-adjoint, but not unitary
    (C)    . 4 is a complete norm and
           . 3 is not a complete norm
                                                        (B) T is unitary, but not self-adjoint
    (D) neither . 3 is a complete norm
        nor . 4 is a complete norm                      (C) T is normal, but neither self-

                                                              adjoint nor unitary
57. Let Vk      {(an )   l2 : an   0 for all
                                                        (D) T is not normal
    n * k} . Then :
    (A) Vk is finite dimensional for all            59. Let Xi denote the set X with topology
          k and l2 is a direct sum of                   ,i and Yi denote the set Y with
          {Vk | k   N}
                                                        topology - i for i 1, 2 . If f : X1                  Y1
    (B) Vk is finite dimensional for all                is continuous, then f : X 2                        Y2 is
          k and l2 is a sum of {Vk | k   N}
                                                        continuous provided :
          and is not a direct sum

    (C) Vk is infinite dimensional for all              (A) -1 ( - 2 and ,1 ( ,2

          k and l2 is a sum of {Vk | k   N}             (B) - 2 ( -1 and ,1 ( ,2
    (D) Vk is finite dimensional for
                                                        (C) -1 ( - 2 and ,2 ( ,1
          all k and l2 is not a sum of
          {Vk | k   N}                                  (D) - 2 ( -1 and ,2 ( ,1

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60. Let X    {( x, y)   R 2 : ( x n) 2   y2   1,        63. Let G be a simple graph having no
                                                            isolated vertex and having no vertex
     n   Z } be the subspace of the
                                                            induced subgraph with exactly two
     Euclidean space R2. Then :                             edges. Then :
     (A) X is compact and connected                         (A) G is planar
                                                            (B) G is self-complementary
     (B) X is connected, but not compact
                                                            (C) G is complete
     (C) X is compact, but not connected                    (D) G is a tree
     (D) X is neither connected nor                     64. The        coefficient            of       x8    in

         compact                                            ( x 2 x3     x4      x5 )5 is :
                                                            (A) 13
61. Let X be a separable first countable                    (B) 10
     space, then X × X in the product                       (C) 20
     topology is :                                          (D) 0
                                                        65. Let u1 and u2 be solutions of the
     (A) first countable and separable
                                                            equation :
     (B) first countable, but may not                             .u = 0 in D
         always be separable                                      #u
                                                                         g(s) on #D
     (C) separable and may not always                             #n

         be first countable                                                                      x2     y2
                                                            where D           {( x, y)    R2 /               1}
                                                                                                 4      9
     (D) neither always first countable
                                                            is an ellipse with boundary
         nor always separable
                                                                                         x2   y2
62. The subgroup lattice of a finite cyclic                  #D    {( x, y)    R2 /                   1} .   If
                                                                                         4    9
     group is :                                              u1 (0, ½)    u2 (0, ½) 1 . Then :
     (A) finite direct product of chains                    (A) u 1 and u 2 are dependent
                                                                  solutions
     (B) modular but not distributive
                                                            (B) u1 / u2 1 in D
     (C) not modular
                                                            (C) u1 u2 changes sign in D
     (D) not distributive                                   (D) u1 / u2 in D
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66. The equation                                               70. Modulo the prime 101, the number
                            1                                      (50 !)2 is congruent to :
          xuxx     yuyy       (u    uy )       0                   (A) –1
                            2 x
    is hyperbolic in the maximal                                   (B) 1
    domain :                                                       (C) 0
    (A) {( x, y)       R 2 / x * 0, y * 0}                         (D) 2
                                                               71. Which of the following statements
    (B) {( x, y)       R 2 / x + 0, y * 0}
                                                                   is correct ?
    (C) {( x, y)       R 2 / xy * 0}
                                                                   (A) A system of n particles can have
               R 2 / x + 0, y + 0}
    (D) {( x, y)
                                                                       infinite degrees of freedom
67. The partial differential equation
                                                                   (B) A system of n particles with
          2    2  #z         #z    3           2
     (x       z )         xy       z x     y       is :                k holonomic constraints has
                  #x         #y
                                                                       3n – k degrees of freedom
    (A) linear
                                                                   (C) A system of n particles with
    (B) semi-linear
                                                                       k constraints has n – k degrees
    (C) quasi-linear
                                                                       of freedom
    (D) non-linear
                                                                   (D) A system of n particles has
68. Every natural number is :
    (A) a sum of distinct powers of 2                                  6 degrees of freedom
    (B) a sum of distinct powers of 3                          72. The Lagrangian of a dynamical
    (C) a sum of distinct factorials                               system is given by :
    (D) a sum of distinct triangular                                                           m 2
                                                                        L(q1 , q2 , q1,q2 )     (q       q22 )
        numbers                                                                                2 1
69. Which of the following is a solution                                                            a(q1q2    q2 q1 )
    to the system of congruences :                                 where m and a are constants. Then
                   x / 2 (mod 5)                                   canonical momenta of the system
                   x / 3 (mod 4)
                                                                   are given by :
                   x / 1 (mod 3)
                                                                   (A) p1     mq1, p2         mq2
    (A) 22
                                                                   (B) p1     mq1      aq2 , p2       mq2        aq1
    (B) 27
    (C) 47                                                         (C) p1     aq2 , p2        aq1
    (D) 67                                                         (D) p1     mq1      aq2 , p2       mq2        aq1

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73. If the Hamiltonian of the dynamical                              76.   u   ax   by , v      cx      dy where a, b,
    system is                                                              c, d are non-zero constants are
      H( q1 , q2 , p1 , p2 )       p12     p22        k q12 ,              velocity components of a possible
    then the Lagrangian is given by :
                                                                           incompressible fluid motion only, if :
              q12    q22
    (A) L =                    k q12                                       (A) a = d
               2         2
                                                                           (B) a + d = 0
    (B) L = q12      q22      k q12
                                                                           (C) b = c
              q12    q22                                                   (D) b + c = 0
    (C) L =                    k q12
               4         4
                                                                     77. If the velocity potential of the fluid
           q2        q22
    (D) L = 1                  k q12                                       is given by :
            2        2
74. Which of the following statements                                                           xy3         x3 y
                                                                               $    x2    y2                       6,
    is correct ?                                                                                 3           3
    (A) Finite rotation can be                                             then the velocity components of the
        represented by a single vector                                     fluid flow are :
    (B) Infinitesimal transformation                                                                 y3
                                                                           (A) u    x2 y 2 x            ,
        can be represented by a single                                                               3
        vector
                                                                                                                          x3
    (C) The matrix representing                                                                        v    2y     xy2
                                                                                                                          3
        infinitesimal transformation is
        idempotent matrix                                                                            x3
                                                                           (B) u    2y    xy2           ,
    (D) Addition of finite rotations is                                                              3
        commutative                                                                                                y3
                                                                                                       v    2x           x2 y
75. Identify the velocity field (u, v)                                                                             3
    which satisfies conservation of mass
                                                                                                       x3
    for incompressible plane flow :                                        (C) u     2y      xy2          ,
                                                                                                       3
    (A) u     3 x 2 y2 , v          x3      4 xy2
                                                                                                                   y3
    (B) u     x2 , v     y2                                                                        v        2x           x2 y
                                                                                                                   3
    (C) u     2 xy   x2 , v         2 xy         y2
                                                                           (D) u    2x , v         2y
    (D) u     x2 y , v       xy2

