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Q.1

“You need not come unless you want to” which one of the following is
correct. Mark ‘d ’, if no correction is required.

a. You don’t need to come unless you want to

b. You come only when you want to

c. You needn’t come until you don’t want to
d. No correction required

Attempt Incorrect Your Ans. b Correct Ans. a

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Q.2

My friend gives me many advices regarding my future career

Which part of the sentence is grammatically incorrect?

a. My friend gives me
b. many advices
c. regarding my future career
d. no error

Not Attempt Correct Ans. b

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Q.3

Which of the following is grammatically correct sentence?

a. I would rather stay here than go home.

 b. I would rather stay here than going home.
c. I would rather stayed here than went home.
d. I would rather stay here than go to home.

Not Attempt Correct Ans. a

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Q.4

Let a, b, c be distinct positive integers (a < b < c), a and b are odd, and c is
even. Which of the following statements cannot be true?

a. (a – c)2 (b – a) is even

b. (a – c)2 b is odd
c. (a – c) (b – c) is odd
d. (a – b)2 c is even

Attempt Incorrect Your Ans. a Correct Ans. b

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Q.5

The next term in the series is

6, 14, 30, 54, 86, _____

Attempt Correct Correct Ans. 126

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Q.6

A merchant marks his goods, such that the profit on sale of 50 articles is
equal to the selling price of 25 articles. The profit percentage is

a. 25%
b. 50%
c. 75%
d. 100%

Attempt Correct Correct Ans. d

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Q.7

Scientists investigating a rare metabolic disorder hypothesized that obesity

was a predisposing factor in the development of the disease. A study of
twenty patients found that, on average, the patients were close to the
normal weight for their height. Before concluding that obesity is not a
predisposing factor, the researchers would find the answer to which of the
following questions most useful?
 a. Are the patients above or below normal height?
b. Were any of the patients underweight when the disorder was diagnosed?
c. Does weight loss reduce the severity of the symptoms?
d. Have the patients always been close to their normal weight for their
heights?

Not Attempt Correct Ans. d

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Q.8

Sachin wants to go to the University. He starts from his home which is in the
East and comes to a crossing. The road to the left ends in a Theatre,
Straight ahead is the hospital and the road to the right hand is university.
The direction of the University is

a. West
b. South
c. East
d. North

Attempt Incorrect Your Ans. b Correct Ans. d

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Q.9

When you (speak of the past/ of the future), you can only make a prophecy
which may not necessarily come true. Which of the following best sums up
the above statement?

a. it is about future
b. it is about past uncertainty
c. it is about the prediction of what is going on
d. it is about pessimistic thinking

Not Attempt Correct Ans. a

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Q.10

A packet of 10 bulbs is known to include 2 bulbs that are defective. If 4

bulbs are randomly chosen and tested, the probability of finding among
them not more than 1 defective bulb is _________.

Attempt Incorrect Your Ans. .409 Correct Ans.

0.81 (0.80 - 0.82)
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Q.11
 A box of mass, m slide down an inclined plane which is infinitely long. There
is a consistent fluid film between the plane and the base of the box. Which
of the following can be said about the box, when it is released from rest?

a. The box will keep accelerating down the plane with uniform acceleration
g sinθ
b. The box will reach a terminal velocity and stop accelerating.
c. The box will reach a maximum velocity and then again come to zero
velocity
d. Net force acting on the box is mg sinθ

Attempt Correct Correct Ans. b

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Q.12

Given the relation Which of the following relation can be

arrived at for an ideal gas by using the above Clapeyron equation?

(Take Patm = 1 bar; Psat = saturation pressure; Tnb = normal boiling, Tsat =

saturation point temperature)

a.

b.

c.

d.

Not Attempt Correct Ans. c

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Q.13

A square of side ‘a’ with an equilateral triangle stuck on it is shown in figure.

