Gate Mock Test Civil Engineering (CE)- 9 - Civil Engineering (CE) MCQ

Find the sentence that has a mistake in grammar or usage. If you find no mistakes, mark option 4.

If f (n) - f (n - 1) = g (n), f (1) = 0, g (n) = + 256, where n is a natural number greater than 1 and f(n - 1), f (n), g (n) are all integers, what is the maximum value of f(n)?

There are eight bags of rice, which look alike. Seven of those bags have equal weights and one bag is slightly heavier. The weighing balance is of unlimited capacity. Using this balance, the minimum number of weighings required to identify the heavier bag is

Directions: In the following question, a set of three figures X, Y and Z shows a sequence in which a piece pf paper is folded and finally cut from a particular section. Below these figures, a set of answer figures marked (a), (b), (c) and (d) shows the design which the paper actually acquires when it is unfolded. You have to select the answer figure which most closely resembles the unfolded piece of paper.

Directions: In the following question, the second figure of the problem figures bears a certain relationship to the first figure. Similarly, one of the figures in the answer figures bears the same relationship to the third figure. You have to select the figure from the set of answer figures that would replace the sign of question mark (?).

Directions: The question given below is followed by two statements I and II. Read the question carefully and determine which statement(s) is/are are sufficient/necessary to answer the question.

How is the person in the photograph related to Komal?

I. Komal says, 'Mother of the person in the photograph is the paternal grandmother of my father's son.'

II. Komal says, 'Person in the photograph is the daughter of the mother-in-law of my brother's mother.'

Directions: In the question, a statement is followed by courses of action, numbered I, II and III. Assume everything in the statement to be true, and decide which of the suggested courses of action logically follow(s).

Statement: The school dropout rate in many districts in the state has increased sharply during the last few years as the parents of these children make them work in the fields owned by others to earn enough for them to get at least one meal a day.

Courses of action:

(I) The government should put up a mechanism to provide food grains to the poor people in these districts through public distribution system to encourage the parents to send their wards to school.

(II) The government should close down some of these schools in the district and deploy the teachers of these schools to nearby schools and also ask the remaining students to join these schools.

(III) The government should issue arrest warrants for all the parents who force their children to work in fields instead of attending classes.

Tickets numbered from 1 to 20 are mixed up together and then a ticket is drawn at random. What is the probability that the drawn ticket has a number which is a multiple of 3 or 7?

If P = and Q = , then Q^TP^T

The settling velocities of particulates in the air for a fog cloud composed of 1μ m particles and viscosity of air 1.85 × 10^–5 kg/m.s is X × 10^-5 m/s, then X is _____. (Answer up to two decimal places)

A propped cantilever beam EF is subjected to a unit moving load as shown in the figure (not to scale). The sign convention for positive shear force at the left and right sides of my section is also shown:

The CORRECT qualitative nature of the influence line diagram for shear force at G is

A curve passes through points given by the following table:

By trapezoidal rule, the area bounded by the curve, the x-axis and the lines x = 1, x = 5 is

(Answer up to the nearest integer)

The direct and indirect costs estimated by a contractor for bidding a project are Rs. 1,60,000 and Rs. 20,000, respectively, If the mark up applied is 10% of the bid price, the quoted price (in Rs.) of the contactor is

A steel frame is shown in the given figure.

If joint O of the frame is rigid, the rotational stiffness of the frame at point O is given by

A partially saturated soil sample has natural moisture content of 25% and bulk unit weight of 18.5 kN/m³. The specific gravity of soil solids is 2.65 and unit weight of water is 9.81 kN/m³. The unit weight of the soil sample on full saturation is

Let A be a 3 * 3 matrix with eigenvalues, 1, - 1, 0. What will be the determinant of I + A¹⁰⁰? (Answer up to the nearest integer)

'Kinematic viscosity' is dimensionally represented as

Which one of the following pairs in not correctly matched?

Which one of the following is correct?

Pick up the correct statement:

The shape of the most commonly designed highway vertical curve is

In Chezy's formula, V = C is used for calculating the velocity of flow in circular sewer running full. The value of hydraulic mean radius may be taken as n × D. Then the value of n is (Answer up to two decimal places)

Which of the following is NOT a correct statement?

If during a permeability test on a soil sample with a falling head permeameter, equal time intervals are noted for drop of head of from h₁ to h₂ and again from h₂ to h₃ then which one of the following relations would hold good?

Consider the limit:

The limit (correct up to one decimal place) is ______________.

Consider the following statements in regard to the critical flow:

1. Specific energy is maximum for a given discharge.
2. Specific force is maximum for a given discharge.
3. Discharge is maximum for a given specific force.
4. Discharge is maximum for a given specific energy.

Which of the above statements are correct?

The state of stress in a deformable body is shown in the figure. Consider transformation of the stress from the x-y coordinate system to the X-Y coordinate system. The angle, , locating the X-axis is assumed to be positive when measured from the x-axis in counter-clockwise direction.

The absolute magnitude of the shear stress component (in MPa, rounded off to one decimal place) in x-y coordinate system is ________.