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Workbook - 8 | Mathematics
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Matrices and Determinants CHAPTER-20
Highlights
 DTS [1 - 6] [Level 1] 1-13
 DTS [7 - 11] [Level 2] 14-23
 DTS [12 - 15] [Level 3] 24-27
 MEQB [Level 1] 28-32
 MEQB [Level 2] 33-48

 JEE Main Archive | DTS [1 - 4] 49-56
 JEE Advanced Archive | DTS [1 - 8] 57-69
Properties of Triangle CHAPTER-21
Highlights
 DTS [1 - 5] [Level 1] 70-78
 DTS [6 - 9] [Level 2] 79-82
 DTS [10 - 14] [Level 3] 83-87

 JEE Main Archive | DTS [1 - 2] 88-91
 JEE Advanced Archive | DTS [1 - 5] 92-96
ANSWER KEY
Highlights
 Matrices and Determinants 97-100

 Properties of Triangle 101-101
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x y z
2 2 f
1. If f  x y z 2 and g   x  y  y  z y  x  , then is:
g
yz zx zy
(A) xy  yz  zx (B) x 2  y2  z 2
(C) x 2  y 2  z 2  xy  yz  zx (D) none of above
a x e x log e a x2
2. If g  x   a 3x e 3 x log e a x 4 , then:
a 5x e 5 x log e a 1
(A) g  x   g  x   0 (B) g  x   g  x   0
(C) g  x   g  x   0 (D) none of these
1 x 1 1
3. If x  0, y  0, z  0 and 1  y 1  2y 1  0, then x 1  y 1  z 1 is equal to :
1  z 1  z 1  3z
1
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D)
3
0 1 0
 
4. If A   0 0 1  then A 3  rA 2  qA 
 p q r 
(A) pI (B) qI
(C) rI (D) none of these, I is third order unit matrix
3  3 0 4 1 5 
*5. If 2 x  y    and 2y  x    , then:
3 3 2  1 4 4 
3 0 1 2 1 1 
(A) x y   (B) x 
0 3 2  1 2 0 
1 2 3  1 1 2 
(C) x y    (D) y
2 1 2   1 1 2 
cos x  sin x 0 
 
6. If f  x    sin x cos x 0  then f  x  y  is equal to:
 0 0 1 
(A) f  x   f y  (B) f  x   f y  (C) f  x   f y  (D) None of these
 cos2  cos  sin    cos2  cos  sin 

7. If AB = 0 where A    and B    then    is equal to:
cos  sin 
 sin2   cos  sin 
 sin 2  
 
(A) 0 (B) (C) (D) 
2 4
DTS - 1 1 Level - 1 | Matrices and Determinants

1  2   2 1 1 
     
8. If A  2 1  , B   2 1  and C     where  is the complex cube root of 1 then
     2
 2 1    2
1 
     
 A  B C is equal to:
0  1 0 0  1  1
(A)   (B)   (C)   (D)  
0  0 1 0  0  1
0  0 0 1  1  1
a 2 ab ac 
0 c b   
 
9. If A   c 0 a  and B  ba b 2 bc  then AB is equal to:
 
 b a 0   ca cb c 2 
 
(A) O (B) I (C) 2I (D) None of these
x  y y   2  3
10. If     then x  y is equal to :
 2x x  y   1  2 
(A) 5 (B) 5 (C) 4 (D) 6
1a 1 1
11. If a 1  b 1  c 1  0 such that 1 1b 1   then the value of  is :
1 1 1 c
(A) 0 (B) abc (C) abc (D) None of these
x 3  14 x 2 x 3x  
12. The value of '  ' if ax 4 3 2
 bx  cx  50 x  d  4x  1 3x x  4 , is :
3 4 0
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3
13. The values of  lying between   0 and    / 2 and satisfying the equation
1  sin2  cos2  4 sin 4 

sin2  1  cos2  4 sin 4   0 are given by :
sin2  cos2  1  4 sin 4 
(A)  /24,5  /24 (B) 7  / 24,11 /24 (C) 5 /24,7  /24 (D) 11 /24,  / 24
1 x 1 0
14. If f ( x )  2 3x 1 , number of real roots of f ( x )  0 is _________.
4 2 5x
(A) 1 (B) 0 (C) 2 (D) 3
 cos2  sin  cos   cos2  sin  cos  

15. If A   , B    and  and  differs by , then AB 
sin  cos  2 2 2
sin   sin  cos  sin  
(A) I (B) O (C) –I (D) None of these

1i 1i i
16. 1i i 1i 
i 1i 1i
(A)  4  7i (B) 4  7i (C) 3  7i (D) 7  4i
x 1  2
2
17. If  is a cube root of unity, then  x  1 
2
 1 x 
(A) x3 1 (B) x3   (C) x 3  2 (D) x3
yz x y
2
18. If zx z x 
k x y z x z  , then k 
x y y z
(A) 2xyz (B) 1 (C) xyz (D) x 2y 2z 2
x 3 7
19. If – 9 is a root of the equation 2 x 2  0 then the other two roots are :
7 6 x
(A) 2, 7 (B) – 2, 7 (C) 2, –7 (D) – 2, –7
1 1 1 1 1 1 a b c
20. If A  a b c , B  a 2 b 2 c 2 ,C  a 2 b 2 c 2 , then which relation is correct :
a 3 b3 c 3 a 3 b3 c3 a 3 b 3 c3
(A) A B (B) A C (C) B C (D) None of these
b c a b a
21. c a b c b 
a b c a c
(A) a 3  b 3  c 3  3abc (B) 3abc  a 3  b3  c 3
(C) a 3  b 3  c 3  a 2b  b 2c  c 2a (D) a  b  c  a 2  b 2  c 2  ab  bc  ca 
1 2
22. If  is a cube root of unity and   , then 2 is equal to :
 2
(A)  (B)  (C) 1 (D) 2
1 0 1 0
23. If 1  and  2  , then 21 is equal to :
a b c d
(A) ac (B) bd (C) b  a d  c  (D) None of these

1 1 0 
 
24. For the matrix A  1 2 1  , which of the following is correct :
2 1 0 
 
(A) A3  3A2  I  O (B) A3  3A2  I  O
(C) A3  2A2  I  O (D) A3  A2  I  O
1 1 a 1 2 2 2
25. If A   , B    and ( A  B )  A  B , then the value of a and b are:
2 1 b 1
(A) a  4,b  1 (B) a  1,b  4 (C) a  0,b  4 (D) a  2,b  4
 3 5  2
26. If A    , then A  5 A 
 4 2 
(A) I (B) 14 I (C) 0 (D) None of these
0 1 16
27. If matrix A    , then A 
 1 0 
0 1 0 1   1 0  1 0 
(A)   (B)   (C)   (D)  
1 0  1 0   0 1 0 1 
1 1 100
28. If A    , then A 
1 1
(A) 2100 A (B) 299 A (C) 2101 A (D) None of these
a 0 0 
 
29. If A   0 b 0  , then An 
0 0 c 
 
a n 0 0
na 0 0  a 0 0   
    0 n
(A)  0 nb 0  (B) 0 b 0  (C) b 0 (D) None of these
 
0 0 nc  0 0 c 
   0 0 cn 
 
 2  4 
 
30. The matrix  1 3 4  is non singular, if :
 1 2 3 
 
(A)   2 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D)   3

x2  x x 1 x 2
31. 2x 2  3 x  1 3x 3 x  3  Ax  B where A and B are determinants of order 3. Then A  2B is equal to:
2
x  2x  3 2x  1 2 x  1
(A) 0 (B) 4 (C) 1 (D) 2

f '  x  g ' x  h '  x 
32. If f  x  g  x  and h  x  are three polynomials of degree 3 then   x   f   x  g   x  h   x  is a
f '''  x  g '''  x  h '''  x 
polynomial of degree :
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) None of these
1 0 1 0 
33. If A    and I    , then which one of the following holds for all n  1 .
1 1  0 1 
(A) An  2n 1 A  n  1 I (B) An  nA  n  1 I
(C) An  2n 1 A  n  1 I (D) An  nA  n  1 I
34. A square matrix P satisfies P 2  I  P , where I is the identity matrix. If P n  5I  8P , then n is equal to:
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7
1 2 2 
35. If 3 A   2 1 2  and AA T  I . Then x  y is equal to :
 x 2 y 
(A) 3 (B) 2 (C) 1 (D) 0
1 2 2 
 
*36. Let A  2 1 2  , then
2 2 1 
1
(A) A 2  4 A  5I 3  0 (B) A 1   A  4I 3 
5
(C) A 3 is not invertible (D) A 2 is invertible
 3 1 
 
If P   2 2  , A  1 1 and Q  PAP T , then P T Q 2005 P is equal to :
37.
 1 3 
0 1
 
 

 2 2 
 3   1 2005   3 
1 2005   2005    1 
(A) 0 (B)  2 (C)  3 (D) 2 
 1  
1 
 
 1 0   0 2005 
  2   
e 2iA e iC e iB
*38. If A  B  C  , ei   cos   i sin  and z  e iC e 2iB e iA , then :
e iB e iA e 2iC
(A) Re  z   4 (B) Im  z   0 (C) Re  z    4 (D) Im  z   1

1 1 1
x 2 x 2 2
39. The value of  2 x  2   3x  3   5x  5  x  is :
2 2 2
 2 x  2  x   3x  3 x   5x  5  x 
(A) 0 (B) 30 x (C) 30 x (D) None of these
1 1 1 
adj B
40. If A  0 2 3  , B  adj A  and C  5 A, then is equal to :
 2 1 0  C
(A) 5 (B) 25 (C) 1 (D) 1
x a x 2 1 1
41. If a ,b, c , are in A.P. and f  x   x  b 2x 2  1 1 , then f '  x  is :
x c 3x 2  2 1
abc
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) a  bc (D)
a b c
x 2 2 1 x 2 4
*42. The value of x for which 3 x 2  2 4x 8  33 is :
3 3 x 4 8 16  x
1 1 1
(A) 0  x 1 (B)  x  (C) x  (D) x 1
2 2 7
n n 1 n2
*43. Let f n   n Pn n 1 P
n 1
n 2P
n  2 where the symbols have their usual meanings. Then f n  is
n n 1 n 2
Cn Cn 1 Cn  2
divisible by :
(A) n2  n  1 (B)  n  1 ! (C) n! (D) None of these
1
f x  f    f x 
x 
44. If    0 where, f  x   a  bx n and f  2   17, then f  5  is :
1
1 f 
x
(A) 126 (B) 326 (C) 428 (D) 626
1 3 2   1 
  
45. The value of x, so that 1 x 1 0 5 1   1   0 , is:
0 3 2   x 
7  35 9  53
(A) (B) (C) 2 (D) 0
2 2

Paragraph for Questions 46 to 48

Elementary Transformation of a matrix:
The following operation on a matrix are called elementary operations (transformations)
1. The interchange of any two rows (or columns)
2. The multiplication of the elements of any row (or column) by any nonzero number
3. The addition to the elements of any row (or column) the corresponding elements of any other row (or
column) multiplied by any number
Echelon Form of matrix :
A matrix A is said to be in echelon form if
(i) every row of A which has all its elements 0, occurs below row, which has a non-zero elements
(ii) the first non-zero element in each non –zero row is 1.
(iii) The number of zeros before the first non zero elements in a row is less than the number of such
zeros in the next now.
[ A row of a matrix is said to be a zero row if all its elements are zero]
Note: Rank of a matrix does not change by application of any elementary operations
1 1 3  1 1 3 6 
For example 0 1 2  , 0 1 2 2  are echelon forms
0 0 0  0 0 0 0 
The number of non-zero rows in the echelon form of a matrix is defined as its RANK.
1 2 3 
For example we can reduce the matrix A  2 4 7  into echelon form using following elementary row
3 6 10 
transformation.
1 2 3 
(i)  
R 2  R2  2R1 and R 3  R 3  3 R1 0 0 1 
0 0 1 
1 2 3 
 
(ii) R 2  R2  2R1 0 0 1 
0 0 0 
This is the echelon form of matrix A

Number of nonzero rows in the echelon form =2  Rank of the matrix A is 2
1 1 1 
 
46. Rank of the matrix 1 1 1 is :
3 1 1 
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 0
1 1 1 1
 
47. Rank of the matrix 1 2 4 4  is :
3 4 5 2 
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4

1 3 4 3 
 
48. The echelon form of the matrix 3 9 12 9  is :
1 3 4 1 
 3
1 3 4 3  1 2 4 3  1 3 4 3  1 3 4  
 2
(A)   (B)   (C)   (D)
0 0 0 1  0 0 0 0  0 0 0 2  0 0 0 1 
 
0 0 0 0  0 0 0 2  0 0 0 0 
0 0 0 0 
 
1 2 3 
49. The rank of the matrix   2 4  is 3 if :
2 3 1 
18 18 18
(A)  (B)  (C)  (D) None of these
11 11 11
1 2 3 
 
50. The rank of 2 4 6  is equal to :
3 6 9 
 1 4 5 
 
*51. For all values of , the rank of the matrix A    8 8  6 
 2 
1   8  4 2  21
(A) for   2,   A   1 (B) for    1,   A   2
(C) for   2, 1  A   3 (D) None of these
52. if A is an invertible matrix of order 3  3 , then:

(A) rank of A = 3 (B) rank of A = 2
(C) rank of A = 1 (D) rank can’t be found
53. Let A be a matrix of rank  r , then :
(A)  
rank A T  r (B)  
rank A T  r (C)  
rank A T  r (D) None of these
4 2 1  x 
54. If the rank of the matrix 5 k 
1  is 2 then :
6 3 1  x 
5 1 5 1 1 5
(A) k  ,x  (B) k  ,x  (C) k  ,x  (D) None of these
2 5 2 5 5 2
55. Let P be a non-singular matrix I  P  P 2  ...  P n  O (O denotes the null matrix), then P 1 is :
(A) Pn (B) P n
(C) 
 I  P  ...  P n  (D) None of these

56. If D = diagonal d1, d 2, d 3,..., dn  where di  0i  1,2 , 3,...,n then D 1 is equal to :
(A) O (B) In
(C) 
diagonal d11, d21,...dn1  (D) None of above
57. Let A be an orthogonal non-singular matrix of order n, then A  I n is equal to :
(A) In  A (B) A (C) A In  A (D)  1n A In  A

T
58. ‘A’ is any square matrix, then det A  A T   is equal to :
(A) 0 (B) 1
(C) can be 0 or a perfect square (D) cannot be determined
1 a b
59. In a ABC, if 1 c a  0, then sin2 A  sin 2 B  sin 2 C is equal to :
1 b c
9 4
(A) (B) (C) 1 (D) 3 3
4 9
60. If a ,b,c are the sides of a ABC opposite angle A, B,C respectively, then
a2 b sin A c sin A
  b sin A 1 cos  B  C  equals :
c sin A cos  B  C  1
(A) sin A  sin C sin B (B) abc

(C) 1 (D) 0

Paragraph for Questions 61 to 63

p q r
Consider the determinant,   x y z .
l m n
M ij denotes the minor of an element in i th row, and j th column
Cij denotes the cofactor of an element in i th row and j th column
61. The value of p  C21  q  C22  r  C 23 is :
(A) 0 (B)  (C)  (D) 2
62. The value of x  C21  y  C22  z  C23 is :
(A) 0 (B)  (C)  (D) 2
63. The value of q  M12  y  M 22  m  M 32 is :
(A) 0 (B)  (C)  (D) 2

n
64. A and B are square matrices and A is non-singular matrix, A 1BA   ,n  I  , is equal to :
(A) A n Bn An (B) An Bn A n (C) A 1Bn A (D) A n BAn
 0 2b c 
 
65. The value of a ,b, c when a b c  is orthogonal, are :
a b c 
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
(A)  , , (B)  , , (C)  ,  (D)  , 
2 6 2 3 2 6 2 6 3 2 2 2
66. The equations 2 x  y  5, x  3y  5, x  2y  0 have:
(A) no solution (B) one solution (C) two solutions (D) infinitely many solutions
Passage for Question 67 to 70

Consider a system of linear equation in three variables x , y, z
a1x  b1y  c1z  d1; a 2 x  b 2y  c 2z  d 2 ; a 3 x  b 3y  c 3z  d 3
 a1 b1 c1   x   d1 
    
The system can be expressed by matrix equation a 2 b2 c 2   y   d2 
a 3 b3 c 3   z  d3 
 if A is non-singular matrix then the solution of above system can be found by X  A 1B, the solution in
this case is unique.
 if A is a singular matrix i.e. A  0, then the system will have
 no unique solution if  Adj A  B  0
 no solution (i.e. it is inconsistent) if  Adj A  B  0
Where Adj A is the adjoint of the matrix A, which is obtained by taking transpose of the matrix obtained
by replacing each element of matrix A with corresponding cofactors.
Now consider the following matrix.

a 1 0  a 1 1  f  a 2  x 
         
A   1 b d  , B   0 d c  ,U   g  ,V   0  , X   y 
 1 b c   f g h   h   0   z 
 
67. The system AX  U has infinitely many solution if:
(A) c  d , ab  1 (B) c  d,h  g (C) ab  1,h  g (D) c  d,h  g,ab  1
68. If AX  U has infinitely many solutions then the equation BX  V has:
(A) unique solution (B) infinitely many solution
(C) no solution (D) either infinitely many solutions or no solution
*69. If AX  U has infinitely many solutions then the equation BX  V is consistent if

(A) a 0 (B) d 0 (C) f 0 (D) adf  0
*70. Consider the following statements:
A: if AX  U ; has infinite solutions and cf  0 , then one solution of BX  V is  0,0,0 
R: if a system has infinite solutions then one solution must be trivial. Then
(A) A and R are both correct and R is correct explanation of A
(B) A and R both are correct but R is not correct explanation of A
(C) A is correct R is wrong
(D) A and R are both wrong
t 2  3t  4
71. If t is real and   , then the number of solutions of the system of equations 3 x  y  4 z  3,
t 2  3t  4
x  2y  3z   2, 6 x  5y  z   3 is :
(A) one (B) Two (C) zero (D) infinite
72. The set of equations x  y   cos   z  0 ; 3 x  y  2 z  0 ;  cos   x  y  2z  0 ; 0    2, has

non–trivial solutions.
(A) for no value of  and  (B) for all value of  and 
(C) for all values of  and only two value of 
(D) For only one value of  and all values of 
x a x b x a c 2
Let   x   x  b and   x  dx   16 where a, b, c, d are in AP, then the common
*73.
x c
x c
x d
x 1
x b d

0
difference of the AP is:

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 2 (D) None of these
*74. Let 1, 2 ,  3,..., k  be the set of third order determinants that can be made with the distinct nonzero
real numbers a1,a 2,a 3,...,a 9 . Then:
k
(A) k  9! (B)  i  0
i 1
(C) at least one i  0 (D) None of these
75. If a  p,b  q,c  r and the system of equations px  by  cz  0 , ax  qy  cz  0 , ax  by  rz  0

p q r
has a non-zero solution, then value of   is:
p a q b r c
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 1 (D) 2

x b b
x b
76. If 1  a x b and  2  are the given determinants, then :
a x
a a x
2 d d 2
(A)  
1  3  2 (B)  1   32 (C)  1   2  2  (D) 1  3  23/2
dx dx
0 1 2
77. In the determinant 1 0 3 , the ratio of the co-factor to its minor of the element –3 is :
2 3 0
(A) –1 (B) 0 (C) 1 (D) 2
78. If value of a third order determinant is 11, then the value of the square of the determinant formed by the
cofactors will be :
(A) 11 (B) 121 (C) 1331 (D) 14641
79. Consider the system of linear equations a1x  b1y  c1z  d1  0 , a 2x  b2y  c2z  d2  0 and
a1 b1 c1

a 3x  b3y  c3z  d 3  0 . Let us denote by  a,b, c the determinant  a 2 b2  
c 2 . If  a ,b, c  0 , then
a 3 b3 c3
the value of x in the unique solution of the above equations is :
(A)

 bcd  (B)
 bcd   (C)

 acd  (D) 

 abd 

 abc   abc   
 abc  
 abc 
10! 11! 12!
80. The value of the determinant 11! 12! 13! is :
12! 13! 14 !
(A) 
2 10 ! 11!  (B) 
2 10! 13!  (C) 
2 10 ! 11! 12!  (D) 
2 11! 12! 13! 
1 3 5 1
2 3 4 2
81. The cofactor of the element '4' in the determinant is :
8 0 1 1
0 2 1 1
(A) 4 (B) 10 (C) – 10 (D) –4
a1 b1 c1
82. If   a 2 b2 c 2 and A1, B1,C1 denote the co-factors of a1,b1, c1 respectively, then the value of the
a 3 b3 c 3
A1 B1 C1
determinant A2 B2 C2 is :
A3 B3 C3
(A)  (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 0

a1 b1 c1
83. If in the determinant   a 2 b2 c 2 , A1, B1,C1 etc. be the co-factors of a1,b1, c1 etc., then which of the
a 3 b3 c3
following relations is incorrect :