The x-coordinate of the centroid is
 a. 0.45a
b. 0.59a
c. 0.74a
d. 0.82a

Attempt Correct Correct Ans. c

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Q.14

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given
below the lists:

List-I List-II

A. Sand 1. Axi-symmetric parts having concentric holes

B. Shell mold 2. Crank-case

C. Die 3. Connecting rods

D. Centrifugal 4. Engine blocks

Codes:
A B C D
(a) 1 2 3 4
(b) 4 2 3 1
(c) 4 3 2 1
(d) 2 3 4 1

a. a
b. b

c. c
d. d

Attempt Incorrect Your Ans. b Correct Ans. c

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Q.15

The specific volume of dry air in an air-water vapour mixture having

temperature 24°C relative humidity 40% at standard barometric pressure
100 kPa if the saturated air pressure is 20 kPa is

a. 0.85 m3/kg of da
b. 0.93 m3/kg of da
 c. 10.65 m3/kg of da
d. 4.26 m3/kg of da

Not Attempt Correct Ans. b

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Q.16

The minimum diameter of a steel wire, which is used to raise a load of 4000
N, if the stress in the rod is not to exceed 95 MPa is:

a. 6.16 mm
b. 7.32 mm
c. 4.08 mm
d. 8.64 mm

Attempt Correct Correct Ans. b

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Q.17

Which of the following statements is not correct in the context of

structures?

a. In a frame, it is not necessary that all forces are along the members

b. There is never a need to dismember the structure for finding out the
support reactions.
c. A member of the truss is either in tension or compression
d. An ideal truss, does not transmit moment among the connecting
members

Attempt Incorrect Your Ans. a Correct Ans. b

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Q.18

The number of degrees of freedom of the following mechanism are:

(Note that link 5 is parallel and equal in length to link 2 and link 4, also link 1
and link 3 are equal and parallel)

a. 0
b. – 1
c. 2
d. 1

Attempt Correct Correct Ans. d

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Q.19

A cylinder of internal diameter 500 mm contains air at pressure of 7

N/mm2(gauge). If the maximum permissible stress induced in the material

is 80 N/mm2, the thickness (in mm) of the cylinder would be

a. 20
b. 21
c. 22
d. 23

Attempt Correct Correct Ans. c

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Q.20

Calculate the force (kN) required to punch a circular blank of diameter 60

mm in a plate 5 mm thick. The ultimate shear stress of the plate is 350 MPa.

a. 55
b. 110
c. 220
d. 330

Attempt Correct Correct Ans. d

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Q.21

A simply supported beam of length 5 m carrier a uniformly increasing load

of 800 N/m from one end to 1600 N/m at the other end. The larger of the
two reactions is

a. 1.11 kN
b. 2.22 kN
c. 3.33 kN
d. 4.44 kN

Attempt Correct Correct Ans. c

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Q.22

For a steady 3D incompressible fluid flow, the velocity components in x and

y direction are:

vx = x2 + y 2 + z 2

vy = xy + yz + z

What is the velocity component in z-direction?

 a.

b. x2 + y 2
c. yz + xz + x
d. 4xz – 2z2

Attempt Correct Correct Ans. a

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Q.23

A single stage reciprocating compressor takes in air at 2 bar, 305K. The

polytropic compression and expansion follow the relation pv1.3 = constant

and pv1.25 = constant respectively. If the clearance volume is 5% of the

swept volume, the maximum theoretical pressure to which the air can be
compressed is nearly

a. 44 bar
b. 104 bar
c. 90 bar
d. insufficient data

Not Attempt Correct Ans. c

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Q.24

Evaluate the integral , along the straight line from z = 0

to z = 1 + i .

a. –1 + i
b. 2π i

c.

d.

Not Attempt Correct Ans. c

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Q.25

The value of integral

a.
 b.

c.

d.

Attempt Correct Correct Ans. b

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Q.26

An oven is wall of thickness b is made of material of thermal conductivity k.

Inside the oven, the temperature is 100°C and the heat transfer coefficient is

.If the wall temperature outside is held at 25°C, the inside wall

temperature is ___________°C.

Attempt Correct Correct Ans. 85

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Q.27

A manometer is attached to a pipe to measure pressure. The pressure at

point A (gauge pressure) is _________ kPa.

Attempt Correct Correct Ans. 15.6(15 - 16)

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Q.28

The standard time of an operation is 20 min. The worker was rated at 120%
and the allowances are 25%, the obeserved time (in minutes) would be
_________.

