BBA (H) Semester II Examinations, 2022
Subject: Business Mathematics
Paper: BBA-2.3
Time: 4 Hours Full Marks: 80
The figures in the margin indicate full marks.
Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable.
Answer Q. 1 and any five from the rest.
1. Answer any ten questions: 2×10 = 20
(a) If x = 32/3 + 3-2/3, show that 9x3 – 27x = 82
1 1 1
(b) Find the sum of first 11 terms of a G.P., given by 1, − 2 , 4, −8, …. , …….
(c) Define ‘Arithmetical Progression’.
(d) How many terms of the following series may be taken so that their sum is 66?
− 9, − 6, 3, . . . .
(e) What is meant by a quadratic equation?
(f) Solve 5x + 52 – x = 26.
(g) The logarithm of a number is 5.673. Find the characteristic and mantissa.
(h) Define ‘Permutation’.
(i) Find the middle term in the expansion of (x+y) 13.
(j) A committee consisting of 5 members is to be formed out of 6 men and 4 women.
How many committees can be formed so that at least one woman is always there in
the committee?
(k) Solve the equation
log10 (x – 14) + log10 (x – 5) = 1
(l) Find the distance between the points (4, −7) and (−1, 5).
(m) With an example, define a Diagonal Matrix.
(n) What is meant by equality of matrices?
𝑥 2 −1
(o) Find out the limit of 𝑥−1
as x →1.
2. (a) Insert 6 arithmetic means between 1 and 19.
1 1 1
(b) If , , are in A.P., prove that a2, b2, c2 are also in A.P. 7+5=12
𝑏+𝑐 𝑐+𝑎 𝑎+𝑏
3. (a) The sum of three numbers in G.P. is 35 and their product is 1000. Find the numbers.
(b) If S is the sum, P the product and R the sum of reciprocals of n terms in G.P., prove that
P2Rn = Sn 5+7=12
4. (a) Evaluate the fourth root of 56 − 24√5.
𝑎
(b) If ax = ( 𝑘 )y = km and a≠1, prove that
1 1 1
– = 6+6=12
𝑥 𝑦 𝑚
5. (a) List out the properties of logarithms.
(b) If loga m = n, show that
log 1/a m = – n. Hence find log 1/a 27√3. 6+6=12
P.T.O.
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6. (a) In how many ways, a party of 4 or more can be selected from 10 persons?
(b) The letters of the word ZENITH are written in all possible orders. How many words are
possible? If all these words are written as in dictionary, what is the rank of word
ZENITH? 4+8=12
7. (a) Show that the medians of a triangle are concurrent.
(b) Find the intercept that the line 3x – 2y – 6 =0 makes on the axes. What is the slope of
this line? 6+6=12
0 1 2
8. (a) If A = (2 3 4) and k1 = i, k2 = 2, verify (k1+ k2) A = k1A + k2A.
4 5 6
(b) Solve the system of equations
x+y+z=7
x + 2y + 3z = 16
x + 3y + 4z = 22. 6+6=12
9. (a) If the roots of ax2 + bx + c = 0 are in the ratio p : q, prove that ac(p+q) 2 = b2pq
(b) Explain the nature of roots of the quadratic equation ax2 + bx + c = 0 in cases when the
discriminant is (i) >0, (ii) = 0, and (iii) <0. 6+6=12
𝑑𝑦
10. (a) Show that for y = |𝑥 |, 𝑑𝑥 does not exist at x=0.
(b) The side of an equilateral triangle is increasing at the rate of 2 cm/sec. At what rate is
its area increasing when the side is 20 cms.? 7+5=12
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