Excel Review Center ECE Coaching Course Math Take Home 1

Find the convolution  g  f  t  of f  t   tu  t  and that there will be a seat available for every person Find the value of c such that the circles x2 + y2 +
who shows up for the flight? 2x + 2y + 1 = 0 and x2 + y2 + 2x + 2y + c = 0
g  t   sin t  u  t  Answer: 0 touch each other.
Answer:  g  f  t   t  sin t Answer: 1
Workers in a factory incur accidents at the rate of
two accidents per week. Calculate the probability The integrating factor of the differential equation
Find the convolution of the Laplace transform of that there will be at most two accidents, (a) x 1  y 2  dy  y 1  x 2  dx  0 .
f  t   tu  t  and g  t   sin t  u  t  ? during 1 week, (b) during 2 weeks, (c) in each of
Answer: 1/s2 – 1/(s2 + 1) 2 weeks. Answer: 1/xy
Answer: (a) 0.677, (b) 0.238, (c) 0.458
In solving any problem, odds against A are 4 to 3
Find the convolution of e2t u  t  and e  t u  t  . and odds in favor of B in solving the same
How many children should a family have so that
Answer: e t  e2t with probability 0.95 it has at least a boy and at problem are 7 to 5. The probability that the
least a girl? problem will be solved is
Answer: 6 Answer: 16/21
Find the convolution of e t u  t  and tu  t  .
Answer:  t  1  e t Suppose that the duration in minutes of long Determine the area enclosed by the curve x2 –
distance telephone conversation follows an 10x + 4y + y2 = 196.
Determine the poles and zeros of the system, Answer: 225
1 x
whose transfer function is given by exponential density function f  x   e 5 for x >
5 Calculate the area bounded by x = –y2 + 9 and
30  s  6 
H s  . 0. Find the probability that the duration of a 1
s  s 2  4s  13 conversation; x  y 2  6y  9 .
2
Answer: Zero: s = 6, Poles: s = 0, –2 + 3i, –2–3i a. Will exceed 5 minutes;
Answer: 128
b. Will be between 5 and 6 minutes;
A die is thrown as long as necessary for an ace or c. Will be less than 3 minutes;
The three vectors (1, 1, –1, 1), (1, –1, 2, –1) and
a 6 to turn up. Given that no ace turned up at the d. Will be less than 6 minutes given that it was
(3, 1, 0, 1) are
first two throws, what is the probability that at greater than 3 minutes. 92
Answer: Linearly dependent
least three throws will be necessary? Answer: a. 0.368, b. 0.248, c. 0.451, d. 0.451
Answer: 16/25 Find the second order Taylor expansion of
In a lottery that sells 3,000 tickets the first lot
wins $1,000, the second $500 and five other lots  
Two athletic teams A and B play a series of f  x, y   sin  x 2  1 y  about the point  0,  .
independent games until one of them wins 4 that come next wins $100 each. What is the  2
games. The probability of each team winning in expected gain of a man who pays 1 dollar to buy Answer: f(x,y) = 1 – (y –  /2)2
each game equals to 1/2. Find the probability that a ticket?
the series will end, (a) in at most 6 games, (b) in 6 Answer: –1/3 Find the eigenvectors of the matrix
games given that team A won the first two games.  8 6 2 
A die is thrown until the result “ace or even
Answer: (a) 11/16, (b) 1/4
number” appears three times. Find the expected A   6 7 4  using   15
number of throws (a) in one performance of  2 4 3 
At the college entrance examination each
candidate is admitted or rejected according to throws, (b) in ten repetitions.
Answer: (a) 9/2, (b) 45 2
whether he has passed or failed the test. Of the Answer:  2
candidates who are really capable, 80% pass the
test; and of the incapable, 25% pass the test. The height of men is normally distributed with  1 
Given that 40% of the candidates are really mean   167 cm and standard deviation   3
capable, find the proportion of capable college cm. What is the percentage of the population of A man takes a step forward with probability 0.4
students. men that have height (a) greater than 167 cm, (b) and backward with probability 0.6. Find the
Answer: 68% greater than 170 cm, (c) between 161 cm and 173 probability that at the end of 11 steps, he is just
cm? In a random sample of four men what is the one step away from the starting point.
Three players P1, P2 and P3 throw a die in that probability that (d) all will have height greater Answer: 0.3679
order and, by the rules of the game, the first one than 170 cm, (e) two will have height smaller
to obtain an ace will be the winner. Find their than the mean (and two bigger than the mean)? 9 3 1 0
probabilities of winning. Answer: (a) 50%, (b) 16%, (c) 95.45%, (d) 3 0 1 6 
Answer: 36/91, 30/91, 25/91 0.07%, (e) 37.5% Find the rank of the matrix 
1 1 1 1
The Pap test makes a correct diagnosis with A machine produces bolts the length of which (in  
0 6 1 9
probability of 95%. Given that the test is positive centimeters) obeys a normal probability law with
Answer: 4
for a lady, what is the probability that she really mean 5 and standard deviation 0.2. A bolt is
has the disease? Assume that one in every 2,000 called defective if its length falls outside the
women, on average, has the disease. interval (4.8, 5.2).  sin 3 x
Evaluate the integral of  dx
Answer: 19/2018 a. What is the proportion of defective bolts that  x
this machine produces? Answer: 3  /4
What is the conditional probability that a hand at b. What is the probability that among ten bolts
poker consists of spades, given that it consists of none will be defective? Given the ellipse 9x2 + 4y2 – 54x – 56y + 241 =
black cards? Answer: a. 0.32, b. 0.0211 0. Find its vertices.
Answer: 9/460 Answer: (3, 10) and (3, 4)
Wronskian of f  x   x 2 sin x and g  x   x 2 cos x
A machine normally makes items of which 4% sin mx  sin nx
Answer: –x4 lim , where m  n is equal to
are defective. Every hour the producer draws a x 0 x
sample of size 10 for inspection. If the sample
The angle between 2i + j – 3k and 3i – 2j – k. Answer: m – n
contains no defective items he does not stop the
Answer: 60o
machine. What is the probability that the machine
Given A = {1, {4}, {2}, 3, 4, 5}, B = {{{1, 4, 5,
will not be stopped when it has started producing
Find the equation of the straight line which passes 3, 1}}}, C = {1, {3}, 2, 1}, D = {1, 1, 3}, E = {1,
items of which 10% are defective?
through the intersection of the straight line 2x – 4, {5}, {3}}, F = {1, 8, {1, 2, 3, 4}}. Calculate
Answer: 0.349
3y +4 = 0 and 3x + 4y + 5 = 0 and is the set (a) B  F , (b) C   D  F 
perpendicular to the straight line 6x – 7y + 8 = 0.
One per thousand of a population is subject to Answer: (a)  , (b) 1, 2, 3
Answer: 119x + 102y + 205 = 0
certain kinds of accident each year. Given that an
insurance company has insured 5,000 persons
from the population, find the probability that at  3x 2  2x  Find the equation of tangent to 16x2 + 9y2 = 144
 : whenx  0 at (x1, y1) where x1 = 2 and y1 > 0.
most 2 persons will incur this accident. If f (x)   x  , what must be
Answer: 0.104  k : whenx  0  2x 5
  Answer:  y 1
9 12
A certain airline company, having observed that the value of k in order for f(x) to be a continuous
5% of the persons making reservations on a flight function?
Find the equation of the circle whose center lies
do not show up for the flight, sells 100 seats on a Answer: 2
on the line x – 4y = 1 and which passes through
plane that has 95 seats. What is the probability the points (3,7) and (5,5).
Answer: x2 + y2 + 6x + 2y – 90 = 0
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Excel Review Center ECE Coaching Course Math Take Home 1
Find the term independent of x in the expansion likely to be selected). Find the probability that For what real values of  is y  cos t a solution
1
12 Seat 15 was selected given that Row 20 was
 to the equation y '' 9y  0 ?
of  x   . selected.
 x Answer: 1/30 Answer: 3
Answer: 924
The first Newton approximation x1 for a zero f(x) If the mean and variance of binomial variate are
If 5 times the 5th term of an A.P. is equal to the 10 = x3 – 2x with initial approximation x0 = 2. 12 and 4, then the probabilities of the distribution
times the 10th term, find the 15th term of the A.P. Answer: 8/5 are given by the terms in the expansion of
Answer: 0 Answer: (1/3 + 2/3)18
The remainder of 534 when divided by 17 is
Find an estimate of the standard deviation. Answer: 8 If coversine θ is 0.134, find the value of θ.
Income (1000’s Frequency Answer: 60o
Pounds) Find the remainder on dividing 320 by 7
10  i  15 9 Answer: 2 Find the area of a regular pentagon whose side is
15  i  20 16 25 m and apothem is 17.2 m.
Refer to the data set below, the number of patient Answer: 1075 m2
20  i  25 22
visits per week at a chiropractor’s office over a
25  i  30 8 A trough of water is 8 meters deep and its ends
ten-week period. Number of patients per week
30  i  35 5 (75 86 87 90 94 102 105 109 110 120) are in the shape of isosceles triangles whose
Answer: 5617 Calculate the (a) first quartile, (b) third quartile, width is 5 meters and height is 2 meters. If water
(c) interquartile range (IQR) of the data. is being pumped in at a constant rate of 6
Find the square root of 12 – 6i. Answer: (a) 87, (b) 109, (c) 22 m3/sec. At what rate is the height of the water
Answer: –3.856 + 0.842i changing when the water has a height of 120 cm?
What is the area in sq. m of the zone of a Answer: 0.25 m/s
Find a unit vector normal to the plane of vectors spherical segment having a volume of 1470.265
A = 3i – 2j + 4k and B = i + j – 2k. cu. m if the diameter of the sphere is 30 m? For the plane curve y = 4x3/2, find the curvature
2j  k Answer: 565.5 m2 function.
Answer:  3
5 Answer:
For which values of parameter a, the vectors (1, a, x 1  36x 
3/2

