Std : SSC (Eng.Medium) Preliminary Examination Marks: 40 Date : 06/Jul/2013 Algebra Time: 3 Hours __________________________________________________________________________________________ Q.

1 Attempt any FIVE of the following : 5 (1) What is the common difference of the AP whose terms are 500, 480, 460, ...? (2) (3) Write the value of the determinant

(4) One card is drawn from a well-shuffled deck of 52 cards. Find the probability of getting a king of red colour (5) Find the median of the following data : 37, 31, 42, 43, 46, 25, 39, 45, 32 (6) What is the equation of a line parallel to the Y-axis and 4 units to the right of it? Q.2 Attempt any FOUR of the following : (1) Find the first four terms of the following sequence whose nth terms is given: (2) Solve the following quadratic equation by factorization method: 3x - x - 10 = 0 (3) (4) Sachin buys a fish from a shop for his aquarium. The shopkeeper takes out one fish at random from a tank containing 5 male fish and 8 female fish. What is the probability that the fish taken out is a male fish? (5) Write the value of the determinant

(6) In the following experiment write the sample space S, number of sample points n(S), events P, Q, R using set form and n(P), n(Q) and n(R). Find the events among the events defined above which are : complementary events, mutually exclusive events and exhaustive events Two dice are thrown : P is the event that the sum of the scores on the uppermost faces is a multiple of 6.

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Q is the event that the sum of the scores on the uppermost faces is at least 10. R is the event that same score on both dice . Solve any THREE of the following : (2) The sum of the ages of father and his son is 42 years .The product of their ages is 185, find their ages. (3) Solve the following simultaneous equation:

(4) Following table shows frequency distribution of duration (in seconds) of advertisements on T.V. Duration (in sec.) No. of advertisements 25-30 10 30-35 32 35-40 15 40-45 9 45-50 7 50-55 2

Obtain mean duration of advertisement on T.V. by shift of origin and scale method. (5) Draw the histogram for the following frequency distribution. House-Rent in 4000 - 6000 6000 - 8000 8000 - 10000 10000 - 12000 Rs. P.M. No of families 200 240 300 50 Q.4 Solve any TWO of the following : 8 (1) The sum of four times a number and three times its reciprocal is 7. Find that number. (2) A card is drawn at random from a well shuffled pack of 52 cards. Find the probability that the card drawn is : 1. bears a number between 4 and 7 both inclusive, 2. bears a number between 3and 8 both inclusive. (3) Seg AB is the diameter of a circle. C is the point on the circumference such that in ABC B is less by 10 than A. Find the measures of all angles of ABC. Q.5 Solve any TWO of the following : 10 (1) In a potato race, a bucket is placed at the starting point, which is 5m from the first potato and the other potato are placed 3m apart in a straight line. There are ten potatoes in the line . Each competitor starts from the bucket picks up the nearest potato runs back with it drops it in the bucket, runs back to pick up the next potato, runs to the bucket to drop it in, and she continues in the same way until all the potatoes are in the bucket . What is the total distance a competitor has to run.

(2) The divisor and quotient of the number 6123 are same and the remainder is half the divisor. Find the divisor. (3) The forewheel of a carriage makes 6 revolutions more than the rear wheel in going 120 m. If the diameter of the fore wheel be increased by 1/4 its present diameter and the diameter of the rear

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wheel be increased by one-fifth of its present diameter, then the fore wheel makes 4 revolutions more than the rear wheel in going the same distance. Find the circumference of each wheel of the carriage. -------- All the Best --------

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