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                                                79. Let
78. In two-dimensional fluid flow                             Edu22Fdudv Gdv2 and
                                                    Ldu2      2Mdudv Ndv2 be the first
   consider a source of strength m at
                                                    and second fundamental forms
   z = f, where f is real, outside the              respectively of a surface patch in R3.

   circular cylinder of radius a whose                         E F                 L M
                                                    If X =             and Y =         ,
                                                               F G                 M N
   centre is at the origin. The image
                                                    then :
   of the source in a cylinder is :
                                                    (A) X–1Y is non-singular

                                      a2            (B) X–1Y may not be non-singular,
   (A) a sink of strength m at z
                                       f                  but symmetric
       and a source of strength m at
                                                    (C) X–1Y may not be symmetric, but
       the origin
                                                          have real eigen values

                                      a2            (D) X–1Y is non-singular, but not
   (B) a source of strength m at z
                                       f
                                                          symmetric
       and a sink of strength m at the
                                                80. For any unit speed curve in R3 with
       origin
                                                    tangent t , normal n , binormal b ,
                                      a2            curvature k and torsion -, - t '       k b'
   (C) a sink of strength m at z
                                       f
                                                    is in :
       and a sink of strength m at the
                                                    (A) the linear span of t and b
       origin
                                                    (B) the linear span of t and n
                                      a2
   (D) a source of strength m at z                  (C) the linear span of b and n
                                       f
       and a source of strength m at                (D) none of the linear spans of any
       the origin                                         two vectors in { t , n, b }

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                                                           83. If the integrand f does not depend
81. The Gaussian curvature of the
                                                               on y, the Euler Lagrange’s equation
     elliptic cylinder                                         of the functional

                                 x2   y2                                          x2
            {( x, y, z)   R3 :             1}                        I[ y( x)]          f ( x, y ', y ") dx
                                 2    3
                                                                                   x1

     is :                                                      under the conditions that both y and
                                                               y' are prescribed at the end points
     (A) always > 0
                                                               has the first integral as :

     (B) always < 0                                                    #f        d #f
                                                               (A)                                constant
                                                                       #y "      dx #y "
     (C) always = 0
                                                                       #f        d #f
     (D) > 0 at some points and < 0 at                         (B)                               constant
                                                                       #y '      dx #y "
              some points
                                                                       #f        d #f
                                                               (C)                               constant
82. The extremal problem                                               #y '      dx #y '

                                                                       #f        d #f
J[ y( x)]          ( y '2 y2 ) dx, y(0) 1, y( )   0            (D)                               constant
                                                                       #y "      dx #y '
               0

                                                           84. An extremum of the functional
     has :
                                                                1
     (A) a unique extremal if 0 = 1                                 ( y '2 12 xy) dx, y(0)           0, y(1)   1
                                                                0
     (B) infinitely many extremals if
                                                               can occur only along the curve :
              0 = 1
                                                               (A) y( x)          x3
     (C) a unique extremal if 0 = –1
                                                               (B) y( x )           x3      2x
     (D) infinitely many extremals if
                                                               (C) y( x )         x3      2x
              0 = –1                                           (D) y( x)          x2      x3

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85. The curve connecting two given                          87. The initial value problem
    points A and B that do not lie on                                 y"   y    0 , y(0)        y '(0)    0
    a vertical line such that a particle                        is equivalent to the integral
    sliding down this curve under                               equation :
    gravity from the point A reaches                                            t

    point B in shortest time is :                               (A) y(t)            (t     s) y( s) ds
                                                                                0
    (A) a straight line connecting A
                                                                                t
          and B
                                                                (B) y( t)           t (t    s) y( s) ds
    (B) a parabola passing through A                                            0
          and B                                                                 t
    (C) there          is     no     curve      that            (C) y(t)            (s t) y(s) ds
                                                                                0
          minimizes time
    (D) the cycloid of which one arc                                            t

          contains both the points A                            (D) y(t)            t ( s t) y( s) ds
                                                                                0
          and B
                                                            88. If K(t, s) is symmetric kernel of the
86. Let 01       0 2 be the characteristic
                                                                Fredholm integral equation. Define
    numbers            and      $1 , $ 2   be    the
                                                                the operator K by :
    corresponding eigen functions for the
                                                                                    b
    homogeneous Fredholm integral
                                                                           K$            K(t, s) $( s) ds
    equation with separable kernel :                                                a
                       1                                        and        consider           the        following
          u(t)     0       k(t, s) u( s) ds .
                                                                statements :
                       0
                                                                (I)    K is self-adjoint operator.
    Then which of the following is not
                                                                (II) Inner product + K$, $ *                       is
    true ?
                                                                     always real.
    (A) Fredholm determinant D(0) = 0
                                                                Then :
          1
              $1 (t) $ 2 (t) dt     0                           (A) Only (I) is true
    (B)
          0                                                     (B) Only (II) is true
    (C) $1 , $ 2 are linearly dependent                         (C) Both (I) and (II) are true
    (D) $1 , $ 2 are linearly independent                       (D) Both (I) and (II) are false

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89. The third divided difference of the           92. If
    function f ( x) 1 x with arguments
    p, q, r, s is :                                                        e xt g(t), t * 0
                                                              f ( t)
                                                                           0         ,    t + 0.
           1
    (A)
           pq                                         Then which of the following is true ?

            1
                                                      (A)     L{ f (t)}        e sF{ g (t)}
    (B)                                               (B)     F{ f (t )}       sL{ g(t)}
           pqr
                                                      (C)     F{ f (t)}        L{ g(t)}
             1
    (C)                                               (D)     L{ f (t)}        F{ g(t)}
            pqrs
                                                  93. If f (s) is the Fourier transform of
            s
    (D)                                               f(t), then Fourier transform of
           pqr
                                                       f (t   a) is :
90. Using Newton’s forward interpolation
                                                      (A) eisa f ( s           a)
    formula, the cubic polynomial which
    takes the following value                         (B) e sa f ( s a)
                                                      (C) e sa f ( s)
           x:             0   1     2   3
           f ( x) :       1   2     1   10            (D) eisa f ( s)
                                                  94. Solution of the Fredholm integral
    is :
                                                      equation
    (A) 2 x3 7 x2 6 x 1
    (B) 2 x3 7 x2 6 x 1                                            cos 0t u(t) dt             e 0
    (C) 2 x3 x2 2 x 1                                          0

    (D) 2 x3 2 x 2 3 x 1                              is :
91. For a given initial value problem                         2        1
                                                      (A)
            y'        y   x, y(0)   2                              (1 t 2 )
    the value of y(0.1) by Runge-Kutta                        2        1
                                                      (B)
    second order method is :                                       (1 t 2 )
    (A) 2.2100                                                2        1
                                                      (C)
    (B) 2.0050                                                     (1 t)2
    (C) 2.2050                                                2        1
    (D) 2.1900                                        (D)
                                                                   (1 t)2
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95. Consider the following auxiliary LP             97. Which of the following statements
    problem for two-phase simplex
                                                        is true for a graph G ?
    method.
                       m                                (A) Every graph G has a perfect
          Max Z *     1 ( 1) A i ,
                      i 1                                     matching
    where Ai’s are artificial variables,
    subject to                                          (B) Every regular graph G with
    n
                                                              even degree       1 has a 2-factor
    1 aij x j   Ai    bi , i   1, 2,....., m
    i 1
                                                        (C) Every bipartite graph G having
    and x j , A i    0.

