Civil Engineering - (CE) 2018 GATE Paper (Practice Test - 2) - GATE MCQ

A three-member committee has to be formed from a group of 9 people. How many such distinct committees can be formed?

In manufacturing industries, loss is usually taken to be proportional to the square of the deviation from a target. If the loss is Rs. 4900 for a deviation of 7 units, what would be the loss in Rupees for a deviation of 4 units from the target?

A faulty wall clock is known to gain 15 minutes every 24 hours. It is synchronized to the correct time at 9 AM on 11^th July. What will be the correct time to the nearest minute when the clock shows 2 PM on 15^th July of the same year?

The annual average rainfall in a tropical city is 1000 mm. On a particular rainy day (24-hour period), the cumulative rainfall experienced by the city is shown in the graph. Over the 24-hour period, 50% of the rainfall falling on a rooftop, which had an obstructionfree area of 50 m², was harvested into a tank. What is the total volume of water collected in the tank in liters?

Given that log what is the value of the product PQR? 

Each of the letters in the figure below represents a unique integer from 1 to 9. The letters are positioned in the figure such that each of is equal to 13. Which integer does E represent?

The solution of the equation passing through the point (1,1) is

The graph of a function f(x) is shown in the figure. 

For f(x) to be a valid probability density function, the value of h is

A probability distribution with right skew is shown in the figure.

The correct statement for the probability distribution is 

All the members of the planar truss (see figure), have the same properties in terms of area of cross-section (A) and modulus of elasticity (E).

For the loads shown on the truss, the statement that correctly represents the nature of forces in the members of the truss is: 

The setting time of cement is determined using

A structural member subjected to compression, has both translation and rotation restrained at one end, while only translation is restrained at the other end. As per IS 456 : 2000, the effective length factor recommended for design is

A vertical load of 10 kN acts on a hinge located at a distance of L/4 from the roller support Q of a beam of length L (see figure). 

The vertical reaction at support Q is

A flownet below a dam consists of 24 equipotential drops and 7 flow channels. The difference between the upstream and downstream water levels is 6 m. The length of the flow line adjacent to the toe of the dam at exit is 1 m. The specific gravity and void ratio of the soil below the dam are 2.70 and 0.70, respectively. The factor of safety against piping is

The contact pressure and settlement distribution for a footing are shown in the figure.

The figure corresponds to a

Which one of the following statements is NOT correct?

The clay mineral, whose structural units are held together by potassium bond is

Dupuit’s assumptions are valid for

For a given discharge in an open channel, there are two depths which have the same specific energy. These two depths are known as

As per IS 10500:2012, for drinking water in the absence of alternate source of water, the permissible limits for chloride and sulphate, in mg/L, respectively are

In the figures, Group I represents the atmospheric temperature profiles (P, Q, R and S) and Group II represents dispersion of pollutants from a smoke stack (1, 2, 3 and 4). In the figures of Group I, the dashed line represents the dry adiabatic lapse rate, whereas the horizontal axis represents temperature and the vertical axis represents the altitude.

The correct match is

Peak Hour Factor (PHF) is used to represent the proportion of peak sub-hourly traffic flow within the peak hour. If 15-minute sub-hours are considered, the theoretically possible range of PHF will be 

As per IRC:37-2012, in order to control subgrade rutting in flexible pavements, the parameter to be considered is

The initial concavity in the load-penetration curve of a CBR test is NOT due to

Probability (up to one decimal place) of consecutively picking 3 red balls without replacement from a box containing 5 red balls and 1 white ball is ______

The quadratic equation 2x² - 3x + 3 = 0 is to be solved numerically starting with an initial guess as x₀ = 2 . The new estimate of x after the first iteration using Newton-Raphson method is ______