(A) a1A1  b1B1  c1C1   (B) a 2 A2  b2B2  c2C2  
(C) a 3 A3  b3B3  c3C3   (D) a1A2  b1B2  c1C2  
84. If A1, B1,C1 .... are respectively the co-factors of the elements a1,b1, c1 ,...... of the determinant
a1 b1 c1
B C2
  a 2 b 2 c 2 , then 2 
B3 C 3
a 3 b3 c3
(A) a1 (B) a1a 3 (C) a1  b1   (D) None of these
85. Let A  a ij  be a square matrix and let cij be cofactor of a ij in A. If C  cij  , then :
 n n  
(A) |C || A | (B) |C || A |n 1 (C) |C || A |n  2 (D) None of these
86. x  ky  z  0,3x  ky  z  0 and x  3y  z  0 has non-zero solution for k =

(A) –1 (B) 0 (C) 1 (D) 2
87. The number of solutions of equations x  y  z  0 , 3x  y  z  0, x  3y  z  0 is :

(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) Infinite
88. If x  y  z  0, 3x  y  3z  0, x  3y  z  0 has non zero solution, then  

(A) –1 (B) 0 (C) 1 (D) –3
xn sin x cos x
n n dn
89. If ( x )  n ! sin cos , then the value of  
  x  at x  0 is :
2 2 dx n  
2 3
a a a
(A) –1 (B) 0 (C) 1 (D) Dependent of a
3 5 7 
 
90. The inverse of 2 3 1  is :
1 1 2 
 
7 3 26  7 3 26   3 1 11 
     
(A)  3 1 11 (B)  3 1 11  (C)  7 3 26  (D) None of these
 5 2 0   5 2 1   5 2 1 
  

T T
*91. Let A and B be two nonsingular square matrices, A and B are the transpose matrices of A and B ,
respectively, then which of the following are correct?
(A) B T AB is symmetric matrix if A is symmetric
(B) B T AB is symmetric matrix if B is symmetric
(C) B T AB is skew-symmetric matrix for every matrix A
(D) B T AB is skew-symmetric matrix if A is skew-symmetric
 sin  i cos 
*92. If A( )    , then which of the following is not true?
i cos  sin  
(A) A( )1  A(   ) (B) A( )  A(   ) is a null matrix
(C) A () is invertible for all   R (D) A( )1  A( )
 3 3 4 
 
*93. If A   2 3 4  , then :
0  1 1 
 
(A) adj (adj ) A  A (B) ladj (adj A )|  1 (C) ladj A |  1 (D) None of these
 1 1 2 
*94. If A 1   0 3 1  , then:
 0 0 1/ 3 
 1 1 2 
(A) | A|  1 (B) adj A   0 3 1 
 0 0 1/ 3 
1 1/ 3 7  1 1 / 3 7 
 
(C) A  0 1/ 3 1  (D) A  0 3 0
0 0 3  0 0 1 

*95. Which of the following statements is/are true about square matrix A of order n?
(A)   A  1 is equal to  A 1 which n is odd only

(B) If An  O , then I  A  A 2  ....  An  1  ( I  A )1
(C) If A is skew-symmetric matrix of odd order, then its inverse does not exist.
(D) ( A T )1  ( A 1 )T holds always

*96. If A, B and C are three square matrices of the same order, then AB  AC  B  C . Then :
(A) |A|  0 (B) A is invertible
(C) A may be orthogonal (D) A is symmetric
*97. Suppose a1, a 2,... are real numbers, with a1  0. If a1, a 2, a 3,..... are in A.P., then :
 a1 a 2 a 3 
 
(A) A  a 4 a 5 a 6  is singular (where i  1)
a 
 5 a 6 a7 
(B) the system of equations a1x  a 2y  a 3z  0 , a 4 x  a5y  a 6z  0 , a 7 x  a 8y  a 9z  0 has
infinite number of solutions

a ia 2 
(C) B 1  is nonsingular
ia 2 a1 
(D) None of these
1 0 
*98. Let A    . Then which of following is not true ?
1 1 
1  0 0 1  0 0
(A) lim A n    (B) lim A n   
n  n 2  1 0  n  n  1 0 
1 0
(C) A n    n  N (D) None of these
 n 1
*99. If C is skew-symmetric matrix of order n and X is n  1 column matrix, then X T CX is :

(A) singular (B) non-singular (C) invertible (D) non-invertible
0 1 1  b  c c  a b  c 
   
*100. If S  1 0 1  and A  c  b c  b a  b  (a , b, c  0), then SAS 1 is :
1 1 0  b  c a  c a  b 
   
(A) symmetric matrix (B) diagonal matrix
(C) invertible matrix (D) singular matrix

*101. If AB  A and BA  B, then :
(A) A 2B  A 2 (B) B 2 A  B2 (C) ABA  A (D) BAB  B
102. Let K be a positive real number and

2k  1 2 k 2 k  0
  2k  1 k
 
A 2 k 1 2k  and 1  2k 0 2 
   
 2 k 2k 1    k 2 k 0 
 
If det  adj A   det adj B   10 6 , then k  is equal to ______.
x ; if i  j , x  R

*103. Let A  a ij be a matrix of order 3, where aij  1; if |i  j |  1; then which of the following hold(s)
0; otherwise

good :
(A) for x  2, A is a diagonal matrix
(B) A is a symmetric matrix

(C) for x  2, det A has the value equal to 6
(D) Let f ( x )  det A, then the function f ( x ) has both the maxima and minima
T
104. Let M and N be two 3  3 nonsingular skew-symmetric matrices such that MN = NM. If P denotes the
1 T
transpose of P, then M 2 N 2 M T N    MN 1  is equal to :
(A) M2 (B) N 2 (C) M 2 (D) MN
*105. For 3  3 matrices M and N, which of the following statements (s) is (are) NOT correct ?
(A) N T MN is symmetric or skew-symmetric, according as M is symmetric or skew- symmetric

(B) MN  NM is skew-symmetric for all symmetric matrices M and N
(C) MN is symmetric for all symmetric matrices M And N
(D) adj M adjN   adj  MN  for all invertible matrices M and N
106. Let A  a ij  be a matrix such that AA T  4 I and a ij  2cij  0 , where cij is the cofactor of aij and I
  33
a11  4 a12 a13 a11  1 a12 a13

is the unit matrix of order 3. a 21 a 22  4 a 23  5 a 21 a 22  1 a 23  0 then the value of
a 31 a 32 a 33  4 a 31 a 32 a 33  1
10  is ____.

*107. Let A and B be two nonsingular square matrices, A T and B T are the transpose matrices of A and B,
respectively, then which of the following are correct ?
(A) B T AB is symmetric matrix if A is symmetric
(B) B T AB is symmetric matrix if B is symmetric
(C) B T AB is skew-symmetric matrix for every matrix A

(D) B T AB is skew-symmetric matrix If A is skew-symmetric
108. If A is a symmetric and B skew-symmetric matrix and A  B is nonsingular and C  ( A  B )1( A  B ) ,
then prove that :
(i) CT A  B C  A  B
  (ii) CT A  B C  A  B
  (iii) C T AC  A
cosec2 0 0  sec2  0 0 
      
2 2
109. If A   0 cosec  0  and B   0 sec  0  where , ,   R  n : n  I  and
     2 
 0 0 cosec2    0 0 sec2  
   
     
C  A 5  B 5  5 A 1B 1 A 3  B 3  10 A 1  B 1 A 2 B 2 (where X n  ( X 1 )n , then |C| =
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 4
a b 0
 
*110. Matrix A   c 0 b  then :
 0 c a 

3 4
(A) 
A 9  a 2  2bc A (B) 
A 9  a 2  2bc A
(C) A2   2bc  a  I  0
2
3 (D) A2  a 2
 2bc  I  0
3

*111. A is even ordered non singular symmetric matrix and B is even ordered non singular skew symmetric
matrix such that AB = BA, then A3 B3  BA

1
A 1 1
B  AB is equal to :
(A) A2 B 2 (B) B 2 A2 (C)  A2 B 2 (D)  B 2 A2
*112. Let P be a 3×3 matrix such that PT  P  I , ,  R, where    1 ,   0 and PT denotes transpose of
matrix P then :
(A) P is singular matrix (B) P is non singular matrix
x 
  
(C) P  y   0 have a unique solution (D) trace of P 
z  1 
 
*113. Let M and N be two 3 × 3 matrices such that MN = NM, M3 = N6 and M  N 2 then :
(A) M 2N 2  M 3  MN 4  0
(B) 
There exist a non zero 3 ×1 matrix U such that M 2N 2  M 3  MN 4 U is a zero matrix 
(C) M 2N 2  M 3  MN 4  1
(D)  
For a 3 × 1 matrix U such that M 2N 2  M 3  MN 4 U is a zero matrix then U is a zero matrix
*114. Consider the system of equations 3 x  y  4 z  3 , x  2y  3z  2 , 6 x  5y  z  3 , then for   5 :
(A) system has no solution

7x  4 7y  9
(B) system has infinitely many solutions lying on a line  z
5 13
7x  1 7y  4 z 1
(C) system has infinitely many solutions lying on a line  
5 13 1
(D) system has infinitely many solutions representing a plane
 2a b c  1
 
115. Suppose a ,b, c  R and abc  1. If A   b 2c a  such that A ' A  4 3 I and | A |  4, find
 c a 2b 

[a 3  b 3  c 3 ]. [.] denotes greatest integer function.

0 1  8 6 4 2 0 
116. A  and A  A  A  A  ( I )V    (where I is the 2  2 identity matrix), then the product
3 0  11
of all elements of matrix V is ________.
a b  2
117. If   is an idempotent matrix and f ( x )  x  x ; bc  1/ 4, then the value of 1 / f (a ) is _______.
 c 1  a 
 0 1 1
 
118. Let X be the solution set of the equation A x  I , where A   4 3 4  and I is the corresponding
 3 3 4 
 
unit matrix and x  N , then the minimum value of  (cosx   sinx ),   R.
 1 tan x  T 1
119. A f ( f ( f ( f ....... f ( x )))) is
 and f ( x ) is defined as f ( x )  det . ( A A ) then the value of   
  tan x 1 
n times
(n  2) _______.
120. If A is an idempotent matrix satisfying, ( I  0.4 A )1  I  A, where I is the unit matrix of the same
order as that of A, then the value of 9 is equal to _______.

3 x 2  ( x  2)2 5x 2 2x 
   
121. Let A   1  , B  [a b c ], and C   5x 2 2x ( x  2)2  be three given matrices, where
   
 6 x   2x ( x  2)2 5x 2 
 
a , b, c and x  R. Given that tr ( AB )  tr (C )x  R, where tr ( A ) denotes trace of A. If f ( x )  ax 2  bx  c,

then the value of f (1) is _______.
122. Let A  [a ij ]33 be a matrix such that AA T  4I and a ij  2cij  0, where cij is the cofactor of a ij and I
is the unit matrix of order 3.

a11  4 a12 a13 a11  1 a12 a13
a 21 a 22  4 a 23  5 a 21 a 22  1 a 23 0
a 31 a 32 a 33  4 a 31 a 32 a 33  1
Then the value of 10 is ________.
123. Let S be the set which contains all possible values of l ,m ,n , p,q,r for which
l 2  3 p 0 
 
A 0 m2  8 q  be a nonsingular idempotent matrix. Then the sum of all the
 
 r 0 n 2  15 
 
elements of the set S is _______.
124. Let , ,  are the real roots of the equation x 3  ax 2  bx  c  0  a,b,c  R and a  0  . If the system of
equations (in u, v and w) given by
u  v  w  0
u  v  w  0
u   v   w  0
has non-trivial solutions, then the value of a 2 /b is ________.
a1 a 2 a 3
125. If a1,a 2, a 3,5,4,a 6 ,a 7 ,a 8 ,a 9 are in H.P., and D  5 4 a 6 , then the value of [D] is
a7 a8 a 9
(where [.] represents the greatest integer function)
4 2
                 1
4 2 1/ 2
126. If                       
1   k          (   )       , then the value of k 
4 2
                1
is ________.

x  2 2x  3 3x  4
127. Absolute value of sum of roots of the equation 2x  3 3 x  4 4 x  5  0 is ________.
3 x  5 5 x  8 10 x  17
A3 '( x ) ( xA2 ( x ))' ( x 2 A1( x ))'

128. Let Ak ( x ) denote a polynomial of degree k where k  1, & ( x )  A3 "( x ) ( xA2 ( x ))" ( x 2 A1( x ))"
A3 "'( x ) ( xA 2( x ))''' ( x 2 A1( x ))'''
find  '(100 !)
129. If , ,  are real numbers, then without expanding at any stage, show that
1 cos (   ) cos(    )
cos(  ) 1 cos(   )  0 .
cos(    ) cos(   ) 1
(a  x )2 (a  y )2 (a  z )2 (1  ax )2 (1  bx )2 (1  cx )2
130. Prove that (b  x )2 (b  y )2 (b  z )2  (1  ay )2 (1  by )2 (1  cy )2
(c  x )2 (c  y )2 (c  z )2 (1  az )2 (1  bz )2 (1  cz )2
 2(b  c ) (c  a ) (a  b )  (y  z ) ( z  x ) ( x  y ) .

2bc  a 2 c2 b2
131. Express   c2 2ca  b 2 a2 as square of a determinant and hence evaluate it:
b2 a2 2ab  c 2
ah  bg g ab  ch ah  bg a h
132. Prove without expansion that bf  ba f hb  bc  a bf  ba h b
af  bc c bg  fc af  bc g f
sin x cos x sin x

dy
133. If y  cos x  sin x cos x , find .
dx
x 1 1
xn n! 2
n dn
134. If f ( x )  cos x cos 4 , then find the value of [ f ( x )]x  0  (n  Z ) .
2 dx n
n
sin x sin 8
2
bc  a 2 ca  b 2 ab  c 2 a2 c2 2ac  b 2
135. Show that ca  b 2 ab  c 2 bc  a 2  2ab  c 2 b2 a2
ab  c 2 bc  a 2 ca  b 2 b2 2bc  a 2 c2
136. Write down the 2  2 matrix A which corresponds to a counterclockwise
rotation of 60° about the origin. In figure, the square OABC has it
diagonal OB of 2 2 units in length. The square is rotated
counterclockwise about O through 60°. Find the coordinates of the
vertices of the square after rotating.
137. Let x, y, z be the distinct common roots of equations a 10  1 and a 15  1 such that there real part is
1 x2  x4 1  xy  x 2y 2 1  xz  x 2z 2
2 2
positive and   1  xy  x y 1  y2  y4 1  yz  y 2z 2 then :
1  xz  x 2z 2 1  yz  y 2z 2 1  z2  z4
(A)  is purely real (B)  is purely imaginary

(C)  
Re   0 (D)  
Re   0

138. If A, B and C are the angles of a triangle, show that the system of equations
x sin 2 A  y sin C  z sin B  0, x sin C  y sin 2 B  z sin A  0 , and x sin B  y sin A  z sin 2C  0
possesses nontrivial solution. Hence, system has infinite solutions.
139. If ax12  by12  cz12  ax 22  by22  cz 22  ax 32  by32  cz 32  d, ax 2x 3  by2y3  cz 2z 3  ax 3 x1  by3y1  cz 3z1 

x1 y1 z1 1/2
 d  2 f   

ax1x 2  by1y2  cz1z 2  f , then prove that x 2 y2 z 2  d  f 
abc
 
x 3 y3 z 3  
2a1b1 a1b2  a 2b1 a1b3  a 3b1

140. Let   a1b2  a 2b1 2a 2b2 a 2b3  a 3b2 . Expressing  as the product of two determinants, show
a1b3  a 3b1 a 3b2  a 2b3 2a 3b3
that   0 hence, show that if ax 2  2hxy  by2  2gx  2 fy  c  lx  my  n l ' x  m ' y  n '  , then
a h g
h b f  0.
g f c

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x2  a2 a 2  b2 x 2  c2
3
141. Solve for x ,  x  a   x  b 3  x  c 3  0,a  b  c .
3
x  a   x  b 3  x  c 2
a c c a a c
c b b c b c
142. Prove that   0
a b b c 0 a c
x y z 1 x  y
Implies that a ,b,c are in A.P. or a , c,b are in G.P.
1 a   
f a / x a  1 a a2
143. If f  x  is a polynomial of degree  3 , prove that 1 b f b  /  x  b   1 b b2 
 
f x
c2
 x a  
x b x c 
1 c f c  /  x  c  1 c
144. Prove that for any A.P. a1,a 2,a 3, … the determinant
a p  a p m  a p  2m 2a p  3a p  m  4a p  2m 4a p  9a p m  16a p  2m
a q  a q m  a q  2m 2a q  3a q m  4a q  2m 4a q  9a q m  16a q  2m  0
a r  a r m  a r  2m 2a r  3ar m  4a r  2m 4a r  9a r m  16a r  2m
n n n
Cr Cr 1 Cr  2
145. Let n and r be two positive integers such that n  r 2 and  n ,r   n 1Cr n 1C
r 1
n 1C
r  2 . Show
n 2 n 2 n 2
Cr Cr 1 Cr  2
n 2C n  2C n 1C ... n r  3C

3  n  1,r  1 . Hence or otherwise, prove that  n ,r  3 3 3
 
that  n ,r      r 2
.
r 2
C3 C3 r 1C3 ...3 C3
146. Show that in general there are three Values of t for which the following system of equations has a
nontrivial solution:
 a  t  x  by  cz  0
bx  c  t  y  az  0
cx  ay  b  t  z  0
Express the product of these values of t in the form of a determinant.

147. If in a triangle, s denotes the semi-perimeter and a ,b,c denote the lengths of sides, then prove that
a2  s  a 2 s  a 2
s  b 2 b2 s  b 2  2s3  s  a  s  b  s  c 
 s  c 2  s  c 2 c2
ax  by  cz ay  bx cx  az
148. Prove that ay  bx by  cz  ax bz  cy   
 x 2  y 2  z 2 a 2  b 2  c 2 ax  by  cz 
cx  az bz  cy cz  ax  by
a1  x b1  x c1  x
149. If   x   a 2  x b2  x c 2  x , show that  "  x   0 and that   x     0   Sx , where S denotes the
a 3  x b3  x c3  x
sum of all the cofactors of all the elements in   0  .
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150. If , ,  are different from 1 and are the roots of ax 3  bx 2  cx  d  0 and               ,
2
  
1  1 1 
25d
then prove that    
2 a  b  c  d 
2 2 2
0 1  m m m 1
151. If X    , then prove that  pI  qX   p I  mp qX , p, q  R, where I is a two –rowed unit
0 0 
matrix and m  N .
152. If A is an upper triangular matrix of order n  n and B is a lower triangular matrix of order n  n , then
prove that  A ' B    A  B '  will be a diagonal matrix of order n  n [assume all elements of A and B to be
non-negative and an element of  A ' B    A  B '  as Cij ].

153. If B,C are square matrices of order n and if A  B  C , BC  CB, C 2  O, then without using
mathematical induction, show that for any positive integer p, A p 1  B p  B   p  1 C  .
154. If D  diag d1, d 2,..., dn  , then prove that f  D   diag  f  d1  , f  d2  .... f  dn   , where f  x  is a
polynomial with scalar coefficient.
155. Find the possible square roots of the two –rowed unit matrix I.
156. If S is a real skew –symmetric matrix, then prove that I  S is nonsingular and the matrix
1
A   I  S  I  S  is orthogonal.
f g h
157. If f , g, and h are differentiable functions of x and ( x )  ( xf )' ( xg )' ( xh )' , prove that
( x 2 f )" ( x 2g )" ( x 2h )"
f g h
 '( x )  f' g' h'
( x 3 f ")' ( x 3 g ")' ( x 3h ")'
158. Let  be a repeated root of a quadratic equation f ( x )  0 and A ( x ), B( x ), C ( x ) be polynomials of degrees 3,
A( x ) B ( x ) C ( x )
4, and 5 respectively, then show that A ( ) B( ) C ( ) is divisible by f(x), prime ( ' ) denotes the
A '( ) B '(  ) C '( )
derivatives.

x x x

159. If ( x )    x   x   x , show that  "( x )  0 and ( x )  (0)  Sx , where S denotes the sum of all
x x vx
the cofactors of all elements in (0) and dash denotes the derivative with respect to x.
cos   sin  
160. Find the characteristic roots of the two rowed orthogonal matrix   and verify that they are
 sin  cos  
of unit modulus.
161. Prove that the product of the characteristic roots of a square matrix of order n is equal to the determinant
of the matrix.
162. If A is nonsingular, prove that the eigen values of A 1 are the reciprocals of the eigen value of A.
163. If  is a characteristic root of a nonsingular matrix, then prove that A /  is a characteristic root of
adj A .
164. If one of the eigen values of a square matrix A order of 3  3 is zero, then prove that det A  0 .