    If Max Z* = 0 and at least one                            no pendant vertex has a 2-factor

    artificial variable is present in the               (D) Line graph of a regular graph
    basis with positive values then the
                                                              G has a 1-factor
    original L.P. problem has :
                                                    98. Consider the signed measure v on
    (A) no feasible solution
                                                        [0, 2] defined by           (A)       f ( x) dx
    (B) a feasible solution
                                                                                          A
    (C) degenerate feasible solution
                                                                    f ( x)   1 if x [0,1)
                                                        where                                   .
    (D) cannot say anything about the                                        1 if x [1,2]
          existence of solution                                     1 3
                                                        Then         ,       is :
96. There exists a graph with vertex-                               2 2

    connectivity a, edge-connectivity                   (A) equal to the Lebesgue measure
    b and the minimum degree c, if :                          of (0, 1)
    (A) a = 4, b = 2, c = 3                             (B) 1
    (B) a = 4, b = 3, c = 4                             (C) 0
    (C) a = 2, b = 3, c = 4
                                                                1
                                                        (D)
    (D) a = 2, b = 4, c = 3                                     2

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99. Let (X, M, µ) be a measurable space                              SECTION III
                                                       101. In a class of 100 students, 40
     and E     M be a measurable set.
                                                           students got 60 marks and 60
     Let f be a non-negative measurable
                                                           students got 40 marks out of 100.
     function with support contained
                                                           Hence the mean, median and mode
     in E. Define 0(A)              f dµ .                 of the class marks are respectively.
                             A )E
                                                           (A) 48, 40 and 60
     Which of the following statements                     (B) 48, 40 and 40
     is false ?                                            (C) 24, 60 and 40
     (A) 0 is a measure on M                               (D) 24, 40 and 60

     (B) 0 is a measure on                             102. The coefficient of variation of a
                                                                                              X
                      M(E)   {A ) E / A      M}            random variable X is 1.2. If Y =     ,
                                                                                              4
     (C) 0 is absolutely continuous with                   the coefficient of variation of Y is :
          respect to µ on M(E)                             (A) 0.3

     (D) 0 is singular with respect to µ                   (B) 0.6

          on M(E)                                          (C) 2.4

                                                           (D) 1.2
100. Let f : [0, 1]      R be a continuous
     function. Then f is absolutely                    103. The random variable X follows

     continuous, if :                                      normal distribution with mean 5 and
                                                           standard deviation 6. Hence :
     (A) f is uniformly continuous
                                                           (A) P[X     5] = P[X     6]
     (B) f is of bounded variation
                                                           (B) P[X     5] > P[X     6]
     (C) f is Riemann integrable
                                                           (C) P[X     5] < P[X     6]
     (D) f' exists and is continuous                       (D) P[X     5] > P[X     6]

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104. Suppose P(A/B) = 0.4 and P(B) = 0.8.                   107. Which of the following is a
     Which of the following is a possible                       characteristic function of a random
     value for P(A) ?                                           variable ?
     (A) 0.3
                                                                (A)    (t) = cos(t2)
     (B) 0.5
     (C) 0.6                                                    (B)    (t) = cos t 2
     (D) 0.1                                                                     2
105. Let X be a random variable with                            (C)    (t) =
                                                                                1 2t
             E [|X|3] = 3
                                                                                 t
     Then :                                                     (D)    (t) =
                                                                                1 t2
                                          3
    (A) P[|X|                   2]                          108. Suppose E, F and G are 3 events
                                          8
                                                                such that P(E ) F ) G) = P(E).P(F).
                      3
    (B) P[|X|    2]                                             P(G) and P(E ) F ) G) = P(E).
                      5
                                                                P(F ) G) .
    (C) One cannot say anything about
        P[|X|     2] from the given                             Consider the statements :
        information                                             (I)   F and G are independent events
                         5                                      (II) E and FC G C are independent
    (D) P[|X|                  2]
                         8                                           events
106. Let the joint distribution of (X, Y)
                                                                (III) EC and F ) G are independent
     be given by :
                                                                      events
                               X                                (IV) E, F and G are mutually
                      0        1         2        3
                                                                      independent events
     Y 0          1        1         1        1
                      10   20            20       20
                  3        1         3        5                 (A) Only statements I, II and III are
       1              20     5           20       20
                                                                      correct
    Then P[X                   1] is :
                                                                (B) Only statements II, III and IV
    (A)   3
              20                                                      are correct
    (B)   1
              20                                                (C) Only statements II and III are
    (C)   1
              2                                                       correct
    (D)   1                                                     (D) Only statement I is correct
              5

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109. Suppose X1, X2, X3 are independent                     112. Suppose X 1, X 2 , X 3 and X 4 are

    and identically distributed random                           independent        and    identically
    variables each having exponential                            distributed tri-variate random
    distribution with mean 2. Then the
                                                                 vectors having normal distribution.
    probability density function of
                                                                 Then the distribution of a1X1 + a2X2
    sample range is given by,
                                                                 + a3X3 + a4X4, where a1, a2, a3, a4
    (A) h(r) = e–r, r > 0
    (B) h(r) = re–r, r       3                                   are real numbers, is :

    (C) h(r) = (1 – e–r)e–r, r               3                   (A) Univariate normal
    (D)   h(r) = 2(1 – e–r)e–r, r > 0
                                                                 (B) Four variate normal
110. The distribution with moment
                                   1                             (C) Trivariate normal
    generating function                  t   is :
                              3 – 2e
                                                                 (D) Not normal
    (A) Exponential distribution
    (B) Cauchy distribution                                 113. Let X1, X2, ......., Xn be independently
    (C) Geometric distribution                                   and identically distributed random
    (D) Logarithmic series distribution                          variables with N(µ, 1) distribution.
111. Which of the following statements
                                                                 Assume that µ        0. Let µ̂ denote
    about an exponential distribution
                                                                 MLE of µ. Then which of the
    with mean       is true ?
    (A) Its variance is                                          following statements is true ?
    (B) Its moment generating function
                                                                 (A) µ̂ = max X n ,0
        is 1/(1 – t) exists for all t R
                                                                 (B) µ̂ is unbiased for µ
    (C) E(X) =         e– 0x dx.
                   0
                                                                 (C) The sample mean             Xn   is
    (D) F(t s)     F(t) F(s),          4 t, s    R ,
                                                                      sufficient for µ
          where F( x) is the survival
          function of X.                                         (D) µ̂ may not exist
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114. Let X be a single observation from                        117. Let X 1 , X 2 , ..........., X n be a
     ,e– ,x 5[0, ) ( x) ,   > 0. Then (X, 2X) is                    random sample from the density
     a confidence interval for             1       with
                                               ,                    f(x,    ) = c( ) h( x) e ( )d(x), ,    .
     confidence coefficient :
                                                                                     n

