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Scholarship Test
Time: 60 Min. Marks: 70
Read the instructions before you write the exam
1. This Question paper carries 35 Objective type questions.
2. Q.1 – Q. 35 carries TWO marks each.
3. Each question has four choices, only one choice will be the correct answer.
4. For each wrong answer 2/3rd marks will be deducted from Q.1 – Q. 35.
5. More than one answer marked will be deemed as incorrect and will be negatively marked.
6. Un attempted questions will carry zero marks.
7. Calculator (without data connectivity) is allowed in the examination hall.
8. No charts or tables will be provided in the examination hall.

SECTION - I

Q.1 – Q.35 Carry TWO Mark Each.

1. A and B were hired for the same salary. A got two 4. There are 40 ties in a rack. 40% of the ties are white
40% hikes whereas B got a 90% hike. What is the and the rest are black. What is the minimum number
percentage difference in the hikes they got? of ties that must be taken from the rack without
A.16% B. 6% looking in order to get at least two white ties?
C. 10% D. 8% A. 2 B. 16
C. 26 D. 17
2. A milk vendor mixes water to 20 lt of milk such that
the ratio of milk and water is 4:3. He sold the 5. A contractor undertook to finish a certain work in
mixture at Rs. 12 per liter but bought the milk at Rs. 124 days and employed 120 men on it. After 64
10 per liter. Find the profit % of the vendor. rd
2
days, he found that he had already done of the
A. 75% B. 60% C. 90% D. None 3
work. How many men he can discharge now so that
3. A man misses a train by 40 minutes if he travels at
the work may finish in time
30 kmph. If he travels at 40 kmph, then also he
A. 24 B. 56 C. 64 D. 80
misses the train by 10minutes. What is the minimum
speed required to catch the train on time? 6. A hostel has provision for 800 men for 24 days at
A. 44kmph B. 45 kmph the rate of 2 kg per man per day. For how many men
C. 48 kmph D. 49 kmph is the provision sufficient, for 20 days at the rate of
1.5 kg per man per day?
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A. 1280 B. 1000 A. a unique solution
C. 1820 D. 1240 B. no solution
C. an infinite no. of solutions
7. A ship 55 km from the shore springs a leak which
D. exactly two distinct solution
admits 2 tonnes of water in 6 minutes. 80 tonnes
would suffer to sink her, but the pumps can throw 3 1 4
13. If a complex number Z  2  j 2 then Z is
out 12 tonnes an hour. Find the average rate of
sailing that she may just reach the shore as she
1 3
begins to sink. A. 2 2  2i B.  i
2 2
A. 5.5 kmph B. 2.5 kmph
C. 3 i1 D. 3 i1
C. 1.8 kmph D. 4 kmph
2 2 8 8
8. Showing the man in the park, Sulthana said, “He is
14. The following equation needs to be numerically
the brother of my uncle‟s daughter”. What is the
solved using the Newton-Raphson method x3 +
man to sulthana?
4x -9 = 0. The iterative equation for this purpose is
A. Nephew B. Brother-in-law
(k indicates the iteration level)
C. Cousin D. Uncle  2X  9
3
k
A. Xk 1
9. 7, 15, 29, 59, 117, ? 2
3X k 4
A. 235 B. 233
C. 234 D. 335 3X 3k  9
B. Xk 1  2X 2  9
k
10. Kapil ranked thirteenth from the top and twenty-six 2
C. X X 3 4
from the bottom among those who have passed in k 1 k k
2
the annual examination in a class. If six students 4X k  3
D. Xk 1  9X 2  2
have failed in the annual examination, what was the
k
total number of students in that class? /4

A. 45 B. 38 15. The value of the integral is I   2

cos x dx
0
C. 44 D. 50
1  1
A. B.
11. The sum of Eigen values of the matrix, [M] is 8 4 8 4
 215 650 795   1   1
C. D.
 
