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Geometry

Two triangles have integral side lengths, with all sides being less than 40 units. All the angles of first triangle are same as that of second one. But their areas are not same. Further the smaller triangle has two side lengths identical with the larger triangle. Find the difference in perimeter of the two triangles.

A. 27
B. 19
C. 12
D. 8

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FILL IN THE BLANKS

The following question has a sentence with two blanks. Given below it are four pairs of words. Choose the pair that best completes the sentence.

Digital acceleration is the new ethos prevailing amongst medium and large corporations worldwide, and the             in demand for digital solutions and services shows no signs of          ___    in the near term.

  1. spurt, intensifying
  2. surge, abating
  3. growth, sharpening
  4. dip, reversing

 

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Verbal Question of the Day: 28

Verbal Question of the Day: 27

 

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Arithmetic

Rahul covers a circular track in 15 minutes while Gandhi does it in 10 minutes. Both start running in the same direction but from diametrically opposite position and Rahul is ahead of Gandhi initially. If they run for 3 hrs and 20 min then how many times Gandhi would have crossed Rahul?

1. 5
2. 6
3. 7
4. 8
5. None of these .

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PARAJUMBLE

The five sentences (labelled 1,2,3,4, and 5) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence of five numbers as your answer.

1. Sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell, body awareness (formally, proprioception) are six of the widely recognized senses in our bodies that help tell us about the world around us.

2. The anatomy textbooks show that the brain and the immune system are almost completely isolated from each other.

3. However, fresh evidence shows that the immune system may qualify as a kind of surveillance organ that detects microorganisms in the body and informs the brain about them, much as our eyes relay visual information.

4. Yet we have other senses as well.

5. Now meet our surprising latest detector: the immune system.

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Verbal Question of the Day: 27

Verbal Question of the Day: 26

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Geometry

RS is quadrilateral whose diagonals make right angle with each other. A new quadrilateral ABCD was drawn by joining the midpoints of sides PQ, QR, RS and PS respectively. Which of the following must be true about the quadrilateral ABCD?

1. ABCD is a Square.
2. ABCD is a Rhombus.
3. ABCD is a Rectangle.
4. Diagonals of ABCD intersect at 90.

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CR- Conclusion

Q. Maybe soccer fans are fine with their team losing, so long as it wasn’t expected to win? Researchers found that a loss had a more severe negative impact on people’s happiness when their team was expected to win than when it was expected to lose. A loss, even if it was anticipated, made people suffer.

Which of the following conclusions can be drawn from the paragraph above?

A. Football fans are not fine with their team losing, even if the loss was anticipated.

B. Football has the capacity to make fans a lot less happy.

C. Football fans’ feelings do not completely adapt to expectations of their team’s win.

D. Football fans should not make an emotional investment in their team.

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Verbal Question of the Day: 26

Verbal Question of the Day: 25

OUT OF CONTEXT

Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as your answer and key it in.

1. When the courts cancelled large numbers of telecommunications licenses because of questions about how they were handed out, many companies that had bought into the sector in good faith were penalized.
2. The government needs to begin viewing the telecom sector as an engine of growth or provider of essential services.
3.There have also been questionable regulatory decisions that incumbents felt helped the newcomers.
4. This makes it even easier for a cash-rich entrant to seek dominance.
5. As a consequence, few pools of capital will now want to enter a sector with obvious sovereign risk.

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Verbal Question of the Day: 25

Verbal Question of the Day: 24