     (A)
            1                                                       Let T( x) =     1 d( xi ) .
            2                                                                       i 1

     (B) e–1                                                        Then which of the following
              1                                                     statements is not true ?
     (C)     –
            e 2
                                                                    (A) T(X) is a complete sufficient
               1
     (D)     –
            e 2 – e –1                                                     statistics for
115. Let X1, X2, ........, Xn be a random                           (B) T(X) is uniformly minimum
                                                                        variance unbiased estimator of
                                1    1
     sample from uniform          ,,  ,–                                   its expected value
                                2    2
     distribution. Consider the problem                             (C) T(X) is unbiased for
                                  1                 1               (D) The probability distribution
     of testing H0 : ,        –     Vs H1 : ,         .
                                  2                 2                      depends on
     Let X(1) = min            X1 , X 2 ,......., X n .        118. Suppose t test is applied to test the
     Consider the test, reject H 0 if                               equality of means of two random
     X(1) > 0 and accept otherwise. Then                            variables X and Y, where X and Y
     the power (p) and size (s) of the test
                                                                    are independent. Then :
     (p, s) are given by :
     (A) (0, 0)                                                     (A) Distribution of both X and Y
     (B) (0, 1)                                                            must be normal with equal
     (C) (1, 0)                                                            variances
     (D) (1, 1)
116. Which of the following theorems is                             (B) Distribution of both X and Y
     useful for obtaining a sufficient                                     must be normal
     statistics ?                                                   (C) Distribution of X and Y may not
     (A) Neyman-Pearson theorem
                                                                           be normal
     (B) Neyman-factorization theorem
     (C) Basu’s theorem                                             (D) Both X and Y must have the
     (D) Rao-Blackwell theorem                                             same variance
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119. X is a normal (6, '2) random variable             121. A frequency data is classified in 10
     and a 95% confidence interval for 6                   classes     and     normal      N(µ,   2)

     based on a random sample of size
                                                           distribution is fitted to data after
     n on X is given by (15, 25]. Hence
                                                           estimating the parameters. To use
     it can be interpreted that :
                                                           72 goodness of fit test, two classes
     (A) The true value of µ is 20
                                                           are combined into one class. Hence
     (B) The true value of µ lies in
                                                           the degrees of freedom associated
         (15, 25] with probability 0.95
                                                           with 72 test are :
     (C) The true value of µ is between
         15 and 25                                         (A) 9

     (D) The interval (15, 25] covers the                  (B) 8
         true value of µ with probability
                                                           (C) 7
         0.95
                                                           (D) 6
120. Suppose r12.3 is a partial correlation
     coefficient between (X1, X2) and X3.              122. Let (Xi, Yi) i = 1, ......, 5 be the
     Then which of the following                           bivariate pair of observations and
     statements is not correct ?                           Zi = Xi – Yi i = 1, ......, 5. For a given
     (A) r12.3 is a correlation coefficient                sample the number of Zi > 0 is 2.
         between X – X   ˆ and X – X    ˆ ,
                         1       1        2   2            Hence the p-value to test the null
         where X̂1 is a line of best fit
                                                           hypothesis that H0 : median (Z) = 0
         based on X3 and X̂ 2 is a line
                                                           against H1 : median (Z) < 0 is :
         of best fit based on X3.

     (B) – 1     r12.3       1                             (A) 0.5

     (C) r12.3     0 always                                (B) 0.25

                         r12 – r13 .r23                    (C) 0.10
     (D) r12.3 =           2      2
                     1 – r13 1 – r23                       (D) 0.05
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123. Suppose that there are 1000
     components in operation. The                  125. A canteen has a single cash counter.
     number of failed replacements at the
     end of each week are as follows :                 A customer has to buy coupons from
               W1      W2     W3 W4
               50      82     128 199                  the cash counter before getting the
     If the cost of replacing an individual
     failed component is ` 125 and the
     cost of group replacement of all                  food items. Customers arrive at the
     1000 components is ` 300, what is
     the best interval between group                   counter according to a Poisson
     replacements ?
     (A) One week
                                                       process with rate of 2 per 5 minutes.
     (B) Two weeks
     (C) Three weeks
     (D) Four weeks                                    It takes 1.5 minutes on average to
124. A newspaper vendor buys papers
     for ` 3 each and sells them for ` 5               buy coupons. What is the long-run
     each. The unsold papers have no
     value. The daily demand for the
                                                       probability that the cash counter is
     paper has the following probability
     distribution :
     # of customers Probabilities                      free ?
              200                 0.2
              250                 0.3                             1.5
              300                 0.3                  (A) 1 –
                                                                   2
              350                 0.1
              400                 0.1                           1.5
     If each day’s demand is independent               (B) 1–
                                                                 5
     of the other days, the average profit
     per day is :                                               1.5
     (A) ` 75                                          (C) 1–
                                                                2.5
     (B) ` 120
     (C) ` 93
                                                       (D) 0
     (D) ` 50

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126. In a survey of finite population, the                    127. Let the variances of the regression
     following method is applied to obtain                        estimator and the sample mean,
     a sample of size n.                                          both computed from SRSWOR of the
     (i)   In the 1st draw, the ith unit is                       same sample size, be denoted by
                                                                    2        2
           selected       with       probability                   VReg and VSRS respectively. Then :
                                            N                          2         2
           Pi, > 0, i = 1 ............ N,   1     Pi 1            (A) VReg      VSRS for a large n.
                                            i 1                        2         2
                                                                  (B) VReg      VSRS
                         1
           and Pi          for some i.                            (C) Both the estimators of the
                         N
                                                                       population mean are unbiased
     (ii) The remaining (n – 1) units are
                                                                       2         2
           obtained by SRSWOR method                              (D) VReg      VSRS for any n

           from remaining N – 1 units of                      128. To examine whether five different
           the population.                                        skin creams A, B, C, D and E have
                                                                  different effect on the human body,
     Let Y denote the sample mean,
                                                                  n randomly chosen persons were
     then :
                                                                  enrolled in an experiment. The five
     (A) Y is an unbiased estimator of
                                                                  creams were applied on each of one
           population mean                                        randomly chosen fingres of the same
     (B) There exists an unbiased                                 person; and the procedure is
           estimator of the population                            repeated for each person. The
           mean and it is different from the                      resulting design is :
                                                                  (A) a completely randomized design
           sample mean
                                                                       with 5 treatments
     (C) This is a stratified sampling
                                                                  (B) a randomized block design with
           procedure
                                                                       5 blocks and n treatments
     (D) There does not exist an                                  (C) a randomized block design with
           unbiased estimator of the                                   n blocks and five treatments
           population mean                                        (D) a repeated measures design

