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Important Questions
Long Answer Questions
FUNCTIONS
1. Let be bijections. Then show that is a bijection.
2. Let be bijections. Then show that
3. Let be identity functions on A and B respectively. Then show that =f
4. Let be a bijection. Then show that and
5. Let be a bijection. Then show that is a bijection if and only if there exists a function
such that and and in this case,
6. Let and , then show that

7. I) If are defined by and then find

(i) (ii) (iii) (iv)

II) Let If are fefined by

then show that

MATHEMATICAL INDUCTION

8. Prove that .

9. Show that, ………..upto n terms = ,

10. Prove that 2.3+3.4+4.5+ upto n terms = .

11. Prove that a+(a+d)+(a+2d)+………upto n terms = .

12. Prove that upto n terms = .

13. Prove that 1.2.3+2.3.4+3.4.5+……..upto n terms = .

14. upto n terms = .

15. upto n terms =

16. Use mathematical induction to prove the statement.

17. Show that is divisible by 64 for all positive integers n.

18. Prove that is divisible by 17.
19. Prove that is divisible by 11, .
20. Show that is divisible by 9 for all positive integers n.
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MATRICES

21. If A= is a non –singular matrix then show that A is invertible and .

22. Without expanding the determinant show that .

23. Show that

24. Show that

25. Show that .

26. If and then show that abc=-1.

27. Show that .

28. Show that

29. Show that .

30. Show that

31. Apply the test of rank to examine whether the following equations are consistent (or) in consistent
(i) (ii)
(iii) (iv)
(v)
32. Solve the following simultaneous linear equations by using cramer’s rule, Gauss
Jordan method, Matrix inversion method.
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(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
(v)
MULTIPLICATION OF VECTORS
33. Find the equation of the plane passing through the points and
34. (i) Find the shortest distance between the skew lines and

(ii) If find the distance between AB and

CD.
35. If and then compute
36. Find the equation of the plane passing to the points and

37. If , find and

PROPERTIES OF TRIANGLES

38. Show that

39. (i) Show that
(ii) Show that
(iii) In , prove that

40. Show that

41. Show that .

42. (i) If a=13, b=14, c=15, show that r=4, and

(ii) If prove that a=3, b=4 and c=5.
(iii) In , if , find a, b, c

43. Show that

44. Show that

Short Answer Questions

MATRICES

1. If then show that

2. If then prove that

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3. If then prove that

4. If then verify that

5. If then show that for all positive integers ‘n’,

6. If then for any integer show that

7. If then show that

then show that

8. If

9. If then show that

ADDITION OF VECTORS
10. Let ABCDEF be a regular hexagon with centre ‘O’ show that
11. In , if ‘O’ is the circumcentre and H is the orthocenter, then show that
i) ii)
12. If the points whose position vectors are and are

coplanar, then show that

13. are non-coplanar vectors prove that the following four points are coplanar
i)
ii)
iii)
14. In the two dimensional plane, prove by using vector method, the equation of the line whose intercepts on

the axes are ‘a’ and ‘b’ is

MULTIPLICATION OF VECTORS
15. Find the unit vector perpendicular to the plane passing through the points (1,2,3), (2,-1,1) and (1, 2, -4)
16. Find the area of the triangle whose vertices are A(1,2,3), B(2,3,1) and C(3,1,2)
17. Find the unit vector perpendicular to the plane determined by the points and

18. If and , then compute and verify that it is

perpendicular to
19. Find the volume of the tetrahedron whose vertices are (1, 2, 1), (3, 2, 5), (2, -1, 0) and (-1, 0, 1)
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20. Find the volume of the parallelepiped whose coterminus edges are represented by the vectors
and
21. Find the volume of the tetrahedron having the edges

22. If and , verify that

23. and , then compute the following i)

and ii)

24. If then find

25. Show that angle in a semi circle is a right angle
26. Determine , for which the volume of the parallelepiped having coterminous edges and
is 16 cubic units
27. If and , then compute the following

i) ii) iii)
PROPERTIES OF TRIANGLES

28. If i) , prove that

ii) , prove that

iii) , prove that

29.

INVERSE TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS

30. Prove that

. Prove that i) ii)

31

iii) iv)

32. Prove that

33. Prove that

34. If , then prove that

35. If , then prove that
36. i) If , then prove that x + y + z = xyz

ii) If , then prove that xy + yz + zx = 1

37. If then prove that

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38. Prove that

Very Short Answer Questions

MATRICES

1. If and then find X.

2. If and find

3. If , find and a

4. Define trace of a matrix and find the trace of A, if

5. Define symmetric matrix and skew-symmetric matrix

6. If is a symmetric matrix, find x

7. If is a skew-symmetric matrix, find the value of x

8. If is a skew-symmetric matrix, find the value of x

9. If and det A=45, then find x

10. Find the determinant of

11. If is a complex (non-real) cube root of unity, then show that

12. If then find and

13. If and , then find and .

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14. If and then show that

15. If then show that

16. Find the adjoint and the inverse of the matrix

17. If and find the value of k

18. If , find
19. Find the rank of each of the following matrices

i) ii) iii) iv) v)

20. Write the definitions of singular and non-matrices and give examples.
21. A certain book shop has 10 dozen Chemistry books, 8 dozen Physics books, 10 dozen Economics books.
Their selling prices are Rs.80 Rs. 60 and Rs.40 each respectively

Construct a matrix whose elements are defined by

22.

ADDITION OF VECTORS
23. Let and Find the unit vector in the opposite direction of
24. Show that the points whose position vectors are are collinear when a, b, c
are non-coplanar vectors.
25. If the position vectors of the points A, B and C are and respectively
and then find the value of
26. If the vectors and are collinear vectors, then find and .
27. If and are collinear vectors then find the values of m and n
28. If and then find the vector OD
29. OABC is a parallelogram. If and then find the vector equation of the side BC.
30. Find the equation of the plane which passes through the points and parallel to the
vector
31. Find the vector equation of the line joining the points and
32. Find the vector equation of the line passing through the point and parallel to the vector

33. Find the vector equation of the plane passing through the points. and
34. If are the position vectors of the vertices A, B and C respectively of then find the vector
equations of the medians through the vertices A and B
35. Is the triangle formed by the vectors and equilateral?
36. Find the vector equation of the plane passing through the points (0, 0, 0,), (0, 5, 0), and (2, 0, 1)
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37. ABCD is a pentagon. If the sum of the vectors and is then find the value
of .

MULTIPLICATION OF VECTORS
38. If and , then show that and are perpendicular to each other.
39. If the vectors and are perpendicular to each other, find

40. If is parallel to the vector , find p

41. Find the angle between in vectors and .

42. Find the angle between the planes and

43. Find the area of the parallelogram having and as adjacent sides.
44. Find the unit vector perpendicular to the plane determined by the vectors

45. If and , then find

46. Let and . If is the angle between and , the find
47. Find the area of the parallelogram having and as adjacent sides

48. Compute

HYPERBOLIC FUNCTIONS

49. If find the values of (i) cosh (2x) and (ii) sinh (2x)

50. find cosh (2x)and

51. If then prove that

52. Prove that i) for any

ii) for any

53. For any . Prove that

54. If , show that

55. Show that