2) and (a, 4, 4) are (a) parallel, (b) orthogonal?

Find the Fourier series of the function defined by
Answer: (a) 2, (b) –8/5
 x  , 0  x   Sketch the solid obtained by rotating the region
f x    3
 x  ,    x  0 8 2 5  bounded by y = 0 and y = cos(x) for  x 
2 2
Answer: What is the nullity of 16 6 29  ?
   2  2
about the y-axis and find its volume.
 1  1 cos nx  1   1  sin nx   4 0 7 
n n
 
2 n 1  n 2   n  Answer: 4 2
Answer: 1
Find the arc length of f  x   x 3/2  2 on [1, 4]. Let A be a 3 x 3 matrix with A  5. Find (a) A T
Define sets A = {1, …., 10}, B = {3, 7, 11, 12}, C
Answer: 7.63 = {0, 1, …, 20}. Which of the following are , (b) A  I , (c) 2A
propositions?
Answer: (a) 5, (b) not enough info, (c) 40
In drawing two balls, from urn containing 10 I.  A  B   C
balls of each of the colors, red, white and blue, 3
II. 8  22  /102 The functions x, x2, x3 defined on an interval I,
find the probability of getting two different
are always
colors.
III.  B  C   9 Answer: Linearly independent
Answer: 20/29
IV. 7  A
The complementary function for the solution of
1 3 5 Answer: I and IV only
the differential equation 2x 2 y '' 3xy ' 3y  x 3 is
The value of the determinant 3 1 4 , obtained as
Today is Monday, 1 July 2002. What day of the
5 4 1 week will be 29833 days from now? 
3
2
Answer: Friday Answer: Ax  Bx
where  is an imaginary cube root of unity is
Answer: 3 Let V1 = (1, -1, 0), V2 = (0, 1, -1), V3 = (0, 0, 1)
Given  1.5   0.8862 , (a)   3.5  , (b)   0.5  be elements of R3. The set of vectors {V1, V2, V3}
Find the general solution u xx  3 if u  x, y  is a Answer: (a) 3.32325, (b) –3.5448 is
Answer: Linearly independent
function of x and y.
The gross domestic product (GDP) of a certain
Answer: u  1.5x 2  xf  y   g  y  country is N(t) = t2 + 3t + 80 in billions of dollars If X has a Poisson distribution such that P(X = 2)
when t is measured in years. This growth was = 9P(X = 4) + 90P(X = 6) then the variance of the
Suppose the diameter of a certain car component valid from 1980 to 1990. Find the percentage rate distribution is
follows the normal distribution with of change in 1986. Answer: 1
X  N 10,3 . Find the proportion of these Answer: 11% per year
components that have diameter larger than 13.4 A machine shop cutting tool is in the shape of a The value of integral  xy  x  y  dxdy over
mm. Or, if we randomly select one of these notched circle, as shown. The radius of the circle the region bounded by the line y = x and the
components, find the probability that its diameter
is 50 cm, the length of AB is 6 cm, and that of curve y = x2 is
will be larger than 13.4 mm.
BC is 2 cm. The angle ABC is a right angle. Find Answer: 3/56
Answer: 0.1292
the square of the distance (in centimeters) from B
1 to the center of the circle. The family of orthogonal trajectories to the
1 family y = (x – k)2, where k is an arbitrary
Estimate the integral  2
dx using Simpson’s
0 1 x
constant, is
3
rule with a partition having four intervals. 3
Answer: y 2   c  x 
Answer: 0.785392 4

