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Q.9415·Miscellaneous·2016·Easy

A pie chart depicts the classification of total funds of an organization according to different sources of funds. A particular sector of pie chart for corporate tax has 108° angle at the centre. What is the percentage of income from corporate tax to total funds?

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Q.9416·Miscellaneous·2016·Easy

In a class of 100 students, there are 70 boys whose average marks in a subject are 75. If the average marks of the complete class is 72, then what is the average marks of the girls?

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Q.9417·Miscellaneous·2016·Easy

Number of credit cards held by an individual can be treated as

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Q.9418·Miscellaneous·2016·Easy

The mean of 20 observations is 17. On checking it was found that the two observations were wrongly copied as 3 and 6. If wrong observations are replaced by correct values 8 and 9, then what is the correct mean?

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Q.9419·Miscellaneous·2016·Easy

A cricketer has a certain average of 10 innings. In the eleventh inning he scored 108 runs, thereby increasing his average by 6 runs. What is his new average?

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Q.9420·Miscellaneous·2016·Easy

The median of set of 9 distinct observations is 20.5. If each of the largest 4 observations of the set is increased by 2, then the median of the new set

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Q.9421·Miscellaneous·2016·Easy

For x > 0, if a variable takes discrete values x + 4, x – 3.5, x – 2.5, x – 3, x – 2, x + 0.5, x – 0.5, x + 5, then what is the median?

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Q.9422·Miscellaneous·2016·Easy

If the length of the shadow of a tower is equal to its height, then what is the Sun’s altitude at that time?

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Q.9423·Miscellaneous·2016·Easy

Most disputes about whether or not men are stronger than women are meaningless because the word ‘strong’ may mean many things. Most men can surpass most women in lifting heavy weights, in striking an object, in running, jumping or doing heavy physical labour. But most women live longer than most men, they have a better chance of resisting disease, they can beat men at operations requiring finger dexterity and the ability to work accurately under monotonous conditions. So it would be legitimate to argue that women are stronger than men. The truth is that each gender can surpass the other in certain kinds of activities. To say that one is stronger than the other is to indulge in futile arguments. From the passage, which of the following statements is most likely to be correct?

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Q.9424·Miscellaneous·2016·Easy

Most disputes about whether or not men are stronger than women are meaningless because the word ‘strong’ may mean many things. Most men can surpass most women in lifting heavy weights, in striking an object, in running, jumping or doing heavy physical labour. But most women live longer than most men, they have a better chance of resisting disease, they can beat men at operations requiring finger dexterity and the ability to work accurately under monotonous conditions. So it would be legitimate to argue that women are stronger than men. The truth is that each gender can surpass the other in certain kinds of activities. To say that one is stronger than the other is to indulge in futile arguments. The author says it would be legitimate to argue that women are stronger than men, because

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Q.9425·Miscellaneous·2016·Easy

Most disputes about whether or not men are stronger than women are meaningless because the word ‘strong’ may mean many things. Most men can surpass most women in lifting heavy weights, in striking an object, in running, jumping or doing heavy physical labour. But most women live longer than most men, they have a better chance of resisting disease, they can beat men at operations requiring finger dexterity and the ability to work accurately under monotonous conditions. So it would be legitimate to argue that women are stronger than men. The truth is that each gender can surpass the other in certain kinds of activities. To say that one is stronger than the other is to indulge in futile arguments. The author says that any dispute about whether or not men are stronger than women is meaningless, because

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Q.9426·Miscellaneous·2016·Easy

Most disputes about whether or not men are stronger than women are meaningless because the word ‘strong’ may mean many things. Most men can surpass most women in lifting heavy weights, in striking an object, in running, jumping or doing heavy physical labour. But most women live longer than most men, they have a better chance of resisting disease, they can beat men at operations requiring finger dexterity and the ability to work accurately under monotonous conditions. So it would be legitimate to argue that women are stronger than men. The truth is that each gender can surpass the other in certain kinds of activities. To say that one is stronger than the other is to indulge in futile arguments. Which one of the following statements best reflects the main contention of the author?

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Q.9427·Miscellaneous·2016·Easy

The average score of class X is 83. The average score of class Y is 76. The average score of class Z is 85. The average score of class Y and Z is 79 and the average score of class X and Z is 81. What is the average score of X, Y and Z?

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Q.9428·Miscellaneous·2016·Easy

Consider the following: 1. cos 75° / sin 15° = sin 12° / cos 78° = cos 18° / sin 72° = 1 2. cos 35° / sin 55° = sin 11° / cos 79° = cos 28° / cosec 62° = 1 3. sin 80° / cos 10° = sin 59° / sec 31° = 0 Which of the above are correct?

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Q.9429·Miscellaneous·2016·Easy

In this question there is a sentence with three underlined parts labelled (a), (b) and (c). Read each sentence to find out whether there is any error in any underlined part and indicate your response in the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter i.e., (a) or (b) or (c). If you find no error, your response should be indicated as (d).

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Q.9430·Miscellaneous·2016·Easy

Some Indian territory was transferred in 2015 to Bangladesh by following which procedure?

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Q.9431·Miscellaneous·2016·Easy

The right to form associations and unions is a right

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Q.9432·Miscellaneous·2016·Easy

Which one of the following statements with regard to the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes is not correct?

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