Miscellaneous Question Bank Level - 1
165. Evaluate the following determinants.

a b b c c a 1 1 1
(A) p q q r r  p (B) a b c
l m m n n l b  c c a a b
1 ab c a  b  c a  b  a b  c  b  c  a 
(C) 1 bc a b  c  (D) r  p  q  p  q  r  q r  p 
1 ca b  c  a  n  l  m  l m  n  m n  l 
1 1
1 ab 
a b
1 bc bc b  c 
1 1
(E) 1 ca ca  c  a  (F) 1 bc 
b c
1 ab ab a  b 
1 1
1 ca 
c a
1 a a 2  bc 0 a b
(G) 1 b b 2  ca (H) a 0 c
1 c 2
c  ab b c 0
166. Prove the following :

1 1 1
(A) a b c  a  b b  c  c  a 
bc ca ab
a b c
2 2
(B) a b c2   a  b b  c  c  a a  b  c 
b c c a a b
1 1 1
(C) a b c  a  b  c a  b b  c c  a 
a 3 b 3 c3
1 1 1
2 2
(D) a b c 2  ab  bc  ca  a  b b  c  c  a 
a 3 b3 c 3
1 1 1
(E) a b  
c  a 2  b 2  c 2  ab  bc  ca a  b b  c  c  a 
4 4 4
a b c
MEQB 28 Level - 1 | Matrices and Determinants

167. Prove the following :
yz x x b2  c2 c2 b2
(A) y z x y  4 xyz (B) c2 c2  a 2 a2  4a 2b 2c 2
z z x y b2 a2 a 2  b2
b2  c2 a2 a2 a2 bc ac  c 2
(C) b2 c2  a 2 b2  4a 2b 2c 2 (D) a 2  ab b2 ac  4a 2b 2c 2
c2 c2 a 2  b2 ab cb  b 2 c2
1
168. If a matrix A is such that 4 A 3  2 A 2  7 A  I  O , then A equals :
(A) 4 A  2A  7I 
2
(B) 
 4 A 2  2 A  7I 
(C)   4 A  2 A  7I 
2
(D) 4A 2
 2 A  7I 
 3 1  x 2 
 
169.  
For how many value (s) of x in the closed interval 4, 1 is the matrix  3 1 x  2  singular :
x  3 1 2 

(A) 2 (B) 0 (C) 3 (D) 1
170. If 3, – 2 are the Eigen values of a non-singular matrix A and | A | 4, then the Eigen values of adj A are :  
3 1 4
(A) , (B) , 2 (C) 12, – 8 (D) – 12, 8
4 2 3
171. Let p a non singular matrix 1  P  P 2  ....  P n  O . (O denotes the null matrix), then P 1 
(A) Pn (B) Pn (C) 

 1  P  ....  P n  (D) None of these
1 2 3   1 2 
     4 5 6 
172. If P  2 3 4   2 0    then P 22 
3 4 5   0 4   0 0 1 
   
(A) 40 (B) – 40 (C) – 20 (D) 20
1 n 2n
2 n 2n
173. If 1, ,  are the cube roots of unity, then     1 is equal to :
2n n
 1 
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C)  (D) 2
 
sin     
cos    1
174. If A  sin      cos      1 , then :
sin      cos      1
(A) A  0 for all  (B) A is an odd Function of 

(C) A  0 for        (D) A is independent of 

a1 b1 c1 1 1 1
175. Let 1  a 2 b2 c 2 and  2  2 2 2 , then 1  2 can be expressed as the sum of how many
a 3 b3 c3 3 3 3
determinants :
(A) 9 (B) 3 (C) 27 (D) 2
a x c b
176. If a  b  c  0 , then the solution of the equation c b x a  0 is :
b a cx
3
(A) 0 (B) 
2
a 2
 b 2  c2 
3
(C) 0, 
2
a 2
 b2  c2  (D) 0,  a 2  b 2  c 2
3 3
177. The value of a for which the system of equations a 3x  a  1 y   a  2  z  0,
   
ax  a  1 y  a  2 z  0, x  y  z  0, has a non zero solution is :
(A) –1 (B) 0 (C) 1 (D) None of these
a1 b1 c1
178. If a1x  b1y  c1z  0,a 2x  b2y  c 2z  0 , a 3 x  b3y  c 3z  0 and a 2 b2 c2  0, then the given system
a 3 b3 c3
has :
(A) One trivial and one non-trivial solution (B) No solution
(C) One solution (D) Infinite solution
2  x 3 4 
 
179. If  1 1 2  is a singular matrix, then x is :
 x 1 5 

13 25 5 25
(A) (B)  (C) (D)
25 13 13 13
1  1 x 
180.  
For each real number x such that 1  x  1, let A x be the matrix 1  x     and
 x
 1
x y
z .Then :
1  xy
1
(A)      
A z  A x A y (B)      
A z  A x A y 
 
(C) A  z   A  x  A y  (D) A  z   A  x   A y 
1 0 1  a11 a12 a13 

   
181. If matrix A   3 4 5  and its inverse is denoted by A 1  a 21 a 22 a 23  , then the value of a 23 =
0 6 7  a 
   31 a 32 a 33 
21 1 2 2
(A) (B) (C)  (D)
20 5 5 5

cos   sin  0 
  1
182.
   
Let F      sin  cos  0  , where   R. Then  F   is equal to :
 0 0 1 

(A) F   (B)  
F  1 (C)  
F 2 (D) None of these
*183. If A is unimodular, then which of the following is unimodular?

(A) A (B) A 1
(C) adj A (D) A, where  is cube root of unity
1 1 a 1 2 2 2
*184. If A   , B    and ( A  B )  A  B  2 AB, then :
 2 1  b 1
(A) a  1 (B) a 1 (C) b2 (D) b  2
*185. If AB  A and BA  B, then which of the following is/are true?
(A) A is idempotent (B) B is idempotent
(C) A T is idempotent (D) None of these
1 2 2 
1 
*186. If A   2 1 2  is an orthogonal matrix, then :
3 
a 2 b 
(A) a  2 (B) a  2,b  1 (C) b  1 (D) b 1
*187. If A is a matrix such that A 2  A  2I  O, then which of the following is/are true?
(A) A is nonsingular (B) A is symmetric
1
(C) A cannot be skew-symmetric (D) A 1   (A  I )
2
1
 1  tan    1 tan   a b 
*188. If     , then :
 tan  1   tan  1  b a 
(A) a  cos 2 (B) a 1 (C) b  sin 2 (D) b 1
*189. If B is an idempotent matrix, and A  I  B , then ;

(A) A2  A (B) A2  I (C) AB  O (D) BA  O
0 0 0 1 0 0 0 i
   
0 0 1 0 0 0 i 0
*190. If A1   , A2   . Then Ai Ak  Ak Ai is equal to :
0 1 0 0 0 i 0 0
   
1 0 0 0   i 0 0 0 
(A) 2l if i  k (B) O if i  k (C) 2 I if i  k (D) 0 always
*191. If A  (aij )n  n and f is a function, we define f ( A )  ( f (aij ))n  n 
 / 2    
Let A    . Then :
   /2   
(A) sin A is invertible (B) sin A = cos A
(C) sin A is orthogonal (D) sin(2A) = 2 sin A cos A

*192. If A an invertible matrix, then (adj. A) 1 is equal to :
A
(A) adj.( A 1) (B) (C) A (D) (det . A ) A
det. A
*193. If A and B are two invertible matrices of the same order, then adj(AB) is equal to :
(A) adj(B) adj(A) (B) | B || A | B 1A 1 (C) | B || A |A 1B 1 (D) | A || B |( AB )1
 1 cos(   ) cos(   )
 
*194. If , ,  are three real numbers and A  cos(   ) 1 cos(   )  , then which of following is/are
cos(    ) cos(   ) 1 
 
true ?
(A) A is singular (B) A is symmetric (C) A is orthogonal (D) A is not invertible
*195. If D1 and D 2 are two 3  3 diagonal matrices, then which of the following is/are true ?
(A) D1D2 is a diagonal matrix (B) D1D 2  D2D1
(C) D12  D 22 is a diagonal matrix (D) None of these
*196. If A and B are symmetric and commute, then which of the following is/are symmetric ?
(A) A 1B (B) AB 1 (C) A 1B 1 (D) None of these
*197. A skew-symmetric matrix A satisfies the relation A 2  I  O, where I is a unit matrix then A is :
(A) idempotent (B) orthogonal (C) of even order (D) odd order
a11  b11
a12  b22 a13  b13
198. Prove that a 21  b21 a 22  b22 a 23  b23  0
a 31  b31 a 32  b32 a 33  b33
1 x x2 x 3 1 0 x  x4
199. If x x2 1  3, then find the value of 0 x  x4 x 3 1
x2 1 x x  x4 x3 1 0
*200. A is a matrix of order 3 × 3 formed using five times 2 and four times 1, then :
(A) Total number of different matrices is 126
(B) Total number of symmetric matrices A is 12
(C) If A is a symmetric matrix, probability that A is singular is 2/3
(D) Number of matrices A with maximum trace is 15

Miscellaneous Question Bank Level - 2
 1 1 0 
 
201. Let A   2 2 5  , B  Adj (Adj (A))  (bij )33 then match the following
0 4 3
 
Column 1 Column 2
(A) Trace (B) (p) 1
(B) 3 3 (q) –40


i 1 j 1
bij
(C) Adj ( A )  B (r) –240

2
|A|
(D) |B| (s) 400

| Adj A |
202. Match the Column:
Column 1 Column 2
(A) 2 x  y  3z  1 , x  2y  z  4 , x  8y  9z  14 (p) Simultaneous quations
represents a point
(B) x  5y  2z  1 , 3 x  y  z  2 , x  21y  7 z  6 (q) Simultaneous equations
represents a line
(C) 2 x  3y  z  0 , 3 x  y  2z  0 , 4 x  2y  5z  0 (r) Simultaneous equations
represents a plane
(D) 2ax  by  4cz  0 , bx  4 cy  2az  0 , 4cx  2ay  bz  0 (s) Simultaneous equations
represents a triangular
4a 2  b 2  16c 2  2ab  4bc  8ac  0, a, b, c  R a  0
prism
a b 
203. Let S be set of matrices defined as S    : abcd denotes all possible 4 digit decimal number) also
c d 
p q 
define for some A   S , D ( A )  ps  qr , T ( A )  p  s , T '( A )  q  r
r s
Match the column :
Column 1 Column 2
(A) Number of singular matrices in S which have no zero entry × (p) 20250
Number of singular matrices in S which have atleast one zero entry
(B) (q) 85500
 D( A )
AS
35739
(C)
 T ( A)
AS
(r)
(D) (s) 81000

 T '( A )
AS

nC n 1
0  a 0 
204. Let Ak   k 1
 0 n
&B 
Ck 
A k  Ak 1  nI 2   
0 b 
 k 1
Column 1 Column 2
(A) a (p) 2n
2n  1
 2n 1
Cn 
(B) a b (q) 0
(C) a b (r) 2n
Cn 1
(D) a/b (s) 1
205. A and B are 2 non singular matrices such that ( AB )k  A k Bk for 3 consecutive positive integral values
of k .
Column 1 Column 2
(A) ABA 1 (p) A 2
(B) BAB 1 (q) B
(C) ABAB 1 (r) A
(D) B( BA )1 AB 2 (s) B2
206.
Column I Column II
x 2 x 3 x 5
(A) The value of the determinant x  4 x  6 x  9 is (p) 1
x  8 x  11 x  15
7 6 x 2  13
If one of the roots of the equation 2 x 2  13 2 0
(B) 2 (q) –6
x  13 3 7
is x  2, then sum of all other five roots is
6 2i 3 6
(C) The value of 12 3  8i 3 2  6i is (r) 2
18 2  12i 27  2i
cos2  cos  sin   sin 

(D) If f ( )  cos  sin  sin 2  cos  , then f (  / 3) (s) –2
sin   cos  0

207.
Column I Column II
2
1/ c 1/ c (a  b ) / c
2
(A) (b  c ) / a 1/ a 1/ a is (p) Independent of a
2 2
b(b  c ) / a c (a  2b  c ) / ac b(a  b ) / ac
sin a cos b sin a sin b cos a

(B) cos a cos b cos a sin b  sin a is (q) Independent of b
 sin a sin b sin a cos b 0
1 1 1
sin a cos b sin a sin b cos a
 cos a  cos a sin a
(C) is (r) Independent of c
sin 2 a cos b sin 2 a sin b cos2 a
sin b  cos b
0
sin a cos2 b sin a sin 2 b
If a, b, and c are the sides of a triangle and A, B and C are the
angles opposite to a, b, and c, respectively, then
(D) a2 b sin A c sin A (s) Dependent on a, b

  b sin A 1 cos A
c sin A cos A 1
208.
Column I Column II
n
(A) (I  A ) is if A is idempotent (p) 2n 1( I  A )
(B) ( I  A )n is if A is involuntary (q) I  nA
(C) ( I  A )n is if A is nilpotent of index 2 (r) A
(D) If A is orthogonal, then ( A T )1 (s) I A
209.
Column I Column II
If A is an idempotent matrix and I is an identity matrix of the
(A) (p) 9
same order, then the value of n, such that ( A  I )n  I  127 is
(B) If ( I  A )1  I  A  A 2  ....  A 7 , then An  0, where n is (q) 10

If A matrix such that aij  (i  j )(i  j ), then A is singular if order
(C) (r) 7
of matrix is
If a nonsingular matrix A is symmetric, shown that A 1 is also
(D) (s) 8
symmetric, then order of A can be

210.
Column I Column II
1 1
(A) If | A | 2, then |2 A |  (where A is of order 3) (p)
(B) If | A |  1/ 8, then |adj (adj (2 A ))| (where A is of order 3) (q) 4
If ( A  B )2  A 2  B 2, and | A | 2, then | B | (where A and B are

(C) (r) 24
of odd order)
(D) | A22 | 2,| B33 | 3 and |C44 | 4, then | ABC | is equal to (s) 0
(t) Does not exist
Paragraph for Questions 211 – 213
Let A be a matrix of order 2  2 such that A 2  0 .
211. A 2  (a  d )A  (ad  bc )I is equal to:

(A) I (B) O (C) –I (D) None of these
212. tr ( A ) is equal to:
(A) 1 (B) 0 (C) –1 (D) None of these
213. ( I  A )100 
(A) 100A (B) 100( I  A ) (C) 100I  A (D) I  100 A

If A and B are two square matrices of order 3  3 which satisfy AB  A and BA  B , then:
214. Which of the following is true?
(A) If matrix A is singular, then matrix B is nonsingular.
(B) If matrix A is nonsingular, then matrix B is singular.
(C) If matrix A is singular, then matrix B is also singular.
(D) Cannot say anything.
215. ( A  B )7 is equal to:
(A) 7( A  B ) (B) 7  I 33 (C) 64( A  B ) (D) 128I
216. ( A  I )5 is equal to (where I is identity matrix)
(A) I  60 A (B) I  16 A (C) I  31A (D) None of these

Consider an arbitrary 3  3 matrix A  [a ij ] . A matrix B  [bij ] is formed such that bij is the sum of all the
elements except aij in the ith row of A. Answer the following questions:
217. If there exists a matrix X with constant elements such that AX  B , then X is:
(A) skew-symmetric (B) null matrix
(C) diagonal matrix (D) none of these
218. The value of | B | is equal to:

(A) |A| (B) | A |/2 (C) 2| A | (D) none of these

1 0 0 
 
Let 1 0 1  satisfies A n  A n 2  A 2  I for n  3 . And trace of a square matrix X is equal to the sum of
0 1 0 
 
elements in its principal diagonal.
Further consider a matrix  with its column as 1, 2, 3 such that
33
1 0  0 
     
A 501  25  , A 502  1  , A 503  0 
25  0  1 
     
Then answer the following questions:
219. The value of | A 50 | equals:

(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) –1 (D) 25
50
220. Trace of A equals:
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3
221. The value of  equals:
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) –1

Let A be a square matrix of order 2 or 3 and I be the identity matrix of the same order. Then the matrix A  I is
called characteristic matrix of the matrix A, where  is some complex number. The determinant of the
characteristic matrix is called characteristic determinant of the matrix A which will of course be a polynomial of
degree 3 in  . The equation det( A  I )  0 is called characteristic equation of the matrix A and its roots
(the value of  ) are called characteristic roots or eigen values. It is also known that every square matrix has its
characteristic equation.
2 1 1
 
222. The eigenvalues of the matrix A   2 3 4  are:
 1 1 2 
 
(A) 2, 1, 1 (B) 2, 3, –2 (C) –1, 1, 3 (D) None of these
223. Which of the following matrices do not have eigenvalues as 1 and –1 ?

0 1  0 i 
(A)   (B)   (where i  1 )
1 0  i 0 
1 0  1 0 
(C)   (D)  
0 1 0 1 
224. If one of the eigenvalues of a square matrix A of order 3  3 is zero, then:
(A) det A must be nonzero (B) det A must be zero
(C) adj A must be a zero matrix (D) None of these

Let A be an m  n matrix. If there exists a matrix L of type n  m such that LA  In , then L is called left inverse
of A. Similarly, if there exists a matrix R of type n  m such that AR  I m , then R is called right inverse of A. For
example, to find right inverse of matrix.

1 1 1 1 1 0 0 
  x y z    x y z   
A  1 1  , we take R    and solve AR  I 3 , i.e., 1 1  u v w  0 1 0 

2 u v w   
 3  2 3 
 
0 0 1 
 
 x u 1 y v  0 z w  0
x u  0 y v 1 z w  0
2 x  3u  0 2y  3v  0 2z  3w  1
As this system of equations is inconsistent, we say there is no right inverse for matrix A.
1 1
 
225. Which of the following matrices is NOT left inverse of matrix 1 1  ?
2 3 
 
 1 1   1 1 
 0  2 7 3   0  0 3 1
 2 2     2 2   
(A) (B)  1 1  (C) (D)  1 1 
 1 1   1 1 
 0  2 2 0   0  2 2
0

 2 2   2 2 
1 1 2 
226. The number of right inverses for the matrix   is:
2 1 1 
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) infinite
227. For which of the following matrices, the number of left inverses is greater than the number of right
inverses?
1 4  3 3 
 1 2 4 3 2 1    
(A)   (B)   (C) 2 3  (D) 1 1 
 3 2 1   3 2 1 5 4  4 4 
   
Paragraph for Questions 228 - 230
Suppose a, b, c are 3 distinct real numbers and f ( x ) be a quadratic function which satisfies
a 2 a 1  f 1
 
    a  8a 2  3 
b 2 b 1  f 2      b  8b 2  3 
 
 c 2 c 1  f 4    c  8c 2  3 
 
The maximum of f ( x ) occurs at V. A is a point of y  f ( x ) where it cuts y axis, B is a point on y  f ( x ) such
 x1 
 
    
that AVB is 90°, A x1, y1 ,V x 2, y2 , B x 3, y3  and X   x 2  ,Y   y1 y2 y3  then:
x 
 3
 
f 1  
f 0 
f 1
228.  
f 0 
f 1  
f 2 
f 1 f 2 f 3
(A) 4 × slope of AV (B) –4 × slope of AV

(C) 0 (D) 1/2 slope of AV

229. Trace of XY is :
(A) 31/8 (B) 23/4 (C) 17/8 (D) 7/8
x 
 
230. XY  y   0 has :
z 
 
(A) unique solution (B) no solution
(C) Infinitely many solutions lying on a line (D) infinitely many solutions lying on a plane

 a c  
Consider a set A of matrices:    
 : a, b, c  0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
  c b  
231. Number of matrices in A which are symmetric, or skew symmetric but not both is :
(A) 343 (B) 342 (C) 49 (D) 336
232. Number of matrices in A whose determinant is divisible by 7 is :

(A) 49 (B) 36 (C) 294 (D) 330
233. Number of matrices in A such that its trace and its determinant both divisible by 7 is : (trace is sum of
diagonal elements)
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 3 (D) 48
Consider function f     An  In where An is square matrix of order n, I n is identity matrix of order n.
If   C (set of complex numbers) then roots of f ( )  0 are called eigen values of matrix An . Also f ( An )  0.
 
