List of top Mathematics Questions

Let the parabola \(y = x^2 + px - 3\) meet the coordinate axes at the points P, Q and R. If the circle C with centre at (-1, -1) passes through the points P, Q and R, then the area of \(\triangle PQR\) is:

Two balls are selected at random one by one without replacement from a bag containing 4 white and 6 black balls. If the probability that the first selected ball is black, given that the second selected ball is also black, is \(\frac{m}{n}\), where gcd(m, n) = 1, then m + n is equal to:

A coin is tossed three times. Let X denote the number of times a tail follows a head. If \(\mu\) and \(\sigma^2\) denote the mean and variance of X, then the value of \(64(\mu + \sigma^2)\) is:

Let \( f : \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R} \) be a twice differentiable function such that \( f(x + y) = f(x) f(y) \) for all \( x, y \in \mathbb{R} \). If \( f'(0) = 4a \) and \( f \) satisfies \( f''(x) - 3a f'(x) - f(x) = 0 \), where \( a > 0 \), then the area of the region R = {(x, y) | 0 \(\leq\) y \(\leq\) f(ax), 0 \(\leq\) x \(\leq\) 2\ is :

Let for \( f(x) = 7\tan^8 x + 7\tan^6 x - 3\tan^4 x - 3\tan^2 x \), \( I_1 = \int_0^{\frac{\pi}{4}} f(x)dx \) and \( I_2 = \int_0^{\frac{\pi}{4}} x f(x)dx \). Then \( 7I_1 + 12I_2 \) is equal to:

Using the principal values of the inverse trigonometric functions the sum of the maximum and the minimum values of \(16((sec^{-1}x)^{2}+(cosec^{-1}x)^{2})\) is:

Let \( a_1, a_2, a_3, \dots \) be a G.P. of increasing positive terms. If \( a_1 a_5 = 28 \) and \( a_2 + a_4 = 29 \), then the value of \( a_6 \) is equal to:

A circle C of radius 2 lies in the second quadrant and touches both the coordinate axes. Let \( r \) be the radius of a circle that has centre at the point \( (2, 5) \) and intersects the circle C at exactly two points. If the set of all possible values of \( r \) is the interval \( (\alpha, \beta) \), then \( 3\beta - 2\alpha \) is equal to:

From all the English alphabets, five letters are chosen and are arranged in alphabetical order. The total number of ways, in which the middle letter is ‘M’, is :

Let \[ f(x) = \lim_{n \to \infty} \sum_{r=0}^{n} \left( \frac{\tan \left( \frac{x}{2^{r+1}} \right) + \tan^3 \left( \frac{x}{2^{r+1}} \right)}{1 - \tan^2 \left( \frac{x}{2^{r+1}} \right)} \right) \] Then, \( \lim_{x \to 0} \frac{e^x - e^{f(x)}}{x - f(x)} \) is equal to:

Let the function, \(f(x)\) = \(\begin{cases} -3ax^2 - 2, & x < 1 \\a^2 + bx, & x \geq 1 \end{cases}\) Be differentiable for all \( x \in \mathbb{R} \), where \( a > 1 \), \( b \in \mathbb{R} \). If the area of the region enclosed by \( y = f(x) \) and the line \( y = -20 \) is \( \alpha + \beta\sqrt{3} \), where \( \alpha, \beta \in \mathbb{Z} \), then the value of \( \alpha + \beta \) is:

Let the arc AC of a circle subtend a right angle at the center O. If the point B on the arc AC divides the arc AC such that: \[ \frac{\text{length of arc AB}}{\text{length of arc BC}} = \frac{1}{5} \] and \[ \overrightarrow{OC} = \alpha \overrightarrow{OA} + \beta \overrightarrow{OB}, \] then \( \alpha = \sqrt{2} (\sqrt{3}-1) \beta \) is equal to:

The number of words that can be formed using all the letters of the word "DAUGHTER" such that all the vowels never come together, is:

Let a curve \( y = f(x) \) pass through the points \( (0,5) \) and \( (\log 2, k) \). If the curve satisfies the differential equation: \[ 2(3+y)e^{2x}dx - (7+e^{2x})dy = 0, \] then \( k \) is equal to:

Let P be the foot of the perpendicular from the point \( Q(10,-3,-1) \) on the line: \[ \frac{x-3}{7} = \frac{y-2}{-1} = \frac{z+1}{-2}. \] Then the area of the right-angled triangle PQR, where R is the point \( (3,-2,1) \), is:

Let \( f(x) = \log x \) and \[ g(x) = \frac{x^4 - 2x^3 + 3x^2 - 2x + 2}{2x^2 - 2x + 1} \] Then the domain of \( f \circ g \) is:

Marks obtained by all the students of class 12 are presented in a frequency distribution with classes of equal width. Let the median of this grouped data be 14 with median class interval 12-18 and median class frequency 12. If the number of students whose marks are less than 12 is 18, then the total number of students is:

Let R = {(1, 2), (2, 3), (3, 3)} be a relation defined on the set \( \{1, 2, 3, 4\} \). Then the minimum number of elements needed to be added in \( R \) so that \( R \) becomes an equivalence relation, is:}

One die has two faces marked 1, two faces marked 2, one face marked 3, and one face marked 4. Another die has one face marked 1, two faces marked 2, two faces marked 3, and one face marked 4. The probability of getting the sum of numbers to be 4 or 5 when both the dice are thrown together is:

If the first term of an A.P. is 3 and the sum of its first four terms is equal to one-fifth of the sum of the next four terms, then the sum of the first 20 terms is equal to:

If \( \frac{\pi}{2} \leq x \leq \frac{3\pi}{4} \), then \( \cos^{-1} \left( \frac{12}{13} \cos x + \frac{5}{13} \sin x \right) \) is equal to:

Let \( \vec{c} \) be the projection vector of \( \mathbf{b} = \lambda \hat{i} + 4 \hat{k}, \lambda > 0 \), on the vector \( \vec{a} = \hat{i} + 2 \hat{j} + 2 \hat{k} \). If \( |\vec{a} + \vec{c}| = 7 \), then the area of the parallelogram formed by the vectors \( \vec{b} \) and \( \vec{c} \) is:

If \( \sum_{r=0}^5 \frac{{}^{11}C_{2r+1}}{2r+2} = \frac{m}{n} \), gcd(m, n) = 1, then \( m - n \) is equal to:

Let \( L_1 : \frac{x - 1}{3} = \frac{y - 1}{-1} = \frac{z + 1}{0} \) and \( L_2 : \frac{x - 2}{2} = \frac{y}{0} = \frac{z + 4}{\alpha} \), where \( \alpha \in \mathbb{R} \), be two lines which intersect at the point \( B \). If \( P \) is the foot of the perpendicular from the point \( A(1, 1, -1) \) on \( L_2 \), then the value of \( 26 \alpha (PB)^2 \) is:

Let the area of a triangle \( \triangle PQR \) with vertices \( P(5, 4) \), \( Q(-2, 4) \), and \( R(a, b) \) be 35 square units. If its orthocenter and centroid are \( O(2, \frac{14}{5}) \) and \( C(c, d) \) respectively, then \( c + 2d \) is equal to: