mathcity.org Admission Test Ph.D.

2005
School of Mathematical Sciences, 68-B, New Muslim Town Lahore.
Merging man and maths
Time Duration: 4 Hours, Available online at http://www.mathcity.org

Note: Choose the correct best answer(s) as the case may be.

1) Find: lim 8n 2 n 2  n  1
n 
(a) 1 (b) 1 (c) 0
(d) 2 (e)  (f) 

2) Let f : ¡  ¡ , f (x )  a x  1  x  1  (2  a )x  a  1 and M be the set

of values of a  ¡ for which f is bijective then
(a) M   (b) M  ¡ (c) M  (1, )
(d) M  , 0 (e) M  1,1 (f) M  , 12 

x 1
3) Let f : , 1 U  14 ,   ¡ , f (x )  x , then
4x  1
(a) y  x  1 is obviously asymptote to  , f is concave.
(b) f is decreasing.
(c) f is convex.
(d) x  0 is vertical asymptote.

4) f : ¡  ¡ be such that f (x )  x 3  2x 2  x  ¡ , then

(a) f is continuous at x  0
(b) f admits an obligue asymptote.
(c) f (0) exists and f (0)  1
(d) f admits a horizontal asymptote.
(e) We can decide differentiability of f at x  0 .
(f) f (0) exists and f (0)  0 .

5) Find m  0 such that the area of the set

M  (x , y )  ¡ 2 | m  x  2m, 0  y  x  x62 
1
(a) 2 (b) 3 (c)
2
(d) 1 (e) 4 (f) 10

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6) Let A  2 (¡) such that A3  I 2 . Find maximum numbers of distinct
matrices of the form An with n  1 .
(a) 8 (b)  (c) 1
(d) 12 (e) 10 (f) 6

 1  a  a 2  ...  a n 
lim lim  , a  1
1  a 2  a 4  ...  a 2n 
7) Find:
a 1 x  

(a) 0 (b)  (c) 2

(d) 1 (e) 3 (f) Does not exists.
a
xp
8) lim f (x )   x 3  a2
; a  0, p  0 then f is constant if
0
1
(a) p 1 (b) p (c) p0
2
3 5
(d) p 2 (e) p (f) p
2 2

an
9) Let an  1  2  2  3  22  ...  n  2n 1 , n  ¥ at l  lim n , then
n  n  2
(a) l 1 (b) l 3 (c) l  
1
(d) l 2 (e) l 0 (f) l 
2

10) Let A  2 (¡) and n is the number of solutions of equation

AX  XA  I 2 , then
(a) n  1 (b) n  0 (c) n  2
(d) n  3 (e) n  4 (f) n  5

11) Let M be the set of the set of polynomials of degree two or less than two is an
abelian group addition of polynomials. Let m  ¢ such that fm : M  M ,
fm (p)  x 2 p   (x  3)p   mp  p  M , is an isomorphic then
(a) m is any integer (b) m  0, 4 (c) m  0, 4, 1
(d) m  1 (e) m  0 (f) m  0, 4, 2

12) Consider a sphere with centre at point P and radius R . A point source of
light is situated at the distance 2R from P . Find area of eliminated part.
R 2 2 3R 2
(a) (b) R (c)
3 4
2R 2
(d) (e) 3R2 (f) R2
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13) Find a  ¡ such that x 2  y 2  3x  y  a  0  x, y  ¡ .
(a) a  1,  (b) a  1,1 (c) a  7
(d) a   52 ,  (e) a  , 1 (f) Doesn’t exist

14) Let the sequence of functions  fn , n  1 , fn : ¡  ¡ be defined as

f1(x )  x , f2(x )  x  x , … , fn (x )  x  x  x  ...
Take f : D  ¡
(a) lim fn (x )  f , where D is maximum domain of f then D  0, 
n 
(b) f is not continuous on D (c) f is not differentiable at x  0
(d) D  1,  (e) f is increasing
 1 
(f) D   , 
 4 

x 13  x 23  x 33
15) Calculate: , where x1 , x 2 and x 3 are zeros of x 3  3x  1
x 12  x 22  x 32
1
(a) 0 (b)  (c) 2
2
(d) 2 (e) 10 (f) 2 i

16) - Missing

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