Mechanical Engineering
2023 · Paper 1
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Question 10
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An opaque pyramid (shown below), with a square base and isosceles faces, is suspended in the path of a parallel beam of light, such that its shadow is cast on a screen oriented perpendicular to the direction of the light beam. The pyramid can be oriented in any direction within the light beam. Under these conditions, which one of the shadows P, Q, R, and S is NOT possible?
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A machine produces a defective component with a probability of 0.015. The number of defective components in a packed box containing 200 components produced by the machine follows a Poisson distribution. The mean and the variance of the distribution are
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The figure shows the plot of a function over the interval
. Which one of the options given CORRECTLY identifies the function? 
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