If 1  C, be such that f 1  0, then column matrix X n 1 such that AX  1X is known as eigen vector
 1 2 / 3 0 
 
corresponding to eigen value 1, A   3 2 1 .
3 1 0 

234. Eigen value of matrix A are :

(A) 1, 1  2 (B) 1,1  2 (C) 1,1  2 (D) 1,1  2i
235. Matrix A satisfies the equation :

1 8 4
(A) A 1  A 2  3 A  I (B) A 1   A3  A I
3 3 3
1 10 2
(C) A 1   A 2  3 A  I (D) A 1   A3  A I
3 3 3
236. Eigen vector corresponding to some eigen value of A is :
1  1   1  1 
       
(A)  2 (B)  2  1 (C) 0  (D) 0
 3   3  3
  3     
 

Let S be the set of all 3 × 3 symmetric matrices all of whose entries are either 0 or –1. Five of them are 0 and four
are –1.
237. Number of matrices in S which are non singular is :
(A) less than 4 (B) at least 4 but less than 7
(C) at least 7 but less than 10 (D) atleast 10
x   1 
   
238. Number of matrices A in S such that A y    1  have infinitely many solutions, is :
z   0 
   
(A) 0 (B) More than 2 (C) 2 (D) 1
x   1 
   
239. Number of matrices A in S such that A y    1  have no solution, is :
z   0 
   
(A) 0 (B) more than 2 (C) 2 (D) 1

Adj ( A )  (Cij )n n ,Cij is cofactor of aij & A. Adj(A) = | A | I n
1 x x2 x 3 1 0 x  x4
240. If x x2 1  7, then 0 x  x4 x 3 1 
2 4 3
x 1 x x x x 1 0
(A) 7 (B) 343 (C) –49 (D) 49

241. Suppose a ,b, c  R , a  b  c  0, A  bc  a 2, B  ca  b 2 , C  ab  c 2 ,
A B C a b c
B C A  49, then b c a 
C A B c a b
(A) –7 (B) 2401 (C) –2401 (D) 7
242. If A is square matrix of order 3 then Adj ( Adj ( Adj( A ))) 
(A) | A |2 A (B) | A |2 Adj( A ) (C) | A |4 Adj( A ) (D) | A |8 Adj A
x  c1 x a x a
f (x )  x  b x  c2 x  a and g ( x )  (c1  x )(c 2  x )(c 3  x )
x b x b x  c3
243. Coefficient of x in f ( x ) is :
g (a )  f (b ) g (  a )  g(  b ) g (a )  g(b )
(A) (B) (C) (D) None of these
b a b a b a
244. Which of the following is not a constant term in f ( x ) ?

bg(a )  ag (b ) bg (a )  af (  b ) bf (  a )  ag (b )
(A) (B) (C) (D) None of these
(b  a ) (b  a ) (b  a )
245. Which of the following is not true ?

(A) f (  a )  g(a ) (B) f (  a )  g( a ) (C) f (  b )  g(b ) (D) None of these

Given that the system of equations x  cy  bz, y  az  cx , z  bx  ay has non-zero solutions and at least one of
the a, b, c is a proper fraction.
246. a 2  b 2  c 2 is :
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 3 (D) 2
247. abc is :
(A)  1 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3
248. System has solution such that :

1 1 1
(A) x : y : z  (1  2a 2 ) : (1  2b 2 ) : (1  2c 2 ) (B) x :y:z  2
: 2
:
1  2a 1  2b 1  2c 2
a b c
(C) x :y:z  2
: 2
: (D) x : y : z  1  a 2 : 1  b2 : 1  c2
1a 1b 1  c2
Consider the system of equations x  y  z  6 , x  2y  3z  10 , x  2y  z  
249. The system has unique solution if :

(A) 3 (B)   3,   10 (C)   3,   10 (D) None of these
250. The system has infinite solutions if :

251. The system has no solutions if :

(1  x )a (1  2x )b 1
a
Consider the polynomial function f ( x )  1 (1  x ) (1  2 x )b , a , b being positive integres.
(1  2 x )b 1 (1  x )a
252. The constant term in f ( x ) is :

(A) 2 (B) 1 (C) 1 (D) 0
253. The coefficient of x in f ( x ) is :
(A) 2a (B) 2a  3  2b  1 (C) 0 (D) None of these
254. Which of the following is true ?

(A) All roots of the equation f ( x )  0 are positive
(B) All roots of the equation f ( x )  0 are negative
(C) At least one of the equation f ( x )  0 is repeating one
(D) None of these

x n r
If x  m , y  n , z  r ( x , y, z  0) such that m y r  0.
m n z
x y z
255. The value of   is :
x m y n z r
(A) 1 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 2
m y r
256. The value of 1  1  is :
x m y n z r
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 0 (D) 1
xyz
257. The greatest value of is :
( x  m )(y  n )( z  r )
8 64
(A) 27 (B) (C) (D) None of these
27 27

Suppose f ( x ) is a function satisfying the following conditions :
(i) f (0)  2, f (1)  1
(ii) f has a minimum value at x  5/ 2
2ax 2ax  1 2ax  b  1
(iii) For all x , f ( x )  b b 1 1
2(ax  b ) 2ax  2b  1 2ax  b
258. The value of f (2) is :

1 1
(A) (B) (C) 1 (D) 3
4 2
259. f ( x )  0 has :
(A) both roots positive (B) both roots negative
(C) roots of opposite sign (D) imaginary roots
260. Range of f ( x ) is :
(A) 7/16,   (B)   , 15/16 (C) 3/ 4,   (D) None of these
*261. Which of the following has/have value equal to zero ?
8 2 7 1/ a a2 bc
2
(A) 12 3 5 (B) 1/b b ac
16 4 3 1/ c c 2
ab
a b 2a  b 3a  b 2 43 6
(C) 2a  b 3a  b 4a  b (D) 7 35 4
4a  b 5a  b 6a  b 3 17 2

a x e x log e a x2
3 x 3 x loge a
*262. If g ( x )  a e x 4 , then :
a 5x e 5x loge a 1
(A) graph of g ( x ) is symmetrical about the origin

(B) graph of g ( x ) is symmetrical about the y-axis
d 4 g( x )
(C) 0
dx 4
x 0
a  x 
(D) f ( x )  g( x )  log   is an odd function
a  x 
x a b
*263. If   b x a , then a factor of  is :
a b x
(A) a b  x (B) x 2  (a  b )x  a 2  b 2  ab
(C) x 2  (a  b )x  a 2  b 2  ab (D) a b  x
sin  cos  sin  sin  cos 

*264. If   cos  cos  cos  sin   sin  then :
 sin  sin  sin  cos  0
(A)  is independent of  (B)  is independent of 

d 
(C)  is a constant (D)  0
d    / 2
cos   sin  1
*265. If ( , )  sin  cos  1 , then :
cos(   )  sin(   ) 1
(A) f (300, 200)  f (400, 200) (B) f (200, 400)  f (200, 600)
(C) f (100, 200)  f (200, 200) (D) None of these
a2  x ab ac
2
*266. The determinant ab b x bc is divisible by :
ac bc c2  x
(A) x (B) x2 (C) x3 (D) None of these

a 1 0
*267. If f ( x )  ax a 1 , then f (2 x )  f ( x ) is divisible by :
ax 2 ax a
(A) x (B) a (C) 2a  3 x (D) x2
1 1  ac 1  bc
*268.   1 1  ad 1  bd is independent of :
1 1  ae 1  be
(A) a (B) b (C) c, d, e (D) None of these

f (x )
*269. If g ( x )  , where f ( x ) is a polynomial of degree  3, then :
( x  a )( x  b )( x  c )
1 a f (a )log x  a 1 a a2
f (b )log x  b  1 b b 2  k
(A)
 g(x )dx  11 b
c f (c )log x  c 1 c c2
1 a f (a )( x  a )2 a2 a 1
dg ( x )
(B)  1 b f (b )( x  b )2  b 2 b 1
dx
1 c f (c )( x  c )2 c2 c 1
1 a f (a )( x  a )2 1 a a2
dg ( x )
(C)  1 b f (b )( x  b )2  1 b b2
dx 2
1 c f (c )( x  c ) 1 c c2
1 a f (a )log x  a a2 a 1
f (b )log x  b  b 2 b 1  k
(D)
 g ( x )dx  1 b
1 c f (c )log x  c c2 c 1
x 2  4x  3 2x  4 13
2
*270. If ( x )  2 x  5 x  9 4x  5 26  ax 3  bx 2  cx  d , then :
8 x 2  6 x  1 16 x  6 104
(A) a 3 (B) b 0 (C) c 0 (D) None of these

sin  cos  sin 
*271. If f ( )  cos  sin  cos  , then :
cos  sin  sin 
(A) f ( )  0 has exactly 2 real solutions in [0, ]

(B) f ( )  0 has exactly 3 real solutions in [0, ]
f ( )
(C) range of function is   2, 2 
1  sin 2
f ( )
(D) range of function is  3, 3
sin 2  1
sin 2 A cot A 1
*272. If f ( )  sin 2 B cot B 1 , then :
sin 2 C cot C 1
(A) tan A  tan B  tan C (B) cot A cot B cot C

2 2 2
(C) sin A  sin B  sin C (D) 0
x n 1 n 1
Cr Cr Cr 1
x 1 n n
*273. The roots of the equation Cr Cr Cr 1  0 are :
x 2 n 1 n 1
Cr Cr Cr 1
(A) x n (B) x  n 1 (C) x  n 1 (D) x  n 2

3 3x 3 x 2  2a 2
2 2
*274. If f ( x )  3x 3a  2a 3x 3  6a 2x , then :
2 2 3 2 4 2 2 4
3 x  2a 3 x  6a x 3x  12a x  2a
(A) f ( x )  0 (B) y  f ( x ) is a straight line parallel to x-axis

2
(C) f ( x )dx  32a 4 (D) None of these
0
yz  x 2 zx  y 2 xy  z 2 r2 u2 u2
*275. If xz  y 2 xy  z 2 yz  x 2  u 2 r2 u 2 , then :
2 2 2 2 2
xy  z yz  x zx  y u u r2
(A) r2  x  y  z (B) r 2  x 2  y2  z 2
(C) u 2  yz  zx  xy (D) u 2  xyz
n n 1 n 2
n n 1 n 2
*276. Let f (n )  Pn Pn 1 Pn 2 , where the symbols have their usual meanings. Then f (n ) is divisible
n n 1 n 2
Cn Cn 1 Cn 2
by :
(A) n2  n  1 (B) (n  1)! (C) n! (D) None of these
bc ca ab
*277. If a, b, c are non-zero real numbers such that ca ab bc  0, then :
ab bc ca
1 1 1 1 1 1
(A)   0 (B)   0
a b c 2 a b 2 c
1 1 1
(C)   0 (D) None of these
a b 2 c
*278. The values of k  R for which the system of equations x  ky  3z  0, kx  2y  2z  0, 2 x  3y  4 z  0
admits of nontrival solution is :
(A) 2 (B) 5/2 (C) 3 (D) 5/4
cos(  )  sin(   ) cos 2

*279. The determinant sin  cos  sin  is :
 cos  sin  cos 
(A) Positive (B) Independent of q
(C) Independent of  (D) None of these

*280. The system of equations  2x  y  z  a , x  2y  z  b , x  y  2z  c has :
(A) no solution if a  b  c  0
(B) unique solution if a  b  c  0
(C) infinite number of solutions if a  b  c  0
(D) None of these
a a2 0
*281.   1 2a  b (a  b ) is divisible by :
0 1 2a  3b
(A) a b (B) a  2b (C) 2a  3b (D) a2
282. 
Number of 2×2 matrices formed using elements from the set 0, 1, 2, 3,  1,  2,  3 which are symmetric 
or skew symmetric is :
(A) 350 (B) 349 (C) 348 (D) 343
283.  
Let A  aij
33
, B  bij  33
 
,C  cij
33
where bij  cofactor of a ij in A, cij = cofactor of bij in B then
|C|=
2 3 4
(A) A (B) A (C) A (D) A
0 a b c
a 0 d e
284. If a ,b, c, d ,e, f  I (set of integers), then is :
b d 0 f
c e f 0
(A) always prime (B) always composite

(C) always even (D) always perfect square
A1 A2 A3
*285. Let , ,  be the roots of x 3  2x 2  2x  1  0 , An  n  n  n ,n  N , and D  A2 A3 A4 then :
A3 A4 A5
(A)  
arg D   (B) D  3 (C) D 3 (D)  
arg D  0
286. Let 1,  2 and 1, 2 be the roots of ax 2  bx  c  0 and px 2  qx  r  0 , respectively. If the system of
equations 1y   2z  0 and 1y  2z  0 has a nontrivial solution, then prove that b 2 pr  q 2ac .
x x x
C1 C2 C3
287. Evaluate y C1 yC
2
yC
3 .
z z z
C1 C2 C3
2a a  b a  c
288. Prove that b  a 2b b  c  4 b  c  c  a  a  b 
c  a c  b 2c

2
x y  x y      
289. Show that the solutions of the equation    O are    , where ,  are
z t  z t      

arbitrary.
 1 1  2
290. If A    , then prove that A  3 A  2I  O . Hence, find B and C matrices of order 2 with integer
 0 2 
elements, if A  B 3  C 3
1
A B   O C 1 
291. If B and C are nonsingular matrices and O is null matrix, then show that    .
C O  B

 1 1 
B AC 1
292. Show that every square matrix A can be uniquely expressed as P  iQ, where P and Q are hermitian
matrices.
2  3i 2 5 
 
293. Express A as the sum of a Hermitian and a skew –hermitian matrix, where A   3  i 7 3  i  .
 3  2i i 2  i 
294. The value of  for which the system of equation x  y  z    1 , x  y  z    1 , x  y  z    1
has no solution, is ________.
295. The sum of values of p for which the equation x  y  z  1, x  2y  4 z  p, and x  4y  10 z  p 2 have a
solution is ________.
296.      
If three distinct points P 3u 2 ,2u 3 ; Q 3v 2 ,2v 3 , and R 3w 2,2w3 are collinear, then uv  vw  wu is
equal to ________.
a b a b a c a c
D1
297. Let D1  c d c  d and D2  b d b d then the value of , where b  0 and ad  bc, is ____.
D2
a b a b a c a b c
1 3 cos  1
298. If   sin  1 3 cos  , then the value of   max  / 2 is ________.
1 sin  1
x x y x y z
299. If 2x 3 x  2y 4 x  3y  2z  64 , then the real value of x is _______.
3x 6 x  3y 10 x  6y  3z
a1a 5 a1 a 2 a 2a10 a 2 a 3
300. If a1,a 2, a 3,..., a12 are in A.P. and 1  a 2a 6 a 2 a 3 3  a 3a11 a 3 a 4 then 1 :  2 
a 3a 7 a 3 a 4 a 3a12 a 4 a 5
xn xn 2 xn 4
 1 1  1 1  1 1 
301. If yn yn  2 yn  4        then n is _______.
 y2 x 2   z 2 y2   x 2 z 2 
  
zn zn 2 zn  4
a b ac f 2d e
302. Given A  d e 2 f , B  2n 4 I 2m , then the value of B / A is ________.
l m 2n c 2a b

4
303. 
If 1  ax  bx 2   a 0  a1x  a 2x 2  ....  a 8 x 8 , where a ,b,a 0 ,a1,....,a 8  R such that a 0  a1  a 2  0
a 0 a1 a 2
a
and a1 a 2 a 0  0 , then the value of 5 is ________.
b
a 2 a 0 a1
5 2  2016
304. If A    , and A  A  I then    is __________________.
8 3 
305. Consider the system of linear equations

sin(3)x  y  z  0
cos(2 )x  4y  3z  0
2 x  7y  7 z  0 has non-trivial solutions. Number of values of   ( 2,2] is __________.
1 1
306. Let A be 4  4 matrix such that a ij  then sum of digits of absolute value of is_______.
min(i , j ) |A|
f (0) f i (0) f ii (0)

i ii
307. 2
Let f ( x )  (1  x  x )e x
then absolute value of f (0) f (0) f iii (0) is ________.
f ii (0) f iii (0) f iv (0)
f r (0) denotes rth derivative of f at 0
 1 2 3 
 
308. Let A   0 2 4  then number of factors of Trace of A 3 is __________.
 1 0 1
 
309. Let A be an orthogonal matrix (i.e. AA '  I ) , of order 5 & |A| = 1 then | A  I | is___________.
 b c
  
310. If   a ,   b,   c & a  c  0 then   is____________.
 a  b  c
a b 

Actual Date of Attempt : __ / __ / __ JEE Main (Archive) Exact Duration :_________
1. If the system of linear equations

x  ky  3z  0
3 x  ky  2z  0
2 x  4y  3z  0
xz
has a non-zero solutions ( x , y, z ), then is equal to :
y2
(A) 30 (B) –10 (C) 10 (D) –30
x 4 2x 2x
2. If 2x x 4 2x  ( A  Bx )( x  A )2, then the ordered pair ( A, B ) is equal to :
2x 2x x 4
(A) (4, 5) (B) (–4, –5) (C) (–4, 3) (D) (–4, 5)
1 2  2
3. Let A be a matrix such that A    is a scalar matrix and |3 A |  108. Then A equals :
0 3 
36 32   4 0 4 32   36 0 
(A)   (B)   (C)   (D)  
0 4   32 36  0 36   32 4 
4. Let S be the set of all real values of k for which the system of linear equations x  y  z  2;
2 x  y  z  3; 3x  2y  kz  4 has a unique solution. Then S is :
(A) an empty set (B) equal to R (C) equal to {0} (D) equal to R  {0}
5. If the system of linear equations : x  ay  z  3, x  2y  2z  6, x  5y  3z  b has no solution, then :

(A) a  1, b  9 (B) a  1, b  9 (C) a  1, b  9 (D) a  1, b  9
6. Suppose A is any 3 × 3 non-singular matrix and ( A  3I )( A  5 I )  O , where I  I 3 and O  O3 . If
A   A 1  4 I , then    is equal to :
(A) 13 (B) 7 (C) 12 (D) 8
1 0 0 
 
7. Let A  1 1 0  and B  A 20 . Then the sum of the elements of the first column of B is :
1 1 1 
 
(A) 211 (B) 251 (C) 231 (D) 210
 2 3 2
8. If A    , then adj (3 A  12 A ) is equal to :
 4 1 
 51 63   51 84   72 63   72 84 
(A)   (B)   (C)   (D)  
84 72  63 72   84 51   63 51 
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9. If S is the set of distinct values of ‘b’ for which the following system of linear equations x  y  z  1,
x  ay  z  1, ax  by  z  0 has no solution then S is :
(A) an infinite set
(B) a finite set containing two or more elements
(C) a singleton
(D) an empty set
 0 cos x  sin x 
   
10. If S   x  [0, 2] : sin x

0 cos x  0  , then

 tan   x  is equal to :
3



cos x sin x 0 x S
 
(A) 2  3 (B) 42 3 (C) 4  2 3 (D) 2  3
11. The number of real values of  for which the system of linear equations 2 x  4y  z  0,
4 x  y  2z  0, x  2y  2z  0 has infinitely many solutions, is :
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3
12. Let A be any 3 × 3 invertible matrix. Then which one of the following is not always true ?
(A) adj (adj ( A )) | A |(adj ( A ))1 (B) adj (adj ( A )) | A |2 (adj ( A ))1
(C) adj ( A ) | A | A 1 (D) adj (adj ( A )) | A |  A
13. For two 3 × 3 matrices A and B, let A  B  2B  and 3 A  2B  I 3, where B  is the transpose of and I 3 is
3  3 identity matrix. Then :

(A) 10 A  5B  3I 3 (B) 5 A  10 B  2I 3 (C) 3 A  6B  2I 3 (D) B  2A  I 3
5a b  T
14. If A    and A adj A  AA , then 5a  b is equal to :
3 2
(A) –1 (B) 5 (C) 4 (D) 13
15. The system of linear equation x  y  z  0, x  y  z  0, x  y  z  0 has a non-trivial solution for :

(A) infinitely many values of  (B) exactly one value of 
(C) exactly two values of  (D) exactly three values of 


cos x sin x sin x
  
16. The number of distinct real roots of the equation, sin x cos x sin x  0 in the interval   ,  is :
sin x sin x cos x  4 4 
(A) 1 (B) 4 (C) 2 (D) 3
 3 1 
 
17. If P   2 2  , A  1 1 and Q  PAP T , then P T Q 2015 P is :
  
 1 3 0 1
 2 2 
0 2015  2015 0  1 2015  2015 1 
(A)   (B)   (C)   (D)  
0 0   1 2015  0 1   0 2015 
18. Let A be a 3 × 3 matrix such that A 2  5 A  7I  O.

