Samacheer Kalvi students, hope you wrote your Business Maths exam well. Here is the Class XI Business Maths and Statistics Exam Answer Key 2024 for your reference. If you need clarification for any answers, please let us know in the comments section.
Part I
1. The inventor of input – output analysis is
(a) Prof. Wassily W. Leontief | (b) Sir Francis Galton | (c) Arthur Caylay | (d) Fisher |
Answer: (a) Prof. Wassily W. Leontief
2. The number of permutation of n different things taken r at a time, when the repetition is allowed is:
(a) ![]() | (b) ![]() | (c) ![]() | (d) ![]() |
Answer: (d)
3. If at x=0:
(a) 2 | (b) 4 | (c) 0 | (d)9 |
Answer: (b) 4
4. The correlation coefficient:
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Answer: (b)
5. P(A) = and P (B) =
. Find
if A and B are independent events.
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Answer: (b)
6. If and
then tan (2A+B) is equal to
(a) 3 | (b) 1 | (c) 4 | (d) 2 |
Answer: (a) 3
7. For the function , find the values of x when the marginal value is equal to 27.
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Answer: (a)
8. If ‘a’ is the annual payment, ‘n’ is the number of periods and ‘i’ is compound interest for Rs. 1 then the future amount of the ordinary annuity is:
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Answer: (d)
9. If , then the value of x is
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Answer: (c)
10. If y= then find
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Answer: (c)
11. The value of is:
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Answer: (d)
12. If and
are the slopes of the pair of lines given by
then the value of
is:
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Answer: (d)
13. One of the conditions for the activity (i, j) to lie on the critical path is
(a) ![]() | (b) ![]() | (c) ![]() | (d) ![]() |
Answer: (b)
14. If then
is:
(a) 1000 | (b)-1 | ![]() | (d) 8 |
Answer: (d) 8
15. The dividend received on 200 shares of face value of Rs. 100 at 8% stock is:
(a) Rs. 1500 | (b) Rs. 1600 | (c) Rs. 800 | (d) Rs. 1000 |
Answer: (b) Rs. 1600
16. If clock wise and anti-clockwise circular permutations are considered to be same, the number of circular permutation of n objects taken all at a time is:
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Answer: (b)
17. If two events A and B are dependent then the conditional probability of P(B/A) is:
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Answer: a)
18. Co-relation coefficient lies between:
(a) -1 to 0 | (b) 0 to ![]() | (c) -1 to ![]() | (d) -1 to +1 |
Answer: (d) -1 to +1
19. Find the equation of the circle with centre at (4,5) and radius 3 units
(a) ![]() | (b) ![]() | (c) ![]() | (d) ![]() |
Answer: (a)
20. Find the value of .
(a) 1 | (b) 100 | (c) 0 | (d) -99 |
Answer: (b) 100
Part II
Answer any seven questions. Question 30 is compulsory.
21. Evaluate
Answer:
= 6
=0
22. If find
Answer:
Here
n = 4 + 6 = 10
=
=
=
=66
23. If , then show that
Answer:
=
=
=
= 0 (proved)
24. Find D2 and D6 for the following series 22, 4, 2, 12, 16, 6, 10, 18, 14, 20, 8
Answer: Arrange in ascending order: x= 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22
=
= size of
=
= size of
25. Which is better investment? 20% stock at Rs. 140 (or) 10% stock at Rs. 70.
Let the investment in case be ₹ 140 × 70
Income from 20% stock at ₹ 140 =
= 20 x70
=Rs. 1400
For the same investment both stocks fetch the same income. Therefore they are both equally good investment options.
26. A manufacturing company has a contract to supply 4000 units of an item per year at uniform rate. The storage cost per unit per year amounts to ` 50 and the set up cost per production run is Rs. 160. If the production run can be started instantaneously and shortages are not permitted, determine the number of units which should be produced per run to minimize the total inventory cost.
Answer: Annual demand R= 4000
Storage cost
Setup cost per production:
= 160
27. If the centre of the circle lies on a straight line
then find the value of ‘a’.
Answer. Centre C(–1, 3)
It lies on ax + 2y + 2 = 0
–a + 6 + 2 = 0
a =8
28. Find the term in the expansion
.
Answer: General term is
Here x = x, a = (-2y) and n = 13
=
29. If show that
Answer:
=
30. Find the rank of the word TABLE in English dictionary.
Number of words starting with A =4! =24 ways
Number of words starting with B =4! =24 ways
Number of words starting with E =4! =24 ways
Number of words starting with L =4! =24 ways
Number of words starting with TAB=2!=2 ways
Rank of the word TABLE= 24+24+24+24+2=98
Part III
Answer any seven questions. Question No 40 is compulsory.