Not Attempt Correct Ans. 13.33

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Q.29
 In an inventory model, the economic lot size is twenty five percent of the
quantity ordered at a time. The value of model sensitivity is __________.

Attempt Incorrect Your Ans. 1.333 Correct Ans. 2.125

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Q.30

In a hot working operation the strength constant C = 30000 N/m2 and strain
rate sensitivity exponent m = 0.15. The flow stress is ________ kPa at the

strain rate of 0.01 s–1.

Attempt Correct Correct Ans. 15.0 (14 - 16)

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Q.31

A drilling operation is performed with a 25.4 mm dia twist drill in a steel

workpiece. The blind hole depth is 50 mm and point angle is 118°. The
cutting speed is 25 m/min and feed = 0.25 mm/rev. The cutting time
required to complete the operation is __________ seconds.

Attempt Correct Correct Ans. 44(43 - 45)

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Q.32

A disk of dia 40 cm and 5 cm thick is to be casted out of pure aluminium is

an open mold operation. Melting temperature of Al = 660°C, pouring temp. =
800°C. Assume that the amount of aluminium heated will be 5% more than
that needed to fill the mould cavity. Compute the amount of heat (MJ) added
to aluminium starting from room temperature of 25°C. Specific heat of
Al(both cold and heated) = 0.88 J/g°C. Heat of fusion = 389.3 J/g. Density Al

= 2.70 g/cm3. Give answer in mega joules.

Not Attempt Correct Ans. 19(18.5 - 19.5)

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Q.33

At a point within a body, subjected to two mutually perpendicular directions,

the stresses are 80 MPa and 40 MPa respectively. Each of the above stress
is accompanied by a shear stress of 60 MPa. The normal stress on an
oblique plane inclined at 45° with the axis of minor tensile stress is ________
MPa.
 Attempt Incorrect Your Ans. 60 Correct Ans. 120(119 - 121)
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Q.34

If 1, 2 and 5 are the eigen values of inverse of the matrix A, i.e. A–1, then the
determinant of A, i.e.|A| will be _____________.

Attempt Incorrect Your Ans. 10 Correct Ans. 0.1 (0.08 - 0.12)

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Q.35

If y = sec(tan–1 x), then will be __________.

Attempt Correct Correct Ans. 0.707 (0.68 - 0.72)

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Q.36

A fluid contained in a horizontal piston-cylinder arrangement is agitated by

a paddle wheel rotating at a uniform speed of 50 rad/s for 1000 seconds.
During the process, the piston of area 0.3m2 slowly moves at a distance of
0.5 m against a pressure of 100 kPa. If net work done by the fluid during the
process is 5 kJ, the torque in the motor shaft of the paddle wheels:

a. 0.1 Nm
b. 0.3 Nm
c. 0.2 Nm

d. 0.4 Nm

Attempt Incorrect Your Ans. d Correct Ans. c

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Q.37

What are the disadvantages of powder metallurgy (PM) technology?

1. PM allows formulation of alloys having constituents which have similar
properties only.
2. PM metal powders are expensive.
3. Variation in density in a PM component can be troublesome.
4. Only conductive metals can be processed.

a. 1 and 2
b. 1 and 4

c. 2 and 3
 d. 3 and 4

Attempt Incorrect Your Ans. b Correct Ans. c

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Q.38

A heavy tank contains oil (A) and water (B) subjected to a variable air
pressure; dimension shown in figure correspond to 1 atm. If air is slowly
added to bring the pressure P up to 1 MPa gauge. The total downward
movement of free surface of oil and air will be ‘x’ mm. Taking average value
of bulk modulus of elasticity of oil and water as 2050 MPa and 2075 MPa
respectively. What is x assuming tank as rigid ?

a. 0.33
b. 0.43
c. 0.53
d. 0.63

Not Attempt Correct Ans. d

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Q.39

Combination of single transverse and double parallel fillet weld joints is

shown below:

If the plate thickness is t and allowable shear stress( ) is half of allowable

limits stress(σ), then the maximum load P that the joint can withstand is:

a.
b.
c.
d.

