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JEE (Main/Advance) MATHS

Competition kit (Questions from JEE & other Entrance)

Q.1) In a town of 10000 families it was found that 40% family buy newspaper A, 20% family buy
newspaper B and 10% family buy newspaper C. 5% family buy A and B, 3% buy B and C and 4%
buy A and C. If 2% families buy all the three newspapers. Then, number of families which buy A
only isa) 3100
b) 3300
c) 2900
d) 1400
Q.2) Let A and B be two universal set and A B C = U. Then {(A B) (B C) (C A)} is
equal toa) A B C
b) A (B C)
c) A B C
d) A (B C)
Q.3) In a battle 70% of the combatants lost one eye, 80% an ear, 75% an arm, 85% a leg, x% lost all
the four limbs. The minimum value of x is
a) 10
b) 12
c) 15
d) N.O.T.
Q.4) If two sets A and B are having 99 elements in common, then the number of elements common to
each of the sets AB and BA are
a) 299
b) 992
c) 100
d) 18
Q.5) If X= {8n 7n 1: n N} and Y= {49(n 1): n N}
a) XY
b) YX
c) X=Y
d) N.O.T.
Q.6) If X= {4n 3n 1: n N} and Y= {9(n 1): n N}, then X Y is equal to
a) X
b) Y
c) N
d) N.O.T.
Q.7) Out of 800 boys in a school, 224 played cricket, 240 played hockey and 336 played basketball.
Of the total, 64 played both basketball and hockey; 80 played cricket and basketball and 40 played
cricket and hockey; 24 played all the three games. The number of boys who did not play any games is
a) 128
b) 216
c) 240
d) 160
Q.8) If A, B and C are any three sets, then A(BC) is equal to
a) (A B) (A C)
b) (A B) (A C)
c) (A B) (A C)
Q.9) If A and B are any two sets, then (A B) (A B) is equal to
a) A B
b) B A
c) (A B) (B A)
d) N.O.T.
Q.10) Let N = {an n N}, then N6 N8 is equal to
a) N48
b) N2
c) N8
d) N24
Q.11) If A and B are two sets, then A B, iff
a) A =
b) B c Ac
c) B = X

d) N.O.T.

d) N.O.T.

Q.12) Let P = {(x, y) : y = ex , x R} and Q = {(x, y) : y = ex , x R}, then

a) P Q
b) P Q = R2
c) P = Q
d) N.O.T.
Q.13) If X = {64n: n N} and Y = {32n+2 8n 9: n N}, then
a) XY
b) YX
c) X=Y
d) N.O.T.
Q.14) If X = {23 1: n N} and Y = {7n: n N}, then
a) XY
b) YX
c) X=Y
d) N.O.T.
Q.15) Power set of the set A = { , { }} is
a) { , { }, {{ }}}
b) { , { }, {{ }}, A}
Q.16) The group of beautiful girls is
a) a null set
b) a finite set

c) { , { }, A}

c) a singleton set

d) N.O.T.

d) N.O.T.

Q.17) Which of the following is a null set?

a) {x: |x| < 1, x N}
b) {x: |x| = 5, x N}
2
c) {x: x = 1, x I}
d) {x: x 2 + 2x + 1 = 0, x R}
Q.18) Let A and B be two non-empty subsets of a set X such that A is not a subset of B, then
a) A is always a subset of the complement of B
b) B is always a subset of A
c) A and B are always disjoint
d) A and the complement of B are always non-disjoint
Q.19) Let A = {x: x is a digit in the number 3, 5, 9, 1} and B = {x: x N, x < 10}, which of the
following is not correct?
a) A-B =
b) B-A = {2, 4, 6, 7, 8}
c) A B = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9}
d) A B = {1, 2, 3, 5, 9}
Q.20) In a city 20% of the population travels by car, 50% travels by bus and 10% travels by both car
and bus. Then persons travelling by car or bus is
a) 80%
b) 40%
c) 60%
d) 70%
Q.21) If n(A) = 10, n(B) = 6 and n(C) = 5 for three disjoint sets A, B and C, then n(A B C) is
a) 21
b) 11
c) 1
d) 9
Q.22) The value of (A B C) (A B c C c ) C c is
a) B C c
b) B c C c
c) B C
d) A B C
Q.23) If A = {(x, y): 2 + 2 = 25} and B = {(x, y): 2 + 9 2 = 144}, then A B contains
a) one point
b) three points
c) two points
d) four points
Q.24) The set S = {1, 2, 3, , 12} is to be partitioned into three sets A, B,C of equal size. Thus,
A B C = S, A B = B C = C A = . The number of ways to partition S is
a)

12!
3!(4!)3

b)

12!
3!(3!)4

c)

12!

d)

(4!)3

12!
(3!)4

Q.25) The shaded region in the given figure is

a) A (B C)
b) A (B C) c) A (B C)
Answers :- b c a b

abdb

cdba

babd

addc

d) A (B C)
abdcd