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129. For one-way classification model the         131. Let F1 and F2 be two '-fields of
    F-test is valid under the assumption               subsets of 8.
    that :                                             Then which of the following is not
    (A) The observations on response                   true :
         variable are uncorrelated with                (A) Both F1      F2 and F1         F2 are
         common mean and variance                            -fields
    (B) The errors are uncorrelated
                                                       (B) F1    F2 is not a          -field but
         with   common      mean      and
                                                            F1   F2 is a     -field
         variance
    (C) The     errors   are   normally                (C) Neither F1      F2 nor F1      F2 are
         distributed with common mean                        -fields
         zero and common positive                      (D) F1    F2 is a -field but F1        F2
         variance                                           is not a    -field
    (D) The errors are independently
                                                  132. Let 89 9 {1, 2, 3, 4}.
         normally distributed with
                                                       Consider the two       -fields :
         common      mean      zero   and
         common +ve variance                           F1 = {$, 8,{1},{2},{1, 2},{3,4},{2,3, 4},
                                                            {1,3, 4}}
130. Under a 23 factorial design with
                                                       F2 = {$, 8,{1,2},{3,4}}
    factors A, B, C arranged in a single
                                                       Let f denote a function from ( , F1)
    replicate of two blocks, the containts
                                                       to ( , F2).
    of block-I (in Yate’s notation) are
                                                       Then :
    {1, a, ab, b}. Which of the following              (A) Any f is measurable
    effects is confounded with blocks ?                (B) f defined by f(k) = k, k = 1, 2,
    (A) AB                                                  3, 4 is measurable
                                                       (C) f defined by f(1) = f(3) = 1 and
    (B) AC
                                                            f(2) = f(4) = 4 is measurable
    (C) ABC
                                                       (D) f defined by f(1) = f(2) = f(3) = 1
    (D) C                                                   and f(4) = 4 is measurable

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133. Let R denote the real line, B the                134. Let {Xn} be a sequence of random
    Borel    -field and m the Lebesgue                    variables and X a random variable
    measure on R :
                                                          such that :

    For      A       :,   define    µ(A)     =

                x2                                        1 P[|X n – X|* ;] <              for every
                                                          n 1
        exp –         dm(x).
                2
    A
                                                          ; * 0.

    Consider the statements :
                                                          Consider the statements :
    (I)   µ is a measure on B
                                                          (I)   P   lim X n     X     1
                                                                    n
    (II) The Radon-Nikodym derivative
          of µ with respect to m,                         (II) P    lim X 2n    X2     1
                                                                    n


          dµ                x2                            (III) P   lim X n    X     only if {Xn} is
             ( x)     exp –        a.e. m.                          n
          dm                2
                                                          a sequence of independent random
    (III) m < < µ, (m is absolutely
                                                          variables.
          continuous with respect to µ).
                                                          Which of the above are always
    Which of the above statements are
    true ?                                                correct ?


    (A) All the three                                     (A) (I) only

    (B) (I) and (II) only                                 (B) (I) and (II) only

    (C) (I) and (III) only                                (C) (III) only

    (D) (I) only                                          (D) None of the three

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135. Let {Xn} be i.i.d. random variables
                                                          137. Suppose {Xn} and {Yn} are sequences
     with mean zero and finite variance
      2 > 0.
                                                              of random variables and X and Y are
     Which of the following is false ?
                                                              random variables such that as
         1
    (A)     (exp (X1) + exp (X2) + X3 +
         n                                                    n       , Xn converges in quadratic
        ...... + Xn)  0 in probability as
        n                                                     mean to X and Yn converges in
              1                                               quadratic mean to Y.
    (B)    5/8      (exp (X1) + X2 + ....... + Xn)
          n
                  0 in probability as n
                                                              Consider the following statements :
              1
    (C)    3/8(X1 + ....... + Xn) does not
          n                                                   (I)   The      sequence    (X n +     Yn)
          converge in probability as
          n                                                         converges in quadratic mean to
              1                                                     (X + Y) as n
    (D)    3/8      (X1 + ....... + Xn) converges
           n
          in distribution to a r.v. as                        (II) nlim P |X n Yn       XY|> ;      0,
        n
136. Suppose the sequence of random                                 4; * 0
    variables {X n } converges                 in
    distribution to X.                                        (III) nlim E ei X n   = E ei X
    Then which of the following is not
    always true ?                                             Which of the above are true ?

    (A) lim
          n
            E[Xn] = E[X]
                                                              (A) All the three
    (B) E[|X|]            lim inf E[|X |]
                           n             n
                                                              (B) (I) and (II) only
               |X n |       |X|
    (C) lim
          n
            E 1 |X n | = E 1 |X|
                                                              (C) (I) and (III) only
                    Xn
    (D) lim
          n
                       = 0 in probability                     (D) (II) and (III) only
                     n

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138. Let {X n } be a sequence of                            140. Suppose a distribution function
     independent random variables.                               F : R   [0, 1] is as follows :

                                                                                                        x + 0,
                          1 X k (w) converges
                                                                              0,               if
    Let E =          w|
                          k 1                     !                          1 / 4,            if   0       x + 1,
    Then which of the following is                           F x             1 / 2,            if   1       x + 2,
    always correct ?                                                   1/2     x      2 / 2,   if   2       x + 3,
    (A) P(E) = 0
                                                                              1,               if       x     3.
    (B) P(E) = 1
    (C) 0 < P(E) < 1                                               Then F(x) = l 1 F 1 (x) + l 2 F 2 (x)
                                                                   where :
    (D) P(E) is either ‘0’ or 1                                    (A) l 1 = 1/4, l 2 = 3/4, F 1 is a
139. Let    {Y n }    be        a   sequence      of                   distribution function of a
                                                                       discrete random variable with
    independent random variables with
                                                                       support {0, 1} with respective
    mean zero and variance 1.                                          probabilities 1/4, 3/4 and F2 is
    Let Fn =         (Y1, ......, Yn) the -field                       a distribution function of
                                                                       uniform U(2, 3) distribution.
    generated by {Y1, Y2, ....... , Yn}                            (B) l 1 = 1/2, l 2 = 1/2, F 1 is a
    Consider the statements :                                          distribution function of a
    (I)    The sequence Xn = Y1 + Y2                                   discrete random variable with
                                                                       support {0, 1} with respective
           + ........ + Yn is a Fn - martingale.                       probabilities 1/2, 1/2 and F2 is
                                          n                            a distribution function of
    (II) The sequence Xn = < Yk is a                                   uniform U(2, 3) distribution.
                                       k 1                         (C) l 1 = 1/4, l 2 = 3/4, F 1 is a
           Fn - martingale.                                            distribution function of a
                                                                       discrete random variable with
                                              2
                                      n                                support {0, 1} with respective
    (III) The sequence Xn =           1 Yk        –n                   probabilities 1/2, 1/2 and F2 is
                                                                       a distribution function of
                                      k 1
                                                                       uniform U(2, 3) distribution.
        is a Fn - martingale.
                                                                   (D) l 1 = 1/4, l 2 = 3/4, F 1 is a
    Which of the following is correct ?                                distribution function of a
    (A) (I) and (III) only                                             discrete random variable with
    (B) (I) and (II) only                                              support {1, 2} with respective
                                                                       probabilities 1/4, 3/4 and F2 is
    (C) (II) and (III) only                                            a distribution function of
    (D) All the three                                                  uniform U(2, 3) distribution.

