Electronics and Communication Engineering
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Question 6
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Forestand is a planet inhabited by different kinds of creatures. Among other creatures, it is populated by animals all of whom are ferocious. There are also creatures that have claws, and some that do not. All creatures that have claws are ferocious.
Based only on the information provided above, which one of the following options can be logically inferred with certainty?
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Which one of the following options represents the given graph?

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Which one of the following options can be inferred from the given passage alone?
When I was a kid, I was partial to stories about other worlds and interplanetary travel. I used to imagine that I could just gaze off into space and be whisked to another planet.
[Excerpt from The Truth about Stories by T. King]
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Out of 1000 individuals in a town, 100 unidentified individuals are covid positive. Due to lack of adequate covid-testing kits, the health authorities of the town devised a strategy to identify these covid-positive individuals. The strategy is to:
(i) Collect saliva samples from all 1000 individuals and randomly group them into sets of 5.
(ii) Mix the samples within each set and test the mixed sample for covid.
(iii) If the test done in (ii) gives a negative result, then declare all the 5 individuals to be covid negative.
(iv) If the test done in (ii) gives a positive result, then all the 5 individuals are separately tested for covid.
Given this strategy, no more than ______ test kits will be required to identify all the 100 covid positive individuals irrespective of how they are grouped.
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A 100 cm × 32 cm rectangle sheet is folded 5 times. Each time the sheet is folded, the long edge aligns with its opposite side. Eventually, the folded sheet is a rectangle of dimensions 100 cm × 1 cm.
The total number of creases visible when the sheet is unfolded is ______.
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Let
and
be two vectors. The value of the coefficient
in the expression
, which minimizes the length of the error vector
, isYour answerChoose one option.
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The rate of increase, of a scalar field
, in the direction
at a point
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Let
. Which of the following cannot be a value of
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The value of the contour integral
, where the contour
is
, taken in the counter clockwise direction, isYour answerChoose one option.
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Let the sets of eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a matrix
be
and
, respectively. For any invertible matrix
, the sets of eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the matrix
, where
, respectively, areYour answerChoose one option.
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