Find the values of a and b if the equation
Answer: Conditions of the equation are: (i) coefficient of xy = 0
b-8 =0
b=8
coefficient of = Coefficient of
= a-1=8
a=9
The equation of the circle is
32. Evaluate
Answer:
[latex]\frac{\sqrt{1+x}+\sqrt{1-x}}{\sqrt{1+x}+\sqrt{1-x}}[/latex]
=1
33. Draw the event oriented network for the following data.
Events | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
Immediate Predecessors | – | 1 | 1 | 2,3 | 3 | 4,5 | 5,6 |

34. Solve the following linear programming problem by graphical method.
Maximize: subject to constraints
and
Let
![]() | 0 | 3 |
![]() | 9 | 0 |
Also,
![]() | 0 | 8 |
![]() | 4 | 0 |
Substitute

The co-ordinates of the corner points are (0, 0), (3, 0), (2, 3), (0, 4)
Corner Points | ![]() |
---|---|
(0,0) | ![]() |
(3,0) | ![]() |
(2,3) | ![]() |
(0,4) | ![]() |
The maximum value of Z occurs at (2, 3).
Therefore, the optimal solution is at and
35. Find the interval in which the function f(x)=x^{2}–4x+6 is strictly increasing and strictly decreasing.
Given:
Differentiate with respect to x,
Then the real line is divided into two intervals namely
36. Find the value of .
Q. 37. A person purchases tomatoes from each of the 4 places at the rate of 1kg., 2kg., 3kg., and 4kg. per rupee respectively .On the average, how many kilograms has he purchased per rupee?
Using harmonic mean:
H.M =
=1.92 kg per rupee.
38. The technology matrix of an economic system of two industries is
Test whether the system is viable as per Hawkins – Simon conditions.
= 0.06 – 0.18
is negative, Hawkins – Simon conditions are not satisfied.
Q. 39 If the payment of Rs.2,000 is made at the end of every quarter for 10 years at the rate of 8% per year, then find the amount of annuity. .
a=2000 n= 10 years
Q 40. Prove that
=RHS. Proved.
Part IV
Answer all the questions.
41.(a) An economy produces only coal and steel. These two commodities serve as intermediate inputs in each other’s production. 0.4 tonne of steel and 0.7 tonne of coal are needed to produce a tonne of steel. Similarly 0.1 tonne of steel and 0.6 tonne of coal are required to produce a tonne of coal. No capital inputs are needed. Do you think that the system is viable? 2 and 5 labour days are required to produce a tonnes of coal and steel respectively. If economy needs 100 tonnes of coal and 50 tonnes of steel, calculate the gross output of the two commodities and the total labour days required.
The technology matrix B
I-B
Since the diagonal elements of are positive and value of I – B is positive, the system is viable.
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Steel output = 176.5 tonnes
Coal output = 558.8 tonnes
Total labour days required = 5(steel output) + 2(coal output)
= 5(176.5) + 2(558.8)
882.5 + 1117.6 = 2000.1
= 2000 labour days (approx)
41.(b) Verify Euler’s theorem for the function
Therefore, u is a homogeneous function in x and y of degree 3.
Verification:
Adding (1) and (2)
=3u
Hence Euler’s theorem is verified.
42. (a). Show that the equation represent two straight lines and find their separate equations.
Comparing with
Hence the given equation represents a pair of parallel straight lines.
Put 2x–3y = z
2x–3y+1 = 0; 2x–3y+8 =0
Therefore, the two separate equations are: 2x–3y+1 = 0 and 2x–3y+8 =0
42 (b) Solve .
7x = 2(2 – x2)
7x = 4 – 2x2
2x2 + 7x – 4 = 0
(x + 4) (2x – 1) = 0
x + 4 = 0 ; 2x – 1 = 0
Ignore x=-4 as it does not satisfy the equation. Therefore,
Q 43. (a) Construct the network and calculate the earliest start time, earliest finish time, latest start time and latest finish time of each activity and determine the Critical path of the project and duration to complete the project.
Activity | 1-2 | 1-3 | 2-4 | 3-4 | 3-5 | 4-9 | 5-6 | 5-7 | 6-8 | 7-8 | 8-10 | 9-10 |
Time | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 |

E1 = 0
E2 = 0 + 4 = 4
E3 = 0 + 1 = 1
E4 = (E2 + 1) (or) (E3 + 1) (whichever is maximum)
= (4 + 1) (or) (1 + 1) (whichever is maximum)
= 5 (or) 2 (whichever is maximum)
E4 = 5
E5 = 1 + 6 = 7
E6 = 7 + 4 = 11
E7 = 8 + 7 = 15
E8 = (E7 + 2) (or) (E6 + 1)
= (15 + 2) or (11 + 1) (whichever is maximum)
= 17 or 12 (whichever is maximum)
E8 = 17
E9 = 5 + 5 = 10
E10 = (E9 + 7) (or) (E8 + 5) (whichever is maximum)
= (10 + 7) (or) (17 + 5) (whichever is maximum)
= 17 (or) 22 (whichever is maximum)
E10 = 22
L10 = 22
L9 = 22 – 7 = 15
L8 = 22 – 5 = 17
L7 = 17 – 2 = 15
L6 = 17 – 1 = 16
L5 = (16 – 4) (or) (15 – 8) (whichever is minimum)
L5 = 7
L4 = 15 – 5 = 10
L3 = (10 – 1) (or) (7 – 6) (whichever is minimum)
L3 = 1
L2 = 10 – 1 = 9
L1 = 0
Activity | Duration | EST | EFT | LST | LFT |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1-2 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 9-4=5 | 9 |
1-3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1-1=0 | 1 |
2-4 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10-1=9 | 10 |
3-4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 10-1=9 | 10 |
3-5 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 7-6=1 | 7 |
4-9 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 15-5=10 | 15 |
5-6 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 16-4=12 | 16 |
5-7 | 8 | 7 | 15 | 15-8=7 | 15 |
6-8 | 1 | 11 | 12 | 17-1=16 | 17 |
7-8 | 2 | 15 | 17 | 17-2=15 | 17 |
8-10 | 5 | 17 | 22 | 22-5=17 | 22 |
9-10 | 7 | 16 | 17 | 22-7=15 | 22 |
Path | Time |
---|---|
1-2-4-9-10 | 4+1+5+7=17 |
1-3-4-9-10 | 1+1+5+7=14 |
1-3-5-6-8-10 | 1+6+4+1+5=17 |
1-3-5-7-8-10 | 1+6+8+2+5=22 |
The critical path is 1-3-5-7-8-10. It takes 22 units to complete the project.
