ALLAMA IQBAL OPEN UNIVERSITY, ISLAMABAD
(Department of Mathematics)
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SCHEDULE FOR SUBMISSION OF ASSIGNMENTS
06 Credit Hours Due Date 03 Credit Hours Due Date
Assignment-1 10-01-2025
Assignment-1 05-02-2025
Assignment-2 05-02-2025
Assignment-3 05-03-2025
Assignment-2 01-04-2025
Assignment-4 01-04-2025
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Course: Business Mathematics (1429) Semester: Autumn, 2024
Level: BS/Associate Degree
Please read the following instructions for writing your assignments.
(SSC, HSSC & BA Programmes)
1. All questions are compulsory and carry equal marks but within a question the
marks are distributed according to its requirements.
2. Read the question carefully and then answer it according to the requirements of the
question.
3. Late submission of assignments will not be accepted.
4. Your own analysis and synthesis will be appreciated.
5. Avoid irrelevant discussion/information and reproducing from books, study
guide or allied material.
Total Marks: 100 Passing Marks: 50
ASSIGNMENT No. 1
(Units: 1–4)
Note: Attempt all the questions, each question carries equal marks.
Q. 1 A ball is selected at random from an urn containing three red striped balls, eight
solid balls, six yellow striped balls, four solid yellow balls and four blue striped
balls.
(a) What is the probability that the ball is yellow, given that is striped? (7)
(b) What is the probability that the ball is striped, given that is red? (7)
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(c) What is the probability that the ball is blue, given that it is solid colored? (6)
Q. 2 An urn contains 18 red balls, 14 red striped balls, 16 yellow balls and 12 yellow
striped balls.
(a) Given that a ball selected from the urn is striped, what is the probability it is
yellow? (10)
(b) Given that a ball selected from the urn is not striped, what is the probability it
is red? (10)
Q. 3 (a) Find the missing value of k such that the given distribution is a probability
distribution of X. (10)
X 2 3 4 5 6
P(X) 0.01 0.25 0.40 K 0.04
(b) A fair die is rolled 5 times. Let X represents the number of times the face 3
turns up. Obtain a probability distribution of X. (10)
Q. 4 Solve the following:
(a) (x+9) – (–6+4x) + 4 = 0. (05)
(b) 4t2 – 64 = 0. (05)
(c) 3y+6 ≤ 3y – 5. (05)
(d) ǀ z2 – 2 ǀ ≥ 2. (05)
Q. 5 (a) Find the equation of a line that has the indicated properties and sketch the
line;
i) passing through (– 1,3) and parallel to y = 4x – 5. (10)
ii) has slope 0 and y – intercept – ½.
iii) passes through origin and has slope – 5.
(b) A small company produces chairs. The weekly fixed and variable costs per
chair are $1100 and $40 respectively. Find the total weekly cost of
manufacturing x chairs. How many chairs can be manufactured for a total
weekly cost of $4500? (10)
ASSIGNMENT No. 2
(Units: 5–9)
Total Marks: 100 Pass Marks: 50
Note: Attempt all the questions, each question carries equal marks
Q. 1 A pet store has 6 kittens, 8 parrots and 12 puppies. If the price of each kitten is $28,
each parrot is $30 and each puppy is $40. Use matrix multiplication to find the total
value of the pet stores inventory. (20)
Q. 2 In a pottery factory, a machine takes 3 minutes to make a glass and 2 minutes to
make a plate. The material for a glass costs $0.25 and the material for a plate costs
2
$0.20: If the machine runs for 10 hours and exactly $50 is used up for material.
How many glass and plates can be produced? (20)
Q. 3 (a) Find the limit by using the graph of the following function: (20)
(b) Find the derivatives of the following functions:
Q. 4 A manufacturer
x represents the number of
items sold. (20)
Find the interval on which profit function is increasing.
Q. 5 Find the derivatives fxxy, fyxy and also find
all points where the function have any relative extrema. (20)
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