1
Statement -I : A  (5I  A ).
7
Statement -II: The polynomial A 3  2 A 2  3 A  I can be reduced to 5( A  4 I ). Then :
(A) Both the statements are true.
(B) Both the statements are false.
(C) Statement-I is true, but Statement -II is false.
(D) Statement-I is false, but Statement-II is true.
 4 1 2016
19. If A    , then the determinant of the matrix ( A  2 A 2015  A 2014 ) is :
3 1
(A) –175 (B) 2014 (C) 2016 (D) –25
20. The set of all values of  for which the system of linear equations
2x1  2x 2  x 3  x1, 2x1  3x 2  2x 3  x 2,  x1  2x 2  x 3 has a non-trivial solution,
(A) contains two elements (B) contains more than two elements
(C) is an empty set (D) is a singleton
1 2 2 
 
21. If A   2 1 2  is a matrix satisfying the equation AA T  9I , where I is a 3 × 3 identify matrix, then
a 2 b 
 
the ordered pair (a, b) is equal to :
(A) (2, 1) (B) (–2, –1) (C) (2, –1) (D) (–2, 1)
x 1 1
22. The least value of the product xyz for which the determinant 1 y 1 is non-negative is :
1 1 z
(A) 2 2 (B) 16 2 (C) 8 (D) –1

0 1
23. If A    , then which one of the following statements is not correct ?
1 0 
(A) A 4  I  A2  I (B) A 3  I  A( A  I )
(C) A 2  I  A( A 2  I ) (D) A 3  I  A( A 3  I )
24. If A is a 3 × 3 matrix such that |5  adj A |  5, then | A | is equal to :

1 1
(A)  (B) 5 (C) 1 (D) 
5 25
x2  x x 1 x 2
2
25. If 2 x  3 x  1 3x 3 x  3  ax  12, then ‘a’ is equal to :
2
x  2x  3 2x  1 2x  1
(A) 12 (B) 24 (C) –12 (D) –24
26. If A is an 3 × 3 non-singular matrix such that AA   A A and B  A 1A , then BB equals :
(A) I (B) B 1 (C) ( B 1 ) (D) I B
3 1  f (1) 1  f (2)
n n
27. If ,   0 and f (n )     and 1  f (1) 1  f (2) 1  f (3)  K (1  )2 (1  )2(   )2, then K is equal to :
1  f (2) 1  f (3) 1  f (4)
1
(A) (B) 1 (C) –1 (D) 

28. If A an 3  3 non-singular matrix such that AA   A A and B  A 1A  , then BB is equal to :
(A) I B (B) I (C) B 1 (D)  B 

1
29.  
The number of values of k, for which the system of equations k  1 x  8y  4k , kx  k  3 y  3k  1  
has no solution, is :
(A)  (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3
1  3 
 
30. If P 1 3 3  is the adjoint of a 3  3 matrix A and A  4 , then  is equal to :
2 4 4 
 
(A) 4 (B) 11 (C) 5 (D) 0

1 0 0  1  0 
     
31. Let A  2 1 0  . If 1 and 2 are column matrices such that Au1  0  and Au 2  1  , then 1  2 is
3 2 1  0  0 
     
equal to :
 1  1  1 1 
       
(A) 1  (B) 1  (C)  1 (D)  1
0  1 0   1
       
32. Let P and Q be 3  3 matrices P  Q . If P 3  Q 3 and P 2Q  Q 2 P , then determinant of ( P 2  Q 2 ) is

equal to:
(A) –2 (B) 1 (C) 0 (D) 1
33. The number of values of k for which the linear equations
4 x  ky  2z  0, kx  4y  z  0 and 2 x  2y  z  0 posses a non-zero solution, is :
(A) 2 (B) 1 (C) 0 (D) 3
34. Let A and B be two symmetric matrices of order 3.

Statement I : A(BA) and (AB) A are symmetric matrices.
Statement II : AB is symmetric matrix, if matrix multiplication of A with B is commutative.
(A) Statement I is true, Statement II is true; Statement II is not a correct explanation of Statement I
(B) Statement I is true, Statement II is false
(C) Statement I is false, Statement II is true
(D) Statement I is true, Statement II is true; Statement II is a correct explanation of Statement I
35. If the trivial solution is the only solution of the system of equations x  ky  z  0, kx  3y  kz  0 and
3 x  y  z  0 . Then, set of all values of k is :
(A) 2,  3 (B) 

R  2,  3  (C) R 2  (D)  
R  3
36. Statement I : Determinant of a skew-symmetric matrix of order 3 is zero.
 
Statement II : For any matrix A, det A T  det  A  and det   A    det  A  . Then :
(A) Statement I is true and Statement II is false

(B) Both Statements are true
(C) Both Statements are false
(D) Statement I is false and Statement II is true
 0  70
37. If   1 is the complex cube root of unity and matrix H    , then H is equal to :
 0 
(A) H (B) 0 (C) H (D) H2
38. Consider the system of linear equations x1  2x 2  x 3  3, 2x1  3x 2  x 3  3 and 3x1  5x 2  2x 3  1 .

Then system has :
(A) Infinite number of solutions (B) Exactly 3 solutions
(C) A unique solution (D) No solution

39. The number of 3  3 non-singular matrices, with four entries as 1 and all other entries as 0, is :
(A) Less than 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) Atleast 7
40. Let A be 2  2 matrix with non-zero entries and A 2  I , where I is 2  2 identity matrix.
Define tr  A   Sum of diagonal elements of A and A  Determinant of matrix A.
Statement I : tr ( A )  0
Statement II : A 1
(A) Statement I is false, Statement II is true
(B) Statement I is true, Statement II is true; Statement II is a correct explanation of Statement I
(C) Statement I is true, Statement II is true; Statement II is not a correct explanation of Statement I
(D) Statement I is true, Statement II is false
a a 1 a 1 a 1 b 1 c 1
41.  
Let a , b and c be such that b  c  0 . If  b b  1 b  1  a 1 b 1 c 1  0 , then the
c c 1 c 1 n 2 n 1 n
 1 a  1 b  1 c
value of ‘n’ is :
(A) Zero (B) Any even integer
(C) Any odd integer (D) Any integer
42. Let A be 2  2 matrix.

Statement I : adj  adj A   A
Statement II : adj A  A
43. Let A is 2  2 matrix with real entries. Let I be the 2  2 identity matrix. Denote by tr A , the sum of  
2
diagonal entries of A. Assume that A  I .
Statement I :  
If A  I and A   I , then det A   1
Statement II : If A  I and A   I , then tr  A   0
44. Let a , b and c be any real numbers. Suppose that there are real numbers x , y, z not all zero such that
x  cy  bz, y  az  cx and z  bx  ay . Then, a 2  b 2  c 2  2abc is equal to :

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 1 (D) 0
45. Let A be a square matrix all of whose entries are integers. Then, which one of the following is true ?
(A) If det A   1 , then A 1 need not exist
 
(B) If det  A    1 , then A 1 exist but all its entries are not necessarily integers
(C) If det  A    1 , then A 1 exist but all its entries are non-integers
(D) If det  A    1 , then A 1 exist but all its entries are integers

1 1 1
46. If D  1 1  x 1 for x  0, y  0 , then D is :
1 1 1y
(A) Divisible by neither x nor y (B) Divisible by both x and y

(C) Divisible by x but not y (D) Divisible by y but not x
 5 5  
 
47. Let A  0  5  . If A 2  25 , then  is equal to :
0 0 5 

1
(A) 52 (B) 1 (C) (D) 5
5
48. If A and B are square matrices of size n  n such that A 2  B 2   A  B  A  B  , then which of the
following will be always true ?

(A) AB  BA (B) Either of A or B is a zero matrix
(C) Either of A or B is an identity matrix (D) A B
1 2  a 0 
49. Let A    and B    ; a , b  N . Then :
 3 4  0 b 
(A) There exists more than one but finite number of B’s such that AB  BA
(B) There exists exactly one B such that AB  BA
(C) There exist infinitely many B’s such that AB  BA
(D) There cannot exist any B such that AB  BA
50. If A 2  A  I  O , then the inverse of A is :

(A) I A (B) AI (C) A (D) AI
1  a 2x 1  b  x 1  c  x
2 2
51. 
If a 2  b 2  c 2   2 and f  x   1  a 2  x 1  b x 1  c  x
2 2
then f  x  is a polynomial of degree :
1  a 2
 x 1  b  x 1  c x
2 2
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 0 (D) 1
52. The system of equations x  y  z    1, x   y  z    1and x  y  z    1 has no solution, if  is :

(A) 1 (B) not  2 (C) Either –2 or 1 (D) –2
log a n log a n 1 log a n  2

53. If a1, a 2,...., a n ,.... are in GP, then the determinant   log a n  3 log a n  4 log a n  5 is equal to :
log a n  6 log a n  7 log a n  8
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 0 (D) 1

 0 0 1
 
54. Let A   0 1 0  . The only correct statement about the matrix A is :
 1 0 0 
 
(A) A is a zero matrix (B)  
A  1 I , where I is a unit matrix
(C) A 1 does not exist (D) A2  I
1 1 1  4 2 2
   
55. Let A  2 1 3  and 10 B    5 0   . If B is the inverse of matrix A, then  is equal to :
1 1 1   1 2 3 
   
(A) 2 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 5
56. If the system of linear equations x  2ay  az  0, x  3by  bz  0 and x  4cy  cz  0 has a non-zero
solution, then a, b and c :
(A) are in AP (B) are in GP (C) are in HP (D) satisfy a  2b  3c  0
a b  2   
57. If A    and A    :
 b a   
(A)   a 2  b 2 and   ab (B)   a 2  b 2 and   2 ab
(C)   a 2  b 2 and   a 2  b 2 (D)   2 ab and   a 2  b 2
1 n 2n
2 n 2n
58. If 1,  and  are the cube roots of unity, then     1 is equal to :
2n n
 1 
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C)  (D) 2
log l p 1
59. If l , m and n are the pth, qth and rth terms of a GP and all positive, then log m q 1 is :
log n r 1
(A) 3 (B) 2 (C) 1 (D) 0
1 1  i  2 2
60. If    1 is a cubic root of unity, then 1  i 1 2  1 is equal to :
i 1    i 1
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) i (D) 

Actual Date of Attempt : __ / __ / __ JEE Advanced (Archive) Exact Duration :_________
1. If A and B are square matrices of equal degree, then which one is correct among the following? (1995)
(A) AB BA (B) AB  AB (C) AB  BA (D) AB  BA
1 0 0 
 
2. If A  0 1 1  , 6 A 1  A 2  cA  dI , then (c, d ) is: (2005)
0 2 4 
 
(A) (–6, 11) (B) (–11, 6) (C) (11, 6) (D) (6, 11)
 3 /2 1/ 2  1 1 T T 2005
3. If P   , A    and Q  PAP then P Q P is: (2005)
 1/ 2 
3 / 2 0 1
1 2005   1 2005   1 0 1 0 
(A)   (B)   (C)   (D)  
0 1   2005 1   2005 1  0 1 
 0  1 0  2
4. If A    and B    , then value of  for which A  B , is: (2003)
 1 1  5 1 
(A) 1 (B) –1 (C) 4 (D) No real values
5. Let P  [a ij ] be a 3  3 matrix and let Q  [bij ] , where bij  2i  j a ij for 1  i , j  3 . If the determinant of P
is 2, then the determinant of the matrix Q is: [2012]
(A) 210 (B) 211 (C) 212 (D) 213

 2  3
6. If A    and | A | 125 , then the value of  is: (2004)
2 
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 5
sin x cos x cos x
 
7. The number of distinct real roots of cos x sin x cos x  0 in the interval   x  is: (2001)
4 4
cos x cos x sin x
(A) 0 (B) 2 (C) 1 (D) 3
1 x x 1
8. If f ( x )  2x x ( x  1) ( x  1)x , then f (100) is equal to: (1999)
3x ( x  1) x ( x  1)( x  1) ( x  1)x ( x  1)
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 100 (D) –100
1 a a2
9. The parameter on which the value of the determinant cos( p  d )x cos px cos( p  d )x does not depend
sin( p  d )x sin px sin( p  d )x
upon, is: (1997)

(A) a (B) p (C) d (D) x
xp  y x y
10. The determinant yp  z y z  0 , if (1997)
0 xp  y yp  z
(A) x , y, z are in AP (B) x , y, z are in GP (C) x , y, z are in HP (D) xy, yz, zx are in AP
DTS – 1 57 JEE Adv. Archive | Matrices & Determinants

11. Consider the set a of all determinants of order 3 with entries 0 or 1 only. Let B be the subset of A
consisting of all determinants with value 1. Let C be the subset of A consisting of all determinants with
value –1. Then: (1981)
(A) C is empty (B) B has as many elements as C
(C) A  B C (D) B has twice as many elements as C
12. If A is 3  3 non-singular matrix such that AA T  A T A and B  A 1A T , then BB T is equal to: (2014)
(A) I B (B) I (C) B 1 (D) ( B 1 )T
13. If P is a 3  3 matrix such that P T  2P  I , where P T is the transpose of P and I is the 3  3 identity
 x  0 
   
matrix, then there exists a column matrix, X   y   0  such that (2012)
 z  0 
   
0 
 
(A) PX  0  (B) PX  X (C) PX  2 X (D) PX   X
0 
 
 1 a b
 
14. Let   1 be a cube root of unity and s be the set of all non-singular matrices of the form   1 c  ,
 2 
  1 
where each of a, b and c is either  or 2 , Then, the number of distinct matrices in the set S is: (2011)
(A) 2 (B) 6 (C) 4 (D) 8
15. Let M and N be two 3  3 non-singular skew-symmetric matrices such that MN  NM . If P T denotes the
transpose of P, then M 2N 2( M T N )1( MN 1 )T is equal to: (2011)
(A) M2 (B) N 2 (C) M 2 (D) MN
 x  1 
   
16. The number of 3  3 matrices A whose entries are either 0 or 1 and for which the system A y   0  has
 z  0 
   
exactly two distinct solutions, is: (2010)
(A) 0 (B) 29  1 (C) 168 (D) 2
17. given, 2 x  y  2z  2, x  2y  z  4, x  y  z  4 , then the value of  such that the given system of
equations has no solution, is: (2004)

(A) 3 (B) 1 (C) 0 (D) –3

18. The number of values of k for which the system of equations (k  1)x  8y  4k and kx  (k  3)y  3k  1
has infinitely many solutions, is/are: (2002)

(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 
19. If the system of equations x  ky  z  0 , kx  y  z  0 , x  y  z  0 has a non-zero solution, then
possible values of k are: (2000)
(A) –1, 2 (B) 1, 2 (C) 0, 1 (D) –1, 1
Assertion and Reason

For the following questions, choose the correct answer from the codes (a), (b), (c) and (d) defined as follows:
(A) Statement I is true, Statement II is also true; Statement II is the correct explanation of Statement I
(B) Statement I is true, Statement II is also true; Statement II is not the correct explanation of Statement I
(C) Statement I is true; Statement II is false.
(D) Statement I is false; Statement II is true.
20. Consider the system of equation x  2y  3z  1 , x  3y  4z  1 and  x  y  2z  k
Statement I : The system of equations has no solution for k  3 and
1 3 1
Statement II : The determinant 1 2 k  0 for k  0 . (2008)
1 4 1

 1 0 0
 
21. Let P   4 1 0  and I be the identity matrix of order 3. If Q  qij  is a matrix such that P 50  Q  I ,
 
16 4 1 
 
q  q32
then 31 equals :
q21
(A) 52 (B) 103 (C) 201 (D) 205
22. How many 3  3 matrices M with entries from 0, 1, 2 are there, for which the sum of the diagonal
entries of M T M is 5 ?
(A) 126 (B) 198 (C) 162 (D) 135
*23. For 3  3 matrices M and N, which of the following statement(s) is/are not correct? (2013)
(A) N T M N is symmetric or skew-symmetric, according as M is symmetric or skew-symmetric

(B) MN  NM is symmetric for all symmetric matrices M and N
(C) M N is symmetric for all symmetric matrices M and N
(D) (adj M )(adj N )  adj ( MN ) for all invertible matrices M and N
*24. Let M and N be two 3  3 matrices such that MN  NM . Further, if M  N 2 and M 2  N 4 , then:
(A) determinant of ( M 2  MN 2 ) is 0 (2014)
(B) there is a 3  3 non-zero matrix U such that ( M 2  MN 2 ) U is zero matrix
(C) determinant of ( M 2  MN 2 )  1
(D) for a 3  3 matrix U, if ( M 2  MN 2 )U equals the zero matrix, then U is the zero matrix
*25. Let  be a complex cube root of unity with   0 and P  [ pij ] be an n  n matrix with pij  i  j . Then
p 2  0 when n is equal to: (2013)
(A) 57 (B) 55 (C) 58 (D) 56
a b a  b
*26. The determinant b c b   c is equal to zero, then: (1986)
a   b b  c 0
(A) a ,b, c are in AP (B) a ,b, c are in GP
(C) a ,b, c are in HP (D) ( x   ) is a factor of ax 2  2bx  c
*27. Let M be a 2  2 symmetric matrix with integer entries. Then, M is invertible, if: (2014)
(A) the first column of M is the transpose of the second row of M
(B) the second row of M is the transpose of the first column of M
(C) M is a diagonal matrix with non-zero entries in the main diagonal
(D) the product of entries in the main diagonal of M is not the square of an integer

1 4 4 
 
*28. If the adjoint of a 3  3 matrix P is 2 1 7  , then the possible value(s) of the determinant of P
1 1 3 
 
is/are: (2014)
(A) –2 (B) –1 (C) 1 (D) 2
*29. Let X and Y be two arbitrary, 3  3 , non-zero, skew – symmetric matrices and Z be an arbitrary 3  3 ,
non-zero, symmetric matrix. Then which of the following matrices is (are) skew symmetric?
(A) Y 3 Z 4  Z 4Y 3 (B) X 44  Y 44 (C) X 4Z 3  Z 3 X 4 (D) X 23  Y 23
2 2 2
1    1  2  1  3 
2 2 2
*30. Which of the following vales of  satisfy the equation  2     2  2   2  3    648  ?
2 2 2
 3     3  2   3  3 
(A) –4 (B) 9 (C) –9 (D) 4


3 1 2 
 
*31. Let P  2 0   , where    . Suppose Q  qij  is a matrix such that PQ = kI, where k   k  0
 
3 5 0 
 
k k2
and I the identity matrix of order 3. If q23 
8
 
and det Q 
2
, then :
(A)   0 k  8 (B) 4  k  8  0
(C) 
det P adj Q   29 (D) 
det Q adj P     213
*32. Let a , ,   R . Consider the system of linear equations ax  2y   , 3 x  2y  
Which of the following statement(s) is(are) correct ?
(A) If a  3 , then the system has infinitely many solutions for all values of  and 
(B) If a   3 , then the system has a unique solution for all values of  and 
(C) If     0 , then the system has infinitely many solutions for a  3
(D) If     0 , then the system has no solution for a  3
*33. Which of the following is (are) NOT the square of a 3 × 3 matrix with real entries ?
1 0 0   1 0 0  1 0 0  1 0 0 
       
(A) 0 1 0  (B)  0 1 0  (C) 0 1 0  (D) 0  1 0 
0 0 1  0 0 1 0 0 1  0 0 1
       
 b1 
 
*34. Let S be the set of all column matrices b2  such that b1,b2, b3   and the system of equations (in real
b 
 3
variables)  x  2y  5z  b1 , 2x  4y  3z  b2 , x  2y  2z  b3
has at least one solution. Then, which of the following system(s) (in real variables) has(have) at least one
 b1 
 
solution for each b2   S ?
b 
 3
(A) x  2y  3z  b1, 4y  5z  b2 and x  2y  6z  b3
(B) x  y  3z  b1, 5x  2y  6z  b2 and  2x  y  3z  b3
(C)  x  2y  5z  b1, 2x  4y  10z  b2 and x  2y  5z  b3
(D) x  2y  5z  b1, 2x  3z  b 2 and x  4y  5z  b 3
 sin 4  1  sin 2 
35. Let M     I  M 1 , where       and       are real numbers, and I is the
1  cos2  4
cos  
 
2  2 identity matrix. If * is the minimum of the set   :   0,2   and * is the minimum of the
 
set     :   0,2   . Then the value of  *  * is :
37 31 29 17
(A)  (B)  (C)  (D) 
16 16 16 16

0 1 a   1 1 1
   
*36. Let M  1 2 3  and adj M   8 6 2 
3 b 1   5 3 1
   
Where a and b are real numbers. Which of the following options is/are correct?
   1 
    1
(A) If M     2 , then       3 (B) adj M   adjM 1  M
   3 
   
(C) a b  3 (D) 
det adj M 2  81 
1 0 0  1 0 0  0 1 0 
     
*37. Let P1  I  0 1 0  , P2  0 0 1  , P3  1 0 0 
0 0 1  0 1 0  0 0 1 
     
0 1 0  0 0 1  0 0 1  6 2 1 3 
       
P4  0 0 1  , P5  1 0 0  , P6  0 1 0  and X   Pk 1 0 2  PkT
1 0 0  0 1 0  1 0 0  k 1 3 2 1 
       
where PkT denotes the transpose of the matrix Pk. Then which of the following options is(are) correct ?
(A) The sum of diagonal entries of X is 18 (B) X is a symmetric matrix

1 1
   
(C) X  30 I is an invertible matrix (D) If X 1   1 , then   30
1 1
   
1 1 1  2 x x 
   
*38. Let x   and let P  0 2 2  , Q   0 4 0  and R  PQP 1 .
0 0 3  x x 6
   
Then which of the following options is(are) correct ?
1  1 
   
(A) For x = 0, if R a   6 a  , then a  b  5
b  b 
   
2 x x 
 
(B) det R  det  0 4 0   8 , for all x  
x x 5 
 
   0 
ˆ ˆ ˆ    
(C) For x = 1, there exists a unit vector i  i  k for which R     0 
   0 
   
(D) There exists a real number x such that PQ = QP
1 log x y log x z
39. For positive numbers x , y and z , the numerical value of the determinant log y x 1 log y z is……
log z x log z y 1
(1993)
2
1 a a  bc
40. The value of the determinant 1 b b 2  ca is…… (1988)
2
1 c c  ab

x 3 7
41. Given that x  9 is a root of 2 x 2  0 , the other two roots are …… and ……… (1983)
7 6 x
1 4 20
42. The solution set of the equation 1 2 5  0 is …… (1981)
2
1 2x 5x
 2  3  1   3
4 3 2
43. Let p   q   r   s  t    1 2   4 be an identity in  , where p, q,r , s and t are
3 4 3
constants. Then, the value of t is …… (1981)

2k  1 2 k 2 k  0 2k  1 k 
   
44. Let k be a positive real number and let A   2 k 1 2k  and B  1  2k 0 2 k
   
 2 k 2k 1   k 2 k 0 
   
If det(adjA )  det(adjB )  10 6 ) , then [k ] is equal to …….. (2010)
45. The system of equations x  y  z  0 ,  x  y  z  0 and  x  y  z  0 will have a non-zero solution,

if real values of  are given by… (1982)
0   1 1  1 1  0 
           
46. Let M be a 3  3 matrix satisfying M 1    2  , M  1   1  , and M 1   0  , then the sum of the
0   3   0   1 1 12
           
diagonal entries of M is ……. (2011)
1  3 i ( z )r z 2s 
47. Let z   
, where i  1, and r ,s  1,2, 3 . Let P  
 z 2s
 and I be the identity matrix of
2 z r 
order 2. Then the total number of ordered pairs (r, s) for which P 2  I is __________.
x x2 1 x3
48. The total number of distinct x  R for which 2x 4x 2 1  8 x 3  10 is __________.
3x 9x 2 1  27 x 3
1  2   x   1 
    
49. For a real number , if the system   1    y    1 of linear equations, has infinitely many
 2    
  1   z   1 
solutions, then 1    2 
50. Let P be a matrix of order 3  3 such that all the entries in P are from the set { 1, 0, 1} . Then, the
maximum possible value of the determinant of P is _____ .


