1. A Sum of money amount to Rs.2600 in 3 years and to Rs.2900 in 4 1/2 years at simple interest.

Find
the sum and rate of interest.

Ans : 2000,10%

2. In a certain time Rs.1200 becomes Rs.1560 at 10% p.a simple interest. Find the principal that will
become Rs.2232 at 8% p.a in the same time
Ans: 1800
3. What sum of money will amount to Rs.5200 in 6 yrs at the same rate of interest at which Rs.1706
amount to Rs.3412 in 20 yrs. (a) 3900 (b) 4000 (c) 4400 (d) 3800
4. At ____ rate percent will be Simple interest be equal to principal amount in 10 yrs.
Ans: 10%
5. The difference between simple and compound interest on a sum put out for 5 years at 3% was
Rs.46.80. Find the sum.
Ans: 5200
6. Which is a better investment 3% per year compounded monthly or 3.2% per year simple interest?
Given that (1+ 0.0025)12= 1.0304.
Ans: Simple Interest
7. What will Rs.6250 amount to at C.I for 3years at 4% when C.I is reckoned yearly? (a) 7020.20 (b)
7030.40 (c) 7100 (d) 6990.90
8. The C.I on Rs.5000 for 3 years if the rate of interest is 5%, 6% and 7% for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd years
respectively is ____
Ans: 954.55

If the sum of four integers in A.P is 48 and their product is 15120, then find the numbers.
6,10,14,18

3 4 5 19
Which term of the AP , , ,……… is ?
√7 √7 √7 √7
Ans: 17

27
The product of 3 consecutive terms in G.P is . Find the middle term.
8
Ans: 3/2

Find the sum of : 0.9+0.81+0.729+ …………. (i) 8 (ii) 9 (iiii) 10 (iv) 11

From the sets given below, pair the equal sets (i) A= {1, 2, 3, 4} (ii) B = {p, q, r, s} (iii) C = {1, 4, 9, 16}
(iv) D = {x, y, z, w} (v) E = {16, 1, 4, 9} (vi) F = {4, 2, 3, 1} (vii) G= {r, p, q, s}

(a) (i) (ii) (b) (i) (v) (c) (i) (vi) (d) (iii) (vii)

Write the set containing all days of the week beginning with T.

(a) {Tuesday, Thursday} (b) {Saturday, Sunday} (c) (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday} (d) None

If ax = by = cz and b2 = ac then xy+yz = _______

 (a) xz (b) – xz (c) 2xz (d) none of the these

The powers of two equal numbers are equal then basis are also equal when they are of

same sign

If 2x+4 – 2x+2 = 3, find x7

-128
2x
If ( 2
x+1
) ❑ . (2¿¿ 2 x )❑
y
¿
(2¿¿ y +1)❑x .22 y ¿
(a) 0 (b) 1 (c) x (d) 2x

If P = log10 20 and q = log10 25, find x and such that 2 log10 (x+1) = 2p-q

3,-5

Solve log3√3√3√3……..α

(logba x logcb x logac) equal to

(a) 0 (b) 1 (c) abc (d) a+b+c

(log53)x (log3625) equal

(a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 4

If b2 – 4ac < 0 then the roots are

Real and equal

Real and unequal

Imaginary or conjugate complex numbers

Imaginary or conjugate compound numbers

Solve x4 –10x2 + 9 = 0

±3,±1

Solve (x2 +3x)2 + 2(x2 + 3x) = 24

-4,1

If (3-√3) is one of the roots of an equations then the equation is ___

(a) x2 -2x-3 = 0 (b) x2 -3x-1 = 0 (c) x2 -4x+2 = 0 (d) x2 -6x+6 = 0

 4
4x + =17
x
4,1/4

If the equations x2+7x+12 = 0 and x2+mx+5 = 0 have common roots the value of m is equal to ___

21/4, 14/3

X2 -4x-1= 0, find the roots of the equations

2+√5 and 2-√5

FUNDAMENTALS OF BUSINESS STATISTICS

A Quantitative characteristic is known as (a) An attribute (b) A discrete variable (c) A continuous
variable (d) None of above

Which of the following statements is false? (a) Statistics is derived from Latin word ‘status’ (b)
Statistics is derived from Italian word “Statista” (c) Statistics is derived from French word “Statistik”
(d) None of these

The mode of presentation of data are (a) Textual, tabulation and diagrammatic (b) Tabular, internal
and external (c) Textual, tabular and internal (d) Tabular, textual and external

Pie-diagram is used for (a) Comparing different components and their relation to the table (b)
Representing qualitative data in a circle (c) Representing quantitative data in circle (d) b or c

Most of the commonly used frequency curves are (a) Mixed (b) Inverted J-shaped (c) U-shaped (d)
Bell-shaped

An area diagram is (a) Histogram (b) Frequency polygon (c) Ogive (d) None

The number of accidents for seven days in a locality are given below

C 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Frequency 15 19 22 31 9 3 2

What is the number of cases when 3 or less accident occurred? (a) 56 (b) 6 (c) 68 (d) 87

The goal of ___________ is to focus on summarizing and explaining a specific set of data. (a)
Inferential statistics (b) Descriptive statistics (c) Regression Analysis (d) None of the above.

Which of the variables below is categorical? (a) County of residence (b) Number of people, both
adults and children, living in the household (c) Total household income, before taxes (d) Age of
respondent

Which of the following does not indicate the skewness of a distribution? (a) Histogram (b) Ogive (c)
Frequency polygon (d) Pie diagrams.
A set of data has a median that is much larger than the mean. Which of the following statements is
most consistent with this information? (a) A histogram of the data is symmetric (b) A histogram of
the data is skewed left (c) A histogram of the data is skewed right (d) Data is not sufficient to
comment.

The following data relate to the marks of a group of students:

Marks Below 10 Below 20 Below 30 Below 40 Below 50

No.of Students 15 38 65 84 100

How many students got marks more than 30? (a) 65 (b) 50 (c) 35 (d) 43

When r > + 0.5 but < + 0.75

High degree of positive correlation

Moderate degree of positive correlation

Perfect positive correlation

Low degree of positive correlation

From the following data compute the co-efficient of correlation between X and Y:

X Series Y Series
No. of items 15 15
Arithmetic Mean 25 18
Square of deviations from mean 136 138

Summation of product of deviations of X and Y series from their respective Arithmetic Mean is 122.

0.89

Compute Rank correlation from the following table

X 415 434 420 430 424 428

Y 330 332 328 331 327 325

0.429

The value of correlation coefficient lies between (a) -1 and +1 (b) -1 and 0 (c) 0 and 1 (d) None

If for two variable X and Y, the covariance, variance of X and variance of Y are 40, 16 and 256
respectively, what is the value of the correlation coefficient? (a) 0.01 (b) 0.625 (c) 0.4 (d) 0.5

The regression analysis can be classified on the following bases:

(a) Changes in proportion and Number of variables

(b) Linear and Non-linear regression
 (c) Simple, Partial, Multiple Regression
(d) None of the above

The arithmetic mean of byx and bxy is ____________to Coefficient of Correlation

(a) Smaller
(b) Greater than or equal
(c) Smaller than or equal
(d) Greater

byx is called regression coefficient of (a) X on Y (b) Y on X (c) Both (d) None

r, bxy, byx all have ___ sign. (a) Different (b) Same (c) Both (d) None

For the variables x and y, the regression equations are given as 7x – 3y – 18 = 0 and 4x – y – 11= 0.
After finding the arithmetic means of x and y, compute the correlation coefficient between x and y.
(a) 0.5642 (b) 0.7638 (c) 0.2135 (d) 0.9841