Test: Engineering Mathematics & General Aptitude - 1 - Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) MCQ

The word 'LEADING' has 7 different letters.
When the vowels EAI sire always together, they can be supposed to form one letter. Then, we have to arrange the letters LNDG (EAI).
Now, 5 (4 + 1 = 5) letters can be arranged in 5! = 120 ways.
The vowels (EAI) can be arranged among themselves in 3! = 6 ways.
Required number of ways = (120 x 6) = 720.

Each day of the week is repeated after 7 days. So, after 63 days, it will be Monday.

After 61 days, it will be Saturday.

Quadratic (formula)

DEFINITION: brightly colored, florid
SYNONYMS: showy, ostentatious, flashy, gaudy, bright, colorful, brilliant, exciting

(PART AND THE WHOLE) Rind is the outer cover of a melon; skin is the outer cover of an apple. (B)

The phrase ‘in spite of at the beginning of the sentence logically implies that there is a contradiction of ideas within the sentence. You can guess from the sentence that the .group mentioned in it has been formed in order to select a person who has to be given an award for some specific performance.    The second part says
that the group knew that they had to arrive at a consensus (meaning unanimity or agreement) for the award to be presented. The use of the phrase ‘in spite of in the beginning of the sentence means that the present opinions of the members of the group constitute a status which is the opposite of ‘ consensus’.The missing word should therefore mean ‘disagreement’, ‘divergence’, ‘controversy’ etc.
Among the choices, it is ‘polarity’ which means ‘divergence’ and is the answer.

Profuse means abundant; lavish; luxuriant. Its opposite is scanty, meaning little, meager, scarce.