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Q.8731·Miscellaneous·2017·Easy

Which one of the following statements with regard to volcanoes is not correct?

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Q.8732·Miscellaneous·2017·Easy

Which one of the following is the correct sequence of occurrences of rivers from Chennai to Kolkata when travelled by road (shortest distance)?

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Q.8733·Miscellaneous·2017·Easy

The ratio of gross cropped area to the net sown area is called

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Q.8734·Miscellaneous·2017·Easy

From the top of a building 90 m high, the angles of depression of the top and the bottom of a tree are 30° and 45° respectively. What is the height of the tree?

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Q.8735·Miscellaneous·2017·Easy

An aeroplane flying at a height of 300 m above the ground passes vertically above another plane at an instant when the angles of elevation of the two planes from the same point on the ground are 60° and 45° respectively. What is the height of the lower plane from the ground?

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Q.8736·Miscellaneous·2017·Easy

What is the value of sin x [ 1 / (1 + cos x) + 1 / (1 - cos x) ] ?

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Q.8737·Miscellaneous·2017·Easy

Consider the following frequency distribution: x Frequency Cumulative Frequency 1 8 8 2 10 18 3 f₁ 29 4 f₂ 45 What are the values of f₁ and f₂ respectively?

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Q.8738·Miscellaneous·2017·Easy

An individual purchases three qualities of pencils. The relevant data is given below: Quality Price per pencil (₹) Money spent (₹) A 1.00 50 B 1.50 x C 2.00 20 It is known that the average price per pencil is ₹ 1.25. What is the value of x?

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Q.8739·Miscellaneous·2017·Easy

Which one of the following about sugar industry of Peninsular India is not correct?

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Q.8740·Miscellaneous·2017·Easy

Let a, b, c, d, e, f, g be consecutive even numbers and j, k, l, m, n be consecutive odd numbers. What is the average of all the numbers?

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Q.8741·Miscellaneous·2017·Easy

In an asymmetrical distribution, if the mean and median of the distribution are 270 and 220 respectively, then the mode of the data is

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Q.8742·Miscellaneous·2017·Easy

In a pie diagram, there are four slices with angles 150°, 90°, 60° and 60°. A new pie diagram is formed by deleting one of the slices having angle 60° in the given pie diagram In the new pie diagram:

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Q.8743·Miscellaneous·2017·Easy

Consider the following distribution: Class Frequency 0 – 20 17 20 – 40 28 40 – 60 32 60 – 80 f 80 – 100 19 If the mean of the above distribution is 50, what is the value of f?

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Q.8744·Miscellaneous·2017·Easy

The mean marks obtained by 300 students in a subject are 60. The mean of top 100 students was found to be 80 and the mean of last 100 students was found to be 50. The mean marks of the remaining 100 students are

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Q.8745·Miscellaneous·2017·Easy

The mean of 5 numbers is 15. If one more number is included, the mean of the 6 numbers becomes 17. What is the included number?

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Q.8746·Miscellaneous·2017·Easy

25 kg of alloy X is mixed with 125 kg of alloy Y. If the amount of lead and tin in the alloy X is in the ratio 1 : 2 and the amount of lead and tin in the alloy Y is in the ratio 2 : 3, then what is the ratio of lead to tin in the mixture?

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Q.8747·Miscellaneous·2017·Easy

The process of copying genetic information from one strand of DNA into RNA is termed as

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Q.8748·Miscellaneous·2017·Easy

‘Rand/ZAR’ is the currency of

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