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    This document provides a 10 question mathematics admissions quiz for Trinity College. The questions cover a range of mathematical topics from combinatorics to calculus to probability and vary in difficulty. Students are instructed to attempt those questions that appeal to them and bring their work to an interview to discuss their answers.

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    This document provides a 10 question mathematics admissions quiz for Trinity College. The questions cover a range of mathematical topics from combinatorics to calculus to probability and vary in difficulty. Students are instructed to attempt those questions that appeal to them and bring their work to an interview to discuss their answers.

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    TRINITY COLLEGE

    ADMISSIONS QUIZ (MATHEMATICS)


    SPECIMEN TEST 1
    There are ten questions below which are on various areas of mathematics. They are
    of varying levels of difficulty: some may be easy and others could be hard. You are not
    expected to answer all of them, or necessarily to give complete answers to questions. You
    should just attempt those that appeal to you, and they will be used as a basis for discussion
    in the interview that follows. You should bring what you have written with you to the
    interview.

    1. In a tennis tournament there are 2n participants. In the first round of the tournament,
    each player plays exactly once, so there are n games. Show that the pairings for the first
    round can be arranged in exactly (2n 1)!/2n1 (n 1)! ways.
    2. Let L1 and L2 be two lines in the plane, with equations y = m1 x + c1 and y = m2 x + c2
    respectively. Suppose that they intersect at an acute angle . Show that


    m1 m2
    .
    tan() =
    1 + m1 m2

    3. Calculate

    R
    0

    (x sin x)2 dx.

    4. Of the numbers 1, 2, 3, . . . , 6000, how many are not multiples of 2, 3 or 5?


    5. There is a pile of 129 coins on a table, all unbiased except for one which has heads on
    both sides. Bob chooses a coin at random and tosses it eight times. The coin comes up
    heads every time. What is the probability that it will come up heads the ninth time as
    well?
    6. A packing case is held on the side of a hill and given a kick down the hill. The hill makes
    an angle of to the horizontal, and the coefficient of friction between the packing case and
    the ground is . What relationship between and guarantees that the packing case
    eventually comes to rest? Let gravitational acceleration be g. If the relationship above is
    satisfied, what must the initial speed of the packing case be to ensure that the distance it
    goes before stopping is d?
    [Please turn over]

    
    7. Let nr stand for the number of subsets of size r taken from a set of size n. (This is
    the number of ways of choosing r objects from n if the order of choice does not matter.
    You may be more familiar with the notation n Cr , in which case feel free to use it.) Every
    subset of the set {1, 2, . . . , n} either contains the element 1 or it doesnt. By considering
    these two possibilities, show that
    

     
      
    n1
    n1
    n
    +
    =
    .
    r1
    r
    r

    By using a similar method, or otherwise, prove that


    
    
    
     
      
    n2
    n2
    n2
    n
    +2
    +
    =
    .
    r2
    r1
    r
    r

    8. One end of a rod of uniform density is attached to the ceiling in such a way that the
    rod can swing about freely with no resistance. The other end of the rod is held still so
    that it touches the ceiling as well. Then the second end is released. If the length of the
    rod is l metres and gravitational acceleration is g metres per second squared, how fast is
    the unattached end of the rod moving when the rod is first vertical?
    9. Let M be a large real number. Explain briefly why there must be exactly one root w
    of the equation M x = ex with w > 1. Why is log M a reasonable approximation to w?
    Write w = log M + y. Can you give an approximation to y, and hence improve on log M
    as an approximation to w?
    10. Twenty balls are placed in an urn. Five are red, five green, five yellow and five
    blue. Three balls are drawn from the urn at random without replacement. Write down
    expressions for the probabilities of the following events. (You need not calculate their
    numerical values.)
    (i) Exactly one of the balls drawn is red.
    (ii) The three balls drawn have different colours.
    (iii) The number of blue balls drawn is strictly greater than the number of yellow balls
    drawn.

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