Find the best correction in the bold sentence from the four options given below.Under a provision of the constitution that was never applied congress has been required to call a convention for considering possible amendments to the document when formally asked to do it by the legislatures of two thirds of the states.
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Has never been applied, congress is required to call a convention to consider possible amendments to the document when formally asked to do so corrections are was never applied ⇒ has never applied
has been required ⇒ is required
for considering ⇒ to consider
The squares are choosen at random on a chess board, the probability that they have a side in common is
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After every N minutes, minute and hour hand of a clock are together.What is the value of N?
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Percentage of marks obtained by seven students in six subjects
The figures in the brackets are the maximum marks for each subject.What is the percentage of total marks obtained by student B in all subjects together?
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Sony fireworks manufactures flowerpots and makes a price,which is 8 times the manufacturing price, and prints it on the flowerpot box. They sell it to the distributor at a certain discount.The distributor then sells it to the whole saler and offers him a discount equal to 3/4 th of the discount that he received from the manufacturer. The whole saler then sells it to the retailer at a discount equal to 2/3 rd of the discount that he received from the distributor. The retailer finally sells it to the customer at adiscount equal to half the discount that he received from the wholesaler. If all the discounts given on the price are printed on the box and if the wholesaler made a profit of 50%, then who made the least profit?
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The following questions has a pair of capitalized words followed by four pair of words. Choose the pair which best expresses the relationship similar to that expressed in the below pair.Bold : Foolhardy
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To be overly bold is foolhardy, to be overly generous is spend thrift.
There are two schools, A and B. The number of students in A is less than 500. Find the total number of students of school B, if one third of the students of school A are brilliant, one fourth good, one fifth average and only one seventh poor in studies and the total number of students of school Bis equal to the sum of all these.
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A speaks truth 70% of the time, B speaks truth 80% of the time. What is the probability that both are contradicting each other?
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P (Atruth) = 0.7, P(Btruth) = 0.8
⇒P(Alie) = 0.3 P(Blie) = 0.2
Condition for contradiction. If A true then B lie or if Alie then B true.
The answer is 0.7 × 0.2 + 0.8 + 0.3 = 0.38
Choose the most appropriate word from the options given below to complete the following sentence.He is ……… speaker, his discourses are always informative and inspirational.
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The second clause describes the discourses of a personas informative and inspirational, which gives us a clue that the missing blank should related to informative and inspirational discourses. An eloquent speaker is one whose discourses are informative and inspirational.
The question below consists of a pair of related words followed by four pairs of words. Select the pair that best expresses the relation in the original pair.
Quisling: Betrary
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Juggernaut : Crush
Quisling (Betrayer,whobetray): Betray
Taunt (to provoke) : Provoke
Juggernaut(over powerfull, destructive object, whodestroy) : Crush (to destroy)Inception (Commencement, beginning) :Termination(opposite meaning)
Obstinate (Firmly or stubbornly adhering to one’spurpose, opinion) : Preserve (to keep)Hence close relation to give word is (c)Juggernaut : Crush