GATE STUFF
Hi all,
Please find the previous year gate aptitude questions below.
1. In the summer of 2012, in New Delhi
(A) 40 (B) 43 (C) 46 (D) 49
2. Abhishek is elder to Savar.
Savar
is younger to Anshul.
Which of the given
conclusions is logically valid and is inferred from the above
statements?
(A) Abhishek is elder to
Anshul (B)
Anshul is elder to Abhishek
(C) Abhishek and Anshul are
of the same age (D) No conclusion follows
3. A firm is selling its
product at Rs. 60 per unit. The total cost of production is Rs. 100 and firm is
earning total profit of Rs. 500. Later, the total cost increased by 30%. By
what percentage the price should be increased to maintained the same profit
level.
(A) 5 (B) 10 (C) 15 (D) 30
7. A number is as much greater than 75 as it is
smaller than 117. The number is:
(A) 91 (B) 93 (C) 89 (D) 96
8.Velocity of an object fired directly in upward
direction is given by V= 80 – 32t ,where t (time) is in seconds. When will the
velocity be between 32 m/sec and 64 m/sec?
(A) (1, 3/2) (B) (1/2, 1) (C) (1/2, 3/2) (D) (1, 3)
9. In a factory, two machines M1 and M2 manufacture
60% and 40% of the autocomponents respectively. Out of the total production, 2%
of M1 and 3% of M2 are found to be defective. If a randomly drawn autocomponent
from the combined lot is found defective, what is the probability that it was
manufactured by M2?
(A) 0.35 (B) 0.45 (C) 0.5 (D) 0.4
Which two countries contributed to the one third of
the total number of tourists who visited India
(A) USA
and Japan (B) USA and Australia (C) England
and France(D) Japan and Australia
11. All
professors are researchers
Some scientists are professors
Which of the given conclusions is logically valid and
is inferred from the above arguments:
(A) All scientists are researchers (B) All professors are
scientists
(C) Some researchers are scientists (D) No conclusion follows
14. The arithmetic mean of five different natural
numbers is 12. The largest possible value among the numbers is (A)
12 (B) 40 (C) 50 (D) 60
15. Two policemen, A and B, fire once each at the same
time at an escaping convict. The probability that A hits the convict is three
times the probability that B hits the convict. If the probability of the
convict not getting injured is 0.5, the probability that B hits the convict is
(A) 0.14 (B) 0.22 (C) 0.33 (D) 0.40
16. The total runs scored by four cricketers P, Q, R,
and S in years 2009 and 2010 are given in the
following table:
Player
|
2009
|
2010
|
P
|
802
|
1008
|
Q
|
765
|
912
|
R
|
429
|
619
|
S
|
501
|
701
|
The player with the lowest percentage increase in
total runs is (A) P (B) Q (C) R
(D) S
17.If a prime number on division by 4 gives a
remainder of 1,then that number canbe expressed as
(A) sum of squares of two natural numbers (B) sum of cubes of two natural numbers
(C) sum of square roots of two natural numbers (D) sum of cube roots of two natural numbers
18. Two points (4, p) and (0, q) lie on a straight
line having a slope of 3/4. The value of (p – q) is
(A) -3 (B) 0 (C) 3 (D) 4
19. Ten teams participate in a tournament. Every team
plays each of the other teams twice. The total number of matches to be played
is (A)
20 (B) 45 (C) 60 (D) 90
20. A value of x that satisfies the equation log x +
log (x – 7) = log (x + 11) + log 2 is
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 7 (D) 11
21. Let f(x) = x – [x], where x ≥ 0 and [x] is the
greatest integer not larger than x. Then f(x) is a
(A) monotonically increasing function (B) monotonically decreasing
function
(C) linearly increasing function between two integers
(D) linearly decreasing function between two integers
22. Ravi is taller
than Arun but shorter than Iqbal. Sam is shorter than Ravi .
Mohan is shorter than Arun. Balu is taller than Mohan and Sam. The tallest
person can be
(A) Mohan (B) Ravi (C) Balu (D) Arun
23. A smuggler has 10 capsules in which five are
filled with narcotic drugs and the rest contain the original medicine. All the
10 capsules are mixed in a single box, from which the customs officials picked
two capsules at random and tested for the presence of narcotic drugs. The
probability that the smuggler will be caught is
(A) 0.50 (B) 0.67 (C) 0.78 (D) 0.82
24. The current erection cost of a structure is Rs.
13,200. If the labour wages per day increase by 1/5 of the current wages and
the working hours decrease by 1/24 of the current period, then the new cost
of erection in Rs. Is (A)
16,500 (B) 15,180 (C) 11,000 (D) 10,120