Let a, b and c be three real numbers satisfying
1 9 7
[a b c ] 8 2 7  [0 0 0] …………..(i) (2011)
7 3 7
51. If the point P (a ,b, c ) , with reference to Eq.(i), lies on the plane 2 x  y  z  1 , then the value of 7a  b  c
is:
(A) 0 (B) 12 (C) 7 (D) 6
52. Let b  6 , with a and c satisfying Eq.(i). If  and  are the roots of the quadratic equation
n

2
1 1
ax  bx  c  0 , then
 
n 0  

   is equal to:
6
(A) 6 (B) 7 (C) (D) 
7
53. Let  be a solution of x 3  1  0 with Im( )  0 . If a  2 with b and c satisfying Eq.(i) then the value of
3 1 1
  is:
b
 4
 c
(A) –2 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) –3

Let p be an odd prime number and Tp be the following set of 2  2 matrices
 a b  
T p[   A     ; a , b, c  {0, 1, 2,......, p  1} (2010)
  c a  
54. The number of A in T p such that det( A ) is not divisible by p, is:
(A) 2p 2 (B) p 3  5p (C) p 3  3p (D) p3  p2
55. The number of A in T p such that the trace of A is not divisible by p but det( A ) is divisible by p is:
(A) ( p  1)( p 2  p  1) (B) p 3  ( p  1)2
(C) ( p  1)2 (D) ( p  1)( p 2  2)
56. The number of A in T p such that A is either symmetric or skew-symmetric or both and det( A ) is
divisible by p is: [Note: the trace of a matrix is the sum of its diagonal entries.]
(A) ( p  1)2 (B) 2( p  1) (C) ( p  1)2  1 (D) 2p  1

57. If M is a 3  3 matrix, where M T M  I and det( M )  1 , then prove that det( M  1)  0 (2004)
a b c 
 
58. If matrix A  b c a  , where a , b, c are real positive numbers, abc  1 and A T A  I , then find the
c a b 
 
value of a 3  b 3  c 3 . (2003)
59. Let a , b, c be real numbers with a 2  b 2  c 2  1 . Show that the equation
ax  by  c bx  ay cx  a
bx  ay ax  by  c cy  b  0 represents a straight line. (2001)
cx  a cy  b ax  by  c
sin  cos  sin 2

 2   2   4 
60. Prove that for all value of  sin     cos     sin  2   0 (2000)
 3   3   3 
  
 2   2   4 
sin     cos     sin  2  
 3   3   3 
  

61. Suppose, f ( x ) is a function satisfying the following conditions: (1998)
(a) f (0)  2, f (1)  1

5
(b) f has a minimum value at x  , and
2
2ax 2ax  1 2ax  b  1
(c) for all x, f '( x )  b b 1 1
2(ax  b ) 2ax  2b  1 2ax  b
where a , b are some constants. Determine the constants a , b and the function f ( x ) .
bc ca ab
62. Find the value of the determinant p q r , where a , b and c are respectively the p th , qth and r th
1 1 1
terms of a harmonic progression. (1997)
63. Let a  0, d  0 . Find the value of the determinant
1 1 1
a a (a  d ) (a  d )(a  2d )
1 1 1
(1997)
(a  d ) (a  d )(a  2d ) (a  2d )(a  3d )
1 1 1
(a  2d ) (a  2d )(a  3d ) (a  3d )(a  4d )
64. For all values of A, B, C and P, Q, R, show that (1994)
cos( A  P ) cos( A  Q ) cos( A  R )

cos( B  P ) cos( B  Q ) cos( B  R )  0
cos(C  P ) cos(C  Q ) cos(C  R )
n! (n  1)! (n  2)!
 D 
65. For fixed positive integer n, if D  (n  1)! (n  2)! (n  3)! then show that   4  is divisible by n.
3
(n  2)! (n  3)! (n  4)!  (n !) 
(1992)
p b c
p q r
66. If a  p, b  q, c  r and a q c  0 . Then, find the value of   (1991)
p a q b r c
a b r
67. Let the three digit numbers A28, 3B9 and 62C, where A, B and C are integers between 0 and 9, be
A 3 6
divisible by a fixed integer k. Show that the determinant 8 9 C is divisible by k. (1990)
2 B 2

a 1 n 6 n
2 2
68. Let a  (a  1)
3
2n
3
4n  2 . Show that
2

a 1
a  c  constant . (1989)
(a  1) 3n 3n  3n
x x x x x 1 x 2
Cr Cr 1 Cr 2 Cr Cr 1 Cr 2
y y y y y 1 y 2
69. Show that Cr Cr 1 Cr 2  Cr Cr 1 Cr 2 (1985)
z z z z z 1 z 2
Cr Cr 1 Cr 2 Cr Cr 1 Cr 2
70. If  be a repeated root of a quadratic equation f ( x )  0 and A( x ), B( x ) and C( x ) be polynomials of

degree 3, 4 and 5 respectively, then show that:
A( x ) B ( x ) C ( x )
A ( ) B( ) C ( ) is divisible by f ( x ) , where prime denotes the derivatives. (1984)
A '( ) B '(  ) C '( )

x2  x x 1 x 2
2
71. Without expanding a determinant at any stage, show that: 2x  3x  1 3x 3 x  3  xA  B
2
x  2x  3 2x  1 2x  1
Where A and B are determinants of order 3 not involving x. (1982)
a b c
72. Let a , b , c be positive and not all equal. Show that the value of the determinant b c a is negative.
c a b
(1981)
a 0 1  a 1 1  f  a 2 
       
73. A  1 c b  , B   0 d c  , U   g  , V   0 
1 d b   f g h h  0
       
If there is a vector matrix X, such that AX  U has infinitely many solutions, then prove that
BX  V cannot have a unique solution. If a f d  0 . Then, prove that BX  V has no solution. (2004)
74. Let  and  be real. Find the set of all values of  for which the system of linear equations
x  (sin  )y  (cos  )z  0
x  (cos  )y  (sin  )z  0 and  x  (sin  )y  (cos  )z  0
has a non-trivial solution. For   1 , find all values of  . (1993)
75. Let 1, 2 , 1, 2 be the roots of ax 2  bx  c  0 and px 2  qx  r  0 respectively. If the system of
b2 ac
equations 1y  2z  0 and 1y  2z  0 has a non-trivial solution, then prove that  . (1987)
2 pr
q
76. Consider the system of linear equations in x , y, z
(sin )x  y  z  0 , (cos 2)x  4y  3z  0 and 2 x  7y  7 z  0
Find the values of  for which this system has non-trivial solution. (1986)
77. Show that the system of equations, 3 x  y  4 z  3 , x  2y  3z  2 and 6 x  5y  z  3 has atleast

one solution for any real number   5 . Find the set of solutions, if   5 . (1983)
78. For what values of m, does the system of equations 3x  my  m and 2 x  5y  20 has a solution
satisfying the conditions x  0, y  0 ? (1979)
79. For what value of k, does the following system of equations possess a non-trivial solution over the set of
rationals x  y  2z  0, 2x  3y  z  0 and x  5y  4z  k . Find all the solutions. (1979)
80. Given, x  cy  bz , y  az  cx , z  bx  ay , where x , y, z are not all zero, prove that
a 2  b 2  c 2  2ab  1 (1978)

1. In ABC, if sin A and sin B are the roots of the equation c 2x 2  c(a  b )x  ab  0, then sin C is:
(A) 0 (B) 1/2 (C) 1/ 2 (D) 1
2. If x 2  x  1, 2x  1, x 2  1 are the sides of a triangle, then its largest angle is:
(A) /3 (B) /4 (C) /6 (D) 2 / 3
3. The sides of triangle are in A.P. and the greatest angle exceeds the least by 90°. The sides are in the ratio:
(A) 1: 2 : 2 (B) 1: 3 : 2 (C) 7  1 : 7 : 7 1 (D) 2 / 3
4. The sides of a right angled triangle are in A.P., then they are in the ratio :
(A) 2:3:1 (B) 2:3:5 (C) 3:4:5 (D) 3:1:2
5. The circumcentre of the triangle lies within the triangle only when the triangle is :
(A) Acute angled (B) Right angled (C) Isosceles (D) None of these
6. In ABC, if tan A  tan B  tan C  3 3, then the triangle is :
(A) Isosceles (B) Right angled (C) Equilateral (D) None of these
7. From a point on the ground, the angle of elevation of a summit is found to be 45°. After walking 150 mt
towards the mountain, the angle of elevation of the summit is found to be 60° The height of the mountain
is :
(A) 10(2  3 )m (B) 27(2  3 )m (C) 10(2  3 )m (D) 75(3  3 )m
8. To the height of a hill CD with its top as C, a horizontal line AB of length a is drawn along the foot of the
hill. If CAB  , CBA  , DAC  , then CD is :
a sin  sin  a sin  sin  a sin(  ) a sin(  )

(A) (B) (C) (D)
sin(  ) sin(   ) sin  sin  sin  sin 
9. From the top of a pole of height 150 m, the angles of depression of another pole’s upper and lower end
are  and  respectively. If tan   4 / 3, tan   5 / 2, then the distance of the top of two poles is :
(A) 100 m (B) 110 m (C) 120 m (D) 130 m
10. As seen from the top of fort of height a metre the angle of depression of the upper and the lower end of a
lamp post are  and . The height of the lamp post is :
a sin(   ) a cos(   ) a sin(  ) a sin(  )

(A) (B) (C) (D)
sin   cos  cos   sin  cos   sin  sin   cos 
DTS - 1 70 Level - 1 | Properties of Triangle

11. From the top of a light house, the angles of depression of two stations on opposite side of it at a distance
‘a’ apart are  and . The height of the lamp post is :
a a a a
(A) (B) (C) (D)
sin   sin  cos   cos  tan   tan  cot   cot 
12. The perimeter of a triangle ABC is 6 times the arithmetic mean of the sines of its angles. If the side a is 1,
then A is :
(A) 30° (B) 60° (C) 90° (D) 120°
cos A cos B cos C

13. If   and the side a  2, then area of triangle is :
a b c
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 /2 (D) 3
sin A sin( A  B )
14. If  , then the sides of ABC are in :
sin C sin( B  C )
(A) A.P. (B) G.P. (C) H.P. (D) None of these
15. Which of the following is true in a triangle ABC :

B C A A B C
(A) (b  c )sin  2a cos (B) (b  c )cos  2a sin
2 2 2 2
A B C B C A
(C) (b  c )cos  a sin (D) (b  c )sin  2a cos
2 2 2 2

A b c
16. If cot  then the ABC is :
2 a
(A) isosceles (B) equilateral (C) right angled (D) None of these
17. In a triangle ABC, a (b cos C  c cos B ) is :
(A) a2 (B) b2  c 2 (C) 0 (D) None of these
sin 2 A  sin A  1
18. In any triangle ABC,  sin A
is always greater than or equal to :
19. CF is the internal bisector of angle C of ABC then CF is equal to :

2ab C a b C b sin A a c C
(i) cos (ii) cos (iii) (iv) cos
a b 2 2ab 2  C 2ab 2
sin  B  
 2 

(A) (i), (ii) (B) (i), (iii) (C) (ii), (iv) (D) (iii), (iv)
20. If in a triangle PQR, sin P , sin Q, sin R are in A.P., then :
(A) the altitudes are in A.P. (B) the altitudes are in H.P.
(C) the medians are in G.P. (D) the medians are in A.P.
21. In a triangle, a 2  b 2  c 2  ca  ab 3. Then the triangles is :

(A) equilateral
(B) right-angled and isosceles
(C) right-angled with A  90, B  60, C  30
(D) None of these
22. If in a triangle ABC, sin A  sin 2 B and 2 cos2 A  3 cos2 B, then the ABC is :
(A) right angled (B) obtuse angled (C) isosceles (D) equilateral
23. In a right angled triangle ABC sin2 A  sin2 B  sin 2 C is :

(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) –1 (D) 2
24. Sides of a  are in ratio 1 : 3 : 2, then angles of  are in ratio :

(A) 1:3:5 (B) 2:3:4 (C) 3:2:1 (D) 1:2:3
b c c a a b
25. With usual notations, if in a triangle ABC   , then cos A : cos B : cos C is :
11 12 13
(A) 7 ; 19 : 25 (B) 19 : 7 : 25 (C) 12 : 14 : 20 (D) 19 : 25 : 20

1 1 3
26. If   , then C is :
a c b c a b c
(A) 90° (B) 60° (C) 45° (D) 30°
a c
27. If the angles A, B, C of the triangle ABC be in A.P., then is :
(a 2  ac  c 2 )
A C A C A C A C
(A) 2 cos (B) 2 sin (C) 2 cos (D) 2 sin
2 2 2 2
28. The value of (a  b  c )(cos A  cos B  cos C ) is :
A A A A
(A)  a sin2 2 (B)  a cos2 2 (C) 2  a sin2 2 (D) 2  a cos2 2
29. If the sides a triangle are in the ratio 2 : 6 : ( 3  1), then the largest angle of the triangle will be :
(A) 60° (B) 75° (C) 90° (D) 120°
30. In a triangle, the lengths of the two larger sides are 10 and 9 respectively. If the angles are in A.P.,
the length of the third side can be :
(A) 5 6 (B) 3 3 (C) 5 (D) 6

(2 cos A ) (cos B ) (2 cos C ) a b

31. If in a triangle ABC,     , then the value of angle A in degrees is :
a b c bc ca
(A) 90° (B) 135° (C) 45° (D) None of these
1
32. In a triangle ABC, 2ac sin ( A  B  C ) is :
2
(A) a 2  b2  c2 (B) c2  a 2  b 2 (C) b2  c2  a 2 (D) c2  a 2  b2
(a  b  c )(b  c  a )(c  a  b )(a  b  c )

33. The expression is :
4b 2c 2
(A) cos 2 A (B) 1  cos A (C) 1  cos A (D) sin2 A

C A 3b
34. If in a triangle a cos2  c cos2  , then the sides of the triangle are in :
2 2 2
35. The two adjacent sides a cyclic quadrilateral are 2 and 5 and the angle between them is 60°. If the area of
the quadrilateral is 4 3, then the perimeter of the quadrilateral is :
(A) 12 (B) 12.5 (C) 13 (D) 13.2
A b c 
36. If cos    , then :
2  2c 
 
(A) a 2  b 2  c2 (B) b2  c 2  a 2 (C) c2  a 2  b2 (D) None of these
B C
37. If b  c  3a , then the value of cot cot is :
2 2
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 2
38. If the hypotenuse of right-angled triangle is four times the length of perpendicular drawn from opposite
vertex to it, then the difference of two acute angles will be:
(A) 75° (B) 15° (C) 60° (D) 30°
39. If in a triangle ABC, a  6, b  3 and cos( A  B )  4 / 5, then its area in sq. units is :
(A) 3 (B) 6 (C) 9 (D) 12
40. The two adjacent sides of a cyclic quadrilateral are 2 and 5 and the angle between them is 60°. If the area
of the quadrilateral is 4 3, then the remaining two sides are :
(A) 2, 3 (B) 1, 2 (C) 3, 4 (D) 2, 2

A C
41. If the sides of triangle a, b, c be in A.P. then tan  tan is :
2 2
2 A 2 B 2 C
(A) cot (B) cot (C) cot (D) None of these
3 2 3 2 3 2
A 5 C 2
42. In a ABC, tan  , tan  , then :
2 6 2 5
(A) a, c, b are in A.P. (B) a, b, c are in A.P.
(C) b, a, c are in A.P. (D) a, b, c are in G.P.
43. If the lengths of the sides of a triangle are 3, 4 and 5 units, the R the circum-radius is :
(A) 2.0 (B) 2.5 (C) 3.0 (D) 3.5
44. In a triangle ABC, let C   / 2. If r is the inradius and R is the circumradius of the triangle, then
2(r  R ) is equal to :
(A) a+b (B) b+c (C) c+a (D) a+b+c
45. If r1, r2, r3 in triangle be in H.P., then the sides are :

46. Which of the following pieces of data does NOT uniquely determine an acut-angled triangle ABC (R being
the radius of the circumcircle)?
(A) a, sin A, sin B (B) a, b, c (C) a, sin B, R (D) a, sin A, R
47. The area of a circle and the area of a regular polygon of n side and of perimeter equal to that of the circle
are in the radio :
       
(A) tan : (B) cos : (C) sin : (D) cot :
n n n n n n n n
48. In a triangle ABC the length of the bisector of angle A is :
bc A bc A
(i) 2 sin (ii) 2 cos
b c 2 (b  c ) 2
abc A 4A A
(iii) cosec (iv) cosec
2 R (b  c ) 2 b c 2
(A) (i), (ii) (B) (ii), (iii) (C) (ii), (iv) (D) (i), (iv)
49. If H is orthocenter of the triangle ABC, then AH is equal to :
(A) a cot A (B) a cot B (C) b cot A (D) c cot A
50. If A1 and A2 be areas of two regular polygons having the same perimeter and number of sides be n and
A1
2n respectively, then : is
A2
   

2 sin   2 cos   2 cos   2 sin  
n  n  n  n 
(A)   (B)   (C)   (D)  
   
1  cos   1  sin   1  cos   1  sin  
n  n  n  n 
       
b c c a a b
51. The value of   is :
r1 r2 r3
(A) ab (B) bc (C) ca (D) 0
52. The in-radius of the triangle formed by the axes and the line 4x + 3y – 12 = 0 is :
1 1
(A) r=2 (B) r  (C) r=1 (D) r
2 4

53. In an acute angled triangle which one of the following is true :
a sec A  b sec B  c sec C
(i)  2R
tan A.tan B.tan C
cos A cos B cos C
(ii)  
4R 2  a 2 4R 2  b 2 4R 2  c 2
(iii) b 2  a 2 cos2 C  c 2 cos2 A  2ac cos A.cos C

A B C
(iv) r cot  a  r cot  b  r cot c
2 2 2
(A) (i), (ii) (B) (ii), (iii) (C) (i), (ii), (iii) (D) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
a cos A  b cos B  c cos C

54. In a triangle is :
a b  c
R r R 2r
(A) (B) (C) (D)
r R 2r R
55. If the radius of the circum-circle of an isosceles triangles ABC is equal to AB (= AC), then angle A is :
   2
(A) (B) (C) (D)
6 3 2 3
56. There exists a triangle ABC satisfying the conditions :

