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GATE Electrical Engineering · Verbal Aptitude · 2018-2025
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What is the value of $\left(\frac{3^{81}}{27^4}\right)^{1 / 3}$ ?
Spheres of unit diameter are centered at ( $l, m, n$ ) where $l, m$ and $n$ take every possible integer values. The distance between two spheres is computed from the center of one...
P and Q have been allotted a hostel room with two beds, a study table, and an almirah. P is an avid bird-watcher and wants to sit at the table and watch birds outside the window. Q...
The decimal number system uses the characters 0, 1, 2, ... , 8, 9, and the octal number system uses the characters 0, 1, 2, ... , 6, 7. For example, the decimal number 12 ( = 1 &ti...
A shopkeeper buys shirts from a producer and sells them at 20% profit. A customer has to pay ₹3,186.00 including 18% taxes, per shirt. At what price did the shopkeeper buy each shi...
If, for non-zero real variables $x$, $y$, and real parameter $a > 1$, $x : y = (a + 1) : (a - 1)$, then, the ratio $(x^2 - y^2) : (x^2 + y^2)$ is
In the given text, the blanks are numbered (i)–(iv). Select the best match for all the blanks. Following a row ____(i) ______ the shopkeeper ____(ii) ______ the price of a frying p...
A surveyor has to measure the horizontal distance from her position to a distant reference point C. Using her position as the center, a 200 m horizontal line segment is drawn with...
A recent survey shows that 65% of tobacco users were advised to stop consuming tobacco. The survey also shows that 3 out of 10 tobacco users attempted to stop using tobacco. Based...
Students of all the departments of a college who have successfully completed the registration process are eligible to vote in the upcoming college elections. However, by the time t...
the digit in the unit's place of the product $$3^{999}\times7^{1000}$$ is __________.
In a 500 m race, P and Q have speeds in the ratio of 3 : 4. Q starts the race when P has already covered 140 m. What is the distance between P and Q (in m) when P wins the race?
Given below are two statements and four conclusions drawn based on the statements. Statement I : Some bottles are cups. Statement II : All cups are knives. Conclusion I : Some bott...
The price of an item is 10% cheaper in an online store S compared to the price at another online store M. Store S charges Rs.150 for delivery. There are no delivery charges for ord...
The letters P, Q, R, S, T and U are to be placed one per vertex on a regular convex hexagon, but not necessarily in the same order. Consider the following statements : $$\bullet$$...
Which one of the following numbers is exactly divisible by $\left(11^{13}+1\right) ?$
For a regular polygon having 10 sides, the interior angle between the sides of the polygon, in degrees, is
The people $\_\_\_\_$ were at the demonstration were from all sections of society.
The missing number in the given sequence 343, 1331, ______, 4913 is
It takes two hours for a person X to mow the lawn. Y can mow the same lawn in four hours. How long (in minutes) will it take X and Y, if they work together to mow the lawn?
How many integers are there between 100 and 1000 all of whose digits are even?
The ratio of the number of boys and girls who participated in an examination is 4:3. The total percentage of candidates who passed the examination is 80 and the percentage of girls...
An award-winning study by a group of researchers suggests that men are as prone to buying on impulse as women but women feel more guilty about shopping. Which one of the following...
Given two sets X = {1, 2, 3} and Y = {2, 3, 4}, we construct a set Z of all possible fractions where the numerators belong to set X and the denominators belong to set Y. The produc...
Consider five people - Mita, Ganga, Rekha, Lakshmi and Sana. Ganga is taller than both Rekha and Lakshmi. Lakshmi is taller than Sana. Mita is taller than Ganga. Which of the follo...
Given two sets X = {1, 2, 3} and Y = {2, 3, 4}, we construct a set Z of all possible fractions where the numerators belong to set X and the denominators belong to set Y. The produc...
How many integers are there between 100 and 1000 all of whose digits are even?
It takes two hours for a person X to mow the lawn. Y can mow the same lawn in four hours. How long (in minutes) will it take X and Y, if they work together to mow the lawn?
The ratio of the number of boys and girls who participated in an examination is 4 : 3. The total percentage of candidates who passed the examination is 80 and the percentage of a g...
Newspapers are a constant source of delight and recreation for me. The _____ trouble is that I read _______ many of them.
The missing number in the given sequence 343, 1331, _______, 4913 is
I am not sure if the bus that has been booked will be able to ______ all the students
Consider five people- Mitra, Ganga, Rekha, Lakshmi and Sana, Ganga is taller than both Rekha and Lakshmi. Lakshmi is taller than Sana. Mita is taller than Ganga. Which of the follo...
An award-winning study by a group of researchers suggests that men are as prone to buying on impulse as women but women feel more guilty about shopping. Which one of the following...
In a certain code, AMCF is written as EQGJ and NKUF is written as ROYJ. How will DHLP be written in that code?
A class of twelve children has two more boys than girls. A group of three children are randomly picked from this class to accompany the teacher on a field trip. What is the probabi...
A designer uses marbles of four different colours for his designs. The cost of each marble is the same, irrespective of the colour. The table below shows the percentage of marbles...
P, Q, R and S crossed a lake in a boat that can hold a maximum of two persons, with only one set of oars. The following additional facts are available. (i) The boat held two person...
An e-mail password must contain three characters. The password has to contain one numeral from 0 to 9, one upper case and one lower case character from the English alphabet. How ma...
For what values of k given below is $${{{{\left( {k + 2} \right)}^2}} \over {k - 3}}$$ an integer?
In a certain code, AMCF is written as EQGJ and NKUF is written as ROYJ. How will DHLP be written in that code?
A class of twelve children has two more boys than girls. A group of three children are randomly picked from this class to accompany the teacher on a field trip. What is the probabi...