GATE ME discipline:mechanical-and-production-engineering PYQs & Answers — Page 67

Questions 661–670 of 1040. Imported answers require independent review unless marked reviewed.

Under a certain legal system, prisoners are allowed to make one statement. If their statement turns out to be true then they are hanged. If the statement turns out to be false then they are shot. One prisoner made a statement and the judge had no option but to set him free. Which one of the following could be that statement?

Your answerChoose one option.

I did not commit the crime

I committed the crime

I will be shot

You committed the crime

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Fiscal deficit was 4% of the GDP in 2015 and that increased to 5% in 2016. If the GDP increased by 10% from 2015 to 2016, the percentage increase in the actual fiscal deficit is _____.

Your answerChoose one option.

37.50

35.70

25.00

10.00

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A person divided an amount of Rs. 100,000 into two parts and invested in two different schemes. In one he got 10% profit and in the other he got 12%. If the profit percentages are interchanged with these investments he would have got Rs.120 less. Find the ratio between his investments in the two schemes.

Your answerChoose one option.

9 : 16

11 : 14

37 : 63

47 : 53

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Two pipes P and Q can fill a tank in 6 hours and 9 hours respectively, while a third pipe R can empty the tank in 12 hours. Initially, P and R are open for 4 hours. Then P is closed and Q is opened. After 6 more hours R is closed. The total time taken to fill the tank (in hours) is _____.

Your answerChoose one option.

13.50

14.50

15.50

16.50

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Congo was named by Europeans. Congo’s dictator Mobuto later changed the name of the country and the river to Zaire with the objective of Africanising names of persons and spaces. However, the name Zaire was a Portuguese alteration of Nzadi o Nzere, a local African term meaning ‘River that swallows Rivers’. Zaire was the Portuguese name for the Congo river in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Which one of the following statements can be inferred from the paragraph above?

Your answerChoose one option.

Mobuto was not entirely successful in Africanising the name of his country

The term Nzadi o Nzere was of Portuguese origin

Mobuto’s desire to Africanise names was prevented by the Portuguese

As a dictator Mobuto ordered the Portuguese to alter the name of the river to Zaire

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While teaching a creative writing class in India, I was surprised at receiving stories from the students that were all set in distant places: in the American West with cowboys and in Manhattan penthouses with clinking ice cubes. This was, till an eminent Caribbean writer gave the writers in the once-colonised countries the confidence to see the shabby lives around them as worthy of being “told”.

The writer of this page is surprised by the creative writing assignments of his students, because _____.

Your answerChoose one option.

Some of the students had written stories set in foreign places

None of the students had written stories set in India

None of the students had written about ice cubes and cowboys

Some of the students had written about ice cubes and cowboys

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A firm hires employees at five different skill levels P, Q, R, S, T. The shares of employment at these skill levels of total employment in 2010 is given in the pie chart as shown. There were a total of 600 employees in 2010 and the total employment increased by 15% from 2010 to 2016. The total employment at skill levels P, Q and R remained unchanged during this period. If the employment at skill level S increased by 40% from 2010 to 2016, how many employees were there at skill level T in 2016?

Diagram for Mechanical Engineering question 9

Your answerChoose one option.

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Mola is a digital platform for taxis in a city. It offers three types of rides – Pool, Mini and Prime. The Table below presents the number of rides for the past four months. The platform earns one US dollar per ride. What is the percentage share of revenue contributed by Prime to the total revenues of Mola, for the entire duration?

Type	January	February	March	April
Pool	170	320	215	190
Mini	110	220	180	70
Prime	75	180	120	90

Your answerChoose one option.

16.24

23.97

25.86

38.74

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M and N had four children P, Q, R and S. Of them, only P and R were married. They had children X and Y respectively. If Y is a legitimate child of W, which one of the following statements is necessarily FALSE?

Your answerChoose one option.

M is the grandmother of Y

R is the father of Y

W is the wife of R

W is the wife of P

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X is an online media provider. By offering unlimited and exclusive online content at attractive prices for a loyalty membership, X is almost forcing its customers towards its loyalty membership. If its loyalty membership continues to grow at its current rate, within the next eight years more households will be watching X than cable television.

Which one of the following statements can be inferred from the above paragraph?

Your answerChoose one option.

Most households that subscribe to X’s loyalty membership discontinue watching cable television

Non-members prefer to watch cable television

Cable television operators don’t subscribe to X’s loyalty membership

The X is cancelling accounts of non-members

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