Attempt Correct Correct Ans. b

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Q.40

A cage weighing 60 kN is attached to the end of a steel wire rope. It is

lowered down a mine shaft at am constant velocity of 1 m/s. What is the
maximum stress (in MPa) produced in the rope when the supporting drum is
suddenly jammed? Free length of the rope at moment of jamming = 15 m,

area of cross-section = 25 cm2, E = 2 × 105 N/mm2. Self weight of rope is

neglected.

a. 90
b. 180
c. 240
d. 50

Not Attempt Correct Ans. b

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Q.41

Distance of center of gravity of the following figure, from the Y-axis is

__________ cm.

a. 7.11
b. 5.0
c. 8.20
d. 6.92

Attempt Correct Correct Ans. a

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Q.42

The mobility of planar mechanism shown below is

a. 0
 b. 1
c. 2
d. –1

Attempt Correct Correct Ans. b

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Q.43

What is the speed of gear 8 for the gearing arrangement shown below ?

a. 48.2
b. 58.2
c. 68.2
d. 78.2

Attempt Correct Correct Ans. c

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Q.44

The band brake shown acts at 3/4th of the circumference of a drum of

diameter 450 mm, and provides a braking torque of 225 Nm. If coefficient of
friction is 0.25, what is the operating force P ( in N), when the drum rotates
in anticlockwise direction?

a. 69
b. 79
c. 89
d. 99
 Not Attempt Correct Ans. c
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Q.45

For the structure shown in the figure below, the forces in which of the given
members is zero?

a.

b.
c.

d.

Attempt Correct Correct Ans. b

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Q.46

Four masses m1, m2, m3 and m4 200 kg, 300 kg, 240 kg, and 260 kg are

rotating in corresponding radius of rotation 0.2 m, 0.15 m, 0.25 m and 0.3 m

respectively. The angles between successive masses are 45°, 75° and 135°.
What is the magnitude of required balancing mass rotating at the radius of
0.2 m ?

a. 116 kg
b. 110 kg
c. 90 kg
d. 42 kg

Not Attempt Correct Ans. a

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Q.47

The ratio of depth to width of the strongest rectangular beam that can be cut
from a circular log of diameter d is:

a. 0.7
b. 1.414
c. 3.14
d. 2.73

Not Attempt Correct Ans. b

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Q.48

A rectangular column of width 200 mm and thickness 150 cm carries a point

load of 240 kN at an eccentricity of 10 mm. The maximum stress in the
section is : (MPa)

a. 2.5
b. 8.0
c. 12.0
d. 10.4

Attempt Correct Correct Ans. d

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Q.49

A fluid undergoes a reversible adiabatic compression in a device from an

initial state of 100 kPa, 0.5 m3 to a final of 500 kPa 0.15 m3, following the

law pV1.3 = constant The change in enthalpy for the process is

a. 108 kJ
b. 83 kJ
c. – 83 kJ
d. – 108 kJ

Not Attempt Correct Ans. a

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Q.50

With the initial values y (0) = 1 and y ′(0) = 0, find the solution of the
differential equation given below.

a. 3e 3x + 4e4x
b. 4e 3x – 3e4x
c. 3e –3x – 4e–4x
d. 4e –3x – 3e–4x
 Attempt Correct Correct Ans. d
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Q.51

If X is a variable has a Poisson distribution with a mean λ, λ ≠ 0. Such that P

(2) = 9P (4) + 90P (6). Then the value of mean X is

a. ±1
b. ±2
c. ±3
d. ±4

Attempt Correct Correct Ans. a

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Q.52

The view factor from surface 1 to surface 2 of the very long groove shown in
the figure is _______.

Attempt Incorrect Your Ans. .357 Correct Ans. 0.36

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Q.53

Air at 20°C forms a boundary layer near solid wall, in which the velocity

profile is sinusoidal given by v = vmax . The boundary layer

thickness is 7 mm and peak velocity is 9 m/s. The shear stress (Pa) in the

boundary layer thickness at y = 3.5 mm is _______. (Take μ = 1.81 × 10–5

Ns/m2)

Attempt Correct Correct Ans. 0.0258(0.025 - 0.026)

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Q.54

Water is to be delivered from a reservoir through a pipe to a lower level and

discharged into the air. If
the head loss in the entire system is 11.58 m. The vertical distance (m)
 between the point of water
discharge and the water surface in the reservoir is ______________.

