ASSIGNMENT BOOKLET

Bachelor's Degree Programme (B.Sc.)

(BS.c./B.A/B.Com)

MATHEMATICAL METHODS



Valid from 1
st
January to 31
st
December 2014





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Term-End Examination Form.

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End Examination of the course. Otherwise, your result will not be
declared.







For B.Sc. Students Only
You can take electives (56 or 64 credits) from a minimum of TWO and a
maximum of FOUR science disciplines, viz. Physics, Chemistry, Life
Sciences and Mathematics.
You can opt for elective courses worth a MINIMUM OF 8 CREDITS and a
MAXIMUM OF 48 CREDITS from any of these four disciplines.
At least 25% of the total credits that you register for in the elective
courses from Life Sciences, Chemistry and Physics disciplines must be
from the laboratory courses. For example, if you opt for a total of 24
credits of electives in these 3 disciplines, then at least 6 credits out of
those 24 credits should be from lab courses.



School of Sciences
Indira Gandhi National Open University
Maidan Garhi, New Delhi-110068
(2014)

MTE-03

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Dear Student,

Please read the section on assignments in the Programme Guide for Elective courses that we sent you
after your enrolment. A weightage of 30 per cent, as you are aware, has been earmarked for continuous
evaluation, which would consist of one tutor-marked assignment for this course. The assignment is in
this booklet.

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per the instructions given in the programme guide.
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and submit it to your study centre at the earliest.

We wish you good luck.

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Assignment (MTE-03)
(January 2014 December 2014)

Course Code: MTE-03
Assignment Code: MTE-03/TMA/2014
Maximum Marks: 100

1. Which of the following statements are true? Give reasons for your answers.
i) The derivative of the quotient of two functions is equal to the quotient of the derivatives of
the two functions.
ii) The function of
x
x
x f
sin 2
sin
) (
+
= has a maxima at
2

= x .
iii) 0 4 3 2 = + + z y x represents a line in 3-dimenisonal space.
iv) In a Binomial distribution if mean is known then standard deviation is also known.
v) If two events are mutually exclusive then they are independent. (10)

2. a) A farmer has 200 metres of fencing with which he wishes to enclose a rectangular field. One
side of the field can make use of a fence that already exists. What is the maximum area he
can enclose? (3)
b) Determine the value of the constant a if the function ) (x f defined below is continuous at
2 = x .

> +
+
=
2 3 3
2 7
) (
2
2
x if a x
x if x ax
x f (3)
c) For what values of m will the equation
0 ) 2 3 ( 7 ) 3 1 ( 2
2
= + + + m m x x
have equal roots? (4)

3. a) From 7 men and 4 women a committee of 6 is to be formed. In how many ways can this be
done (i) when the committee contains exactly 2 women, (ii) at least 2 women? (4)
b) If p is the length of the perpendicular from the origin to the line 1 = +
b
y
a
x
, prove that
2 2 2
1 1 1
b a p
+ = . (3)
c) Find the equation of the plane passing through ) 1 , 3 , 2 ( and perpendicular to the line
joining the points ) 1 , 4 , 3 ( and ) 5 , 1 , 2 ( . (3)

4. a) A particle is acted on by constant forces k j i 5 2 3 + + = and k j i 3 2 + and is displaced
from the point ) 3 , 1 , 2 ( to the point ) 7 , 3 , 4 ( . Find the total work done by the
forces. (3)
b) Vectors a and b are given by k j i a + = 2 3 and k j i b 4 2 2 + + = . Find
i) magniture of a and b and the angle between them.
ii) projection of the vector ) 2 / 1 ( b a + onto a .

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iii) which of the following vectors are perpendicular to a ?
k j i e k i d k j i c 2 2 2 , 3 , 2 4 + = + = + = . (3)

c) Find the values of x for which the function
1 2 ) (
2
+ = x x x f
is increasing or decreasing. Sketch the graph of ) (x f y = . (4)

5. a) Let x be the size of a certain population of predators and y the size of the population of
prey upon which they feed. As function of time 4 ,
2
+ = t x t and t t y 3 2
2
= . Let u be
the number of prey to each predator. Find the rate of change of u . (2)
b) Evaluate the following integrals:
i)

2 / 1
4 / 1
2
x x
dx
(2)
ii)

