GATE GG-1 area:general-aptitude PYQs & Answers — Page 10

Questions 91–100 of 100. Imported answers require independent review unless marked reviewed.

The ways in which this game can be played __________ potentially infinite.

Your answerChoose one option.

is being

are

are being

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If you choose plan P, you will have to __________ plan Q, as these two are mutually __________.

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forgo, exclusive

forget, inclusive

accept, exhaustive

adopt, intrusive

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and

are integers and

is even, which of the following must always be even?

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A couple has 2 children. The probability that both children are boys if the older one is a boy is

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1/4

1/3

1/2

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P looks at Q while Q looks at R. P is married, R is not. The number of pairs of people in which a married person is looking at an unmarried person is

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Cannot be determined

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“If you are looking for a history of India, or for an account of the rise and fall of the British Raj, or for the reason of the cleaving of the subcontinent into two mutually antagonistic parts and the effects this mutilation will have in the respective sections, and ultimately on Asia, you will not find it in these pages; for though I have spent a lifetime in the country, I lived too near the seat of events, and was too intimately associated with the actors, to get the perspective needed for the impartial recording of these matters.”

Which of the following is closest in meaning to ‘cleaving’?

Your answerChoose one option.

deteriorating

arguing

departing

splitting

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X bullocks and Y tractors take 8 days to plough a field. If we halve the number of bullocks and double the number of tractors, it takes 5 days to plough the same field. How many days will it take X bullocks alone to plough the field?

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There are 4 women P, Q, R, S and 5 men V, W, X, Y, Z in a group. We are required to form pairs each consisting of one woman and one man. P is not to be paired with Z, and Y must necessarily be paired with someone. In how many ways can 4 such pairs be formed?

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All people in a certain island are either ‘Knights’ or ‘Knaves’ and each person knows every other person’s identity. Knights NEVER lie, and knaves ALWAYS lie.

P says “Both of us are knights”. Q says “None of us are knaves”.

Which one of the following can be logically inferred from the above?

Your answerChoose one option.

Both P and Q are knights

P is a knight; Q is a knave

Both P and Q are knaves

The identities of P, Q cannot be determined

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In the graph below, the concentration of a particular pollutant in a lake is plotted over (alternate) days of a month in winter (average temperature 10 °C) and a month in summer (average temperature 30 °C).

Diagram for Geology and Geophysics question 95

Consider the following statements based on the data shown above:

i. Over the given months, the difference between the maximum and the minimum pollutant concentrations is the same in both winter and summer. ii. There are at least four days in the summer month such that the pollutant concentrations on those days are within 1 ppm of the pollutant concentrations on the corresponding days in the winter month.

Which one of the following options is correct?

Your answerChoose one option.

Only i

Only ii

Both i and ii

Neither i nor ii

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