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141. Which of the following statements                           144. Suppose X has bivariate normal
    is not correct ? The set of points of                             distribution with mean vector (3, 4)'
    discontinuities of a distribution                                 and
    function may be :                                                 V(X1) = 2. Further, it is known that
    (A) empty                                                         X1 and X2 are positively correlated.
    (B) finite                                                        Which of the following can be the
    (C) uncountable                                                   conditional          distribution        of
    (D) countable                                                     (X1|X2 = 2) ?
142. Suppose X is a non-negative random
                                                                      (A) N(1.5, 2.64)
    variable whose mean exists. Then :
                                                                      (B) N(2.6, 1.84)
    (A) E(log(X)) < log(E(X))
    (B) E(log(X))             log(E(X))                               (C) N(3.5, 1.52)

    (C) E(log(X)) = log(E(X))                                         (D) N(3.5, 2.84)
     (D) None of (A), (B), (C) is true                           145. Let X1, X2, ........, Xn be i.i.d. Bernoulli
143. Suppose ( . ) is a characteristic                                ( ). Let the loss function for the
    function of a random variable with                                problem of estimation of         be given
    distribution function F. Then :                                   by
    (A) F(b) – F(a) =
                                                                                       (, – a)2
                     u
                         [exp(– iua) – exp( iub)] $(u) du
                                                                      L ( , a) =                . Let the pdf of
         lim
               1                                                                       ,(1 – ,)
         u     2                         iu
                    –u
                                                                      the prior for         ( ( )) be given by
    (B) F(b) – F(a) =
               u
                                                                        ( ) = 1    0          1.
                    [exp(– iua) – exp( iub)] $(u) du
         lim                                                          Let X be the sample mean. Then :
         u                         iu
               –u
    (C) F(b) – F(a) =                                                 (A) X is Bayes but not minimax
                     u
             1           [exp(iua) – exp(iub)] $(u) du                (B) X is not Bayes but it is
         lim
         u   2                         iu
                    –u                                                    minimax
    (D) F(b) – F(a) =
                    u
                                                                      (C) X is both Bayes and minimax
              1 [exp(– iub) – exp( iua)] $(u) du
         lim
         u   2 –u               iu                                    (D) X is not admissible

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146. Let X1, X2, ........, Xn be iid Bernoulli              148. Suppose {X1, X2, ......, Xn} is a random
     ( ) random variables. We wish to                            sample from uniform U(,9 – 1/2,
     follow the Bayes procedure for
                                                                 , + 1/2) distribution, ,    R . Then :
     estimation of . Then, a conjugate
                                                                 (A) Sample mean is unbiased for ,
     prior for      :

     (A) is9 (,) = 1           0 <     < 1                       (B) Sample median is unbiased

                                                                        for ,
     (B) is      (,) = , =9 – 1 (1 –         )   – 1


          =9 >     , > > 0                                       (C) X(1) + 1/2 is unbiased for

                          e,                                     (D) X(n) – 1/2 is unbiased for
     (C) is      (,) =         ,
                         1 e
                                                            149. Suppose {X 1 , X 2 , ......, X n } are
     (D) Cannot be decided since the loss
          function is not given                                  independent       and      identically

147. Suppose X1, ......, Xn are independent                      distributed random variables each

     and identically distributed random                          having U(–,, ,) r.vs. Then the
     variables each having U(– ,                   )             maximum likelihood estimator of
     distribution. Then the minimal
                                                                 is :
     sufficient statistic for        is given by :
                                                                 (A) X(n)
     (A) –X(1)

     (B) X(n)                                                    (B) (X(1) + X(n))/4

     (C) max {–X(1), (X(n)}                                      (C) –X(1)

     (D) min {–X(1), (X(n)}
                                                                 (D) max {|X1|, ...... |Xn|}

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150. A random variable X follows N(µ, 1)              152. Suppose X 1 , X 2 , ......, X n are
     distribution. A conventional test                    independent           and    identically
     based on sample mean is used to test                 distributed random variables each
     the hypothesis H0 : µ = µ0 against                   having exponential distribution with
     H1 : µ = µ1 > µ0. Consider the                       mean        . Then the asymptotic
     following statements :                                                           X
                                                          distribution of         n     –1   where
     (i)   If H0 is rejected at     = 0.05, it                                        S
                                                                      n
           is also rejected at      = 0.10.                        1
                                                          S2 =       1
                                                                   n 1
                                                                       X 2i – (X)2 is :
     (ii) If H0 is accepted at        = 0.05,
           it is also accepted at     = 0.01.             (A) N(0, 1)
           Then :                                         (B) N(0, )

     (A) (i) is correct but (ii) is wrong                 (C) N(1, 1)
                                                          (D) N(0,        2)
     (B) (i) and (ii) both are wrong
                                                      153. Let Xn be asymptotically normally
     (C) (i) and (ii) both are correct
                                                          distributed with mean µ and
     (D) (i) is wrong but (ii) is correct                 variance ' n2 , such that ' n2       0 as
151. Suppose {X1, X2, ......, Xn} is a random             n           . Which of the following
     sample of size n from uniform                        statements is not true ?
     U( – 1,        + 1) distribution. Then               (A) For µ            0, 1/Xn ~ AN (1/µ,
     which of the following is not true ?                        ' 2n /µ2)
     (A) X(n) is consistent for                           (B) For any µ, e X n ~ AN (e µ ,
     (B) Sample median is consistent                           e2µ ' 2n )
           for                                            (C) For µ = 0, log |X n |            n| d
     (C) Sample mean is consistent                             log |N(0, 1)|
           for                                            (D) For µ            0, log |X n| ~ AN

     (D) X(n) – 1 is consistent for                            (log |µ|, ' 2n /µ2 )

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154. Let X1, X2, ......, Xn be iid U(0, ).             156. Let (X, Y) ~N (0, 1) where
     Consider T1 = sample median (= Mn)
                                                                      1 @
                                        n                       1         , @    0    and
                              1                                       @ 1
     and T2 = 2 X , where X =
                              ni 1
                                   Xi .1
                                                                      X   Y   1 @
     Then, ARE (T1, T2) is :                                    W                 .
                                                                      X   Y   1 @

     (A) 3/4                                               Then which of the following
     (B) 2/3                                               statements is not correct ?
                                                                2
     (C) 1                                                 (A) W ~ F1,1

     (D) 4/3                                               (B) 1/W 2 ~ F1,1

155. Let X1, X2, ......, Xn be iid observations            (C) (X – Y)        and (X + Y) are
     from a continuous distribution F.                         independently distributed
     Define :                                              (D) W ~ 712

