GATE PI topic:industrial-engineering PYQs & Answers — Page 46

Questions 451–460 of 650. Imported answers require independent review unless marked reviewed.

A company is planning to procure a machine to produce a component. There are two alternatives available - machine A and machine B. The cost of producing

units of the component (in Rs.) using machine A is given as

. The cost of producing

units of the component (in Rs.) using machine B is given as

. If machine B is to be preferred, then the minimum number of units to be produced should be ____________.

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The availability of an old photocopier was 90% and the Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) was 200 days. It has been replaced with a new photocopier having an availability of 95%. Now, the Mean Time to Repair (the time during which the photocopier is unavailable for service) has increased by 5 days. The MTBF of the new photocopier (rounded off to the nearest integer) in days is ____________.

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A car company manufactures 200 units of a component per day. The component is installed in different car models at a rate of 1500 units per year. The company operates its production facility 300 days per year to manufacture the component. The setup cost for each production run is Rs. 200 and the inventory holding cost per year is Rs. 2 per unit. The Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) is ____________.

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A company has to perform five tasks (P, Q, R, S and T) to make an assembly. Task times and immediate predecessor of the tasks are listed below. If an assembly line is designed to obtain the maximum output rate, the efficiency of the line in % is ____________.

Task	Task time (Seconds)	Immediate predecessor(s)
P	20	-
Q	25	P
R	10	Q
S	15	Q
T	25	R, S

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In a work study experiment, it is observed that a worker completes a job in an average time of 15 minutes with a performance rating of 120%. The time required for another worker having a performance rating of 80% to complete the same job (rounded off to one decimal place) in minutes is ____________.

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The fishermen, _____ the flood victims owed their lives, were rewarded by the government.

Your answerChoose one option.

whom

to which

to whom

that

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Some students were not involved in the strike.

If the above statement is true, which of the following conclusions is/are logically necessary?

Some who were involved in the strike were students.

No student was involved in the strike.

At least one student was involved in the strike.

Some who were not involved in the strike were students.

Your answerChoose one option.

1 and 2

2 and 3

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The radius as well as the height of a circular cone increases by 10%. The percentage increase in its volume is _____.

Your answerChoose one option.

17.1

21.0

33.1

72.8

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Five numbers 10, 7, 5, 4 and 2 are to be arranged in a sequence from left to right following the directions given below:

No two odd or even numbers are next to each other.

The second number from the left is exactly half of the left-most number.

The middle number is exactly twice the right-most number.

Which is the second number from the right?

Your answerChoose one option.

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Until Iran came along, India had never been ______________ in kabaddi.

Your answerChoose one option.

defeated

defeating

defeat

defeatist

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