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GATE CE 2020 National Champion Quiz 12 General Aptitude

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Question 1

Which of the following options is the closest in the meaning to the word below :
Inexplicable

Question 2

Choose the most appropriate word from the options given below to complete the following sentence.
A person suffering from Alzheimer’s disease ______ short-term memory loss.

Question 3

A retaining wall with measurements 30 m × 12 m × 6 m was constructed with bricks of dimensions 8 cm × 6 cm × 6 cm. If 60% of the wall consists of bricks, total no of bricks used for the construction is ___________ lakhs.

Question 4

An oil tank can be filled by pipe X in 5 hours and pipe Y in 4 hours, each pump working on its own. When the oil tank is full and the drainage hole is open, the oil is drained in 20 hours. If initially the tank was empty and someone started the two pumps together but left the drainage hole open, how many hours will it tak for the tank to be filled? (Assume that the rate of drainage is independent of the head)

Question 5

The temperature in a room varies as a function of the outside temperature and the number of persons in the room according to the relation where is are constants. What would be the value of θ given the following data?

Question 6

Most experts feel that in spite of possessing all the technical skills required to be a batsman of the highest order., he is unlikely to be so due to lack of requisite temperament. He was guilty of throwing away his wicket several times after working hard to lay a strong foundation. His critics pointed out that until he addressed to this problem, success at the highest level will continue to elude him.
Which of the statement (s) below is/are logically valid and can be inferred from the above passage?
(i) He was already a successful batsman at the highest level
(ii) He has to improve his temperament in order to become a great batsman
(iii) He failed to make many of his good starts count
(iv) Improving his technical skills will guarantee success

Question 7

Population of state X increased by x% and the population of state Y increased by y% from 2001 to 2011. Assume that x is greater than y. Let P be the ratio of the population of state X to state Y in a given year. The percentage increase in P from 2001 to 2011 is_____________

Question 8

The points in the graph below represent the halts of a lift for duration of 1 minute, over a period of 1 hour.

Which of the following statements are correct?
i. The elevator never moves directly from any non-ground floor to another non-ground floor over the one hour period
ii. The elevator stays on the fourth floor for the longest duration over the one hour period

Question 9

From a group of 61 students, each student appears for at least one of the 3 papers i.e. GATE, ESE or SSC. Out of the students appearing for SSC, the number of students appearing for ONLY SSC is equal to the number of students who also appear for GATE. The number of students who appear for only GATE is 3 more than the number of students who appear for all 3; number of students appear for ESE alone is higher than the previous number by 5. If 32 students appear for ESE and 36 students appear for exactly ONE exam, then the number of students appearing for all 3 exams are _____.

Question 10

Four distinct amounts i.e. ` 3000, ` 4000, ` 6000 and ` 7000 are put on deposit on simple interest @ 4%, 6%, 7.5% and 8% per annum – each amount having been put on deposit at a different rate of interest. It is also known that the highest principal amount has not been put on deposit at the lowest rate of interest and vice versa; likewise It is also known that the highest principal amount has not been put on deposit at the highest rate of interest and the lowest principal amount has not been put on deposit at the lowest rate of interest. If the highest principal amount does not earn maximum interest, what is the rate of interest (in %) for ` 6000?

Question 11

The number of 3 digit natural numbers which are neither multiples of 11 nor 13 are________.

Question 12

Budhan covers a distance of 19 km in 2 hours by cycling one fourth of the time and walking the rest. The next day he cycles (at the same speed as before) for half the time and walks the rest (at the same speed as before) and covers 26 km in 2 hours. The speed in km/h at which Budhan walks is
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