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UNIVERSITY OF VOCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY

Year I - Semester - I Examination January 2010
Course : NATIONAL DIPLOMA IN QUANTITY SURVEYING (NDQS-SL) 2009/2011

Subject

: Quantitative Techniques (NDQS 102)

Instructions : Answer five (05) questions Duration : 03 Hours Marks :All the questions carry equal marks

1.

a) A machine produces a certain item at a rate of 100 units per hour. If the output rate is increased by5 units per hour, the run is completed in 30 minutes less. Find the number of items in a batch. b) A positive number consists of two digits. The sum of the two digits is 13.When the positions of two digits are interchanged, the value of the number is increased by 45.What is the number?

2. a) Solve the following quadratic equations (i ) 2 x 2 + 7 x + 3 = 0 (ii ) 2 x 2 6 x + 4 = 0 (iii ) 3 x 2 + 4 x + 2 = 0

b) Sketch the graph of x 2 + 4 x + 12

c) Find the values of k, for which the expression 9 x 2 + kx + 16 is a perfect square. 3. a) For the triangle ABC which is in the standard notation, show that a cos B = c b cos A

C = 76 0 , find the length of AC and the magnitudes of the b) In a triangle, AB=BC=7 cm. If AB other two angles.
c) The angle of the elevation of the top of a flag pole is 50 0 from point A. After the observer walking 40 m away from the flag pole, the above angle is read as 44 0 . Find the height of the flag pole. 4. a) Find 1st derivative of the followings 1 t2 (i ) y = 1+ t2 (ii ) y = sin(2 1) cos (iii ) S = log(sin t ) + 2 cos t

b) An open tank is to be constructed with a square base and vertical side so as to contain a given quantity of water. Show that the cost of lining the tank with one layer of protective paint will be least if the depth is made half of the width.

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5. a) Evaluate the followings i) x log xdx

1 ii) 2 dx 2x 9x + 4
1

iii)

(x
0

1 )dx x2

b) Marginal cost (

dc dr ) and Marginal revenue ( ) of a manufacturing organization is given below dx dx ,where c stands for cost and r stands for revenue

dc = 100 0.1x dx dr = 100 + 0.1x dx Where, x is the number of units of the product. Find the followings. I. Change in revenue when the sale is increased from 20 to 30 II. Cost for producing 30 units, if the fixed cost is Rs 400

6. a) A rectangular garden measures 50mx20m. A 1.5m flower border is made round the larger sides and one shorter side. A circular Fish pond of diameter 7m is constructed in the middle of the ground. Find the area remaining, to the nearest square meter.
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b) Evaluate

tan xdx ,
0

a) by using the Trapezoidal rule with 4 strips b) by using the Simpson rule with 4 strips

7. a) For a sample of 15 customers at a super market, the following sales amounts (in rupees) were observed. Determine (i) Mean (ii) Median (iii) Mode (iv)1st and 3rd Quartiles 100,250,100,250,350,250,900,4100,530,1250,2450,1350,2710,3090,400

b) For the data given in the following table, calculate the Mean deviation and Standard deviation. Time(mins) 5 and under 8 8 and under 11 11 and under 14 14 and under 17 17 and under 20 No. of Orders 10 17 12 6 2

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