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Solving an equation of the form $ax \equiv b\;\textrm{mod}\;n$ where $a$ and $n$ are coprime.
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Reduce a 5x6 matrix to row reduced form and using this find rank and nullity.
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Given normal distribution $\operatorname{N}(m,\sigma^2)$ find $P(a \lt X \lt b),\; a \lt m,\;b \gt m$ and also find the value of $X$ corresponding to a given percentile $p$%.
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Given a linear programming problem in standard form, write down the dual problem.
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Given a linear programming problem in standard form, write down the dual problem.
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Given data on population mean and population standard deviation and three sampling sizes, calculate the probabilities that the sample means are within a specified distance from the population mean.
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Pick four numbers from $1900\dots 2015$ and ask the student to factorise them.
Custom marking scripts make sure the student has entered a complete factorisation.
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Factorising 5 to 7 digit numbers into a product of prime powers.
Uses the marking algorithms from question 1 of this CBA
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Trying out something: get the student to enter a set for each of "regular singular points" and "essential singular points".
Find and classify singular points of a second-order ordinary differential equation. One equation is chosen from a selection of 10.
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A box contains $n$ balls, $m$ of these are red the rest white.
$r$ are drawn without replacement.
What is the probability that at least one of the $r$ is red?
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Given $6$ vectors in $\mathbb{R^4}$ and given that they span $\mathbb{R^4}$ find a basis.
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Given a matrix in row reduced form use this to find bases for the null, column and row spaces of the matrix.