GATE CE 2023 Paper 2 — page 3

Questions 7–9 of 65. Imported answers require review unless explicitly marked reviewed.

Three husband-wife pairs are to be seated at a circular table that has six identical chairs. Seating arrangements are defined only by the relative position of the people. How many seating arrangements are possible such that every husband sits next to his wife?

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120

720

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Based only on the following passage, which one of the options can be inferred with certainty?

When the congregation sang together, Apeno would also join, though her little screams were not quite audible because of the group singing. But whenever there was a special number, trouble would begin; Apeno would try singing along, much to the embarrassment of her mother. After two or three such mortifying Sunday evenings, the mother stopped going to church altogether until Apeno became older and learnt to behave.

At home too, Apeno never kept quiet; she hummed or made up silly songs to sing by herself, which annoyed her mother at times but most often made her become pensive. She was by now convinced that her daughter had inherited her love of singing from her father who had died unexpectedly away from home.

[Excerpt from These Hills Called Home by Temsula Ao]

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The mother was embarrassed about her daughter’s singing at home.

The mother’s feelings about her daughter’s singing at home were only of annoyance.

The mother was not sure if Apeno had inherited her love of singing from her father.

When Apeno hummed at home, her mother tend to become thoughtful.

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satisfies the equation

, then

is equal to _____.

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2023 · Paper 2

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