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A circle is drawn with its centre at the focus of the parabola \( y^2 = 2px \) such that it touches the directrix of the parabola. Then a point of intersection of the circle and the parabola is
The coordinate axes are rotated about the origin in the counterclockwise direction through an angle \( 60^\circ \). If \( a \) and \( b \) are the intercepts made on the new axes by a straight line whose equation referred to the original axes is \( x + y = 1 \), then \( \dfrac{1}{a^2} + \dfrac{1}{b^2} = \, ? \)
For three events \( A, B, \) and \( C \) of a sample space, if \[ P(\text{exactly one of A or B occurs}) = P(\text{exactly one of B or C occurs}) = P(\text{exactly one of C or A occurs}) = \frac{1}{4} \] and the probability that all three events occur simultaneously is \( \frac{1}{16} \), then the probability that at least one of the events occurs is
The locus of the third vertex of a right-angled triangle, the ends of whose hypotenuse are \( (1, 2) \) and \( (4, 5) \), is:
On every evening, a student either watches TV or reads a book. The probability of watching TV is \( \frac{4}{5} \). If he watches TV, the probability that he will fall asleep is \( \frac{3}{4} \), and it is \( \frac{1}{4} \) when he reads a book. If the student is found to be asleep on an evening, the probability that he watched the TV is:
Let \( X \) be the random variable taking values \( 1, 2, \dots, n \) for a fixed positive integer \( n \). If \( P(X = k) = \frac{1}{n} \) for \( 1 \leq k \leq n \), then the variance of \( X \) is:
A bag P contains 4 red and 5 black balls, another bag Q contains 3 red and 6 black balls. If one ball is drawn at random from bag P and two balls are drawn from bag Q, then the probability that out of the three balls drawn two are black and one is red, is
A radar system can detect an enemy plane in one out of ten consecutive scans. The probability that it can detect an enemy plane at least twice in four consecutive scans is:
Two students appeared simultaneously for an entrance exam. If the probability that the first student gets qualified in the exam is \( \frac{1}{4} \) and the probability that the second student gets qualified in the same exam is \( \frac{2}{5} \), then the probability that at least one of them gets qualified in that exam is
If \( \sum\limits_{i=1}^{9} (x_i - 5) = 9 \) and \( \sum\limits_{i=1}^{9} (x_i - 5)^2 = 45 \), then the standard deviation of the nine observations \( x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_9 \) is
Let \( \vec{a} = 2\hat{i} + \hat{j} + 3\hat{k} \), \( \vec{b} = 3\hat{i} + 3\hat{j} + \hat{k} \), and \( \vec{c} = \hat{i} - 2\hat{j} + 3\hat{k} \) be three vectors. If \( \vec{r} \) is a vector such that \( \vec{r} \times \vec{a} = \vec{r} \times \vec{b} \) and \( \vec{r} . \vec{c} = 18 \), then the magnitude of the orthogonal projection of \( 4\hat{i} + 3\hat{j} - \hat{k} \) on \( \vec{r} \) is:
The set of all real values of \( c \) so that the angle between the vectors
\( \vec{a} = c\hat{i} - 6\hat{j} + 3\hat{k} \) and \( \vec{b} = x\hat{i} + 2\hat{j} + 2c\hat{k} \) is an obtuse angle for all real \( x \), is:
If the position vectors of A, B, C, D are \( \vec{A} = \hat{i} + 2\hat{j} + 2\hat{k}, \vec{B} = 2\hat{i} - \hat{j}, \vec{C} = \hat{i} + \hat{j} + 3\hat{k}, \vec{D} = 4\hat{j} + 5\hat{k} \), then the quadrilateral ABCD is a:
In \( \triangle ABC \), if \( \sin^2 B = \sin A \) and \( 2\cos^2 A = 3\cos^2 B \), then the triangle is:
The equation \[ \cos^{-1}(1 - x) - 2 \cos^{-1} x = \frac{\pi}{2} \] has:
In \( \triangle ABC \), if A, B, C are in arithmetic progression, then \[ \sqrt{a^2 - ac + c^2} . \cos\left(\frac{A - C}{2}\right) =\ ? \]
If \( \sinh^{-1}(2) + \sinh^{-1}(3) = \alpha \), then \( \sinh\alpha = \) ?
If in \( \triangle ABC \), \( B = 45^\circ \), \( a = 2(\sqrt{3} + 1) \) and area of \( \triangle ABC \) is \( 6 + 2\sqrt{3} \) sq. units, then the side \( b = \ ? \)
If \[ \frac{x^2}{(x^2 + 2)(x^4 - 1)} = \frac{A}{x^2 - 1} + \frac{B}{x^2 + 1} + \frac{C}{x^2 + 2}, \text{ then } A + B - C =\ ? \]
\[ \sum_{r=1}^{15} r^2 \left( \frac{{}^{15}C_r}{{}^{15}C_{r-1}} \right) =\ ? \]
A string of letters is to be formed by using 4 letters from all the letters of the word “MATHEMATICS”. The number of ways this can be done such that two letters are of same kind and the other two are of different kind is
Evaluate the following expression: \[ \frac{1}{81^n} - \binom{2n}{1} . \frac{10}{81^n} + \binom{2n}{2} . \frac{10^2}{81^n} - .s + \frac{10^{2n}}{81^n} = ? \]
If \( x \) is a positive real number and the first negative term in the expansion of \[ (1 + x)^{27/5} \text{ is } t_k, \text{ then } k =\ ? \]
An eight digit number divisible by 9 is to be formed using digits from 0 to 9 without repeating the digits. The number of ways in which this can be done is
If \( \alpha \) is the common root of the quadratic equations \( x^2 - 5x + 4a = 0 \) and \( x^2 - 2ax - 8 = 0 \), where \( a \in \mathbb{R} \), then the value of \( \alpha^4 - \alpha^3 + 68 \) is: