Production and Industrial Engineering
GATE PI topic:industrial-engineering PYQs
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Question 6
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Column-I has statements made by Shantala; and Column-II has responses given by Kanishk.
Column-I:
P. This house is in a mess.
Q. I am not happy with the marks given to me.
R. Politics is a subject I avoid talking about.
S. I don’t know what this word means.
Column-II:
Alright, I won’t bring it up during our conversations.
Well, you can easily look it up.
No problem, let me clear it up for you.
Don’t worry, I will take it up with your teacher.
Identify the option that has the correct match between Column-I and Column-II.
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Weight of a person can be expressed as a function of their age. The function usually varies from person to person. Suppose this function is identical for two brothers, and it monotonically increases till the age of 50 years and then it monotonically decreases. Let
and
(in years) denote the ages of the brothers and
.Which one of the following statements is correct about their age on the day when they attain the same weight?
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A regular dodecagon (12-sided regular polygon) is inscribed in a circle of radius r cm as shown in the figure. The side of the dodecagon is d cm. All the triangles (numbered 1 to 12) in the figure are used to form squares of side r cm and each numbered triangle is used only once to form a square.
The number of squares that can be formed and the number of triangles required to form each square, respectively, are:
Note: The figure shown is representative.

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If a real variable
satisfies
, then the value of
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The number of patients per shift (
) consulting Dr. Gita in her past 100 shifts is shown in the figure. If the amount she earns is ₹100(
), what is the average amount (in ₹) she has earned per shift in the past 100 shifts?Note: The figure shown is representative.

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The eigenvalues of the matrix
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If
,
and
are the orthogonal unit vectors in Cartesian x-y-z coordinate system, the curl of the vector
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If
denotes the Laplace transform of some function
, then the Laplace transform of
, where
is a real constant, isYour answerChoose one option.
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Which one of the following equations is a linear differential equation?
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A bag contains 5 red, 7 green and 3 blue balls. Two balls are drawn at random from the bag one-by-one. The probability of the second drawn ball being red is
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