The average value of the function f(x) = sin(x) –
x on the interval  0,  .
Answer: –0.93418
A certain auditorium has 30 rows of seats. Row 1
has 11 seats, while Row 2 has 12 seats, Row 3
has 13 seats, and so on to the back of the
auditorium where Row 30 has 40 seats. A door
prize is to be given away by randomly selecting a
row (with equal probability of selecting any of
the 30 rows) and then randomly selecting a seat
within that row (with each seat in the row equally
Answer: 26
Find the volume obtained if the region bounded
by y = x2 and y = 2x is rotated about the x-axis?
Answer: 13.4
Find the inflection points of f(x) = (x – 2)ex.
Answer: x = 0
Find the general solution of the differential
equation x 3 y ''' x 2 y '' 2xy ' 2y  x 3 .
1
Answer: y  c1x  c 2 x ln x  c3 x 2  x 3
4
As the tide changes, the water level in a bay
varies sinusoidally. At high tide today at 8 AM,
the water level was 15 feet; at low tide, 6 hours
later at 2 PM, it was 3 feet. How fast, in feet per
hour, was the water level dropping at noon today?

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Excel Review Center ECE Coaching Course Math Take Home 1
Find the real values of x and y if 3  ix 2 y and  5   4
 3 Solve y  4y  5y''' 6y'' 36y' 40y  0
Answer:
2 x 2  y  4i are complex conjugate to each other. Answer:
Answer:  1, 4  y  c1e2x  c2 xe2x  c3e2x  c4ex cos  2x   c5 ex sin  2x 
The odds that a Ph.D. thesis will be favorably
reviewed by three independent examiners are 5 to x2 x2
Solve y '' y ' 2 y  xe x if y = x is one of
2, 4 to 3 and 3 to 4. What is the probability that a  1  x x
 sin x 1 
majority approve the thesis? 2 its solutions.
Answer: 209/343  
 1    Answer: y  C1x  C 2 xe x  xe x  x 2 e x
If f  x    cos x x  , then f   is
A force field is said to be conservative if  2  4
Compute the Taylor expansion about 0 as far as
Answer: curl = 0  1 1 x2 
  degree 4 for the solution of y’’ – e7xy’ + xy = 0,
  which satisfies y(0) = 2 and y’(0) = 1.
The value of the integral  ydS where C is the Answer: 0 1 2 1
C Answer: y  2  x  x 2  x 3  x 4  ...
2 3 2
curve y  2 x from x = 3 to x = 24 is If Z2  iZ , then
2

Answer: 156 Answer: Im(Z) = 0 Solve for the particular solution to the Ricatti
4 1
If X is a binomial variate with p = 1/5, for the equation y '   2  y  y 2
Forces F1, F2, F3 of magnitudes 5, 3, 1 units t t
experiment of 50 trials, then the standard respectively, act in the directions 6i + 2j + 3k, 3i
deviation is equal to 2
– 2j + 6k, 2i – 3j – 6k respectively on a particle. If Answer: y 
Answer: 2 2 t
the particle is displaced from the point (2,-1,-3) to
the point (5,-1,1) find the work done by the
1
If   3x 2 y  y3z 2 ,grad at (1,- 2,- 1) is equal to resultant force. Solve the IVP y ' y   y 2 , y(1) = 1, t > 0.
Answer: 231 t
Answer: – (12i + 9j + 16k) Answer: y = 2t/(t2 + 1)
Find the difference of the area of the square The constant forces 2i – 5j + 6k, –i + 2j – k and 2i
+ 7j act on a particle which is displaced from A restricted access lake is stocked with 400 fish.
inscribed in a semi-circle having a radius of 15 m. It is estimated that the lake will be able to hold
The base of the square lies on the diameter of the position 4i – 3j – 2k to position 6i + j – 3k. Find
the total work done. 10,000 fish. The number of fish tripled in the first
semi-circle. year. Assuming that the fish population follows a
Answer: 173.5 cm2 Answer: 17 N
logistic model and that 10,000 is the limiting
It is given that the event A and B are such that population, find the length of time needed for the
Find the number of hours for 25 people to sweep
1 1 2 fish population to reach 5,000.
and polish the floors of a building if the P  A   , P  A B  , P  B A   . P  B = Answer: 2.68 years
supervisor notes that it takes 4 hours for 20 4 2 3
people to do the job. Answer: 1/3
Find the Laplace transform of
Answer: 3.2 hours
What is the angle in degrees between an g  t   e3t  cos  6t   e3t cos  6t 
The number of integers that satisfy the inequality asymptote of the hyperbolax2 – 4y2 – 2x – 63 = 0 1 s s3
x2 + 48 < 16x is and the x-axis? Answer:  
s  3 s 2  36  s  32  36
Answer: 7 Answer: 26.6o

