GATE CE topic:infrastructure PYQs & Answers — Page 15

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“Why do they pull down and do away with crooked streets, I wonder, which are my delight, and hurt no man living? Every day the wealthier nations are pulling down one or another in their capitals and their great towns: they do not know why they do it; neither do I. It ought to be enough, surely, to drive the great broad ways which commerce needs and which are the life-channels of a modern city, without destroying all history and all the humanity in between: the islands of the past.”

(From Hilaire Belloc’s “The Crooked Streets”)

Based only on the information provided in the above passage, which one of the following statements is true.

Your answerChoose one option.

The author of the passage takes delight in wondering.

The wealthier nations are pulling down the crooked streets in their capitals.

In the past, crooked streets were only built on islands.

Great broad ways are needed to protect commerce and history.

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“His life was divided between the books, his friends, and long walks. A solitary man, he worked at all hours without much method, and probably courted his fatal illness in this way. To his own name there is not much to show; but such was his liberality that he was continually helping others, and fruits of his erudition are widely scattered, and have gone to increase many a comparative stranger’s reputation.” (From E.V. Lucas’s “A Funeral”)

Based only on the information provided in the above passage, which one of the following statements is true?

Your answerChoose one option.

The solitary man described in the passage is dead.

Strangers helped create a grand reputation for the solitary man described in the passage.

The solitary man described in the passage found joy in scattering fruits.

The solitary man worked in a court where he fell ill.

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Rohit goes to a restaurant for lunch at about 1 PM. When he enters the restaurant, he notices that the hour and minute hands on the wall clock are exactly coinciding. After an hour, when he leaves the restaurant, he notices that the clock hands are again exactly coinciding. How much time (in minutes) did Rohit spend at the restaurant?

Your answerChoose one option.

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For the clock shown in the figure, if

, and

, then which one among the given options is most appropriate for

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P U W R T V X

P R T O Q S U

P T V Q S U W

P S U P R T V

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A color model is shown in the figure with color codes: Yellow (Y), Magenta (M), Cyan (Cy), Red (R), Blue (Bl), Green (G), and Black (K).

Which one of the following options displays the color codes that are consistent with the color model?

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Consider a five-digit number

that has distinct digits

, and

, and satisfies the following conditions:

If integers 1 through 5 are used to construct such a number, the value of

is:

Your answerChoose one option.

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A circle with center at

and radius = 0.5 intersects with another circle with center at

and radius = 1 at two points. One of the points of intersection

is:

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A business person buys potatoes of two different varieties P and Q, mixes them in a certain ratio and sells them at ₹ 192 per kg.

The cost of the variety P is ₹ 800 for 5 kg.

The cost of the variety Q is ₹ 800 for 4 kg.

If the person gets 8% profit, what is the P:Q ratio (by weight)?

Your answerChoose one option.

5:4

3:4

3:2

1:1

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An object is said to have an

-fold rotational symmetry if the object, rotated by an angle of

, is identical to the original.

Which one of the following objects exhibits 4-fold rotational symmetry about an axis perpendicular to the plane of the screen?

Note: The figures shown are representative.

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Three villages P, Q, and R are located in such a way that the distance PQ = 13 km, QR = 14 km, and RP = 15 km, as shown in the figure. A straight road joins Q and R. It is proposed to connect P to this road QR by constructing another road. What is the minimum possible length (in km) of this connecting road?

Note: The figure shown is representative.

Your answerChoose one option.

12.0

12.5

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