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GATE GG-1 Quantitative Aptitude PYQs
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Questions 1–10 of 49. Imported answers require independent review unless marked reviewed.
Question 4
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The 2nd of June is a Thursday in a certain year. Which day of the week is the 3rd of July in that year?
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A coin with heads facing up is shown as [H] and a coin with tails facing up is shown as [T].
Six coins are placed in the Starting Arrangement, as shown in the figure below. A “step” is defined as interchanging a pair of adjacent coins without flipping them. The minimum number of steps needed to go from the Starting Arrangement to the Final Arrangement, as shown in the figure, is ________.
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In a population, patients who have high cholesterol also have high blood-pressure (BP). Some patients with high BP also have diabetes. There are no patients who have both high cholesterol and diabetes. Furthermore,
the total number of patients with at least one of these conditions is 75,
the number of patients with high cholesterol is 10,
the number of patients with high BP is 45, and
the number of patients with only high BP and no other conditions is 20.
Then the number of patients who have both diabetes and high BP is ______
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Circles
,
, and
, with centers
,
, and
, and radii
,
, and
, respectively, touch each other as shown in the following figure. Given
cm,
cm and the angle
is
,
_____ cm. 
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The sum of the following infinite series is:
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A thin wire is used to construct all the edges of a cube of 1 m side by bending, cutting and soldering the wire. If the wire is 12 m long, what is the minimum number of cuts required to construct the wire frame to form the cube?
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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 about 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?
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A circle with center at
and radius
intersects with another circle with center at
and radius
at two points. One of the points of intersection
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For positive integers
and
, with
,
. Then,Your answerChoose one option.
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Which one of the given options is a possible value of X in the following sequence?
3, 7, 15, X, 63, 127, 255
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