Q. 43 (b). Compute Quartile deviation from the following data.
CI | 10-20 | 20-30 | 30-40 | 40-50 | 50-60 | 60-70 | 70-80 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
f | 12 | 19 | 5 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 6 |
CI | f | cf |
---|---|---|
10-20 | 12 | 12 |
20-30 | 19 | 31 |
30-40 | 5 | 36 |
40-50 | 10 | 46 |
50-60 | 9 | 55 |
60-70 | 6 | 61 |
70-80 | 6 | 67 |
Thus, lies in the class 20 – 30; and the corresponding values are:
=20+2.5=22.5
Thus, lies in the class 50 – 60; and the corresponding values are:
=54.72
=16.11
Q.44 (a) By Mathematical Induction, prove that .
Let
Put n = 1
LHS=RHS=1
Therefore, P(1) is true.
Assume that P(k) is true.
Let
P(k + 1) is true whenever P(k) is true.
Q. 44 (b) If sin y= x sin (a+y) then prove that .
sin y = x sin (a+y)
Differentiating with respect to y,
.
Q.45 (a) The following are the ranks obtained by 10 students in Commerce and Accountancy are given below:
Commerce | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 5 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Accountancy | 4 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 2 |
To what extent is the knowledge of students in the two subjects related?
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---|---|---|---|
6 | 4 | 2 | 4 |
4 | 1 | 3 | 9 |
3 | 6 | -3 | 9 |
1 | 7 | -6 | 36 |
2 | 5 | -3 | 9 |
7 | 8 | -1 | 1 |
9 | 10 | -1 | 1 |
8 | 9 | -1 | 1 |
10 | 3 | 7 | 49 |
5 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
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N=11\:
N=11
=0.224
Q.45 (b) A person sells a 20% stocks of face value Rs. 10,000 at a premium of 42%. With the
money obtained he buys a 15% stock at a discount of 22%. What is the change in his income if the brokerage paid is 2%.
For 20% stock:
Face Value FV= Rs.100
Income
Investment= Rs.10000
Face Value = Rs. 100
Market value = Rs.100 +42 -2 =140
Number of shares =
Sales proceeds = 100 × 140 = 14,000
For 15% stock:
Market value = Rs.100 -22 +2 =80
Number of shares =
Income =
Change of income = Rs. 2625 – Rs. 2000
=Rs.625
Q. 46 (a) The sum of three numbers is 20. If we multiply the first by 2 and add the second number and subtract the third we get 23. If we multiply the first by 3 and add second and third to it, we get 46. By using matrix inversion method find the numbers.
Let the three numbers be x, y, and z.
x + y + z = 20
2x + y – z = 23
3x + y + z = 46
The system can be written as:
We know that AX=B where A=
To find
=1(1+1)-1(2+3)+1(2-3)
= 1(2)-1(5)+1(-1)
=2-5-1
=4
=
=
=
=
=
=
=
=
= =
Therefore the numbers are 13,2 and 5.
Q.46 (b) A factory has 3 machines A1, A2, A3 producing 1000, 2000, 3000 screws per day respectively. A1 produces 1% defectives, A2 produces 1.5% and A3 produces 2% defectives. A screw is chosen at random at the end of a day and found defective. What is the probability that it comes from machines A1?
Let B be the event that the chosen screw is defective.
Q. 47 (a) Find the equation of the circle passing through the points (1,0), (-1,0) and (0,1).
Let the equation of the circle be
The circle passes through the point (1,0)
Solving (1) (2) and (3) we get g=0; f=0; and c=-1
Substituting these values in the equation of the circle we get the equation of the circle .
Q. 47 (b). Resolve into partial fraction:
Let \large
Let \large
\large
We get
Substituting
We get
We get
We get
Substituting the values of A, B and C, we get the partial equation:
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