GATE CS General Aptitude questions

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"From where are they bringing their books? _______ bringing _______ books from ________" The words that best fill the blanks in the above sentence are

A contour line joins locations having the same height above the mean sea level. The following is a contour plot of a geographical region. Contour lines are shown at

25

m intervals in this plot. If in a flood, the water level rises to

525

m, which of the villages

P, Q, R, S, T

get submerged?

Arun, Gulab, Neel and Shweta must choose one shirt each from a pile of four shirts coloured red, pink, blue and white respectively. Arun dislikes the colour red and Shweta dislikes the colour white. Gulab and Neel like all the colours. In how many different ways can they choose the shirts so that no one has a shirt with a colour he or she dislikes?

The expression

\large \frac{(x+y) - |x-y|}{2}

is equal to :

"The hold of the nationalist imagination on our colonial past is such that anything inadequately or improperly nationalist is just not history." Which of the following statements best reflects the author's opinion?

Six people are seated around a circular table. There are at least two men and two women. There are at least three right-handed persons. Every woman has a left-handed person to her immediate right. None of the women are right-handed. The number of women at the table is

The probability that a

k

-digit number does NOT contain the digits

0, 5,

9

Find the smallest number

y

such that

y \times 162

is a perfect cube.

Rahul, Murali, Srinivas and Arul are seated around a square table. Rahul is sitting to the left of Murali. Srinivas is sitting to the right of Arul. Which of the following pairs are seated opposite each other?

Research in the workplace reveals that people work for many reasons _______________ .

After Rajendra Chola returned from his voyage to Indonesia, he ________ to visit the temple in Thanjavur.

An air pressure contour line joins locations in a region having the same atmospheric pressure. The following is an air pressure contour plot of a geographical region. Contour lines are shown at

0.05

bar intervals in this plot. If the possibility of a thunderstorm is given by how fast air pressure rises or drops over a region, which of the following …

The number of roots of

e^{x}+0.5x^{2}-2=0

in the range

[-5,5]

X

is a

30

digit number starting with the digit

4

followed by the digit

7

. Then the number

X^3

will have

There are three boxes. One contains apples, another contains oranges and the last one contains both apples and oranges. All three are known to be incorrectly labeled. If you are permitted to open just one box and then pull out and inspect only one fruit, which box would you open to determine the contents of all three boxes?

“We lived in a culture that denied any merit to literary works, considering them important only when they were handmaidens to something seemingly more urgent – namely ideology. This was a country where all gestures, even the most private, were interpreted in political terms.” The author’s belief that ideology is not as important as literature is revealed by …

There are

3

red socks,

4

green socks and

3

blue socks.You choose

2

socks. The probability that they are of the same colour is

A test has twenty questions worth

100

marks in total. There are two types of questions. Multiple choice questions are worth

3

marks each and essay questions are worth

11

marks each. How many multiple choice questions does the exam have?

There are five buildings called

V

W

X

Y

and

Z

in a row (not necessarily in that order).

V

is to the West of

W

Z

is to the East of

X

and the West of

V

W

is to the West of

Y

. Which is the building in the middle?

Saturn is ___________ to be seen on a clear night with the naked eye.