SAMPLE QUESTION PAPER

MATHEMATICS

CLASS – XII : 2015-16

TYPOLOGY

VSA (1 M) L A – I (4M) L A – II (6M) MARKS %WEIGHTAGE

Remembering 3, 6 11, 18, 19, 25 20 20%

Understanding 1,2 9, 10 24, 26 22 22%

Applications 4 13, 15, 16, 17 22, 20 29 29%

Hots 5 7,14 23 15 15%

Evaluation - 8, 12 21 14 14%

Total 6 1=6 =52 =42 100 100%

Question- wise break up

Type of Questions Marks per Question Total number of Total Marks

Questions

VSA 1 6 06

LA-I 4 13 52

L A - II 6 7 42

Total 26 100

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UNIT VSA LA-I LA-II TOTAL
Relations and 1(1) *4(1) - 5(2)
functions

Inverse 1(1) 4(1) - 5(2) 10

trigonometric
functions
Matrices 1(1) 8(2) - 9(3)

Determinants - *4(1) - 4(1) 13

Continuity and 1(1) 4(1) - 9(3)

differentiability *4(1)

Applications of 1(1) - 6(1) 13(3)

derivative 6(1) VBQ

Integrals - *4(1) - 8(2)

4(1)
Application of 6(1) 6(1)
integrals -
- 8(2) - 8(2) 44
Differential
Equations
Vectors - - 6(1) 6(1)

Three dimensional 1(1) 4(1) *6(1) 11(3) 17

geometry
Linear - - 6(1) 6(1) 6
Programming
Probability - 4(1) *6(1) 10(2) 10

Total 6(6) 52(13) 42(7) 100(26) 100

Note:- * indicates the questions with internal choice. The number of questions is given in the
brackets and the marks are given outside the brackets.

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 SAMPLE PAPER

Section A

Question numbers 1 to 6 carry 1 mark each.

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Q1. Evaluate: sin(2 cos (- )).
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Q2. State the reason for the following Binary Operation *, defined on the set Z of integers, to be

not commutative. a * b  ab3 .

Q3. Give an example of a skew symmetric matrix of order 3.

Q4. Using derivative, find the approximate percentage increase in the area of a circle if its

radius is increased by 2% .

Q5. Find the derivative of f (etan x ) w.r. to x at x = 0. It is given that f (1)  5.

x 1 y  4 z  3 x  2 y  5 z 1
Q6. If the lines   and   are perpendicular to each other,
2 3p 4 4p 2 7

then find the value of p.

Section B

Question numbers 7 to 19 carry 4 marks each.

 n  1, if n is odd
Q7. Let f : W  W be defined as f (n)   . Then show that f is invertible.
n  1, if n is even

Also, find the inverse of f.

OR

Show that the relation R in the set N  N defined by

(a, b)R(c,d) iff a 2  d2  b2  c2a, b,c,d  N, is an equivalence relation.

1  1  cos x  1  cos x   x 3
Q8. Prove that: tan 
 1  cos x  1  cos x   4  2 , where   x  2
 
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  2 1 
Q9. Let A    . Then verify the following: A(adjA)  (adjA)A  A I, where I is the identity
 3 4

matrix of order 2.

1 1 p 1 p  q
Q10. Using properties of determinants, prove that 3 4  3p 2  4p  3q  1 .
4 7  4p 2  7p  4q

OR

0 2 3
Without expanding the determinant at any stage, prove that 2 0 4  0.
3 4 0

2 3  4 6 
Q11. Let A    ,B    . Then compute AB. Hence, solve the following system of
1 2   2 4 

equations: 2x  y  4,3x  2y  1.

Q12. If the following function is differentiable at x = 2, then find the values of a and b.


 x 2 , if x  2
f (x)   .

 ax  b, if x  2

dy
Q13. Let y  (log x)  x
x x cos x
. Then find .
dx

OR

d2 y
If x  a sin pt, y  b cos pt. Then find at t  0.
dx 2

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Q14. Evaluate the following indefinite integral:  sin x  sin 2x dx.
OR

sin 
Evaluate the following indefinite integral:  d.
sin 2   2 cos   3

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 
2x(1  sin x)
Q15. Evaluate the following definite integral:  1  cos 2 x
dx .


dy y x 2  y2
Q16. Solve the following differential equation:   ,x  0.
dx x x

Q17. Solve the following differential equation: (1  y2 )dx  (tan 1 y  x)dy .

Q18. Find the shortest distance between the following pair of skew lines:

x 1 2  y z 1 x  2 y  3 z
  ,   .
2 3 4 1 2 3

Q19. A problem in mathematics is given to 4 students A, B, C, D. Their chances of solving the problem,

respectively, are 1/3, 1/4, 1/5 and 2/3. What is the probability that (i) the problem will be solved?

(ii) at most one of them will solve the problem?

Section C

Question numbers 20 to 26 carry 6 marks each.

Q20. Find the intervals in which the following function is strictly increasing or strictly decreasing. Also,

find the points of local maximum and local minimum, if any.

f (x)  (x 1)3 (x  2)2

       
Q21. If a, b, c are unit vectors such that a.b  a.c  0 and the angle between b and c is , then prove
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        
that (i)a  2(b  c), (ii) a  b b  c c  a   1

Q22. Using integration, find the area bounded by the tangent to the curve 4y  x 2 at the point (2, 1)

and the lines whose equations are x  2y and x  3y  3.

Q23. Find the distance of the point 3iˆ  2ˆj  kˆ from the plane 3 x + y – z + 2 = 0 measured parallel to the

x 1 y  2 z 1
line   . Also, find the foot of the perpendicular from the given point upon the
2 3 1

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OR

Find the equation of the plane passing through the line of intersection of the planes
 ˆ ˆ ˆ 
r.(2i  3j  k)  1 and r.(iˆ  ˆj  2k)
ˆ  0 and passing through the point (3, -2, -1). Also, find the

angle between the two given planes.

Q24. A Bag I contains 5 red and 4 white balls and a Bag II contains 3 red and 3 white balls. Two balls are

transferred from the Bag I to the Bag II and then one ball is drawn from the Bag II. If the ball drawn

from the Bag II is red, then find the probability that one red ball and one white ball are transferred

from the Bag I to the Bag II.

OR

Find the mean, the variance and the standard deviation of the number of doublets in three throws

of a pair of dice.

Q25. A farmer wants to construct a circular garden and a square garden in his field. He wants to keep

the sum of their perimeters 600 m. Prove that the sum their areas is the least, when the side of the

square garden is double the radius of the circular garden.

Do you think that a good planning can save energy, time and money?

Q26. A manufacturing company makes two models A and B of a product. Each piece of model A requires

9 hours of labour for fabricating and 1 hour for finishing. Each piece of model B requires 12 hours

of labour for fabricating and 3 hours for finishing. The maximum number of labour hours, available

for fabricating and for finishing, are 180 and 30 respectively. The company makes a profit of Rs

8000 and Rs 12000 on each piece of model A and model B respectively. How many pieces of each

model should be manufactured to get maximum profit? Also, find the maximum profit.