Textile Engineering And Fibre Science - TF 2014 GATE Paper (Practice Test) - GATE MCQ

In any given year, the probability of an earthquake greater than Magnitude 6 occurring in the Garhwal Himalayas is 0.04. The average time between successive occurrences of such earthquakes is ____ years.

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The population of a new city is 5 million and is growing at 20% annually. How many years would it take to double at this growth rate?

Q. 6 – Q. 10 carry two marks each.

Q. In a group of four children, Som is younger to Riaz. Shiv is elder to Ansu. Ansu is youngest in the
group. Which of the following statements is/are required to find the eldest child in the group?

Statements

1. Shiv is younger to Riaz.

2. Shiv is elder to Som.

Moving into a world of big data will require us to change our thinking about the merits of exactitude. To apply the conventional mindset of measurement to the digital, connected world of the twenty-first century is to miss a crucial point. As mentioned earlier, the obsession with exactness is an artefact of the information-deprived analog era. When data was sparse, every data point was critical, and thus great care was taken to avoid letting any point bias the analysis. 

From “BIG DATA” Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and Kenneth Cukier

The main point of the paragraph is:

The total exports and revenues from the exports of a country are given in the two pie charts below. The pie chart for exports shows the quantity of each item as a percentage of the total quantity of exports. The pie chart for the revenues shows the percentage of the total revenue generated through export of each item. The total quantity of exports of all the items is 5 lakh tonnes and the total revenues are 250 crore rupees. What is the ratio of the revenue generated through export of Item 1 per kilogram to the revenue generated through export of Item 4 per kilogram?

X is 1 km northeast of Y. Y is 1 km southeast of Z. W is 1 km west of Z. P is 1 km south of W. Q is 1 km east of P. What is the distance between X and Q in km?

10% of the population in a town is HIV⁺. A new diagnostic kit for HIV detection is available; this kit correctly identifies HIV⁺ individuals 95% of the time, and HIV⁻ individuals 89% of the time. A particular patient is tested using this kit and is found to be positive. The probability that the individual is actually positive is _______

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Q. 11 – Q. 35 carry one mark each.

Q. The range of values of x satisfying the inequality x² −3x + 2 < 0 is

A very large tank contains 10 liters of pure water. Salt solution (20 g/l) is pumped into the tank at 2 liter per minute. The salt concentration in g/l in the tank after a very long time will be

The inverse Laplace transform of

The probability of obtaining a total of 5 in two throws of a dice is

Medulla is associated with

A good fibre forming polymer should NOT have

The DP of viscose fibre is approximately

A synthetic yarn is stretched by 5% and kept in the extended condition. With time, the registered
stress will

In a cotton card, the wire point density on

In a drawframe with 3 over 3 drafting system, the roller most prone to slip is

Fibre parallelization in drawn sliver improves with

The combing force increases with

Pirn winding is an essential preparatory process for weaving on

Double acting dobby is driven from

In air-jet loom

If the diameter of a torsion rod used in projectile loom is doubled then the torque required to twist it would increase by

In a sizing process, if add-on is 12.8% and paste concentration is 16%, the value of wet pick-up (%) would be

The fibre parameter that CANNOT be obtained from Baer sorter diagram is

A 25 tex cotton yarn has a twist factor of 30. The yarn twist, in turns per cm, is

With an increase in gauge length, the tenacity of a spun yarn would