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Subject Elementary Mathematical Methods in Economics
Paper
Exam / Course Bachelor Degree Programme
Department School of Social Sciences (SOSS)
Organization indira gandhi national open university
Position
Exam Date December, 2016
City, State new delhi,


Question Paper

1. Consider the following cobweb model:

Yt l 2Pt
xt= 15-Pt
Yt Xt

Where Yt is the supply of a product, xt the demand and Pt the price at time t. Let the initial price Po 4 at time 0.
Formulate the problem as a difference equation.

(ii) Solve the difference equation with the given information.

2. A simple economy depends on the three commodities; oil, corn and coffee. Production of 1 unit of oil requires 0.2 units of oil, 0.4 units of corn and no units of coffee. To produce 1 unit of coffee requires 0.2 units oil, 1 unit of corn and 0.2 units of coffee.
Find the input-output matrix for this economy. Find the gross production required to meet a demand of 1000 units of oil, corn and coffee each.

3.(a) Find solution of the following differential equation:

y' with =1
Find solution of the following difference equation: Yt 2 l -Yt 4t

4.(a) If A and B are two sets, prove that A U B B U A.
A car dealer has 350 cars with different types of extra features. You will find number of cars with.

Air conditioning 130
Power steering 255
Navigation system 110
Both P and N 75
All three extra features P and N 10
N only (Without either P or A or both) 10
Without any of the extra features mentioned above 20

Determine the number of cars.
having both navigation and air conditioning but no power steering i.e; (NnA)p.

(ii) having only air conditioning i.e., A (NUP).

(iii) having both air conditioning and power steering but no navigation system, i.e, (Anp)N.
having only power steering i.e., P(AUN).

5. Assume that the demand function is given by: 5p^2-190p 1805 and supply function, by 20p^2 -160p 320. Find the equilibrium price and consumer surplus.

6. Find b such that given below is continuous.


2X^2 b if x 1

-x^3 if x -1

7. Differentiate: y sqrt(x)^sqrt(x).e^x

8. <img src='./qimages/9752-8.jpg'> <br><br>


9. Determine the eigen values and eigen vectors of the matrix A is given by

1 2
2 1


10. Use the limit definition to compute the derivative, for 3x 7.

11. Given the matrices: <img src='./qimages/9752-11.jpg'> <br><br>

Find 2A 3B-C.

12. Find the linear approximation using Taylor Series for about x O.


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