The midpoints of the sides of a

2 m x 2 m square are interconnected to

form a smaller square. The midpoints of
the sides of the square formed again
interconnected to form another smaller
square. If the process will be repeated
infinitely, find the sum of the areas of all
the squares formed including that of the
original.
Divide 90 cm into 3 parts so
that their product is maximum.
What are the lengths?
 A boat going across a lake
8 km wide proceed 2 km at a
certain speed and then completes
the trip at a speed ½ kph faster. By
doing this, the boat arrives 10
minutes earlier than if the original
speed had been maintained. Find
the original speed of the boat.
 A man sold 100 eggs. Eighty of
them were sold at a profit of
30% while the rest were sold at
a loss of 40%. What is the
percentage gain or loss on the
whole stock?
Find the vector that is
perpendicular to the plane
passing through the points
A (1, -2, -3), B (6, 5, 4) and
C (7, -8, 9).
 In a 10-pin bowling, how many
possible pin combinations can
remain after the first ball of
frame is thrown.
 If seven coins are tossed
simultaneously, find the
probability that they will just
have at least 4 heads.
 If the radius of a sphere is
increased by 10%, find the ratio
of its increased in surface area
to its increased in volume.
Two metal ball are compared
with each other, the ratio of
their surface area is 2:3, if they
have a combined mass of 20
kg, then what is the mass of the
smaller ball.
 Determine the volume of a
spherical wedge of radius 2 m
and a central angle of 1.25
radians.
 The point of the triangle that is
equidistant from each of the
three vertices.
 A salesman started walking
from his office A at 9:30 AM at the
rate of 2.5 kph. He arrived B
12 seconds late. Had he started at
A at 9:00 AM and walked at 1.5 kph,
he would have arrived at B
one minute before the required
time. At what time was he
supposed to be at B?
 The common ratio of a GP
is 2. If the sum of all terms is 3,
069 and the first term is 3, find:
a) the no. of terms.
b) the value of the 7th term.
c) the value of the last term.
Find the sum of all the
exponents of the expansion of
 The geometric mean of two
numbers is 6 while the
arithmetic mean is 4. Find the
product of the geometric mean
and the harmonic.
 If the half-life of sodium-24 is
15 hours , how long will it take
a given amount to decay to
0.1% of its original amount?
A polygon has 629 distinct
diagonals. What is the number
of its sides.
 How many minutes after 2
o’clock will the hands of the
clock be together for the first
time.
 The perimeter of triangle is
279.15 cm. The interior angles are
50°, 60°and 70°.
a) Find the side opposite the
smallest angle.
b) Find the side opposite the
biggest angle.
c) Find the area of the triangle.
 If C is the total cost at which
x – unit of a certain commodity
produced, then the cost function
C = 1,000 + 25x – 0.005x2.
Determine:
a) The no. of units produced for
maximum cost.
b) The average cost per unit
c) The marginal cost when 300 units are
being produced.
 A system contains two
components A and B,
connected in parallel. The
systems will function if either A
or B functions. The probability
that A will function is 0.90 and
probability that B will function
is 0.85 Find the probability that
the system functions.
 Five different books (A,
B, C, D and E) are to be
arranged on a shelf. Books C
and D are to be arranged first
and second starting from the
right of the shelf. The number
of different orders in which
books A, B and E may be
arranged is :
 The number of email
messages received by a
computer server follows a
Poisson distribution with a
mean of 6 per minute. Find
the probability that exactly 20
messages will be received in
the next 3 minutes.
If (2+i) is a square root of 3 + 4i,
find the other root.
 When a metallic ball
bearing is placed inside a
cylindrical container, of radius
2 cm, the height of the water,
inside the container, increases
by 0.6 cm. The radius, to the
nearest tenth of a centimeter, of
the ball bearing is
If Log(x - y) = 3 and
Log(x + y) = 4, then x =
 A circle of area 1018 cm2
is cut into two segments by a
chord which is 5 cm from the
center.
a) Compute ratio of the
smaller area to the bigger area.
b) Compute ratio of the
smaller arc to the bigger arc.
 The major axis of an ellipse is
8 and its minor axis is 6. The
distance from the center to the
directrix is:
 What is the sum of all the odd
integers between 10 and 500?
 Find the height of the
rectangular box, open at the
top, of the maximum capacity
whose surface area is 432
sq.cm.
 If Vectors A and B are
defined by their Cartesian
representation as follows.
A = 3i + 2j – k
B = 6i – 3j + 2k
Find the angle between A and B
in radians.