A parabola with a vertical axis has its vertex at The divergence of the vector field (x – y)i + (y – Find the Laplace transform of f  t   t cosh  3t 
the origin and passes through point (7,7). The x)j + (x + y + z)k is Answer: (s2 + 9)/(s2 – 9)2
parabola intersects line y = 6 at two points. The Answer: 3
length of the segment joining these points is 3
Answer: 13 If today is Monday, and 1234 days passed, what Find the Laplace transform of g  t   t 2
day will it be?
|2x – 1| = 4x + 5 has how many numbers in its Answer: Wednesday 3 
Answer: 5
solution set?
Answer: 1 If a and b are two unit vectors inclined at an angle 4s 2
 and are such that a + b is a unit vector, then  is 3
A circular table is tangent to two adjacent walls equal to Find the Laplace transform of f  t   10t  2
of a room as shown in the figure. Point N is 10 Answer: 2  /3 3
inches from one wall and 5 inches from the other 3 
Answer: 10 2 5
wall. What is the area of the circular table?
If v, w, x, y, and z are consecutive integers whose 4s 2
Answer: 625
zv
sum is 0, then what is the value of ?
A sphere with a 10-cm diameter sits in a cone so yv Find the Laplace transform of f  t   tg '  t 
that the point of tangency is 12 cm up the cone’s Answer: 0
Answer: G  s   sG '  s 
edge from the vertex. How much liquid can be
under the sphere if the liquid and sphere just Find the differential equation of x 2  y3  Cx 4  0
touch one another? Interval or a range of values used to estimate the
Answer: 93.08 cm3 dy x 2  y3
2 parameter. This estimate may or may not contain
Answer: 2x  3y 4 0
dx x the value of the parameter being estimated.
Write in rectangular coordinates form Answer: Interval estimate of a parameter
r  6 tan  sec  Find the orthogonal trajectories of y  Csin  x  .
A specific numerical value estimate of a
Answer: x2 = 6y Answer: y   2ln cos x  C1 parameter.
Answer: Point estimate. The best point estimate
11
of the population mean is the sample mean.
First three terms in expansion of 1  2x 3  2 are The half–life of radium is 1600 years. If a sample
initially contain 50 g, how long will it be until it
Answer: 1 – 11x3 + (99/2)x6 + … The probability that the interval estimate will
contains 45 g?
contain the parameter.
Answer: 243.2 years
Find the area, if it exists, of the region above the Answer: Confidence level of an estimate of a
4 parameter
x-axis, between the curve y  and its A tank contains a salt water solution consisting
1 x2 initially of 20 kg of salt dissolved into 10 L of
A parameter of a specific interval estimate
asymptotes. water. Fresh water is being poured into the tank at
determined by using data obtained from a sample
Answer: 4 a rate of 3 L/min and the solution, kept uniform
and by using the specific confidence level of the
by stirring, is flowing out at 2 L/min. Find the
estimate.
Take a semicircle with a rectangle on its amount of salt in the tank after 5 minutes.
Answer: Confidence interval
diameter. If the perimeter of the figure is 20 feet, Answer: 8.89 kg
find the radius of the semicircle in order that its Three common confidence level used.
area may be maximum. Solve y’’ + 5y’ + 6y = 0.
Answer: 90%, 95%, 99%
Answer: 2.8 Answer: y  c1e3x  c2e2x

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Excel Review Center ECE Coaching Course Math Take Home 1
Critical value of (a) 90%, (b) 95% and (c) 99% RMSE
confidence level. Answer: Root mean square error. The square root
Answer: (a) 2.58, (b) 1.96, (c) 1.645 of MSE

The margin of error for a sample of size n is Inverse Laplace transform of 1/(s + 5) at t = 0.5
1 Answer: 0.082
Answer:
n
Inverse Laplace transform of 1/(s + 2)2 at t = 0.2 Answer: 288
Answer: 0.134
The president of a large university wishes to The length of diameter AB is a two digit integer.
estimate the average age of the students presently Reversing the digits gives the length of a
enrolled. From past studies, the standard 1
Inverse Laplace transform 2
at t = 0.2 perpendicular chord CD. The distance from their
deviation is known to be 2 years. A sample of 50  s  2   s  1 intersection point H to the center O is a positive
students is selected, and the mean is found to be Answer: 0.0055395 rational number. Determine the length of AB.
23.2 years. Find the 95% confidence interval of
the population mean. Find the Laplace transform of the second
Answer: between 22.6 and 23.8 years old
derivative of f  t   sin 2 t .
A survey of 30 adults found that the mean age of Answer: 2s/(s2 + 4)
a person’s primary vehicle is 5.6 years. Assuming
the standard deviation of the population is 0.8 Find the Laplace transform of the second
year, find the 99% confidence interval of the derivative of f  t   t sin  at  Answer: 65
population mean.
Answer: between 5.2 and 6.0 years 2as3 In the adjoining figure, two circles with radii 6
Answer: 2
s 2
 a2  and 8 are drawn with their centers 12 units apart.
The college president asks the statistics teacher to At P, one of the points of intersection, a line is
estimate the average age of the students at their t
drawn in such a way that the chords QP and PR
college. How large a sample is necessary? The Find the Laplace transform of  32d have equal length. P is the midpoint of QR. Find
0
statistics teacher would like to be 99% confident the square of the length of QP.
Answer: 3!/s4
that the estimate should be accurate within 1 year.
From a previous study, the standard deviation of
t
the ages is known to be 3 years. Find the Laplace transform of  2 cos  2  d
0
Answer: 60
Answer: 2/(s2 + 4)
What are the three properties of a good estimator? Answer: 130
Answer: unbiased, consistent and relatively z 1
Given F  z   , residue at (a) z = 0, (b) z =
efficient 4z3  z
A point P is chosen in the interior of triangle
1/2, (c) z = –1/2 is
ABC such that when lines are drawn through P
What is the maximum error of estimate? Answer: (a) –1, (b) 3/4, (c) 1/4
parallel to the sides of triangle ABC, the resulting
Answer: Margin of error smaller triangles t1, t2 and t3 in the figure, have
  2  area 4, 9 and 49 respectively. Find the area of
Confidence interval can be calculated using the d   z  i  
lim    triangle ABC.
z i  dz 2 2 
  1  z  
formula

Answer: x   z critical value  Answer: i/4
n

Minimum sample size needed for an interval  d   z  i 2 z  

lim   2 

estimate of the population mean can be calculated    z  i   
z i dz
using the formula Answer: 144
2 Answer: 1
  z critical value    When a triangle is rotated about one leg, the
Answer:   where E is the
 E  z 1 volume of the cone produced is 800 cm3. When
 z2 dz where z = e where     0
i

maximum error of estimate the triangle is rotated about the other leg, the
Answer: 2  i volume of the cone produced is 1920 cm3. What
An estimate that is based on the variances within
is the length of the hypotenuse of the triangle?
the samples. An estimate of the variance whether dz
where (a) z = ei where     0 , (b) z = Answer: 26 cm
or not the null hypothesis is true.  z2
Answer: Mean Square Error (MSE)
t + 0i where 1  t  2 . An ellipse has foci at (9, 20) and (49, 55) in the
Answer: (a) –2, (b) 1/2 xy – plane and is tangent to the x – axis. What is
The estimate is based on the variance of the
the length of its major axis?
sample means. An estimate of the variance if the
Answer: 85
null hypothesis is true.
 log  z dz where z = ei and 0    
Answer: Mean Square Between (MSB)
Three 12 cm x 12 cm squares are each cut into
Answer: 2i
two pieces A and B, as shown in the first figure
If the null hypothesis is (a) true, (b) false then
below, by joining the midpoints of two adjacent
Answer: (a) MSE and MSB should be about the Determine the radius of convergence of sides. These six pieces are than attached to a
same value, (b) MSB is larger than MSE n

 2  n regular hexagon, as shown in the second figure,
  x  3 . so as to fold into a polyhedron. What is the
Mean square error can be calculated using the n 1
n 0
volume of this polyhedron?
formula Answer: 1/2

Answer: MSE 
 si 2 Find the radius of convergence of the power
a 
n xn
series   1
Given the following data below, compute the n 0  2  1 n 2  1
n

MSE and MSB.

