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Direction: Study the following graph carefully and answer the question based on the information given below.
Percentage wise Distribution of Employees in Six Different Professions.
Total Number of Employees = 26800

What is the difference between the total number of employees in teaching and medical profession together and the number of employees in management profession?
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Direction: In the following question out of the four alternatives, choose the one which is best expresses the meaning of the given word.
Agitated
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In the figure given below, ABCD is a square of side 4 cm. Quadrants of a circle of diameter 2 cm are removed from the four corners and a circle of diameter 2 cm is also removed. What is the area of the shaded region?

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Direction: Study the pie chart carefully to answer the following questions:
Pie chart represents the number of infected person from COVID - 19 in 4 cities of Maharashtra.
Total number of infected persons in Maharashtra = 30,00,000

The number of person infected from COVID-19 in Pune is what percent the number of persons infected from COVID-19 in Mumbai?
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Direction: In the following question, a sentence has been given with a part of it highlighted in bold. It is followed by alternatives that try to explain the meaning of the idiom/phrase given in bold. Choose the alternative which explains the meaning of the phrase correctly without altering the meaning of the sentence given in the question.
Nowadays, one gets good literary books once in a blue moon.
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Find the sentence that has a mistake in grammar or usage. If you find no mistake, mark choice 4.
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Directions: The following verbal analogy has two parts. One part is complete while the other one is incomplete. Complete the portion that is incomplete by selecting the right choice from the given options.
Son : Nuclear : : ______ : Extended
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Directions: Choose the sentence that best combines the given sentences.
The federal government has diversity of jobs and geographic locations. The federal government offers flexibility in job opportunities that is unmatched in the private sector.
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The first term of an AP is equal to the sum of the common ratio of a GP and the first term of the GP, which is equal to the common difference of the AP. If the sum of the first two terms of the GP is equal to the sum of the first 2 terms of the AP, then the ratio of the first term of the GP to the first term of the AP is
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Ramu is planning to get wireless internet service at his house. Two service providers A and B offer different rates as shown in the table below.

If Ramu plans on using 25 hours of internet service per month, which of the following statements is true?
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If G is the forest with 54 vertices and 17 connected components, G has _______ total number of edges.
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The following problems are solved using Divide and Conquer. Match these problems to their respective recurrence relation:

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Let L be the language on A = {a,b,c} which consists of all words of form w = arbsct where r, s, t > 0. Which of the following is valid regular expression 'r' such that L = L(r)?
1. r = a∗b∗c∗
2. r = aa∗bb∗cc∗
3. r = aa∗b∗cc∗
4. r = aa∗b∗c∗
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Which of the following is/are the stateless protocol?
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Consider the following DFA D.
The number of states in the minimization of D is ________.

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Find the Eigen values of matrix:

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Consider a database that has the relation schema Random (A,B,C). An instance of the schema Random is as given below:

Tuple calculus expression for the above instance is given as:
{t . B∣ t ∈ r ∧ t[A] = 10 ∧ t[C] = 7}
What is the sum of the elements in the output row of the given expression?
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Consider an array consisting of the following elements in unsorted order (placed randomly), but 60 as the first element.
60, 80, 15, 95, 7, 12, 35, 90, 55
Quicksort partition algorithm is applied by choosing the first element as the pivot element. How many total numbers of arrangements of array integers is possible preserving the effect of the first pass of partition algorithm.
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If a queue is implemented using two stacks. In enqueue operation, all the elements are pushed from the first stack to the second stack. In dequeue operation pop an element from 1st stack.
Which of the following is/are true?
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Consider the following statements:
Statement 1: An execution plan is a blueprint for evaluating a query, and is usually represented as a tree of relational operators.
Statement 2: Database management system will always be efficient as compared to file system.
Which of the statements is true or false?
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Consider the following transaction involving two bank accounts x and y. Read (x); x : = x − 50; write (x); read (y); y: = y + 50; write (y). The constraint that the sum of the accounts x and y should remain constant is that of:
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Horizontal micro-instructions have which of the following attributes?
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Which are the very useful combinational circuits used in communication systems?
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Which of the following statement is/are true in the context of interpreters?
S1: Interpreters process the program according to the logical flow of control through the program.
S2: Interpreter translates and executes the error-free first instruction before it goes to the second.
S3: Interpreter processing time is less compared with the compiler.
S4: LISP and Prolog are interpreted languages.
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Any string of terminals that can be generated by the following CFG satisfy which of the given choices?
S → XY
X → aX | bX | a
Y → Ya | Yb | a
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Disk requests come to a disk driver for cylinders in the order 11, 23, 21, 3, 41, x, 25, and 39, at a time when the disk drive is reading from cylinder 15. The seek time is 4 ms/cylinder. The total seek time, if the disk arm scheduling algorithm is first-come-first-served is 560 ms. What is/are the value of x?
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Which of the following option is/are true?
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Consider the matrix:

If the eigen values of A are 4 and 8, then __________.
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Consider the following circuit:

The minimum number of NAND gates (having 2 fan-in) require to implement the same circuit is ______. (Assume complements of each variable are already available).
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The variables of type auto, static and extern are all stored in:
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