GATE MN 2019 Paper 1 — page 3

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

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.

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9 : 16

11 : 14

37 : 63

47 : 53

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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?

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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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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?

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