Answer: 2
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3 2 2 The solid has a square base of side length s. The Answer: 864 cm3
5 2 1 upper edge is parallel to the base and has length
3 4 3 2s. All other edges have length s. Given that s = In triangle ABC, AB = 425, BC = 450 and AC =
5 4 2 510. An integer point P is then drawn and
6 2 , what is the volume of the solid?
Answer: MSE = 1.111, MSB = 4 segments are drawn through P parallel to the
sides of the triangle. If these three segments are
Mean square between can be calculated using the of an equal length d, find d.
formula Answer: 306
Answer: MSB = ns M 2
Let triangle ABC be a right triangle in the xy –
plane with a right angle at C. Given that the

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length of the hypotenuse AB is 60, and that the
medians through A and B lie along the lines y = x
+ 3 and y = 2x + 4 respectively, find the area of
triangle ABC.
Answer: 400
Find the area of the region enclosed by the graph
x
x  60  y 
4
Answer: 480
Triangle ABC has a right angle at B, and contains
a point P for which PA = 10, PB = 6 and angle
APB = angle BPC = angle CPA. Find PC.
Answer: 33
The value of a for which the sum of the squares
of the roots of the equation
x 2   a  2  x  a  1  0 assume the value is
Answer: 1
If the cube roots of unity are 1,  , 2 then the
3 diagonal and on sloping parallel to it.
roots of the equation  x  1  8  0 are
Answer: 1, 1  2, 1  22
2 Answer: Binary, Boolean, Logical or (0,1) matrix
If the roots of the equation x  bx  c be two
consecutive integers, then b2 – 4c equals
Answer: 1
If both the roots of the quadratic equation
x 2  2kx  k 2  k  5  0 are less than 5, then k
lies in the interval
Answer:  , 4 
All the values of m for which both roots of the
equation x 2  2mx  m2  1  0 are greater than –2
but less than 4, lie in the interval
Answer: –1 < m < 3
If the difference between the roots of the equation
x 2  ax  1  0 is less than 5 , then the set of
possible values of a is
Answer:  3,3
The quadratic equations x2 – 6x + a = 0 and x2 –
cx + 6 = 0 have one root in common. The other
roots of the first and second equations are
integers in the ratio 4:3. Then the common root is
Answer: 2
If p and q are the roots of the equation x2 + px + q
= 0, then
Answer: p = 1, q = –2
If (1 – p) is a root of quadratic equation x2 + px +
(1 – p) = 0 then its roots are
Answer: 0, –1
Fourier transform of Dirac delta or impulse
function   t  .
Answer: 1
Fourier transform of unit step or Heaviside
function u  t  .
1 Answer: Idempotent or Projection matrix
Answer:    
i
Fourier transform of negative time unit step
function u  t 
1 vector-valued function.
Answer:    
i
The eigenvalues of a Hermitian matrix or a
symmetric matrix are
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The eigenvalues of a skew-Hermitian matrix or a
skew-symmetric matrix are
Answer: Pure imaginary or zero
The eigenvalues of a unitary matrix or orthogonal
matrix have
Answer: Absolute value 1
The matrix containing minors of a given square
matrix.
Answer: Adjugate matrix
A matrix in which successive columns have a
particular function applied to their entries.
Answer: Alternant matrix
Synonym for Skew–Hermitian matrix.
Answer: Anti–Hermitian Matrix
Synonym for skew–symmetric matrix.
Answer: Anti–symmetric matrix
A matrix whose rows are concatenations of the
rows of two smaller matrices.
Answer: Augmented matrix
A matrix with nonzero entries on the main
Answer: Band matrix
A matrix with all elements either 0 or 1.
A square matrix that is symmetric with respect to
its main diagonal and its main cross-diagonal.
Answer: Bisymmetric matrix
A matrix with all rows and columns mutually
orthogonal, whose entries are unimodular.
Answer: Complex Hadamard matrix
Two matrices A and B are congruent if there
exists an invertible matrix P such that PT A P = B.
Answer: Congruent matrix
Square matrix that can have nonzero entries only
on the main diagonal. Any entry above or below
the main diagonal must be zero.
Answer: Diagonal matrix
A square matrix in the form of an identity matrix
but with arbitrary entries in one column below the
main diagonal.
Answer: Frobenius matrix
An "almost" triangular matrix, for example, an
upper Hessenberg matrix has zero entries below
the first subdiagonal.
Answer: Hessenberg matrix
A matrix which is equal to its conjugate
T
transpose. A  A or a ij  a ij
Answer: Hermitian matrix
A square matrix of second partial derivatives of a
scalar-valued function.
Answer: Hessian matrix
A square matrix whose main diagonal comprises
only zero elements.
Answer: Hollow matrix
A matrix that has the property A² = AA = A.
A square matrix which is its own inverse, AA = I.
Answer: Involutory matrix
A matrix of first-order partial derivatives of a
Answer: Jacobian matrix
A square matrix that can have nonzero entries
only on and below the main diagonal, whereas
any entry above the diagonal must be zero.
Answer: Lower triangular matrix
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A matrix of non-negative real numbers, such that
the entries in each row sum to 1.
Answer: Markov matrix
A matrix whose off-diagonal entries are non-
negative.
Answer: Metzler matrix
A square matrix with exactly one non-zero entry
in each row and column.
Answer: Monomial matrix
A square matrix satisfying Aq = 0 for some
positive integer q.
Answer: Nilpotent matrix
If matrix A has an inverse.
Answer: Non–singular matrix
A real unitary matrix.
Answer: Orthogonal matrix
A symmetric matrix.
Answer: Real Hermitian matrix
A skew – symmetric matrix.
Answer: Real Skew–Hermitian matrix
If all the diagonal entries of a diagonal matrix are
equal.
Answer: Scalar matrix
A matrix whose entries are either +1, 0, or −1.
Answer: Sign matrix
A diagonal matrix where the diagonal elements
are either +1 or −1.
Answer: Signature matrix
If matrix A has no inverse.
Answer: Singular matrix
A matrix where its negative equivalent is equal to
T
its conjugate transpose A  A or a ij  a ij
Answer: Skew–Hermitian matrix
A square matrix whose transpose equals minus
the matrix.
Answer: Skew–symmetric matrix
A matrix with relatively few non-zero elements.
Answer: Sparse matrix
A square matrix with all entries nonnegative and
all column sums equal to 1.
Answer: Stochastic matrix
A square matrix whose entries come from
coefficients of two polynomials.
Answer: Sylvester matrix
A matrix is symmetric if it equals its transpose.
Answer: Symmetric matrix
A matrix with constant diagonals.
Answer: Toeplitz matrix
A matrix with nonzero entries on the main
diagonal and on the two sloping parallels
immediately above or below the diagonal.
Answer: Tridiagonal matrix
An invertible matrix with entries in the integers
(integer matrix). Necessarily the determinant is
+1 or –1.
Answer: Unimodular matrix
A square matrix with all eigenvalues equal to 1.
Answer: Unipotent matrix
A scalar matrix whose entries on the main
diagonal are all 1.
Answer: Unit or Identity matrix
A matrix where is inverse is equal to its conjugate
T
transpose. A  A 1
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Answer: Unitary matrix Answer: Tricomi equation  1 
y ''  1  y '2  y' y  0,   0
A square matrix that can have nonzero entries  3 
G '' yG  0 or y '' k 2 xy  0
only on and above the main diagonal, whereas Answer: Rayleigh equation
Answer: Airy equation
any entry below the diagonal must be zero.
Answer: Upper triangular matrix y ' p  x  y  g  x  y 2  h  x 
A row consists of 1, a, a², a³, etc., and each row y ' p  x  y  q  x  y n
Answer: Riccati equation
uses a different variable. Answer: Bernoulli equation
y  xy ' g  y ' 
Answer: Vandermonde matrix
Answer: Clairaut equation
y'  Ay  By2 (a special type of Bernoulli
A square matrix, with dimensions a power of 2,
equation)
the entries of which are +1 or -1.
Answer: Logistic or Verhulst equation  2u  2u
Answer: Walsh matrix   v 2u  0
x 2 y 2
x 2 y '' xy '  x 2  v2  y  0 (the parameter v is a Answer: Helmholtz equation
A square matrix the entries of which are in {0, 1,
−1}, such that AAT = wI for positive integer w. given number, real and nonnegative)
Answer: Weighing matrix r  r  1  bo r  co  0 (quadratic equation)
Answer: Bessel’s equation
Answer: Indicial equation of the ODE
A matrix with all off-diagonal entries less than 0.
Answer: Z – matrix 1  x  y'' 2xy ' n  n  1 y  0
2

