CESS & Examen d'entrée (Belgium) · Mathematics

Algebra, Functions, Calculus and Probability

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  1. Solve .
  2. Simplify .
  3. What is the area of a circle with radius 5?
  4. What is the median of the numbers 3, 7, 9, 12 and 20?
  5. Find the slope of the line through and .
  6. What is 20% of 150?
  7. Solve .
  8. Solve the system and .
  9. Differentiate .
  10. What is the minimum value of ?
  11. For an acute angle , . What is ?
  12. Find the dot product of and .
  13. What is the length of the vector ?
  14. A right-angled triangle has legs of length 5 and 12. What is the length of the hypotenuse?
  15. A card is drawn at random from a standard pack of 52. What is the probability that it is a heart?
  16. What is the sum ?
  17. Evaluate .
  18. What is the domain of over the real numbers?
  19. Evaluate .
  20. Solve .
  21. Differentiate .
  22. Solve the inequality .
  23. Convert to radians.
  24. In how many ways can 2 students be chosen from a group of 6?
  25. Let and . Find .
  26. What is the angle between the vectors and ?
  27. For which values of does have no real roots?
  28. A farmer has 60 m of fencing and uses a straight river as the fourth side of a rectangular field. What is the largest area that can be enclosed?
  29. Solve for .
  30. Find the equation of the tangent to at the point .
  31. Events and are independent with and . Find .
  32. Find the area enclosed between the line and the curve for .
  33. A geometric sequence has positive terms, third term 12 and fifth term 48. What is its first term?
  34. Solve .

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