GATE-CS-2017 (Set 2)

Question 1

A test has questions worth 100 marks totals. 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?

• 12
• 15
• 18
• 19

Question 2

There are 5 buildings called V, W, X, Y, Z in a row (not necessarily in order). V is to the West of W, Z is to the East of X and the West of V. W is to West of Y. Which building is in the middle?

• V
• W
• X
• Y

Question 3

Saturn is __________ to be seen on a clear night with the naked eye?

• enough bright
• bright enough
• as enough bright
• bright as enough

Question 4

There are 3 red socks, 5 green socks and 3 blue socks. You choose 2 socks. The probability that they are of the same color is

• 1/5
• 7/30
• 1/4
• 16/55

Question 5

Choose the option with words that are not synonyms.

• aversion, dislike
• luminous, radiant
• plunder, loot
• yielding, resistant

Question 6

The numbers of the roots of e^x + 0.5x² -2 = 0 in the range [-5, 5] are

• 0
• 1
• 2
• 3

Question 7

There are three boxes, one contains apples, another contains oranges and last one contains both apples and oranges. All three are known to be incorrectly labelled. 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?

• The box labelled apples
• The box labelled both apples and oranges
• The box labelled oranges
• can\'t be determined

Question 8

X is 30 digit number starting with 4 followed 7. Then number X³ will have

• 90 digits
• 91 digits
• 92 digits
• 93 digits

Question 9

"We lived in culture and denied any merit to literally 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 , interpreted as political terms." The author\'s believes that ideology is not as important as literature is revealed by the word :

• culture
• seemingly
• urgent
• political

Question 10

An air pressure contour line join the locations in the region having the same atmospheric pressure. The following is the air pressure contour of a geographical region. The contour line are shown as 0.05 bar intervals in this plot. If the probability of thunderstorm is given by how fast air pressure rises or drops over a region. Which of the following region is most likely to have thunderstorm.

• P
• Q
• R
• S