y''  1  y2  y ' y  0
Answer: Legendre’s equation
A matrix with all entries zero. Answer: Van der Pol equation
Answer: Zero matrix  p  x  y' '  q  x   r  x   y  0 (involving a
Partial DE
The differential equation in the form of parameter  ) Au xx  2Bu xy  Cu yy  F  x, y, u, u x , u y  is
y '  P  x  y 2  Q  x  y  R  x  is called a/an Answer: Sturm – Liouville equation
hyperbolic if
Answer: Ricatti equation Answer: AC  B2  0 or  2B  4AC  0
2
f  z   u  x, y   iv  x, y  should satisfy what type
The second order differential equation of equation to be analytic. (example is Wave equation)
x 2 y" Axy ' By  0 (with A and B are Answer: Cauchy – Riemann equations
Partial DE
constants) is called u x  v y and u y   v x
Answer: Euler – Cauchy equation Au xx  2Bu xy  Cu yy  F  x, y, u, u x , u y  is

u2
u 2
T parabolic if
The equation y" p  x  y  q  x  y  0 is  c2 2 , c  Answer: AC  B2  0 or  2B  4AC  0
2
t 2 x 
Answer: Second order linear homogeneous Answer: One dimensional wave equation (example is Heat equation)

u tt  c 2u xx where t and x stands for time and Partial DE

u 2u
spatial coordinated respectively, c is wave speed  c2 2 Au xx  2Bu xy  Cu yy  F  x, y, u, u x , u y  elliptic if
t x
and u represents the amplitude.
Answer: One dimensional heat or diffusion Answer: AC  B2  0 or  2B  4AC  0
2
Answer: Wave equation
equation
(example is Laplace equation)
u tt  c 2 u xx  f  x, t 
2u 2u versine(x) or vers(x) is equivalent to
Answer: Non homogeneous wave equation 2 u   0
x 2 y 2 Answer: 1 – cos(x)
Answer: Two dimensional Laplace equation
u tt  c 2 u xx  du coversine(x) or covers(x) is equivalent to
Answer: Klein Gordon equation Answer: 1 – sin(x)
 2u  2 u
 2 u  2  2  f  x, y 
x y exsecant(x) or exsec(x) is equivalent to
u tt  c 2 u xx  du  f  x, t 
Answer: Two dimensional Poisson equation Answer: sec(x) – 1
Answer: Non homogeneous Klein Gordon
equation
2u   2 u  2u  haversine(x) or hav(x) is equivalent to
2
 c2  2  2  Answer: vers(x)/2
u tt  au t  bu  c 2 u xx t  x y 
Answer: Telegraph equation Answer: Two dimensional wave equation The complement of a set A is
Answer: A  U  A
u t   2 u xx  2u  2 u  2u
where  2 is called the thermal   0
x 2 y 2 z 2 A  U  A, A    A
diffusivity of the rod and u represents the
temperature if the equation represents heat Answer: Three dimensional Laplace equation Answer: Identity Laws
conduction through a rod.
Answer: Heat equation x 2 y '' axy ' by  0 A  U  U, A    
Answer: Euler Cauchy equation Answer: Domination Laws
u t   2 u xx  f  x, t 
Answer: Non homogeneous heat equation x 1  x  y'' c   a  b  1 x  y' aby  0 A  A  A, A  A  A
Answer: Gauss’s hypergeometric ODE Answer: Idempotent Laws
u t   2 u xx  bu x  cu  f  x, t 
Answer: Convective heat equation xy '' 1  x  y ' ny  0 A  A
Answer: Laguerre’s equation
Elliptic equation u xx  u yy  0 Answer: Complementation Laws

