Time: One Hour Omit one question in Group I and one in Group II. Credit will be given for five questions only. Group I 1. Solve 2. Solve the simultaneous equations 2. Arrange the roots in corresponding pairs. 3. Solve Group II 4. In going 7500 yd. a front wheel of a wagon makes 1000 more revolutions than a rear one. If the wheels were each 1 yd. greater in circumference, a front wheel would make 625 more revolutions than a rear one. Find the circumference of each. 5. Two cars of equal speed leave A and B, 20 mi. apart, at different times. Just as the cars pass each other an accident reduces the power and their speed is decreased 10 mi. per hour. One car makes the journey from A to B in 56 min., and the other from B to A in 72 min. What is their common speed? Group III 6. Write in the simplest form the last three terms of the expansion of 7. (a) Derive the formula for the sum of an A. P. 7. (b) Find the sum to infinity of the series 1, ···. Also find the sum of the positive terms. |