Attempt Correct Correct Ans. 12.11(12 - 12.15)

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Q.55

A spherical metal (k = 15 W/mK) ball of radius 0.5 m is heated in an oven

and then taken out and allowed to cool in ambient of air of temperature 25°C

with an average heat transfer coefficient of 20 W/m2. If the temperature

profile varies as T(r, t) = 50r 2t + 10r + t + C1, the value of C1,1 second after

being taken out of the oven is _________..

[Assume heat transfer to surroundings through convection only] [where t =
time, r = radius]

Attempt Incorrect Your Ans. -268.5 Correct Ans.

–38.5 (–39 - – 38)
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Q.56

A centrifugal compressor running at 10,000 rpm consumes 200 kJ/kg

power. The blades are inclined and the slip factor is 0.9. The inlet velocity
triangle for the compressor is given below:

The blade speed at outlet is __________ m/s.

Attempt Correct Correct Ans. 481.89 (480 - 483)

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Q.57

In a gas turbine power plant, air from atmosphere at 300K temperature is

 compressed followed by expansion in two turbines of equal pressure ratio
with reheat to a maximum cycle temperature of 1200K. The isentropic
efficiency of both compressor and turbines are 90%. The pressure ratio
across each turbine which gives the optimum specific output is ____________.

Attempt Incorrect Your Ans. 11.313 Correct Ans.

3.94 (3.8 - 4.1)
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Q.58

A series of cold rolling operations are to be used to reduce the thickness of

a plate from 50 mm to 25 mm in a reversing two high roll mill. Roll dia = 700
mm, coefficient of friction between rolls and work = 0.15. Minimum number
of passes required are ____________.

Attempt Correct Correct Ans. 4 (3.9 - 4.1)

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Q.59

An auditorium has to be air conditioned through a process 1-3 as shown in

the figure below. Dehumidification of air takes place through a coil with
bypass factor of 0.25 at the rate of 0.0833 kg/s. If the specific volume at

inlet of coil is 0.9 m3/kg, the free air to the circulated is _________ cmm.

Not Attempt Correct Ans. 300(297 - 303)

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Q.60

The rate of arrival of customers at a restaurant follows Poisson distribution

with an average time of 5 mintues between 2 customers. The mean service
time is 2 minutes. The probability (in percent) that 4 customers arrive in a
duration of 20 minutes is ___________.

Attempt Incorrect Your Ans. 5.725 Correct Ans.

19.54 (19.5 - 19.6)
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Q.61

The simplex table given below shows the initial basic feasible solution for
the objective function Max
Z = 2x1 + 4x2, after the introduction of slack variables S1 and S2.

After the first iteration, the solution of the simplex problem is improved by
_______ units.

Not Attempt Correct Ans. 10

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Q.62

A conditions in a cutting operation are:

v = 2 m/s, t = 0.25 mm, b = 3.0 mm, rake angle = 10°
Deformed chip thickness, tc = 0.54 mm.The material removal rate is

__________ mm3/s.

Attempt Incorrect Your Ans. 2250 Correct Ans.

1500 (1450 - 1550)
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Q.63

During motoring test of an engine, the generator develops on electric power

of 80 kW with an efficiency of 80%. The engine is then stopped and engine
shaft connected to a motor is run at the same speed. The motor consumes
15 kW with a motor rating of 90%. The mechanical efficiency of the engine
is ____________ percent.

Attempt Correct Correct Ans. 88.1(87.5 - 88.5)

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Q.64

Consider a diagonal matrix If the determinant = 25,

then the minimum value of the sum of eigen values (λ1, λ2) i.e. (λ1 + λ2) is

_________.
 Attempt Correct Correct Ans. 10
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Q.65

Given If ‘s’ represents the portion of sphere

, then is __________.

Attempt Incorrect Your Ans. 0 Correct Ans.

–12.57 (–12.70 - –12.40)
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