Answer: Laplace equation  2 u 1 u 1  2 u A  B  B  A, A  B  B  A

2 u   
r 2 r r r 2 2 Answer: Commutative Laws
u xx  u yy  f  x, y   0 Answer: Laplacian in polar coordinates
Answer: Poisson equation A   B  C    A  B  C
 2 u 1 u 1  2 u  2 u
2u     A   B  C    A  B  C
u xx  u yy  au  f  x, y   0 r 2 r r r 2 2 z 2
Answer: Laplacian in cylindrical coordinates Answer: Associative Laws
Answer: Helmholtz equation

y '' o 2 y  y3  0 A   B  C    A  B   A  C 
x 2 y ''  x 2  n  n  1  y  0
Answer: Duffing equation A   B  C    A  B   A  C 
Answer: Ricatti equation
Answer: Distributive Laws
yu xx  u yy  0

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A  B  A  B, A  B  A  B Answer: Negation Laws
Answer: De Morgan’s Laws
For all real numbers x and y, x + y is a real.
Answer: Closure law for addition
A   A  B  A
A   A  B  A For all real numbers x and y, x  y is a real
Answer: Absorption Laws number.
Answer: Closure law for multiplication
A  A  U, A  A   For all real numbers x, y and z, (x + y) + z = x +
Answer: Complement Laws (y + z).
Answer: Associative law for addition
xx
For all real numbers x, y and z,
Answer: Law of double complement
 x  y  z  x   y  z
x  x  x, x  x  x Answer: Associative law for multiplication
Answer: Idempotent Laws
For all real numbers x and y, x + y = y + x.
x  0  x, x 1  x Answer: Commutative law for addition
Answer: Identity Laws
For all real numbers x and y, x  y  y  x
x  1  1, x  0  0 Answer: Commutative law for multiplication
Answer: Domination Laws
For every real number x, x + 0 = 0 + x = x.
Answer: Additive identity law
x + y = y + x, xy = yx
Answer: Commutative Laws
For every real number x, x 1  1 x  x
x + (y + z) = (x + y) + z, x(yz) = (xy)z Answer: Multiplicative identity law
Answer: Associative Laws
The additive identity 0 and the multiplicative
x + yz = (x + y)(x + z), x(y + z) = xy + xz identity 1 are distinct, that is 0  1.
Answer: Distributive Laws Answer: Identity elements axiom
For every real number x, there exists a real
 xy   x  y,  x  y   xy
number –x called the additive inverse of x, such
Answer: De Morgan’s Laws
that x + (–x) = (–x) + x = 0.
Answer: Inverse law for addition
x + xy = x, x(x + y) = x
Answer: Absorption Laws
For every nonzero real number x, there exists a
real number 1/x called the multiplicative inverse
x  x 1
of x, such that x  1 / x   1/ x   x  1
Answer: Unit property
Answer: Inverse law for multiplication
xx  0 For all real numbers x, y and z,
Answer: Zero property
x  y  z   xy  xz and  x  y  z  xz  yz
p  T  p, p  F  p Answer: Distributive laws
(T denotes the compound proposition that is For all real numbers x and y, exactly one of x = y,
always true and F denotes the compound x > y or y > x is true.
proposition that is always false.) Answer: Trichotomy law
Answer: Identity Laws
For all real numbers x, y and z, if x >y and y > z,
p  T  T, p  F  F then x > z.
(T denotes the compound proposition that is Answer: Transitivity law
always true and F denotes the compound
proposition that is always false.) For all real numbers x, y and z, if x > y, then x +
Answer: Domination Laws z > y + z.
Answer: Additive compatibility law
p  p  p, p  p  p
Answer: Idempotent Laws For all real numbers x, y and z, if x > y and z > 0,
then xz  yz
  p   p Answer: Multiplicative compatibility law
Answer: Double negation law
Every nonempty set of real numbers that is
bounded has a least upper bound.
p  q  q  p, p  q  q  p Answer: Completeness property
Answer: Commutative Laws
Every nonempty subset of the set of positive
p  q  r  p  q  r , p  r   r  p  q  r  integers has a least element.
Answer: The Well-ordering property
Answer: Associative Laws
p  q  r   p  q   p  r , If S is a set of positive integers such that 1  S and
for all positive integers n if n  S , then n  1  S ,
p  q  r   p  q   p  r
then S is the set of positive integers.
Answer: Distributive Laws
Answer: Mathematical induction axiom
  p  q   p  q,   p  q   p  q Modus ponens  p   p  q    q
Answer: De Morgan’s Laws Answer: Law of detachment (Modus ponens is
Latin for mode for affirms)
p   p  q   p, p   p  q   p
Answer: Absorption Laws
This is law states that is  0 , as n becomes
arbitrarily large the probability approaches 1 that
p  p  T, p  p  F
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the fraction of times an event E occurs during n
trials is within  of p(E).
Answer: Law of large numbers
For every real number x there exists an integer n
such that n > x.
Answer: Archimedean Property
This law states that if the sample space S is the
disjoint union of the events S1 , S2 ,...,Sn and X is a
n
   