(i) b sin A  a , A   / 2 (ii) b sin A  a , A   / 2
(iii) b sin A  a , A   / 2 (iv) b sin A  a , A   / 2, b  a
(A) (i), (v) (B) (iii), (ii) (C) (i), (iv) (D) (ii), (iv)
57. The sides of a triangle are 17, 25, 28. The greatest altitude is of length :
(A) 420/17 (B) 84/5 (C) 15 (D) None of these
58. If the cotangents of half the angles of a triangle are in A.P., then the sides are in :
59. If the roots of the equation c 2 x 2  c(a  b )x  ab  0 are sin A, sin B where A, B and C are the angles and
a, b, c are the opposite sides of a triangle, then the triangle is :
a b
(i) right angled (ii) acute angled (iii) obtuse angled (iv) sin A  cos A 
c
(A) (i), (iv) (B) (ii), (iii) (C) (iv), (ii) (D) (i), (ii), (iii)
60. If c 2  a 2  b 2 , then 4s(s  a )(s  b )(s  c ) is :
(A) s4 (B) b 2c 2 (C) c 2a 2 (D) a 2b 2

b c A c a B a b C
61. The value of cos2  cos2  cos2 is :
a 2 b 2 c 2
(A) (s  a )(s  b ) (B) (s – b) (s – c) (C) (s – c) (s – a) (D) 0
*62. Which of the following holds goods for any triangle ABC ?
cos A cos B cos C a 2  b2  c2 sin A sin B sin C 3

(A)    (B)   
a b c 2abc a b c 2R
cos A cos B cos C sin 2 A sin 2B sin 2C
(C)   (D)  
a b c a2 b2 c2
Prove the following questions (63 – 75)
1 1
63. a cos  B  C   b  c  sin A
2 2
1  cos  A  B  cos C a 2  b2
64. 
1  cos  A  C  cos B a 2  c2
65. a  cos B cos C  cos A   b  cos C cos A cos B   c  cos A cos B  cos C 
c tan A / 2  tan B /2
66. (a) 
a b tan A / 2  tan B / 2
c 1  tan A / 2  tan B /2
(b) 
a b 1  tan A /2  tan B /2
a b AB 1 2 sin B sin C
67. cot . Also show that the area of triangle is : a
a b 2 2 sin A
 B C  2 B C 
cos2   sin  
68.  2   2   1
b  c 2 b  c 2 a2
a 2 sin  B  C  b 2 sin C  A  c 2 sin  A  B 

69.   0
sin B  sin C sin C  sin A sin A  sin B
70. a sin A / 2 sin  B  C  /2  b sin B /2 C  A  / 2  c sin C / 2 sin  A  B  / 2  0
A B C
71. b  c  cot   c  a  cot  a  b  cot 0
2 2 2
72. a 3 sin  B  C   b 3 sin C  A   c 3 sin  A  B   0
A B 2c
73. 1  tan tan 
2 2 a  b  c 
A C a c
74. 2 cos  if angles A,B,C are in A.P.
2 a 2
 ac  c 2
cos A cos B cos C b c c a a b
75.   if  
7 19 25 11 12 13

76. If in a ABC,cot A  cot B  cot C  3 . Prove that triangle is equilateral.
77. If b  c  3a , prove that cot B / 2 cot C / 2  2 .
78. If p1, p 2 and p 3 are the altitudes of a triangle from the vertices of a ABC and  is the area of triangle,
1 1 1 2ab C
prove that :    cos2
p1 p2 p3  a b c  2
79. If ,  and  are the lengths of altitudes ABC and  be its area prove that :
1 1 1  cot A  cot B  cot C 

  
2 2 2 
  
Prove the following questions (80-83)
80. a rr1  r2r3   b rr2  r3r1   c rr3  r1r2 
1 1 1 1 a 2  b2  c2
81.    
r12 r22 r32 r2 2
r
82. cos A  cos B  cos C  I 
R
r2  r1 r3  r1 r1  r2
83.  
1  cos A 1  cos B 1  cos C
84. If p1, p 2 and p 3 are respectively the perpendiculars from the vertices of a triangle to the opposite sides,
1 1 1 1
prove that :    .
p1 p2 p3 r
85. Prove that the distance of the incentre of ABC from A is 4R sin B / 2 sin C /2 .

86. The sides of a triangle are three consecutive natural numbers and its largest angle is twice the smallest
one. Determine the sides of the triangle.
87. If A, A1, A2 , A3 are respectively areas of the inscribed and escribed circles, prove that:
1 1 1 1
  
A A1 A2 A3
 r1   r1 
88. Prove that a triangle is right angled if : 1   1    2 .
 r  r 
 2  3
89. In a triangle ABC, prove the following :

A B C
(i) 2abc cos cos cos  a  b  c  
2 2 2
tan A /2 tan B / 2 tan C /2 1

(ii)   
 a  b a  c  b  c b  a  c  a c  b  s
90. If in any triangle the ratio of angles be 1:2:3, prove that the corresponding sides are in the ratio 1 : 3 : 2 .
91. If a cos A  b cos B, prove that the ABC is either isosceles or right angled.
92. If in a  ABC, c  a  b  cos B / 2  b  a  c  cos C / 2, prove that the triangle is isosceles.
93. Let A, B be two points on the bank of a straight river, and C, D points on the other bank, the directions
from A to B along the river being the same as from C to D.
a sin  sin 
If AB  a , CAD  , DAB  , CBA  , then prove that AB ||CD and AB : CD 

sin  sin      
94. If p1, p2, p3 are the altitudes of a triangle from the vertices A, B, C and  is the area of the triangle, then
1 1 1 2ab C
prove that    cos2
p1 p2 p3 (a  b  c ) 2
95. In the ambiguous case, it two triangles are formed with a, b, A; then that the sum of areas of these
triangles is 1/2 b 2 sin 2 A .

96. The sides of a triangle are in the ratio 2 : 6 :  

3  1 ; find its angle.
For Questions 97 - 99
In each of the following questions two statements are given as statement-1 statement-2 examine the
statements carefully and answer the questions according to the instructions given below:
(A) If statement -1 is true, statement –II is true; statement –II is a correct explanation for statement-I
(B) If statement –II is true, statement –II is true; statement –II is not a correct explanation for
statement –I
(C) If statement –I is true, statement –II is false
(D) If statement –I is false, statement –II is true
97. Statement 1: in a ABC, if a  b  c and r inradius and r1,r2,r3 are the exradii opposite to angle
A, B,C respectively then r  r1  r2  r3
r1r2r3
Statement 2: For ; ABC r1r2  r2r3  r3r1 
r
98. Statement 1: if the sides of triangle are 13, 14, 15 then the radius of incircle = 4
a b c 
Statement 2: in a ABC   s  s  a  s  b  s  c  where s  and r 
2 s
A
cos2 2
2 has the value equal to s
99. Statement 1: in a ABC,  a abc
A  s  b  s  c  B s  a s  c  C s  a s  b 
Statement 2: in a ABC cos  ,cos  ,cos 
2 bc 2 ac 2 ab
100. If the sides of a triangle are in A.P., and its greatest angle exceeds the least angle by  , show that the
1  cos 
sides are in the ration 1  x :1 :1  x , where x 
7  cos 
101. If r1, r2 , r3 are the ex-radii of ABC then prove that:

bc ca ab  a b  b c   c a  
   2R          3
r1 r2 r3  b a   c b  a c
   

 
102. If r and R are radii of the incircle and circum-circle of ABC , prove that:
8rR {cos2 A / 2  cos2 B / 2  cos2 C / 2}  2bc  2ca  2ab  a 2  b 2  c 2
s2
103. If A is the area and 2s the sum if the sides of a triangle, then show A  .
3 3
104.    
In the triangle ABC, if a 2  b 2 sin  A  B   a 2  b 2 sin  A  B  . Prove that the triangle is either
isosceles or right angled.
105. The sides of a ABC are in A.P. if the angles A and C are the greatest and smallest angles respectively,
prove that : 4  I  cos A  I  cos C   cos A  cos C

106. Perpendiculars are drawn from the angles A, B, C of an acute angled D on the opposite sides and
produced to meet the circumscribing circle. If these produced parts be , ,  respectively shown that
a b c
   2  tan A  tan B  tan C 
  
a b c
107. in any ABC, if cos   ,cos   ,cos   where ,  and  lie between 0 and , prove
b c a c a b
 
that tan 2  tan 2   tan2 1
2 2
108. Given the base ‘a’ of a triangle, the opposite angle A, and the product k 2 of the order two sides, shown
A
that it is not possible form ‘a’ to be less than 2k sin .
2
109. if a ,b,c are in H.P. prove that sin2 A /2,sin 2 B / 2,sin2 C /2 are also in H.P.
110. in a triangle ABC, if cos A  2 cos B  cos C  2 . Prove that the sides of the triangle are in A.P.
111. Consider the following statements concerning a triangle ABC:

(i) The sides a, b, c and area of  are rational
B C
(ii) a,tan ,tan are rational
2 2
(iii) a ,sin A,sin B sin C are rational
Prove that : (i)  (ii)  (iii)  (i)
112. Prove that a triangle ABC is equilateral if and only if tan A  tan B  tan C  3 3 .
113. Let ABC be a triangle having O and I as its circumcentre and incentre, respectively. If R and r are the
2
circumradius and the inradius, respectively, then prove that  IO   R 2  2 R r . Further show that the
triangle BIO is a right-angled triangle if and only if b is the arithmetic mean of a and c.
114. Let ABC be a triangle with incentre I and inradius r. let D, E, F be the feet of the perpendiculars from I to
the sides BC, CA and AB respectively. If r1,r2 and r3 are the radii of circles inscribed in the quadrilaterals
r1 r2 r3 r1r2r3
AFIE, BDIF and CEIF respectively, prove that:   
r  r1 r  r2 r  r3 r  r1 r  r2  r  r3 
115. I n is the area of n sided regular polygon inscribed in a circle of unit radius and On be the area of the
 2
On   2 In  
polygon circumscribing the given circle, prove that I n  1 1   
2   n  
 

B C A AB C CA B
116. If X  tan tan ; y  Tan  tan ; Z  tan  tan , then find the value of
2 2 2 2 2 2
X  Y  Z  XYZ .
117. Let  ABC be equilateral on sides BA produced, we choose a point P such that A lies between P and B.
We now denote ‘a’ as the length of a side of ABC; r1 as the radius of incircle of  PAC; and r2 as the
radius of the excircle of  PBC with respect to side BC. Determine the sum (r1  r2 ) as a function of ‘a’
alone.
118. A hexagon is inscribed in a circle of radius r. Two of its sides have length 1, two have length 2 and the
last two have length 3. Prove that r is a root of the equation 2r 3  7r  3  0 .
119. The base of a triangle is divided into three equal parts. If 1, 2 , 3 be the angle subtended by these parts
at the vertex, prove that: (cot 1  cot 2 ) (cot 2  cot 3 )  4 cosec2 2 .
54 3
120. If the circum-radius of a  is , and its sides are in G.P. with ratio , find the sides of the  .
1463 2

121. Prove that a 2  b 2  c 2  2abc  2 where a , b , c are the sides of triangle ABC such that a  b  c  2 .
122. Let point P1, P2 , P3 ,..., Pn 1 divides the side BC of a  ABC into n parts. Let r1, r2, r3, .... rn be the radii of
inscribed circles and let p1, p2 , ...., pn be the radii of escribed circle corresponding to vertex  for
triangle ABP1, AP1P2, ...., APn 1C and let r and P be the corresponding radii for the triangle ABC. Show
r r r r
that 1  2 ... n  .
P1 P2 Pn P
123. A polygon of n sides, inscribed in a circle, is such that its sides subtend angle 2, 4 , ...., 2n  at the
centre of the circles. Prove that its area A1 , is to the area A2 of the regular polygon of n sides inscribed
in the same circle, as sin n  : n sin  .
124. A1, A2 , A3 ,..., An is a regular polygon of n sides circumscribed about a circle of centre O and radius ‘a’. P
is any point distant ‘c’ from O. Show that the sum of the squares of the perpendicular from P on the sides
 c 2 
of the polygon is n  a 2  .
 2 
 
125. Show that in any ABC , a 3 cos 3 B  3a 2b cos(2B  A )  3ab 2 cos ( B  2 A )  b 3 cos 3 A  c 3 .

126. Let ABC be a  with altitudes h1, h 2 , h 3 and inradius r. Prove that:
h1  r h  r h3  r
 2  6.
h1  r h 2  r h3  r
a cos A  b cos B  c cos C a b c

127. If in a ABC ,  , then prove that  is equilateral.
a sin B  b sin C  c sin A 9R
128. In ABC, ' h ' is the length of altitude drawn from vertex A on the side BC.
Prove that: 2(b 2  c 2 )  4h 2  a 2 . Also discuss the case when equality holds true.
129. Consider a ABC . A directly similar A1B1C1 is inscribed in the ABC such that A1, B1 and C1 are the
interior points of the sides AC, AB and BC respectively. Prove that:
Area ( A1B1C1 ) 1
 .
Area ( ABC ) cosec2 A cosec2B  cosec2C
130. Find the angle at the vertex of an isosceles triangle having the maximum area for the given length ‘l’ of
the median to one of its equal sides.

131. Consider a ABC and points A1 and B1 on side BC such that BAA1   B1AC . If in-circles of BAA1 and
1 1 1 1
B1AC touch the sides BA1 and B1C at M and N respectively, prove that:   
BM MA1 B1N NC
132. An equilateral triangle PQR is circumscribed about a given triangle ABC.
a 2  b2  c2
Prove that the maximum area of PQR is 2   . Where a, b, c are the sides of ABC and  is
2 3
its area.
133. In a ABC , rA , rB , rC are the radii of the circles which touch the incircle and the sides emanating from
the vertices A, B, C respectively. Prove that: rA rB  rBrC  rCr A  r .
134. Find the point inside a  from which the sum of the squares of distance to the three sides is minimum.
Also find the minimum value of the sum of squares of distance.
135. In a scalene acute ABC , it is known that the line joining circumcentre and orthocentre is parallel to
 
BC. Prove that the angle A   ,  .
3 2
 

136. Consider an acute angled ABC . Let AD, BE and CF be the altitudes drawn from the vertices to the
EF FD DE R r
opposite sides. Prove that:    .
a b c R
137. Two circles, the sum of whose radii is ‘a’ are placed in the same plane with their centre distance ‘2a’
apart. An endless string is fully stretched so as partly to surround the circle and to cross between them.
 4 
Prove that length of string is   2 3  a.
 3 
 
138. If  0 is the area of  formed by joining the points of contact of incircle with the sides of the given triangle
whose area is  . Similarly 1 ,  2 and  3 are the corresponding area of the  formed by joining the
1 2 3 
points of contact of excircles with the sides. Prove that:    0  2.
   
139. Let P be the point inside the ABC . Such that APB  BPC  CPA prove that:
a 2  b2  c2
PA  PB  PC   2 3  , where a ,b, c,  are the sides and the area of ABC .
2
140. In an acute angled ABC , the points A ' , B ' and C ' are located such that: A ' is the point where altitude
from A on BC meets the outward facing semi-circle drawn on BC as diameter, Points B ' , C ' are located
similarly. Prove that {ar ( BCA ')}2  {ar (CAB ')}2  {ar ( ABC ')}2  {ar ( ABC )}2 .

1. PQR is a triangular park with PQ  PR  200 m. A T.V. tower stands at the mid-point of QR. If the angles
of elevation of the top of the tower at P, Q and R are respectively 45°, 30° and 30°, then the height of the
tower (in m) is:
(A) 50 2 (B) 100 (C) 50 (D) 100 3
2. Consider the following two statements :

Statement p : The value of sin120 can be derived by taking   240 in the equation

2 sin  1  sin   1  sin 
2
Statement q : The angles A, B, C and D of any quadrilateral ABCD satisfy the equation
1  1 
cos  ( A  C )   cos  ( B  D )   0
2  2 
   
Then the truth value of p and q are respectively :
(A) T, T (B) F, F (C) F, T (D) T, F
3. A tower T1 of height 60 m is located exactly opposite to a tower T2 of height 80 m on a straight road.
From the top of T1, if the angle of depression of the foot of T2 is twice the angle of elevation of the top of
T2, then the width (in m) of the road between the feet of the towers T1 and T2 is :
(A) 20 3 (B) 10 3 (C) 10 2 (D) 20 2
4. A man of the top of a vertical tower observes a car moving at a uniform speed towards the tower on a
horizontal road. If it takes 18 min. for the angle of depression of the car to change from 30° to 45°; then
after this, the time taken (in min.) by the car to reach the foot of the tower, is :
9
(A) 9(1  3 ) (B) 18( 3  1) (C) ( 3  1) (D) 18(1  3 )
2
5. If an angle A of a ABC satisfies 5 cos A  3  0, then the roots of the quadratic equation,
9x 2  27 x  20  0 are :
(A) sin A, sec A (B) sec A, cot A (C) sec A, tan A (D) tan A, cos A
6. Let a vertical tower AB have its end A on the level ground. Let C be the mid-point of AB and P be a point
on the ground such that AP  2 AB. if BPC  , then tan  is equal to:
1 2 4 6
(A) (B) (C) (D)
4 9 9 7
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7. The two adjacent sides a cyclic quadrilateral are 2 and 5 and the angle between them is 60°. If the area of
the quadrilateral is 4 3, then the perimeter of the quadrilateral is :
(A) 12 (B) 12.5 (C) 13 (D) 13.2
8. A man is walking towards a vertical pillar in a straight path, at a uniform speed. At a certain point A on
the path, he observes that the angle of elevation of the top of the pillar is 30°. After walking for 10
minutes from A in the same direction, at a point B, he observes that the angle of elevation of the top of
the pillar is 60°. Then the time taken (in minutes) by him, from B to reach the pillar is :
(A) 6 (B) 10 (C) 20 (D) 5
9. The angle of elevation of the top of a vertical tower from a point A, due east of it is 45°. The angle of
elevation of the top of the same tower from a point B, due south of A is 30°. If the distance between A and
B is 54 2 m, then the height of the tower (in metres), is :
(A) 108 (B) 36 3 (C) 54 3 (D) 54
10. If the angles of elevation of the top of a tower from three collinear points A, B and C, on a line leading to
the foot of the tower are 30°, 45° and 60° respectively, then the ratio, AB : BC is :
(A) 1: 3 (B) 2:3 (C) 3 :1 (D) 3: 2
a
11. In a ABC,  2  3 and C  60. Then the ordered pair ( A, B ) is equal to :
b
(A) (15°, 105°) (B) (105°, 15°) (C) (45°, 75°) (D) (75°, 45°)
12. Let 10 vertical poles standing at equal distances on a straight line, subtend the same angle of elevation
 at a point O on this line and all the poles are on the same side of O. If the height of the longest pole is
‘h’ and the distance of the foot of the smallest pole from O is ‘a’; then the distance between two
consecutive poles is :
h sin   a cos  h cos   a sin 
(A) (B)
9 sin  9 cos 
h cos   a sin  h sin   a cos 

(C) (D)
9 sin  9 cos 

13. A bird is sitting on the top of a vertical pole 20 m height and its elevation from a point O on the ground is
45°. It files off horizontally straight away from the point O. After one second, the elevation of the bird from
O is reduced to 30°. Then the speed (in m/s) of the bird is :
(A) 40( 3  2 ) (B) 20 2 (C) 20( 3  1) (D) 40( 2  1)
14. ABCD is a trapezium such that AB and CD are parallel and BC  CD. If ADB  , BC  p and CD  q,
then AB is equal to :
p 2  q 2 cos  p2  q2 ( p 2  q 2 )sin  ( p 2  q 2 )sin 

(A) (B) (C) (D)
p cos   q sin  p 2 cos   q 2 sin  ( p cos   q sin )2 p cos   q sin 
15. For a regular polygon, let r and R be the radii of the inscribed and the circumscribed circles. A false
statement among the following is :
(A) there is a regular polygon with r / R  1/ 2
(B) there is a regular polygon with r / R  1/ 2
(C) there is a regular polygon with r / R  2 / 3
(D) there is a regular polygon with r / R  3 / 2
16. AB is a vertical pole with B at the ground level and A at the top. A man finds that the angle of elevation of
the point A from a certain point C on the ground is 60°. He moves away from the pole along the line BC to
a point D such that CD  7 m. From D the angle of elevation of the point A is 45°. Then the height of the
pole is :
7 3 1 7 3 1 7 3 7 3
(A) m (B) m (C) ( 3  1)m (D) ( 3  1)m
2 3 1 2 3 1 2 2
17. A tower stands at the centre of a circular park. A and B are two points on the boundary of the park such
that AB(  a ) subtends an angle of 60° at the foot of the tower, and the angle of elevation of the top of the
tower from A or B is 30°. The height of the tower is:
(A) a/ 3 (B) a 3 (C) 2a / 3 (D) 2a 3
18. If in a ABC, the altitudes from the vertices A, B, C on opposite sides are in H.P., then sin A, sin B, sin C
are in :
(A) H.P. (B) Arithmetic-Geometric progression
(C) A.P. (D) G.P.


