The flowers in a basket become double every minute and the
basket gets full in one hour. In how much time, the basket
was 1/32 full ?
(a) 12 minutes
(b) 32 minutes
(c) 45 minutes
(d) 55 minutes
Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched ?
(a) National Aluminium Company Ltd. : Bhubaneswar
(b) Indian Bureau of Mines : Dhanbad
(c) National Film Archives of India : Pune
(d) National Archives of India : New Delhi
Crop yield Formulation Unit which has developed statistical
models to forecast crop yield works under the control of
(a) Ministry of Water Resources
(b) Department of Agriculture and Co-operation
(c) India Meteorological Department
(d) Department of Food and Public Distribution
Consider the following statements :
1. For the three All-India Services, there are 24 State
Cadres including three joint cadres.
2. Union Public Service Commission is the cadre controlling
authority for Indian Administrative Service.
3. Staff Selection Commission is entrusted with the task of
making recruitment to all the Group ?B? and Group ?C? posts
under the Government.
Which of these statements is/are correct?
(a) 1 only
(b) 1 and 2
(c) 2 and 3
(d) 1, 2 and 3
Two dice are thrown simultaneously. The probability that the
product of the two numbers on the two dice is an even number is
(a) 1/2
(b) 3/4
(c) 5/16
(d) 3/8
Three containers have their volumes in the ratio 3 : 4 : 5.
They are full of mixtures of milk and water. The mixtures
contain milk and water in the ratio of 4 : 1, 3 : 1 and 5 :
2 respectively. The contents of all these three containers
are poured into a fourth container. The ratio of milk and
water in the fourth container is
(a) 5 : 2
(b) 157 : 53
(c) 151 : 48
(d) 4 : 1
Bag ?A? contains 5 white and 2 black balls. Bag ?B? contains
2 white and 3 black balls. If any one bag is chosen and a
ball is taken out of it at random, what is the probability
that the ball is black?
(a) 31/70
(b) 1/2
(c) 5/12
(d) 3/5
15 men can complete a work in 280 days. They started the
work and after every 10 days, 15 additional men were
employed. In how many days the work was completed?
(a) 70 days
(b) 60 days
(c) 55 days
(d) 50 days
Consider the following statements :
1. Prime Meridian passes through Greenwich and is at 00
Longitude.
2. International Date Line on the map appears as a straight
line along 1800 Longitude.
3. While crossing International Date Line from east to west,
one gains a day.
4. Tropic of Cancer lies at23?0 Latitude S.
Which of these statements are correct ?
(a) 1, 2, 3 and 4
(b) 1 and 2
(c) 1 and 3
(d) 2 and 3
Consider the following statements :
While it is 6.30 AM (Sunday) in London, it is around
1. 2.30 AM (Sunday) in Honolulu (Hawaii)
2. 8.30 PM (Saturday) in Honolulu (Hawaii)
3. 3.30 PM (Sunday) in Tokyo
4. 1.30 AM (Sunday) in Tokyo
which of these statements is/are correct?
(a) 4 only
(b) 2 and 3
(c) 1 and 4
(d) 2 and 4