+ dx x x | 1 | ln (2)
c) Solve the following differential equations:
i) 1 2 ) 3 2 ( + + = + + y x
dx
dy
y x . (2)
ii)
2 2
4 2 ) 1 ( x xy
dx
dy
x = + + . (2)

6. a) Write down the sample spaces for the following experiments:
i) A coin is tossed and at the same time a die is rolled.
ii) The order in which a mouse, a frog, and a rabbit arrive at a lake is observed. (2)
b) Find the probability of drawing an ace or a spade from a deck of 52 cards in a single
draw. (2)
c) The probability that a person over 60 years of age in a certain community drinks alcohol is
5
2

and the probability that a person over 60 years of age has heart disease is
15
2
. The
probability that a person over 60 years of age drinks alcohol and has heart disease is
16
1
. Are
drinking alcohol and heart disease independent events? (3)
d) In Bengal, 30% of the population has a certain blood type. What is the probability that
exactly four out of a randomly selected group of 10 Bengalis will have that blood type? (3)

7. a) Records show that the probability is 0.00006 that a car will have a flat tire while driving
through a certain tunnel. Find the probability that at least 2 of 10,000 cars passing through
this tunnel will have flat tires. (3)
b) Verify that
8
) (
x
x f = can serve as the probability density function of a continuous random
variable which can take on any value in the interval from 0 to 4. (3)

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c) For the following set of data

95 76 72 67 69 48 37 76 74 60
78 80 48 86 59 68 73 77 51 82
94 95 48 58 75 69 55 51 89 91
89 93 69 81 68 49 86 74 79 100
i) construct a frequency distribution using intervals 35-44 etc.
ii) compute the sample mean from the raw data.
iii) compute the sample mean from the frequency distribution. (4)


8. a) The following data were obtained in a study of the relationship between the resistance (ohms)
and the failure time (minutes) of certain overloaded resistors.



Find the coefficient of correlation. (4)
b) A training director wishes to find out whether a particular training programme increases the
efficiency of the employees. He plans to take a random sample of employees and record their
efficiency rating before the training starts. After the completion of the programme, the
efficiency of the same sample of employees is recorded as given in the table below. At 0.05
level of significance do you reject or accept the null hypothesis
0 :
0
=
d
H against 0 :
1
>
d
H
where 0 =
d
is the mean of the difference? (4)
c) for a population of size 120 = N with a mean of 7.5 and a standard deviation of 1.5, find the
estimated standard error of the mean for the following sample sizes:
i) 9 = n ii) 25 = n (2)

9. a) Suppose that the temperature is normally distributed with expectation C
o
50 and variance
C
o
4 . What is the probability that the temperature T will be between C
o
48 and C
o
53 ?
What is the probability that C T
o
52 ? (3)
b) A continuous random variable X has the p.d.f.

< <
=
otherwise , 0
6 x 0 , ) x 6 ( Ax
) x ( F
2

Calculate the mean and standard deviation of X . Construct the distribution function ) (x F
and hence evaluate )
4
1
( > X P . (4)
c) The following distribution gives the top speeds (in kilometers per hour) at which thirty races
were clocked in auto race.



Find the mean and variance of the distribution of the top speeds. (3)
Resistance 48 28 33 40 36 39 46 40 30 42 44 48 39 34 47
Failure time 45 25 39 45 36 35 36 45 34 39 51 41 38 32 45
Top speed 145 150 160 170
No. of racers 9 8 11 2

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10. a) Four groups of students were subjected to different teaching techniques and tested at the end
of a specified period of time. As a result of dropouts from the experimental groups the
number of students varied from group to group. Do the data shown below present sufficient
evidence to indicate a difference in the mean achievement for the four teaching techniques at
0.01 level of significance? What is the conclusion if you fix the level of significance at 0.05?








b) An economist wants to estimate the relationship between a familys annual income and the
amount that the family saves. The family data for nine families are obtained




Calculate the least square regression line where annual savings is the dependent variable and
annual income is the independent variable. (3)

c) Suppose that a person selects a card at random from a deck of 52 cards and tells us that the
selected card is red. Find the probability that the card is the kind of hearts given that it is
red. (2)

Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4
65 75 59 94
87 69 78 89
73 83 67 80
79 81 62 88
81 72 83
69 79 76
90
Annual income
(thousands of Rs.)
12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Annual saving
(thousands of Rs.)
0.0 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8
(5)