19. In a triangle ABC, let C  . If r is the inradius and R is the circumradius of the triangle ABC, then
2
2(r  R ) equals :
(A) a b (B) bc (C) c a (D) a b c
20. A person standing on the bank of a river observes that the angle of elevation of the top of a tree on the
opposite bank of the river is 60° and when he retires 40 metres away from the tree the angle of elevation
becomes 30°. The breadth of the river is :
(A) 40 m (B) 30 m (C) 20 m (D) 60 m

21. The sides of a triangle are sin , cos  and 1  sin  cos  for some 0    . Then the greatest angle of
2
the triangle is :
(A) 120° (B) 90° (C) 60° (D) 150°
C   A  3b
22. If in a triangle ABC, a cos2    c cos2    , then the sides a , b and c :
2 2 2
   
(A) are in G.P. (B) are in H.P.
(C) satisfy a  b  c (D) are in A.P.
23. In a triangle ABC, medians AD and BE are drawn. If AD  4, DAB   / 6 and ABE   / 3, then the
area of the ABC is:
16 32 64
(A) (B) (C) (D) 8/3
3 3 3 3 3 3
24. The sum of the radii of inscribed and circumscribed circles for an n sides regular polygon of side a, is:
a       a    
(A) cot   (B) a cot   (C) cot   (D) a cot  
2  2n   2n  4  2n  n 
       
25. In a triangle with sides a , b, c, r1  r2  r3 (which are the ex-radii) then :
(A) a b c (B) a b c
(C) a  b and b  c (D) a  b and b  c

1. If the angles A, B and C of a triangle are in an arithmetic progression and if a, b and c denote the lengths
a c
of the sides opposite to A, B and C respectively, then the value of the expression sin 2C  sin 2 A is:
c a
(A) 1/2 (B) 3 /2 (C) 1 (D) 3
2. In a ABC , among the following which one is true?

A B C B C A
(A) (b  c ) cos  a sin   (B) (b  c ) cos    a sin
2  2   2  2
   
 B C  A A  B C 
(C) (b  c ) cos    a cos   (D) (b  c ) cos  a sin  
 2  2 2  2 
     
3. The sides of a triangle are in the ratio 1 : 3 : 2, then the angles of the triangle are in the ratio:
(A) 1:3:5 (B) 1:3:2 (C) 1:2  3 (D) 1 : 2:3
4. If the angles of a triangle are in the ration 4 : 1 : 1, then the ratio of the longest side to the perimeter is:
(A) 3 : (2  3 ) (B) 1:3 :2 (C) 1:2  3 (D) 2:3
1 
5. In a ABC, 2ac sin  ( A  B  C ) is equal to:
 2 
(A) a 2  b2  c 2 (B) c2  a 2  b 2 (C) b2  c2  a 2 (D) c2  a 2  b2
 P  Q
6. In a  PQR , R  , if tan   and tan   are the roots of the equation ax 2  bx  c  0(a  0) , then:
2   2
2  
(A) a b  c (B) b c a (C) a c b (D) bc
7. If in a PQR, sin P , sin Q , sin R are in AP, then:

(A) the altitudes are in AP (B) the altitudes are in HP
(C) the medians are in GP (D) the medians are in AP
  sin BAD
8. In a ABC , B  and C  . Let D divides BC internally in the ratio 1: 3, then is equal to:
3 4 sin CAD
(A) 1/ 6 (B) 1/3 (C) 1/ 3 (D) 2/3

9. Let ABC be a triangle such that ACB  . If a, b and c denote the lengths of the sides opposite to A, B
6
and C respectively. Then, the value(s) of x for which a  x 2  x  1, b  x 2  1 and c  2 x  1 is(are):
(A) (2  3 ) (B) 1 3 (C) 2 3 (D) 4 3
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10. If PQR is a triangle of are  with a  2, b  and c  , where a ,b and c are the lengths of the sides of
2 2
2 sin P  sin 2P
the triangle opposite to the angle at P , Q and R , respectively. Then, equals:
2 sin P  sin 2P
2 5
3 45  3   45 
(A) (B) (C)   (D)
 
4 4  4   4 
   
2
11. In radius of a circle which is inscribed in a isosceles triangle one of whose angle is , is 3 , then area
3
of triangle (in sq units) is:
(A) 4 3 (B) 12  7 3 (C) 12  7 3 (D) None of these
12. In a triangle, the sum of two sides is x and the product of the same two sides is y. If x 2  c 2  y , where c
is the third side of the triangle, then the ratio of the inradius to the circumradius of the triangle is:
3y 3y 3y 3y
(A) (B) (C) (D)
2x (x  c ) 2c ( x  c ) 4x ( x  c ) 4c ( x  c )
13. Which of the following pieces of data does not uniquely determine an acute angled ABC (R being the
radius of the circumcircle)?
(A) a , sin A, sin B (B) a , b, c (C) a , sin B, R (D) a , sin A, R

14. In a C , let C  . If r is the inradius and R is the circumradius of the triangle, then 2(r  R ) is
2
equal to:
(A) a b (B) bc (C) c a (D) a b c
Passage for questions 15 – 17
Consider the circle x 2  y2  9 and the parabola y2  8 x . They intersect at P and Q in the first and the fourth
quadrants, respectively. Tangents to the circle at P and Q intersect the X-axis at R and tangents to the parabola
at P and Q intersect the X-axis at S.
15. The radius of the incircle of  PQR is:
(A) 4 (B) 3 (C) 8/3 (D) 2
16. The radius of the circumcircle of the PRS is:
(A) 5 (B) 3 3 (C) 3 2 (D) 2 3
17. The ratio of the area of PQS and PQR is:
(A) 1: 2 (B) 1:2 (C) 1: 4 (D) 1:8
1
*18. In a PQR , P is the largest angle and cos P  . Further in circle of the triangle touches the sides
3
PQ, QR and RP at N, L and M respectively, such that the lengths of PN , QL and RM are consecutive even
integers. Then, possible length(s) of the side(s) of the triangle is/are:
(A) 16 (B) 18 (C) 24 (D) 22

A
*19. In a ABC with fixed base BC, the vertex A moves such that cos B  cos C  4 sin2 . If a , b and c
2
denote the lengths of the sides of the triangle opposite to the angles A, B and C respectively, then:
(A) b  c  4a (B) b  c  2a
(C) Locus of point A is an ellipse (D) Locus of point A is a pair of straight line
*20. Internal bisector of A of ABC meets side BC at D. A line drawn through D perpendicular to AD
intersects the side AC at E and side AB at F. If a , b, c represent sides of ABC , then:
2bc A
(A) AE is HM of b and c (B) AD  cos
b c 2
4bc A
(C) EF  sin (D) AEF is isosceles
b c 2
*21. There exists a ABC satisfying the conditions:
 
(A) b sin A  a , A  (B) b sin A  a , A 
2 2
 
(C) b sin A  a , A  (D) b sin A  a , A  ,b  a
2 2
*22. A straight line through the vertex P of a  PQR intersects the side QR at the point S and the circumcircle
of the PQR at the point T. If S is not the centre of the circumcircle, then:
1 1 2 1 1 2
(A)   (B)  
PS ST QS  SR PS ST QS  SR
1 1 4 1 1 4
(C)   (D)  
PS ST QR PS ST QR
abc
23. In a ABC, AD is the altitude from A. Given b, c, C  23 and AD  , then B  ...
b  c2
2
2 cos A cos B 2 cos C a b

24. If in a ABC,     then, the value of the A is ___ degree.
a b c bc ca
25. The set of all real numbers a such that a 2  2a , 2a  3 and a 2  3a  8 are the sides of a triangle is:
1 1 1
26. Let A1, A2 ,... An be the vertices of an n-sides regular polygon such that   . Find the
A1A2 A1A3 A1A4
value of n.
27. The sides of a triangle are three consecutive natural numbers and its largest angle is twice the smallest
one. Determine the sides of the triangle.

1
28. In a ABC , the median to the side BC is of length and it divides the A into angles 30 and
11  6 3
45 . Find the length of the side BC.
b c c a a b cos A cos B cos C

29. With usual notation, if in a ABC   , then prove that   .
11 12 13 7 19 25
30. ABC is a triangle. D is the middle point of BC. If AD is perpendicular to AC, then prove that
2(c 2  a 2 )
cos A cos C  .
3ac
31. Show that for any triangle with sides a ,b, c
3(ab  bc  ca )  (a  b  c )2  4 (ab  bc  ca ) .
32. If in a triangle ABC, a  1  3 cm , b  2 cm and C  60 , then find the other two angles and the third
side.
1
33. If  is the area of a triangle with side length a , b, c , then show that   (a  b  c )abc Also, show that
4
the equality occurs in the above inequality if and only if a  b  c .
34. Prove that a ABC is equilateral if and only if tan A  tan B  tan C  3 3 .

35. Let A, B,C be three angles such that A  and tan B, tan C  p . Find all positive values of p such that
4
A, B,C are the angles of triangle.
36. Consider the following statements concerning a ABC

(i) the sides a, b, c and area of triangle are rational.
B C
(ii) a , tan , tan are rational.
2 2
Prove that (i)  (ii)  (iii)  (i) (1994)
37. In a triangle of base a, the ratio of the other two sides is r (  1) . Show that the altitude of the triangle is
ar
less than or equal to . (1991)
1r2
38. If in a ABC, cos a cos B  sin A sin B sin C  1 , then show that a : b : c  1 : 1 : 2 . (1986)
3
39. For a ABC , it is given that cos a  cos B  cos C  . Prove that the triangle is equilateral. (1984)
2

40. If p1, p 2 , p 3 are the altitudes of a triangle from the vertices A, B, C and  is the area of the triangle, then
1 1 1 2ab C
prove that    cos2 (1978)
p1 p2 p3 (a  b  c ) 2
41. If p1, p2, p3 are the perpendiculars from the vertices of a triangle to the opposite sides, then prove that
a 2b 2c 2
p1p2 p 3  .
8R 3
42. Let ABC and ABC ' be two non-congruent triangles with sides AB  4, AC  AC '  2 2 and angle
B  30º . The absolute value of the difference between the areas of these triangles is… (2009)
43. In a  ABC, a : b : c  4 : 5 : 6 . The ratio of the radius of the circumcircle to that of the incircle is_____.
44. The sides of a triangle inscribed in a given circle subtend angles ,  and  at the centre. The minimum
     
value of the arithmetic mean of cos     , cos     and cos     is:
 2   
2  2 
  
45. Consider a ABC and let a ,b and c denote the lengths of the sides opposite to vertices A, B and C
respectively. a  6, b  10 and the area of the triangle is 15 3 . If ACB is obtuse and if r denotes the
radius of the incircle of the triangle, then r2 is equal to:
46. Circle with radii 3, 4 and 5 touch each other externally, if P is the point of intersection of tangents to
these-circle at their points of contact. Find the distance of P from the point of contact.
47. In is the area of n sides regular polygon inscribed in a circle of unit radius and On be the area of the
 2
On   2 In  
polygon circumscribing the given circle, prove that I n  1  1    .

2   n  
 
48. Let ABC be a triangle with incentre I and inradius r. Let D, E, F be the feet of the perpendiculars from I to
the sides BC, CA and AB, respectively. If r1, r2 and r3 are the radii of circles inscribed in the
quadrilaterals AFIE, BDIF and CEID respectively, then prove that
r1 r2 r3 r1r2r3
  
r  r1 r  r2 r  r3 (r  r1 ) (r  r2 ) (r  r3 )
49. Let ABC be a triangle having O and I as its circumcentre and incentre, respectively. If R and r are the
circumradius and the inradius respectively, then prove that ( IO )2  R   2Rr . Further show that BIO is
a right-angled triangle if and only if b is the arithmetic mean of a and c.
50. The exradii r1, r2 , r3 of ABC are in HP, show that its sides a ,b, c are in AP.

Answer Key to Matrices and Determinants
LEVEL - 1 Daily Tutorial Sheet – 1 to 6
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
A A C A AB C B A A A
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
B C B A B B D B A D
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
B B B B B B D B C A
31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
A D D C A ABD A BC A D
41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50
A CD AC D B C C C A A
51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60
B A A A A C C C A D
61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70
A C B C C B D D ABC ABC
71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80
A A BC AB D B A D B C
81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90
B B D A B C D D B D
91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100
AD ABC ABC ABC BC ABC ABC BC AD ABC
101 102 103 104 105 106 107 109 110 111
ABCD 4 BD C CD 4 AD B BC AB
112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121
BC AB BC 2 0 4 2 1 9 7
122 123 124 125 126 127 128
4 0 3 2 8 4 0
2
a b c a b c a b c
131  b c a b c a  b c a  [a (bc  a 2 )  b(ac  b 2 )  c(ab  c 2 )]2  [3abc  a 3  b 3  c 3 ]2
c a b c a b c a b
133 134 136 137

dn 11  3
0  (cos2 x  sin2 x )
[ f ( x )]x  0  0     
 , 1, 3 , 1  3, 3  1 ,  3,1  AD
dx n 2  3 1 
Answer Key 97 Matrices and Determinants

   1 0   1 0 
155. A   , 0 1  ,  0 1 160.   cos   i sin  which are of unit modulus
       
Miscllaneous Question Bank (MEQB) Level – 1
165. (i) 0 (ii) 0 (iii) 0 (iv) 0 (v) 0 (vi) 0 (vii) 0 (viii) 0

168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177
B D B A A A D C C A
178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187
D B C C A BC AD ABC AC ACD
188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197
AC ACD AB AC AB ABD ABD ABC ABC BC
199 200
9 ABD
Miscllaneous Question Bank (MEQB) Level - 2
201 202 203 204 205
[A - q] [B - r] [A - q] [B - s] [A - r] [B - p] [A - r] [B - q] [A - q] [B - r]
[C - p] [D - s] [C - p] [D - r] [C - q] [D - s] [C - p] [D - s] [C - p] [D - s]
206 207 208 209 210
[A - s] [B - r] [A - p, q, r] [B - q] [A – s] [B – p] [A – r] [B – s] [A – q] [B – p]
[C - q, r] [D - p] [C - s] [D - p, q, r] [C – q] [D – r] [C – p,r] [D-p,q,r, s] [C – s] [D – r]
211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220
B B D C C C D C B D
221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230
B C D B C D C A A C
231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240
B A B B B D B C B D
241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250
A B C D B C A D A B
251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260
C D C C C D B B D A

261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270
ABC AC CD BD AC AB ABC ABC AB BC
271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280
AC D AC AB BC AC ABC AB AB AC
281 282 283 284 285 287
1
AB C D D CD
12
  
xyz x  y y  z z  x 
290 293
 1 i   5 i

 2   4  i   3i 1i
 2 2   2 2 
0 1   1 0   1 i 3   5 i 3 
B  , C    A    7  i     0 
0 1  0 1  2 2 2   2 2 2 
 3   3 
 4 i i 2   1  i  i 
 2   2 
294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303
2 3 0 2 5 4 1 4 2 8
304 305 306 307 308 309 310
1 8 9 8 6 0 2
JEE Main (Archive) Level – 1 (Daily Tutorial Sheet – 1 and 4)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
C D A D D D C A C D
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
B A A B D C C A D A
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
B C C A B A B B B B
31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
D C A A B A A D D D
41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50
C C D A D B C A C A
51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60
A D C D D C B B D A

JEE Advanced (Archive) Level – 2 (Daily Tutorial Sheet – 1 to 8)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
A A A D D C C A B B
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
B B B A B A B B D A
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
B B CD AB BCD BD CD AD CD BC
31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
BC BCD AB AD C ABC ABD AB 0 0
41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50
2 and 7 {–1, 2} 0 4 0 9 1 2 1 4.00
51 52 53 54 55 56 58 61
1 5 1 5
D B A D C D 4 a  ,b  , f (x )  x2  x 2
4 4 4 4
62 63 66 74
4d 4 p q r   n  or
   2
2 3 2 p a q b r c n   / 4
0 a (a  d ) (a  2d ) (a  3d ) (a  4d )
76 77 78
 4  5k 13k  9 15
  n , n   ( 1)n ,n Z x  ,y ,z k m or m  30
6 7 7 2
79
x yz ,  For k  0, the system has infinite solutions of   R.

Answer Key to Properties of Triangle
LEVEL – 1 to 3 Daily Tutorial Sheet – 1 to 14
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
D D C C A C D A A C
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
D A D D C C B A B B
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
C B D D A B C D B A
31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
A B D A A A B C C A
41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50
B B B A A D A B A C
51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60
D C D B D C A A A D
61 62 96 97 98 99 116 117 120
  5 a 3 3 9
D AB , , B A C 0 1, ,
4 3 12 2 2 4
130 134
4 4(s  a )(s  b )(s  c )s
A  cos1
5 a 2  b2  c 2
JEE Mains (Archive) Level – 1 (Daily Tutorial Sheet – 1 and 2)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
B C A A C B A D D C
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
B C C D C C A C A C
21 22 23 24 25
A D B A A
JEE Advanced (Archive) Level – 2 (Daily Tutorial Sheet – 1 to 5)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
D D D A B A B A B C
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
C B D A D B C BD BC ABCD
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 32
AD BD 113° 90° a 5 7 (4, 5, 6) 2 ( c  6, 45, 75 )
35 42 43 44 45 46
4 3
p  ( ,0)  [3  2 2, ) 16/7  3 /2 5
Answer Key 101 Properties of Triangle

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Course for IIT Entrance - 2020

 DTS [7 - 11] [Level 2] 14-23

 DTS [12 - 15] [Level 3] 24-27

 MEQB [Level 1] 28-32

 MEQB [Level 2] 33-48

 JEE Advanced Archive | DTS [1 - 8] 57-69

Properties of Triangle CHAPTER-21

 DTS [6 - 9] [Level 2] 79-82

 DTS [10 - 14] [Level 3] 83-87

 Matrices and Determinants 97-100

 cos2  cos  sin    cos2  cos  sin 

DTS - 1 1 Level - 1 | Matrices and Determinants

(A) O (B) I (C) 2I (D) None of these

(A) 5 (B) 5 (C) 4 (D) 6

(A) 0 (B) abc (C) abc (D) None of these

(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3

1  sin2  cos2  4 sin 4 

(A) 1 (B) 0 (C) 2 (D) 3

 cos2  sin  cos   cos2  sin  cos  

(A) I (B) O (C) –I (D) None of these

DTS - 1 2 Level - 1 | Matrices and Determinants

(A)  4  7i (B) 4  7i (C) 3  7i (D) 7  4i

(A) x3 1 (B) x3   (C) x 3  2 (D) x3

(A) 2xyz (B) 1 (C) xyz (D) x 2y 2z 2

(A) 2, 7 (B) – 2, 7 (C) 2, –7 (D) – 2, –7

(A) A B (B) A C (C) B C (D) None of these

(A) a 3  b 3  c 3  3abc (B) 3abc  a 3  b3  c 3

(A)  (B)  (C) 1 (D) 2

(A) ac (B) bd (C) b  a d  c  (D) None of these

DTS - 2 3 Level - 1 | Matrices and Determinants

(A) A3  3A2  I  O (B) A3  3A2  I  O

(C) A3  2A2  I  O (D) A3  A2  I  O

(A) a  4,b  1 (B) a  1,b  4 (C) a  0,b  4 (D) a  2,b  4

(A) 2100 A (B) 299 A (C) 2101 A (D) None of these

DTS - 2 4 Level - 1 | Matrices and Determinants

(A) 0 (B) 4 (C) 1 (D) 2

(A) Re  z   4 (B) Im  z   0 (C) Re  z    4 (D) Im  z   1

DTS - 3 5 Level - 1 | Matrices and Determinants

(A) 5 (B) 25 (C) 1 (D) 1

DTS - 3 6 Level - 1 | Matrices and Determinants

Paragraph for Questions 46 to 48

This is the echelon form of matrix A

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 0

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4

DTS - 4 7 Level - 1 | Matrices and Determinants

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) None of these

(A) for   2,   A   1 (B) for    1,   A   2

(C) for   2, 1  A   3 (D) None of these

52. if A is an invertible matrix of order 3  3 , then:

53. Let A be a matrix of rank  r , then :

DTS - 4 8 Level - 1 | Matrices and Determinants

57. Let A be an orthogonal non-singular matrix of order n, then A  I n is equal to :

(A) In  A (B) A (C) A In  A (D)  1n A In  A

(A) sin A  sin C sin B (B) abc

DTS - 4 9 Level - 1 | Matrices and Determinants

Paragraph for Questions 61 to 63

Cij denotes the cofactor of an element in i th row and j th column

61. The value of p  C21  q  C22  r  C 23 is :

(A) 0 (B)  (C)  (D) 2

62. The value of x  C21  y  C22  z  C23 is :

(A) 0 (B)  (C)  (D) 2

63. The value of q  M12  y  M 22  m  M 32 is :

(A) 0 (B)  (C)  (D) 2