Q. Mohan, the manager, wants his four workers to work in pairs. No pair should work for more than 5 hours. Ram and John have worked together for 5 hours. Krishna and Amir have worked as a team for 2 hours. Krishna does not want to work with Ram. Whom should Mohan allot to work with John, if he ...

Q. Hima Das was__________only Indian athlete to win______gold for India. (A) the, many (B) the, a (C) an, a (D) an, the Ans: the, a

Q. A retaining wall with measurements 30m × 12m × 6m was constructed with bricks of dimensions 8cm × 6cm × 6cm. If 60% of the wall consists of bricks, the number of bricks used for the construction is_____lakhs. (A) 30 (B) 40 (C) 45 (D) 75 Ans: 45 Solution: Volume of the wall ...

Q. Suresh wanted to lay a new carpet in his new mansion with an area of 70 × 55 sq. mts. However an area of 550 sq. mts. had to be left out for flower pots. If the cost of carpet is Rs. 50 per sq. mts., how much money (in Rs.) will be spent by Suresh for the carpet now? (A) Rs. 1,65,000 (B) ...

Q. The growth rate of ABC Motors in 2017 was the same________XYZ Motors in 2016. (A) as off (B) as those of (C) as that off (D) as that of Ans: as that of

Q. Daytime temperatures in Delhi can_________40°C. (A) get (B) stand (C) reach (D) peak Ans: reach

Q. A square footing of 4 m side is placed at 1 m depth in a sand deposit. The dry unit weight (g) of sand is 15 kN/m3. This footing has an ultimate bearing capacity of 600 kPa. Consider the depth factors: dq = dg = 1.0 and the bearing capacity factor: Ng = 18.75. This footing is placed at a depth ...

Q. A 3 m × 3 m square precast reinforced concrete segments to be installed by pushing them through an existing railway embankment for making an underpass as shown in the figure. A reaction arrangement using precast PCC blocks placed on the ground is to be made for the jacks. At each stage, ...

Q. A granular soil has a saturated unit weight of 20 kN/m3 and an effective angle of shearing resistance of 30°. The unit weight of water is 9.81 kN/m3. A slope is to be made on this soil deposit in which the seepage occurs parallel to the slope up to the free surface. Under this seepage condition ...

Q. A reinforced concrete circular pile of 12 m length and 0.6 m diameter is embedded in stiff clay which has an undrained unit cohesion of 110 kN/m2. The adhesion factor is 0.5. The Net Ultimate Pullout (uplift) Load for the pile (in kN, round off to 1 decimal place) is                Solution: ...

Q. Consider a laminar flow in the x-direction between two infinite parallel plates (Couette flow). The lower plate is stationary and the upper plate is moving with a velocity of 1 cm/s in the x-direction. The distance between the plates is 5 mm and the dynamic viscosity of the fluid is 0.01 ...

Q. Two water reservoirs are connected by a siphon (running full) of total length 5000 m and diameter of 0.10 m, as shown below (figure not drawn to scale). The inlet leg length of the siphon to its summit is 2000 m. The difference in the water surface levels of the two reservoirs is 5 m. ...