MCQ Bank
Set of prime numbers is finite.
- A) False
- B) True
- C)
- D)
If the Basis step is true, then there is no need to go further in the proof by Mathematical Induction.
- A) False
- B) True
- C)
- D)
which of the followings is the correct option for 9!/0! ?
- A) 1
- B) 9!
- C) 9
- D) 0
A student has 3 optional courses in mathematics and 5 optional courses in physics, how many total choices for him to take one course?
- A) 35
- B) 7
- C) 9
- D) 8
The first step of describing algorithms formally is ?
- A) The output variable names, labeled by data type.
- B) An end statement.
- C) The name of the algorithm, together with a list of input and output variables.
- D) The statements that make the body of the algorithm.
GCD of (9, 27) will be ______.
- A) 27
- B) 3
- C) 5
- D) 9
${\text{The}}\,{\text{statement}}\,{n^2} > n + 3\,{\text{is}}\,{\text{true}}\,{\text{when}}\,\_\_\_\_\_\,{\text{.}}$
- A) $n \geqslant 1$
- B) $n \geqslant - 1$
- C) $n \geqslant 2$
- D) $n \geqslant 3$
The product of any two consecutive positive integers is divisible by 2.
- A) False
- B) True
- C)
- D)
A proof by …………is based on the logical equivalence between a statement and its contrapositive.
- A) contraposition
- B) contradiction
- C) mathematical induction
- D) counter example
To prove by mathematical induction for 1+5+9+----------+(4n-3)=n(2n-1) for all positive integers,the inductive step is true for n=k is _________.
- A) 1+5+9+-----------+(4k-3)=k(2k+1)
- B) 1+5+9+-----------+(4k+3)=k(2k+1)
- C) 1+5+9+-----------+(4k-3)=k(2k-1)
- D) 1+5+9+-----------+(4k+3)=k(2k-1)
'Reductio ad absurdum' is another name of ----------
- A) proof by contrapositive
- B) Direct Method of proof
- C) proof by contradiction
- D) None of these.
The ---- of a predicate variable is the set of all values that may be substituted in place
of the variable.
- A) Range
- B) Domain
- C)
- D)
A proof by …………….. is based on the fact that either a statement is true or it is false but not both.
- A) mathematical induction
- B) superposition
- C) contraposition
- D) contradiction
Basis and Inductive steps are part of proof by …………
- A) mathematical induction
- B) contradiction
- C) superposition
- D) contraposition
The quantity a - d · q equals the?
- A) Remainder
- B) None
- C) Quotient
- D) Divisor
Combination is used when we have to select 'k' elements from a set of 'n' elements with the following properties.
- A) Order matters and repetition is allowed
- B) Order does not matter and repetition is allowed
- C) Order does not matter and repetition is not allowed
- D) Order matters and repetition is not allowed.
The predicate describing the initial state is
called _____.
- A) Out put variables
- B) pre-condition of the algorithm
- C) post-condition of the algorithm
- D) None
P(2,2)=…………
- A) 2!
- B) 4!
- C) 1
- D) 0
Proof by ……..uses the equivalence p →q ≡(p∧~q) →c
- A) superposition
- B) contradiction
- C) mathematical induction
- D) contraposition
There are three bus lines between A and B, and two bus lines between B and C.
Find the number of ways a person can travel by bus from A to C by way of B ?
- A) 13
- B) 6
- C) 11
- D) 5