random variable, then E  X    E X S j P S j
j1
Answer: Law of total expectation
A statement that is true or false.
Answer: Proposition
A variable that represents a proposition.
Answer: Propositional variable
True or false
Answer: True value
Proposition with truth value opposite to the truth
value of p.
Answer: Negation
Operators used to combine propositions.
Answer: Logical operators
A proposition constructed by combining
propositions using logical operators.
Answer: Compound proposition
A table displaying all possible truth values of
propositions.
Answer: Truth table
The proposition “p or q”, which is true if and only
if at least one of p and q is true.
Answer: Disjunction
The proposition “p and q”, which is true if and
only if both p and q are true.
Answer: Conjunction
Proposition “p XOR q”, which is true when
exactly one of p and q is true.
Answer: Exclusive OR
The proposition “if p, then q”, which is false if
and only if p is true and q is false.
Answer: Implication
The proposition “p if and only if q”, which is true
if and only if p and q have the same truth value.
Answer: Biconditional
Either a 0 or 1.
Answer: Bit
A variable that has a value 0 or 1.
Answer: Boolean variable
A list of bits.
Answer: Bit string
A compound proposition that is always true.
Answer: Tautology
A compound proposition that is always false.
Answer: Contradiction
A compound proposition that is sometimes true
and sometimes false.
Answer: Contingency
Compound propositions for which there is an
assignment of truth values to the variables that
makes all these propositions true.
Answer: Consistent compound propositions
A compound proposition for which there is an
assignment of truth values to its variables that
makes it true.
Answer: Satisfiable compound proposition
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Compound proposition that always have the same
truth values.
Answer: Logically equivalent compound
propositions
A sequence of statements.
Answer: Argument
An invalid argument form often used incorrectly
as a rule of inference (or sometimes, more
generally, an incorrect argument)
Answer: Fallacy
Mathematical assertion can be shown to be true.
Answer: Theorem
A mathematical assertion proposed to be true, but
that has not been proved.
Answer: Conjecture
A demonstration that a theorem is true.
Answer: Proof
A statement that is assumed to be true and that
can be used as a basis for proving theorems.
Answer: Axioms
A theorem used to prove other theorems.
Answer: Lemma
A proposition that can be proved as a
consequence of a theorem that has just been
proved.
Answer: Corollary
A statement containing one or more variables that
becomes a proposition when each of its variables
is assigned a value or is bound by a quantifier.
Answer: Propositional function
In which of the following method, we
approximate the curve of solution by the tangent
in each interval.
Answer: Euler’s method
Jacobi’s method is also known as
Answer: Simultaneous displacement method
The convergence of which of the following
method is sensitive to starting value?
Answer: Newton-Raphson method
To perform a Chi-square test
Answer: Data conform to a normal distribution.
Data be measured on a nominal scale. Each cell
has equal number of frequencies.
In the Gauss elimination method for solving a
system of linear algebraic equations,
triangularization leads to
Answer: upper triangular matrix
Newton-Raphson
Answer: Root finding
Runge-kutta
Answer: Ordinary differential equations
Gauss-seidel
Answer: Solution of system of linear equations
Simpson’s rule
Answer: Integration
The expected value of the random variable
Answer: Is another term for the mean value.
Solving an engineering problem requires four
steps. In order of sequence, the four steps are
Answer: Formulate, solve, interpret, implement
True error is defined as
Answer: True value – approximate value
The Newton-Raphson method of finding roots of
nonlinear equations falls under the category of
____ methods.
Answer: open
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The secant method of finding roots of nonlinear
equations falls under the category of ____
methods.
Answer: open
Highest order of polynomial integrand for which
Simpson’s 1/3 rule of integration is exact is
Answer: Third
Newton-Raphson method of solution of
numerical equation is not preferred when
Answer: The graph of f(x) is nearly horizontal –
where it crosses the x–axis.
Newton-Raphson method is applicable to the
solution of
Answer: Both algebraic and transcendental
equations
The order of errors the Simpson’s rule for
numerical integration with a step size h is
Answer: h^2
In which method proper choice of initial value is
very important?
Answer: Newton-Raphson
Errors may occur in performing numerical
computation on the computer due to
Answer: Rounding errors
_______ distinct _______ points form a plane.
Answer: Three; non collinear
Two parallel lines intersected by a transverse line,
the alternating interior angles are ________.
Answer: Congruent
Two parallel lines intersected by a transverse line,
the alternating exterior angles are ________.
Answer: Congruent
Two parallel lines intersected by a transverse line,
the same side interior angles are ________.
Answer: Supplementary
Two parallel lines intersected by a transverse line,
the same side exterior angles are ________.
Answer: Supplementary
Solid generated by a line revolved and intersected
by another is a/an
Answer: Cone
Generated by a parabola on a plane with a
perpendicular line is a/an
Answer: Parabolic cylinder
Generated by an ellipse on a plane with a
perpendicular line is a/an
Answer: Elliptical cylinder
The mean of the sides of a triangle meet at what
point?
Answer: Centroid
The altitudes of the sides of a triangle meet at
what point?
Answer: Orthocenter
Material implication
Answer: Symbol: ,  , 
Should be read as: implies; if… then
Material equivalence
Answer: Symbol: ,  ,  , Should be read
as: if and only if; means the same as
Negation
Answer: Symbol: , ! , ~, Should be read as: not
Logical conjunction
Answer: Symbol: , , & ,Should be read as: and
Logical disjunction
Answer: Symbol: , +, , Should be read as: or
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Exclusive disjunction
Answer: Symbol: ,  , Should be read as: xor
Tautology
Answer: Symbol: , 1
Should be read as: top, verum
Contradiction
Answer: Symbol: , F, 0 , Should be read as:
bottom, falsum
Universal quantification
Answer: Symbol: , ()
Should be read as: for all; for any; for each
Existential quantification
Answer: Symbol: 
Should be read as: there exists
Uniqueness quantification
Answer: Symbol: !
Should be read as: there exists exactly one
Definiton
Answer: Symbol: :,  , : 
Should be read as: is defined as
Precedence grouping
Answer: Symbol: ( )
Should be read as: parentheses, brackets
Turnstile
Answer: Symbol: , Should be read as: provable
Double turnstile
Answer: Symbol: , Should be read as: entails
Complement of set A
Answer: The set of all elements in U that are not
in set A. Denoted by A, A' or AC
Intersection of set A and B
Answer: The set of elements belonging to both A
and B. Denoted by A  B
Union of set A and B
Answer: The set of elements belonging to either
A or B. Denoted by A  B
Difference (or Relative Complement) of set A
and B
Answer: The set of elements of A that do not
belong to B. Denoted by A – B or A\B
Symmetric difference of set A and B
Answer: The set of elements that belong to A or
B but not both. Denoted by A  B or AB
Property of a relation R on a set A where
 x, y   R and  y, x   R implies x = y.
Answer: Anti–symmetric or Asymmetric
The relation R  1,1 , 1, 2  ,  3, 2  ,  3,3 is
Answer: Anti–symmetric, Transitive
Property of a relation R on a set A where x  A ,
 x, x   R or xRx
Answer: Reflexive
Property of a relation R on a set A where x, y  A
 x, y   R implies  y, x   R or xRy implies yRx.
Answer: Symmetric
Property of a relation R on a set A where
x, y, z  A ,  x, y   R and  y, z   R implies
 x, z   R . Equivalently, for all x, y, z  A , xRy
and yRz implies xRz.
Answer: Transitive
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A relation between elements of a set A that is
reflexive, symmetric and transitive.
Answer: Equivalence relation

A relation that is symmetric and transitive.

Answer: Partial Equivalence Relation
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