Where [M] =  655 150 835 8 4 8 4
 485 355 550 2x

  16. The value of integral e x ydydx is

A. 915 B. 1355 0 0

C. 1640 D. 2180
1 1 2
12. The system of linear equations
A. 2 e 1 B. 2 e 1 2
2
4x  2y  7
has C.
1
e 2
e  D.
1
 e
1

2x  y  6 2 2 e
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  A. 20% fall B. 4% fall
sin 2  x 
 4   _________ C. 20% rise D. 4% rise
17.Lt
x
 x 
24. At the time of the marriage, a man was 6 years elder
4 4
than to his wife. 12 years after their marriage, his
A. 0 B.
1 C. 1 D. 2 age is 6/5 times the age of his wife. What was wife's
2
age at the time of marriage?
18. What should be the value of  such that the function A. 22 years B. 18 years

 C. 24 years D. None
defined below is continuous at x  2?
25. A reduction of 20% enables a person to buy 5 more
 cos x , if x  
oranges for Rs. 10. Find the price of each orange {in
 
f x    2 rupees} before reduction.
 
1, if x  A. 0.5 B. 0.75

 2 C. 1 D. 0.4

A. 0 B. 2 C. 1 D.  26. Mounika sells an i-pod to Bindu at a gain of 12%

2 and Bindu again sells it to Swapna at a loss of 20%.
Common questions for (19 & 20): In the following If Swapna pays Rs. 2240 to Bindu, then what is the
the questions choose the word which best expresses cost price of i-pod to Mounika?
the meaning of the given word. A. 4500 B. 3250

19. INEBRIATE C. 2500 D. 2650

A. Dreamy B. Stupefied 27. In what ratio must a solution of Milk and Water
C. Unsteady D. Drunken containing 42% Milk be mixed with pure Milk to

20. AUGUST get a resultant solution containing 29% water?

A. Common B. Ridiculous A. 1:2 B. 2:1 C. 3:2 D. 1:1

C. Dignified D. Petty 28. The solution for the differential equation

21. A does half as much work as B in 1/6 of the time. If dy 2

 x y with the condition that y = 1 at x = 0 is
together they take 10 days to complete a work, how dx
many days shall B take to do it alone? 1
2x
A. 15 days B. 30 days A. ye
x3
C. 40 days D. 50 days B. ln y   4
22. If each edge of a cube is increased by 50%, then find 3
the percentage increase in its volume. x2
C. ln y 
A. 237.5% B. 337.5% 2
C. 150% D. None 3
D. y  ex /3
23. A saves 20% of his income. His income is increased
by 20% and so he increased his expenditure by 30%.
What is the percentage change in his savings?
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29. Consider the following system of equations in three process is a red ball, the probability that if came
real variable x1, x2 and x3: from box P is
x1 - 4x2 - x3 = 3 4 5 2 19
A. B. C. D.
2x1 – x2 + 3x3 = 1 19 19 9 30
3x1 + 2x2 + 5x3 = 2
This system of equations has 33. What is the Laplace transform of e – 3t (2cos 5t –
A. no solution 3Sin 5t)
B. a unique solution A. 2s + 9/s2 + 6s + 34
C. more than one but a finite number of solutions B. 3s – 9/s2 + 6s + 34
D. an infinite number of solutions. C. 2s – 9/s2 + 6s + 34
D. s + 9/s2 + 6s + 34
30. For what values of „a‟ if any will the following
system of equations in x, y and z have a solution? 2x
34. The derivative of f(x, y) at point (1, 2) in the direction
+ 3y = 4, x + y + z = 4, x + 2y – z = a of vector i + j is 2 2 and in the direction of the vector
-2j is -3. Then the derivative of f(x, y) in direction –i-2j
A. any real number is

B. 0 A. 2 2 3 / 2 B. 7 / 5
C. 1
C. 2 2 3 / 2 D. 1/ 5
D. there is no such value

35. Correct the underlined portion of the sentences :

31. In the following table, x is a discrete random
variable and p(x) is the probability density. The
The cooperative announced last week that due to
standard deviation of x is
increasing sales in the tri-county area, it would
X 1 2 3
distribute a quarterly dividend of more than twice
P(x) 0.3 0.6 0.1
the usual amount to all of its members.
A. The cooperative announced last week that due
A. 0.18 B. 0.36
to increasing sales in the tri-county area
C. 0.54 D. 0.6
B. The cooperative announced that due to
32. Box P has 2 red balls and 3 blue balls and box Q has
increasing sales last week in the tri-county area
3 balls and 1 blue ball. A ball is selected as follows.
C. Last week, the cooperative, which announced
i) Select a box
increasing sales in the tri-county area
ii) Choose a ball from the selected box such that
D. Due to increasing sales in the tri-county area
each ball in the box is equally likely to chosen. The
the cooperative announced last week‟
1 2
probabilities of selecting boxes P and Q are 3&3
respectively. Given that a ball selected in the above

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