                0     x + X (1)                        157. Let X ~ N n (µ, ' 2I) and A be a
      Fn ( x)   k / n X ( k) x + X ( k 1)                  n × n matrix. Then Y        AX are
                1       x   X ( n)
                                                           uncorrelated normally distributed if
     Then for any fixed x,                                 and only if which of the following
                           d
        n (Fn ( x) F( x)) ?? Z , where Z                   conditions hold ?

     is a normal r.v. with mean 0 and                      (A) A is any non-singular matrix
     variance :
                                                           (B) A is an idempotent matrix with
     (A) F2 ( x) / 2                                           rank < n
     (B) (1 – F( x))2                                      (C) A is an orthogonal matrix
     (C) F2 ( x)                                           (D) All elements of A are equal
     (D) F( x) (1 F( x))                                       to 1
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158. If S1, S2, ......, S5 are the corrected           161. y1, y2, y3, y4 are four uncorrelated
     sum of squares and sum of products                    random variables with common
     matrices based on five independent                    variance '2 and E(y1) = E(y2) = ,1
     samples of sizes 100 each coming                      + 2,2 + ,3, E(y3) = E(y4) = ,1 + ,3.
     from      a      four     variate   normal
                                                           Hence :
     population. The distribution of
                                                           (A) ,2 is not estimable
      5
     1 Si .                                                (B) 2,2 + 3,3 is not estimable
     i 1
                                                           (C) ,1 + ,3 is not estimable
     (A) is Wishart with k = 496
                                                           (D) ,1 +9 ,2 +9 ,3 is not estimable
     (B) is Wishart with k = 495
                                                       162. In a simple linear regression set up
     (C) is Wishart with k = 499
                                                            y   > ae>, X e;, the prediction of
     (D) cannot be decided on the basis
        of given information                               response variable y :
159. Let M ~ W p (n, 1) and CC' 1                          (A) does not depend on regressor X
     where C is a non-singular matrix.                     (B) will have same variation
     Then C –1 M C –1 is distributed as :                       irrespective of X
                                                           (C) will have larger variation for
     (A) W p (n,C)
                                                                larger values of X
     (B) Wp (n, 1 –1 )
                                                           (D) will have larger variation if the
     (C) W p (n, I p )                                          distance between X and mean
     (D) Wp (n,C–1 )                                            of regressors increases
160. The characteristic function of a                  163. In a multiple linear regression set

     vector X ~ N p (µ, 1) is given by :                   up Y    X > e ; under the assumption

                    1                                      that the random errors ;1.....; n are
     (A) eµ ' t       t'1t
                    2
                                                           uncorrelated and homoscedastic the
                    1                                      residuals e1.....en are :
     (B) ei µ ' t     t '1t
                    2
                                                           (A) correlated and homoscedastic
                    i
     (C) eµ ' t       t'1t
                    2                                      (B) correlated and heteroscedastic
                     i
                                                           (C) uncorrelated and homoscedastic
     (D) e   iµ't      t '1t
                     2                                     (D) uncorrelated and heteroscedastic
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164. In a multiple linear regression                       166. Let N = 4. Two units are selected
    model Y      X > e; with E(;)             0,               for inclusion in the sample based on
     Var(;) ' 2I :                                             the following design. The i-th unit
    (A) the regression sum of squares
        and error sum of squares are                           is selected with probability pi where
        independent                                            p1 = 1/6, p2 = 1/6, p3 = 2/3. The
    (B) the regression sum of squares
        and error sum of squares are                           second unit is selected randomly
        positively correlated                                  from among the remaining three
    (C) the regression sum of squares
        and error sum of squares are                           units in the population. Then, the
        uncorrelated                                           first unit is included in the sample
    (D) the regression sum of squares
        and error sum of squares are                           with probability :
        negatively correlated                                  (A) 2/9
165. Suppose       Yi    >1X i1     >2 X i2   ;i
                                                               (B) 4/9
                                                  2
    where      E(;i )   0,        Var(;i )    '                (C) 6/9
    i   1,2,3 and X i1       i 4 , i 1,2,3
                                                               (D) 7/9
    X i2   i 2 , i 1, 2 and X i2          i for
                                                           167. The regression estimator of the
    i 3 . A least-squares fit is carried
                                                               sample mean based on a SRSWOR :
    out and sum of squares are
    calculated then :                                          (A) is always better than the
    (A) the sum of squares due to >1
         and >2 are uncorrelated with                              sample mean
         each other
                                                               (B) and the sample mean have the
    (B) the sum of squares due to >1
         and >2 are independent of each                            same efficiency
         other
    (C) the sum of squares due to >1                           (C) is worse than the sample mean
         and >2 are correlated with each
                                                               (D) is better than the sample mean
         other
    (D) the sum of squares due to >1                               if n, the sample size, is
         and >2 are uncorrelated with
         total sum of squares                                      sufficiently large

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168. Let p be the observed proportion of        170. For a BIBD with parameters

    units with the attribute A in a                (v, b, r, k, 0) to exist, the condition
    SRSWOR of size n from a finite
                                                   b   v is :
    population size N. Let P be the
                                                   (A) neither necessary nor sufficient
    population proportion and Q = 1 – P.
                                                   (B) not necessary but sufficient
    Then, Var(p) equals :

                                                   (C) necessary but not sufficient
        PQ N n
    (A)
         n N 1
                                                   (D) necessary and sufficient
          PQ
    (B)                                         171. A row-column design with 7
           n
                                                   treatments arranged in 3 rows and
        PQ 1
    (C)
         n N 1                                     7 columns is given below :

          PQ N n                                       1   2 3 4 5 6 7
    (D)
          N N 1
                                                       2   3 4 5 6 7 1
169. A block design with v treatments

    and b blocks is connected. Hence the               4   5 6 7 1 2 3

    rank of c matrix is :                          Hence the design is :

    (A) v – 1                                      (A) Latin Square Design

    (B) v                                          (B) Youden Square Design

    (C) b – 1                                      (C) Quasi-Latin Square Design

    (D) b                                          (D) Split-Plot design

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172. In a 23 factorial design with three                   174. Given two time series,
     treatments A, B, C each at two levels,
     blocks of 4 plots are available. The                            Xt    0.3 X t 1 0.2 X t 2         Zt
     design is replicated twice and the
                                                                     Yt    0.4 Yt 1       Zt    1.2 Z t 1
     allocation of treatment combination
     is :                                                      where {Zt} iid WN(0, '2), which of
  Replication 1          Replication 2
                                                               the following statements is true ?
Block     I     II     Block     I     II
          1     b                1     a                       (A) {Yt} is not causal, but invertible
          a     c                b     c
          bc    ab               ac    ab                      (B) {Xt} is not causal
          abc ac                 abc bc                        (C) {Yt} is causal, but not invertible
     Hence the two confounded treatment
     combinations in replication 1 and 2                       (D) {Xt} is not invertible, but causal
     respectively are :
                                                           175. Let {Xt} be a stationary AR(1) model
     (A) AB and ABC
     (B) AB and AC                                             with       Xt   µ $ Xt 1         Zt ,   where
     (C) BC and ABC                                             Z t ~ WN(0, ' 2 ) . Then, which of the
     (D) BC and AC
                                                               following statements is true ?
173. Let {Xt} be a stationary time series
     with autocovariance function r(h).                        (i)   E(X t )   µ
     Then, which of the following
     statements is not true about r(h) ?
                                                               (ii) V(X t )    '2 / 1 $2

     (A) A(0)         Var (X t )                               (iii) Corr(X t , X t s )    $s
     (B) A (k)        A ( k)                                   (iv) V(X t )    1 $2
     (C) | A ( k)|      A (0)
                                                               (A) (ii) and (iii)
     (D)   1 1 =i= j A (|ti t j |)         0
                                                for
            i     j                                            (B) (i) and (iii)
           every set of time points
                                                               (C) (i) and (ii)
           {t1 , t2 , ......, tn }   and       real
           members {=1 , = 2 , ......, = n }                   (D) (iii) and (iv)

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176. Consider a Markov chain on                                       178. Let the off-spring probability
     S   {1,2,3, 4,5} with its transition                                 distributions of the three Branching
    probability matrix given by :
                                                                          processes be given by :
                1       2   3   4       5                                                1          1          1
                                                                               I.   p0        p1        p2
         1      3
                    4   0 14 0 0                                                         4          4          2
         2      1       0 0 12 0
                    2                                                                    1          1          1
     P          1
         3 2 0 2 0 0        1                                                  II. p0         p1        p2
                                                                                         4          2          4
         4 0 0 0 2 3 13
                                                                                         1          3
         5 0            0 0     1       2       .                              III. p1         p2
                                    3       3                                            4          4

    Then :                                                                Then, the extinction probabilities of
    (A) there exists a unique stationary                                  the three Branching processes are
          distribution                                                    respectively given by :
    (B) there does not exist any
                                                                          (A) 0, 0, 1
          stationary distribution
    (C) all states are transient                                          (B) ½, 0, 1

    (D) there exist infinitely many                                       (C) ½, 1, 0
          stationary distributions                                        (D) ½, ½, ½
177. Let {X(t), t           0} be a time-homo-
                                                                      179. If all states of a Markov chain are
    geneous Poisson process with rate 0.
                                                                          persistent non-null :
    Let T be a positive continuous r.v.
    distributed             independently                   of            (A) it has a unique stationary
     {X(t), t       0} . Then :                                                distribution
                                    1                                     (B) it does not have a stationary
    (A) Cov(X(T), T)
                                    2
                                                                               distribution
    (B) Cov(X(T), T)                0 / (0          E(T))                           ( x)
                                                                          (C) nlim pij * 0 for all i and j
    (C) Cov(X(T), T)                0 Var(T)
                                                                          (D) it has at least one stationary
    (D) Cov(X(T), T) + 0                                                       distribution

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180. The method of age-standardisation            182. The following sampling plan is to be
    of fertility rates is used to :
                                                      applied for acceptance or rejection
    (A) exclude the effect of age
                                                      of large lots.
        distribution in measuring

        fertility                                     “Select two items from the lot and

    (B) exclude effects of differences in             inspect both the items. If both are
        fertility levels
                                                      good, accept the lot, if both are
    (C) compare       fertility   in   two
                                                      defective, reject the lot; otherwise,
        population groups
                                                      select one more item from the lot and
    (D) compare birth rates in two
                                                      accept the lot if and only if this item
        populations

181. A column L x in the life table                   is good.”

    denotes :
                                                      If the incoming lot quality is 0.8,
    (A) the number of years lived by the
                                                      then the average outgoing quality
        persons in the age interval
                                                      (AOQ) is equal to :
        (x, x + 1)

    (B) the number of individuals                     (A) 0.512
        surviving to age x
                                                      (B) 0.896
    (C) the number of individuals

        surviving to age x + 1
                                                      (C) 0.800
    (D) the average number of years of

        life remaining after age x                    (D) 0.640

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183. Identify the correct match between            185. As the variance of service time
     the terms in Column-I below with
     the definitions given in Column-II.               increases, the waiting time of a
               Column-I                                customer in M|G|1 queue :
     (i) AOQ
     (ii) AQL                                          (A) increases
     (iii) ATI
                                                       (B) decreases
     (iv) RQL
               Column-II                               (C) remains the same
     (=) Number of items per lot that will
           be inspected on average                     (D) cannot be determined
     (>) A lower bound on the incoming             186. Consider a system of two servers
           quality for which a lot is to be
           rejected                                    where customers from outside the
     (A) Proportion of defective items                 system arrive at server 1 at a Poisson
           remaining in the lot after
           inspection                                  rate 4 and at server 2 at a Poisson
     (B) An upper bound on the
                                                       rate 5. The service rates servers 1
           incoming quality for which a lot
           to be accepted                              and 2 are respectively 8 and 10. A
           (i)   (ii)   (iii)  (iv)
                                                       customer at server 1 is equally likely
     (A) (A)     (B)    (=)    (>)
     (B) (A)     (>)    (=)    (B)                     to join server 2 upon completion of
     (C) (>)     (B)    (=)    (A)
     (D) (=)     (B)    (A)    (>)                     service or leave the system. Similarly
184. If the demand distribution is                     a customer at server 2, upon
     exponential with mean 1/=, then the
     optimal inventory level S* is :                   completion of the service will go to

                 h p                                   server 1 with probability 1/4. Then
     (A) = log
                 h c                                   the expected number of customers
           1     h c                                   in the queue waiting for service is :
     (B)     log
           =     h p
                                                       (A) 7/9
         1     h p
     (C)   log                                         (B) 1/4
         =     h c
                 h c                                   (C) 1/5
     (D) = log
                 h p                                   (D) None of the above

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187. The dynamic programming approach                     189. Consider the LPP :
     to an optimization problem gives the
                                                              Minimize Z = 4x1 + 6x2 + 18x3
     recurrence equation for optimal
     solution as :                                            Subject to :      x1 + 3x2     3,

     f k (bk )   min { x 2   fk 1 (bk 1 )}
                 0+ x b                                                         x2 + 2x3     5

     for k * 1 ; and f1 (b1 )      (b2       x)2 .
                                                              and               x1, x2, x3   0.
     Then, f3 (15)
                                                              Then, which of the following is not
     (A) 25
     (B) 112.5                                                a constraint in the corresponding
     (C) 75                                                   dual problem ? (Assume that w1 and
     (D) None of the above
                                                              w2 are the dual variables.)
188. Which of the following characteristics
     of dynamic programming is not                            (A) w1     4

     true ?
                                                              (B) w2     9
     (A) The problem can be subdivided
           into stages                                        (C) 3w1 + w2       6

     (B) Every stage consists of a
                                                              (D) w1    0, w2        0
           number of states
     (C) Linear programming problems                      190. In critical path analysis, CPM is :

           cannot be solved using dynamic
                                                              (A) event oriented
           programming
     (D) The optimal solution to the                          (B) deterministic in nature

           problem is obtained using
                                                              (C) dynamic in nature
           optimal solutions to sub-
           problems                                           (D) none of the above

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